"Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968
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All HSSD Schools will be closed on Monday, January 21 to honor the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.
Trojan Happenings Newsletter: Jan 21 - 25, 2019
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Monday, 1/21
HSSD Schools are closed on to honor the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Tuesday, 1/22
Birds of Prey Presentation at OVPA, 1:00 p.m.
Sr. High Basketball vs. Sheridan at home (Home), 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 1/23
Birds of Prey Presentation at Park Magnet, 9:00 a.m.
Thursday, 1/24
Garland County Spelling Bee at Gospel Light Baptist Church, 9:00 a.m.
HSWCHS EAST Night Out Event, 2:00 p.m.
Jr. High Basketball vs. Magnolia at home (Home), 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 1/25
5th Grade FBI Field Trip, Park Magnet
Junior Region Jazz Band Clinic, 9
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Senior Region Band Clinic, 10
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Sr. High Basketball vs. Lakeside at Lakeside (Away), 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 1/26
Junior Region jazz Band Clinic, 9
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Senior Region Band Clinic, 10
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7th Grade Basketball vs. Sheridan at home (Home), 9:30 a.m.
Choir All State Workshop
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HSWCHS Senior Jackson Ratcliff was surprised with a presentation by McLarty Automotive Group of a $2,500 McLarty Drives Education Scholarship. Jackson was nominated for his excellent leadership skills, academic rigor, commitment to citizenship and responsibility, honorary participation in Arkansas Governor’s School and Boy’s State, and his community involvement through organizations including NJROTC, Boy Scouts, local food pantries, and more. Congrats to Jackson and family!
See more, here.
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A new Integration Station at our HSSD OVPA provides a much needed brain break for students, via a colorful path prompting a series of physical, fine, and gross motor activities. Activities - including a bear and crab crawl, hop scotch, twirling, an ABC hop, climbing a ladder, walking backwards, and more - create intentional sensory stimulation for participants of all ages. Completing any portion of the station helps students to recharge and refocus between classes, between lessons, in preparing for tests, or during student pull-out sessions. By making them use both the left and right side of their brains, and remain active in a series of unique movements, it helps our students to stay calm, and more effectively focus for classroom time.
See more, here.
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Launched last year, the HSWCHS FIRST Tech Robotics Club will advance to the State Competition after earning a “Connect” trophy from a recent competition. At HSSD Robotics Clubs at our HSJA and Gardner STEM Magnet School, and even at surrounding schools outside the district, club members have collaborated with younger students to engineer their own robots and practice engineering skills. Success of the program has lead to the development of an academic robotics class at the HSWCHS, to begin in the 2019-2020 school year.
See more, here.
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The EAST at Gardner program is a unique group of young entrepreneurs working in the Gardner STEM Magnet School community and the Hot Springs area to complete technology-based service projects. The group is excited to be part of the 2nd Annual Early Childhood STEAM Conference on January 26th, where they hope to partner with local Pre-K programs to build educational resources and outreach tools, and serve as mentors to younger students with an interest in technology.
See more, here.
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This week’s shout out goes to our Hot Springs School District as a business and community dedicated to our students. As most of you know, the HSSD was nominated for Large Business of the Year. Our leadership staff and other nominees for Woman of the Year (Mrs. Hughley) and Rising Star (Mr. Webb) attended the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet this week on behalf of these nominations. In my heart and mind, we are the winner every year of the most distinguished group that does nothing but give back to this community every single day, and I’m so proud of every one of you. I also want to shout out to our HSSD leadership team. On Monday, principals and administrative staff participated in small groups to develop specific, short vision statements about priorities for the educational experience that we offer students. The work we ask of you in focusing on the planning and implementation of Professional Learning Communities also takes places within your district leadership team.
See more, here.
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Hot Springs, Arkansas 71913
www.hssd.net
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