We have a lot to celebrate this week as Owls! We opened our first week of volleyball and flag football with WINS for both games and our student-athletes are currently 2-0! Our staff held a community-building event before our first home game to encourage staff attendance at our games. Tickets for our school dance are selling fast with lots of student excitement. Our staff collaborated and reflected on ways to provide Quality Core Instruction for our students. Finally, on Friday, we celebrated our September Students of the Month for embodying our school’s Guidelines for Success: RESPECT! It has been a week of celebration and community building because we are #HughesProud.

Here are the highlights of this week's newsletter:

• Classroom Highlights
  
• Student of the Month
• iReady Data Reports
• Hughes Wellness Center
• SSC Parent Representatives
• PTA Reflections Art Contest
• Press-Telegram Scary Story Contest
  
• Hughes Student Dance
• Our Guidelines for Success
  
• Link to Join PTA
  
• Hughes Goes Green!

Thank you for your continued partnership with our school in supporting your child. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Edward Steinhauser

Principal

#HughesProud

We recognized over 30 students who were nominated by their teacher(s) for embodying one or more of the elements of our Guidelines for Success: RESPECT. This was a wonderful moment of celebration for our students and their families. Throughout the month of October, we will highlight one or more awardees over the intercom and share why they were recognized as a student of the month. We will do this for all recipients of this award throughout the year.

The PTA Reflections art contest for 2022 is open! The theme for this year is "Show Your Voice" and it would be wonderful for all our Hughes students to show their voice by submitting an entry. Entry forms can be picked up on the table outside of the Attendance Office or email reflections.hughes@gmail.com. Visual art entries can be left in the bin outside of the Main Office. Students entering for music, literature, film, photography, and dance are strongly encouraged to submit digitally by emailing reflections.hughes@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting an entry is October 21, 2022.

The awards reception will take place on Friday, November 4, at 7pm at the Long Beach Expo Arts Center.

We look forward to our talented Owls showing their voice!

• The submission deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10.
• For story submissions, please fill out this online form, bit.ly/3qMNDua. No mail or in-person submissions will be accepted.
• All artwork entries must be emailed, with the subject line “Scary Stories,” to ptnews@presstelegram.com. Drawings should be submitted in JPEG format and be no larger than 5 megabytes in size.
• Stories must be no longer than 650 words.
• The artwork must be original (no tracings).
• Entries will be judged based on imagination, creativity, theme, and quality.

For more information, please have your student pick up a Permission Slip from the Student Council teacher Mr. Ahrens, one of the Student Council members or the hallway table across from the Main Office. Tickets will be sold the week of October 3 through October 14 during lunch (details on Permission Slip). We hope that students who have earned the privilege of attending the dance will come and have a wonderful time!

You can apply here: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/longbeachusd

October 10 - Volleyball Game at Hughes 3:30pm

October 10 - Flag Football game at Hughes 3:30pm

October 14 - Dancing Through the Decades Student Dance 2:45-4:30pm

October 17 - Volleyball Game at Hughes 3:30pm

October 17 - Flag Football game at Hughes 3:30pm

October 19 - Volleyball Game at Rogers 3:30pm

October 19- Flag Football game at Rogers 3:30pm

October 24 - Volleyball Game at Bancroft 3:30pm

October 24 - Flag Football game at bancroft 3:30pm

October 24-28 - Red Ribbon Week - SPIRIT WEEK!