Football, volleyball seasons end


Coaches and players wrap up the 2008 volleyball season this week by hosting Texico Tuesday and playing in a tournament for all four volleyball teams Thursday and Friday.
The eighth grade teams play at Yucca on Friday while the seventh grade teams plays on Thursday.
The eighth grade football team heads to Texico on Thursday for its season finale. Last week the seventh grade completed its season playing Texico in Portales.


 
Sports pictures


Official sports pictures will be taken Thursday.


 
Tutoring offered


Tutoring is available for math, science and English from 3:10-4:10  p.m. Monday-Thursday. Ruben Tellez provides language assistance in math and language arts each morning. Schedules are available with specific sessions and grade levels.


 
Film for families


The video “High: A Story Sbout Kids and Drugs” will air Sunday at noon and again at 6:30 p.m. on KENW TV-3. The video is produced by Christopher Productions. Sponsors report that New Mexico has one of the highest rates of drug related deaths in the nation.
Sponsors of this production include the following: Safe Teen New Mexico, New Mexico Public Education Department, New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department, Bernalillo County Substance Abuse Prevention Program, New Mexico Office of the Attorney General, New Mexico Mutual, State Farm Insurance, Cooperative Educational Services, Independent Insurance Agents of New Mexico, New Mexico PTA, and the New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators.


     
School open Monday


Although Monday is Columbus Day, Portales Schools will be in session.


 
Students/teachers using laptops


Several teachers assign tasks for students to complete on their laptops or to use the Gaggle.net e-mail accounts to complete group work.
Assistant Principal Glenda Meeks reminds students and parents that a few have not returned their paperwork needed to pick up their laptops.
If a parent does not want his or her child to have a laptop, Meeks needs the forms returned with “declined” written across it and signed by the parent.