Our PTA has organized an on-line Spirit Wear store. Order your High Point and Gahanna spirit wear today! Kids and adult sizes available. These will be delivered before the holidays in December. Spirit Wear makes great holiday gifts! $1 of each sale comes back to the PTA.

*Bulk pick up option available - will deliver to High Point if you chose.

Click here to order: https://high-point-elementary-fall-2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Our lost and found is already overflowing! Please encourage your child to check for sweatshirts, coats, and other items.

Our 4th grade team is in need of empty egg cartons for a math lesson. If you have any that you are able to donate, please send them to the office. Thanks for your help!

Want to support your student at home with Math? Here the presentation that was given at our last PTA meeting from our Math Curriculum Coordinator regarding Bridges.

Bridges Caregiver Welcome Letters:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

If you are struggling to support your child at home, please reach out to their teacher for help!

If you need to call of your child from school, feel free to call the school OR you may email our attendance address at hesattendance@gjps.org.

November 8-No School PD Day

November 11-Papa John's Fundraiser (see flyer below)

November 12-PTA Meeting in the Library at 6:30 PM

*Special Guest: Erin Schmidt talking about Wit and Wisdom

November 15-Veteran's Day Assembly

November 27-29-Thanksgiving Break

If you use Google Calendar, feel free to add our public calendar to your device by using this link.

Be sure to make your dinner plans for Monday, November 11th a breeze with pizza from Papa Johns and 20% of your order comes back to High Point Elementary!!

A huge thank you to all of our walk-a-thon raffle sponsors. With their generosity and support for our school we were able to have 146 prize winners this year! Keep an eye out for prizes your students may be bringing home this week and next. If your student did not win anything, there is still a chance. Nine prizes will be drawn for at the assembly at the end of November.

Thank you raffle sponsors!!

Let’s get earning! We are trying to revive our efforts for this fundraising opportunity for the school. Many may remember collecting the boxtops and sending them into the school; the process has now been digitalized through an app. During the month of November when new users use the Box Tops for Education referral code (X3ER9JC8), the school will get a bonus of $5 upon signing up and scanning your first receipt. Earning is easy with the following steps: Download the app, Create an account (use referral code above), Choose Highpoint Elementary, Purchase qualifying items, Scan receipt within 14 days of purchase, Receive school earnings. This is a simple way to kickstart our participation in this program and support our amazing school!

Are you looking for ways to talk about math at home? Here are some great picture books that help develop mathematical thinking!

• Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell

• How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

• Quack and Count by Keith Baker

• One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

• Inch by Inch by Leo Leonni

• Who Eats First? by Ae-hae Yoon

• Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale by Lily Toy Hong

• Mr. Noisy’s Book of Patterns by Rozanne L. Williams

• When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins by Rhonda Growler Greene

• The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

• 12 Ways to Get to 11 by Eve Merriam

• Over, Under, and Through by Tana Hoban

• Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres

Do you know a staff member who you feel makes a profound impact on students and Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools? If so, nominate them for the GJPS Heart and Pride award. This award is open to any staff member. regardless of position. Each month, the district will take the nominations to the Heart and Pride Committee, which is composed of community members and former staff members. The committee will select two winners a month that will be recognized by our Board of Education at the monthly meeting. If you have a staff member in mind, please complete THIS GOOGLE FORM. Nominations can take place all year.