Wear RED tomorrow for RED ribbon week and make plans to attend Math and Literacy Night on Tuesday from 5-7pm. There will be escape rooms. YES multiple rooms. Painting with Poe (Edgar Allan), scavenger hunts, quiz bowl, and Dia de los Muertos celebrations...FOR FREE! If you want to eat while you are with us or take dinner to go, BETA club is selling Chili for $5.00.
#RedRibbonWeek #MathandLiteracyNight #GetInvolved
Did you know there is a national blood shortage? Our PHS Key Club is doing their part by hosting a blood drive in the PHS gym on October 25th and they're asking you to help them out by donating. You'll get a free t-shirt, gift card, and most importantly, the chance to say you saved lives. Win, win, BIG WIN. This link will take you directly to the drive to schedule your appointment:
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=ParagouldHS
Look for report cards coming home on Friday, October 20th. Join us in celebrating PJHS students for receiving all As, A/Bs, Perfect Attendance, Citizenship, and AR reading. We love celebrating students.
RED RIBBON WEEK is next week.
❤️Monday: REaDy to be DRUG FREE! Wear Red!
❤️Tuesday: Wake Up Drug Free! Wear School appropriate pajamas
❤️Wednesday: We’re Too Smart to do DRUGS! Dress up as your favorite CAREER!
❤️Thursday: Hats off to being DRUG FREE! Wear your favorite hat or cap.
❤️Friday: Team up against DRUGS! Wear RAM clothing, red and blue, or your favorite team.
We don't want to tell you what to do, but...SAVE the DATE for Math & Literacy Night. There will be ESCAPE ROOMS, PAINTING, SCAVENGER HUNTS, and MORE!!
PJHS picture day is tomorrow. These pictures will be in the yearbook. 💙❤️📸
Beta Induction Ceremony Reminder:
All Beta students will stay after school Monday, October 16th to participate in Beta Club activities and to prepare for the induction ceremony. Pizza will be provided. Students need to wear their nice clothes to school or bring them with them to change. There will be t-shirts for purchase prior to the ceremony.
Click the link below to watch the livestream of the homecoming ceremony happening today at 1:30pm. Go Rams!
https://youtube.com/live/06L7njSoZXc?feature=share
Parents. Ask your kids if they met their AR goal.
Friday, October 13th is the last day for your child to reach their first nine-weeks AR reading goal. Call or email Mrs. Courtney in the library if you want to sign up to receive emails about their progress. cyoung@paragouldschools.net
#RAMSareREADERS
Congratulations to the Beta Club students Jude Johnson, Elaine Zhang, Canyon Moore, Penn Richardson, and Tia Trammell for qualifying for Nationals in Collaboration Connection, Lead Outside the Box, and Project Proposal at the Beta Leadership Summit.
❤️💙 Interested in getting involved? See Ms. Farley or any Beta Club member. ❤️💙
Next week will be RAMtastic! We are participating in the dress-up days. We can't wait to see your school spirit. 💙❤️
**Dates added**
October 20th-Halloween Dance, October 30th-8th Grade Awards Assembly, October 31st-7th Grade Awards
Today is the last day to celebrate National Rice Month, but we appreciate our rice farmers all year long. Our Partner in Education, Leigh Blythe with Farm Bureau, gave staff members Rice Krispie treats to celebrate.
#ThankAFarmer #ThankYouPartnersInEducation ❤️💙🌾🍚
Come support the RAM MOB on Saturday, September 30th at 6:00 pm in the PHS Gym. $5.00 admission per person.
Check out this big news from Little Rock~ Arkansas Peace Week recently hosted a Youth Art Contest. The contest was open to students in 1st - 12th grade and addressed the theme:
“What does peace mean to you? Depict a more peaceful community in your art entry.”
They received over 2,000 art entries from all over the state. Award winners were announced at an event at the Arkansas State Capitol Rotunda on September 23rd and we are pleased to announce that our very own 7th grade Ram, Ada Chen, brought home FIRST PLACE! Congratulations Ada! Your Ram Family is proud of you!
Congratulations
PJHS had a great first Parent Teacher Conference. We love getting to know you and sharing the progress your child is making. If you were unable to attend, we are sending report cards home on Monday. Thank you Leigh Blythe with Farm Bureau Insurance our fabulous Partner in Education for providing dinner to the faculty. We appreciate you.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES THIS THURSDAY? Pick up Your child’s report card❤️Talk with your child’s teachers❤️Receive your child’s current reading and math levels❤️Get ACT scores from last year❤️Find out about a trip to Washington DC❤️Learn more about the Accelerated Reader program❤️Shop the book fair❤️Buy a yearbook❤️NEED MORE REASONS? Visit the aquatic frogs in the library or take a picture with the principal. ❤️💙
Did you know we have three aquatic frogs in the PJHS library?
Katniss EverGREEN (from The Hunger Games), FROGGYboy (from The Outsiders), and Larry (because we liked it).
#RAMSread
#SoDoFrogs
Don't carry cash? Set up an eWallet and let your child get a great book to read. (And a pointer. You know they need a pointer.) The book fair ends this Thursday after Parent Teacher Conferences.
https://shorturl.at/lsvB1
