Pea Ridge Junior High School

🎡🎉 Calling All Carnival Champions! 🎉🎡 Our February ATLAS incentive is coming up, and we’re hosting a “Carnival of Champions” for our students! To help make it a big success, we’re looking for donations of candy and cardboard to use for games, prizes, and decorations. If you or someone you know would be willing to donate, we’d be so grateful! Donations can be dropped off in the front office of the junior high by Friday, February 20! Thank you for always supporting our students and helping us celebrate their hard work! This community truly is full of champions! 🏆🎠

📘 Order Your 2025–2026 PRJH Yearbook Today! 📘 The PRJH yearbook is currently $40, but the price will increase to $45 on January 31. Don’t miss the chance to lock in the lower price and secure a book full of memories from the 2025–2026 school year! 💥 Order now and save $5! 💥 📅 Price increases on 1/31 👉 Order here: https://yearbookforever.com/school-store/Z5QBH8pgM38TddNJHCm8MXKg 📌 Important: When ordering, please list your student’s 3rd period teacher as their homeroom teacher in the order form. Order early before the price goes up!

📚 If you are currently in 8th or 9th grade and plan to take concurrent credit courses through NWACC next school year, you must take and pass the Accuplacer test!

🗓 Accuplacer Testing Date:
Tuesday, March 3 (during Blackhawk Time)

📝 How to Sign Up:
Bring $2.05 (cash or check) to Mrs. Robbins by the deadline
⏰ Deadline: Friday, February 26

📘 Extra Yearbooks Available! 📘 We have a limited number of 2024–2025 yearbooks still available for purchase! If you missed out last year, now’s your chance to grab one. Yearbooks are $30 and can be purchased from Ms. Reagan. Get yours before they’re gone! 🎓✨ This will be closing on JANUARY 30!

Last Tuesday, we hosted our Rising 7th Grade Night at the junior high! Our future 7th graders had the opportunity to learn about class choices, meet teachers, coaches, band directors, and other staff, and tour the junior high campus. This week, our rising 9th and 10th graders are touring CTE pathways and learning more about their course options for next year. Over the next month, our counselors will be visiting career classes to help advise students as they plan ahead. Your student should be coming home over the next few weeks (if they haven’t already) with a course selection sheet. Please take time to review these options and plan next year’s courses together. Course requests will be entered in late January-early February. As always, thank you for partnering with us as we help students plan for their future!

📣 FCCLA Success at the U of A! 📣 On Friday, our FCCLA students traveled to the University of Arkansas for the Region 1 FCCLA Competition, and we couldn’t be prouder of their hard work and creativity! 🎉 Congratulations to Emma Bowman, Reagan Caudill, and Saber Wilton, who advanced to State and will present their projects this spring! Our students competed in the following events: • Repurpose and Redesign • Focus on Children • Interior Design • Say YES to FCS Way to represent our school so well! Great job to all who competed!

A HUGE thank you to Kristi Wiles with FCA for treating our teachers to a delicious nacho bar for Rising Parent Night! We are so grateful for your generosity and support of our staff. 🌮🖤

⏰ Reminder: Rising 7th Grade Night is TOMORROW! ⏰

We can’t wait to welcome our current 6th grade students and families to Junior High for Rising 7th Grade Night!

🗓 Tomorrow — Tuesday, January 6
⏰ 3:00–6:00 PM

Join us to learn more about our building, expectations, and the course selection process, and to explore opportunities such as band, choir, art, athletics, and Scholars Academy.

We’re excited to meet our future junior high students and help them get ready for next school year! 🖤

🎄 Thank You! 🎄 A huge thank you to Kursty Armbrister and El Peublito for treating our staff to an amazing Christmas lunch! The food was delicious, and we truly appreciate your generosity in helping make our day extra special. ❤️🌮🎅

📣 Rising 7th Grade Night 📣

We are excited to welcome the current 6th grade students and families to Junior High for Rising 7th Grade Night!

🗓 Tuesday, January 6, 2026
⏰ 3:00–6:00 PM

This event is designed for rising 7th grade students who will be attending the Junior High next school year. Families will have the opportunity to attend information sessions about our building, expectations, and the course selection process, as well as learn more about the many opportunities available to students including band, choir, art, athletics, Scholar's Academy, and more. This will be a great chance to meet your future teachers, tour the building, and have any questions you may have answered!

We look forward to helping our future junior high students feel confident and excited for the next step! 🖤

📌 See the attached graphic for more details.

🌟 Students of the Week 🌟

We are excited to recognize our Students of the Week! These students have stood out by demonstrating positive behavior, a strong work ethic, and a great attitude toward learning. We are so proud of the example they set for their peers each day.

Please join us in celebrating this well-deserved recognition! Way to go! 👏🎉

📚 Semester Finals & Holiday Spirit Week 🎄 Next week, our students will take their Semester Finals. These assessments give students the opportunity to demonstrate what they’ve learned throughout the semester. Please encourage your student to get plenty of rest, stay organized, and reach out to their teachers if they have any last-minute questions. ➡️ Please see the full finals schedule below for your reference. To add some fun before break, we’re also celebrating with Holiday Dress-Up Days! 🎉 Students are invited to participate and show their school spirit all week long. ➡️ See below for the dress-up days. Thank you for your continued support, and let’s finish the semester strong! 💪✨

🎉🍎 Congratulations to our December Teacher of the Month, Mr. Kyle Nix! 🍎🎉

We are so proud to celebrate Mr. Nix and the incredible impact he makes every single day. His students and colleagues had so much to say about his patience, humor, dedication, and the way he brings learning to life and you can see just a few of those amazing comments in the graphic below!

Mr. Nix goes above and beyond for his students, finding ways to make class fun, engaging, and meaningful. We are grateful to have him as part of our PRJH family.

Help us congratulate Mr. Nix on this well-deserved recognition! 👏🙌

Parents and Guardians,

As we approach the cold and flu season, we want to send a friendly reminder to please keep your students home if they are feeling unwell. We prioritize the health and safety of all our students, and staying home when sick helps prevent the spread of illness. Please review the criteria below to determine if you should send your child to school or not! Thank you!!

🎄🌟 Holiday Spirit is in FULL swing at PRJH today! 🌟🎄 Our building was buzzing with festive cheer! Our English team dressed up as characters from Home Alone, Cindy Lou Who (aka Mrs. Feemster) was roaming the halls, and April Smith surprised us with homemade treats! A HUGE thank-you to the Billings, Greer, and Hurst families, who partnered with Sugar Llamas (the Konkler Family) to spoil our staff with a happy wagon filled with delicious donut-holes and specialty sodas. What a treat!! 🍩🥤 If you haven't checked out Sugar Llamas in Rogers yet, you'll want to stop by ASAP. They're amazing!! We're so grateful for our community and the joy they bring to our campus! ❤️🎅🏼

🌟 Students of the Week! 🌟 We are so proud to recognize this week’s standout students! These Blackhawks have gone above and beyond showing kindness, working hard, and leading by example in and out of the classroom. Congratulations to our honorees! 🎉 Thank you for making PRJH a great place to learn and grow. Keep shining!

Yearbook Picture retakes will be tomorrow (December 9)!! This will be the last chance to take your photo for the 25-26 yearbook!

📘 Extra Yearbooks Available! 📘 We have a limited number of 2024–2025 yearbooks still available for purchase! If you missed out last year, now’s your chance to grab one. Yearbooks are $30 and can be purchased from Ms. Reagan. Get yours before they’re gone! 🎓✨

🎉 Students of the Week! 🎉
We’re proud to celebrate these outstanding Blackhawks who have shown great character, hard work, and leadership!

👏 Keep up the awesome work! You make PRJH a better place every day!