From the Principal's Desk

Greetings FWAFA Family,

With high school finals, performances, and end-of-semester festivities, we have a busy week ahead. Be sure to get your tickets for the TBC and SGT concerts at artsacademics.org/tickets.

Also, be sure to note that we have added a new event to the calendar. The Class of 2025 is hosting a Festive Fashion for $5.00 Day on Thursday, December 16. See more details below.

Just a reminder that when students arrive to school in the mornings, they are to come directly in the building and not loiter around the gazebo and courtyard area. Just the same, please be mindful that school dismisses at 3:45 p.m. and everyone needs to be picked up at this time and leave the campus. Students are not to be unsupervised in the parking lot after school. If you have a student driver, please help me relay this message. Thank you!

I hope everyone has a relaxing and fun Winter Break. Take note in your calendar that students do not return to school until Thursday, January 6.

Creatively yours,

Dr. Jackson

Please join me in congratulating the following students for winning the classroom division in the Fort Worth Stock Show Art Contest! FWAFA is now the Middle School Grand Champion AGAIN, and we have won $5,000 to spend on art supplies!

They will attend a private awards ceremony in January, receive ribbons, a traveling trophy, and be in the Star Telegram. We are so proud of them!

Adhara Moreno Esparragoza

Caitlyn Castillo

Santiago Lechuga

Nola Seegel

Fatima Vallin

Lael Pope

Jason Saunders Forrest

Hana Daniel placed in the Individual Division.

Show off your festive holiday fashion for only $5.00 on Thursday, December 16. Bring $5.00 and receive a wristband at the door. Graphic by Malana Jennings.

Due to technical difficulties at Student Council's High School Town Hall meeting a few weeks ago, the information regarding voly.org was not covered.

Voly.org is a volunteer website designed to help organizations and individuals locate volunteer opportunities and programs. It conveniently has organizational tabs to sort opportunities by cause, location, requirements, etc. Below is a screenshot with arrows pointing out some cool features the website has to make your volunteer-finding that much easier (save for later, location/organization, volunteer requirements/submit, number of volunteers still needed, sidebar filters).

If you would like to spend some of your time volunteering, Voly.org can help you find volunteer opportunities.

We are currently distributing Chromebooks to all middle school and high school students. If you do not have your own laptop, please complete the Technology Loan form that was emailed to you through JupiterEd and turn it into the main office.

Are you ready to pay to put your teachers away? Now you can!

FWAFA Thespians Troupe 6391 will be holding a fun new fundraiser Monday, January 10, 2022, called Teacher Detention.

Teacher Detention will be a day when students can pay $0.50 per minute per student to put teachers in detention which will keep teachers from teaching their subject matter during the time they are in detention. They may STILL teach… just not their subject! For example, a teacher could teach juggling instead of elementary theatre, or a science teacher could read a book to the class. Teachers can take students outside, weather permitting. Teachers may also show an educational movie and tie it to a literary lesson. The ideas are endless.

One more twist: if students raise over $50 for the teacher for the class period, then the students will be able to choose whatever activities that the teacher has pre-approved in lieu of class on Monday, January 10, 2022.

Our 3rd through 12th-grade students will be notified if a teacher is willing to be placed in detention, then that class period must raise the funds to assign their teacher 45-minute detention.

Detention payments will be collected on Thursday & Friday, January 6 & 7, 2022, in each teacher’s room.

Put those teachers in detention!

If your student is tardy or absent, please send notes to attendance@fwafa.org. Also, a student needs to bring in a doctor or parent note within 3 days after the absence for an unexcused absence.

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Need to submit an attendance note?

attendance@fwafa.org

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Tuesday, December 14 - Christmas with TBC at Arborlawn in Fort Worth

Wednesday, December 15 - Final Exams for High School during 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th periods

Thursday, December 16 - Holiday Fashion for $5.00 benefitting Freshman class, Final Exams for High School during 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th periods; Singing Girls of Texas Concert at First United Methodist

Friday, December 17 - Early Release at 12:15 p.m.; End of 3rd Six Weeks

Monday, December 20 to Monday, January 3 - School Holiday

Tuesday, January 4 - Teacher Professional Development Day - No School

Wednesday, January 5 - Teacher Professional Development Day - No School

Thursday, January 6 - 1st Day of 2nd Semester; Classes Resume

Monday, January 10 - Report Cards distributed during 8th period, Teacher Detention

Tuesday, January 11 - PTSO Resale from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 12 - Prospective Parent Campus Tour at 9:00 a.m.: Open Enrollment Starts until February 14

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