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The whole year

All 10 PTA events for the school year. Every one has an add-to-calendar button that drops a real reminder onto your phone — no account, no app, no newsletter signup.

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Community

Meet the Teacher & PTA Open House

Date: Tue, Aug 18 Time: 4pm–6:30pm Location: HSES Cafeteria & Classrooms

Find your classroom, meet your teacher, and grab a membership card from the PTA table by the front door.

We will be set up in the cafeteria from 4pm. Join on the spot in under a minute — bring a phone, we handle the rest. First 100 members get a Wildcat window cling.

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PTA Meeting

First PTA General Meeting (date to be confirmed)

Date: Tue, Sep 8 Time: 6pm–7pm Location: HSES Media Center

Our first General PTA Meeting of the year. Dates for all three meetings will be confirmed and shared with members soon.

General PTA Meetings are for our members, and there is no need to RSVP. Members vote on the budget and on the decisions that shape our PTA. Childcare is provided.

Fundraiser

Wildcat Fun Run

Date: Fri, Oct 2 Time: 8:30am–2:30pm Location: HSES Track & Field

The one fundraiser of the year. Every grade runs, the whole school cheers, and we fund the entire budget in a single morning.

Pledge by the lap or give a flat amount. Parents are welcome on the field — bring a chair and sunscreen. Grade-level start times go home in the Thursday folder in September.

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Community

Outdoor Movie Night

Date: Sat, Oct 17 Time: 7pm–9pm Location: HSES Front Lawn

Big inflatable screen, blankets on the grass, popcorn by donation. Film chosen by student vote.

Free to attend. Bring blankets and low chairs. Concessions are cash or card and benefit the fifth-grade celebration fund. Rain date is the following Friday.

Arts & Academics

Reflections Entries Due

Date: Sat, Oct 24 Time: 3pm Location: Front Office

Last call for dance, film, literature, music, photography and visual arts entries.

Entries may be dropped at the front office or submitted online. Every entrant receives a certificate; category winners advance to Cherokee County Council judging.

Reflections rules & entry
Community

Veterans Day Program

Date: Tue, Nov 10 Time: 9am–10am Location: HSES Gymnasium

Our fifth graders host. Veterans and active-duty family members are our guests of honor.

If you have a veteran in the family, please register them so we can seat and recognize them properly. Coffee and biscuits in the media center afterwards.

Staff Appreciation

Teacher & Staff Thanksgiving Lunch

Date: Thu, Nov 19 Time: 10:45am–1:15pm Location: HSES Media Center

We feed all 130 staff members. Sign up to bring a dish or send a gift card.

Drop-off is 10:15–10:40 at the front office. If cooking is not your thing, a $15 gift card covers one staff plate.

Community

Family Bingo Night

Date: Sat, Jan 23 Time: 6pm–8pm Location: HSES Cafeteria

Twelve rounds, absurd prizes, and a cake walk that gets genuinely competitive.

$5 per bingo card at the door, unlimited daubers. Proceeds go straight back into our classrooms.

Community

Spring Festival

Date: Sat, Apr 17 Time: 11am–3pm Location: HSES Campus

Inflatables, food trucks, the dunk tank, and 40 classroom booths run by the kids themselves.

Wristbands go on sale in March. Volunteers needed in one-hour shifts — this is the single biggest volunteer day of the year.

Take a shift
Community

Fifth Grade Celebration

Date: Fri, May 21 Time: 9am–12pm Location: HSES Gymnasium

The send-off. Slideshow, signed yearbooks, and not a dry eye in the building.

Funded entirely by Bingo Night and concession sales, so it costs fifth-grade families nothing.

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