Lt. Gen. William H. Harrison Preparatory School, IB MYP World School

Harrison Prep News & Announcements

Levy information: Please vote by Feb. 14th! Click here to find out more information about the LEVY We hope that you have received your ballots in the mail and have already sent in your votes, but if you are still trying to decide, please use the link above to find out more information.

HP Awarded Washington Achievement Award Click here for more info on the meaning of the award Last week, OSPI announced winners to the state's Washington Achievement award. Harrison Prep was given the distinction of winning the Washington Achievement Award for Closing the Achievement gap for minority students as well as students from lower incomes. We celebrate all the hard work that teachers, students, and families have done to make this award a possibility.

Knowledge Bowl Takes First Place at Regionals! We are proud to say that our HP Knowledge Bowl team won the Regionals in Tumwater on Friday! It was a battle of minds and we came out on top by one point. Congratulations and thank you for representing us so well.

SPIRIT WEEK 2.0!!! Feb. 6-10 Plan ahead for the next Spirit Week! Here's the schedule: February 6-10, 2012! Monday 2/6: Crazy Hair Day Event during lunch: Cracker Whistle--eat a saltine, see if you can whistle You could hairspray your hair different colors; mohawk (if you're that dedicated to making our students happy); spike it; punk it; put glue it in; unicorn horn it (bonus points); fro it; tease it; crimp it (woo 80s!) Tuesday 2/7: Tie Dye Tuesday Event during lunch: (permission pending) Wednesday 2/8: Dress Nice Wednesday Event during lunch: Fashion Show Suit up! Thursday 2/9: Throwback Thursday Event during lunch: Soul Train line and throwback dance contest Whoever goes way way way way back wins. Friday 2/10: All Blue Ev'rything Event during lunch: appearance by the Puma I SAID "BRR, IT'S COLD IN HERE! THERE MUST BE SOME PUMAS IN THE ATMOSPHERE!"

Learn More about the IB MYP Go to this site and click on the link for the General Regulations for the IB MYP As a newly authorized IB MYP World School, it is our responsibility to make this information accessible to you. Please read it and contact Casey Silbaugh if you have questions or concerns.

HP is celebrated in a local online newspaper Click here to read a great article on HP from Lakewood Patch Please read the following information about Harrison Prep.

HPX Enrolling Now! Register for HPX Session 2 - 1/9-3/15/11 HP's Extended Day Program is now enrolling for our next term, which begins Monday, January 9, 2012. Classes are now Monday - Thursday, and are not provided on Early Release Days.To sign up for classes click the link above, or go to the link on the left of this page "HPX - After School Program" and follow directions to enroll your student. If you have questions, please email Mr. deGrouchy, Dean of Students.

HP Choral Students Honored The following students were selected from among thousands of students to sing in the spring at festivals and contests: o Beth Broadhead – NW ACDA HS Women’s Honor Choir o Beth Broadhead – WA All-State Mixed Choir o Zak Buller – WA All-State Mixed Choir o Michelle Wall – WA Junior All-State Mixed Choir o Zoe Jones – WA Junior All-State Mixed Choir o Lacy Faughtenberry – NW ACDA Children’s Honor Choir o Tre’ Manning III - NW ACDA Children’s Honor Choir o Whitney Mason - NW ACDA Children’s Honor Choir

2012-2013 Enrollment HP begins enrolling for next year at our March Orientation. We have scheduled three orientations for 2012: March 28, April 25, May 30, all at 6 p.m. We strongly encourage all students and parents who are interested in attending Harrison Prep to come to an orientation. We will begin enrollment with the first orientation. Enrollment packets will not be available until that time. Also, during the months of April and May, our counselor will visit each elementary school and middle school in Clover Park, to share our programs with 5th and 8th grade students who may be interested in Harrison Prep.

New Sign-up for Volunteering at HP! Click here to sign up for volunteering We are trying a new system to sign-up for volunteering at one of our events. We'll be putting several events on this website in the future. Please find the "Find a Sign-up" tab and enter in Casey Silbaugh's email: csilbaug@cloverpark.k12.wa.us. Thanks for your help!

Battle of the Books! Click here to visit our Library's Home page The Battle of the Books is a fun reading competition where students are exposed to a variety of genres. Students will form teams of 4. They can be across grade levels (within 6th, 7th and 8th for the middle school, and 9th - 12th for high school). Their goal, as a team, is to become experts on the books so they can answer as many questions as possible during the competition. The winning team from HP will go on to compete against the winning teams in our other district middle or high schools. We are proud to share that our HP middle school team won district last year! We have a plaque in the library for the year. When a team is formed, one member should come to the library to register their team. Only registered battle participants may check out the Battle Books until the competition is over. HP school battles will be in March (working on the date). This list of titles is on our HP website under "Library Corner" --> "Battle of the Books," along with the rules of the competition. It's also on the website under "Friday News and Information." If you have any questions, please let Ms. Hippert know!

NewsFlash page Please sign up for email updates that will come whenever we update that page. This will be in addition to the Friday News that you receive every Friday. Go to the left side of this page to find the "NewsFlash" page. Then follow the directions after you click the "Subscribe" button.

Health Concern Please look at the District Medical Guidelines under the School Policies tab (lefthand side of this page) to judge whether your child is too sick to come to school. Remember that we all want to stay well. Thank you for supporting that goal!

Take the Family Needs Survey Click here to take the survey! Please take this survey to let us know how to better meet your needs as a family. This information will be used to plan our Family Involvement for the upcoming year. The link will stay open until the end of Parent/Teacher Conferences. Please take time to enter your responses.

Military Families Click here for a link to JBLM's Student Liaison's Office We recognize that a great number of families at HP are military. We'd like to do a better job of aligning our communication and expectations with your strengths and concerns. Please contact Casey Silbaugh at csilbaug@cloverpark.k12.wa.us about specific needs we might not be aware of. Thanks for choosing HP!

Keep gathering Box Tops! Click here for ways to gather Box Tops for HP! Theresa Langtry will be sending out information about the new Box Top Competition starting soon. PTO will be offering prizes to the advisories in MS and those in HS as separate competitions. All proceeds are given in a check back to the PTO who is then dedicating all Box Top funds to this year's PTO project: Redoing the Staff Lounge.

College and Career Resources Click here for College and Career information courtesy Ms. Dixon at CPHS If you are interested in information regarding College and Career options, Ms. Dixon at Clover Park High School has generously invited our students to check out her website while our own College and Career Center gets up and running. Don't miss out on lots of great resources!

Facebook, MySpace and Students Facebook - Safety for Parents Harrison Prep wants to remind parents to monitor their children's use of online social media such as Facebook and Myspace. Online issues between students can follow them into the classroom. While HP deals with issues that follow students into the classroom, we cannot police every child's online interactions at home. Many of the issues we are seeing involve children that are younger than the Age Restrictions permitted on these websites. Please monitor your child's internet use, and be aware of what they are doing online. Additional tips are located on the attached webpage from Facebook.

UPCOMING EVENTS

January 9

HPX begins new term. Please see HPX page (link on left) to enroll for this term, and see more information. Classes are Monday - Thursday, and not on Early Release Days.

February 6-10

Spirit Week: See announcement to the left.

February 7

Semester Ends

February 9th

Make-up MATH EOC testing

February 10

Spirit Assembly

February 10

Cupid's Court Dance: Middle School, 5:30-7:30,at the door; High School, 8:00-10:00, Tickets are on sale 2/6 - 2/10 at lunch. $8 with ASB, $10 without, $12 at the door.

Dress is semi formal, so look sharp! Guest passes are available outside the office and must be filled out and returned by 2/8, no exceptions.

February 14

Replacement Levy: Please vote! (see link to the left for more info)

February 15

CANCELLED: Puma Awards Assemblies. Will be rescheduled.

February 15

Half Day, 12:30 early release. CSD planning day (make-up due to snow days)

February 16

IB Celebration!! 7:00-8:30 in HP Gym--Come celebrate our official authorization!!

February 17

First semester report cards will be mailed home Friday, Feb. 17.

February 17-20

President's Day weekend, No School

February 21

PTO Meeting: Volunteering, Key #3 with Sarah Fairweather as guest speaker.

February 22

6th grade CSD full day, chaperones needed

February 22

Site Council

February 23

7/8 grade CSD full day, chaperones needed

February 24

HS CSD full day, chaperones needed

February 29

Half day, 12:30 release.