MIHS News – August 15, 2021

8/15/2021 6:00 pm

MIHS Fee & Photo Day: August 24 & 25

Complete Required Forms and Pay Fees Prior to MIHS Fee & Photo Day.

Schedule for MIHS Fees & Photos Day :

Tuesday, August 24, 2021: MIHS Fees and Photos Day – Sophomores and Juniors.
— Sophomores: 8:00 AM -11:00 AM.
— Juniors: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM.

All RSVP forms must be completed prior to August 24th.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021: MIHS Fees and Photos Day – Freshmen and Seniors.

— Freshmen: 8:00 AM -11:00 AM.
— Seniors: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM.

All RSVP forms must be completed prior to August 25th.

Add/Drop forms will be available digitally on the Counseling website. For questions, please visit the Counseling Table.

Volunteer Sign up

MIHS Fee & Photo Day requires volunteer assistance. Please sign up here to help.

Beyond MIHS Fee & Photo day, there are many opportunities to volunteer at MIHS.  Sign Up Now to Volunteer through our MIHS PTSA Store & Directory.  Read more about the Volunteer opportunities here.

PTSA News and Announcements

PTSA Store & Directory

Visit the MIHS PTSA Store & Directory to see everything our PTSA has to offer this year. Returning parents and parents of IMS students: Your login and password from last year will carry over to this year. New to Mercer Island School District: Click here and follow the instructions to set up an account.

PTSA Membership Drive Has Launched!

Renew your PTSA Membership and get immediate access to our online MIHS PTSA School Directory.  Your PTSA Membership supports our advocacy work for students and teachers at the local, state and federal level.  Purchase your membership in your Membership Toolkit account – here. 

Contribute to MIHS PTSA Annual Giving campaign to help enrich the lives of students, staff and families every day.
Your contributions make a difference to the students and teachers at MIHS.  Your contributions to the Annual Giving Campaign, Friends of the Library and PTSA Membership are tax deductible.  Make your gift today!

This is what your MIHS PTSA Contribution supported during the School Year 2019-20:

• For 2020-21: $15,300 in classroom enrichment grants – ASB Leadership training, interview attire, drama workshops and a YTN playwriting project, equipment for Crest students, music artist in residence, Jazz symposium
• Here is more of what your dollars support.

Information for MIHS Seniors and Senior Families

Dear Seniors and Senior Families:

Welcome to an amazing year of your lives. We hope this is a year of celebration, joy, and rich memories of time spent together.  But it’s a busy year.  In order to help all our Seniors and their families navigate this year, we hope to share as much information, as early as possible, so planning can take place.

Remember you can also check the Seniors tab on the PTSA website for more information.

Mock SAT/ACT Tests

MIHS PTSA provides 6 testing opportunities as a chance to practice a real test, become familiar with a testing environment, and help identify which testing platform is best for each individual student. All this in a ‘Mock’ situation where tests are not recorded or submitted to any high school or college organization. This is a perfect chance to ‘try out’ these tests.

Learn more about the Mock SAT/ACT tests offered by the PTSA.

President’s Letter

Greetings, MIHS Parents!

Happy Summer!  We hope you are having some great adventures and are also getting some time to relax with your families.  We are looking forward to the upcoming school year! School begins before Labor Day weekend this year on Wednesday, September 1st. Today’s newsletter is filled with Back-to-School information. You can also find up-to-date school news on both the MIHS Website and the MIHS PTSA website.

So, let’s get straight to the questions we are hearing most from our parent community.  The three main questions we have been getting are: 1) Are we going back to school in person? 2) Will the school schedule be full-time (pre-Covid)? and 3) Will kids be required to wear masks?

The answers to these questions are Yes, Yes and Yes.  Our schools follow the Washington State Dept. of Health guidelines, which can be found HERE. As we all know, these guidelines are subject to change, so if you’d like to follow along on the health parameters that our school is currently following, we suggest monitoring this site.

A few key points of information:

• MIHS PTSA Membership enrollment is live!  Please consider joining our PTSA.
• MIHS Back to School Forms are now online! RSVP Skyward registration is open.
• MIHS Fee and Photo Days are coming up on August 24/25. Information can be found here. We are in need of volunteers to help with this event!  Please sign up HERE if you are available to help.
• Is your family new to the Mercer Island School District?  Many of your questions can be answered HERE.
• MIHS Main Office is open 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM M-F. The counseling center staff will be back on 8/18.

As September nears, our newsletter will begin to land in your inbox weekly. Please feel free to contact us anytime and we will do our best to answer your questions.

Best wishes for the rest of your summer!  

Debbie Burke & Maria Alberto
MIHS PTSA Co-Presidents
president@mihsptsa.org 

MIHS News

Fall Sports

Sports registration is open! Last day for Fall Sports registration is August 18th. Click here for more information.