Thursday-Mid- Term reports go home. Student of the Month Assembly in the cafeteria at 2:10, Kindergarten Registration 4-6 LIVESCHOOL STORE DATES AND TIMES 9:30-10:45 and 12:00-2:30 Tuesday, April 9 - SECOND GRADE Wednesday, April 10 - FIRST GRADE Thursday, April 11 - KINDERGARTEN Friday, April 12 - HAPPY NOTEBOOKS send all students in all grades with happy notebook coupons down to the store during the stated store hours. LiveSchool Event day will be Thursday, April 18th

Tiffany Williams is the librarian at Louise Durham Elementary & she always has interesting displays to catch the eye of students & keep them engaged. Check out what is available this week...

Mark Hobson fills you in on a jam packed week at the Mena Public Schools! https://www.facebook.com/MenaPublicSchools/videos/583875055449754/

Louise Durham Kindergarten students learned about the life cycle of a butterfly this week! 🐛 🦋

Louise Durham Elementary is conducting Pre-K and Kindergarten Pre-registration daily from 9-2. Please bring your child’s birth certificate, social security card, immunization record, and proof of a well-child physical that was completed in the last two years. Parents, you are encouraged to register your child even if you do not have all of the documents needed, as you may bring the required documents any time before the school year begins. A special evening Pre-registration will be on April 11t​h​ from 4-6 in the school library. We look forward to seeing you!!

Keep up to date with the Mena Public School Weather Bug! https://www.weatherbug.com/weather-forecast/now/mena-ar-71953?location=mena-ar-71953

Louise Durham Preschool students have fallen in love with books this year! Preschool students at Louise Durham attend library throughout the school year, checking out books , trying different book genres, and reading about different characters. Providing a literacy rich culture, book access, and excitment for our students is important as we work to create life long readers at Louise Durham!

Louise Durham principal Jimma Holder & Holly Harshman principal Tamara Smart shared information about Liveschool with principals from around the area at the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative today.

A preview of the 6th grade musical.. The public performance is tonight at 7pm in the Mena High School Performing Arts Center.. https://youtu.be/LegjjwxNOTM

For your viewing and planning enjoyment. The 19-20 calender for Mena Public Schools!

Enjoy a recap of the month of March 2019 at Mena Public Schools! https://youtu.be/PQyKLe_ABI4

April Menus for Louise Durham & Holly Harshman

We are Bearcats!

New books out for a new week at the Louise Durham Elementary Library!!! Including new read aloud picture books that would be fantastic just to read aloud & there are some amazing new picture books that every child can make a connection, find themselves in, and create conversations.

Tomorrow, April 2, is Autism Awareness Day, and all students and faculty are encouraged to wear blue to support Autism Awareness.

Monday shout out with Mark Hobson! https://www.facebook.com/MenaPublicSchools/videos/599997417072434/

Follow the link to School Choice Forms! Please complete both forms - page 1 and page 2. https://www.menaschools.org/o/mena-school-district/browse/51161

Want to be a part of the Polk County Virtual Academy! Follow the link to fill out forms 1 & 2. Then bring them to the Mena Public School Administration Building at 501 Hickory Ave. https://www.menaschools.org/o/mena-school-district/browse/51224

Pre-K & Kindergarten registration is underway!

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.—Maya Angelou This sums up the wave that is moving across Arkansas in regards to The Right To Read Act 1063 requiring Arkansas educators to achieve levels of proficiency and awareness in the knowledge and practices of the science of reading. Mena School District Dyslexia Coordinator, Vicky Maye shares that our school is committed to making preventative curriculum changes with whole group and small group instruction to put the science of reading in motion to close the gap in literacy achievement for our struggling readers. We are teaming with Winsor Learning’s Sonday System which is an Orton Gillingham Reading Intervention System that provides multi sensory tools and training to help equip our educators to become master multi sensory instructors who can use daily instruction to wire and train our students’ brains to successfully read. Our administration has been willing to go above and beyond to make the much needed changes to move forward with closing the literacy gap in our school. I’ve worked closely with our federal coordinator, Paulette Sherrer; building principals Jimma Holder, Tamara Smart, and Clifton Sherrer, our LEA-Laura Bunch for special education and our teachers to get these changes in motion. It’s got to be a team approach with everybody being a stakeholder and having ownership in making the very most of our investments in our students! Pictured is Winsor’s Educational Consultant, Kristen Koeller leading this initiative with Mena teachers representing K-8th regular education and special education teachers and dyslexia paraprofessionals. Koeller will provide continuous support with this endeavor. Maye shares that it’s important to keep Sally Shaywitz’s words in mind as our mission, “.....the struggling reader needs someone who will not only believe in him but will translate that belief into positive action....and then actively and relentlessly work to ensure that he receives what he needs.”