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May 18, 2023

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Supply Kits for 2023-2024

We have partnered with School Specialty to provide an online order portal for supply kits for the upcoming school year. This is an optional service and will be offered for placing orders to be delivered directly to your home. The portal opens TODAY and will close on June 2nd, so don't wait if you want to take advantage of this service! The ordering portal is www.shopttkits.com and our school code is 66077.

As always, all supply lists will be posted to the MES website by Monday afternoon if you choose to shop elsewhere!

Re-Registration for Rising 1st – 5th Grade Students

Atlanta Public Schools in the process of updating student records and re-registering students for the 2023-2024 school year. For returning students rising into Grades 1-5, all you need to do is to verify that your information is up to date. Please visit HERE for full details.

Friday, May 19 - LAST SWAG Campus Clean Up of the Year!

One last chance to have some good clean fun! Please join us after school on Friday, May 19 at 2:45pm for our final Monthly Campus Clean Up of the year. As always, bags, gloves, and snacks with be available for all volunteers. Kids and parents welcome!

Please contact Heather Lowe if you have additional questions.

Sunday, May 21 - MES East Rock Springs Campus Garden Clean Up

It is the end of the school year and everyone is ready to sit back and relax for the summer. But wait - we still have a GARDEN to build at the East Rock Springs campus before our students return in August! So let's roll up our sleeves and do this! Hold off on hitting the gym, and pick up bricks with the MES PTA on Sunday, May 21st from 3-5pm. We also need some wheelbarrows, so please bring if you have one.

Please sign up here if you plan to join us, either this Sunday or if you'd like to help out over the summer (use the sign up spots for July 15th as placeholders).

Wednesday, May 24 - 5th Grade Moving On Ceremony

This special event will commence at 8:30am with a Farewell Parade, during which the students will take their final walk through the halls of MES. This will be immediately followed by the Moving Up Ceremony and Reception at 8:45am where families are invited to please join us. The dress code for this event is "Dolphin Dapper (Dress Nice)".

Please note that early checkout will be allowed following the reception if desired. See the 5th Grade Website for all the details about the event Check In/Check Out process that will be in place to ensure the safety of our students.

Thursday, May 25 - Fifth Grade Field Day

This exciting day of activities will be hosted by the 5th grade social chairs and parent liaisons, and will feature lots of outdoor fun! Field Day events will take place from 9:50am - 12:30pm, with a special lunch provided for all students and teachers.

As with the school-wide Field Day in April, this event will require a lot of parent volunteer help! While most of the slots have been claimed already (THANK YOU!), we can still use a few more volunteers. If you'd like to help out, please sign up here.

Click HERE to view the MES 1-mile walk zone for the 2023-2024 school year!

MES PTA Help Wanted for the 2023-2024 School Year!

A PTA like ours cannot do all of the awesome things we do without a lot of support from our parents and community members. With a big move to a new campus and several of our families moving to VHE, we are looking to build up our roster of volunteers across all of our PTA committees. If you'd like to get more involved with the PTA next year, please complete this MES PTA Volunteer Interest form to let us know where you might want to help and what skills, talents, and secret connections you may be bringing to the table. Over the summer, our new Exec Committee will begin reaching out to folks based on this information to fill out all of our committees. Thanks!

The PTA's Cultural Arts Committee Needs Your Input!

As we start planning for the Inaugural MES International Festival we want to know who we are representing! Please fill out this Two Question Survey to let us know. 

Save the date for September 30, 2023!

MES Principal Coffee Talks & Blog

Have you missed the last Principal's coffee talk? Don't fret. All coffee talks are stored on the MES YouTube page, and can be viewed at any time.

As always, you can catch up on everything MES straight from Principal Sofianos by bookmarking her Principal's Blog and checking back often!

Rising Rams Information for 5th Grade Families

Rising Rams families, please visit the Rising Rams webpage on the Howard Middle School website for all the information you need ahead of the new school year, including registration information for 2023-24, scheduling information for next year, and details about the Summer Bridge program.

Additional information can be found on this informative Rising Rams one-pager. Please feel free to share with any future Rams families you know!

Stay Up to Date with the APS Midtown Cluster

Click HERE for resources directly related to our cluster.

Stay Up to Date with the 2022-2023 APS Calendar 

Click HERE to view the district calendar and start planning for all the breaks.

Click HERE to view the Atlanta BOE 2023 Calendar.

Stay Up To Date with the VaHi Elementary PTO

The newly formed PTO for VaHi Elementary School is off and running! To keep up with everything they are rolling out, please check out the following communications channels:

• Sign up for the VHE Newsletter HERE
• Follow the VHE PTO on Instagram and Twitter
• Check out the VHES Facebook Page

VaHi Elementary Website Updates

For our future VHE Elementary families - if you looking for information about the new school, please be sure to check out the growing website for the school, as new information is being added on a regular basis! Be sure to use the drop down menus at the top of the page to navigate to the various areas of the page, including a new About Page, information on school policies and procedures for the new school (under the New Students tab), a section dedicated to academics (under the Academics tab), and pages for the school's GO Team and the PTO.

Thank you to our Diamond Dolphin, Dolphin, and Platinum-level sponsors for supporting our school!

For more information about Dolphin Donors, please click HERE.