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Spartan Nation - There is a canned food drive to benefit Goodworks being held in the lead up to tomorrow's Girls Basketball Contest versus The Athens Bulldogs. The winning school will be able to pie the losing teams AD 's face at the next contest January 30th in the Alley . Please support Goodworks and our AD, Mrs Lucas. We are low on donations, so if you are able, you can drop non perishable canned food items off at the HS office or the AD office during school tomorrow or bring items to the game.
The Knights of Columbus is holding a Free Throw Championship for boys and girls in the Athens High School Gymnasium on January 25th, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 2:00PM for students aged 9 - 14. Check out their poster here for all of the information: https://5il.co/33ag7
The Alexander Inclusive Playground Project is having a fundraiser hosted by Chipotle on Wednesday December 11th, 2024 from 4 to 8 PM. 25% of sales will be donated to the project. see this flyer for all of the details: https://5il.co/32twx
If you are looking for a good excuse to not make dinner and go out to eat head to Chipotle in Athens on Wednesday. Show them this photo and a portion of your bill will be donated to the playground committee to help build the other sections of the playground.
Two important updates for the Elementary:
1) The PTO is hosting an online Facebook auction to help raise money for all of our PTO activities. You can find the auction by clicking: https://www.facebook.com/share/E8em4J4eUgpUMwS1/?mibextid=K35XfP
2) The Stadium Blankets for our Playground Fund Raiser are in! Anyone that can stop by the movie night tomorrow, even if just to pick up your blankets, can get them between 5:30-7:30. If your students sold blankets we will hope to see you there!
Tomorrow is Christmas Movie Night in the Alexander Cafetorium! The Playground Committee is showing the film, “The Polar Express.” There will be face painting, holiday card decorating, crafts, and hot cocoa and popcorn. Admission cost is a donation to the inclusive playground campaign.
Alexander JH HS has an opening for High School Principal for the 2025-26 school year. Licensure for grades 06-12 is required. The deadline for application is December 9th, 2024. see here for submission guidelines: https://www.alexanderschools.org/page/employment
Reminder: PTO will have their monthly meeting tomorrow December 4th at 6:00pm in the library. We will also be having our mini bike raffle drawing. See you then!
It is hard to believe that December is almost here and the mid-year point is fast approaching. Attached is Alexander Elementary School's December newsletter. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nfbO-9XFNKISBDGcbwvF2-DIEwSW1O7Z/view?usp=sharing
The playground committee says the arrival of the stadium blankets has been delayed to mid-December due to supply issues. They apologize for the inconvenience. They will notify us a few days before the arrival so we can let families know how to pick them up.
Kisors Barbeque is hosting fundraiser for the month of November for the Elementary Playground Committee (check out the post :https://www.facebook.com/share/15SQNixGEx/ ) Kisor's will donate 5% of every purchase to the committee to improve our elementary playgrounds made on Tuesday's in November 2024. https://www.alexanderinclusiveplayground.org/
Tonight's Elementary PTO meeting will be held in the library.
PTO Qdoba fundraiser is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5th from 5-8pm. Please show this picture or mention Alexander PTO when ordering.
The Elementary PTO will have it's November meeting this Wednesday, the 6th, at 3:15 PM. If the weather is nice we will meet at the shelter house behind the building. If it is raining we will meet in the library instead.
This is a reminder that our annual Veterans Day assembly is this Wednesday at 9 a.m. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. Guests may only enter at the high school gymnasium doors. There will be preferential parking for Veterans in front of the gym. There will be additional parking in front of the school complex.
This is a reminder that Alexander Local School District will be closed for tomorrow, November 1st, 2024.
This is a friendly reminder that our annual costume parade is this Thursday. We invite you to join us for this fun school tradition!
The playground committee has extended the deadline for its stadium blanket fundraiser to Wednesday, October 30. They've asked that your students return all order forms by then if they haven't done so already.
Please be aware that the District, either directly or through a technology provider, is electing to generally monitor all school-issued devices (as that term is defined by R.C. 3319.325). The monitoring will include the following features: location tracking and student interactions with school-issued devices (e.g., keystrokes and web-browsing activity). The District generally monitors these features for the noncommercial education purpose of instruction, technical support, and/or exam proctoring. Additionally, these features are generally monitored as a necessary precaution for preventing and/or responding to threats to life or safety.