ECA DONATION

If you would like to donate funds to Mendoza’s extra-curricular activities for students, please ask for a form and mail it to MPS.  The dollar for dollar tax credit of up to $400 for taxpayers filing jointly will make more extra-curricular activities available to more students.  Donations must be received by December 31 in order to be eligible for the tax credit this calendar year.

From Our Cafeteria

No time to make breakfast for your students before rushing them out the door?  Well, here at Mendoza, we serve breakfast from 8:00 a.m. until 8:20 a.m.  We always have at least 3 choices and the price is only $1.00. Milk is included in the meal along with a fruit or juice.  If your child is free or reduced, there is no charge for breakfast.  We hope you will come give us a try.  You are most welcome to join your child for $1.25.

                          Your Cafeteria Manager

LOCK YOUR BIKE

Bicycles are brought to campus at the risk of the student/owner. Bicycles are not insured by the school.  Mendoza does not take responsibility for lost, stolen or vandalized bikes.  The bike rack is at the front of the Health office.

A FEW MATTERS OF PROCEDURE

Visitors on campus must stop in the office, sign in and obtain a visitor badge. 

Volunteers –When volunteering for any activity at school, please check in at the office and sign in our volunteer “guest book” on your own sheet.  We want you to become known to all our students, staff, and other volunteers and ask that you make sure to put on your volunteer nametag before beginning your activity.  Our students have been instructed, as part of our personal safety program, that adults wearing volunteer nametags are invited guests of the school. 

Lost and Found – If your child loses an article of clothing, school materials, a lunch box or other possessions, please check the lost and found table located right inside the front gates.  It’s a good idea to label personal possessions so that we may easily locate the owner.  Unclaimed items are donated to local charities periodically. 

Reporting Absences – Please notify the Mendoza office at 472-1954 as soon as possible, providing the student’s name, grade, teacher’s name and the reason for the absence.  If your child’s absence will be more than two days, notify the teacher if you need to request homework.

Messages - Please make sure your children have their after school instructions before they leave home in the morning. We cannot guarantee messages will get relayed and interrupting classrooms with messages is very disruptive.

Classroom Visits - Please do not go to your child’s classroom even if you are just dropping off homework, lunch, or money without checking in first.  We would like very much not to interrupt learning and testing time.  If you are on campus to go beyond the office and are not wearing a visitor or volunteer badge, you can expect to be asked by our staff to go to the office and sign in.  (Please be patient with us while we get to know you and if we have to ask for I.D.)

Education can take place in any setting. 

We just have to look for the opportunities to better ourselves.