Announcements

• Origami Club will meet During Lunch every Wednesday (MS and HS)-get your lunch and come to Rm 16. We will make an origami creature each week.Come if you need a reset mindfulness activity each week, need a place to be at lunch or if you love origami.

• Organic Planet Garden Club will meet during 8th period Wednesday. We will be planting Chrysanthamums and designing a garden plot for the space by the choir building. YOU MUST BRING A NOTE FROM YOUR 8TH PERIOD TEACHER TO ATTEND IF YOU HAVE 8TH PERIOD!!

• Seniors, on Friday the 29th Zeninah Jiron-Garcia (a PAPA Alum) will be here at 9:00 am to discuss attending NM Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM. If you would like to hear the presentation you MUST sign up in Mrs. Walker’s room #24 and let your 2nd period teacher know you will be out Friday. You will not be allowed to attend if you are not on the list.

• Seniors, Maria Anchondo will be here during lunch on Wednesday this week to help seniors sign up for their FAFSA ID. If you already have your ID you do not need to attend.

• Knick Knacks, Paddywhacks, we’ll collect your crafts… That’s right, you can bring all of those old knick-knacks, figurines, trinkets and gently loved crafts from around your house and donate them to the Poetic Pandas Poetry Group. We will be collecting them in Ms. Wray’s room all next week. It is a class competition for grades 9 through 12. The class with the most donations will win a special prize. Bring your knick-knacks and old crafts to room 17 all next week during lunch. We will rehome them for you so they can be loved again. Please don’t donate broken or misfit toys unless they are super cute!

• Auditions for Spotlight are during Middle School and High School lunch TOMORROW, Tuesday, Sept. 26 in the EAST Dance Studio.

• Two 7th-grade students are conducting a science experiment and are asking for student volunteers. We’re doing an experiment to find out if people born around the same time taste water similarly.  There is a form on the ms and hs Google classrooms for you to fill out. It is very short, with only six questions. We’re also doing an in-person taste test sometime in the next few months. So please fill out the form by Friday. Thanks for helping with our experiment.

• Hi PAPA people! Just a reminder that we are holding climate crew meetings during Middle school lunch! We strive to help the environment, and ensure the health of our planet in the PAPA community! We have meetings every Thursday.

• PJHS and the Student Council invite all middle school students to a fairy tale ball: on October 05 at 6:00 pm. Dance tickets can be purchased for $10 each during MS lunch starting September 20. Light refreshments will be served. Check the flyers around the school and the MS Google Classroom for more details.

• Attention PAPA students and staff: Introducing PAPA Paw-sitivity awards! We invite you to notice students who are engaging in acts of kindness, helpfulness, and overall positivity. You can now nominate these students by completing and submitting a simple form, and at the end of each month, we will select one lucky winner and reward them handsomely! Nomination forms can be picked up from and dropped off to the front office. Catch each other being awesome; we’re so excited to hear all the wonderful things you’ll do!

• Arts and Crafts fair at UNM Continuing Education Center November 11th from 10 am-4 pm/ 1634 University Blvd NE/ We will sell student art and the funds go to the artist directly. So please come out and support our amazing Visual Artists.