The Spotlight Singers had a wonderful time singing at Sounds of the Season at the state Capitol. It’s always one of our favorite trips of the year!
Ornament FUN! 🎄♥️ Ms. Claire Williamson from 4H helped 5th grade make ornaments!
4th and 5th grade "read to a dog".
Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 11th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring SOPHIA.
Sophia is a 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
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Mena High School AE students took Christmas cards to the Homewood Cottages residents today for a service project.
Congratulations to our MMS grade-level spelling bee winners. They will be headed to the Polk County Spelling Bee next month:
6th grade
Briar Robinson
Zach Horn
Alternate-Joscelyn Bates
7th grade
Talen West
Sophia Kendrick
Alternate -Tanner Cobb
8th grade
Camilla Booher
Shooter Davis
Alternate- Zachary Werkoven
Our zoom meeting with Kwame Alexander (author of The Crossover) and Judy Blume (author of Fudge) at the Mena MIddle School Library was fantastic! They answered one of our student’s questions and we learned a little about building characters in our writing. The highlight was hearing Kwame read his own writing. Thank you Kwame Alexander!
Mena Middle School student Nathan Williamson competed and won first place in the local 2023-2024 VFW Patriot's Pen youth essay contest. Nathan was awarded $300 by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. His essay was submitted for the state level competition. Congratulations Nathan!
Mena Middle School Project Prevent Team, FCCLA, FBLA, Yearbook Staff and Student Council members spent the day ringing the bell for The Salvation Army.
Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 4th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring KYE.
Kye is a second grade student in Mrs. Trammell's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
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Payton shared her “First Chapter Friday” with the whole class! She inspired many of her classmates to read the book Wish
Mr. Scott Davis taught HHE about electricity safety today along with some magic. Thank you REA for sponsoring the show!!
Mena Boys won their meet last night vs Fort Smith Southside 43-24, sadly the girls lost. Bright future ahead for both teams. Come out Thursday at 6:00pm for our first home meet in Mena history!
The Jr. Bearcats played Pottsville on Thursday at the Union Bank Center.
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Pottsville-35
Mena is back in action on Monday when they play Fountain Lake at Jim Rackley Gymnasium.
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The Jr. Ladycats played Pottsville on Thursday at the Union Bank Center.
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Pottsville-41
Mena is back in action on Monday when they play Fountain Lake at Jim Rackley Gymnasium.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=41091
Leveled up!
The Mena Bearcats played Booneville on Tuesday at the Union Bank Center.
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Booneville-52
The Bearcats are back in action on Friday at Pottsville.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=20089
The Mena Ladycats played Booneville on Tuesday at the Union Bank Center.
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Booneville-30
The Ladycats are back in action on Friday at Pottsville.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=41092
Mena High School held a pep rally for basketball and wrestling on Tuesday in the Union Bank Center.
Members of the National English Honor Society read to students at Holly Harshman Elementary on Friday!
