Jones High School

Students looking for ACT Prep: Mr. Weaver at OCS will be offering his ACT prep for the April ACT. Cost is $100. For more information see attached flyer https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/584528/MARAPRILACT_Prep_Class_Flyer.docx

Jones High School FFA and 4H will be hosting their annual Local Livestock show on Saturday, February 15 beginning at 12:30 pm in the Don Ramsey Agricultural Facility.

Mark your calendars!! Jones High School will host Holdenville in Basketball District Playoffs on Saturday, February 22. Girls will play at 6:30 pm and Boys will play at 8:00 pm. Jones will also be hosting Basketball Regionals Thursday, February 27 through February 29.

Friday, February 14th we will be celebrating our basketball seniors. Please join us at 6:00 p.m. in the Steven Chase Center as we honor our seniors.

Basketball playoffs begin Friday, February 21st and will be held here at Jones High School. Playoff t-shirts are on sale now. All order forms must be turned in by February 14th. See link for order form https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/584312/Family_Tshirt_order_voucher.docx

Students in 9th-10th grade: This is your opportunity to sign up for Oklahoma's Promise. If parents make less than 55,000, you take the right courses, make good grades, and stay out of trouble the state of Oklahoma will pay up to four years of your tuition at in state schools. Sophomores this is the last year that you can apply for Oklahoma's Promise. Apply even if you are not sure if you will use it. Better to have and not use than to need and not have! You must fill out application at http://www.okhighered.org/okpromise/

JHS Students: The Next National ACT is April 4. The Registration deadline is February 28. IF you are a sophomore or junior that is wanting to do Concurrent enrollment in college Classes your junior or senior year, you need to take this ACT so scores are back in time to determine concurrent enrollment eligibility. Register at actstudent.org

BLACK HISTORY MONTH DID YOU KNOW Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher A valedictorian who went on to graduate from the segregated Langston University, which had no law program, her lifelong ambition was to become a lawyer. She forced the University of Oklahoma Law School to admit black students by legally challenging state statutes that prohibited whites and blacks from attending classes together. She stuck to her guns when the Oklahoma Legislature tried to create a separate school for her to attend, and she started at OU in 1949. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2017.

JHS Seniors who are lower your income or lower net worth farm families: The Farm Service Agency and the Oklahoma Rural Rehabilitation Corporation is announcing its annual scholarship. Deadline is April 8. Awards are tiered meaning the lower the income and financial position the higher the amount awarded. See Mr. Moses for more information and application

BLACK HISTORY MONTH DID YOU KNOW… J.C. Watts Born in Eufaula, Watts went on to play as starting quarterback for the University of Oklahoma in 1979. He became a Baptist minister and was elected in 1990 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as the first African-American in Oklahoma to win statewide office. The state’s first and only black congressman, Watts served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH DID YOU KNOW…. Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who lived a miserable life as a slave, serving several masters throughout New York before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, Truth became a Christian and, at what she believed was God’s urging, preached about abolitionism and equal rights for all, highlighted in her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851. She continued her crusade for the rest of her life, earning an audience with President Abraham Lincoln and becoming one of the world’s best-known human rights crusaders.

Jones Public Schools will be closed Wednesday, February 5th due to weather.

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education assists in the administration of the Frances Koop Parsons/AT&T Pioneers Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship program was established through the AT&T Pioneers to assist Oklahoma students in obtaining their education goals. The recipients of this scholarship will receive a $1,000 cash award to be used at an eligible Oklahoma career technology center, two-year college, or four-year university. This scholarship is open to first-time freshmen with at least a 3.0 high school GPA whose family income does not exceed $75,000. The completed application must be postmarked on or before March 27, 2020. See Mr. Moses for application.

Basketball time changes for tonight's game vs. Bethel. No JV games tonight. Varsity girls will begin at 5:30 and boys to follow after.

JHS student-leaders can attend The Leadership Experience (TLX) 2020, hosted by the President’s Leadership Council at Oklahoma State University! TLX is a two-day leadership conference on March 7 - 8 open to all high school juniors and seniors! Formally known as Conclave, TLX is dedicated to redefining what it means to be a leader through student-organized small groups and team-building activities, leadership workshops and speaker presentations. It will be an unforgettable weekend of fun and community where we explore what it means to be a transformational leader and how one's identity ties in with the concept of leadership. Students can utilize this checklist to ensure that all necessary forms have been paid, completed, scanned and emailed to osuleadership@okstate.edu no later than March 1. • Signed OSU Release and Assumption of Risk Form • Signed Medical Release Form • Payment The registration fee for attending The Leadership Experience at OSU is $110.00 . This fee covers the participants lodging, meals, conference materials and T-shirt. In order to confirm your student’s place at the conference, we need to receive their nonrefundable registration fee, T-shirt size request, liability and medical release forms. Participants will be staying at a hotel and are responsible for their transportation from the OSU campus to the hotel. Students can register and pay online at https://orange.okstate.edu/register/?id=303e0e8c-0b53-4004-9acf-f39f7fc6ecf6

JHS Students: Oklahoma City University will be hosting an event to introduce students in the NE region of Oklahoma to our Esports Management degree program and our eSports team. It will be held on February 23 from 2-4PM at Boston Ave United Methodist Church For more information and how to register see attached flyer. https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/578907/OCU_eSports_is_Coming_to_You_Invite.pdf

Due to potential scheduling conflicts we are moving Spring parent teacher conferences to March 24th & March 26th from 4-7:30 p.m.

JHS Students wanting to take APRIL ACT: Registration deadline is February 28. If you are a sophomore or Junior wanting to do concurrent college enrollment next school year, you really need to get registered for this ACT.

Juniors and seniors are invited to Health Careers Day at Rogers State University! This event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at the Rogers State University Campus in Claremore. Health Careers Day is a preview day for students interested in careers in Nursing, Pre-Med, Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, or Occupational Therapy. They will talk with current students & faculty, learn about the university admission process, participate in hands-on nursing and allied health simulations and see campus! Degree Plan Info Admission Process Scholarships & Financial Aid Residential Life Registration Required and Space is limited. Register at: https://www.rsu.edu/admissions/admissions-events/health-careers-day/#reg

BLACK HISTORY MONTH DID YOU KNOW.. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.