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AshdownSchools There are extra 2010-2011 AJHS yearbooks left for $25.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

AshdownSchools There are extra 2010-2011 L.F. Henderson yearbooks for $25. If you would like to purchase, please go to the school office.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

IP Awards Literacy Grant to MDP

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Mrs. Green’s First Grade class is representing Margaret Daniel Primary School. The students are very happy knowing that new books for reading will be arriving soon from the very generous grant from International Paper.

Upcoming Parent/Teacher Conferences

All Ashdown schools have scheduled their Parent-Teacher Conferences at mid-nine weeks for the third grading period of the school year.

Ashdown Junior High School will hold conferences from 3:30-6:30 on Monday, Jan. 30.

L. F. Henderson Intermediate School will conduct their conferences on Tuesday, Jan. 31 from 3:30-6:30.

Both Margaret Daniel Primary and C. D. Franks Elementary Schools will meet with parents on Thursday, Feb. 2 from 3:30-6:30.

Ashdown High School teachers and parents will conference on Monday, Feb. 6 from 4:00-7:00, and a Financial Aid Assistance Workshop for parents and students has also been scheduled for 5:30-6:30 that same evening.

Parents are encouraged to visit the schools at these times and check their children's progress.

SWEPCO Makes Donations to MDP

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Pictured is Mrs. Debby Ward, first grade teacher at Margaret Daniel Primary School, along with her students, accepting a check for $1,000.00 from Robert Wilson representing America Electric Power – SWEPCO. Students are all excited knowing that this money will go toward purchasing more I-Pads for the classrooms at MDP.

BMI Screening Scheduled for Ashdown Students

BMI (Body Mass Index) screening for Ashdown students will be conducted during the month of February, as announced by School Nurse Katherine Guidry. Students in grades K, 2, 4 and 10 will be screened the week of February 6-10. Sixth and eighth grade screenings will be conducted the week of February 13. Scoliosis screening will also be conducted at this time for 6^th grade females and 8^th grade males and females, along with their BMI’s.

Park Ranger visits AJHS

Matt Pfiefler, Natural Resource Specialist and Park Ranger at Millwood State Park in Ashdown, wants students to realize all the possibilities in a career in Natural Resources, as well as understand about how Millwood State Park and Lake operates. He also demonstrated water safety behavior and information and explained to the students how the water supply from Millwood Lake is used.

AJHS Receives Check from Gregg Orr Autoplex

Jeff Martin, sales manager of Gregg Orr Autoplex in Texarkana, presented a check in the amount of $2500 to the student council of Ashdown Junior High School on Friday, Jan. 20. The school earned the funds through a Dodge Drive-A-Thon Booster Club Fundraiser on Nov. 15, when Dodge and Classic Auto Park offered $20 for every 5-minute test drive by participating licensed drivers at the fundraising event. Martin and his co-workers brought over three new Dodge vehicles for the promotional event.

Dodge has been supporting schools in the communities where the company does business for many years and offers the same opportunity of the Dodge Booster Club Fundraiser to other area schools who want to earn money for their campus, just as AJHS did.

Ashdown Junior High will use the funds to sponsor a school-wide field trip for students who meet Accelerated Reading goals for this year and for Benchmark testing materials.

Picture attached: Check presentation by Jeff Martin of Classic Auto Park -- (from l to r) Tracy Forte, AJHS assistant principal; Jeff Martin, sales manager of Classic Auto Park - Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram; Candice Carver, sponsor of AJHS Student Council; Meghan Brown, AJHS StuCo president; Jeanne Burden, co-sponsor of AJHS StuCo; and Joe Pennington, AJHS StuCo member and top seller for the Drive-A-Thon with 32 drivers.