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Mission Statement
The Mission of the Mills Viking Parent Teacher Organization is to provide parent volunteers and services to teachers, students and staff of MHS; to raise funds to support instructional programs, student scholarships and needs of the student body; to educate and inform parents and the community about MHS; and to encourage involvement.

Mills PTO Presidents' Message
Mills High and your Parent-Teacher-Organization are off and running! We are building excitement in anticipation of another great year at Mills. We look forward to a great working relationship with our Principal, Mr. Paul Belzer, our Assistant Principal of Instruction, Irma Munoz, and Assistant Principal of Student Services, Carole Siska.

The PTO’s goals this year are first and foremost to maintain the progress we have made in communication, parent involvement and events that we have built over the years. To achieve these goals, PTO utilizes:


1) the Viking Voice newsletter–which is available on the school’s web site; 

2) informative and well-attended PTO meetings; 

3) fun activities like our PTO potluck luau, Teacher/Staff Appreciation Luncheon, and Grad Night;

We also want to increase funding assistance to Mills to update technology, to provide more student scholarships, to supplement equipment and supplies that will enhance teaching, to provide those extras that give our students an excellent education.Your contributions to the Excellence Fund go directly towards the financial assistance in the purchase of much needed extras for our teachers to give our students more than the basic teaching. Please contribute towards the Excellence Fund. Donations and PTO memberships are accepted year round at the Mills High front office - attention to the PTO.

We have other lofty goals this year. We need to have more parent participation in school events, like the Career Day that occurs each year in November. Do you have an occupation that might excite our students to learn? Then sign up to be a presenter! Do you wish you had the chance to work behind the scenes in a Broadway play or musical? Then sign up to work with the Drama Guild. Can you help with school registration, or at the AP testing or at a luncheon? There are many areas where you can help. If you have not turned in the Parent Volunteer sign up sheet, which was sent home with the summer packet, please review it and turn it in to the PTO mailbox in the school office with ways you can help volunteer. You show your students that you really care when you volunteer.

We also want to improve our communication with our parents. Besides our online newsletter, phone call notices, email notices and School Loop announcements, how can we better serve you? We want to improve our “PTO enterprise” and YOU are our customers. Take this opportunity to give us feedback. You can send email with your ideas to me at normancmhs@yahoo.com.

We need help from those computer literate parents to further improve our communications. Please contact us and help us modernize.

We’d like to conclude with some ideas from the California State PTA on a few
“Things Teachers Wish Parents Would Do”:
1. Be involved in their children’s education because it helps students learn.
2. Set a good example and demonstrate that they believe reading is enjoyable and useful.
3. Encourage children to do their best in school; guide them to set obtainable goals.
4. Confirm that academics are of primary concern. 
5. Support school rules and goals.
6. Call teachers as soon as a problem becomes apparent.
7. Exercise parental responsibility,
not expecting the school or teachers to take over this job.

Norman Chin - Mills PTO President

normancmhs@yahoo.com





   
           
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