Meridian Partners in Education (M-PIE)
What is M-PIE?
Meridian Partners in Education has been active since 1993.
It is an organization with the following objectives:
- To support and contribute to the school's needs and to the school's programs.
- To provide additional avenues for parents to take an active role in their children's education.
- To enhance the parent-teacher relationship.
- To encourage volunteerism in the district.
Who can become a member?
Membership in Meridian Partners in Education may include:
- The fathers, mothers, grandparents, and guardians of students of Meridian Public School.
- The administrators and faculty of Meridian Public School.
- Interested residents of the Meridian School District.
What does M-PIE do?
M-PIE projects include:.
- Organize volunteers to assemble the monthly newsletter.
- Organize and help with Senior Class "Banner" Night
- Organize the "Meridian" pocket calendar and pay a portion of the cost.
- Provide school personnel welcome and appreciation gifts throughout the year.
- Organize and man the Book Fair each year
- Organzie and sponsor activities to encourage the Box Tops for Education and the Campbell Soup Labels programs.
- Money making projects:
- Annual soup supper
- Winter Raffle each school year
- Assemble sports buttons for junior high and high school athletes
- Assembled and sold Mustang Cookbooks
- Sold Meridian T-shirts, and other
- Organize graduation parkers.
- Assist Student Council with homecoming coronation.
- Organize graduation video taping and dubbing.
- Made it monetarily possible for guest speakers to come to Meridian
Monetary Donations given in 2010-2011:
- Presently give 3-$200 scholarships to graduation seniors.
- Donated two (2) flash drives to post prom (past 2 years).
- Donated $300 toward the FBLA Nationals Trip
- Donated $492.38 in free books for the elementary library through the Book Fair
- Donated drink for elementary track meet.
- Donated $500 for elementary library furniture (table and chairs) from Norris PPDGrant
- Donated $50 toward the elementary hot lunch program to help with the purchase of student extra milk
- Purchased dry erase marker boards to the high school for individual classroom use.
- Purchased colored bandanas to the elementary to use on field trips, etc.
Past Projects M-PIE has sponsored:
Sponsored and set up Career Day sponsored through the EduQuest Grant (5 years). This project brought four Meridian graduates into the building each of the five years where they spoke to all 9-12 grade students. The objective of this project was to expose students to various career choices in areas that they might be interested in and also to show students the importance of pursuing education beyond high school.
When and where are M-PIE meetings?
Meetings are the second Tuesday in September, November, January, April, and May at 7:00 p.m. in the commons of Meridian Public School.
Is M-PIE a worthwhile organization? Would you like to see this organization continue to be active at Meridian? Are you willing to be an active member of M-PIE?
M-PIE has over 25 volunteers who help with various projects! (That's great! Thanks to everyone who helped in any way!)
Yet M-PIE's active membership is less than 12 members!
We need your help if Meridian Partners in Education is going to remain an active organization!
We invite you to become an active member of M-PIE. We need your ideas of ways to enrich the education of your Meridian students. The future of this organization depends on the support of Meridian's faculty and patrons.
Please consider becoming an active member of M-PIE!
We hope to see or hear from you! Watch the school calendar for meeting dates.
