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.
Who can become a member?
Membership in Meridian Partners in Education may include:
- The fathers and 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 the volunteer "ticket taker" schedule for home games.
- Organize volunteers to assemble the monthly newsletter.
- Organize the "Meridian" pocket calendar.
- Provide school personnel welcome and appreciation gifts.
- Money making projects:
- Annual soup supper
- Raffles each school year, make sports buttons for junior high and high school athletes, sold Meridian t-shirts, and other
- Organize graduation parkers.
- Assist Student Council with homecoming coronation.
- Organize graduation video taping and dubbing.
- Made it possible for guest speakers to come to Meridian
Monetary Donations given:
- Presently give 2-$200 scholarships to graduation seniors.
- Donate dictionary to post prom (past 3 years).
- Made it possible for Pippa White to come to Meridian.
- Donated $125 for Medieval reading program prizes.
- Donated $75 for elementary fun night.
- Donate pop for elementary track meet.
- Donated $100 to Wichita Children's Theater to make it possible for the elementary to attend "School House Rock."
- Donated ice cream and help serve at elementary family fun night.
- Provided financial support for athletic banquet speaker, Clester Johnson.
When and where are M-PIE meetings?
Meetings are the second Tuesday in September, November, January, March, 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 50 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 10 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!