Pontotoc City School District 

Job Fair Pontotoc Community House 

Wednesday, March 6th 

9:00am-5:00pm 

Positions available for the 2019-2020 school year: certified staff, non-certified staff, maintenance, bus drivers, and other positions. Technology will be available for online applications during the job fair. School administrators will be on site. For more information, please contact Dr. Charles Garrett, Human Resource Director, at 662.489.3336 or cgarrett@pontotoc.k12.ms.us Website: www.pontotoc.school The Community House is located at 144 North Main Street, Pontotoc, MS 38863. PCSD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability. “Cultivating Warriors of Distinction” 

 

District Events:  

PHS Events 

➢ Feb. 25 Basketball Boys vs. Clarksdale 7:00 ➢ Feb. 25 Baseball Pontotoc Tourney (South

Pontotoc) 7:00 ➢ Feb. 26 Softball vs Mantachie, home 5:30/7:00 ➢ Feb. 26 Track & Field New Albany Jamboree ➢ Feb. 27 Career Cafe: VOTECH Classes

○ Drafting, Welding, Construction/Carpentry ➢ Feb. 28 Golf at Natchez Trace Golf Club ➢ Feb. 28 Baseball Pontotoc Tourney (Booneville)

5:00 ➢ Feb. 28 Softball vs Lewisburg, HOME 4:00 ➢ Feb. 28 Basketball Boys HOME!!! ➢ Mar. 1 Archery vs. Ripley at HOME ➢ Mar. 2 Softball FNC Tournament at Oxford ➢ Mar. 2 Baseball Pontotoc Tourney (New Albany,

1:30 and Corinth, 4:00) ➢ Mar. 2 Archery Mantachie Tournament 5:00

PJHS Events

➢ Feb. 26 T101: Course 5 MAKEUP “Safety” during 2nd break only for students going on Washington, D.C. trip that missed last week

➢ Feb. 26 Pontotoc Jr. High Spelling Bee during school (preliminary for the Pontotoc City Spelling Bee)

DTC Events

➢ Feb. 25-March 1 Spring Book Fair ➢ Feb. 26-Book Fair Parent Night 4:00-6:00 ➢ Feb. 26-3rd Grade Musical 6:30pm

PES Events

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Pontotoc High School

Class of  :  

Pictures and money are due  no later than February 26  

for the senior ad in the  Warrior yearbook .   

Track athletes are now selling Fan Cloth apparel as a fundraiser. See a team member to view catalog

and place orders. They have until March 4th to sell items. Thanks for your support!

Mrs. Walker’s Oral Communications class presented their demonstration speeches on Friday, February 15th. Students had to write a speech that demonstrated how to complete a task complete with visual aids and an outline. Some examples of demonstrations were: how to tie a fishing hook (Kaleb Jumper), how to tie dye a shirt (Daisheonna Clay), how to do a drop spin (Emily Warren), and how to clean your shoes (Jose Holguin).

The Scholar’s Bowl team competed at Itawamba Community College on Thursday, February 21. They practice after school in mock competitions to prepare.

Swim Crewneck Sweatshirts $20 until Friday! Pick up an order form from your office.

The February 20 th Career Café was hosted by four of the Pontotoc Ridge Career and Technology Center programs – Ag Power & Machinery, Health Science II, Teacher

Academy, and Career Pathway Experience (CPE).

Ag Power & Machinery was represented by program instructor, Matt Powell. Ag Power is an instructional program designed to provide basic skills for students to become employed in the industry of agricultural power mechanics or to continue their education in postsecondary institutions. Skills taught in this pathway relate to the selection, operation, service, maintenance, and repair of a variety of agricultural power units and agricultural machinery and equipment.

Sonya Holcomb, instructor of Health Science II, shared information about her program. Health Science II includes classroom and hands-on experiences that will provide students with an overview of the health-care field, as outlined according to the Health Science Cluster in the National Career Clusters Framework and the National Consortium on Health Science Education (NCHSE), as well as begin to prepare students for healthcare careers predicted to have a high number of available jobs in the next 10 years.

Teacher Academy instructor, Dionne Gunter, informed students about her program. Teacher Academy is designed to attract students to the field of education, provide information and field experiences relevant to pursuing a degree in education, and prepare students for the rigors of a career in education so they will remain long-term educators. The Teacher Academy pathway includes classroom and hands-on experiences that will prepare students for employment or continuing education in the education field.

The Career Pathway Experience program was represented by Rumae Stroup. CPE provides the students the opportunity to take knowledge and skills and apply them in the workplace. The CPE course will foster self-directed learning; strengthen the development of core academic skills through application in authentic situations; allow students to explore career options; enhance communication skills, leadership, and problem solving; and contribute to community economic development.

Thank you to these instructors for sharing career information with our students. The February 27 th Career Café will be hosted by the Drafting, Welding, and Construction: Carpentry programs at Pontotoc Ridge Career and Technology Center.

 

The Greatest 

Showman 

Experience  

 

Pontotoc Junior High 

Auditorium 

March 5, 2019  

https://www.foxmovies.com/movies/the-greatest-showman  

The Greatest Showman premiered in theaters in December of 2016. The movie is the story of P.T. Barnum and his unforgettable rags to riches story. The movie is not just a story about the circus, but it is also a story of love, adversity, and ambition. Come and join us under the big top, as we turn the junior high auditorium into a freak show filled circus. Whether it be a bearded lady, the world’s heaviest man, or Napoleon himself, you never know what you will see under the big top. The performance will happen at 7 P.M. with a $2.00 admission. Donations will also be accepted.

Special Olympics local games will be March 28 in Tupelo. If you would like to order a t-shirt to wear and support our athletes, please fill out an order form and deliver it to the high school no later than March 8. A form is located at the end of the newsletter.

FREE  dresses and tuxedos 

will be given to juniors and seniors March 2nd 

from 10:00-5:00  in the former  

Charming Charlies  in the  

Barnes Crossing Mall. 

Pontotoc Junior High  

Civil Rights Moves through 8th Grade ELA Classes  

Students in both Ms. Wilson and Miss Bramlitt’s classes worked with a partner for two days to read and complete activities as they learned more about the Civil Rights Movement and important African Americans. They covered skills and activities such as vocabulary, problem/solution, author's purpose, character traits, character analysis, creating a new book cover, sentence structure, identifying a theme song, timeline, and writing summaries. Partners had about 30-35 nonfiction and picture books to choose from including: Martin's Big Words , The Story of Ruby Bridges , White Socks Only, and A Bus of Our Own.

 

 

Pontotoc Jr. High Spelling Bee  

The Junior High will be hosting it’s preliminary bee February 26 during school. Any student wishing to participate must sign up in the office prior to February 25th at 3:15

pm. The top five students from each grade will progress to the Pontotoc City Bee which will be held the first week of April.  

 

 

Track Tryouts  

  

Jr. High Girl’s Track Tryouts - Monday, Feb. 25

There is a sign up form and student permission form in the office. You

must have a current physical to tryout.  

Countdown to D.C.!  

  

Our group of students and teachers enrolled to travel to Washington, 

D.C. over Spring Break will be boarding the plane in 

 

16 days!

 

 

 

Want to help the PJHS library? 

Here’s how: http://a.co/dvOBLR6 

PMS presents at MAMLE

Mrs. Emison and Mrs. Glover recently presented at

the MAMLE conference in Hattiesburg. Their

presentation was titled “Pathways to Success” which

promoted the need to differentiate in the classroom.

Shooting Rockets 6th grade students in Mrs. Hitt’s science class created 

rockets using straws after learning about thrust, lift 

and drag. They tested 

the rockets with 0 

fins,1 fin, 2 fins, 3 fins, 

and then 4 fins. Rockets 

with 4 fins flew a 

greater distance. 

DTC TEacher of The Year 

DTC would like to congratulate Mrs. Rachel Chrestman. Mrs. Chrestman recently was awarded DTC Teacher of the Year. She is very deserving of this award. Thank you, Mrs. Chrestman for your hardwork and dedication to your students and our school!

Fundraiser Time!!  Please consider helping us out by purchasing some delicious popcorn to help raise money for our school! The items will be on sale until March 4th. The top seller will receive $50.00 cash! 12 items sold=popcorn party! 20 items sold=pizza party! 35 items sold=trip to the movies! 50 items sold=trip to Chuck-E-Cheese!

UFO Field Trip  

UFO students traveled to the University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology on Thursday. They were able to see replicas of Egyptian artifacts, a REAL mummy, a loaf of bread that was thousands of years old, and so much more!

Love According to us!  

Our third graders are working hard in preparation for their class musical “Love According to Us!” This original student written production will be held here at DTC on Tuesday, February 26th at 6:30 pm. We will enjoy sharing our writings and music with our family and friends this Tuesday night!

MAAP Scores Awards Program  

Students who scored 4s and 5s on the 17-18 school year MAAP test were rewarded last week with t-shirts and hugs from their previous teachers. We are super proud of our students and the effort these kids displayed on their state tests!

SWEET STEM snacks!  

Mrs. Collums’ fourth graders had a great time using Conversation Hearts to work out math problems as well as conducting a science experiment with them. The students placed the hearts in clear soda to see it’s reactions. The students documented what took place along the way.

Music Notes  Fourth grade music classes recently studied Copland’s “Variation on Simple Gifts-Shaker Dance.” The class read about the life of a Shaker and learned about their simple lifestyle. They learned the melody of “Simple Gifts” and then were taught and performed a simple ostinato on the xylophone. Next, they studied about a musical variation. Students were instructed to perform various activities to show recognition of a variation- from raising a bird on a stick to playing a type of musical chairs. The final activity was to pantomime activities of the Shaker people- from different types of chores to building a barn.

Pontotoc Elementary Scho ol 

Black History Month First graders are learning about many African American inventors, artists, political figures, athletes, and civil rights activists during Black History Month. Many classes have tied social studies and writing, as well as the arts, into this

unit of study. The unit will end with a trip to the Heritage museum in New Albany at the end of February.

Arctic Animals 

 During our Arctic Animals unit, Mrs. Heatherly’s class researched the polar bear. We watched a video about polar

bears to help with our research. We then made charts that described what polar bears can do, what they are, and things that they have. Each student then chose one sentence from each poster that describes the polar bear. After we finished our research, we then used oil pastel crayons and watercolors to create a picture of a polar bear to conclude our Arctic

Animal unit.

Letter Writing

Miss Buckner’s class has been learning about parts of a friendly letter and how to correctly use commas in the

heading, greeting, and closing of the letter. To practice these new skills, students read The Story of Ruby Bridges , discussed how Ruby overcame challenges, and wrote a friendly letter to Ruby describing how and why she inspired

them.

Local Game T-shirts 2019 

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YOUR LOCAL SPECIAL OLYMPICS! Special Olympic t-shirt orders must be in by March 8th to Mrs. Hinton at PHS. 

Name: _____________________________________________________ School: ____________________________________________________ Due Date: MARCH 8, 2019 T-shirt color: MINT GREEN Cost: $10 (YXS - XL) Add $1 per X after the XL ** Cash only ** Sizes: YXS ________ S ________ 3XL ________ YS ________ M ________ 4XL ________ YM ________ L ________ 5XL ________ YL ________ XL ________ YXL ________ 2XL ________ TOTAL COST: __________