Welcome back from Fall Break. We hope you all had some rest and relaxation. We are excited to kick off 2nd quarter. As a reminder, you can check your student's portal for their 1st quarter grades. We encourage students to start off each quarter with a fresh mindset. If they didn't meet their goals, they can start new this quarter. As always, if you have questions regarding your student's grades, feel free to contact their teacher via email and they will respond. We also want to reiterate the importance of daily, on time attendance to school. This helps students maintain their confidence in doing their best each day. Please read through this week's update for more information.

- Mr. Rapier

Shout out to Poston's Student Council, teachers, and parent volunteers who helped make our first quarter PAWS Party a huge success! Students, keep working hard to ensure you can go to the second quarter PAWS Party before Winter Break.

To be eligible to attend a PAWS Party, students must:

• Be passing all classes
• Have no office referrals
• Not have excessive tardies to classes

Poston is turning 50! Help us celebrate the PAST and shape the FUTURE with this Friday as we participate in Mt. View's homecoming parade with students, music, and a FLOAT! The Parade begins at Hale Elementary at 4:30 ending at Mountain View High School.

Poston SIAC meets today at 4:15pm in the Poston Media Center. All community members are invited.

Congratulations to Poston's Season 2 Athletes! Junior high games begin Tuesday, October 31st.

Want to be involved with supporting Poston, join us for our monthly meeting.

PPN’s next meeting is today, Tuesday, 10/17 at 6:30pm in the Poston Library. They meet each month on the Third Tuesday of the month. For more information you can email them at postonparentnetwork@gmail.com or join them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/postonparentnetwork

PPN is currently selling booster cards. They provide discounts to a variety of vendors in our community. You can purchase these for $20 per card or buy 4 get one free. Proceeds go to the PPN to support school programs. Email them to purchase the cards.

As a reminder, students are responsible for the condition of their school issued laptop and charger. Students should be completely turning off their computer and charging it overnight. If you haven’t already done so, you can purchase a device protection plan for the laptop. At this point, the plan will only cover the current condition of the device and will require an inspection prior to approval for the plan.

We recognize that there may be times when parents need to drop off items for students. We ask that parents plan on dropping off the item, labeling it, and logging it in on the log form. Students are responsible for checking with the front office to pick up their item. Due to the many tasks that the front office must do in a given day, they are not available to call students out immediately to pick up their items.

We also ask that items being dropped off be limited to school essential items, money for lunch, or lunch for your student. Please refrain from having food delivered by a delivery service, items to celebrate birthdays or other special occasions, or food for multiple students. We are unable to provide delivery of such items. Please refer to the student handbook found in the PAWS planner for more information regarding student deliveries.

Please use the south parking lot off of 25th street for on campus pick up and drop off. Please leave the north parking lot for staff parking and access for front office business. You may also pick up and drop off your student on Adobe, 25th street, and surrounding streets.

Poston Outfitters is open!. Students at Poston Jr. High earn PAWS tickets for displaying PAWSitive behavior! These PAWS tickets can be spent on a variety of incentives, including Poston Outfitters. Poston Outfitters is a donation based student store, where students can buy clothes, accessories, school supplies, gifts and more! The Poston Outfitters also provides students an opportunity to earn volunteer service hours by working in the store.

We are accepting donations of new and gently used items! Please drop off in the front office in the Outfitters Donation Box.

We also need parent volunteers to provide additional support and supervision! The Outfitters will be open for shopping every other Wednesday starting August 30th. Please click on the link below to sign up via SignUpGenius!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44ACAC2DAAFFC52-outfitters

Do you want to support Poston Extra Curricular Activities? You can make a monetary donation that is a dollar for dollar tax credit for Arizona tax payers. For more information go to, https://www.mpsaz.org/o/mpsaz/page/pay-donate

You can support Poston Jr. High by donating to our staff members' Donors Choose projects! Go to www.donorschoose.org and click on "Find a classroom to support" at the top, then search "Poston Junior High School" near Mesa, AZ. There you can pick a project of your choice to support!

Poston Junior High School

Asst. Principal: Rachel Hassan

Main Office: 480-472-2100

Website: www.poston.mpsaz.org

Location: 2433 E. Adobe St., Mesa, AZ 85213