If you are interested in having your child being a part of MIMS UIL clubs, interested in leading a UIL clubs or learning more about what is UIL, please attend our meeting this Wednesday, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in the library, with Ms. Simpson and Mr. Wang. We will record this meeting and later post it on the PTO website.

Dear Parents,

I hope all is well. In a week or two, our school will be conducting a NEEDS assessment for all of our students. The NEEDS assessment covers questions about a student’s social, emotional and academic understanding. With this data, our teachers and myself (school counselor) can have a better understanding of what our students’ need. My counseling guidance program will also be based on our students’ answers. I’m reaching out to the counseling department for a middle school version. If not, they’ll be taking the 2nd-5th grade version or the PK-1st version. Embedded in the links inserted, are the assessments. If you would not like your child/children to conduct this assessment, please email me privately at hliu@houstonisd.org.

Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Sincerely,

H. Liu

Emotional wellbeing is just as important as breathing
辅导师 刘老师

休斯顿中文沉浸学校

Hsiao-Yun Liu (Alice), M.Ed. School Counseling | Counselor  

Mandarin Immersion Magnet School (MIMS)

Gooooood morning MIMS Familiy!

I hope you are having a phenomenal week! I am reaching out as a reminder that we will distribute Chromebooks tomorrow to scholars that have turned in their paperwork and paid the fee. Right now, the 6th grade crew is beating out the 7th and 8th graders; please make sure to catch up 7th and 8th grade families and get the paperwork turned in! If you need a new one have your scholar visit Mr. Pyles in Room 306.

Many thanks,

Mr. Pyles  (Tech Coach) 

MIMS Family, Chromebook Distribution is here!

We will be distributing Middle School Chromebooks to scholars this Thursday. You need to have turned in your paperwork by then, all students who were missing a form were given another one last Friday (August 26th), if you need a new one to complete, please have them pick up one with Mr. Pyles (Room 306) prior to end of day Wednesday so they can get their device Thursday! If you have the form, please give it to them to turn in.

Many thanks,

Mr. Pyles (Tech Coach) 

Dear Parents,

My name is H. Liu, feel free to call me Alice. It’s an honor to be a school counselor for your children this year! Along with many MIMS characters, I would like to start with respect. Therefore, I started a year-long incentive system across grade levels. PreK- 5^th grade students who are quiet during dismissal will receive a heart. Middle schoolers will receive a heart from their teachers during transition. If you see your child with a pink heart, remind them to write their full name and grade level and drop it in the drawing box during lunch. I will draw three names per grade level and the drawn students can pick a gift from the treasure box. Eventually it’ll be tied in with Social Emotional Learning lessons. For example: the posing question would be something like: Respect in the (location in school) looks like… Students will drop their response in the drawing box to be drawn. Don’t be discouraged if your child haven’t receive a heart yet, because it’s coming! Feel free to reach me at hliu@houstonisd.org. I wish everyone an awesome year!

Good evening Parents!

It has been amazing getting to see all of your scholars on campus and in their classrooms! I wanted to give you all an update for chromebook requirements. 

If you have not attended an in person session please review this website over digital safety for parents. This explains some of the topics we will talk about with scholars this year.

bit.ly/MIMSDS

Then you will want to fill out the paperwork. I am sending this home this and next week.

Lastly, you will pay through school pay. You can visit bit.ly/MIMSPAY and either sign in, or more easily check-out as a guest and add in your scholar's ID. If you do not know that, it is ok! I can pull up the scholar's information with the registrar.

Thank you for all that you have finished and done so far. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns:

timothy.pyles@houstonisd.org

The MIMS Family would like to make a huge shout out and thanks to all of the parent volunteers that have been helping with arrival and dismissal. With your support we have done phenomenal work and gotten things truly streamlined at MIMS. Thank you again for all that you do!

The Admin Team

Dear Parents/Guardians and Families,

Thank you for sharing your concerns.

HISD transportation department informed us today that PowerSchool and their scheduling system has a huge glitch a week ago. They are working with routing department to get the issue resolved. We were told that all the bus requests sent out before the summer break must re-send bus requests again. Ms. Lopez and Ms. Flores are working on resending the requests for each student. The new request will be processed within 10 business days. Bus rosters will update to school every two weeks. The earliest time your child will get on the bus will be on Step 6^th 2022.  

If you cannot wait for them to re-route (for those who bus route got cancelled), Please contact HISD The Routing & Scheduling Team with your child first, last name, student ID and address.

Yolanda Grayson, Sr. Routing & Scheduling  YYELL@houstonisd.org

Stephanie Reece, Team Lead Routing & Scheduling Stephanie.Reece@houstonisd.org

Pavia Powell, Team Lead Routing & Scheduling. PPOWELL1@houstonisd.org

They will be able to get your child into a route quickly.

Please noted, in order to take the school bus, student MUST reach 5-year-old by September 1^st 2022, meaning they must be 5 years old to ride the bus alone for SY 2022-23.