Paw Paw High School

NHS Members- stop by Mr Tomlinson or Mrs Houston's room and pick up the info for your first meeting.

Reminder: Students must sign themselves up for testing using the survey sent to their email. Last Day to sign up is this Friday, September 11th.

Our internet is currently down. We are in the process of fixing it now. We should be back up in approximately 15 minutes. Google meets will begin then. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Good Afternoon! Just a reminder that Picture Day is coming soon! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 22nd and Thursday, September 24th.

Good morning, parents! We need your help with drop off in the morning. Our drop off procedures are different than at the elementary school. We would like kids to get out of the car anywhere along the sidewalk area. It is OK for your child to get out of the car when you are 2-3 cars back from the front door. Also, it is ok to pull up past the front door to let your child out of the car, so that several cars can drop off at the same time. Realistically, the walk from 3 car-lengths on either side of the main entrance is still less than the walk from the parking lot. Please help everyone get into the building on time by pulling forward, and getting your kids out of the car sooner. Thanks for your help!

Reminder the Optional Fall Testing is Wednesday October 14th. The Sign Up has been sent to Student Emails. If you do not sign up by September 11th, we will assume you do not want to take the test. 9th grade - PSAT 9 10th & 11th grade - PSAT 10/NMSQT 12th grade - SAT

PPHS is offering Free Optional PSAT/NMSQT/SAT Testing this Fall, Wednesday October 14th. Students Sign up through a survey sent to their PPPS email. Deadline to Sign Up is Friday, September 11th. See graphic for more information.

News from Food Service: 1. All PPHS students will be able to eat breakfast at no charge this year. They can pick up a breakfast on their way to first hour. 2. Families can apply for the Federal Lunch program at this link to apply for free or reduced cost lunches. http://www.lunchapp.com/ 3. Here's a menu of lunches for the month of September

PPHS Quarter 1 Full Day schedule. Remember we are focusing on 3 classes per quarter. Please be on time and ready to learn. We only have two days together in person, so let's make the most of our time together! Can't wait to see you!

Wednesday Google Meet schedule. All RED and WHITE team members are expected to join their Google Meets ON TIME and remain in the meet until dismissed by their teacher. We have built in breaks for snacks, restroom use, and other needs. Please be fully dressed and camera-ready. Google Meet codes are available in Google Classroom- join your classes by using the invitations sent by your teachers.

Reminder that face coverings are required to enter PPHS and must remain properly worn at all times.

Welcome Back pamphlet for PPHS 2020-21

Click here to access the PPHS Student Handbook. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16qVmmllX6UzX7Yt2frtcHFpkSkyMjqNy/view?usp=sharing Click here to access current addendums to the handbook regarding Covid-19 related issues. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWMxFRjT01xZzHGzRnjnLChB2Gvh7VY-/view?usp=sharing

Parents- An email was just sent regarding the first week of school to all students and parents who are scheduled to do IN PERSON classes. Please check your email accounts and read through the information we provided. We did not send this email to students and parents who are participating in eLearning at this time, as much of the information is not relevant. If you did not get an email from us and believe you should have, please contact tammy.southworth@ppps.org with a current email address, your students name and grade.

Here is the link to access Welcome videos from our staff as well as Google meet links for tonight's Virtual Open House. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11zAEp9EuuhQt6LEubPE_l7exlxdNteRLkiIoimb5kcY/edit?usp=sharing Remember that Open House begins at 6:00, so the Goole Meets will not begin until then. Please watch the welcome video before joining a Google Meet, as many of your questions will be answered in the videos.

Tours available for New PPHS Students- 8th grade, 9th grade, and all other new enrollees. Tuesday, August 25 or Wednesday August 26, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm Click here to schedule an appointment: bit.ly/3g9dCUL Small groups. Masks required. Students only, please.

Students were sent emails today with their team assignment (Red=M/T, White=Th/F) as well as directions to check Powerschool to see their schedule. *If your student is doing eLearning, please disregard this. We built schedules over the past few weeks for everyone, but your eLearning schedule will be different. More information will be coming to these families next week.* We may need to make a few schedule adjustments, especially for students with IEPs, and will communicate those when they happen. We have worked very hard to gather your input for electives, etc, and then to build a balanced master schedule for everyone. At this point will not be doing schedules changes to accommodate a change in electives, hours, teachers, or to be with your friends. Adjustments will only be made to fill incomplete schedules or make corrections to mistakes in core requirement placements. Thank you for your understanding.

We know that you are eager to see your schedule for the upcoming school year, and we are eager to release those. We will send an email tomorrow when they are ready to go- we’re putting final touches on them right now. Rumor has it that a few kids were able to see their schedule when they happened to log in at the exact time we were testing the system, but we have taken it back offline while we finish adjusting. Thank you for your patience. We will send an alert when it’s ready to go tomorrow.

Check out our new Paw Paw Athletics Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PawPawREDWOLVES/

Parents of students in grades 8-12: As Mr Reo's letter informed you last week, students in grades 8-12 will be physically present in the building two days per week. We are splitting the students into two teams: Red team- present in the building Monday/Tuesday, work from home Wednesday-Friday OR White team- present in the building Thursday/Friday, work from home Monday- Wednesday Some students have already been assigned to a team as determined by which tech center program a student is enrolled in. As we build schedules and split the kids into these two groups, it is our intention to keep kids from the same household on the same team. If for some reason your family would like to have your kids put into opposite groups, please email Mrs Southworth at tammy.southworth@ppps.org this week.