The MHS Weekly 10/27/24

Posted Date: 10/27/24 (6:00 PM)

The MHS Weekly 

October 27, 2024

Important Dates 

Oct. 30th -MUSD Minimum Day

Nov. 1st - No School for Students

Nov 3rd - Daylight Savings

Nov 4th - PUC on Campus in the Library

Nov 13th - Middletown Unified School Board Meeting

Nov 13th - Middletown Sports Boosters Meeting

Principally Speaking...

Greetings students, parents, and friends of Middletown High School.

This will be an abbreviated week for our student scholars. Wednesday, October 30, 2024 is a

minimum day. Friday, November 1, 2024 is a non-school day for students.

I would like to remind our student scholars to enjoy Halloween evening and be safe.

Thank you for your support. Have a productive week!

Carlos L. McKinney Sr.

Principal

Middletown High School

FFA Happenings...

Come participate!

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Counselor's Corner

On Friday, October 11th, I attended the CSAC - Financial Aid Workshop at the Sacramento County Board of Education. The following are updates from the conference:

Anticipated date the FAFSA and CADAA will open is December 1st. They are going through an initial process right now, trying to get rid of any bugs or problems that were encountered last year.

Students can create their account and invite contributors (parent/parents/guardians) to also create an account. This way when it opens, you will be ready to go. Students need their own personal email account, honestly, this should be set up in their Freshman year because we also use it for dual-enrollment sign-ups. Students should not use their MUSD email!

The FAFSA and CADAA form actually help determine the different types of financial aid which include:

Gift Aid - grants and scholarships

Self-help Aid - Loans and student employment

Federal Work Study Programs - these are better than a job because academics always come first with these positions.

Please let me know if you are interested in a “Cash for College” night. I would like to hold it in the first week of December if there is interest.

Shari Harmon

Scholarship Opportunities:

Students should be a part of the following organizations, who help search for scholarships:

Fastweb.com - https://www.fastweb.com/

bigfuture.com - https://prod.idp.collegeboard.org/

immigrantsrising.org - https://immigrantsrising.org/

Goldendoor - https://www.goldendoorscholars.org/

Parents who file separate tax returns need separate accounts.

Student name needs to be an exact match to Social Security Card, also student school records need to be an exact match for Cal Grant.

Contributors without a Social Security number should apply very early, during that time there has historically not been a manual verification process.

Pacific Union College will be presenting on Thursday, November 7th, in the Library. I have sent out a form and would love to have as many of you as would like to attend and see what this local gem has to offer. The link to the form is below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdM7nLa5uOAWBZlXuoC_xK0FsjnFazmdJhYsaHqIB-vti3tMg/viewform?usp=sf_link

College applications are now open. Please do not wait until the last minute to submit! If you need my help please reach out! Also be sure to check with the school you are interested in applying to before using the Common App. I recently had a student who was going to apply and pay the fee for the Common APP, only to find out that the University they were applying to did not charge an application fee. Do your research!

Links to college applications:

https://apply.universityofcalifornia.edu/my-application/login - UC Application

https://www.calstate.edu/apply - CSU Application

https://www.commonapp.org/ - Common Application

Middletown Sports Boosters Club Fall Newletter

Click HERE to check it out!

MHS Athletics

Attention Basketball & Wrestling Athletes!

Tryouts are on November 4th!

You must have your clearance in by 10/31 to be ready to go by 11/4.

Go to HomeCampus.com for sport clearances. Please contact Mrs. Holt with any questions.

Tuesday 10/29:

Boys and Girls Soccer Home VS Lower Lake

Foltmer Field

Boys at 4:30pm, Girls after.

Girls Senior Night!

Wednesday 10/30:

XCountry Meet @ Cloverdale.

Meet starts at 3:30pm.

Varsity Volleyball at Urban School - 1st Round Playoffs

Urban School of San Francisco @ 7pm

(1563 Page Street, San Francisco)

Tickets need to be purchased online...GOFAN.co

Friday 11/1:

Football @ Lower Lake

JV starts at 5:pm. Varsity after.

*Eligibility depends on Thursday attendance

Thank you.

Middletown High School

www.mhs.middletownusd.org

707 987-4140