Badger Blast

It's a short week for students this week combined with a long weekend!

No school on Thursday, Friday or Monday (as noted in above image). We hope that you will take time to schedule time to visit with your child/children's teachers Thursday afternoon or evening.

Also, it's not a bad time to take advantage of the time to help us combat the flu virus that's in the region and clean any of the school supplies, backpacks, etc., that your child might bring home on a regular basis. Enjoy the long weekend and we hope that those who have been hit by bugs and viruses can use the few days to get healthy!

February 11 - 13: Goza Middle School Kindness Week

February 11 - 14: Perritt Primary Book Fair

February 11 - 15: Central Primary Book Fair

Tuesday, February 12: Peake Rosenwald Class Valentine Parties, 2:00 pm

Wednesday, February 13: Perritt Primary Class Valentine Parties, 2:00 pm

Wednesday, February 13 - Saturday, February 16: All State Band Clinic at Hot Springs

Thursday, February 14: NO SCHOOL: AM - Teacher Work Day; 2-7 pm - Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thursday, February 14: Valentine's Day -- this has nothing to do with school; this is just a friendly reminder to those of you out there who might need a reminder to get something for your significant other (you can thank us later)

Friday, February 15: NO SCHOOL (Teacher PD Flex Day)

Monday, February 18: NO SCHOOL (Presidents' Day)

Tuesday, February 19: Board of Education Regular Meeting, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, February 19: AHS Choir CPA Concert, AHS Little Theater, 6:00

February 20 - 22: AHS Choir Performance Assessment at HSU

The Lady Badger and Badger basketball teams will play in the 4A-7 District Basketball Tournament this week in Mena. See the brackets below. The games can be watched live online at www.arkadelphiabadgertv.com/broadcasts .

The Goza 8th grade and 6th grade Quiz Bowl teams both came home with trophies at recent competitions in Murfreesboro.

The 6th grade team won their tournament last week and the 8th grade finished second in the Junior High Regional tournament, qualifying for the Junior High State Quiz Bowl Tournament which will be held Saturday, February 23, at HSU. The Goza 8th grade team competed against teams that include both 8th and 9th graders.

APSD G/T Coordinator Nancy Mortensen coaches both teams.

- AHS News page features recent stories on BETA Club, DECA Club and Fall Semester Honor Rolls

- Recent videos on APSD-Tv YouTube Channel include wrestling matches, Perritt and Central Kindness Week Kickoff Assemblies, basketball games and others

Congrats to the AHS Swim and Dive teams as they both finished 2nd in the South District Swim Meet at HSU Friday night. The State Swim and Dive Championships are February 22 and 23 in Bentonville. Congratulations, Badgers!

Arkadelphia High School seniors will be able to pick up scholarship applications for two scholarships awarded by the Peake High School Alumni Foundation beginning on January 30. The applications for the Richard and Roberta Griffith Scholarship and the Peake High School Alumni Foundation scholarship will be available to pick up in the AHS counselors's by January 30th.

The AHS Counseling office was sent a few scholarship notifications with February deadlines. Visit this link to see those scholarship opportunities as well as a link to the page on the Arkadelphia Promise website that has numerous scholarship applications posted.

http://www.arkadelphiaschools.org/article/87586

Several towns have been hit hard by the flu and other viruses during this flu season, so see the below tips on hand-washing from the CDC and help do your part to help us have healthy schools!

The school lunch menus are located on the official APSD App (available in the App Store and on Google Play) as well as the link below on the APSD website (just click the image below the next paragraph).

For those parents who use the app to check school lunch menus, a change was made before Thanksgiving Break and menus are again available on each school's portion of the app. For some reason, the menus had just been populated to the APSD section of the app. From now on, you should be able to locate the school lunch menus on your respective school's page on the app. Normal procedure is for menus to be uploaded for the entire month at the beginning of the month.

January has started off on the warm side, but there's still the potential for winter weather over the next two or three months in our area. As you've read before in this space, the Arkansas Department of Education has again approved APSD for five days to be used at Alternative Methods of Instruction (AMI) Days along with many other school districts in the state of Arkansas.

AMI days allow school district to potentially not have to add extra days to the end of the school calendar in late May and early June.

APSD will use phone and text notifications as well as social media and traditional media to notify families of cancellations. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION ON FILE WITH YOUR CHILD OR CHILDREN'S RESPECTIVE CAMPUS IS UP TO DATE.

Information regarding AMI days as it pertains to APSD can be found at this link

You can keep up with events and other information at all of the APS campuses by several social media outlets. These locations are also a great place to see pictures of events that take place throughout the year.

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TWITTER:
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YOUTUBE:
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Website: www.arkadelphiaschools.org
Location: 235 North 11th Street, Arkadelphia, AR, USA
Phone: 870-246-5564
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