School Custodian: The quiet hero of the school. They are always the first to arrive each day, clean up messes no one dares to touch and befriend everyone that passes by. Happy National Custodian Appreciation Day!
Thank you to our custodians for working behind the scenes to keep Westside Schools clean.
Pictured consecutively and left to right.
WES: Christian, Glendil, Sherry, Zoie and Bill
WMS: Robert
WHS: KC, Alice, Justin, Lynda, Shane and Jonathan
Westside Elementary GT had a special guest speaker this afternoon. Mrs. Robin Guile shared aspects of her job as a therapist, talked about the brain and how it processes emotions. It was a wonderful way for students to learn new information, techniques to handle big emotions and review previous information concerning the brain. Thank you Mrs. Guile!
WES PTO held a grand opening this week for the new walking track on the elementary playground.
Westside Elementary School and PTO extend our deepest gratitude to our sponsors: Tate General Contractors, Hedger Brothers, E&M Contractors and Cline Environmental, who generously volunteered their time, skills, supplies and resources!
#WarriorNation
Warrior Events for October 2nd - 7th!
10/2 - 9:30 - Brown's Graduation for Jr Class @ FAC
10/2 - 4:30-Volleyball-All Teams vs Paragould-Home
10/2-6pm-WHS Band Booster Meeting @ FAC
10/3-WHS School Pictures
10/3-5pm-Sr A & B vs JHS @ Home-SR Night
10/3-5pm-Title 1 Parent Meeting @ Cafeteria
10/3-6pm-WMS PTO Meeting @ Library
10/4-WES Picture Day for K, 2nd & 4th Grades
10/5-WES Picture Day for PreK, 1st & 3rd Grades
10/5-4:30-Volleyball-All Teams vs Trumann-Away
10/5-5:30-Jr Football vs Rivercrest @ Home
10/6-WES Book Fair Begins
10/6-4th Grade Field Trip to Parker Pioneer
10/6-WMS Picture Day
10/6-7pm-Sr Football vs Rivercrest-Away
10/7-Volleyball-Sr-Conway Tournament
10/7-WHS Band-Jonesboro Midsouth Marching
Classic @ JHS
🎮 Warriors Got Game 🎮 Football Homecoming 2023, October 9th - 12th with the football game vs Harrisburg on the 13th! Show your Warrior Spirit by dressing in theme each day!
Get those smiles ready, Warriors! 😁📸
School pictures are scheduled for next week! See dates below for each grade.
Congratulations to Westside Superintendent, Mr. Scott Gauntt, for being named as the ASPA (Arkansas School Psychology Association) “Administrator of the Year!” This was a true surprise to him and we were able to keep it under wraps so that he had no clue that he was even nominated. He thought he was driving to Conway this morning to present the award to another one of our staff members! Thank you Mr. Gauntt for all you do for the students and staff in our district!!!
WES gifted and talented students spent the day visiting Arkansas State University. The morning was spent at the museum to tie into the end of their novel unit. The afternoon was spent in the Arkansas State University Bioscience Institute. The students toured the laboratory, saw a variety of science experiments occurring and even participated in extracting DNA from a strawberry. A fun day of learning was had by all!
#Warriors
Westside Consolidated Schools had the pleasure of hosting State Senator (19th District) and State Representative Dwight Tosh (District 38) on campus this morning. Senator Wallace and Representative Tosh visited Coach Nabors Civics class where they fielded some questions from our students. We also walked them around our building discussing our security updates at the high school and across the district. Thank you both for taking the time to come tour our school and serve your communities!!!
At morning meeting on Fridays, we recognize our readers who move to the next level of AR points. There are other students in most levels from previous weeks. We have a strong reading culture growing in our building and we love to see kids find books they love!
Warrior Events for September 25th-30th!
9/25 - Tennis District Tourn. @ Allen Park
9/25 - 4:30pm - Volleyball-7th/Jr A & B
vs GCT @ Home
9/25 - WHS Senior Parent Info Night - Library
9/26 - 4:30pm - Volleyball-All Teams
vs Wynne @ Home
9/28 - WHS Exception Day
9/28 - 4:30pm - Volleyball- All Teams
vs Southside @ Home
9/28 - 5:30pm - Jr Football vs Blytheville- Away
9/28 - WMS Literacy Night
9/29 - WES Exception Day
9/29 - 7pm - Sr Football Vs Blytheville @ Home
9/30 - Volleyball - JR - Brookland Jr Tournament
9/30 - XC - Frank Horton Classic-Memphis, TN
✨ National IT Professionals Day ✨
Happy National IT Professionals Day to Mary, Ronnie, Landon and Jason! Thank you for working tirelessly to keep our systems running and your dedication in keeping Westside at the forefront of techonology! ❤🤍💻
#ITPro Day
Coach Devin Montgomery's high school health class visited and read a book they created to Mrs. Kim's Pre-K class. The written and illustrated book contained stories on communication, compromising and cooperating.
Way to go Warriors! 💗🤍
WES kicked our morning off with a pep rally at the football field! We watched our little cheerleaders do their performance that they have worked on this week. They did and great job and will perform again tonight at halftime. We appreciate the band and jr/high school cheerleaders performing for us! Our little kids love to see our big kids!
Warrior Events for September 18th-23rd! 9/18 - Golf Tournament @ Sage Meadows - TBD 9/18 - 3:30pm - Tennis vs Highland @ Allen Park 9/18 - 4:30pm - Volleyball - All Teams vs Trumann @ Home 9/18 - 6pm - WES PTO Meeting-Cafeteria 9/18 - 7pm - School Board Meeting - HS Library 9/19 - 3pm - XC-Race on the Ridge - Paragould 9/19 - 4:30pm - Volleyball-7th/Jr A & B vs MAC 9/21 - WMS Exception Day 9/21 - Tennis vs Wynne @ Allen Park 9/21 - 4:30pm - All Teams vs Pocahontas @ Home 9/21 - 5:30pm - Jr Football vs Trumann @ Home 9/22 - 7pm - Sr Football vs Trumann - Away 9/23 - Volleyball - Sr Playday Tournament
Reducing chronic absence and its effects in our area schools is a community effort.
Last week Mayor Copenhaver issued a Proclamation as September 2023 as Attendance Awareness Month. We want all students to be empowered to success- and that requires being in attendance. Thank you to our area schools for making attendance a priority.
Those in attendance pictured: Misty Doyle, JPS Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning; Mandy Zipfil, JPS Learning Loss Coordinator; Dr. Karen Curtner, Nettleton Superintendent; Elliana Dobson, Jonesboro High School Senior; Dr. William Cheatham, JPS Assistant Superintendent of Student Services; Olivia Exum, Nettleton 8th grader; Dr. Karen Cutner, Nettleton Superintendent; Mayor Copenhaver; Jax Carr, Valley View High School Senior; Roland Popejoy, Valley View Superintendent; Ava Mosier, Westside Senior; Scott Gauntt, Westside Superintendent.
Jonesboro Public Schools Nettleton Public Schools Valley View School District Westside Consolidated School District
Help your school by submitting a school meal application! Applying for free or reduced-price meals helps your school get more funding and may make you eligible for free school meals and other benefits in the future, like discounts and fee waivers. Thanks to ACT 656, all approved FREE and REDUCED applications, will receive FREE meals (breakfast & lunch) for the 2023-2024 school year.
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WES August Employees of the Month were named today!
Certified: Mandi Gipson
Classified: Sherry Byard
We appreciate all that these two do for our school!
📢 Warrior Events for September 11th - 15th! 📢
9/11 - Golf vs BIC @ North Hills
9/11 - 3:30pm - Tennis vs Southside @ Allen Park
9/11 - 6pm - Band Booster Meeting - FAC
9/12 - Golf vs Brookland @ Sage Meadows
9/12 - 4pm - XC - Batesville Inv. - Sulphur Rock
9/12 - 4:30pm - Volleyball - All Teams @ Southside
9/13 - 3:30pm - Tennis vs Pocahontas & Brookland
@ Allen Park
9/14 - 4:30pm - Volleyball - All Teams vs Brookland
@ Home
9/14 - 5:30pm - Jr Football vs Gosnell - Away
9/15 - 7pm - Sr Football vs Heber Springs @ Home
9/15 - 6:45pm - SR Night for Tennis, Golf & XC
Congratulations to these students for working hard and achieving their reading goals this week! 🏹📚