MIHS PTSA News - September 10, 2023

9/9/2023 6:50 pm

What's New

MIHS Curriculum Night

Wednesday, September 27 | 5-8pm

During this evening, parents will be able to meet their students' teachers, learn their goals and objectives, and get an idea of what their expectations are for student performance. The questions addressed to teachers at this event should be of a general nature for the benefit of all. If parents have specific questions about their child's performance, please schedule a conference with the teacher outside of Curriculum Night.

PTSA News and Announcements 

PTSA Store

Visit the MIHS PTSA Store 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 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 the here.

Contribute to MIHS PTSA Annual Giving Campaign to help enrich the lives of students, staff and families every day.

Your contribution 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 2022-23:

• For 2022-23: $30,000 in classroom enrichment grants - here is what your dollars support.

Help Stock the Staff Mini Kitchen

As we start a new school year, please help the PTSA stock the mini kitchen in the high school staff lounge. The mini kitchen is a place where teachers can grab a quick snack for a little extra energy boost. It's one way we keep them encouraged and show our appreciation. Items purchased off of this wishlist will ship directly to the school. Your support is greatly appreciated! 

Purchase items here

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 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 to 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. 

MIHS News 

Daily Schedules

Get the 2023/24 Daily Block Schedule here.

Principal's Updates

Read the Principal Newsletters here.

MIHS Counseling

Get the MIHS Counseling Newsletters here.

Community News

BridgeWhiz is a FREE online course designed to teach students in grades 4 through 12 the mind-building challenge, great fun, and competitive excitement of contract bridge, which will nurture your child’s team and individual competitive spirit. Build social skills. And enhance deductive reasoning and math abilities.

Inspirit AI is an enrichment program that introduces students to fundamental artificial intelligence concepts to build socially impactful projects from disease diagnosis to ethical chatbot engineering to fake news detection and more. Students enjoy personalized, interdisciplinary learning experiences in small classes taught by Stanford, MIT, and top university graduates. Beginners are welcome, and cohorts are available for advanced coders. Please read more here and apply by September 15th. Contact program director Jared (jared.greene@post.harvard.edu) with any questions.