IHMS Weekly News
September 16 - September 20, 2019
IHMS Events/Information:
Upcoming Indian Hills Events:
09/16: MVP Training in the IHMS Library: 8:00 a.m.
09/16: Volleyball @ Indian Woods: 4:30 p.m.
09/17: Suicide Prevention Parent Presentation: 6:00 p.m.
09/18: Volleyball @ IHMS: 4:30 p.m.
09/18: Cross Country Duel vs. HGMS
09/21: Cross Country @ Blue Valley Southwest
09/23: Volleyball @ Hocker Grove: 4:30 p.m.
09/23: Wrestling Practice Begins
09/25: Cross Country @ SM Park
09/26: PTA General Meeting in IHMS Library: 12:00 p.m.
09/26: Choir Concert @ IHMS: 7:00 p.m.
10/01: Bond Presentation to IHMS/SME Community @ SME: 5:00 p.m.
Suicide Prevention/Awareness Parent Presentation: September 17
Parents, please mark your calendars for 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17. Indian Hills will be hosting a parent night for Suicide Prevention and Awareness. There will be a presentation by Johnson County Mental Health Center covering suicide and mental health and then we will have a professional panel for question and answer. This is an adult-only event as students had a similar assembly on Friday, September 13 during the school day to wrap up our district-wide Suicide Prevention/Awareness Week. Thank you for your participation and support of such an important topic.
The Knights' Walk: Our Only Fundraiser!
Online registration for The Knights’ Walk, our one and only fundraiser, has begun!! Remember to sign-up this weekend for a chance to win daily prizes, like a catered lunch from Tavern and Minsky’s and SME spirit wear, starting Monday!!
Sign Up Today! https://form.jotform.com/IHMS/knights-walk-2019-2020
Your student won’t want to miss Knights’ Walk - October 10th. It is a day of friends, music, fun activities, and prizes. Money raised will be spent this year to benefit your student and their teachers!!!
Our second example of Knights' Walk fund is in written form from Mrs. Basden this week. Be sure to check it out here!
The Knights' Walk is October 10 during the school day. ALL students get to participate in the walk around the campus regardless of whether or not their parents, friends, family members, etc. donate. However, your student is able to unlock additional fun through parent donations. Big prizes ($200), small prizes ($5-$10), Chick-fil-A, dunking IHMS staff members in the dunk tank, obstacle courses, etc. are just a few of the many fun things during the walk that students can participate in with parent donations.
This year, our goal is $40,000 and we are hoping to raise money to fund items from the list below (and more!). The coming weeks will contain in-depth highlights of some of our past years' purchases that have transformed our instructional and physical environment at IH!
- Instructional and Classroom grants: Equipment and items that enhance classroom learning. Last year, we purchased computer equipment, flexible seating (highlighted above!), field trips, white boards for band/ orchestra rooms, spring musical mics and support, science interactive learning support and much more!
- Outdoor learning areas as well as security and school ground improvements: Last year we purchased outdoor seating for entire classrooms (highlighted in future weeks)!
- Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS), which fund the popular quarter award parties, prize wheel, school store, fall mixer, transportation to educational field trips and opportunities, and many other student appreciation and rewards throughout the year!
Knights' Walk Help/Support Sign-up
- Gift cards and supplies: Please consider signing up to donate gift cards and/or supplies for the Knights' Walk (school fundraiser), staff shout outs, and nursing supplies that are needed at IHMS. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094DAAA62BABFE3-2019
- Knights' Walk Parent Volunteer: Please consider signing up to help at a Knights' Walk station this year: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4aada62fa46-ihms
Important Shared Communication from SME and IHMS
If your student plans to attend a high school athletics event or activity, please ensure that you speak with them about appropriate behavior at SME events. The most preferable option, of course, is that you are on site and available to your student. However, we do not want parent supervision to be a requirement by SME simply because we have not represented ourselves well. In concert with your conversation at home, we will bring this to the attention of our students this coming week in the announcements. We will also tie it back to our student HONOR code.
This same concern has been expressed by Village store owners this past month. We have been made aware, from multiple store owners, that there have been sporadic issues with students in the Village who are unsupervised.
Although we are confident this is not an issue with most of our students, we still ask that you have a conversation with your student about representing themselves well and/or speaking up with they see a peer doing something out of line.
Wrestling Season Begins 09/23/19
On Site MVP Training Dates Added!
09/16: 8:00 a.m. in the IHMS Library
East Area Events/Information:
District Events/Information:
Older Important Information:
Please Join our PTA!
IHMS Spirit Wear is Online
We Need Your Help Tuesday Mornings!
Are you a 7th grade (or "new to IHMS") parent that missed "Meet IHMS?"
Late Buses and Study Hall Information
Late buses and Study Hall:
Late buses: Late buses at IHMS are now in full swing. Late buses are available to ALL students (regardless of whether they are regular bus riders) and will run Monday-Thursday each week at 4:45 p.m. Students that have after school activities (not including sports teams), scheduled meetings with teachers, study hall, tutoring, etc. can access these late buses.
IHMS Generations (Alumni) Display
IHMS Outside Food, Beverage, and Snack Procedure
- No restaurant (outside) food, beverage, and/or snack will be delivered to students in the school. This includes from parents, UberEats, GrubHub, or any other delivery person/service.
- Sack lunches brought from home do not apply to the stipulations listed in item 1. If a student forgets to pack and lunch and his or her parent/sibling, etc. drop off a sack lunch, this is an exception.
- Students earning a school-sponsored reward that contains outside food, or students that plan to eat outside food with a family member must eat in an alternate location and receive IHMS office/administrative approval.
Breakfast Time: Outside Food, Beverage, and/or Snacks:
- A morning breakfast zone has been established in the cafeteria for students wanting to eat breakfast. Although morning supervision zones are split by grade level starting this year, the breakfast zone is open for both 7th and 8th grade students.
- Students bringing morning food, beverage, and/or snacks into the school must keep the items in backpack until they get to the breakfast zone. School supervisors will ask students with any outside beverage (gatorade, coffee, energy drinks, juice, etc.) or unsecured food that is brought in from outside the school to discard the beverage/food/snack. This does not include beverage/food/snack purchased in the school cafeteria.
- Students will not be allowed to have any unsecured food/beverage/snack in the main gym supervision zone.
Drop Off / Pick Up Directions and Times; IHMS Parking Lot Directions
Prairie Village Police Directions (updated from last week).
In addition, please familiarize yourself with some additional highlights not addressed in the flyer:
- ONLY the main doors open at 8:05 a.m. All other entrances remain locked until 8:35 a.m. Students arriving prior to 8:05 a.m. will remain outside the building because supervision is unable be secured until 8:05 a.m. each day.
- The downstairs entrance/exit (SE doors near science classrooms) and the fire station entrance/exit (NW doors near fire station) will not be opened each day until 8:35 a.m. for security reasons. Parents can still drop their student(s) off in the back loop prior to 8:35 a.m., but the students will be directed by staff supervisors to walk around to the front of the building.
- The front car loops are for dropping and leaving. Please do not park in the front loop at the beginning or end of the school day (8:20 - 9:00 a.m.; 3:15 - 3:55 p.m.). You will be trapped by buses.
- The same rule applies for after school. The outer loop (closest to Mission Rd.) is not for parking and waiting for your student to exit school. Rather, you must either continue through the loop or find a parking spot.
MacBook Information
All 7th and 8th grade MacBooks are brand new this year meaning no device will be checked out with any previous damage/issue. If any damage is incurred during the course of the year - or at end of year check out - the fee payment structure is as follows:
- First incident: $100
- Second incident: $150
- Third and subsequent incidents: cost of device ($787 or more)
- Cut/slit/frayed/damaged charger: ($79)