Deal Students are Invited to be a Part of a Televised Food Tasting Event this Saturday!
We can't name names, but a certain highly rated food show will be in the Deal cafeteria this Saturday.  Students are invited to sample the healthy school lunches that will be prepared by some very talented chefs.  If you can make it, you must arrive by 10:30 am for a briefing, followed by food-tasting sessions and small-group interviews to share your opinions.  Students must remain until the taping ends at about 2 pm.  Because it will be a televised, all participants' parents must sign an appearance and confidentiality agreement on behalf of themselves and their children. The first 60 students from each grade-level to return the permission slip will be selected for this event.  Please see your grade-level assistant principal during your lunch period to get the permission slip today!

Deal Spellers Stand-out at Citywide Spelling Bee         On Saturday, March 20 Jacob Korn and Seamus Lynch represented Alice Deal in the Citywide Spelling Bee.  Thirty-seven students from around the city were invited and twenty seven young men and women competed.  Words such as homogeneous and croesis were spelled correctly.  In total there were fifty-four rounds of spelling; Jacob Korn finished in second place and Seamus Lynch finished in third place.  Our young men won many prizes including being honored at the April 16 Nationals baseball game.  The Citywide spelling bee will air on NBC on April 10.  Congratulations to both Jacob and Seamus for a job very well done!

National History Day at Deal

Congratulations to the Humanities Department for another successful NHD school contest.  More than 150 students submitted exhibit boards, research papers, performances, documentaries and websites for consideration to panels of judges at the annual school competition on March 16.  Deal welcomed 30 historians, journalists, curators, and experts to evaluate student research and interpretation around the theme  Innovation in History:  Impact and Change.

The top projects in each category will advance to the city-wide contest held at Howard University on Saturday, April 24.  Every teacher in the department has at least one project entered, an indication that the discipline of history is thriving at all grade levels here at Deal.

Music Department Spring Trip Deposit is Due

Adolescent Prevention Education Program

The Adolescent Prevention Education Program headed by Children's National Medical Center will be coming to Alice Deal on April 14, 2010 to provide a health education workshop concentrating on promoting positive decision making in sexual behavior for the 7^th graders who are taking PE/Health classes this semester.  The 7^th grade students with their parents or guardians sign permission will be able to attend the workshop.   Please return all signed permission slips to Nurse Pringle no later than April 8.  For any questions or concerns feel free to contact Nurse Pringle on 202-939-2009. 

We Need Your Used Tennis Shoes and Soccer Cleats

As part of our community and global outreach, we are collecting used tennis shoes and cleats to help eradicate poverty and support rainforest preservation.  In conjunction with the Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation (www.pppafrica.org), our students will be collecting used (not abused) shoes for this worthy cause.  Please place shoe donations in the collection bins located in front of the Welcome Center and by the gymnasium.  We look forward to your donations.  If you have questions, please contact the Physical Education Department at alicedeal.pe@gmail.com or Coach Downing at coachdowning@yahoo.com.