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🫓Keep calm and gobble on! 🦃 🎟Thanksgiving lunch tickets are now available for purchase! 😁 Please note that there is a limit of 2 adults per student. Tickets must be purchased online by November 15th. Free to non-school-age siblings 5 and under. 🍞🧈 Please visit our school website to view your student's regular lunchtime. Please arrive 10–15 min early to pick up your visitor's badge. Purchase your tickets at: https://www.alamogordoschools.org/page/athletics-tickets To RSVP, visit: https://www.alamogordoschools.org/page/raptor-technologies #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #ThanksgivingLunch

#BeHereAlamo Did you know that missing just 2 days per month can throw a student off track? #BeHereNM

🦃Gobble, Gobble! 🦃 🥤 Save the date! Thanksgiving lunch with your student is back! 🫓 More info to come. 😁 #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #ThanksgivingLunch

📢 Wohoo!🎉 We’re teaming up with Pizza 9 to celebrate our students’ hard work! 🍕 🌟 K-8 Students: The top 2 students in each class making the most progress in math each month will earn a Good Job Certificate—redeemable for a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza 9 Alamogordo! 🍕💪 Let’s keep growing, learning, and celebrating together! 🌟 #StudentSuccess #PizzaRewards #AlamogordoPS

Let's all pledge to be drug-free! 💊 The 2024 Red Ribbon Week kicks off tomorrow (23–31 Oct). Our APS Health Services has worked with several partners to bring presenters throughout the District during Red Ribbon Week. "Medicine vs. Candy - Trick or Treat?" - Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade Presenter: Megan Harrington, Pharmacist at Christus 💊🍡 "Don't METH with Me!" - 5th Grade Presenter: Nancy Wertz & Mark Joyner w/White Sands Rotary Club "Dangers of Vaping" - Secondary Schools Presenter: Ximena Chew, Health Promotion Specialist, NM Department of Health APS celebrates Red Ribbon Week to bring awareness to the dangers of alcohol, drugs, vaping, and tobacco use. #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

🚍✨ National School Bus Safety Week kicks off tomorrow! Our amazing Alamogordo Public Schools Transportation Team is dedicated to keeping our students safe on the road, and they are excited to raise awareness this week! To celebrate, our APS Transportation Department is hosting a fun coloring contest for all bus riders!🎨Starting tomorrow, bus drivers will be handing out coloring pages to all bus riders. Return your creations to your bus driver by Friday, October 25. The transportation team will vote for their favorite entries, and there will be one winner per bus! Winners will be announced on Monday, October 28. 🌟🚌 Let's get creative and promote school bus safety together! #Allin4OurKids #SchoolBusSafetyWeek #HerefortheKids

📢 Exciting News, Alamogordo Public Schools! 🎉 Other initiatives presented at this month's Regular Board Meeting were the Top Slice and Slice of Success! We’re teaming up with Pizza 9 to celebrate our students’ hard work! 🍕 🌟 K-8 Students: The top 2 students in each class making the most progress in math each month will earn a Good Job Certificate—redeemable for a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza 9 Alamogordo! 🍕💪 🍕 High Schoolers (Grades 9-12): Keep your attendance strong! If you have less than 5% absences by the end of each quarter, you’ll score the same delicious reward! 🎓💯 Let’s keep growing, learning, and celebrating together! 🌟 #StudentSuccess #PizzaRewards #AlamogordoPS

🧦Reminder! This month, we are accepting sock donations for our Socktober Sock Drive! 🧦 Socks of all sizes in their original packaging can be donated throughout October! Each APS school has a donation box available at the front office. A donation box is also available at three local banks: First American Bank: 1300 N White Sands Blvd Otero Federal Credit Union: 3300 N White Sands Blvd Otero Federal Credit Union: 1200 10th Street Socks can also be shipped to APS using an online retailer!!! Shipments can be sent to: Alamogordo Public Schools The HUB/APS Admin Complex 805 12th Street Alamogordo, NM 88310 Your donation and support make a big difference and help families stay warm. #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

#BeHereAlamo 😁 At last night's Regular Board Meeting, Deputy Superintendent Steven Starkovich presented the #BeHereAlamo initiative. This initiative encourages APS students to attend school daily and emphasizes that #AttendanceMatters. 💛 Some incentives are monthly trophies, donuts with the deputy, and a grade-level pizza party for the grade with the best attendance at the school that wins the district-wide best attendance award. We need the support of parents and guardians to help us encourage students to be in school every day! Please help us spread the word—#AttendaceMatters! Let's make every day count. 🍕🍩 🗣We can do this, #BeHereAlamo! #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #BeHereNM

🍏 Please give a round of apple-ause to our wonderful APS Student Nutrition team! 🍎 The APS Student Nutrition team was awarded $45,610 for the New Mexico Grown program for the 2024-25 school year. Last week, one of our local farms, Nichols Ranch and Orchards, delivered fresh Fiji apples to Alamogordo High School to be distributed to the rest of the schools. The apples 🍎 went from their farm to our schools in less than 24 hours, and boy, were they delicious. 🤤 🍐Sierra Elementary kitchen manager Kim Maynez mentioned that receiving local, freshly picked fruit with a better taste was great. The kids thought it was fantastic that the apples came from a farm they could recognize. With this grant, the APS Student Nutrition Department plans to purchase New Mexico beef and other fruits and vegetables from across the state. 🥦 #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #FreshAppple

📣Reminder! The deadline to complete this important survey is tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct 16th! 📱 💻 We are excited to share various opportunities for you to help shape the future of Alamogordo schools. APS and your School Board are committed to aligning school programs with our world, thereby developing learners who will become engaged and productive citizens. We have partnered with Learner-Centered Collaborative (LCC), to support the design of a Framework for the Future and Strategic Plan. Once we know what we aspire to, we can create a 3-5 year strategic plan to ensure we can accomplish what we have defined as essential. 🔗https://corexmsvscnvqgbt6m79.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1QU4KR0zZ0OZhOe #Allin4OurKids #hereforthekids #ShareYourFeedback

📣Calling all federally connected families!! The 2024 Federal Impact Aid Survey is available for completion. The Impact Aid Survey is a required form to be completed separately for each student by parents/guardians using the PowerSchool Portal and will help the district and community receive its fair share of federal funds. Learn more at: https://www.alamogordoschools.org/page/impact-aid-student-parent-survey #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

It's #NationalSchoolLunchWeek 🍊 🥗Join us on an adventure this week, where the treasure is a healthy school lunch. This week, we celebrate the healthy meals we serve our students, making a positive impact inside the classroom and out. Greet and say hi to our pirates in the cafeterias who prepare those healthy meals and give them a High 5. 🥪🌯 #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

Your feedback matters! 📱 Parents and Guardians, the APS Strategic Planning Survey was emailed this afternoon through SchoolMessenger. Please complete the survey by Wednesday, October 16. 📣 We need the community's input as well! Take the short survey today! 💻 We are excited to share various opportunities for you to help shape the future of Alamogordo schools. APS and your School Board are committed to aligning school programs with our world, thereby developing learners who will become engaged and productive citizens. We have partnered with Learner-Centered Collaborative (LCC), to support the design of a Framework for the Future and Strategic Plan.  Once we know what we aspire to, we can create a 3-5 year strategic plan to ensure we can accomplish what we have defined as essential.  🔗https://corexmsvscnvqgbt6m79.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1QU4KR0zZ0OZhOe #Allin4OurKids #hereforthekids #ShareYourFeedback

Reminder! 🧑‍🏫 There will be no school on Thursday, October 3, and Friday, October 4, for parent-teacher conferences. If you haven't scheduled your appointment with your student's teacher, please reach out to our school. #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #ParentTeacherConferences

🧦 Starting October 1st, APS will accept sock donations for our Socktober Sock Drive! 🧦 Socks of all sizes in original packing can be donated throughout October! Our school will have a donation box available at the front office. Your donation and support make a BIG difference and help families stay warm. #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

Stay connected! 📱 Follow Alamogordo Public Schools on social media. 💻 🔗https://www.facebook.com/AlamogordoPublicSchools 🔗https://www.instagram.com/alamogordopublicschools 🔗https://www.youtube.com/@AlamogordoSchoolsNetwork 🔗https://www.linkedin.com/company/alamogordopublicschools #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #FollowUs

Don't forget to download the Alamogordo Public Schools App! View daily lunch menus, stay informed about upcoming events, news, and much more. 📱 It's everything Alamogordo Public Schools in your pocket. 😉 Download the app today! 🙂 ▪️ Download for Android: https://aptg.co/y_0ZcB ▪️ Download for iPhone: https://aptg.co/CJl6kB #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids

🥗Great news, the APS Roadrunner Mobile Food Pantry is back! 🍎 Starting on Wednesday, October 2nd, and continuing through May 2025, APS will be hosting the Roadrunner Mobile Food Pantry for APS Families and staff on the 1st Wednesday of each month. 🍗 Click "Interested" or "Going" on the event page for a reminder on Wednesday! 🥪 https://www.facebook.com/share/YTEgSy1ZS6sH3hh3/ #Allin4OurKids #HerefortheKids #FoodPantry

Reminder: school buses stop to drop off & pick up students around town. 🚌 Please come to a COMPLETE STOP while the signal is out and only proceed driving after the STOP signal is REMOVED by the bus driver. 🚌 Please help us keep our students safe! 💛 #Allin4OurKids #SchoolSafety