The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including EMILY JACOBS at Mena Middle School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
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 Jr. Bearcats got put thru their paces this morning at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. The fall scrimmage will be August 15th at Mansfield and the season opener is August 31st against Centerpoint.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics...
Summer school (SPED) learned about the Chalk Art Festival in Denver, Colorado, and made their own creations.
Thank you to the Junior High Basketball team for volunteering their time this morning toward the backpack program!
Monday was field day for Mena Middle School 8th graders!
Mena Middle School FBLA, FCCLA, and Yearbook took their Education in Motion Magic Springs field trip on Friday.
Mrs. Swall’s 7th grade Science frog dissection lab. MMS kids are engaged and learning all the way to the end of the school year!
A huge thank you to Mena Middle School Project Prevent and Student Council for helping make our field day such a success!!
Mena Middle School 6th grade Careers in Mena Field Trip!
The Mena Little Ladycat Basketball Camp came to a close on Wednesday. The camp was open to 1st-7th grades.
A very competitive Ladycat Night!
Sr High Freethrow Champion: Chloe Hooper
Jr High Freethrow Champion: Makenley Sullivan
SR High 4 on 4 Champions:
Payton Clark
Abby Comeaux
Makenley Sullivan
Anabelle Peters
Jr High 3 on 3 Champions:
Madi Fowler
Averi Ortiz
Brynlee Bahr
SR High 5 on 5 Champions:
Payton Clark
Chloe Hooper
Kate Wilson
Makenley Sullivan
Anabelle Peters
JR High 5 on 5 Champions:
Madi Fowler
Makenna Lee
Ravyn Wilson
Averi Ortiz
Desirea Flores
Thank you to our Sponsors:
Debbie Pate at ReMax
PT Plunkett at Mena Insurance
Farm Bureau
Wendy's
The State Project Prevent Team was at Mena Middle School today to help our local team spread the nicotine free message. Student’s signed pledges to be nicotine free, played games and won digital cameras.
UA Rich Mountain Science Fair winners middle school level:
2nd place $100 prize went to Jakob Hostetler and Wyatt Head for their coding project.
Honorable mention $50 Walmart gift card went to Vaughn Vacca for his coding project.
Lauren Frost and Leilani Rose completed the Arkansas Game and Fish Fishing in the Natural State training today. This training is required for schools to participate in the grant funded program and for schools to host fishing derbies. The pair learned the most from the fish dissection portion of the training.
Mena Middle School students attended the 2023 Girls of Promise conference last week. Madison Rowe, Nevaeh Day, Jasmine Parker and Faith Tucker were accepted to attend the STEM event. They were chaperoned by Mrs. Billings.
Mena hosted the Area 14 Special Olympics on Wednesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Mena students attended the opening ceremony and volunteered at the event that featured athletes from around the area.
MMS teachers entertained students today by getting pied in the face. Thanks to Coach Valencia, Coach Collins and Ms. Martin for being good sports!
The Mena Middle School Project Prevent Team hosted the annual Easter Egg Relay this week. Each grade competed to see who could learn the most about the dangers of tobacco/nicotine. Each egg was filled with facts: the team with the most facts gathered won a treat and a chance at a Dance Pass.
Fastcats is coming!
