Mena High School

The JR Ladycats have competed at the Morrilton Basketball Teamcamp Monday and Tuesday. They have improved tremendously over the past two weeks at their team camps.

Alicia Farringer, Dyslexia Interventionist, finished year two of CALT training the last two weeks at the Southwest Education Cooperative in Hope. The curriculum learned is called Take Flight. Take Flight, A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia, was implemented in our school last year and will be continued in the years to come. The design of this curriculum was to enable students with dyslexia to achieve and maintain better word recognition, reading fluency, reading comprehension and aid in the transition from a therapy setting to ‘real world’ learning. Our school district is extremely excited to offer this high quality instructional program to our students that was designed by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorder at Scottish Rite for Children.

Mena football hosted DeQueen and Horatio for a team camp at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday. The Bearcats will play a scrimmage at Mansfield on August 15th and the season opener is August 25th against DeQueen.

The Mena High School performing arts center hosted Dr. Luis Cruz on Friday. He discussed transforming school culture with Mena teachers & others from around the area.

Junior and Senior boys finished this week playing over 24 games between the two teams at the Northwest Arkansas Shootout in Fayetteville! Thank you Jimmy Jester for your hospitality and Smitty’s Garage of Fayetteville and Rogers for sponsoring a meal for both teams!

We’ve all made it back home but would like to share the last leg of our journey with you! After arriving in London and dropping our things off with our new bus driver, we took a short walking tour around the city before dinner. We got to see Big Ben, the London eye, do a little bit of shopping and see Picadilly Circus!   Our second day in London we had a mixed bus and walking tour with our local tour guide. We got to see Buckingham Palace, one of the former Royal Gardens, Big Ben, Parliament and Westminster Abby. In the afternoon, we spent time exploring the tower of London, which is home to the Crown Jewels of the U.K. and several exhibits that tell the story of the fortresses history and the history of England. Our third and final day, we toured the globe and learned a little bit about the history of theater and Shakespeare, visited a vibrant London market for lunch and caught a saw the production, Wicked, on the west end!  Before we left, we snagged some pictures with our wonderful Tour Director Elena, our bus driver Jay, and our travel partners from Atlanta, Georgia! If you are interested in learning how your student could participate in a similar experience in the future, follow the MHS Global page! For the 23/24 school year we are hoping to go on an adventurous trip to the Dominican Republic and for the 24/25 school year. We are hoping to do a tour of Scotland and Ireland!

Students in Mrs. Alexander's class mixing it up in the summer of fun!

DeQueen, Horatio & Mineral Springs were at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Thursday for the Mena Jr. High Football Team Camp. The Bearcats will scrimmage Mansfield on August 15th & the season opener is August 31st against Centerpoint.

Mena administrators are attending summer training provided by the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative at Lake DeGray Lodge.

Bearcat Junior High Football Community Service Day. The team folded boxes and sent them to PCDC for recycling

2023 Mena High School graduate receives Shelter Insurance scholarship. Read the complete article at the link below. https://mypulsenews.com/polk-county-pulse-june-14-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1wQeP21Nsep13p7eScI9HmnpbTttYr8VhDsL7WK242akBn5gN0kaE13Rs

Today members of the Mena Bearcat Basketball team came to Homelife Academy for sports week! These guys had a busy morning playing games, having fun, and throwing water balloons with our summer camp! It’s a great Day to be a Bearcat, a future Bearcat, and a HomeLife camper

The project to convert floors from tile to stained and polished concrete continues across the district this summer. Crews are working at Mena High School this week.

The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including CODY KOCH at Mena High School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.

Mena Jr High and Sr High Ladycats competed at the first day of the Harding Team Camp on Sunday.

The last few days have been eventful! We traveled from Amsterdam to Belgium, and started off our day with a chocolate making workshop, and then ended the day with a tour of the highlights of the city. The next day we bus transferred again and made it to Paris! We went out for a quick sightseeing trip and then settled into our hotel. The next day we had a guided tour of the city, free time in the afternoon, and a river cruise in the evening before dinner!  Tomorrow is our last day in Paris, and we visit the Louvre and have a perfumery workshop tour. After that, we are off to London to finish out our trip!

The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including JENNY ROBERTSON at Mena High School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.

The Senior High Bearcats attended Team Camp at OBU today! They are pictured here listening to the speaker during lunch. OBU always puts on a great camp! We had a good day , great competition and days like today help us work toward achieving our goals! Go Bearcats!

The Jr. High Cheer Team attended the NCA Camp at UALR recently and came home with the following awards: Stunt S.A.F.E. Award Most Improved National Championship Bid & NFHS Squad Credentialing 2nd in Junior High Band Chant Division Herkie Spirit Award Superior ratings in Band Chant and Game Day Cheer 3 Squad members nominated for All-American Cheer : Rayleigh Goodnight, Sophia Cummings, and Serenity Fraser The girls learned and grew tremendously during our time at camp. We are so excited to see what they learned put to work this season!

The Mena Varsity Cheer team and the Junior High Team attended NCA Team Camp at UALR. At camp the team learned new content, stunt skills, and competed in a GameDay competition where they won 2nd place in the Band Chant in their division. There were 11 out of 17 girls nominated for All-American. They were: Briley Dean Hailey Emerson Amy Gragg Kiylee Hughes Shantal Tecson Sophia Vacca Jolina Butterfield Gia Fagan-Hobson Destiny Hogan Carmindy Ashcraft Alaya Richard Kiylee Hughes was selected to tryout for NCA Staff. Asher Wooden AKA Beary also received a nomination for Mascot All-American and received the Top Mascot Award!