The Middle Seat

November 6, 2025

Veterans Day

Who: Any active duty/reserve military or military veteran invited by a Highland Middle School student. * Veterans living in the Highland district are also welcome to attend the program!

What: An honorary program for veterans to be thanked and appreciated. Come and see what our school's social studies students have prepared for you!

Where: Highland Middle School, 3880 Ridge Road, Medina, Ohio.

* Please enter through the main doors by the flagpole. The program will be in the West Gym. Student helpers will be present to assist you.

When: Tuesday, November 11th, from 8-9 A.M.

Why: To show you honor and gratitude for your willingness to support and serve our great nation!

* Please contact Mr. Mark Raczynski @ (330) 239-1901 x1805 or mraczynski@highlandschools.org to register or for more information!

Parent -Teacher Conferences

The next Parent Teacher Conference Night will be on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 4:00 - 7:30.

Click here to sign up for a conference. This link will work to sign up for times on Oct. 8 and Nov. 13.

Activity Night_Print Fall 2025.pdf

Change Drive

The time has come for our annual Highland Middle School Change Drive to benefit Highland families in need through the Highland Community Support Network. Each year the Middle School holds a change drive to raise money to help support the Highland Community Support Network with their holiday drive and their needs at the start of the year. The need is very high this year.

The Change Drive will be from November 12th through November 18th. Students can bring in money to donate to their A.L.L. classes on those days. If families would like to make a donation by check, it should be made out to Highland Community Support Network. The grade levels will compete to see which grade can contribute the most, but the real prize is the ability to help those in our community in need. The idea behind it is if we all give a little, we can do a lot! In the last several years that we were able to hold our dive, the generosity of our students and families has helped so many families!

Additionally, the Highland Community Support Network will be providing support to many families for the Thanksgiving holiday. To support them, we are collecting Thanksgiving food items (potatoes, sweet potatoes, canned vegetables, etc). The network is providing support for many people with extreme needs within our community and could really use our help. If a student would like to contribute, please bring all items to Mrs. Malquest's room (room 611) by November 20th.

Activity Night

Activity Night will be held on November 14 from 7-9.

Ticket sales occur at lunch/recess time for students. Tickets are not sold at the door. Tickets are $10. Your ticket gets you adminssion, 2 snacks, and 1 drink. Additional snacks for purchase.

Only HMS students are allowed.

Students are able to dance in the West Gym, play games in the East Gym with an inflatable obstacle course, play video games outside the East Gym, and eat snacks and hang out in the Cafeteria.

Activity night can only occur with parent volunteers.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0549A5AA29A7FD0-59925901-activity#/

October Students of the Month: Engaged

Achieve: Natalia Zakrzewski Excel: Tanner Stumpf

Excel: Ava Callahan Explorer: Vincent Cologiovanni

Navigator: Riley Lukens Stars: Lela Gasser

Stripes: Tyler Knight Impact: Gavin Knight

Counseling Newsletter

Click here to access the counseling office newsletter

Food Resources

Here are two websites that give local food resources to families:

Feeding Medina County - https://feedingmedinacounty.org/
Highland Community Support Network - https://highlandcsn.org/

8th Grade Washington DC Trip

Permission Slips are due before Thanksgiving.

Some November Thanks

A special thank you to a few Girl Scouts from Troop 91394 who are current HHS freshmen. They took some time this Summer and Fall to earn their Silver Award.

Madison Keeley, May Kopp, Olivia Martello, and Lily McManus's project gave our courtyard a facelift. They cleared out the weeds, trimmed up the trees, planted some bushes, and provided us with these decorations.

Lucy Lindsey and Colleen Rees cleaned all of our picnic tables, including the bird droppings on top and gum stuck on the bottom. They also applied a stain to help lengthen the life of the tables, as well as to make them look nice.

Annie Helsel created a digital cookbook titled, Beyond the Field. You can check out her yummy recipes here.

7th Grade Health and Medical Detectives

CPR Information due by Nov. 1

Violence Prevention Curriculum information - Health Chapter 7 Materials

Athletic Physical Form

Students wishing to participate in a school 7th or 8th grade sport must have a physical form completed to begin practice.

2025-2026 Physical Form

Lunch Menu

Breakfast (Middle and High) and lunch will still be available to all students; however, they will not be free to all students. This means that families will need to complete the Free and Reduced-price Family Application in Final Forms to qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Students who do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals must pay full price for breakfast and lunch.

Menus

Breakfast (Middle and High): $2.50
Lunch (Middle and High): $3.50; Deluxe Lunch: $3.95
Extra Milk: $0.65

Questions? Please contact the Highland Food Service Department at 330-239-1901, ext. 5512 or email emakarek@highlandschools.org.

HIGHLAND COMMUNITY EDUCATION NEWS

Highland Community Education has several exciting classes both new and returning for Fall of 2025! We will be offering the very popular in-person elementary after school classes - Mad Science, Crayola Arts Academy and Engineering. Join us on Saturday mornings for our exciting Future Fashion Stars or our new Perfectly Polite Dining Etiquette or fun-filled Princess Party/Superhero Party for Good Manners! Saturday morning options also include Safe Sitters Babysitting, a new Family Fairy Garden, Fundamentals of Cooking, KidzSafety and Young Rembrandts Drawing - all Saturday morning classes are held at Highland High School. Hummingbirds Soccer and Hoop Stars/Little Hoop Stars will again be offered for our little ones this fall on Saturday afternoons behind the Granger Fire Department. Our High School students have the opportunity to enroll in our ACT and SAT Test Preparation classes during the school day ALL period! Adults can also sign up for Retirement Planning and Stop Smoking or Weight Loss seminars. A detailed brochure and registration form is posted on the Highland website - www.highlandschools.org.

Evening and Saturday classes are not restricted to Highland residents.

For questions, enrollment, or more information – email Highland Community Education Director, Mary Fran Kudla, at mkudla@highlandschools.org.