Christmas Break: December 23, 2019 - January 3, 2020
We will see you back in HSSD classrooms Monday, January 6.
We hope all of our students and families have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Our Hot Springs Junior Academy 7th-8th grade students collected items needed by the Ouachita Children’s Center this holiday season. Towels, sheets, washcloths, hair brushes, books, clothing, pillows, and magazines were among the many items picked up by OCC staff members. Ouachita Children’s Center is a non-profit organization that provides services - including an emergency center, case management, and wellness/health education - to children, youth, and families in the Hot Springs area.
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Our Langston Elementary Leadership Academy Jr. Beta Club helped to spread Christmas spirit this season by thanking community heroes and medical professionals at all Hot Springs Fire Department stations, the CHI St. Vincent Emergency Room, and Hot Springs EMS. They delivered ornaments to all of these groups, in appreciation for their efforts - even during Christmas Day - to protect and serve the Hot Springs community. Students were reminded through this service project that there are many community workers and professionals who don’t get Christmas at home with their families, but spend it in service to the Garland County area.
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Our Oaklawn Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School Jr. Beta Club students created “Betas, Books and Babies” as their community project, and made a special holiday book delivery to the CHI Anthony Childbirth Center of 100+ books. They collected books for infants and toddlers from Jr. Beta members and OVPA students/staff to be distributed at no charge to families with newborn babies. They created a special OVPA Jr. Beta Club label and information about reading via a customized bookmark placed inside each book. Bookmarks stress the importance of reading to children at every age, for all families. This effort goes hand-in-hand with the commitment of CHI to enroll each newborn with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program, which launches an entire reading journey for children until they are five years old (they receive one book per month).
The OVPA Jr. Beta Club kids were warmly greeted by CHI Anthony Childbirth Center staff members as they made their delivery. The student group listened to nurses and professionals talk about the importance of helping to educate new moms and dads about how to care for babies, and personally thanked the group for such a generous donation to the center.
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Our HSWCHS Interact Club - sponsored by Hot Springs National Park Rotary - prepared gift boxes and shoe boxes for senior citizens and students at the HSSD. The Interact Club is a service club from Rotary International for youth, ages 14-18. Interact members strive to develop leadership skills while helping others, and are committed to year-round service projects, like this one. Thank you to our Interact students for being part of HSSD holiday service projects touching lives across Hot Springs! .
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As their Jr. Beta Club Community Service Project, our Gardner STEMl 4th-6th grade Beta students hosted a local toy drive for the annual Arkansas Children’s Hospital “Festival of Stars” toy and donation drive event. Toys were donated by students, staff members, and community partners across the HSSD, and placed in bins in the front offices of Gardner STEM and Park Magnet schools. Donations were excitedly delivered by our kids, alongside those from schools across Arkansas, at a special Festival of Stars Ceremony hosted at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.
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Trojan Choirs Perform at the State Capitol
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