Arkadelphia Public Schools

A big THANK YOU to Carla Herron and Veolia for providing an awesome Veolia Christmas gift set to an Arkadelphia Public Schools employee on each campus who was judged to have the winning attire for our National Ugly Christmas Sweater Competition. Here are our winners: Amy Taylor, Perritt Primary School Tia Jackson, Peake Elementary School Kaki Forthman, Goza Middle School Phyllis DeLoach, Arkadelphia High School Joey Andrews, District Departments So much fun! It is a great day to be a Badger!

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Congratulations to Perritt! They won the National Ugly Christmas Day Arkadelphia Public Schools Challenge! It was cuteness overload! Thanks to Hostess for providing some sweet treats for the cocoa cart that visited the classrooms this afternoon. We appreciate our community supporting our schools. Four more school days until break! #BadgerPride

It's National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! Students and staff, get those festive, unique, and not-so-cute sweaters ready to wear today. Be watching for the social media posts later this morning to help select our winning campus. Have a great Friday! #BadgerPride

You are invited this evening to the performance by the Arkadelphia Bands with Sounds of the Season. The first concert begins at 6:30 p.m. at OBU Jones Performing Arts Center. Come listen to the Goza Middle School and Arkadelphia High School Holiday Concert. #BadgerPride

The Peake New Edition Choir led by Peake music teacher, Laura Cornelius, did a wonderful job singing at the Arkansas State Capitol. Peake New Edition and Perritt Nickelodeon Choir both had the opportunity on Tuesday to sing at the Sounds of the Season Festival currently going on at the Capitol. So proud of our Arkadelphia Public School District Choirs!

Arkadelphia Students and Parents! We want to invite everyone to participate on Friday, December 15th in National Ugly Sweater Day. We are having a district-wide campus challenge for wearing your most festive, unique, and perhaps not-so-cute holiday sweaters (though students always look cute)! Each campus will be making a post of pictures with participating students and staff on their Facebook page by 8:30 a.m. and need you to like and share their post to support your school! The contest ends at noon. Let’s have some holiday fun! 🎄🚂🎅💙

Perritt 1st Grade classes did a fabulous job on their ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas performances Tuesday evening before two full supporting audiences. Thank you to Perritt Music teacher Ansley Webb and all the first-grade teachers for preparing our students to share their talents and energy on stage! Great job first graders! #BadgerPride

AHS FBLA made a trip to Arkansas Children’s Hospital to deliver 160 toys that were received during their recent toy drive. Next, Advisers Ashley Wesley and Kristin Cloninger sent members on an Angel Tree Shopping Challenge. Using profits from their recent fundraiser, students purchased Christmas gifts for four local children through the Angel Tree. Thank you to everyone who supported and donated to make this possible. Amazing! #BadgerPride

We have winners! Jequetta Berry’s Goza WIN students have been participating in the statewide Stock Market Game sponsored by Economics Arkansas. They received word today that they earned 1st place in their Region during the fall Stock Market Competition for middle school level. They are invited to attend the Student Awards Luncheon in January which will take place at the Clinton Presidential Library. The first-place team members will split $125 cash, receive a medallion, certificate, and school trophy. Congratulations to Christopher Hogan, Hayden Hooten, and Chase Conroy! #BadgerPride

Santa must be coming soon because the calendar is full this week! Here are just a few of the amazing things going on in our school district this week. We hope you will plan to support our students every chance you get. It's always a great day to be a Badger! #BadgerPride

Goza Middle School FBLA is currently having a virtual fundraiser selling Double Good ultra-premium popcorn. You have TODAY and TOMORROW to order online. It's delicious! Get all the details and support Goza FBLA by going to https://popup.doublegood.com/s/tn8a022n

GT Coordinator Misti Dixon traveled with some of the 7th and 8th grade female GT students to the Malvern's Boys and Girls Club to attend the 5G Jubilee hosted by Brenda Rush GT Coordinator in the Malvern School District. This event is a service day in which girls make decorations based on Peruvian designs that are sold to raise money for the www.sacredvalleyproject.org #BadgerPride

Arkadelphia has the best Christmas parade! We loved seeing Arkadelphia Teachers of the Year and other Badgers in the Yule Love Christmas in Arkadelphia parade last night. #BadgerPride

Arkadelphia Board of Education member, Dr. Kenneth G. Harris Jr., was recognized for 40 years of service on the school board during a luncheon held at the Arkansas School Board Association Annual Conference. His wife, Pamela, and daughter, Kristi, were among those present. We are so appreciative of Dr. Harris and his service to the Arkadelphia Public School District. Congratulations Dr. Kenneth Harris! #BadgerPride

Computer Science Education does not begin in high school. At the middle school level, students must complete a four-week coding experience in Arkansas. At Goza Middle School, 8th-grade students are coding in Jequetta Berry’s Career Development course. They are using Codester to create coding projects. Coding is embedded for 7th Graders this year during LaKesha Berry’s Keyboarding class and 6th Graders have Coding with Lori Hanlon as one of their Related Arts rotations. #ComputerScienceEducationWeek #BadgerPride

Goza Student Council and P.A.T.H.S. are preparing for their ride in the Arkadelphia Christmas Parade that starts at 5:00 p.m. today. We are looking forward to seeing many of our Arkadelphia students and staff in the parade. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! #BadgerPride

AHS JROTC had the privilege of presenting Colors at the Opening Session of the Arkansas School Board Association Annual Conference this morning in Little Rock. The Colorguard team included cadets De’Anna Buckley, Lauren Epps, Kelis Stevens, and Destiny Malagon. #BadgerPride

Arkadelphia School Board President Blake Bell presented this morning at the New Board Member Institute during the Arkansas School Board Association Annual Conference in Little Rock. Mr. Bell’s topic was “The Basics of School Board Governance.” Our newest board member, Lori Smith, was in attendance along with Superintendent Nikki Thomas. #BadgerPride

December 4-10 is Computer Science Education Week. Beginning with the Class of 2026, every student must have a Computer Science credit to graduate from high school in Arkansas. Students have the opportunity to get this credit by taking Programming I with Mrs. Stefanie Davis. Students are learning how creative and fun learning coding skills can be! #BadgerPride