A large number of schools participated in the jr. high track meet at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday. The Mena Ladycats dominated the event & finished in 1st place in the team standings. The Bearcats finished in 7th. Click the link for results
https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/457695-mena-jr-high-relays-2022/results#.YjKNU3rMLIU
Tracy Floyd and Amy Martin represented Mena School District at the University of Arkansas Teacher’s Fair in Conway on Friday.
Governor Hutchinson has declared March 7-11 as G.U.I.D.E. for Life Week in the state of Arkansas in conjunction with International Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Day on March 11. Mena Middle School focuses on SEL throughout the year with weekley lessons using the Character Strong program. Students are also exposed to all of the personal competency standards outlined in the G.U.I.D.E for life in daily classroom activities throughout the year. This week at MMS’s special SEL enrichment activities include the Lifetime Wellness class working on the personal competency standard INTERACTION. Students worked with Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Watts on understanding group dynamics and responding appropriately within a group. In Mrs. Frost Family and Consumer Science Investigations class students are working on goal setting focusing on the personal competency standard GROWTH. Also Mrs. Shelley hosted a small group in MMS HIVE for a presentation by guests Candace Reiner, Shelby Godwin and Pam Godwin covering personal competency UNDERSTANDING focused on personal care. #ARGUIDEforLife, @arkansas_ed
Parent Teachers Conferences are coming up at all four campuses!
The Jr. High track meet that was scheduled at Booneville today has been rescheduled for April 14th.
The next meet is scheduled for Tuesday, March 8th at DeQueen.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=26998
The Mena teams finished 6th at the Booneville 7th Grade Relays on Tuesday. See individual results at the link below.
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../456950-booneville.../results...
Read the positive comments Mr. Ronald Goss made about Mena Middle School Teacher Karen Parnell on page 3 of this weeks Polk County Pulse !
https://mypulsenews.com/polk-county-pulse-march-2-2022/...
This morning during Achieve 8th grade FFA members held the Discovery Degree Ceremony. They are so excited about getting to dye to their hands green next year that they wanted to do blue and gold!
This is National Future Farmers of America Week & we have a great FFA Chapter at Mena Public Schools. Today we salute the Mena FFA Advisors.
CHASE MCCORMICK
BRYAN MAYE
JUSTIN GOODNIGHT
We are glad these gentlemen are a part of our team at Mena Public Schools !
The Mena Ladycat/Bearcat track season begins on Monday, February 28th. Check all athletic schedules on the website at the link below.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=20093,26998
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Mena Middle School Project Prevent Team wrapped up Random Acts of Kindness week today with the annual Through With Chew campaign- "Pick"le Your Choices Wisely! Team members encouraged peers to pledge to be Chew/Spit Tobacco free, in exchange for the pledge students were given a pickle. Members announced tobacco facts throughout lunch. National Through With Chew week is February 20-26. Project Prevent encourages all of the Mena community to be Through With Chew.
The Special Olympics basketball skills competition was held in the Union Bank Center on Friday. Mena High School students volunteered during the event and athletes from around the area competed.
Cold & wet weather kept Mena Middle School students indoors during lunch on Thursday & this gave them an opportunity to take advantage of the library makerspace.
The Mena School District has provided the opportunity to our Response To Intervention (RTI) specialists to attend the Summit on RTI at Work in Austin, Texas. The leading experts in the field will be equipping our specialist with the resources needed to help develop and implement the strategies to ensure ALL students learn at high levels and positively impact student achievement.
The Mena Middle School Project Prevent team has been busy celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Week. Members have made dailey prevention announcements along with kindness quotes of the day. The team has distributed Kindness Challenge sheets to students. They have challenged students to a kindness button design contest as well as a tab collecting contest to support the Ronald McDonald House. Today students treated teachers with popcorn and water bottles with nicotine prevention messages attached.
LDE, HHE & MMS are collecting pop tops in support of Ronald McDonald House. The drive continues through May. The program raises funds , through recycling, that helps pay for families to stay at the Ronald McDonald House while their child is receiving treatment at the hospital.
Please take aamoment to complete the survey ! https://www.menaschools.org/page/arbroadbandnow-service-questionnair
"The Young and the Senseless"
Theatre II students at Mena High School performed for 8th grade students in the Performing Arts Center on Thursday. What a fun show !
