Eagle Newsletter

• September 4: Labor Day-No School
• September 11: Patriot Day
• September 12: National Day of Encouragement
• September 23: First Day of Fall
• National Self Awareness Month
• National Hispanic Heritage Month
• National Suicide Prevention Month

• September 7: College Shirt Day
• September 7: Bus Evacuations
• September 12: Bus Evacuations (Students with Disabilities)
• September 18: Professional Growth Day-No School
• September 19-22: Start With Hello Spirit Week
• September 25-29: Conference Week-Minimum Days (Block Schedule)

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

Its that time of year again and starting on September 5th thru the 22nd, driver’s will be conducting their bus evacuation drills for their students on their routes.

All students will be given the required instructions on school bus emergency procedures and passenger safety when the bus arrives at school, they will then evacuate the school bus through the emergency exit door. During the evacuation they will not be permitted to take personal items with them so they will have to reenter the bus to get their belongings.

MVMS Schedule:

Thursday, September 7th : Routes 12, 14, 24

Tuesday, September 12th: Routes 107, 112, 113, 114 (Students with Disabilities)

This week the PTSA conducted the first opportunity drawing for a San Diego State fan pack complete with SD State swag in a clear stadium bag. The lucky PTSA member winner are the parents of 6th grader Eric X.! Congratulations! It's not too late to win! Everyone's drawing entries roll to the next drawing, so the earlier you join the PTSA, the more opportunities to win. Plus, depending on your membership package, you can be entered up to 5 times for each drawing! Not a member yet? Click here to join today and Let's Do This!

Questions? mvmsptsamembership@gmail.com

Westview ASL Club presents sign language workshop. Come learn the National Anthem at their upcoming workshops. Participants will have the opportunity to sign the National Anthem at Westview's Homecoming football game along side Westview ASL Club. Workshops will be held in Mesa Verde's Library on 9/20, 9/27 and 10/11 from 8:00am-8:50am.

To join, please complete this form.

We want to give a very warm and heart felt "Thank You" to our Mesa Verde families for the generous donations for the "Stock the Staff Room" drive! We appreciate your generosity and kindness. Stay safe, healthy and have a wonderful holiday weekend!

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 for students?

You can pick up your breakfast in the cafeteria or bring your breakfast from home. Meet in the lunch area after 7:30am while enjoying good conversations with friends. This is a fun way to spend time with friends while starting your school day on time at 8am.

Mesa Verde Math Club is starting September 20th. Registration and permission forms are now being collected. The Math Club is open to all students wanting to solve challenging math problems and compete in the Math Olympiad and/or as part of our school's Mathcounts Competition Team. All members of math club will also have the opportunity to take the AMC8 and a select group of our members end up taking the AMC 10. Registration can be completed through MVMS's main webpage and follow the links to "CLUBS" under the tab "Student Life". Registration and Permissions form due by Friday September 15th.

To ensure that our students are aware of and abiding by school and city safety rules related to bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, etc., students will now be required to apply for a permit to park their mode of transportation on campus/bike racks during the school day. The student will have to complete the online quiz and form. In the meantime, your student may ride their bike, scooter, skateboard, etc. to school during this grace period. Permits will be handed out Mid-September. Use your phone to click on the QR code.

The Mesa Verde library is looking for parent volunteers to help during our busy lunch periods:

Mon/Tues/Thu/Friday: 11:30 to 1:00

Wednesdays: 11:20 to 12:45

No experience necessary, flexible schedules - you can choose to volunteer once a week, once a month.... Please contact Heather Ryan hryan@powayusd.com for more information.

1. A Visitor is defined as an individual who, with school district authorization, attends a student performance, special event, festival, open house, back-to-school event, sports event, athletic competition, etc. A visitor may either be accompanied or unaccompanied by school district staff. Designated school district administrative personnel are to make this determination. A visitor is usually not required to sign a registry.

Example: Your school is being recognized for achievement and members of SDCOE are coming to watch students or your school is hosting a Jr. Olympic competition.

2. A Guest is defined as an individual who, with school district approval, assists students, schools, and teachers on a non-regular basis or who individually observes a classroom or activity. A guest may also assist with educational programs or with special events on an occasional or infrequent basis. A guest shall immediately report his or her presence at the school office or at the designated school location upon arrival at the school and sign a guest registry.

Example: Your school is hosting the book fair, a play where parents are coming to watch, or a teacher needs help in the classroom with a one- or two-day tie-dye t-shirt project for the jog-a-thon. A class is hosting a party or a fun run.

3. A Volunteer is defined as an individual who, with school district authorization, voluntarily assists school districts, schools, educational programs, or students on a regular and ongoing basis. A volunteer is required to complete a Volunteer Application and have a Megan’s Law Background Check or a State and/or Federal Background Check completed.

Example: A parent is assisting with a weekly and ongoing project such as the running club or Lego league. A grandparent is helping in music or art classes weekly. A field trip chaperone and/or driver (usually requires Level 1 and 2 applications).

If someone is coming to help in the class only one or two times, they are not considered volunteers therefore do not need to fill out a Level 1 application.

Click HERE for steps on becoming a volunteer.

Are you interested in after-school sports at Mesa Verde? Please complete the interest survey Link.

As part of our goal to help students learn how to use electronic devices properly, for positive purposes, and at appropriate times, students are permitted to use devices at school ONLY before or after school and at lunch. Devices are not to be used during passing periods (this is a change from last year), in the locker rooms or restrooms, or in class which includes PE (unless with teacher permission). Video and pictures are not permitted without consent.

It is extremely important that students are able to hear directions and emergency announcements from teachers and staff; therefore earbuds, headphones, and airpods are not permitted before school, during passing periods, at lunch, or any other time on campus or in classrooms without permission from a teacher or other adult.

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/guardians 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

Students are required to be on time to class, ready to learn. If students arrive within the first ten minutes of first period, they should go directly to class and will be marked tardy by their teacher. After the first ten minutes of first period have elapsed, students should enter through the front office and proceed to the attendance office to receive a tardy slip. 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.

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.

Be sure to check out Mesa Verde PTSA and Mesa Verde Foundation to find out how families can support MVMS and how to get involved

The PTSA was excited to meet many of you at registration. Last year, because of the commitment and support of our wonderful Eagle community, our MVMS PTSA was the second largest in all of Poway USD! Join today and help us continue our great work!

On Aug. 14th, the PTSA and Foundation hosted 80+ staff and teachers for their Back to School breakfast to fuel up before diving into their hard work. Your membership helps make this happen!

Become a member and automatically enter drawings held throughout our membership drive! The earlier you join, the more drawings you are eligible for. Larger membership packages earn more entries to win! Our first drawing will be held next week for a San Diego State fan pack complete with SD State swag in a clear stadium bag.

Join today and Let's Do This! Click HERE for website.

Questions? mvmsptsamembership@gmail.com

It's easier than ever to collect Box Tops For Education to support the MVMS Foundation and Eagle students, faculty/staff, and improvement.

Here's How To Sign Up & Earn Money For Mesa Verde:

1. Download the Box Tops app, click HERE

2. Sign up for an account and set your school to Mesa Verde Middle School

3. You can earn money 2 ways:

-Scan physical store receipts with the app

-Forward your email/digital receipt to receipts@boxtops4education.com directly from your email

Hi Eagles! Please follow our ASB Instagram page to see upcoming events and other notifications that will be coming from ASB! Follow us @mesaverdeasb

In an effort to better secure our campus, we have installed a buzzer system at the front door of our administration building. Our front door will remain locked during school hours and students, parents, and visitors will need to be buzzed in. If no one is at the front desk to buzz you in when you first arrive, there will be a doorbell to let us know you are waiting.

Rancho Penasquitos Recreational Basketball League registration is from Sept. 1 thru Nov. 15 and games will start Jan 6, 2024. The league is open to 3rd grade and up.

Click HERE to register today.

Click HERE for 2023-2024 school calendar.

If you are unsure of who to contact about a matter, please email us at MVMS@powayusd.com and your message will be answered or forwarded to the correct person.

7:30am-3:00pm (M, Tu, Th, F)

9:00am-3:00pm (W)

Email: MVMS@powayusd.com
Website: https://www.powayusd.com/en-US/Schools/MS/MVMS/Home
Location: 8375 Entreken Way, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (858) 538-5478
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mesa-Verde-Middle-1493083354314112
Twitter: @MesaVerdeMS