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Principal Notes from Mrs. Garland
Counseling Notes from Mrs. Rose
September Career Profile (courtesy of AIMS):
Kelly Murphy, a Video Game Designer for Walt Disney, spends his time balancing tight deadlines for game releases while ensuring Disney games are exciting to play and keep gamers' coming back for more. Read more to learn what makes a Video Game Designer such a cool job!
Murphy is a Video Game Designer and part of a team that develops family-friendly video games for Walt Disney, often based on Disney motion pictures. The contributions made by a video game designer are not always so apparent, but a designer's job is critical to the development of the game and its ability to capture a player's attention. Designers are faced with deciding game logistics such as how many levels a game should have, how long a train chase should be or how many seconds should pass between firing a weapon. These details, although minute and often unnoticed by the players, create excitement and intrigue.
Deadlines and game releases tend to drive the team's hours. The Disney studio uses color codes to describe peak volumes throughout the year. For example, code-yellow indicates the team is working 40-50 hours a week, which is fairly typical. The work week increases to over 60 hours a week in late summer and right before Christmas when a great deal of movies and games are released simultaneously. These hectic times at the studio are appropriately dubbed code-red.
Music/Drama Notes from Mrs. Butner
There will be a yard salein the Carr Gym on Saturday, October 11, to help raise money for drama club and choir.
We are collecting Box Tops for Education again this year. Remember to bring your Box Tops in and give them to Mrs. Butner. Place the student’s name on the back of each box top. We are also collecting Labels for Education. Please write the student’s name on the back of each label, too.
Keep up to date with what's happening in the arts at Fulton City Schools - like us on Facebook -- FHS Drama. (We are the one with the picture of a bulldog)
Special Programming
Bilingual Buddies begins at Carr Elementary on October 16 for grades K-4 and will continue through Christmas.This group is a chance for high school Spanish students to teach the elementary school students basic Spanish words and phrases.
Nurse’s Notes from Mrs. Lawrence
Pumpkins, scarecrows and gourds are the sign of our beautiful fall season, and with it come many unpleasant seasonal illnesses. Flu, colds, respiratory illnesses, strep, lice, pneumonia and many others are just a few. The reality is when people are already ill, cough and sneeze into the air, the germs that spread these diseases spread fast, making them very contagious. The viruses spread by people who are already ill tend to stay in the air for a long time. This is why crowded places and places that are not well ventilated (schools, workplaces, cinemas, nursery schools, shopping centers, mass transportation vehicles, etc.) make it very easy for germs and viruses to spread. Even when people who are ill enter and then exit a closed environment, it is enough to put everyone else there at risk.
Another way that germs and viruses spread is when people touch their germ-laden hands to their mouths, and when people kiss one another. Even everyday items such as doorknobs, telephone receivers and towels can be vehicles for spreading germs and viruses. We must all remind our children first and foremost to WASH THEIR HANDS ALL THE TIME. Start at home with hand washing after they toilet, before they eat, after they eat, after you sneeze or cough, etc. You cannot teach your children to wash their hands enough. Little hands carry big germs.
Please remind you children not to share items such as hats, combs, brushes, or coats. Fall season is prime season for head lice. The telltale sign of lice is itching, especially behind the ears, on the scalp, and at the nape of the neck. Check your child if you see these signs.
Flu vaccines are to be given after we return from fall break. The forms will be sent home with the student. We ask that you return them as soon as possible. We will set a date for the health department to come to our school to give the vaccine to our students. Parents are encouraged to talk to your doctor about having your child vaccinated. Protect your child with the vaccine this year.
What should you do to prepare for this flu season?
CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older as the first and most important step in protecting against this serious disease. While there are many different flu viruses, the flu vaccine is designed to protect against the three main flu strains that research indicates will cause the most illness during the flu season. Getting the flu vaccine as soon as it becomes available each year is always a good idea, and the protection you get from vaccination will last throughout the flu season. In addition, you can take everyday preventive steps like staying away from sick people and washing your hands to reduce the spread of germs. If you are sick with flu, stay home from work or school to prevent spreading influenza to others.
Physical Activity/Nutrition
During the fall and winter season let up all continue to be active and do some type of exercise whether it be walking around the block, on a treadmill, doing a video, or just simple exercise. It is hard during the fall and winter months because we like to be couch potatoes. Make this a goal of yours this year.
When not to send your child to school.
Please DO NOT send your child to school when they are vomiting, have temperature over 98.6 or if they are having diarrhea. They should be free from these symptoms 24 hours prior to coming to school to prevent from infecting other children in their classroom.
Family Connection News from Ms. Pulley
Girl Power! Every sixth grade girl is invited to attend Girl Power!, a weekly after-school group for females only. Moms are invited too. Girl Power! meets from 2:50 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. in the FHS library with Murray State University senior Janay Vaughn. For more information call Tracy Pulley at 270/472-1637.
Chess Club Gets Cooking Beginning October 6, The Family Connection’s Chess Club heats up when extension agent Anna McCoy adds cooking to the mix. McCoy will teach students how to make snacks and simple meal items during the Chess Club hour, every Monday after school (2:50-3:45 p.m.) in the FHS home ec room. All students in grades 6-12 are invited to attend. For more information call Tracy Pulley at 270/472-1637.
The Family Connection info If you ever want to know what’s going on with The Family Connection, just do this:
go to
at the top center of the page, hover on DEPARTMENTS and pull down to FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER; click on it
and there it is!
Coordinator Tracy Pulley updates the page weekly, listing new programs and events.
WatchDOGS The Family Connection is still looking for local men who can volunteer in our school. Once a semester, once a month, once a week, whatever fits your schedule. Help with morning dropoff from 7:20-7:45 a.m. or lunch duty from 10:40 – 12:15 or one-on-one reading sessions throughout the school day. Call Tracy Pulley at 270/472-1637 for more information.