National Student Leadership Week 2025

Every powerful movement starts with a leader... This week, we celebrated the our wonderful school student leaders such as the National Junior Honors Society, Student Council, Ambassadors and Homeroom Representatives for National Student Leadership Week 2025. It’s a time dedicated to recognizing and uplifting the incredible impact our student leaders have at our school and our community. NSWL is about more than just holding titles or wearing badges. It’s about the initiative, vision, and the courage our students had to make a difference. Each day a student leadership was recognized by getting a shout out in the Colts Morning Bulletin and later meeting in the Student Council Room for some sweet group pics and treats ;) Sydney Chun, Student Government Representative

Staffulty Appreciation Breakfast 2023

We were able to give teachers the thank you they deserved at the Staffulty Appreciation Breakfast 2023 on Friday - 5/12/23 @ the Cafeteria. To recognize the teachers for their hard work, Student Government planned this event to celebrate our awesome teachers and staff and to show them how much we really appreciate all that they did for us this year. As the staffulty made their way into the Cafeteria they had to make a mandatory stop at the Teacher Photo Booth and then Teacher Prize Drop to score inflatable instruments, score spirit points and even “air hugs” lol! After that, staffulty were treated to juices, coffees, McDonald’s Hotcakes & Sausage platters. You can tell the event was a huge success with all that happiness on their faces ;) Big, big thanks to our sponsors for the event: Starbucks (Waipio) and McDonald’s of Gateway Shopping Center and McDonald’s of Pearl City Shopping Center! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week 2023! Thank you for all your hard work, teachers! Emma, 7th Grade Council

Teacher Appreciation Week 2023

With the end of the school year approaching, teachers are being recognized with specials at retailers and restaurants across the U.S. for Teacher Appreciation Week. Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt began the effort to create Teacher Appreciation Week and National Teachers Day when she urged Congress in 1953 of the need for a day recognizing teachers, according to School Specialty. National Teacher Day was initially celebrated on March 7, but in 1984 was moved to May. At that time the National Parent Teacher Association began calling the entire first week of May as Teacher Appreciation Week. Homeroom Representatives were tasked with created Teacher Thank You Posters to give to their Homeroom Teachers. They were to then take a group picture and send the pic to Mr. White. Can you tell by these photos how much our teachers are loved?!? Happy Teacher Appreciation Week 2023!!!

  

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week 2020!

Hey Highlands Teachers & Staff! It's Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week 2020!!!  From the Highlands Student Council to all of you,  we just want you to know how important you are to all of us students and your hard work doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated!  We made this little video for you to remind you how awesome you really are!  We hope you enjoy...  

Teacher Appreciation Week 2020 Is Coming Up Next Week!

At Highlands, we appreciate our teachers! So, during quarantine and from the comfort of our own homes, the Student Council planned a series of events for Virtual Teacher Appreciation Week 2020! To show our appreciation, we all pitched in to make a very heartwarming video dedicated to the teachers of Highlands Intermediate that made its debut on May 4th. Then we all wrote appreciation and thank you letters to all of the teachers expressing our gratitude towards them and even reminisced on some of the very special memories we made with them during our time at Highlands. Our teachers have been by our side guiding us through the ups and downs of middle school and we wanted to properly thank them for all that they've done for us. Teachers are the people who help us blossom as students into intelligent and outstanding human beings out of the kindness of their hearts. H.I.S has brought us so many great adventures and memories that we will always remember. Go Colts! And thank you teachers!  Abby, 8th Grade President

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week 2019

It's been a long year and before we celebrate the end of the year, let's celebrate the people that got us there -- our teachers and staff! These adults have kept up with our shenanigans and deserve to be appreciated so this amazing year through Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week 2019! We decided to thank them with a very special breakfast on Thursday, May 9 before the start of school.  The teachers lined up extra early for our Hawaiian Luau-themed event and were adorned them at the entrance with flower leis, sunglasses and hugs ;) After that, the surprises kept coming -- every teacher got a chance to win even more stuff at our giant Prize Drop to win some fun prizes before getting their breakfast. The breakfast provided consisted of pancakes, sausages, eggs, rice, donuts, fruits and chocolate-covered strawberries, most food given was from our awesome sponsors. Sponsors included, IHOP, Starbucks Coffee and Dipped by Dees! The teachers and staff also were also able to watch some amazing hula performances from students Jadee Silva, Teya Apana and Miss Keiki Hula 2018, Rachel Kimura! The breakfast came to an end as the bell rung for school to start, but the smiles on the teachers’ and staffs’ faces never faltered that entire day.  Thalia, SG Vice-President

Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week Breakfast 2016

On Friday, May 6, 2016, we finished Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week with a luau themed breakfast. There was delicious pancakes from IHOP, fried rice from Big City Diner, and of course, coffee from Starbucks! Once again, it was a hit! Teachers were greeted with lei and given appreciation booklets created by their very own students. Thank you teachers and staff for all your hard work, we really appreciate it :) Kaitlynn, SG Vice-President