Arkansas Arts Academy High School Flu Vaccine Clinic
When: November 9. The nurse will begin at the Elementary campus at 8:30am and will travel to the HS once the Elementary is complete.
Who: Arkansas Department of Health
(Students without a completed consent form will not receive a flu shot)
Paper copies of consent forms have been given to students, digital copies are posted in students "Class of" Google Classrooms and a digital copy was sent via emails to parents/guardians.
All consent forms are due back Monday November 6 to the front office or nurses office.
If you have any questions please reach out to Nurse Katie at kmilligan@artsk12.org or Dr. Langley at elangley@artsk12.org
Thank you to Flintco Construction and Arkansas Arts Academy Board member Mark Evans for their generous donation of $500 to support our technical theatre program. We are so lucky to have wonderful community partnerships. Click the links below to find out more about Flintco Construction!
https://flintco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/flintco
Arkansas Arts Academy HS Book Fair
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Nov 3 - ACT National Testing- ACT has a buy one get one free offer for students who plan to take the National test in December. See the link below to the information for students to register by November 3rd (TODAY) for the December 9th test.
https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/registration.html
Tomorrow evening is the El Dia de los Muertos Community Event! Make plans to join the celebration! The event begins in the HS Commons, there will be dance, choir and theatrical performances; culinary students will sell Mexican cuisine; student art work as well as art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos.
https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/arkansas-arts-academy-hosting-dia-de-los-muertos-event/
Stay for the procession! At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to El Dia de los Muertos Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, choir, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by AAA chamber orchestra, advanced percussion, and the Rockhoppers will perform. The event is free and open to the public.
Happy Halloween from Arkansas Arts Academy!
Students from Mr. Belin’s dance classes rocked downtown Rogers with their performance of Michael Jackson’s THRILLER at the Goblin Candy Crawl!
If you missed this performance, you can see them at the El Dia de los Muertos Community Celebration this Thursday, November 2nd from5-8:30 pm.
The event will begin in the HS Commons where students will offer dance, choir and theatrical performances, display works of art, host a Latin cuisine fundraiser as well as offer art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos.
At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by the AAA chamber orchestra, advanced percussion, and the Rockhoppers. The event is free and open to the public.
The cold weather table below is what our teachers use to determine whether our elementary students are going outside for activities (recess, PE, class time). I emailed it out yesterday, but some parents had difficulty viewing the table.
Check out our after-school musical theatre classes with Alex Fry!
Attention SENIORS and SENIOR parents!
Check out this week's edition of The ARTicle. Happy Halloween!
https://www.smore.com/dx1k8
Good Day NWA! Arkansas Arts Academy students highlight El Dia de los Muertos Event! Make plans to join our community celebration as AAA partners with the City of Rogers for an El Dia de los Muertos event, Thursday Nov. 2 from 5-8:30 pm. The event will begin in the HS Commons where students will offer dance and theatrical performances, display works of art, host a Latin cuisine fundraiser as well as offer art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos.
At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, choir, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by AAA choir, Equilibrium and dance ensemble, chamber orchestra, percussion, and the Rockhoppers will perform. The event is free and open to the public.
To see the news highlight visit https://www.nwahomepage.com/video/ar-arts-academy-to-celebrate-dia-de-los-muertos/9127045/
The elementary PTA movie night at 7:00 tonight is now in the gym at AAA Elementary! Come watch Hocus Pocus 2 with us!
@artsk12 high school is honored to be selected to be chosen by the ADE/DESE to participate in BX3. A coaching program designed to help school behavior teams develop tiered systems of schoolwide positive behavior supports. Creating action plans for student behavior interventions
Join us on Monday, October 30th for "Scholarship Search 101" in the High School library from 6 - 7 pm. The University of Arkansas will present! Parents and students are welcome.
REMINDER: Savannah College of Art and Design is coming to AAA on October 31st! They will offer a presentation providing information on their college and the admissions process, as well as portfolio reviews. Students, to sign up for the presentation, which will take place during 10th-12th grade advisory (11:30-12:20), please use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/SCADpresentation. To sign up for a portfolio review, which will take place from 1 - 4 pm, please use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/SCADportfolioreview. Students are encouraged to sign up quickly, as there are a limited number of spots available. SCAD has also asked that students prepare a fully completed portfolio for the review. Both the presentation and portfolio reviews are available to seniors and juniors, although preference will be given to seniors for portfolio reviews if spots fill up. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ms. McDowell at mmcdowell@artsk12.org.
Make plans to attend El Dia de los Muertos Community Celebration next Thursday, November 2nd at the High School Campus from 5-8:30 pm! This is a collaborative event hosted by Arkansas Arts Academy and City of Rogers.
5-6:30 pm Join us in the HS Commons where students will offer dance and theatrical performances, display works of art, Latin cuisine fundraiser as well as offer art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos.
6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, choir, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects to ancestors at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by AAA choir, Equilibrium and dance ensemble, chamber orchestra, percussion, and the Rockhoppers will perform.
The event is free and open to the public.
FINAL CALL! AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) is coming to Arkansas Arts Academy on October 30th to host admission auditions for juniors and seniors. To sign up for an admissions audition, please use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/AMDAauditions. Juniors and seniors are encouraged to audition! For questions, please reach out to Ms. McDowell at mmcdowell@artsk12.org
Elementary students and staff ended a fantastic Red Ribbon Week celebration with a fun day of costume dress up and saying Boo to Drugs and Bullying.
For bonus points, can you find Waldo?
El Día de los Muertos preparations are underway. Equilibrium dancers work together to prepare their flower crowns.
AAA cross country runners ran the Gravette Invitational with Kol Doughty placing 12th in the high school boys division with a personal record. Lilly James placed 4th and Emma Kennedy placed 8th in the junior high division.
On Saturday the 10th at Springdale, Lilly James placed 17th and Karleigh Watson placed 20th in the junior high division, both with personal records. Kol Doughty, Anthony Kedrowski, and Emma Kennedy also finished with personal records!
Way to go AAA Cross Country Team!
