Random Acts of Kindness Week will be celebrated districtwide for all grades PK-12th grade, February 12-16, 2024. During Random Acts of Kindness week, the district will focus on making kindness the norm. We believe that all people can connect through kindness and that kindness can be taught.
To help support this district Initiative, a Kindness Cart will be placed outside of the main office where students and staff may take kindness notes and randomly submit them to people of their choice. The Be the "I" in Kind poster has been placed outside office 123, where we encourage all staff members, PTO members/volunteers, and parent visitors to be the "I" in Kind. If you take pictures, please tag them to @MeyerlandMS on Twitter/X or @meyerlandpva on Instagram.
We look forward to seeing all the random acts of kindness shared on the campus.
Respectfully,
The Counseling Team
Art on the Streets Contest
Congrats to Mr. Adams, Ms. Gutierrez, and our amazing MPVA artists for their wins at the Arts on the Streets Contest! Meyerland took home the award for most submissions at the middle school level and Louisa Picard was the Grand Prize Winner in the contest!
Louisa is one of our Animation Class students and won $500, a VR headset, a table, and tickets to the Travis Scott celebrity softball tournament. All our finalists also received an Android tablet and tickets to the celebrity softball tournament as well. In addition, our MPVA Art Department won $250 certificate from Texas Art Supply. Not bad for a day’s work!
Middle and High School students from Houston ISD have participated since 2015 in the CCM's Foundation "Art on the Streets" student art contest. This competition was created to use arts and education to empower youth and young adults to make healthy lifestyle decisions that will reduce health disparities among underserved populations.
Shout out to all our 6th, 7th and 8th grade students! From researching the virus to working out a drawing that represents the theme, our students showed up and showed out:
- Giselle Mitchell
- Lindsay Pittsford
- Sofia Macias
- Harper Sitton
- Nathaniel Baez
- Quinn McCormick
- Bryant Cooper
- Anahi Villalobos
- Rhayna Varghese
- Kylee Green
- Siyah Walker
- Abigail Barr
- Grand Prize Winner - Louisa Picard
The results are in! Meyerland Dance Ensemble has received 1st Place/Highest Score for Choreography and Performance for "Transcendent"/Contemporary Ballet, Choreography by Mr. Peters, and BOTH 1st Place and 3rd Place, respectively for Student Choreography for Amani Jorge and Sophia Winard ("Ninja"/Chinese Fan Dance) and Bella Axcell, Christyn Edwards, Amberly Herrera ("Facing Infinity"/Contemporary)! This marks the 10th consecutive year that our Dance program has received 1st Place/Highest Score for HISD Middle Schools!
Congratulations to the following schools for their division I ratings, 1st -3rd place rankings, and highest overall scores:
Dance Montage Ranking (placement- highest scores) 1-3 place
High School
1. Kinder HSPVA, “Waltz of the Snowflakes”
2. Westside HS, Inertia Dance Co. “This Bitter Earth”
3. Carnegie HS, “Weak Heart”
Middle School
1. Meyerland PVA MS
2. Revere MS
3. West Briar MS
Elementary School
1. J. Codwell Elementary
2. E. Poe Elementary
3. T. Marshall Elementary
Emerging Choreographers Ranking (placement- highest scores) 1-3 place
High School
1. Bellaire HS, eMotion Dance Co., “Lost a Friend”
2. Bellaire HS, Belles Dance Team, “Falling Apart”
3. Westside HS, Inertia Dance Co., “Brothers”
Middle School
1. Meyerland PVA MS “Ninja”
2. Pershing MS “The Beat”
3. Meyerland PVA MS “Facing Infinity”
Theater
Kudos to Ms. Duran and all of our musical theater and tech theater kids who knocked it out of the park with “Seussical”. Our auditorium was FULL Friday night for this fantastic production! They also performed for a local nursing home and put on a show for Kolter ES and Herod ES giving many of those students their first taste of theater. Ms. Duran’s vision for more outreach in 2024 has been realized. Congrats to all and a huge thank you to our Theater Booster Club for everything they did to make this a rousing success!
