Mena School District

If your MHS student purchased valentine pictures they are edited and have been sent to their school Email.

The steel framing for the new Hensley Activity Center arrived Monday morning. The building is expected to be complete by the start of the 24-25 school year.

Mr Leo installing our new football 🏈 goals!! These were purchased with our fundraiser monies!!

Ladycats competed at the 1-5A South Regionals today and overall as a team finished in 6th place in confrence, 5 out of 7 girls qualified for the state tournament! But all of them have shown incredibly growth and improvement! Great job Ladycats ! Harlee Pannell 4th place Emmi Hensley 3rd place Destiny Hogan 3rd place Emery Anderson 1st place Jolina Butterfield 4th place

We love restocking our Free Little Library to prepare for a weekend full of reading!! Check out our Free Little Library in front of Louise Durham! It is set up so families can have access to Free Books after school or on the weekends! There are more than 100,000 registered Free Little Library Book sharing boxes in 108 countries worldwide📚 Remember Take a book, leave a book, love a book!

The 2024 Wrestling regular season came to an end on Thursday.. The Mena Bearcats won both duals to Lonoke and Pulaski Academy, but fell short to CAC, the Mena Bearcats will be competing at Lonoke High School next Saturday (17th) at regionals for a shot at state! We also had a wrestler get their first win by pin which was an awesome team experience and this picture taken by Jessica Anderson shows the togetherness of these boys and girls. Go Bearcats!

MMS Leadership class came to teach our 3rd graders leadership games during enrichment!

Their future’s so bright they should have worn shades 😊 This group did amazing at District 1 Spring FBLA conference in Fort Smith today. We qualified for state competition in 28 events and 6 more events that are state only. **If anyone would like to judge some practice presentations for us between now and April 29…let me know!!!! Objective tests: 4th place Accounting - Carmindy Ashcraft 3rd place Business Calculations- Tuangsian Dopmul 2nd place Business Communications- Shantal Tecson 3rd place Business Law - Briley Parker 4th place Cybersecurity - Chloe Hopper 4th place Health care Administration - Yennyte Tecson 4th place Insurance & Risk Management - Rylee Wiles 3rd place Intro to Financial Math - Eli Swall 6th place Intro to Business Procedures - Tessa Williams 4th place Intro to Business Communications - Makenzie Vega 2nd place Intro to FBLA-Katie Rowe 2nd place Intro to Information Technology - Kate Wilson 4th place Intro to Marketing Concepts - Alaina Gilbert 3rd place Networking Infrastructures - Cristian Miller 4th place Supply Chain Management - Beck Vacca Test and Case study or Presentation (they had to present to judges) 1st place Digital Video Production - El Spencer 4th place Entrepreneurship - Brady Montgomery and Kensey Rosson 2nd place Hospitality and Event Management-Sully Massey, Jaxon Baber, Hudson Vacca 3rd place Impromptu Speaking-Gracie Gates 1st place International Business - Antonio Sanchez 2nd place Intro to Business Presentation - Zoe Adams and Adelhi Look 5th place Intro to Public Speaking - Kilee Rowe 2nd place Job Interview - Brinley Blake 2nd place Marketing - Daniel Edgmon 1st place Public Speaking - Hailey Emerson 2nd place Sales Presentation - Omar Cecilio 4th place Social Media Strategies - Briley Dean 2nd place Visual Design- Psalm Wistrand 3rd place Website Design-Jayden Cox, Kili Cox, Pascha Wistrand

The following MMS students placed in the top 5 of their competitions and were called on stage to be recognized and to receive their certificates at the FBLA Spring Leadership Conference in the Fort Smith Convention Center. Brylee Cox - 3rd place in the 3 minute timed test Lily Kate Doughty - 2nd place in Spelling Paeyton Hostetler - 4th place in Digital Citizenship Zahra Sofi - 3rd place in proofreading Lexie Thomas - 5th place in proofreading Francesca Vacca - 4th place in FBLA Concepts Francesca Vacca and Paeyton Hostetler qualified to compete at state in April. Congratulations to all that were recognized at conference!!

The MMS Project Prevent Team met Wednesday to plan their spring semester tobacco/nicotine prevention activities and wrapped lunch break by having a campus trash cleanup!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all! 1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce 3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller

Congratulations Mena Middle School 8th grader Shooter Davis for taking 2nd place overall at the Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday!!!

Holly Harshman Elementary students participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday. County Bee Winners- 3rd Grade- 3rd Place- Landri Bass 4th Grade- 3rd Place- Savannah Goodnight 5th Grade- 2nd Place- Avori Gortemiller

Mena Insurance Players of the Game: Dardanelle - Madi Fowler Waldron - Makenley Sullivan

MMS students during ACHIEVE having fun with Magic Carpet Ride, a team building, problem solving and communication activity.

Leveling up with Lexia!!

HHE teachers participating in a Zoom PD - Writing ✍️ Revolution - they volunteered to be involved(proud principal) & I am thankful for our amazing paraprofessionals that are continuing the learning in the classroom .♥️

The Mena Ladycats and Bearcats played Ft. Lake on Monday in the Union Bank Center. Sr. Bearcats - 43 Ft. Lake - 54 Sr. Ladycats -56 Ft. Lake - 39 The Ladycats and Bearcats play at Waldron on Tuesday at 6:00pm.

Mena Wrestling competed at the 4A Dual State Championship in Pottsville on Saturday. The boys beat Berryville, had a tough loss to Gravette, followed by a win over Central Arkansas Christian, before losing to Shiloh Christian Mena Bearcat Wrestling finishes 4th in state.

Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, February 5th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring AUBREY & ELLIE . They are second grade student in Mrs. Warren's class. Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at 5:30am 6:00am 6:30am 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am Noon 12:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm