Jones High School

Everyone have a great fall break

Jones High School Juniors and Seniors interested in Concurrent enrollment at Rose State for Spring Semester need to see Mr. Moses as soon as possible. Enrollment for Spring Semester opens Oct 29.

Jones High School students in 9 through 11 grade: If you have a GPA of 3.75 or greater and have demonstrated humanitarian qualities in your school and community through volunteer work and/or community service. See Mr. Moses because Jones High School can nominate one student for this award.

Jones High School Red Ribbon Week will be October 29-November 2. We will have theme days posted by next week. We will kick off Red Ribbon Week with a guest speaker on the Afternoon of October 29. This speaker is being brought in through a partnership of Jones Against Drugs, Jones FFA, Jones MS STUCO, Jones MS Honor Society and Jones HS Principals office. Our Speaker will be Dave Roever.

Jones High School Freshman Honor Students: Make sure over fall break that your are working on your digital profile and digital citizenship class at goennounce. Rmember your first blog is due October 22.

Jones High School Juniors that will be first generation college students: you need to apply for the New Opportunities Scholar at the Oklahoma City Community foundation. After completing general application go to opportunities and apply for the New Opportunities Scholar at www.occf.org/scholarships

Seniors take fall break to complete your college and scholarship applications. Also, this would be a good time to complete the FAFSA at https://fafsa.ed.gov

Seniors remember the Oklahoma City Community Foundation has numerous scholarships that Jones High School Students can apply. The Community Foundation Scholar and Jones High School Scholarship are both open. Remember after completing the general application and senior application you have to go to opportunities and apply for each individual scholarship. Go to www.occf.org/scholarships

Courtney Roe will be attending the State Cross Country Meet Saturday October 20th at Gordon Cooper Technology Center. She competed against several other individual runners. She was 5th out of the top 7 which qualified in our Region. Her race will start at 11:45am. If you see Courtney please wish her luck on this exciting accomplishment.

Juniors involved in activities: The University of Oklahoma is hosting Oklahoma’s High School Leadership Conference. This event is Feb 15-17. IF you are interested see Mr. Moses for more information and application process

Jones High School Juniors and Seniors interested in OSU: OSU Up Close registration closes soon! This is a great event for juniors and seniors to find out what life is like as an OSU Cowboy. You will get an in-depth look into OSU academics and meet with current students and faculty working in your area of interest. Lunch and campus tours are also offered. Do not miss out on an awesome day! Register at https://admissions.okstate.edu/visit/osu-close.html

Jones High School Seniors: Fall Break begins Thursday. This is a good opportunity to work on college applications and scholarship applications. Treat this process like a job. If you spend 10 hours working on scholarship applications and receive one $2000.00 award that equates to 200.00 an hour! Most of us would love to make that kind of money.

The middle school game with Little Axe will be played at home tonight at 5:30 (this game is 7th & 8th combined). The JV game is canceled due to Little Axe not having enough players to play.

We are the News 9 game of the week tonight! Be here early for the festivities. Also, there will only be one gate open tonight for the JHS football game vs. Holdenville. Please go to the west gate for entry. The east gate is flooded. TTHL!!!!

11th and 12th grade students wanting to do concurrent enrollment at Rose State in the Spring need to see Mr. Moses. Enrollment for Spring Concurrent opens OCT 29

Students interested in UCO and are interested in a Professional Golf Management program: UCO offers a Bachelors of Business Administration in Management with a concentration in Professional Golf. For more information on this program go to www.business.uco.edu/pga

The 2018 Sixt Scholars application process began on September 1st. To learn more about our scholarship, please check out: English: https://www.sixt.com/sixt-scholars/ Español: https://www.sixt.com/es/programa-de-becas-sixt/

Cross Country Regionals for Jones High School will be this Saturday, October 13 at Chisolm High School. Girls will begin at noon. Boys will begin at 12:45 pm. Admission price is $5.00 for students and adults.

The following scholarships are statewide scholarships that are available to Jones High School students. 95th Division Scholarship OK Goodwill Industries Abilities Scholarship Almen-West OK Rotary Scholarship The Bennett Family Scholarship Dr. Eugene S. Briggs Memorial Scholarship Oklahoma Youth with Promise Scholarship Orner-Cook Scholarship Patel Engineering Scholarship Patel Math and Sciences Scholarship Robyn’s Way Scholarship Application Deadlines and additional information on these scholarships can be found at www.occf.org/scholarshipcenter

All football games for tonight have been moved to Harrah. -7th grade game 5:00pm -8th grade game 6:15pm (approx) -JV game 7:45 (approx)