Eagle Newsletter

September Observances

• September 2: Labor Day (No School)
• September 11: Patriot Day
• September 12: National Day of Encouragement
• September 22: First Day of Fall
• National Self Awareness Month
• National Hispanic Heritage Month

Mesa Verde Events

• September 4: Spirit Day (Hawaiian Day)
• September 4: Back to School Night

• September 4: Parent Tech Tutorial (Optional)

• September 12: PTSA Fundraiser at the Kebab Shop (all day)

• September 30: Non Student Day - Professional Growth Day

• Every Friday: School Spirit Day! Wear Black, Purple, or Teal

We would like to celebrate our Eagle community's Hispanic Heritage by showcasing artifacts, items, photos, and memorabilia in the library. If you're willing to share, please bring your item(s) to the library or the front office. Everything will be returned in late October. Questions? Please reach out to Heather Ferguson (hferguson@powayusd.com).

Parents and guardians are invited to come along to the first meet-up organized by Mesa Verde Parents & Guardians Social Group on Thursday 19th September from 6-8:30pm at the Knotty Barrel in PQ. Please see attached flyer for more information and a link to sign-up.

A Bike Permit will be required for all bicycles, scooters, and skateboards. New stickers for non-motorized transport will be issued and enforcement will begin by campus security/supervisors Monday, September 30th. Please remove last years (23-24) Parking Permit, they will no longer be accepted.

The application and quiz must be turned in by Wednesday, September 25th.

If your student turned in the MVMS Student Bicycle/Scooter/E-Bike/Skateboard Parking Permit Application and passed the online quiz, an email will be sent out with information on how to pick up your New Bike Permit. For students who turned in an application but did not pass the online quiz, you will receive a separate email with information on retaking the quiz in-person. The safety questions are a priority.

Click here for more information on the bike permits including the application and online quiz.

PUSD has partnered with local enforcement to provide classes this Fall

In response to community requests and a desire to address a student safety need, PUSD has partnered with local enforcement to provide mandatory safety classes for all ebike riders. If your child rides their ebike to and from school, attending one of these one-hour classes with a parent or guardian will be a requirement to park their ebike on campus. To provide students ample time to comply, this new requirement will be enforced starting January 6, 2025.

The first group of classes is in September. If you cannot attend one of these classes, additional classes will be scheduled in October (dates TBD). You can attend any one that works with your and your child’s schedule, regardless of where you are located. Advance Registration is not required. One parent or guardian must attend with their child. At the class, you will be asked to register the make and model of the ebike, VIN#, and student ID, so please come prepared with that information. Topics covered will include following the rules of the road, proper helmet usage, the safe operation of ebikes, and more.

1. Saturday, Sept. 7 at 10 am at Bernardo Heights Middle School Multi Purpose Room

Address: 12990 Paseo Lucido, San Diego, 92128

2. Saturday, Sept. 7 at 11am at Bernardo Heights Middle School Multi Purpose Room

Address: 12990 Paseo Lucido, San Diego, 92128

3. Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 6pm at Poway High School Room K-1

Address: 15500 Espola Road, Poway, 92064

4. Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 6pm at Del Norte High School Performing Arts Center

Address: 16601 Nighthawk Lane, San Diego, 92127

Once you register your ebike at the meeting, will receive a sticker to place on your ebike and your school will receive a record that you attended the safety class. We appreciate your partnership in taking this important step toward keeping our students safe.

The Poway Unified School District

I have a safety concern for the children leaving Mesa Verde through the back gate on Sedorus Street/Ireland Lane and we need your help to request a crosswalk at this location. Please read even if your student doesn’t use this area as we need as many reports to make it happen.

“Students do not have a safe space to cross when entering and leaving Mesa Verde Middle School at the gate located on Sedorus Street/Ireland Lane in Rancho Penasquitos. With limited bus service, there are more students walking and more vehicles on the road and it has become increasingly dangerous for our students: vehicles making illegal turns, parking in front of the curb ramp, speeding, especially when children are around. A couple of near misses were witnessed last week.”

Unfortunately, the school is not able to do anything about it. It must be reported and requested officially. There are two (2) ways to report a road issue. Each one would take one minute if you copy and paste the section in quotes above.

• San Diego Get It Done: click here. Address: Ireland Lane and Sedorus Street
• San Diego Traffic Request: click here. Street: Ireland Lane. Closest Cross Street: Sedorus Street

School Site Council (SSC) Parent Nominations:

We still need parent nominations! At Mesa Verde we invite innovative leaders from the community to help guide our school. We are looking for parents who want to set an example to their students and/or serve the community by participating in MVMS' SSC. Please click here to nominate yourself, your parent or a peer parent at MVMS.

Just a reminder that Student drop off is located in the 6th Grade/West parking lot and in front of the

school. For the safety of our students and staff, the Staff/East parking lot nearest to Russet Leaf and the Administration Building is closed for dropping off students for the safety of our students

and staff.

San Diego Badminton Academy is offering an after school Badminton Club for all ages and skill levels.

Attention MVMS parents and students!

Middle school students that choose to attend Mt. Carmel football games must be accompanied by their parent/guardian. Groups of students will no longer be allowed entrance with one parent. Middle school students that come to games without their parent/guardian will be denied entry. After entering the stadium all students are expected to find seats in the Home Section for the duration of the game. Students may visit the snack bar and restrooms during the game, but they are not allowed to congregate in the area next to the snack bar and behind the home side press box. If students choose to stand in large groups in these locations, they will be asked to take their seats. If they do not follow directions, they will be asked to leave the game without refund.

MCHS appreciates your support!

Please click here for a copy of the 2024-2025 Eagle Agenda. 7th & 8th Grade students who purchased an agenda should have received theirs in Homeroom on Wednesday, August 28. For those 7th & 8th graders who would still like to purchase an agenda, they are $8 and can be paid for by cash or check. To purchase an agenda, students should see Ms. Brown in the Finance Office at lunch or after school.

Mesa Verde Families,

We hope you all had an amazing start to the school year! Our School has been recognized as a National PTA School of Excellence, thanks to our extraordinary community. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our PTSA Table at Registration, and joined our PTSA family! Your memberships and donations are greatly appreciated and help support a number of programs and events school-wide like Staff Appreciation Week, Spelling Bee, Gaming Tournaments, Campus Beautification, Book Fair, and more.

If you haven't joined yet, please use THIS LINK to join us and get a chance to win some AMAZING prizes in our opportunity drawing…you could be next!

Winners already from our Registration Day drawings were:

6th Grade: Julia A. family

7th Grade: Marwa A. family

8th Grade: Stephanie M. family

We’ll be having two family winners and one student winner to be announced at the end of our membership drive. Also, with our membership packages, you can get an Eagle Discount Card which offers discounts to various vendors around PQ. (Expect Cards to be delivered at the end of September.)

If you have any questions, feel free to email Maha ElMeniawy, mvmsptsamembership@gmail.com

The Mesa Verde library is looking for parent volunteers to help out during our busy lunch hours.

Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday: 10:50 am to 12:35 pm.

Wednesdays 11:40 am to 1:05 pm.

We mostly need help directing students to sign in/out and where to go for assistance.

You can volunteer every week, every other week or once a month. No experience necessary, flexible schedules - you can choose to volunteer once a week or once a month!

All Volunteers will need to update their information and fill out new volunteer forms.

Megan's Law Background Check

PUSD Volunteer Application - Megan's Law background check - Level I Clearance

• 2024-2025 Volunteer Application
• PUSD Code-of-Conduct
• PUSD Code-of-Confidentiality_FERPA

Please click HERE for more information.

If you are interested, please contact Heather Ryan : hryan@powayusd.com for more information.

Thank you for your time and energy you contribute to the students and staff at MVMS.

The difference between a guest, a visitor and a volunteer as per the PUSD board policies.

Visitors are individuals visiting a classroom as a guest lecture, college representative, and those helping with an event. Staff preapproval is required and please be sure to bring a photo id with you when you check-in at the front office on your day of arrival.

Volunteers are individuals that help on campus on a regular basis and have completed the required volunteer paperwork to become a volunteer.

All visitors and volunteers visiting campus must be prearranged by a staff member contacting the administration office prior to the visit. All visitors and volunteers are required to sign in at the front office and wear the printed name tag each day you are on campus. This will help us to identify people on our campus in maintaining a safe campus.

Interested in becoming a volunteer? Once you have connected with a staff member in need of a volunteer, the next step to become a volunteer is to complete the required forms.

1) Megan's Law background check Volunteer Application form (annually)

• 2024-2025 Volunteer Application

2) Provide a current TB test (valid for 4 years from the Read Date), including chest x-rays. X-rays over 4 years old MUST be accompanied by a California School Employee Tuberculosis Risk Assessment Questionnaire, that is valid for 4 years, as well.

3) Code of Conduct form (annually)

• PUSD Code-of-Conduct

4) Code of Confidentiality form (annually).

• PUSD Code-of-Confidentiality_FERPA

Bring all requested documents to the front office along with your current driver license or passport. Your Megan's Law background check Volunteer Application form will be submitted to the PUSD district office for processing. Once all documents have been processed, you will be ready to begin volunteering. If you are a current volunteer at another PUSD school or are a current PUSD staff member wanting to become a volunteer, please complete all of the required volunteer forms as each school site is required to have their own current volunteer documents.

Attention Mesa Verde families!

MVMS ASES sports is back for the 2024-2025 school year. If you are interested in participating in any of our sports (Cross Country, Flag Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer), please fill out the ASES Sports Registration Packet prior to the start of the sport season. Due dates for the packets can be found on the flier, as well as on the second page of the Registration Packet.

Sports Registration Packets can be found HERE. Information about skills assessment dates, and the practice/game schedules will be sent out to families who have submitted completed packets.

Filled out packets can be turned into Room 301 (before school and during lunch) or turned in through the google form link HERE (Note: A google account is required to submit through the form). They can also be sent via email to psobhani@powayusd.com and abaker@powayusd.com .

Please note that the front office and coaches will not be accepting completed packets.

Westview Cheer is having a Youth Cheer Clinic for students in 1st through 8th grade. They can come out and learn from the Westview Cheerleaders and then they will get to perform at the Varsity Football game half time show on Friday, September 20.

Click on the flier for more information and to register.

Our district’s Caring Connections Parent Education website has new and exciting courses being offered this Fall. Each term we have different parent education courses, therefore, feel free to periodically check the website at the beginning of each term for the new courses offered to parents, families, and our school community. Beginning next week, click HERE to view the PUSD CCC Parent Education Fall Courses.

If a student forgets an item at home, such as homework, P.E. clothes, band instruments, phones, lunch money, or lunches, parents are permitted to bring those items to school; however, we will not deliver the item or a message about the item to students. Students may check in at the office during passing periods or lunch to retrieve a forgotten item. This is to encourage students to be responsible for the items they need on a daily basis and keep our student’s classroom interruptions to a minimum. At no time will individual or group online/call-in food orders be allowed for delivery.

Did you know that PUSD provides free breakfast and lunch daily for all students!

Students can pick up their breakfast in the cafeteria after 7:30am.

Please have your student memorize and/or write down their student ID number in order to get breakfast or lunch. This will help the lunch lines move quickly!

All students are encouraged to eat lunch first and then wait to be released down to the donut area and Eagle Center.

Please remind your child to throw their trash away in the trash can and encourage others to do the same. This will help keep our campus looking exquisite and inviting.

Thank you for your support!

In an effort to better secure our campus, we have installed a door bell/buzzer system at the front door of our administration building. We are a closed campus and our front door will remain locked at all times. MVMS staff, students, parents, and visitors will need to ring the door bell to be buzzed in. If no one is at the front desk when you first arrive, the doorbell will let the office staff know you are waiting and we will buzz you in.

Reporting an Absence

In order to better serve our families and record and track absences, we will be asking parents to report absences via a Google Form as opposed to calling them in to our attendance office. Only parents/caregivers may complete the form and the email and phone number listed must match those in Synergy. Please click on the link below, which can also be found on our website and the included Contact List.

Attendance Reporting Form

Tardies

Students are required to be on time to class, ready to learn. After the bell rings at 8am (or 9:03am on Wednesdays), students must enter through the front office and check in at the attendance office to receive a tardy slip. If students are tardy and arrive to class without a tardy slip, they will be asked to return to the attendance office to check in. The following consequences will be in place for students who are tardy to the first period of the school day:

• Up to 5 in a school year: automatic reminder phone calls and/or emails
• 6 in a school year: phone conference with parent or legal caregiver
• 7+ in a school year: one after school detention per subsequent tardy

Please see the Eagle Agenda or school website for additional information on excused and unexcused tardies, as well as tardies that occur during the school day.

Does Your Student Need Medication at School?

Poway Unified School District philosophy is that parents bear the primary responsibility in providing medication for their students. Whenever possible, medication should be administered at home. Parents have the option to personally administer medication to their child at any time during the school day. Health assistance can be provided to support student learning and attendance. Medication administration is provided under the direction and indirect supervision of the resource nurses in Health Services. If a student needs medication during the school day, the following procedure must be followed, according to Ed Code:

• Complete an Authorization for Medication Administration form (H-26) for all prescriptions, over the counter, and herbal medication. The form requires signatures by both the parent and the student’s physician. The physician must be licensed in the state of California.
• The completed form should be given to the Health Technician at the same time as you deliver the medication.
• The medication must be in a pharmacy-labeled container stating the student’s full name, medication name, proper dosage, and time to be given.

Please check the expiration date on all medication you provide to the school site and update this medication as needed.

• Long term medication: Provide no more than a 1 month supply and replenish the medication as needed.
• Over-the-counter medication (i.e. Benadryl, Tylenol, or herbal medication): Medication must be in original container clearly labeled with student’s name. Parent and physician authorization is required.
• Sunscreen and Throat Lozenges/Cough Drops may be administered to preschool/elementary school students with parent authorization only by completing and signing the top portion of the H-26 form. A physician signature is not required. All products must be in original packaging and labeled with the student’s name. No authorization for Sunscreen and Throat Lozenges/Cough Drops is required for Middle School or High School students.
• Epi-pens and Epinephrine auto-injectors: A Potential Anaphylactic Reaction form (H-58) should be completed and signed by physician and parent. (H-26 form is not necessary)
• Asthma: Please provide spacers for inhalers, if indicated, and review your child’s use of the inhaler with the school site Health Technician.
• ESS and Medication: Health Technician and ESS Coordinator can communicate and share forms. However, you must provide separate containers of medication for each location.

Note: Poway Unified School District has a “zero tolerance” drug policy for all students.

Do not put your child at risk of receiving disciplinary action! Don’t send your child to school with any medication unless you have followed the medication procedure. Remember, even Tylenol or Advil are considered to be drugs.

Students may carry their own medication only if they are responsible and an Authorization to Carry Medication While at School form (H-26B) has been signed by the physician, parent, and student.

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Phone: (858) 538-5478
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