Leading the 260 members of the Class of 2012 onto Patriot field Friday night will be valedictorians Raghib Alam, Julia Austin, Katherine James, Emily Lugar, Gabrielle Outlaw, Zac Pankey, and Emily Peters, along with salutatorian Tyler Woolbright.
Marion High School hosted its Awards Ceremony Sunday, recognizing students who have made the honor rolls, are Patriot Scholars or who have won various academic and regional awards. Only seniors and juniors are eligible to become a Patriot Scholar. Seniors must maintain a 3.8 GPA for two semesters and juniors must maintain a 3.8 GPA for three semesters.
Marion School District would like to say a special thank-you to the following businesses for making the purchase of 6A State Volleyball and 6A State Girls Golf Championship Rings possible.
Mid-South Community College
First Community Bank
Marion Athletic Booster Club
Joseph Atem visits MMS
By Mike Douglas
Marion School District
In 1988, Joseph Atem was only eight or nine years old and was leaving home. He’s not sure of his precise age. He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He just knows what year he was born, not the date.
Leaving home at such a young age was not his choice. It was simply a matter of staying alive.
MMS Drama Club's 1st ever performance will be Friday and Saturday May 11 & 12.
Two shows will be performed, "School Daze" and "Hoodie." Performances are Friday, May 11 at 6pm and Saturday, May 12 at 2pm. Tickets are $3 for adults and $1 for students.
MHS Skills USA students compete
By Mike Douglas
Marion School District
Putting a bunch of pipes together so water flows the right way may sound easy, but Marion High School junior Andrew Griggs will give you an argument.
And he has the credentials to backup his argument. In his first time in the SkillsUSA competition held recently in Hot Springs, Griggs came away with a second-place finish among the eight students entered in the plumbing event.
Come be a part of the excitement of a live dinner theatre, in which you can get the chance to guess "whodunit!"
It's 1940s New York City, and famous actress has just been murdered. Help detective Samantha Spaed solve the murder while meeting many fascinating suspects, er, guests.
When: Tuesday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Marion Junior High School Cafeteria
How: Tickets are PRE-SALE only ($5 students/$7 adults), and can be purchased from Mrs. Waddell Smith, any Drama II/III student, or in the MHS main office in advance
A spaghetti dinner will be served, so come hungry!
For $1, take a stab at solving the murder. Prizes will be awarded to a few lucky, correct guessers.
This is an audience-participation production, so we encourage our audience to "dress the part." Make your evening even more fun by dressing in 1940s attire!
MSD Title I program
Marion School District’s Title I program employs 3 certified teachers and 17 instructional assistants at Avondale, Marion Elementary and Marion Intermediate. The Title I program funds Before/After School Programs; Early Childhood Programs; Schoolwide Instruction; a Summer School Program (grades K-5); Parent Involvement activities; Improvement of Instruction (staff training) and Supplemental Services at the Intermediate School.student and staff activities at the 3 campuses.
In addition, at the District level, services funded include the Federal Programs Director's travel and office needs; services provided to qualifying and participating private schools; and services for Homeless students and/or students in need of welfare services in grades K-12. Title I funds paid for the surround sound systems and interactive white boards that are in K-5 classrooms. At Avondale Elementary and Marion Elementary, the Accelerated Reader, Headsprout, Teachsmart, and Education City software and many of the laptops and Ipads used by students were purchased with Title I funds. Marion Elementary and Marion Intermediate have document cameras and a computer lab funded with Title I funds also. At the Marion Intermediate School the Accelerated Reader, Brain Pop, and Safari Montage software
is funded by Title I.
MIS and DeltaArts team up
Operatic Inspiration
Patty Carreras, with Opera Memphis, guides Marion Intermediate School Barry Bates' music students, through a quick production of “The Billy Goats Gruff” as part of DeltaArts Lincoln Institute’s Visiting Artists program. Carreras explained how an operatic production works and the different parts of a performance. Youngsters were cast as the characters in “The Billy Goat Gruff” and put on a brief adaptation of the opera. A professional cast will return to MIS on May 10 for a performance. Opera Memphis’ production of the opera has sold out its scheduled May 11 showing.
Marion Middle School students received the tdap booster shot. State law requires all students, with few exceptions, to get the booster shot before entering the seventh grade.
Stock Market Game @MIS
Some titans of the stock market may be in the making at Marion Intermediate School.
Youngsters in Angela Austin’s fifth-grade social studies class are neck deep in buying and selling stocks in the Stock Market Game, a national program that was launched in 1977. The Stock Market Game strengthens the learning experience in math, social students and language arts. The game also teaches students how to invest and how to save. Click here to read more.
Senior Celebration
Parent volunteers will host the 17th Annual Senior Celebration following the Marion High School prom April 28 at the First Baptist Church of Marion.
The party is open to all MHS seniors and their dates. Doors at the church will open at 11 p.m. The night ends at 4 a.m.
Kelley Moore is organizing the event and said there will be lots of prizes and cash given away during the night. Prizes may include a large-screen television, dorm refrigerator and microwave oven, up to $500 cash and much more.
“We will have a roster of all the MHS seniors and a student does not have to attend the prom to come to the Senior Celebration,” Kelley said. “All we ask is the senior be in line at the church by 12:15 a.m. to get in.”
Kelley said there will be plenty of food, soft drinks, activities, games and tournaments for students to have a night of fun.
“It is free and open to all Marion seniors to have a fun and safe place to go after the prom,” Kelley said.
She said Senior Celebration would not be possible without the cooperation and help of the community and businesses.
Classof 2012
MHS Class of 2012 Graduation
Friday, May 18
5pm
Patriot Field
MMS Lost Boys Benefit Walk
Inspired by what they’d read for a class, students at Marion Middle School raised $440 Saturday morning in an effort to honor the victims, known as the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” appropriately with a walk. The youngsters spent one hour either walking or running along Patriot Drive, the loop between their school and Marion High School.
The book, “A Long Walk for Water” by Linda Sue Parks, chronicles the journey of thousands of young boys as they walked for months and covered thousands of miles attempting to escape the slaughter that had become the civil war in the Sudan. Soldiers had been ordered to conscript the boys, some as young as seven years old, or to kill anyone who resisted. Many of the boys died on the route, either due to starvation and thirst or animal predation.
Joseph Atem, one of the lucky survivors of the epic journey and who lives in Memphis, spoke to MMS seventh-grade students Tuesday.
AES Volunteers are appreciated
On Wednesday, March 14th, Avondale hosted its annual Volunteer Luncheon. The luncheon is specifically designed to show gratitude to our awesome volunteers. We have community members, mothers, fathers, and a host of other relatives that continuously donate their
time, efforts, and energy to Avondale. These volunteers provide encouragement and motivation to our students, serve on various school improvement committees, as well as support to the entire Avondale family. We take great pleasure in providing lunch each year as well as keeping them updated with Marion School District information.
Lost Boys of Sudan Benefit Walk
The MMS "Lost Boys of Sudan" walk is set for Saturday, April 14, at the Quad. Patriot Drive will be closed from 8:50-10:30 a.m. Anyone may participate in the event. There is no entry fee but a donation is appreciated. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the walk follows at 9 a.m.
Proceeds will be sent to the Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville and Water for South Sudan. The Nashville foundation helps defray expenses for lost boys in this area and is also covering the expenses of Joseph Atem to come to MMS to speak to the seventh-grade class on Tuesday, April 18. Atem, one of the Lost Boys, lives in Memphis and survived the atrocities of the near-continuous civil war in Sudan.
Mrs. Patricia Rebick's Economics students competed at ASU in a regional Economics competition recently. The team won first place and will compete at the state level next month.
The Halls are Alive with Music!
The halls at Avondale are alive with the sound of music! Not the typical singing but the knowledge of rhythm and melody. Miss Keesee spends her mornings with our kindergartners bridging the gap between music and classroom lessons. Every week she uses a
musical instrument, activity, or concept to reinforce the letters of the alphabet. Just recently she had the students help her construct a Quirky Quarter Note Quilt that hung in our hall for everyone to see. Miss Keesee has also recently introduced her friend Freddie the Frog in the afternoons to the first grade students to help teach them the names of the lines and spaces on a staff and how to play instruments such as xylophones, glockenspiels, and Boomwhackers on their own. Pictured above are the kindergarten’s Quirky Quarter Note Quilt, students checking out a few instruments, a lesson about movement in sound, and first grade students playing the Boomwhackers. You can find weekly updates about what Miss Keesee and what her classes are up to by visiting her website at http://www.msd3.org/rwd/faculty/j_keesee/.
District Background
Marion School District, ranking twenty-second largest in the state, is located twelve miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, in Crittenden County, Arkansas, and has an enrollment of approximately 4,300 in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The pupil:teacher ratio is 17:1.
Home to 4,180 students in grades PK-12 located on 6 campuses.
Avondale Elementary:
PK-1
634
Marion Elementary:
2-3
626
Marion Intermediate:
4-5
637
Marion Middle:
6-7
702
Marion Junior High:
8-9
660
Marion High School:
10-12
921
Mission Statement
It is the mission of the Marion School District to provide our students with a basic program of instruction so that they will acquire the academic, social, and decision-making skills needed to become productive citizens in our rapidly changing technological world. We recognize individual differences in students and believe that all children can learn. We strive to meet their needs and interests by offering a balanced curriculum and creating an atmosphere conducive to learning.
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Contact Information
Marion School District Admin Office 200 Manor Street Marion, AR 72364 PHONE: 870-739-5100 FAX: 870-739-5156
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