There is still time to join this amazing competition! The last day to register is this Friday, February 23!
8th Grade Families and Friends:
If you are feeling overwhelmed, confused, or stressed about the Student Success Planning meetings for high school we are here to help you. We know that contemplating the move to high school is emotional and important to you. PLEASE LOOK FOR AN EMAIL TODAY FROM OUR HIGH SCHOOLS TO GET MORE SUPPORT.
Seventeen seventh and eighth graders signed up for priority garden club on Friday, February 16th to welcome guest speaker, Kitty Sanders of the Ozark Botanical Gardens, speak on Arkansas Butterflies. She was a guest of the Bentonville Garden Club whose 6 volunteers support the priority garden club coordinated by science teachers Mrs. Sutterfield and Mrs. Brown. The students have a keen interest in creating biodiversity in the ecosystem at WJHS. They are particularly interested in planting host plants for
pollinators in the Spring.
Save the date! More details sent to your inbox on Friday afternoon.
The staff chili cook off was a hit on Friday! The winner was Mr. Pennington and runners up were Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Irish. The real winners though were all the rest of the staff… delicious!
Last chance to order your yearbook is this Friday, February 16!
Kids and Families are welcome to join!
Students from Mrs. Tatum’s advanced art class made felt softies for students at Apple Glen Elementary. Each softie was custom made based on an original drawing from our elementary kids. Students will now write stories about their softie. ❤️❤️❤️
Washington Junior High School gardeners accompanied by Mrs Brown and volunteers from the Bentonville Garden Club were treated to a tailor made Peel Museum tour by its historian and professional tour guide. ❤️
Thank you for keeping our school and district safe.
Our very own Mrs. Bolding serves as Bentonville’s Junior High District Mentor for Novice Teachers. Today at WJHS the teachers attended a mental health presentation from Kelly Krout at Arisa Health and Dr. Ellsworth from our Student Services building.
The WJHS gardeners under the supervision of Mrs Brown and Mrs Sutterfield were treated to a “ cooking lesson” on how to make “ Apple Walnut salad with Cider Vinaigrette” featuring local apples by the Bentonville Garden Club.
Some of our WJHS Cheerleaders decorated a tree at The Meadows Independent & Assisted Living Community last week! All of the trees are open for the public to view from Dec. 4th-Dec. 31.
EAST students LOVE working with the Little Rock Zoo, and we're happy to announce that ten EAST programs have been selected to work on sixteen projects this school year as a part of our Project Zoo initiative!
Bridget Davis, Milo Flake, and Amy Madewell participated in the Veterans Day Writing Challenge last week! Their submissions were phenomenal and all three won the challenge! Great job, Wildcats!
We are pleased to tell you that there will be an hour of coding schoolwide on Monday, December 4 during Advisory. Our CTE team is preparing introductory and advanced coding opportunities for kids. This is a great opportunity for our students to learn a new skill or develop an existing one that may lead to a future course or a career pathway. Please check out Google Classroom on that date to see the coding slides. Go CodingCats!
Congratulations to FCCLA members: (1) Mazzy Warden and Lydia Boles for winning a Bronze medal and to (2) Khloe Salle for winning a Silver medal. They competed at the District level in Ft. Smith on Tuesday. They have now qualified for state competition in Hot Springs in April.
Mrs. Bolding and our EAST kids are back in action! Grace Roberts and Annalise Fuhriman attended Mobile App Development workshop with EAST. What a fun day of learning and exploring.
Thank you to our Veterans for your courageous service and for attending our breakfast event this morning. Our students were very proud to show you off to their peers and teachers. ❤️🤍💙
Congrats to Piper Dunn and Karli Brazile for being our recent students of the month and to Mrs. Bolding and Mrs. Kirby for being our recent teachers of the month! We appreciate you representing our Wildcat traits so well each and every day!
