Meridian High School

1. Principal's Message
2. T-3 This Week
   
3. Academic State Champions
4. Safety Tip Line
5. Dual Credit Meeting
6. Emma! Meridian Drama Club Production
7. Free Tax Prep Sites
8. Teacher Feature
9. Hot Lunch Menu
   
10. National Holiday
11. Counselor Information
12. Requesting Transcripts through Parchment
13. Attendance Information
    
14. Bell Schedule
15. Meridian Class Booster Club Information - Class of 2022 Senior Trip Info.
16. MHS Points of Contact

“To inspire and challenge active learners to positively impact a changing world.”

Monday marks the first day of spring sports as we head into the month of March. March also means students will be registering for their classes for next year. Meetings with students by grade level begin this week. Resources to help with registration, like the course catalog, will be available on the website for easy access. I encourage you to take a moment to look through the course catalog and talk about possible classes of interest and learn about graduation requirements.

We haven't forgotten about our seniors. While 9th, 10th, and 11th graders are working on registration, our seniors will have time to complete their slides for their senior presentation in April. At this point, all seniors should have completed half of their slides. If you have a senior, please check in on their progress and see what they have planned for their presentation. Students need to successfully present in April as a condition of graduation. Speaking of graduation, it is scheduled for June 9th.

If you have further questions about either registration, senior presentations or other questions, please call us in the office (360-398-8111) or email me at dforbes@meridian.wednet.edu.

Go Trojans!

Derek O. Forbes

We would like to give a big congratulations to our girls Varsity Basketball team for being 1A Girls Basketball Academic State Champions this year! The Girls had a cumulative GPA of 3.97! This is the first time any Meridian Girls Basketball team has ever been Academic State Champs, and the first time in 20 years Meridian has had an Academic State Championship team. Congratulations girls!!!!!"

Our first priority is the safety and wellbeing of our students. We are committed to doing our part to keep our schools a safe and healthy place to be, but we also need your help.

If you or your student hears of possible harassment, intimidation or bullying, we ask that you reach out to a trusted adult to report this. You may also report this anonymously to our safety tip line.

Anyone can submit an anonymous tip through these methods:

• Website, https://meridian-wa.safeschoolsalert.com/

• Text, 855-977-0973

• Email, 1449@alert1.us

• Phone, 855-977-0973

Thank you for doing your part to ensure our schools are a welcoming and safe place.

Current 10th and 11th graders who are interested in learning more about running start, NCTA skills center, college in the high school and AP courses should plan on attending our Dual Credit Zoom meeting on Wednesday, March 9th at 6:30pm.

Be looking for more details in next week's newsletter or on the website.

Meridian Drama Club is presenting EMMA! A Pop Musical March 3rd and 4th at 7:00 pm in the Meridian High School Auditorium. Emma! A Pop Musical loosely follows the storyline of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel, but gives it a 21st century prep school twist. Emma Woodhouse, portrayed by Jennica Ross, considers herself to be Highbury Prep’s top matchmaker after she sets up two of her teachers. The script being goofy and carefree made it perfect for our first year of the performing arts returning to our school district after the schools shut down due to the pandemic. Bizarre circumstances in the show included a senior filling in as a long-term substitute, a former classmate just happening to be a rockstar, and a gag involving a vending machine-related accident. As the title suggests, Emma features an interesting and unexpected collection of modern and older pop songs, often focusing on love and the strength of women. Some numbers include Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun,’ ‘Heartbreaker’ by Pat Benatar, ‘Roar’ by Katy Perry, and ‘Unwritten’ by Natasha Bedingfield. The cast and technical crew consists of middle school and high school age students from the Meridian School District. Direction was provided by Ashton Anderson, this year's MSD's Drama club advisor and Meridian Middle School's 8th Grade English teacher. She was assisted by Courtney Price, Meridian Middle's 6th grade English Teacher, who was also responsible for Music and Vocal Direction for the musical. Please come support all the hard work that the Drama Club has put into the show over the last few months and come see EMMA!

Mr. Shick teaches several math classes here at Meridian High School. He’s worked here for 29 years. His favorite thing about teaching at Meridian is the fact that it’s a small school. He had graduated from an enormous high school but he didn’t know more than half of the people he graduated with. Also, since it’s a small school he likes the feeling of autonomy he has. If he taught at a larger school there would be people telling him what he HAD to teach but here he can think of what the students need to know. Mr. Shick chose teaching as his career because he used to coach basketball for about five years, he found that he was a better teacher than coach and it went from there. He also used to coach Track and Field, but at the moment he’s coaching golf and chess. He’s been teaching chess for 25 years. His favorite thing about teaching is that his work is fun for him, he gets to goof off with the students and have fun with them. Mr. Shick wants to share that he is an authentic redneck from Pennsylvania. He also professionally plays poker and fantasy football. He gets paid to do those things. Mr. Shick’s highlight from working at Meridian is hearing from old students and hearing how big of an impact he had on their lives. He would hear that he was the cause of them being able to graduate. He feels that those memories will stay with him for a while.

Students say that their favorite thing about Mr. Shick is that he “always gives multiple opportunities,” “tries to make everything fun,” and “makes the material seem easier.”

Teacher Feature is provided by Bhavnoor Dhatt. Bhavnoor is a leadership student that will be providing the Teacher Feature as part of her personal project for Leadership class.

Monday - Nachos

Tuesday - Nugget and Mashed Potato Bowl

Wednesday - Corn Dog

Thursday - Spicy Chicken Burger on WG Bun

Friday - Mariner Hot Dog and Fries

Other Daily Offerings May Include:

Pizza

Variety of Fresh Made Salads

Variety of Fresh Made Wraps

Deli Sandwiches

Yogurt Parfait

National Pancake Day is celebrated on March 1 this year. A thin flat cake prepared with a batter made from milk, eggs, flour, and oil or butter, the pancake and its variations are found in almost every culture. The first recorded mention of pancakes dates back to ancient Greece and comes from a poet who described warm pancakes in one of his writings. The largest pancake to ever be flipped was in Rochdale, United Kingdom. It measured 16.4 yards and weighed 3 tons.

Meridian High School has partnered with parchment.com to fulfill transcript requests for current students and MHS alumni. Transcripts are securely sent electronically to colleges and universities across the nation, resulting in a reduction of lost documents at the financial aid offices. The service is free of charge to current students. Alumni pay a small fee. Please make sure that your intended college accepts electronic transcripts.

Please find the “Order transcripts through Parchment” link under Families & Students/Resources on the MHS website. Current students may call Mrs. Brinkman or Mrs. Waterman to receive their Parchment access code at the MHS office 360-398-8111.

Being present in class is vital to be successful in school. We want to encourage all of our students to be at school every day! If you are missing school, you are missing out on learning!

If your kids miss a day or even part of a day of school for whatever reason, please contact our attendance secretary, Mrs. McMains by either phone (360-318-2260) or email (tgmcmains@meridian.wednet.edu)with the reason for the absence. If they are going to miss because of an illness, please call or email in the morning and let us know! If there is a planned absence, please contact her and she will take care of notifying teachers. If she is unable to answer the phone right at that moment, please feel free to leave the information on her voicemail.

Website-www.meridian.wednet.edu/mhs

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The Meridian School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Title IX, ADA, and Compliance Coordinator (RCW 28A.640/28A.642) Kurt Harvill, Director of Personnel, 214 W. Laurel Rd., Bellingham WA 98226. 360-398-7111. Section 504 questions

Derek Forbes, Principal: dforbes@meridian.wednet.edu

Shaun Doffing, Assistant Principal:

sdoffing@meridian.wednet.edu

Cheryl McBride, Counselor A-J: cmcbride@meridian.wednet.edu

Don McMains, Counselor K-Z: dmcmains@meridian.wednet.edu

Tami McMains, Attendance: tgmcmains@meridian.wednet.edu

Robin Brinkman, Registration: rbrinkman@meridian.wednet.edu

Chromebook Tech Support: chromebook@meridian.wednet.edu