Every 15 Minutes at Mountain House High School

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Every 15 Minutes

Mountain House High School will be hosting an Every 15 Minutes event on Wednesday, March 23rd. On that morning you may see and/or hear various types of emergency vehicles heading to the school. The emergency response is a carefully planned part of the event and should not cause alarm. 

Every 15 Minutes is a two day program that challenges high school juniors and seniors to think about drinking, driving, personal safety and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved. Students involved in the program will be staging a simulated traffic collision on campus to create an immersive and emotional learning experience for their peers.

A planning team from the high school, in conjunction with the California Highway Patrol, the Mountain House Fire Department, and various other local agencies, is taking this proactive step in educating our students about making mature decisions when alcoholic beverages are involved. The program’s name was conceived in 1990 when one alcohol-related traffic fatality occurred in the United States every fifteen minutes.

More information about the program can be found here: Every 15 Minutes

Please contact Brian Schum (bschum@lammersvilleusd.net) with any questions.

ASVAB Test

Mountain House High School will be offering the ASVAB test on Friday, April 15th. Registration is free. Students who may be interested in joining the armed forces after high school can register to take the test as a first step in exploring the career paths that would be available to them.

The ASVAB tests are designed to measure aptitudes in four domains: Verbal, Math,

Science and Technical, and Spatial. More information about the test itself and what to expect can be found here: ASVAB Homepage

To register for the ASVAB, click here.

Please let Mr. Schum (bschum@lammersvilleusd.net) know if you have any questions.

CTE Parent Survey

Mountain House High School is inviting parents to complete a short online survey about Career Technical Education (CTE).  The purpose of this survey is to gather information from parents about their interest in CTE Programs being offered at MHHS, and plans for future implementation of CTE programs at our High School.  CTE courses are classes that are predominately project based classes where students learn by doing, where students can potentially earn professional certifications, and where students can prepare for direct entry into careers or educational programs directly after high school graduation.  In order to determine future plans and offerings, we ask that you complete this short survey.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE SURVEY

MHHS Emergency Drill- Wednesday 3/16

Tomorrow afternoon at approximately 12:00, students and staff at Mountain House High School will be participating in a full scale safety exercise to test our safety plan and evacuation procedures. Students will be evacuating based on a simulated emergency situation in one of our classroom buildings. Emergency crews from around the area will be working with us and responding as if this was a real emergency as well. You may hear the emergency vehicles responding but this will only be a drill. You do not need to come to the school unless you have previously volunteered to do so.

Please note that tomorrow is an early release day and all students will be released at 1:30 and will be able to leave campus and head for home as they normally do.

As a parent, knowing that your child is safe at school is extremely important and we take our planning seriously. Our emergency drill is a vital part of our ongoing preparation and we appreciate your support in making sure our safety plans and procedures work in the event that we ever need them in a real emergency situation.

If you have any questions you may contact our front office.

Students in Prevention

Are you interested in careers in the Public and Human Services?  If you are then this opportunity is right for you.  The county of San Joaquin trains, hires, and pays eligible Sophomores and Juniors to be peer educators in their tobacco, alcohol, and drug prevention program called "Students in Prevention" or "SIP."   SIP provides its participants an opportunity to share, grow, and learn.  Peer Educators are actual paid employees of SJCPS, receiving up to four (4) weeks of training at minimum wage, thirty (30) hours per week.  SIP is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Peer Educators are also role models to the general community.  They are positive examples of what youth can be – caring for their peers and the community in which they live.  They participate in community service activities and promote advocacy campaigns to promote the importance of living a drug-free life. Interested students should take a look at the information brochure by CLICKING HERE.  And filling out an application by CLICKING HERE.

Student Poll Workers

Will you be 16 or older by June 6th?  Are you interested in getting paid to become a poll worker during the June Presidential Primary Election?   You can earn $165 for one day of work, and a short training class. Students who apply must have a 2.5 GPA or higher to qualify.   See Mrs. Gibson at the front desk for an application to work as a Poll Worker this summer.  You must provide personal information, as well as verify your GPA with the school.  Application deadline for student poll workers is April 11, 2016.

Athletics Recruiting for College

Advisory: Risk Factors

Students engaged in a powerful lesson in our Advisory period today.  They talked about the risk factors that they, and many people in our world face that prevent us from thriving in our pursuits.  As we learn this year about factors that assist our students to thrive, this lesson highlights these risk factors, and helps students to come up with strategies to overcome those risk factors.  Students watched a scene from the movie "Freedom Writers" and used the clip as a "mirror" to look at themselves.  If you are interested, here's that clip:

Students then identify one risk factor that may have, and then devise a plan to begin to eliminate that risk factor in their lives.
We know that as we help our students think about their mindset, and help them to adopt a growth mindset in their own lives, that they will adopt behaviors and attitudes that help them to thrive.