In This Edition
11th Grade ACT, Lands’ End School Uniform Sale, Volunteer Help Needed (Maeser ACT Day for Juniors, Teacher Appreciation, Report Your Volunteer Hours, Questions About Volunteer Hours), Sports Announcements (HS Boys Soccer Tryouts, HS Track & Field Tryouts Week, MS Girls Soccer Tryouts, Spring Sports Academic Eligibility, Sports Physicals, Maeser Sports Guide), Can We Reach You In Case Of Emergency? (Opt In For School Text Messages, Update Your Contact Information)
Front Office Hours This Week
7:30am-4:00pm Mon-Thurs
8:30am-12:30pm Fri
**PARENTS: Please remember to check in at the front office when visiting the school during school hours, including Fridays. We appreciate your help in keeping our students safe!**
Upcoming Dates and Deadlines
February 27-March 2
HS Track & Field Tryouts Week
3:45pm Monday & Wednesday in the Maeser gym
5:15pm Tuesday & Thursday at the UVU track (bus leaves Maeser at 5:00pm)
Monday, February 27
2:45pm HS Boys Soccer Tryouts
Thursday, March 2
6:45am MS Girls Soccer Tryouts (day 1)
Friday, March 3
7:00am MS Girls Soccer Tryouts (day 2)
Tuesday, March 7
11th Grade ACT – Juniors ONLY on campus
Friday, March 24
Last Day of Q3
Tuesday, March 28
Utah Aspire Plus – Freshmen & Sophomores ONLY on campus
April 3-7
Spring Break
April 10-27
RISE Testing – 7th & 8th grades (in-class)
11th Grade ACT: Tuesday, March 7
On Tuesday, March 7, all of our 11th-grade students will be taking the ACT. This is a FREE opportunity for all juniors to take the ACT! Administration of this test will follow all ACT standards, so in order to create the required testing environment for our juniors, we have set aside this day for ACT testing only. **Your junior is already registered; you do not need to do anything to sign them up for this ACT administration.**
Tuesday, March 7 will be an ACT-testing-only day for our school. There will be NO SCHOOL that day for students who are not in 11th grade.
Due to the need for an undisturbed testing environment, ACT does not allow us to have any students on campus who are not part of the ACT administration. Please make other arrangements for your students in grades 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 on March 7 as we will not have space or supervision available for them on our campus that day. As this is an official ACT administration, we will be unable to interrupt testing to check students out. We appreciate your help in ensuring a good testing environment for our juniors!
We encourage all juniors to take advantage of this free opportunity to take the ACT with their classmates on March 7. However, parents who prefer not to send their students to campus for testing can choose to opt their students out of this test by submitting a signed Parental Exclusion Form by Thursday, March 2 (to give us time to excuse your student’s absence and adjust our testing room assignments).
Volunteer Help Needed
We are in need of parent volunteers to help provide breakfast and snacks on ACT Day. Please help our juniors perform at their peak by volunteering here: ACT Day Fuel Up for Students
Lands’ End School Uniform Sale
Today (Friday, February 24) is the LAST DAY of Lands End’s 40% off uniform sale. Shop online at https://www.landsend.com/schooluniforms today and take 40% off school uniform bottoms (pants, shorts, skirts) and 20% off everything else using CODE: PENCIL and PIN: 1356.
Volunteer Help Needed
Maeser ACT Day for Juniors
March 7th is our annual ACT day for juniors to take the ACT. Please help our juniors perform at their peak by volunteering here: ACT Day Fuel Up for Students
Teacher Appreciation
Volunteer to help bring Teacher Appreciation treats for the year by month. Thank you for putting a smile on a teacher’s face today! This is TRULY a blessing for our team. The little things are often the BIG things! For more information and to sign up, please visit our SignUpGenius: Teacher Appreciation Opportunities.
Report Your Volunteer Hours
DON’T FORGET! Report your volunteer hours once you’ve dropped off your donation: Report Parent Service Hours. Each $5 spent for donations counts as one hour of volunteer service!
Questions About Volunteer Hours?
Contact us at volunteer@maeserprep.org.
Sports Announcements
HS Boys Soccer Tryouts
All boys (grades 9-12) interested in trying out for the high school soccer team are invited to tryouts on Monday, February 27th. Tryouts will run from 2:45-5:00pm on Monday. All athletes must have a UHSAA Physical and register on www.registermyathlete.com prior to tryouts. Questions can be directed to Coach Simmons (dustin.simmons@maeserprep.org).
HS Track & Field Tryouts Week
All high schoolers interested in participating in track and field are invited to try it out for one week. Practices/tryouts begin Feb 27th and end March 2nd. You will need to inform Coach Kemper by the end of day March 3rd if you are participating this season or not. Monday & Wednesday tryouts will be at Maeser, in the gym, from 3:45 – 5:30. Tuesday & Thursday tryouts will be at the UVU track from 5:15 – dark – dress warm (the bus will leave Maeser at 5:00pm to drive students over and will bring them back after practice – students can also drive themselves)
MS Girls Soccer Tryouts
All middle school girls (grades 7-8) interested in trying out for soccer are invited to our open tryouts on Thursday March 2 from 6:45-7:50 AM and Friday March 3rd from 7:00-8:50 AM. Practice times and location following tryouts TBD. For any questions, please contact Coach Riss at danielle.riss@maeserprep.org.
Spring Sports Academic Eligibility
Eligibility for participation in spring activities/sports will be determined by 2nd and 3rd term grades. All students (middle and high school) must have earned a 2.7 GPA with no Fs. In addition, high school students cannot have any Fs/NGs/Incompletes from previous high school terms. All Fs/NGs must be made up by the last day of term.
Sports Physicals
All students, middle school and high school, who will be playing sports this year (2022-23) need a physical in order to play. Physicals completed on or after March 10, 2022 are good until July 15, 2023. Any physicals completed before March 10, 2022 will not be accepted (per UHSAA policy) for this school year.
Here is a link to the UHSAA form which Maeser uses for ALL athletes: UHSAA Physical Form
Maeser Sports Guide
For a list of the sports that are available at Maeser for both MS and HS students, click here: Maeser Sports Guide. The Sports Guide includes whether the team is boys, girls, or coed, when tryouts are, who the coach is, and the coach’s contact information, if it is available.
Can We Reach You In Case Of Emergency?
It’s important to keep your contact information up to date and opt-in to receive text messages from Maeser — in case of an emergency, this is how we notify parents! In addition, we use your contact information to notify you about important school events and school fees deadlines.
Here’s how to make sure you’re getting all of our important announcements and information:
Opt In For School Text Messages
Our school utilizes the SchoolMessenger system to deliver text messages to your mobile phone with important information about events, school closings, safety alerts, student fees, and more. We will only use text messaging for urgent and important information.
You can participate in this service by sending a text message of “Y” or “Yes” to our school’s short code number, 67587.
You can also opt out of text messages at any time by simply replying to one of our messages with “Stop”.
Update Your Contact Information
If any of your contact information has changed – email address, mailing address, phone number – please let us know asap so we can be sure you’re getting school and teacher communications.
Thank you for helping us keep in contact with your family!