Lunch: Chicken Nuggets, Carrot Coins, Corn, Fresh Fruit, Hot roll and Milk.
General:
No Builders Club this week.
Students: Clean-up in the cafeteria and student center during breakfast and lunch needs to improve to prevent losing privileges like having tea or being able to sit in the student center during lunchtime. Spills not being cleaned up, throwing grapes, leaving trash are just a few of the problems. This is in the cafeteria and the student center. Lets respect the situation better. Mr. Davis.
Circle of Friends: Students need to meet with Mrs. Holt in the library during lunch Wednesday for Circle of Friends training. Bring your lunch. (Check to see if your name is on the list for training. (List of names on Mrs. Holt's door and library door.)
Homecoming Information is listed at end of announcements
Fall athletic passes are accepted at the gate for fall sporting events. Students must show their pass at the gate for free entry, otherwise students are to pay the entry fee.
Tuesday, Oct. 4th:
Tennis: District Tennis Meet @ Allen Park, Jonesboro @ 8:30 a.m. (All Day)
Volleyball vs. Highland (Home) @ 4:30 p.m. (J, Jr.B/A, Sr B/A)
Wednesday, Oct. 5th:
FBLA: Any 9th grade FBLA member that would like to run for officer positions need to sign up with Mrs. Broyles in the business building by Wednesday, Oct. 5th.
Circle of Friends: Students need to meet with Mrs. Holt in the library during lunch Wednesday for Circle of Friends training. Bring your lunch. (Check to see if your name is on the list for training. List of names on Mrs. Holt's door and library door.)
Tennis: District Meet @ Allen Park, Jonesboro
Thursday, Oct. 6th:
Book Club today in library.
FBLA: Officer elections will be on Thursday, Oct. 6 at lunch in front of Mrs. Cox's office. Permission slips for fall conference will be handed out at lunch Oct. 6 when you vote.
Mrs Hausman would like to meet with student council members after school on Thursday until 4:30.
Pep Rally - 3rd hour (10:30). Office will call for students.
Redskin 7th Grade Football vs. Brookland (Home) @ 5:30 p.m.
Junior High Football vs. Brookland (Home) @ 7:00 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Cave City (Home) @ 4:30 (7, Jr. B/A, Sr.B/A)
Friday, Oct. 7th:
Writers group meet today in library.
Redskin Football vs. Brookland (Away) @ 7:00 p.m.
Upcoming Events:
Cornerstone Coalition on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in computer lab C.
Oct. 10th - Picture Retake Day.
The Arkansas State Fair will be October 11th-23rd in Little Rock Arkansas.
Oct. 12th - FBLA Fall Conference in Jonesboro
Oct. 15th - Redskin Classic (Here)
Oct. 18th - Region Marching Festival @ Paragould (Tuesday PM)
Oct. 19th - Flu Consent Forms due
Week of October 24th - Red Ribbon Week/Teaching Week
Oct. 26th - Flu Shots @ 1:00 p.m.
Homecoming information:
Spirit Week (October 10 - 14th)
No hats, bandannas or mask are allowed. No face or body paints. Dress code applies to all days.
Monday: Match Your Class Monday (Olympic Ring Colors)
7th Grade: Wear Yellow
8th Grade: Wear Green
9th Grade: Wear Blue
FB, Band, Cheer: Wear Black
Teacher/Staff: Wear Red
Tuesday: Twinkie Tuesday
Wednesday: Olympic WINday (Favorite Olympic Sport)
Thursday: Team USA Day (Red, White and Blue)
Friday: Red and White Day
2016 Homecoming Shirts are now on sale through Friday, October 7th at 12:00pm. These may be purchased from Mr. Phelps at PHS or Coach Brooks at PJHS. White t-shirts $10.00 for Youth Small, Medium, and Large and Adult Small, Medium, Large and X-Large. Please add $2.00 for Adult 2XL and 3XL. White with Black sleeve baseball style shirts $15.00 for Youth Small, Medium, and Large and Adult Small, Medium, Large and X-Large. Please add $2.00 for Adult 2XL and 3XL. The same design is on both the t-shirts and baseball style shirts. Alma Spikes and MD Williams student will have an order form sent home. This years homecoming theme is "Going for the Gold".
Cost: $4.00 each
Sodas, Candy, Chips, Water will be sold.
D.J. is from Sound Extreme.
Only Pocahontas Jr. High Students are allowed.
Sponsored by LINK: Fundraiser for purchasing Red Ribbon Teaching Material.
LINK will be selling mums for Homecoming (Oct. 14). Posey Patch makes the mums, but you need to use a LINK order form so that we can get a small percentage of the profit. The mums cost is the same amount whether you order from them or LINK. The only way LINK gets a small percentage of the profit is if you use our order forms. Forms are located on the table outside Mrs. Cox's office.
End of Qtr Testing:
Oct. 11th: Math Testing
Oct. 12th: English/Others
Oct. 13th: Science/Social Studies
Oct. 18th: Report Cards/ PJHS Parent/Teacher Conferences (3:30 - 7:30 p.m.)