Harper PTO

Our programs and events are made possible by your iGNITE contributions

Parent Social Tickets

Fall is coming and so is the Parent Social Fall Fest! Let’s get together for some fun and enjoy the season at the beautiful Wilmette Harbor Club located in Gilson Park. The event allows for guests to mix and mingle both inside the club and outside on the patio overlooking the Baha’i’ Temple. See event details below:

  • Wilmette Harbor Club
  • Friday, October 14th
  • 7:00pm – 10:00pm 
  • Open bar with a variety of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options 
  • Catered light bites and dessert table
  • A DJ will be playing all night long (get your song requests ready!)

This will be a great opportunity to visit with Harper parents – finally! Grab your tickets now! Space is limited.

Limited public parking is available in the park and requires a Wilmette village sticker; when parking, bear left immediately after the clubhouse entrance. We recommend Uber/Lyft if possible.

For Tickets: $85/person – click link below to purchase!

Purchase your tickets today!

Please contact parentsocial@harperpto.com with any questions.

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 to gain access to the online directory and class lists, and to join the PTO. Your membership fee helps to support the PTO’s purpose to serve the parents, students and staff.  You will also be able to make a donation to the Harper iGNITE Fund, purchase birthday books, and contribute to Teacher/Staff Gifts through the Membership Toolkit Store.

✔ Donate to Ignite to sponsor your child’s enrichment, support teachers, maintain outdoor classroom areas, fund crossing guards and more.

✔ 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

✔ Order your 2022-2023 Harper yearbook.

✔ 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.

✔ Harper Spiritwear is here.  Click here to order.

✔ 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR: Check out the wide variety of After School Clubs at Harper, coordinated by the Wilmette Park District. View schedule and register 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.

 

Spirit Wear on sale

We’ve got spirit, yes we do, we’ve got spirit- how about you?? Buy your Spirit Wear before it sells out!

CLICK HERE

*Ordering this year is different! Click on the link and pay the vendor directly online! All orders shipped directly to your house! New designs and options!
 
Take advantage of their beginning of school sale, running August 8- September 7th!
 
Questions? Contact spiritwear@harperpto.com.

We will also be selling spirit wear at the Parent Coffee on August 22nd.

Thornwood Stormwater Construction Project

This summer The Village of Wilmette has been working hard on the Thornwood Stormwater Project. HERE is a full informational handout that discuses the back to school plan and how it impacts Harper. A few highlights:

  • Sidewalks are open on Hunter Road
  • Greenwood Ave is the official walking route to get to Harper! All students coming from the East of Harper should use Greenwood Ave
  • Thornwood between Dartmouth and Hunter is closed to pedestrian and car traffic
  • No large trucks will be entering Thornwood Park during drop-off and pick-up
  • Crossing guard locations (Illinois and Iroquois, Lake and Hunter, Hunter and Greenwood, Greenwood and Dartmouth).  There will be construction flaggers at Thornwood and Dartmouth. 
  • There will no longer be crossing guards at Elmwood and Dartmouth. All students should be walking to school via Greenwood. 
  • Drivers (parents,  grandparents, babysitters, nannies, etc.) – PLEASE stay off your phone from the time you enter carline on Kenilworth until the time you’ve completed carline and are blocks passed the school.  Harper students and their families are walking to and from school.  Please show caution and yield to pedestrians.

** Reminder: to enter the carpool line, you must use Kenilworth Avenue