👋🏻 Hello Highlands Families!

Welcome to 4th Quarter! We are so excited to greet our students on Monday after a week-long break.

🗓️ Report Card Timeline:

• All Grades Current in Skward by: 3/21
• Report Cards Posted in Skyward: 3/24

📍Highlands Upcoming Events:

• Hawk Fun Run: Saturday, 3/25 @ 9:00-11:00am
• WHERE: Neale Peterson Park, 6136 Mission Rd, Fairway, KS
• DETAILS: Race starts at 9:30. 1 mile route. DJ and Donuts!
• Open House & STEAM Night: March 30th from 5:30-7:30 pm
  
• Join your student(s) and enjoy hands-on activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Classroom will be open for students to show all they have been working on. Please help keep this event fun & safe by chaperoning your student throughout the night.
• Pre-K Round-Up: April 19th 5:30-6:30 @ Highlands
• Kindergarten Round-Up: April 20th 6:00-7:30 @ Highlands

Here's to a GREAT 4th quarter!

Laura LaHue

Principal

• 🏃‍♀️ Girls on the Run is back for grades 3-5! It's not too late to sign up for this great program, which will take place right after school on Wednesdays and Fridays 3/22 through 5/12.
• This program is not only about learning to run, but also inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident!
• When registering, look for our school in the drop down list: Highlands Elementary - Shawnee Mission (W/F 3:15-4:30)

🎤 Variety Show: It’s that time of year for kids to show their talent to all of Highlands!

• Please read the FAQ sheet and permission form. The deadline for permission forms is MARCH 20th.
• Each child needs to fill out a form even if its in a group performance. We are excited for another year of Highlands Talent!! - Clint & Tracy Meredith (Variety Show Coordinators)

At our End-of-Quarter SOAR Assembly last week, our Quarter 3 "Highlighted Hawks" were recognized. Each quarter, staff members nominate students who demonstrate characteristics of a particular quality. For Quarter 3, our school focused on responsible decision making. This could include: decision making and problem solving, setting and achieving goals, or planning for work ethic and completion.

Congratulations to the following students who showed responsible decision making in quarter 3:

Aaliyah Austin

Ari Bass

Grady Callahan

Harper Grindinger

Norah Hefferon

Rowen Hines

Harper Hummel

Ellana Karras

Riley Lordan

Maren Meyer

Hugo Nosti

Sofia Nosti

Louise O’Brian

Ward Poblete

Simon Steinbacher

Mayli Shamieh

Connor Smith

Finley Seaman

Click HERE to register.

Pre-K and Kindergarten enrollment for 2023-2024 will open online at 8 a.m. on February 10th. 🎉Click HERE to enroll.

Kindergarten Round-up : April 20th 6:00-7:30. More details to come!

At Highlands, our academic mission is to prepare, challenge and inspire to ensure high levels of learning for all students. This semester, teachers at Highlands are prioritizing and focusing on the following instructional practices to enhance learning for our students:

• Intentional Core Instruction: Students are doing the talking (thinking); teachers ask questions based on student discussions and encourage students to think and generalize what they know to new situations.
• Intentional Core Instruction: Teacher teams will use common formative assessments throughout the learning process to strategically target skills that will accelerate student achievement.