Shout out to to William and Sheila Stewart for cooking food for the Bearcat football team after the team camp on Tuesday! THANK YOU!
The MHS Bearcat Band percussion section came together for the first time on Tuesday in preparation for the 2022 marching season. Marching fundamentals begin on Monday, August 1st for all MHS band members.
The Mena Bearcats hosted a team camp on Tuesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Teams competing included Mt. Ida, Mansfield. Horatio, Hackett & Dierks.
Fall camp begins on Monday, August 1st & the Bearcats season opener is on Friday, August 26th at DeQueen.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=19617
The new Hooten's Arkansas Football is on the stands. Unfortunately this is the only place you will find the Mena Bearcat cover !!!!
Check the 2022 schedule at the link below
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=19617
Day 1 in the books for the Sr. & Jr. High Ladycats at the Licking Volleyball Camp in Branson. Both Sr. teams finished the day with an exciting win in their last match and improved as the day went on. Action continues on Tuesday. GO LADYCATS!!!
1st grade teachers as well as Pete Rose, and Curtis Black visited the Polk County Senior Citizen Center recently. We had a great time with live music, delicious food, and creating new friendships! Thanks again to everyone at the Center for allowing us to visit and for being so welcoming.
Let's welcome Trevor Humphrey!
My name is Trevor Humphry, and I am honored to be the next Head Baseball Coach at Mena High School! I graduated from Delight High School and then attended UA Fort Smith before being drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the Major League Baseball Draft. After an injury ended my professional career, I began working and started a family, but I knew that coaching was something I would like to pursue. Coaching my daughter’s competitive softball teams over the years rekindled my love for coaching, so I returned to school and recently graduated from Henderson State University. My daughter, Madison, signed to play softball at UA Rich Mountain, and it was through that experience that I fell in love with Mena and the Polk County community. My family and I are excited to become a part of the Mena family, and I look forward to working towards developing a baseball program that makes the community proud. GO BEARCATS!
The Mena Ladycats travelled to Branson Missouri on Sunday and will be competing at the Licking Volleyball Camp Monday & Tuesday, GO LADYCATS!
New signage will greet parents & students at Mena Middle School when the new school year begins on August 22nd.
Please welcome Brooke Macheler to the staff at Mena Middle School!
Hello, my name is Brooke Macheler. I am so excited to be joining Mena Middle School as your new school nurse. I received my LPN from the U of A at Rich Mountain in 2017. I have worked in long term care, but look forward to this opportunity to work with our youth. I have 5 children, 4 of whom attend Mena Public schools. I'm passionate about being a mother and helping others. I love being outdoors and being with my kids. I am so blessed to be given this opportunity and look forward to this upcoming school year.
The Mena Jr. High Bearcats hosted Horatio & Mansfield for a team camp at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday. The season opener is September 1st at Centerpoint.
The Sr. High, Jr. High & 7th grade boys basketball teams hosted Horatio, Booneville, Jessieville & Cossatot in a team camp on Thursday.
Mena teachers continue to work in preparation for 2022-2023.
On Tuesday educators underwent MathQuEST training the MHS Library.
Math QuEST (Quantitative Essentials for Students and Teachers)
is a journey for ambitious teaching that promotes equity and engagement of all students in meaningful mathematics learning experiences of reasoning and problem solving. AR Math QuEST empowers educators and families to help students develop positive identities as doers
of mathematics to increase student achievement.
The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is offering a two-year Dyslexia Therapist Training Course for certified Arkansas public school teachers. The goal of this project is to develop a network of Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT) for the purpose of providing a specialized dyslexia instructional program designed to provide therapy to public school students with dyslexia or related reading and written-language difficulties. Mena Middle School RTI/Dyslexia Interventionist, Mrs. Alicia Farringer was chosen to take part in this initiative. This training is being provided using the Take Flight Curriculum. Noel Leif, co-founder and instructor of Springfield Center for Learning and Dyslexia is pictured below with Mrs. Farringer.
Mr. Max Hartwig is joining the crew at Mena Middle School!
Hi, My name is Max Hartwig. I am excited to be a part of what is happening at the Mena Public School District. I am looking forward to working with students and staff, taking every opportunity to learn and teach. I have worked with students of all ages from 6th grade to college age through youth and college ministry. I am a graduate of Mena High School and have attended college at RMCC and UAFS. I am a Christian husband and father. My wife, Holly, and I have been married for 8 years and we have 4 awesome and crazy kids (soon to be 5)! We are both proud Texans and are looking forward to what God has in store for us and this community!
Day two of the Mena High School Class of 2023 Senior Pictures were today in the MHS safe room. Any students who didn’t get their senior pictures taken with the school over these past two days will need to get their pictures taken during the makeup picture day in mid-September.
The Sr. Bearcats competed at the Pottsville Team Camp on Tuesday. The season opener is on August 26th at DeQueen, Check the complete schedule at the link below
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=19617
Please welcome Maranda Cash to Mena High School !
Hi, my name is Maranda Cash and I am excited to be joining Mena Public Schools as the new 9th grade English teacher. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in English Education with a minor in English as a second language at Arkansas Tech University. I also obtained a master’s degree in Special Education From Arkansas Tech. I have been teaching for two years.
The Mena football team worked out for the first time on the new turf at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Monday. Check this years schedule on the website at https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics
