This brief announcement will be followed with more detailed information on the school website and Facebook page before the end of the school day today.
Alton R-4 will not be in session on March 18 and March 19, 2020. The Teacher in-service day scheduled for March 20, 2020 will be cancelled as well. Spring Break will then be observed as scheduled the week of March 23-27, 2020. The status of the week of March 30, 2020 will be addressed before the end of the day on March 27, 2020.
Air Force Master Sergeant Samantha Allred spent the afternoon talking with junior and senior high students! She is a 2007 graduate of Alton High School. Thank you, Sam, for your service and for visiting with our students today!
STEAM Club will not be meeting Wednesday, March 18. We will also be on spring break next week so we will resume STEAM Club activities when we return to school.
SENIORS: Several scholarships are due Tuesday, March 17 on www.cfozarks.org. Please get your materials completed on time.
SENIORS & JUNIORS: Ozark Technical College - Springfield (OTC) will have a representative here on Monday, March 30th. Please sign the list on Mrs. Gilliland's bulletin board if you would like to visit with her.
SENIORS (and college/vocational school students): www.cfozarks.org has fantastic scholarship opportunities. Several are due today, Sunday (15th) or Tuesday (17th). Please stay on top of these!
Third Term Grade Cards are being sent home today via email if there is a parent email on file. If not, a paper copy will be sent home with your child.
MO S & T Discover Your Summer Camps: Inspiring the Next Generation: Camps for students entering grades 5 - 12. Visit summer.mst.edu for more info on the various camps!
A message from Dr. Eric Allen about the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19):
Junior High Quiz Bowl attended the Big Spring Conference on Wednesday, March 11th in Ellington. We are so excited to announce that 8th Grade received First Place and 7th Grade received Third Place in this competition. Congratulations to these wonderful young scholars!
SENIORS: A couple of you have asked if you should go ahead and apply for certain scholarships because they ask for you to be a specific major; for example, the Cline Scholarship is looking for an accounting major. If it says "preference" that means it is still wide open for any major possibly. If it doesn't say preference, but lists a specific major, that is a different matter. However, ask me to check for you. We sometimes find out that they will go ahead and accept any major and not just the one they asked for. I checked on the Cline and Vincent Scholarships through www.cfozarks.org and they are looking for accounting majors. HOWEVER, if we don't have an accounting major that fits the other criteria, the scholarship committee can look at other majors. SO, apply! Ask if you are unsure. I don't mind checking for you!
9th - 11th graders: Dual Enrollment meeting for 2020-2021 school year in the library today, Wednesday, March 11th, during 8th hour. MANDATORY for you to be there if you plan to take a dual enrollment course.
The online world can be an unforgiving place. We are now more connected than we have ever been which means opening ourselves and others up to potential online abuse, bullying or negative comments. Sometimes we can overlook the consequences of our actions. That’s why this week we want to promote the message of just ‘being kind online’ with a reminder towards how we can develop a more empathetic side and be a more responsible online consumer.
SENIORS: www.cfozarks.org - Out of 9 possible scholarships that are due on March 13th or 17th, we have two with ZERO applications, six with only one applicant, and one with two applicants. The money is there - you just have to do a bit of work to be in the running for it!
SENIORS: Please make sure you are applying for scholarships! Read through the applications carefully and include all documentation including essays and reference letters. Neatness and black ink helps as well!
New Counselor's Corner and Scholarship List posted today!
DUE MARCH 31 - 2020 SOUTHEAST MO CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP - $750 TO $1000 - any senior may apply. See the application in the Senior Google Classroom.
Freshmen-Juniors: If you plan to take a dual enrollment course through MSU - West Plains during the 2020-2021 school year, you will meet with Mrs. Gilliland in the library on Wed., March 11th during 8th hour. You MUST be there in order to enroll in a dual enrollment course.
3rd Term ends Friday, March 6th. Grades will be emailed/mailed on Friday, March 13th.
Seniors & Parents: 2 new scholarships today. I also received word that for the 10+ scholarships that are available at www.cfozarks.org only 1 student has completed an application for several of the scholarships. One is in progress on several, but there is one scholarship that has NO applicants so far! Get Busy!