HPMS Family Bulletin 2.28.25

Take a self-guided tour of our building or visit with HP staff, PTO, and Booster parent volunteers in the Commons. Following the program, our counselors, will be available in the Commons to answer your questions.

Please consider walking, carpooling, or parking in surrounding neighborhoods or at Kamiak HS.

Columbia has asked for our help, as a number of our students are visiting their campus after our school day ends. They are still in session at that time, and there have been some issues with students behaving inappropriately around the younger students and blocking the way of families picking up their children.

So, if your student walks home and does not need to go to Columbia to pick up a sibling, please let them know they need to stay away from the campus until the end of the school day.

If you have a younger child and need your middle schooler to pick them up, please let them know of these expectations, which we are also sharing here at HP:

If students are not able to follow these expectations they will no longer be welcome on the Columbia campus at the end of their school day. Thank you for your support with this. 

In Mukilteo School District students can earn high school world language credits for languages they already speak at home or for which they are already proficient through the World Language Proficiency Exam (WLPE). Registration is open for students in grades 8-12 who have an interest in taking the WLPE and who are relatively proficient in ALL four areas of the language - reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The lowest score among the four areas determines the number of credits earned and up to four high school credits can be awarded. This year the exam will take place the morning of the March 27th in the HP library. There is no cost to take the exam the first time. Some languages require a written essay that takes one hour to complete, followed by a phone interview at a different date. Other languages are assessed online and generally take 2-3 hours to complete. Registration for the exams and more information about the WLPE Exam is available in Schoology in your 8th grader’s Counseling & Library Page where the information was posted early this week. If your student has the language skills for the test, ask them if they’ve already registered and encourage them to do so if they haven’t! The deadline to register is March 12th. 

If your student is absent, it is important to excuse the absence by doing one of the following: 

We would like to remind you that for vacation/travel absences, a Pre-Arranged Absence Form must be filled out and returned to Student Services at least one week prior to travel. If you know that your student will be absent, please ask them to get a form from the Student Services office. Your student will need to bring the form to each of their classes for teacher signatures, then collect a parent's signature before returning it to Student Services for administrator consideration. 

Regular attendance is crucial for students' academic success. We encourage families not to schedule appointments during school hours, although we understand that it may be unavoidable at times. If you need to pick up your student early from school, we require some time to retrieve them from their class. Kindly notify us at least ONE DAY PRIOR

by calling (425) 366-5105, or emailing HPAttendance@mukilteo.wednet.edu with:

Provided with sufficient advance notice for pick-up, we will have your student waiting for you at Student Services at the specified time, saving you from waiting.

(More information can be found in our handbook online.)