Badger Blast
Arkadelphia Public Schools newsletter
Badger Blast: March 4 -9
March is here and there is plenty going on around our district both before and after Spring Break.
This week begins our Kindergarten Registration period for those future Badgers who will be the AHS Class of 2032! (Sounds funny, doesn't it? All those parents who have students in the class of 2019 if it still sounds as funny as it did 13 years ago...)
See the information for Kindergarten Registration below in the Badger Blast immediately below this week's APSD Athletic schedules.
UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER
Monday, March 4: Perritt Pre-K Family Night, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Tuesday, March 5: Board of Education Agenda Meeting, 5:00
Tuesday, March 5: Arkadelphia Bands Winter Concert at OBU (7th, 8th and High School)
Thursday, March 7: Peake Spring Pictures
Thursday, March 7: Parents as Teachers Group Connection, Noon
Thursday, March 7: Peake Winter Musical, 1:30 and 6:00 pm
Friday, March 8: JROTC Military Ball, HSU Garrison Grand Ballroom, 6:00 pm
Monday, March 11: Central Primary 3rd Grade Family Night
Tuesday, March 12: Board of Education Regular Meeting, 6:00 pm
Friday, March 15: Goza Spring Pictures
Friday, March 15: AHS Cheerleader Tryouts (tryout week March 11-15)
March 18-22: SPRING BREAK
Goza Students Participate in BizKids Competition
APSD IMPLEMENTING STANDARD RESPONSE PROTOCOL FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
The SRP is a free program from the I Love You Guys Foundation that allows organizations to have common terminology, visual aids and instructions for all groups to employ in the event of an emergency situation at a campus.
APSD School Resource Officers and administrators have begun working with faculty, staff and students to educate them on the terminology and visual aids used in the program.
Recently in the Badger Blast we have been directing you to the SRP website. Then two weeks ago, we were advised to implement the "Lockout" portion of the SRP by local authorities due to an incident in town. Since the program is still in the implementation stages, there was some confusion between the terms "Lockout" and "Lockdown."
There are a few things that we noticed that can be done better in the event we have to implement the SRP in the future and one of those is that in the future we will be sending out a text notification if any of the four areas of the SRP are put into action. Just one week before last week's incident, we were in discussion about whether or not to issue a district-wide text notification during a "Lockout" since there is no imminent threat to students. We learned after Thursday that it's better to utilize our text notification system in any case so as to try to help alleviate confusion.
This incident also is a good time to tell you to pencil in the evening of Tuesday, April 9, for a district-wide informational meeting about the SRP program to help parents and community members be on the same page. We set the meeting before last week's event, but it reinforced the need to have such an event to help parents understand the program. To get a head start on the meeting and learn more about SRP, we urge you to see the information below and visit the I Love You Guys Foundation website. We'll be sending out more information about meetings specifics as plans are finalized. The safety of our students is of utmost importance to APSD, APD and CCSO and we want parents to know about the Standard Response Protocol.Be on the lookout for information regarding an informational meeting in April for parents to attend to learn more about APSD's use of the SRP. In the meantime, for more information on this program, visit the SRP K-12 Program website here.
W-I-N-N-E-R-S
Peake's County Spelling Bee Winners
Peake Students in Clark County Spelling Bee
Central 3rd Grade Spelling Bee Winners
2nd place: David Garrett
3rd place: Ben Taylor
Central 2nd Grade Spelling Bee Winners
1st place: Drew Howard
2nd place: Ryne Alexander
3rd place: Kambry Elgas
Perritt 1st Grade Spelling Bee Winners
1st place: Diauria Clark
2nd place: D'Wadlyn Manning
3rd place: Cooper Babb
Goza 8th Grade Quiz Bowl 2nd in State
CLICK IMAGE BELOW FOR HSU ACT ACADEMY INFORMATION
PEAKE ALUMNI FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
it's flu season...wash your hands, wash your friends' hands, wash your enemies' hands
SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS ON APP
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.
APSD Utilizing AMI Days Again in 2018-19; PLEASE Update Contact Info. at Respective Campuses If You've Changed Numbers
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
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