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25-26 Back to School Checklist!

Hopefully back-to-school will feel a little less overwhelming with this handy checklist!

✔ Want a refresher on all things Harper-related? Check out our Harper Decoder.

✔ Looking for the school supply list? Find it here.

✔ Complete your Membership Toolkit Directory registration and join the PTO to gain access to the online directory and class lists. Your membership fee helps to support the PTO’s purpose to serve the parents, students, and staff. Click HERE to buy directory access, make a donation to the Harper iGNITE Fund, contribute to Teacher/Staff Gifts, and purchase birthday books.

✔ Donate to the iGNITE enrichment fund to sponsor your child’s enrichment activities (including all field trips and guest speakers), support teachers, maintain the Harper Garden and more. Every dollar goes directly into programs benefitting Harper students!

✔ Contribute to the Teacher Holiday Gift Fund for your child’s teacher and building staff.

✔ Commemorate your child’s birthday by purchasing a birthday book for the Harper Library.

✔ Contribute to the new playground.

✔ Order your 2025-2026 Harper yearbook.

✔ Harper Spiritwear is here! Click here to order.

✔ Sign up for an after school club: Check out the wide variety of Student Programs and After School Clubs at Harper, coordinated by the PTO such as Hoops4Health and Skyline Theatre Company, and Wilmette Park District. View details here.

✔ Don’t forget to visit the Harper home page for your school-related back-to-school checklist including school and lunch fees, payments and medical forms.

Calendar Instructions

Trying to get organized for back to school!

Here are instructions on how to subscribe to the website calendars to your devices

The following are links to subscribe to calendars. If you are running Outlook, Mac OS X Calendar, or another calendaring program that recognizes iCalendar (ICS) format subscriptions, you can click the links below to automatically subscribe to these calendars.

Wilmette District 39 Calendar webcal://www.harperpto.com/subscription/ed936326ec4b48cec223d05701fa9b5f015b5e845ad9c13493098797de209df1/cal/41833

Harper PTO Calendar - webcal://www.harperpto.com/subscription/ed936326ec4b48cec223d05701fa9b5f015b5e845ad9c13493098797de209df1/cal/41834

If your calendar doesn't automatically accept subscriptions, please follow these instructions for Google Calendar:

1) Open your Google Calendar and click the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner and select "Settings".

2) Click the Add Calendar menu option in the left-hand sidebar menu and choose the "From Url" option.

3) Copy the calendar link that you want to sync and paste it into the From Url box and click Add Calendar.

Harper Hangout - 2nd Grade Mom's Night

Harper Hangout - 2nd Grade Moms' Night - Back-to-School Fundraiser! - September 3, 2025

Join us for a fun night out with fellow 2nd grade moms as we kick off the school year! It’s the perfect chance to connect, relax, and support a great cause. All proceeds will go toward our exciting new playground project — let’s help make it amazing for our kids!

100% of proceeds go to the playground campaign.

Harper Hangout - 4th Grade Moms' Night - Back-to-School Fundraiser! - September 5, 2025

Join us for a fun night outside with fellow 4th grade moms as we kick off the school year! It’s the perfect chance to connect, relax, and support a great cause. All proceeds will go toward our exciting new playground project — let’s help make it amazing for our kids!

100% of proceeds go to the playground campaign.

Harper Hangout - 3rd Grade Moms' Night - Back-to-School Fundraiser! - September 25, 2025

Join us for a fun night outside with fellow 3rd grade moms as we kick off the school year! All proceeds will go toward our exciting new playground project — let’s help make it amazing for our kids!

100% of proceeds go to the playground campaign.

Before/After School Student Programs

Check out the wide variety of Student Programs and Clubs at Harper, coordinated by the PTO. Please reach out to aspregistration@harperpto.com with any questions.

Wilmette Park District After School Clubs @ Harper

Harper Safety

As we return to school, we recognize national SMART Week (August 25-29), because one of the smartest things adults can do to keep kids, classrooms, and communities safe from gun violence is raise awareness about secure gun storage.

SMART Week is all about educating communities on the simple steps that everyone — gun owners and non-gun owners alike — can take right now to prevent gun violence:

Secure all guns in homes and vehicles
Model responsible behavior around guns
Ask about the presence of unsecured firearms in other homes your child visits
Recognize the role of guns in suicide
Tell your peers to Be SMART

Learn more at the website: besmartforkids.org, including their resources page.

Questions about firearm safety in our school and community can go to the PTO civics and safety committee: safety@harperpto.com.