Congratulations to Maria Belt & Ivy Evans! Several art club members competed at the Arkansas Young Artists Association competition in Hot Springs on Thursday, April 13. Maria received an Honorable Mention for her mixed media still life artwork. Ivy placed fourth in her realistic tempera painting category for her cat painting. Way to go, ladies!
Seniors learning about credit scores this morning during "Adulthood April." A big thanks to Clay & Tabitha from Natural State Credit Union for coming to share information about credit and how it affects loans, interest, and personal finance.
Go for the GOLD! 🏅 Last week Ava Nicholson and Ali Cornett competed in State FCCLA STAR Events, Level 3 Entrepreneurship. Their hard work payed off as they earned the gold with an excellent score and have qualified for FCCLA National Leadership Conference. Congratulations, ladies!
📸Prom Picture Information 📸
Matthews Photography will be set up to take pictures at the Prom location beginning as early as 6 p.m. Below is the link for online ordering, orders can also be paid in person this evening.
https://v2.myproimages.com/matthews-photography-2211/code/OO2GG
Thank you Mrs. Harlan for your commitment to our students!
Life Skills Class
Day 1: basic self-defense
Thanks to Mr. Whillock and Caleb Creasy for demonstrating some basic self-defense techniques today! We hope we never need to use them!
Congratulations to Maria Belt, Lilianna See, and Angela Vazquez for winning "Best Overall" in the Myer's Davis Life Coaching Career Competition! Myer's Davis offers a class taught on our campus by Ms. Mary Hammer. This is our first year to offer the class to our juniors and seniors. We are super proud of the hard work these girls have put into the class. They competed against students from other area local schools. 💜💛
Concord Schools is looking to hire an Agriculture Teacher for the 2023-2024 school year. Applications can be found at https://www.concordschools.org/page/employment and will need to be delivered to the administration building or emailed to travis.fletcher@concordschools.org
Information for Senior Parents
Communication: part 2...The Life Skills students were divided into two groups.
One group was secretly told to make a fist and to open it under only one circumstance. That circumstance was that the person in the other group "communicated" to him/her that he/she would like him/her to open his/her fist.
The second group was simply told to get the other person's fist open.
Needless to say, some people were fairly aggressive in their attempts to open fists! Afterwards, they learned the importance of simply communicating to others their needs, which in this case was to simply open their fists.
Good communication is a skill that will prove to be invaluable to these students! During Life Skills, we learned the importance of communicating effectively with some fun games! The students were required to ask 3 questions that could be answered with a yes or no in order to find out "who they were" and then they had to find the second half of their pair!
Mrs. Lisa Davis, Senior Vice President at Citizens Bank, wrapped up the Financial Literacy section for the Life Skills class on Tuesday. She presented a wonderful budgeting activity for our 8th grade students. They learned about checking and savings accounts, the importance of good credit scores, and budgets!
One of the FACS classes had a little fun with a communication review today. Only the person blindfolded could touch the puzzle pieces, the rest gave directions. They quickly remembered the importance of tone, volume, as well as clear, concise, and calm!
Concord's Project Prevent Next Generation Group, Pirate Influencers, took a trip to the Museum of Discovery and had their Summit at Ron Robinson Theater. It was a fun day with plenty of smiles as the students gained leadership skills. Thank you Kim Sims our chapter leader. #ProjectPrevent #YouthLedFactFed
Today we had a visit from our very own Private Gage Morgan and SSGT Andrew Swartfager who visited with our Juniors and Seniors about the benefits that come along with joining the U.S. Marine Corps. We are very proud of Gage and the young man he continues to grow to become!
We had a great day of learning and competition at the Elementary Chess Tournament at UACCB!
We will have our 8th Grade Parent Night tonight at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria! This will be a time to discuss class options, graduation requirements, concurrent opportunities, and other general information.
Good luck to our Pirates heading to the State Tournament! A big thank you to Rawk for the team shirts! ❤️ GO PIRATES!!!
Due to the threat of severe weather in our area this evening, the 8th Grade Parent Meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, March 6 at 6:00 pm.
We will host an 8th Grade Parent Night on Thursday, March 2 at 6:00 pm in the Concord Cafeteria. This will be an informational night to discuss AR Graduation Requirements, GPA's, Credits, and 4 year plans. We hope that all 8th graders and their parents will be able to attend!
