| SCHOOL IS OPEN TOMORROW and it's a B day |
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| Important Updates from Principal Hampton |
Bulldog Families, What a week it has been, and it is only Tuesday! I hope everyone is doing well and has regained power. If you have not or you’ve had damage that you still need assistance with, please let me know as we have some volunteers to lend support. This email contains important updates to timelines effected by school closure on Friday, May 17; Monday, May 20th; and today as well as important updates for seniors. Please take a moment to read it in its entirety. Awards Night: Rescheduled to Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Dual Credit: The deadline to submit required documentation for Dual Credit courses has been extended to Friday, May 24, 2024. Please email Christina Bagos, Asst. Principal of Academics, or Aaron Miyamoto, Asst, Principal, for questions. Final Exam Exemptions: The deadline to submit exam exemption requests has been extended to Friday, May 24, 2024 for grades 9 – 11. Students can submit requests using the following link: https://forms.gle/Jg8uoL2Z3ovBzMVM6 Students must be signed into their HISD account to access the form. Advanced Placement (AP Exams): For students who were scheduled to take late exams this week due to exam conflicts, please check email regularly for updates from Ms. Martinez. Due to campus being closed, we have been unable to receive some exams. This will delay the administration of some exams. We will send updates as we have them. IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM FOR ALL GRADE LEVELS To be in compliance with TEA requirements we must have parent and student signature/acknowledgement for all student personal graduation plans. Some of you may have done this already in a previous year, but please verify now that you have. The directions to do so are linked below: PGP Parent Instructions English.pdf PGP Parent Instructions Spanish.pdf Important Senior Updates Senior Final Exams:
 Senior Attendance Appeals: May 22 – 23 from 4:15 – 6:15—Students should report to Teaching Theater immediately following dismissal bell. Senior PGPs: To be cleared for graduation, senior Personal Graduation Plans must be acknowledged by parents. Please see the information here on how to complete this process. PGP Parent Instructions English.pdf Thank you for your patience yesterday. I know many of you were frustrated, and I can certainly understand your concerns. I can confirm that on Sunday, Heights had both power and working air conditioning. One of our administrators came in to check the building status, enjoy the AC and charge his power bricks due to lack of power at his residence. Whatever issue occurred happened some time over night. I was on campus by 6:15 a.m. Monday morning to check the building and report issues. As you know, we have regular HVAC issues and generally when techs are called that early, they are able to get us up and running and cooled off. That just did not happen to be the case yesterday. When it was determined that the issues could not easily be resolved, we were given the okay to close. I appreciate the quick actions of parents in picking up their students quickly as well as HISD transportation who had busses her very fast! Thanks to the PTO for coordinating the drop off of fans and to Ms. Barreras for coordinating where they would go. Please reach out if you have any additional questions or concerns. wh --------------------------------- Familias bulldogs, ¡Qué semana ha sido y apenas es martes! Espero que... |
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| Date Change! Heights Annual Awards Ceremony @ 05.29.24 6PM |
Students who are receiving an award have received an invitation for the Annual Awards Ceremony, which will now be held on Wednesday, May 29 at 6 PM. We hope to see you there! |
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| Calling ALL BULLDOG students and families! Support the Class of 2026 and show your school spirit with a Heights High School yard sign, on sale on a pre-order basis only! Get your sign TODAY for $15. Price includes sign & yard stake. Preorders must be placed no later than May 20, 2024. Signs will be delivered to the school for pick up on May 28 at 530pm, right before our General PTO Meeting. There will be a few signs available for purchase on May 28, but we strongly encourage you to preorder HERE. |
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| Graduation Announcements with Minted |
Buy Graduation cards on minted.com, and you will get 20% off. 15% will go back to Heights PTO. Use promo code FUNDRAISEHEIGHTSPTO. Funds from Minted through the end of the year will go to Class of 2025. |
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| Incoming Parent Session - May 28th |
Are you a new parent/guardian to Heights High School? The PTO is hosting an Incoming Parent Session in conjunction with our last General PTO Meeting on May 28th. The session will start at 5:30 pm, with an opportunity to pick up school store purchases and to learn more about our fantastic PTO. The PTO meeting will begin at 6 pm and immediately following will be a current parent panel for you to ask questions of. Hope you can join us! |
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| Finals Schedule, Grades 9-11 |
From Ms Hampton: At this time, we’ve been given the go ahead to move forward with exam exemptions. Should this change we will notify the community as soon as possible. The exemption policy is as follows: Grade 9 students may be allowed one spring final exam exemption; two spring final exam exemptions may be allowed for eligible 10th and 11th graders. Eligible students are those with no more than three (3) absences in any one course for the duration of the semester. In addition, eligible students must have an 85 or higher semester average in the specific course(s) where the final exam exemption is applied. Students are expected to be in attendance for all exams even if they are exempt. Missing a final exam will result in a zero on the report card until the final exam is made up. The make-up period is June 10-21, 2024. After that date the zero is final. If a student has exempted an exam and is absent, the absence could cause the students to lose exemption status and/or could cause an NG resulting in a loss of credit. 
First Lunch consists of students in the M building and the G building Second Lunch consists of students in the A and V Building |
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| Do you have questions about attendance? Please watch this video (now with Spanish subtitles). |
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| Library Volunteers Needed |
Our beloved HHS Librarian, Ms. Holliday, will move into a teaching position next year. In partnership with Ms. Hampton, the PTO created a new committee to keep the library staffed until the school is able to fund her replacement. The Bulldog Library Team will consist of parents and community members committed to volunteering in the library. We are in the process of detailing the job description, but it will include tasks like checking out books, reshelving books, and supporting students. We are also in the process of determining library hours. Ideally, we are looking for volunteers who can serve consistently every week, even if for only a couple of hours. We will provide training and support for our team so we can feel confident in our work and thoughtfully serve the faculty, staff, and students. If you are interested in this unique and rewarding volunteer opportunity, please email Dawn Cole at librarychair@heightspto.org. |
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| REMIND: @6f279c
INSTAGRAM: @hhs.co24
FACEBOOK GROUP: @heights2024 ICYMI, here is Ms. Hampton’s communication about graduation in English and Spanish. ***Important Senior Updates*** Senior Final Exams: Seniors will follow the regular bell schedule and all senior finals will be held during the 90-minute class periods. Teachers will work individually with students who need extended time. Seniors who have an 85 or higher average and three absences or less may exempt the final for that class if they choose.
Senior Attendance Appeals: May 22 – 23 from 4:15 – 6:15—Students should report to Teaching Theater immediately following dismissal bell. Senior Attendance Expectations for May 23 – 31 Seniors will continue to attend their regularly scheduled classes May 23 through May 30. Students who need credit recovery, credit appeal, TSIA2 test administration, IBC administration or some other requirement for graduation that has not been met will be identified and supported in meeting that requirement. Students must be in attendance for all classes. Failure to attend may trigger additional NGs and could impact your eligibility to graduate. We have tentatively scheduled the following senior activities during this time as well: Senior Check-out will be held June 3-5 Seniors will be required to sign-in each day of senior check-out to receive attendance credit. Failure to be in attendance may result in additional NGs and credit appeal may not be available. This may impact your ability to graduate with your classmates. Your next chance to graduate will be in August. SENIORS - PLEASE READ AS SOME DATES HAVE CHANGED Please email 2024@heightspto.org if you are interested in being a coordinator for your elementary for the clapout. Senior Finals - May 16, 22-24, makeup days 22nd-24th Awards night -May 29th *Date Change! Powder Puff game - May 24th Oil Ranch Field trip - May 28th College Decision Day - May 29th Panoramic picture - May 30th Elementary School Clap Out - May 31st Senior Breakfast - June 4th Graduation practice/Senior check out - June 3,4 and 5 Also, here is HISD’s website about graduation. Note that Heights graduation is at NRG Stadium, not NRG Arena.
The College Wall is up! Senior parents, if your student has made a decision, tell them to go by the College Center and sign the wall!
Senior parents! May 21 is decision day at Heights which honors ALL the kids who’ve made future decisions-military, college, trade school. Ms Schumacher raffles off gift cards and would love some donations. Amazon, Target, any food place would be fantastic! You can send them to school with your student. Just let us know you are sending one so we can have a list!! Thank you so much!! You can also purchase on the Amazon page we set up!
Check the HHS College Center site often! Updates include scholarships, college fly-in programs, university virtual information, application steps, and more!
Follow the HHS College Center site for Class of 2024
Follow the HHS College Center Instagram
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| Class of 2026 Fundraiser: Yard Signs are Back! |
Support the Class of 2026 and show your school spirit with a Heights High School yard sign, on sale on a pre-order basis only! Get your sign TODAY for $15. Price includes sign & yard stake. Preorders must be placed no later than May 20, 2024, and signs will be delivered to the school for pick up on May 28. Preorder HERE. |
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| Welcome to Heights HS! This is where information specific to your entering class can be found. If you know of someone who does not receive this e-newsletter, please forward this email and tell them to create an account on our website so they will receive it themselves! And make sure to follow us on your favorite social media platform - we are on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X! If you missed course selection night, the meetings were recorded. The zoned student meeting is here, and the transfer student meeting is here.
And be sure to attend the PTO meeting on May 28 for a parent Q&A!
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| Congrats to the Heights boys basketball players who were named to all-district teams! Conor McCarthy and Rockwell Henderson are first team all district, Kaden Cole is second team all district, and Joseph Coleman and Fidelis Babineaux are honorable mention. Go Bulldogs!! Check out this inspirational weight loss story about our own Coach Dixon, produced by the Heights News Network! Our Heights Special Olympics team is finishing the season strong! The Heights softball team’s historic season has come to an end. But we are incredibly proud of them–they reached the fourth round of the playoffs for the first time in school history, making them one of the top 16 teams in 6A in the entire state!! Also, a big congratulations to the Heights players who received all-district awards. First team all-district honors went to Aaliyah Arredondo, Kennedy Hill, Helen Maddux, Flora Moreno, Sara Paniagua, and Laila Robins. Second team all-district honorees were Victoria Carreon, Bella Parks, and Leila Ramirez. Honorable mention went to Jalyce Gilbert and Delilah Aragon. Coach Robins was honored as Coach of the Year. And for the second year in a row, the All-District MVP was Heights pitcher Haylie Jaime. Jaime also reached a milestone 500 high school career strikeouts in her last game. Go Bulldogs!!! The XC team is gearing up already for the 2024 season!! Interested students should go to room A155 during lunch to talk to Coach Owens for more information. Incoming freshmen can contact Coach Owens directly and email her if they are interested - Kyla.Owens@houstonisd.org For graduating students interested in working construction or building, check out this program in Houston that offers apprenticeship opportunities. The Harris County Street Olympics program is looking for graduating seniors for a 10-week internship. More info here. Sophomore and junior girls, check out this Rice STEM Academy opportunity. Applications are due June 7. Heights HS Summer Strength, Speed, and Agility Camp information is now available! Entering freshmen welcome! |
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| Heights Film Festival 05.23.24 @6PM |
The second ever Heights Film Festival is on May 23, 6-9 PM! Everyone is invited!
Check out the trailer here. |
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