Mayflower Public Schools

Mayflower School District is closely monitoring the weather situation for today. Please know our number one priority is the safety of your children. We understand concerns regarding the weather and will excuse student absences if a parent or guardian opts to sign their child out early today. Should a tornado warning be issued and we have to move staff and students to the safe rooms near dismissal time, we will hold students in the storm shelters until the warning has expired. If that happens then buses would be delayed this afternoon.

It has come to our attention that the elementary safe room was locked at a critical time last night. While the middle school saferoom was opened for public use, the elementary safe room was not unlocked until 8:45 PM. District protocols have been reviewed and revised to ensure that both district saferooms are unlocked for public use when tornado sirens go off. We apologize for the inconvenience and are thankful for no casualties last night. Additionally, just a couple of reminders related to public safe room use: *District safe rooms are for students and employees during typical school hours (7:00 AM - 5:00 PM). Others will be allowed in if space is available after accommodating all students and employees. Safe rooms will be available for public use outside posted hours. *District safe rooms are not equipped to automatically open when tornado sirens go off. Safe rooms require manual key unlocking for accessibility. When the safe rooms were in development, there may have been conversations about the possibility of installing automatic doors, but neither safe room has ever been equipped with automatic locks. *No animals are allowed in district safe rooms. Safe rooms are for human safety only.

Take a minute to get to know this week's Employee Spotlight - Lenee Johnson.

Mayflower Public Schools has posted the following classified positions for the 2022-2023 school year to our website. These positions require a minimum of a High School Diploma. If you are interested in applying please visit our website and click on employment opportunities. The positions include: Part time custodian. In School Suspension Facilitator Full time position JAG/HUB facilitator Full time position (Must be tech savvy)

Easter, Mothers Day and Fathers Day is just around the corner! This afternoon starting at 5:00 at the High School Cafeteria you can take care of all your shopping in one place! The 8th Annual FFA Silent and Live Auction. Lots of homemade items by our FFA students, gift certificates and more will be available. Dinner at 5:00 BBQ $15.00 Auction begins at 6:00 Please support our FFA students, enjoy a great meal and go home with lots of great prizes! There’s even a duck call!

This Saturday April the 2nd will be the 8th Annual FFA Dinner and Auction. Tickets for the dinner are $12 until Friday and $15 at the door on Saturday. Dinner will be served from 5-6pm in the High School Cafeteria. The live and silent auctions will start at 6pm. We will have items for everyone - great things built by students, gift certificates to go eat, a chance to win a 3 night stay in Gulf Shores, Alabama, just to name a few. Please follow Mayflower FFA on facebook to see some of the items up for auction on Saturday!"

There will be a meeting tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the High School AG building for any student K-12 who is interested in showing animals this fall. We hope to see you there! 3/14/2022 Reminders: Parent/Teacher Conferences are Thursday of this week. You should be receiving communication regarding a time for you to visit with your child's teacher. There will be no school on Friday, March 18, 2022. Spring Break begins Monday, March 21, 2022. We will return to school on Monday, March 28th.

Say hello to this week's Employee and Alumni Spotlight - Stephanie Long.

Mayflower School District is still without electricity after the planned outage last night. The district is being told it will be later this morning before power is restored. Because of that, Mayflower School District will be taking AMI day #8 today. Buses will return students home once they are made aware of the plan. Our apologies for the late notice and the inconvenience.

Just a reminder, electricity for much of the city of Mayflower is scheduled to be turned off from 9:00 PM tonight until 5:00 AM Friday, March 11th. Please plan accordingly.

If you are interested in becoming a substitute teacher, there is currently additional incentive to do so. Please see the flyer for more details.

Please complete this survey using the QR code in the included image at the request of the Arkansas State Legislature.

Two for the price of one! Meet Denean Green. She is an Outstanding Eagle Alumni (1982) and our Employee Spotlight of the week.

It's Maintenance Workers Appreciation Day! We would like to express our gratitude to the men of our facilities department. The dedication this group of individuals shows daily to care for our grounds and facilities is admirable. Three cheers for the work they do to keep our facilities in the best shape possible, ensuring an optimal learning environment for our students! Thanks Randy, Jim, Roger, David, and Clay for all you do!

Smiles, Math, and Fun!! Several math classes at Mayflower Elementary put a new spin on using math manipulatives in fun ways - shaving cream to practice addition, base ten blocks for math sculptures, and fresh air addition with cubes.

Due to inclement weather, the basketball postseason tournaments have been modified according to the schedule below. Day 1 - Saturday starting at 4:00 (originally scheduled for Feb 23) Day 2 - Sunday starting at 1:00 (originally scheduled for Feb 24 Semi-Finals - Monday starting at 4:00 Finals - Tuesday starting at 4:00 State Tournament will now start on Thursday, March 3 and games will be played on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The state Semifinals will be played on Monday, March 7 with split sessions starting at 1:00 and 5:30. Girls regional bracket: https://scorebooklive.com/arkansas/girls-basketball/brackets/2022-3a-girls-region-3-tournament Boys regional bracket: https://scorebooklive.com/arkansas/basketball/brackets/2022-3a-boys-region-3-tournament

Due to poor road conditions in much of the district and the high likelihood of refreezing tonight, Mayflower School District campuses will be closed on Friday, Feb. 25. Please stay safe. This will be AMI day #6.

Due to inclement weather, Mayflower School District campuses will be closed on Thursday, February 24. This will be AMI day #5.

Mayflower School District will be closing campus today as soon as kids eat lunch and buses are ready to roll out, should be approximately 11:00. The district will be utilizing AMI day 4.

We would like you to review this information that has presented on a four-day school week and give your feedback on the topic. Four-day school week presenation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-M3geE9dO5Ui5ggE2UxoDO02AoUjn-_z/view?usp=sharing Draft 2022-23 Academic Calendar: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHYKIbpalrOXShpZWuG4nZ8etUcfK_42/view?usp=sharing Frequently Asked Questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18EUeeAacPfO_4VtNd4mejpjJ03slBr0lB2oKH1Fi9BM/edit?usp=sharing Four-Day School Week Survey: https://forms.gle/Lqy34RSfJrRr5RSW9 We appreciate you reviewing this information and providing your feedback.