Principal's Message
Dear AIMS Families:
This week AIMS launched our celebration of Black History Month!
The 2025 national theme for Black History Month is African Americans and Labor. According to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the theme focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people, whose work has been transformational throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora. We celebrate the influential impact of this work. (source)
Black History Month Door Decoration Celebration
Each period 5 class is designing and decorating their classroom door/doorway space to highlight Black excellence in all fields and uplift the voices of Black visionaries who continue to shape our society.
Door Decoration Deadline: 2/21/25 (Photos taken after school.)
Door Decoration Recognitions Announced: 2/24/25
The winning class will receive their prize from Admin on Friday, 2/28/25.
Black History Month - Student Council Created and Sponsored - Spirit Week 2/24/25-2/28/25
- Monday 2/24/2025 Good Kind of Trouble – Celebrate Black Excellence, Activists and Leaders Like Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Mamie Till-Mobley, Rosa Parks, Angela Davis and allies like Mario Savio. Wear your Sunday’s Best!
- Tuesday 02/25/2025- Unity Day: Pan-African/Black Liberation Flag – The Pan-African flag was created in 1920 to represent people of the African Diaspora and to symbolize black liberation in the United States. Wear the colors of the flag.
- RED Symbolizes the blood shed by Black people in the struggle for liberation.
- BLACK Represents the existence of Black people and the strength of their community.
- GREEN Represents fertility and the natural wealth of their Motherland (Africa) and the abundance and resilience of the Black community.
- TOUCHES of GOLD Represents resource-rich regions as well as peace and harmony between various ethnic and religious group
- Wednesday 02/26/2025- Significant Black Figures – Black people who have made significant contributions to American society (old, young, living, deceased, famous and obscure). Dress up like them, wear a shirt with their picture, wear a shirt with one of their quotes.
- Thursday 02/27/2025- Throwback Thursday/Soul Train Day – Dress in your favorite music/arts attire from back in the day. The Soul Train Show aired from 1971 – 2006.
- Friday 02/28/2025- HBCU Day – During the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877), newly emancipated African Americans in former slave-holding states actively pursued education and the establishment of schools as a path to equality, independence, and prosperity. Education is a powerful gift. Let’s not only recognize it as a gift but also as a right—one that the Black community has historically been denied. Wear colors or collegiate apparel of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Black History Month Afternoon Announcements
Students or staff interested in reading for the daily trivia should reach out to Mr. Watson, Ms. Hamilton, or Ms. Bastianelli.
- Student council will be providing daily readings of Black history facts and/or vignettes during the 2:40pm sacred time announcements.
- Each reading will challenge students to use their history knowledge and research skills to answer a trivia question.
- Students who believe they know the answer to the trivia question should email Mr. Watson
- The first two students to answer correctly each day will receive 10 Tiger Stripes!
Rap/Spoken Word- Students enter their BHM/Black Pride Themed piece, Student Council will determine entry finalists, winners will be able to share their piece over the announcements.
Family Movie and Dinner (Parent Night) 2/27/25 @5:30PM - 8:00PM; Doors open at 5:00 PM (Cost associated with event, more details to come)
