Thursday, September 22, 2011

October Meeting Update

ATTENTION:
The meeting for October is on October 12th after school in RM 2516. We are still doing a food drive for the Utah Food Bank, but we won't actually be going there, sorry for the confusion. We will collect food items in the commons each morning for two weeks, from Wednesday, September 28th to Wednesday, October 12th. Our meeting on the 12th will be boxing and sorting the food collected. Encourage everyone you know to participate by bringing in at least two cans. If all HHS students and staff bring in two cans each we will have 4000 food items! Think of how many people we can help feed this holiday season. :)
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Welcome to NHS, 2011-2012!!!

     Welcome to Herriman High's second school year ever! We hope you all had a magnificent summer, filled with tons and tons of service and spreading happiness, no doubt :-)

     Today we had our very first meeting of the year. We had an awesome turnout, but are still welcoming more people if you happened to miss it! We cut out window covers out of black paper for every classroom to have in case of a lockdown, and made posters to advertise our canned food drive that is coming up.
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Making window covers
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Making posters










     Just a reminder of NHS common procedure:  You need to have your NHS club permission form signed by your parents and turned in to Ms Blattman in RM 2516, along with a receipt showing that you payed the $15 fee. If those two things are not turned in by the end of the quarter, you are out of luck and will not be able to join until next year (except sophomores, more about you guys in a second). Please get these in ASAP. They were supposed to be in TODAY at the first meeting.
     At every meeting, there will be a sign-in sheet at the front of the room. You must write your name on this sheet if you want to get service hours for the activity that count toward your total. Today we had some people who forgot. We also had a few people who signed the sheet and then left without doing the project. This is not acceptable. You get credit for doing the service, not just showing up and staying for five minutes then calling it good. You know who you are.
     Meeting are generally going to be the 2nd Wednesday of every month, unless otherwise noted, so plan accordingly.

     SOPHOMORES: Students are not allowed to join NHS until they have been enrolled in Herriman High for a semester. So at the beginning of 3rd quarter (aka, 2nd semester) sophomores will be allowed to join. You will have to then get the permission form and pay the fee just like was stated above.

     SERVICE HOURS: Juniors and Seniors in NHS for the entire year are required to perform 8 hours of service, 4 of which must be completed with the group. You will be receiving a hour sheet to record your service on at a later date. Again, sign the roll in order to get credit for group activities. Sophomores, since they will only be in NHS for half the year, are required to complete 4 hours of  servive, 2 of which must be completed with the group. Throughout the year there will be numerous opportunities to do outside service for the school that we will inform you of, the closest of which will be Parent-Teacher Conferences on October 4-5. If you are interested in helping out for an hour during the evenings on either one of those dates, go see Ms Blattman and sign up (RM 2516, upstairs). All of this can be found at any time in the sidebar.
     Also: You must maintain a GPA of 3.7 or higher or you will be put on probation and even ejected from NHS. So keep those grades up! :-)

     NEXT MEETING: For the next meeting, we will be going to the Utah Food Bank. Buses will not be provided, so plan on carpooling with other members of NHS or finding your own way there. Prior to the meeting, the NHS is doing a Canned Food Drive at the school, (which we made posters of advertising today during the activity). Starting on Wednesday, September 28th, we will be collecting non-perishable food in the Commons before school from 7:20-7:45 am and in Ms Blattman's room. Please spread the word and help by asking for food donations from your friends, family, and neighbors. The more we have the better. There is no such thing as too much :-)

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Food Drive Poster