Elementary Awards will be held Thursday, January 17 in the PE Room! Join us as we honor our AWESOME students!
8:30 am K/1
9:15 am 2/3
10:00 am 4/6
AT LEAST 20 DONORS ARE NEEDED TO STAY ON THE SCHOLARSHIP PATH FOR THIS YEAR! ~ PLEASE GIVE!
We are so proud of our TOP READERS! ~ Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader!
đW O W!đ What great spellers we have! Congratulations to 5th grader Alexis Conway for winning the 2019 JCES Spelling Bee and to 6th grader Kenneth Brown for earning runner-up honors! Alexis and Kenneth went for 48 rounds! #DragonProud #SpellingIsSoImportant
Mark your calendar because you don't want to miss this! February 8, 2019 is going to be a special night in Dragon Arena! Our 2019 Senior Basketball players will be honored before their last regular season home game! Then, during halftime of the Dragon boys game, 2007 JCHS Alumnus and Dragon Basketball Standout James Anderson will be honored and his #23 Dragon jersey fo...
Come join us for a fun night of Bingo, Pizza and Door Prizes!
ECHO, a program sponsored by the SHARE Foundation, visited with our 8th & 9th graders today in the MPR! ~The students had so much fun with team building activities!
Junction City School District is so excited for one of our own, 1959 JCHS Alumnus Mr. Rollie Adams! ~ His new novel, South of Little Rock, was published in November and is a story of love, hate, fear, and courage as the residents of a small town in southern Arkansas deal with change during the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis of 1957. ~ To view info...
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đParents of little Dragons!đ2019-2020 Kindergarten Registration will be held April 4-5! Please click this link for important information that you MUST bring to registration: http://5il.co/317i
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Ms. Kaitlin Taylor's 7th graders participated in a Christmas Tree Makerspace Project in the library! Students had to create a stand alone Christmas tree with only 2 pieces of construction paper, 4 popsicle sticks, tape, scissors, and glue!
Congratulations to our JCHS Cheerleaders! 2018 Class 1A-2A-3A State Runner Up! #GreatJobGirls #DragonProud
Congratulations to 5th graders Kaely Hunter and Graden Hanry for being chosen as Grand Marshals for the ElDorado Christmas Parade on Thursday, December 6th!
Junction City High School has been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as a school where students demonstrated high growth on the ACT Aspire! The OEP creates an annual report entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards, and this year they are recognizing schools with high student growth. Growth is the best ind...
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Look for Box Tops on many products you use at home, save them and when you get a sheet filled (50 box tops) send it to your child's campus office or library! Click here for Box Tops sheets: http://5il.co/4ity
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After reading about the first Thanksgiving, elementary students used various makerspace materials to create the Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, pilgrims and turkeys! More Makerspace Photos!
Mrs. Emily Carelock's students are getting ready for Thanksgiving by making apple turkeys! Everyoneâs turkey must stand before anyone can eat! Click for More Photos!
JCHS Freshmen attended Manufacturing Day at the ElDorado Conference Center sponsored by LANXESS and South Arkansas Community College! Our students enjoyed learning information about some of the industries here in South Arkansas! They participated in hands-on demonstrations and visited a job fair to speak with representatives to gain information from area industries! JC...
Thanks to Mrs. Carelockâs first period class who brought the most boxes and made the collection a success! Her first period will enjoy a spudnut party on Friday. Special thanks to Ian Girard and his mom for their extra special work. We collected around 60 boxes! Thanks for all who gave!
Mrs. Katie Leopard and Mrs. Helbling took a group of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students to SAU's Science STEM Open House in Magnolia Friday. They attended workshops where they completed a Kool Aid Chromatography lab; learned about Robots and watched a NAO Robot dance; and watched physics demonstrations including rocket demonstrations. PHOTOS!
Mrs. Katie Leopardâs ninth grade physical science students were tasked to design an experiment to explain a phenomena pertaining to one of Newton's laws of motion. Looks like they did a great job! PHOTOS!
What an AWESOME DAY at Louisiana Tech University! Members of our JCHS band and choir participated in âExperience Music at Tech Dayâ which included informational breakout sessions, student ensemble performances, campus tours, and a music faculty talent showcase! These creative and musical students, along with their Director Ms. Katie Nugent had a blast! More pictures!
Several senior football players kicked off our 2nd year of the JCHS Men of Character Program! These distinguished gentlemen are an influence to the elementary young men in a positive way. Once a month these young men mentor boys in fourth, fifth and sixth grades. They instill in them the importance of education, self-respect, self-worth and honesty. These young men are...
JCHS 1ST 9 WEEKS TOP READERS!JCHS students are involved in a school-wide reading program. Students choose designated books from the school library. After reading a book, students take a comprehension test on the computer using âScholastic Reading Counts!â Students who earn a 70% or high score on the test will earn a predetermined point value from completing the book.
Students used steel balls and Keva planks to design a two lane race track. They discovered that adjusting the slope of the track made a big difference in the distance that the ball traveled. #OurLibraryRocks #LearningisFUN#MakerSpaceClick for more photos!
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K-1 PHOTOS!
2-3 PHOTOS!
4-6 PHOTOS!
Pumpkin Patch Photos!Mrs. Thompson's Pumpkin Patch Photos!Mrs. Miller's Pumpkin Patch Photos
~Escape Room Photos!~Mrs. Sarah Hagler's juniors participated in an exciting project using their classroom as an Escape Room to learn about Women's Suffrage! The students had 4 clues to figure out to help unlock the code! Looks like it was a lot of learning and lots of FUN!!!
Seniors work hard during Mrs. Raines English Classes!!! Click the following links for photos!â˘DEAR DAY!
â˘Character Biographies of the book "Peace Like a River"
More Homecoming information to come!
Dragons Host Bearden 7:00pm
In celebration of the National Day of Encouragement on September 12th, JCHS students were actively involved in painting "rocks of encouragement" to give away! This special day has been observed annually since 2007 and was initially launched in Searcy, AR.For more photos, click this link: Encouraging Rocks!
WALKING TRACK TO BE CONSTRUCTED!!!Junction City School District proposes to strengthen collaboration with Union County, Arkansasfor the purpose of providing opportunities to increase physical activity targeting the students,parents, staff and community at Junction City High School and over time reduce rates ofobesity. The Junction City School District and Union County,...
We are pleased to announce that the Arkansas 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant for 2018-2019 school year has been awarded to Junction City Elementary School! The program will begin on October 1, 2018 and will provide our students with intensive academic enrichment opportunities. This program will also offer literacy, mathematics and related educational servi...
We are so proud of these JCHS students who attended the MASH program this summer!#busydragons #summerisforlearningtoo
Congratulations JCHS for earning a 2017 âBeating the Oddsâ English Language Arts Award from the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas! Way to go Principal Mason, teachers and students! Your hard work has been recognized!!!
Director Katie Nugent and the JCHS Dragon Band would like to thank Louisiana Tech Universityâs Chapter of Phi Buda Ruda for their generous donation of percussion equipment for our marching band. PBr representative, Kendrick Kruskie personally delivered the equipment during band class last week!
A BIG THANK YOU from Principal Teresa J. Matochik to the JCES staff and all volunteers and parents who helped with our elementary field day! We appreciate those who shared photos and joined in on the fun of the day! Field Day Photos!
Men of Character Celebration PHOTOS!
At JCSD, the word "character" means so much more that just a student's classroom or athletic behaviors...it is who we want our students to strive to be...a person of good character and integrity to live and to serve and to make this world a better place! We celebrated our Men of Character on Friday, May 4, 2018 with a special cere...
LAW DAY!
In recognition of Law Day, guest speakers Ryan Rainwater, Molly Shepherd and Jim Bennett visited Mrs. Sarah Hagler's classes! They talked about what they do in their everyday jobs and what rights the students have.
Congratulations to these JCHS top scholars! 2018 Seniors Rachael Pepper and Grace Jackson attended the Scholastic Honors Day at the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock! These ladies met Governor Asa Hutchinson and received a prestigious Scholars Award!
We are so proud of our Northeast Claiborne Charter students! These JCHS-NECC scholars were honored tonight at the Claiborne Parish Scholar Awards Banquet! #bordertownproud #neccdragons
As testing season begins, JCSD wants to encourage all of our students to do your very best!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GREEN THUMBS!
JCES 4-6 grade students participated in the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation Tomato Project. The students plant seeds and learn how to care for them as well as how beneficial tomatoes are to their health. Six weeks later the plants are judged.
4TH GRADE
OVERALL WINNERS:
1st - Hunter Pepper
2nd - Alivia Aycock
3rd...
Congratulations to our AWESOME Olympians! These great Dragons competed in the Arkansas Area 15 Special Olympics at Magnolia High School and earned the OVERALL SPIRIT AWARD! We are DRAGON PROUD!
Kyler Eyter and Kalyn McDaniel finish up their personal narratives in Mrs. Rayâs kindergarten class!
Memorie Hall, Courtney Johnson, and Heaven Pennington practice securing and stabilizing the head and neck of a patient, Julia Prado, who could have a broken neck or severe head injury.The students of JCHS's newly founded Sports Medicine Program are learning what goes into potentially saving a life not only on the field or court, but wherever the need may arise.
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What a beautiful day for Peter Rabbit and an egg hunt!Click this link for more fun photos!
Kelly Stewart, Cody Stewart, and Dylan Stewart represented Junction City Jr. High FBLA by delivering 60 cases of water to Madison Middle/High School. The water has been collected by JC FBLA the past few weeks. The Stewart family personally donated more water and were happy to deliver to the Madison Parish Principal in Tallulah, LA! The Jaguars sent back a BIG THANK YOU...
The Jr. High FBLA community service project for this year was to aid students in Tallulah, Louisiana by donating bottled water. Tallulah is in Madison Parish and has been experiencing a water shortage the past few months. In a state of emergency, schools were closed temporarily due to this water shortage.
Mrs. Leopard's students participated in the 1st Annual Cardboard Challenge at the Daffodil Festival in Camden last week! A total of 21 school teams participated. JCHS sent two teams (11th graders and 8th/9th graders) and they represented JCHS well! Both JCHS teams won the CONSTRAINT AWARD by successfully completing all 3 required constraints. The 11th graders designed ...
Thanks Mrs. Owens and our FCCLA members for representing JCHS today at the State Leadership Conference!
WE HAD FUN, FUN WE HAD, FUN, FUN, FUN...AND THE DAY WAS DONE! Our kindergarten students enjoyed Dr. Seuss Day at South Arkansas Community College!See more photos at https://www.facebook.com/Junct...
Mrs. Crawford's 6th grade science students prepare soil and plant jalapeno, eggplant, and tomato seeds to learn more about plant growth.
Mrs. Robisonâs 8th grade math students working on geometric transformations!
Jim Robken, Director of Bands at Louisiana Tech University was guest conductor for the JCHS Band and shared lots of tips and tricks! Thank you Mr. Robken!
Elementary students (Grades 3-6) who achieved READY in all areas of the 2017 ACT Aspire and LEAP test enjoyed a trip to Lambright Sports Center in Ruston yesterday! HARD WORK PAYS OFF! Congratulations students!
WHAT A GREAT DAY AT JCHS!!! Today we celebrated student academic achievements with Dragon Up Awards, Principal's Awards, and Honor Roll Awards for our 1st Semester! We had 400 students to earn the DRAGON-UP award, over 35 students to earn Principal's List and over 70 students to earn Honor Roll! A big thanks to Generations Bank and Charlene Nelson, Bank President, for ...
Mrs. Thurlkill's 8th grade students working on creating simple electrical circuits!
Math is FUN! Mrs. Risingerâs 4th graders exploring with fraction tiles to make equivalent fractions!Click for more photos!
Mrs. Harbour's 5th Grade classes created blueprints of the distances of stars from Earth's sun. They then built their models made from toothpicks and marshmallows. The students had fun learning about distances in space in light years!
Click for photos of Ms. Fairris' and Ms. Burroughs' students celebrating the 100th day of school!
Students in Ms. Miller's computer technology class outline steps to complete a structural engineering challenge. They had to predict and discuss potential issues in structure creation and build a structure based on a team plan.
ETIQUETTE!JCHS Men of Character discuss the importance of etiquette with elementary students and how it is a customary code of polite behavior in our society!
2018 Yearbook Order Form!
2018 Dragon Yearbooks are on sale now for $45. You may print and complete order form and turn in payment and form to JCHS office or you may order online. Reserve your memories today!!!