IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY

October 10, 2022

Greetings!

We had a wonderful Homecoming Week!  It was a pleasure engaging in commUNITY to celebrate the brilliance of our SLP students.  

Today, we observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  I encourage you to honor the land with which we reside, along with the Indigenous ancestors that once called SLP their home. 

St. Louis Park Public Schools Land Acknowledgment 

We are gathered on the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples. I ask you to join me in acknowledging the Dakota and Ojibwe community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. St. Louis Park Public Schools also acknowledges that it was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous Peoples, including those on whose land this school district is located. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to dismantling the ongoing legacies of colonial power and the district’s desire to support the ongoing work of local Indigenous communities to thrive in our schools.

Take care, be well, and GO PARK!

LaNisha Paddock, Principal

Homecoming Football Game High School Student Section

Mamma Mia-Movie on the Field

Homecoming Senior Royalty Ben Duncan & Deziree Meringdol in the SLP HOCO Parade

Food Truck Tailgate at Central Prior to the Football Game

#PARKPRIDE

On Monday, October 3rd, St. Louis Park High School hosted the Metro West Conference TB festival.  Over 130 students from St. Louis Park, Chaska, Chanhassen, Waconia, Jefferson and Orono participated in the event which featured guest clinician G. Phillip Shoultz III.

ONLY emails that match a parent/ guardian contact email on file will be entered for a valid attendance change.

If an email has changed: Please contact Abby Schrader at schrader.abby@slpschools.org

The student's absence form can be found at https://hs.slpschools.org/ under quick links.

Attention Juniors & Seniors registered for the PSAT.

• Pick up your Student Guide in your connections classroom.
• Make time to take the practice test (in the Student Guide). It is one of the best ways to get ready.

Test Date:  Wednesday October 12, 2022

Time:  8:25 - 11:45 am 

Location:  You will be notified of your testing room prior to test day. Check your email (the address you used in Total Registration).

Attention German and French students! Travel to Germany and France in June 2023!

Activities include: Munich bike tour, visit to the Bavarian countryside and one of King Ludwig’s castles, wander a German streetmarket, tour of Olympic park, eat authentic French and German meals, climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower, enjoy a Paris river cruise, browse famous French artworks, self-tour through Paris’ neighborhoods.

Contact your French or German teacher for details!

The ppt. has been provided below, if you were unable to attend the Virtual Family Night on the evening of September 28th.  Please reach out to the main office if you have questions 952-928-6100.

Virtual Family Night 10-12

A student at St. Louis Park High School has created a Mental Health Book List for Hennepin County Libraries. Click here to view the list online and find the paper version in our Media Center at SLPHS and at all Hennepin County Libraries. Below are some titles in our collection here at SLPHS. Click on the title to see a summary!

     (Don’t) Call Me Crazy      

  Darius the Great is Not Okay

  Who Put This Song on?  

 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

 The Bridge

Students! If your Chromebook is not functioning properly, please bring it down to the Media Center and we will put it in for repair. We will give you a loaner Chromebook and email you when yours is ready for pickup.

Have any books you are not reading anymore? Done with a book? Not interested in a book? Return it to the Media Center! We would love to get it out for other students to read.

Reminder, loaner Chromebooks are only given to students that need to have their device repaired. The Media Center will not check out loaner Chromebooks to students just to use for the day. We will not checkout a loaner Chromebook if a student forgot their device at home.

Students! Do you have any book recommendations for the media center? Please fill out this form to let us know!

Join the District Instructional Programs Advisory Council (DIPAC)

Want to help review what is taught in St. Louis Park Public Schools classrooms? We invite families to apply to join the District Instructional Programs Advisory Council (DIPAC). You do not need any educational background to join. The Committee will review the process of our curricular and instructional program offerings.

• Apply by October 14, 2022
• No background required (just your interest to participate!)
• Seeking diverse perspectives
• Attend approximately 4 meetings (1.5 hours each).

Learn more about DIPAC and what we hope to do.

Seventh Graders Suwaydah Aden, Ibtisam Ahmed, and Erin Enright coined the term "Idle-Free SLP" during their Climate Action presentation last spring during science class. Their slogan and presentation have since served as inspiration for a new initiative in Saint Louis Park to reduce carbon emissions in our school parking lots. 

As you pick up and drop off your kids this year, you may notice some new “Idle-Free SLP” signs. That’s because the City of St. Louis Park, in collaboration with Park Nicollet, is launching a student-driven idling reduction campaign for cleaner air and healthier lungs. Idling, or running the engine while parked, can produce more tailpipe emissions per minute than driving and has been linked to asthma symptoms, heart and lung disease, cognitive issues, and premature death. Children are even more vulnerable to air pollution than adults because they breathe more air per pound of body weight and their respiratory systems are not yet fully developed. This makes idling near schools – one of the most common idling scenarios as parents wait to pick up their children – especially dangerous.

Learn more and get involved by checking out the city website or by attending our poster-making session on Thursday, October 13 at St. Louis Park Middle School from 4-5 p.m. Snacks, beverages, and poster-making materials will be provided. Click here to register in advance.

6425 West 33rd St. | St. Louis Park, MN 55426

Phone: 952-928-6100 | Fax: 952-928-6113



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