March brings Women’s History Month and we will be recognizing a special woman each day during our announcements. Today we are recognizing:
Malala Yousafzai
Malala was born on July 12th, 1997 in Pakistan, where welcoming a baby girl is not always a cause for celebration, but her father was determined to give her every opportunity a boy would have.
Her father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school in their village. She loved school but everything changed when the Taliban took control of her town. The extremists banned many things — like owning a television and playing music — and enforced harsh punishments for those who defied their orders. They also said girls could no longer go to school.
She spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and their right to learn, and this made her a target. In October 2012, on her way home from school, a masked gunman boarded her school bus and shot her on the left side of her head. She woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England.
After months of surgeries and rehabilitation, she joined her family in our new home in the U.K.
It was then she knew she had a choice: She could live a quiet life or she could make the most of this new life she had been given. She was determined to continue her fight until every girl could go to school.
With her father, she established Malala Fund, a charity dedicated to giving every girl an opportunity to achieve the future she chooses. In recognition of their work, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 and became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.
2nd Semester Art Students:
All past and completed artwork must be taken home by Friday.
6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students. If you are interested in going out for Soccer and/or Track and Field after school, after spring break, then please make sure to visit the Powell Website' Athletic's page. There you will find a link to sign up for Track & Field and Soccer for the remainder of the year. Both events will be intramural events (no games against other schools), will start the week of April 5th, will be after school from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm, and the seasons will run through the week of May 10th. Late buses won't run until the week of April 12th, so the first week you will need to have a ride home after practice. You don't need to have any experience in either sport to participate. Please fill out the form on the PMS website as soon as possible, and also pick up a participation emergency card during your lunch this week! Both the online form and the participation card need to be completed by this Friday. We hope to see as many of you out there as we can next week! Go Pumas!