All of the high school will be attending Chase McDonnough's tennis court dedication on Friday, 11/8/19 leaving around 10:30 am and returning around 12:00 p.m. If you do not want your child to attend please contact us at the high school.
Lifetouch Picture retakes have been rescheduled from October 24th to Thursday, November 7th. These retakes are for 10th & 11th grade students and faculty/staff. The rescheduled date allows time for the original pictures to come in.
Congratulations to Mr. Joe Washburn on being chosen as the Pocahontas Chamber of Commerce Secondary Teacher of the Year!!
Seniors, FAFSA Night is Tuesday, October 29th @ 6:30 pm in the PHS Library. Open to both seniors and parents. Representatives will be in attendance to help with the completion of the FAFSA and answer any questions you might have. Please bring a copy of your 2018 taxes.
Seniors who signed up will be visiting Williams Baptist on Wednesday, 10/23/19.
Just a reminder that PHS students who need immunizations that a bus will going to the health dept the morning of Thursday, 10/24/19. All students going must have their paperwork returned by Wednesday. If a up to date shot record or exemption is not received by Friday, 10/25/19 that student will be sent home until the information updated or an exemption has been received. All classwork will still be allowed to be completed.
Pocahontas School District will not be in session on Friday, 10/18/19.
Picture retakes at the High School will be done on October 24th.
Flu clinic being held at PHS on Thursday. Students must have appropriate completed forms to be allowed to get their flu shot.
Reminder that Parent/Teacher conferences are Thursday from 3:30-7:30 p.m. at Pocahontas High School.
The PHS FBLA group went to the Fall Conference last Thursday. They listened to guest speaker, Walt Coleman, NFL Referee and learned about how to handle negatives in your life and how to stay positive. Our officers were also inducted in their offices. The kids had a great time!
FACS have been talking about stress. They talked about the symptoms that go along with stress and talked about coping methods for stress.
The students did a stress test to self evaluate their own stress level. The students learned some breathing techniques and practiced those in class. We did some relaxing yoga, to learn an exercising technique that could help us relax. In class the students made stress balls out of a "fake snow mixture" and the students were able to take a stress ball home with them.
Mr. John Chester, retired MDW principal, was discussing “Preparation” with AE students. They were going through how to set up budgets. Income, gross pay and taxes withheld was quite an eye-opener to them.
Here is a link to go to the KJNB new story that recently aired about Mrs. Murray. The story will start at about the 10:20 mark in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41SeXDxA2ME&list=PL2IX3xyPVgrxsNTLQzZtaJozYdG7gx4BT&index=9
Today 10/11/19 is the last day of the first nine weeks. It has been a great nine weeks! Please be sure that you come to parent/teacher conferences Thursday, 10/17/19 if you have any questions or concerns!
Please need all administrators, staff and parents to please complete the following survey: https://bit.ly/2pqsfyn
Please need all students from PHS to complete the following survey:
https://bit.ly/2ozxbAi
KJNB did a news story today on Mrs. Murray. The story is about Mrs. Murray getting nominated as one of four finalist in Arkansas for the 2019 Presidential for Excellence in Math and Science. The story will air tonight on the 6 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm news.
Junior and senior high GT students will be taking a field trip on Monday, 10/14/19. They will be vising the Clinton Library, Capitol and Central High School. They are leaving at 5:45 am and will be back around 5:30 pm.
College Day is on Wednesday, 10/9/19. Seniors may come to the library anytime during the school day with their teachers permission to get helping filling out college applications.
Check out the 2019 Marching Redskins and their performance from tonight. https://youtu.be/RShb9MgJI1U