Highlands Highlights

10/3 Firefighters visiting kindergarten & 1st grade

10/3 Indian Music Performance - 3rd grade discovery

10/4 No school for students

10/8 1st Grade Hearing and Vision Testing - school hours

10/8 PTO Exec Meeting 1:30 - 3:15pm

10/9 Davanni’s Fundraiser 4 - 8pm

10/10 Kindness retreat - 5th grade students

10/11 Evacuation Drill

10/14 - 10/16 Eagle Bluff camp - 4th grade discovery

10/15 Discovery Kitchen at lunch - Korean Chicken Bulgogi

10/17 - 10/18 MEA Weekend

For more Highlands dates, please Go to the Highlands website at: https://highlands.edinaschools.org/

This fall all students in grades K-9 took the FASTBridge Universal Screening assessment in both reading and math. You can view your child's scores in the assessment portal on or after October 10th.

Here is more information on the assessments:

English

Spanish

Somali

How can I help at home?

FASTBridge: Cómo ayudar en casa

How do I access the assessment portal?

Photoshare! https://photos.jostens.com/HRHDG4

The Highlands yearbook team is looking for your photos! Please help us create our 2024-25 yearbook by sharing your photos throughout the year! Our goal is to showcase all of our wonderful students as much as possible in our yearbook, and we can't do it without your help!

This year Jostens has a user friendly way to share your photos. Simply follow the link https://photos.jostens.com/HRHDG4, or scan the QR code to upload your photos. You can upload photos easily from your smartphone, computer, or tablet! Please tag your images with student name(s) and the activity or event showcased. Photoshare allows you to tag multiple photos just once, so it is quick and easy for you to do! Please feel free to reach out to Amanda Jeske (amjeske11@gmail.com) with any questions!

First Day of School Photos!

Practice using Photoshare today by sharing your first day of school photos! Follow the photo share QR code above, or the Photoshare link: https://photos.jostens.com/HRHDG4. This is the same link that you will use to upload all photos for the yearbook this year. Thank you very much!

Change of End of Day Transportation?

Please communicate this to both the classroom teacher AND the front office no later than 1:00pm to ensure the communication is received. Teachers do not typically have time during the day to review all emails as they are teaching.

Need to Pick Up your Child Early?

If you need to pick up your child early, please schedule this to happen before 2pm. At 2pm and after, our buses are rolling into the parking lot. Please use the Pick Up/Drop Off designated parking areas or park in an empty spot. Do not park in the handicap lanes unless you have a placard or license plate.

Click here to watch a video with instructions for entering and exiting Highlands for car rider pick up/drop off. Click here for a one-pager with directions and map.

In the mornings, please leave the middle lane open for buses and staff. Please also keep in mind that staff start at various times in the morning including 7:30, 7:45 and 8:00am and will be allowed to come through the drop off line. Please kindly let them through.

As always, please drive slowly through the parking lots at Highlands. We have many students that are walkers and it is all of our jobs to keep them safe.

We have Highlands staff who are allergic to pumpkins. Please not bring decorative pumpkins into the school. Did you know any hard-skinned squash could be called a pumpkin? There's no botanical distinction that makes a pumpkin a pumpkin. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Eat in, take out, or purchase gift cards or retail from Davanni’s on Wednesday, October 9th from 4-8 pm and 20% of our school’s total will be donated back to the Highlands PTO!

When ordering, tell the cashier/server you are with the Highlands fundraiser. The more the merrier, so feel free to reach out to other friends and family and make it a dinner party

Main Office Line: 952-848-4500

Attendance Line: 952-848-4502

Website: https://highlands.edinaschools.org/
Location: 5505 Doncaster Way, Edina, MN 55436
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HLHappenings

Tech and Infinite Campus Help: The Help Desk is available to answer media and technology related questions from 7am -4pm. For live assistance, please call 952-848-4915