The best group of kids in all the world sang Christmas songs together this morning. Thank you parents for sharing your students with us every school day! It's an amazing blessing to be part of such a great community.
Today's reminder comes from Mrs. Andes' Class. Our final dress up day is Holiday/Ugly Sweaters. Break out that one sweater you can't wait to wear each year. Tomorrow is also a minimal day. All students are out at 11:30am tomorrow. Breakfast and a snack lunch will be served.
Mrs. Andes' class participated in a service project for the Tiny Tim Foundation today. We appreciate the opportunity to give back.
Mrs. Andes' class participated in a service project for the Tiny Tim Foundation today. We appreciate the opportunity to give back.
UVU Wolverines invite the Highland community to access buy one get one free tickets to select games/matches. See the flyer for game dates and information.
Tomorrow is Crazy Sock day! This Christmas Reminder comes from 1st Grade today. 1st Graders went on a magical journey via their Polar Express trains today. They even got a gift delivered straight from the north pole.
Parents, please be aware as you are coming for Christmas events and parties: every parent passing beyond the office must have a background check and get a badge/sticker. We will be checking these for every parent coming for parties. Also, any food item brought to the school must be store bought and packaged. Nothing baked or assembled at home is allowed at schools. Both of these rules are Utah State laws, we are required to enforce them for the safety of all of our students. Please call the office if you want to confirm your background check in advance.
Thanks for your patience and understanding. We are looking forward to the last two days of fun at school.
Parents, please be aware as you are coming for Christmas events and parties: every parent passing beyond the office must have a background check and get a badge/sticker. We will be checking these for every parent coming for parties. Also, any food item brought to the school must be store bought and packaged. Nothing baked or assembled at home is allowed at schools. Both of these rules are Utah State laws, we are required to enforce them for the safety of all of our students. Please call the office if you want to confirm your background check in advance.
Thanks for your patience and understanding. We are looking forward to the last two days of fun at school.
Today's Christmas week reminder is brought you by Mrs. Lewis' class carolers and some of our Grinch hair and Santa hat friends.
Tomorrow is Night Before Christmas/Polar Express pajama day. Wear your favorite holiday pajamas to school. Make sure you still wear good shoes and a coat for outside play.
Our annual Spelling Bees will happen as soon as we return from the winter break. There will be a 3rd/4th grade Spelling Bee and a 5th/6th grade Spelling Bee. The Study Lists can be found at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iDd2uJM9VHL_6MTAW7xGqmSeOyNn2OSv?usp=drive_link
Any student that wants to participate will be given the opportunity. Watch for signups and more information by email.
Any student that wants to participate will be given the opportunity. Watch for signups and more information by email.
Third grade sang us off to a great start to our holiday week of fun. Tomorrow it's Grinch hair and Santa hats for dress up fun. Join us in wearing your favorite crazy hair or hat to school tomorrow.
For our final week of school before the holiday break, we have lots of fun dress up days and class activities planned. Be sure to check out the info for our minimal day on Friday (school is out at 11:30am) and winter break/no school from the 20th to January 5th.
Tomorrow is Cozy Christmas Day - wear your favorite Christmas attire or Christmas colors.
We want to thank the best gingerbread baking crew for their performances today of "The Gingerbread Caper". 🎄 They did such a good job with their lines and singing.
We hope you all have a great weekend!
Last week we had the opportunity to recognize two of our amazing teachers. Mrs. Andes received a RISE award from a parent and Miss Heinrich received an award for her achievement in completing the "STEM For Every Classroom" course. We are so lucky to have such wonderful teachers at Highland.
We want to thank the volunteers from Cox Auto who came and visited classes for "Hour of Code" this afternoon. Our participating students had so much fun with these activities.
Coming up at the end of this week is the 1st Grade musical story of "The Gingerbread Caper". Parents of 1st grade students are invited to attend a performance at 1PM.
We will have regular before and after school activities this week of Botball, Chess, LEGO Robotics, as well as a Stand 4 Kind team meeting.
For our spirit Fridays in December, students can choose to wear a favorite holiday shirt in addition to a Highland shirt. Next week we will have dress up days every day of the week....look ahead to know what days are coming.
We will have regular before and after school activities this week of Botball, Chess, LEGO Robotics, as well as a Stand 4 Kind team meeting.
For our spirit Fridays in December, students can choose to wear a favorite holiday shirt in addition to a Highland shirt. Next week we will have dress up days every day of the week....look ahead to know what days are coming.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....in addition to the snow we've been seeing signs of Christmas popping up all over the school. We hope you have a wonderful weekend getting in the holiday mood.
The first snow of the season is always the best! Kids have enjoyed playing in it as much as they can today. Mr. Killpack even got a little bit of snow time this morning.
Our food drive wraps up tomorrow and our bins are fairly empty. Please consider sending in something with your student tomorrow if you can. We'd sure love to send Tabitha's Way full bins for those in need.
Did you know...every week we have Late Bus Wednesdays . Due to the secondary (middle, jr, and high) school adjusted Wednesday schedule, it delays our buses. The NASA bus is usually fairly on time, but the Gryffindor and Lumiere buses are between 7-15 minutes late on an average Wednesday. They could be even later on snowy or icy Wednesdays. Please plan for these adjusted times for your bus students' arrival time home on Wednesdays.
Want to know where your students bus is in real time - consider downloading the stop finder app. This app allows you to see updates on your student's bus and see which stop they are at. This could become very helpful as we approach the days of more inclement weather. If you can't find your family's email invitation for access, you can call the transportation office or call us at the school and we can help.
Want to know where your students bus is in real time - consider downloading the stop finder app. This app allows you to see updates on your student's bus and see which stop they are at. This could become very helpful as we approach the days of more inclement weather. If you can't find your family's email invitation for access, you can call the transportation office or call us at the school and we can help.
There will be No December PTA meeting tomorrow. Instead, we ask that you think about serving on a committee or in a board position next school year. If you, or someone you know, would be a great asset to the PTA leadership - please nominate them. You can fill out a nomination form and place it in the box in the office or reach out to the front office by phone or email.
Thanks for helping support our school and the many programs the PTA sponsors.
Thanks for helping support our school and the many programs the PTA sponsors.
Welcome back! We hope you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break.
We have the opportunity this week to participate in a food drive for Tabitha's Way. This is our pre-planned food drive and we are continuing with it as we know there is always a great need near the holidays. Thanks to those of you that participated in both our previous urgent need food drive and are participating in this one as well. Food containers will be located in the main vestibule near the office.
As a reminder, now that cold weather has arrived, we go outside in the mornings and at recess times unless the weather is below twenty degrees, the precipitation is heavy, or there are unsafe conditions. We post on the marquee in bright red on the mornings we will be inside. There are also inside morning signs by the main entry door for students to see. Please ensure your students have the appropriate winter gear for playing outside: warm jacket/coat, good shoes/boots, and even gloves/mittens.
Other events that will resume this week include Botball, Chess, and LEGO Robotics. We will also have our weekly Spirit Day on Friday.
Wishing all of our Highland families a very Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your day with family and friends.
Check out the latest version of Highland Happenings. We have some fun activities coming up in December as we move into the holiday season. We'll see you back at school on Monday, December 1st.
