| Incoming Parent Session - Tonight, 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. Be sure to park/enter from 14th St. The staff parking garage will be open for you. Hope you can join us! |
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| TONIGHT! General PTO Mtg. + Incoming Parent Session |
Join us tonight, May 28, at 5:0 in the Teaching Theater. The Parking Garage on 14th will be open. |
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| Schedule update from Ms. Hampton |
The schedule for this week: Tuesday: A day Wednesday: B day Thursday: A day Friday: Finals begin We will follow a two-lunch schedule starting on Tuesday, May 28. Beginning Friday, May 31, students will not bring backpacks to school. |
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| Heights HS Gym Is a Voting Center! |
Tuesday, May 28, is Election Day for the Primary Runoff Elections. Voters can cast their ballots in person at one of more than 300 vote centers in Harris County from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
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| New Date: Heights Annual Awards Ceremony @ 05.29.24 6PM |
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| Pick up your Yard Sign at Tonight's PTO Meeting! |
For those who preordered yard signs, they will be delivered to the school TONIGHT for pick up at 530pm, right before our General PTO Meeting. There will be a few extra signs available for purchase tonight. |
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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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| Finals Schedule, Grades 9-11 |
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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| 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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| Do you have questions about attendance? Please watch this video (now with Spanish subtitles). |
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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. 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 PGP Parent Instructions Spanish.pdf 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 3rd and 5th 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 Oil Ranch Field Trip - May 28 College Decision Day - May 29 10:30am Awards night -May 29 - 6pm Panoramic picture - May 30th Elementary school clapouts - May 31 (most schools - go to the Class of 2024 facebook page and put the name of the elementary school you are looking for in the search box, and you will find the flyer with the time for that school) Powder Puff game - May 31 after school Senior Breakfast - June 4th in the cafeteria Graduation practice/Senior check out - June 3 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 29 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! And be sure to have your student RSVP on School Links by uploading the required information.
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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| 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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| Interested in playing volleyball at Heights next year? Summer open gym, practice, and tryout information available here. If you have any questions contact Coach Lewis at clewis12@houstonisd.org or Coach Ehmling at gehmling@houstonisd.org. Check out this opportunity with the Houston Police Explorer Program! 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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| Fantastic Quiz Bowl News from Mr. Johnson! |
The Heights Quiz Bowl Team competed in the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament over this past weekend in Atlanta, GA. 320 Teams, representing the top 15% of teams from their respective states and regions, were invited to compete over two long days. I am happy to report that Bryce Cruise, Owen Gibbs, Brayden Ferrell and James Allen far exceeded our most optimistic expectations. We started the tournament with a 7-3 record in the prelims, including impressive upset wins over Houston's Kinkaid School (ranked 2nd in the nation) and Hastings from NY (ranked 15th). In three years of local and state tournaments we had NEVER beaten Kinkaid. The 7-3 record in prelims qualified us for the playoffs on Sunday and earned the privilege of double elimination. We won our first playoff game, then lost a tough match against Dunbar of Kentucky, the #24 team in the country. But because we had earned double elimination, we could continue playing. We then went on a shocking 4 game winning streak, going much deeper into the playoffs than our two previous trips to Nationals. This run included a 2nd game against Kinkaid, which we amazingly won on the final question, thereby eliminating our neighbors and perennial rivals. We also beat Thomas Jefferson Science and Tech's B's team - TJS is the #14 ranked high school in the entire country and the #1 school in Virginia. After 16 rounds our 12-4 record put us in the final Super Seven, which guaranteed us a ballroom match in front of a crowd, and also guaranteed that we would tie for at least 5th. The weekend ended with a spirited loss against the #8 ranked Livingston Quiz Bowl team of New Jersey (and ultimate 3 rd place tournament winners), which was live-blogged by the tournament. We ended the weekend tied for 5th place out of 320 teams. This is the highest Nationals finish of any HISD team, ever. It also matches the highest Houston and region public school finish ever, since James Taylor's (Katy) 5th place in 2019. The only Houston or southeast Texas teams to ever finish higher than 5th are St. John's School and Kinkaid, two private schools that have been playing Quiz Bowl for over two decades. |
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