Jackson County School District

BULLDOG BASKETBALL LIVE on Youtube! Tuckerman vs. Maynard Tuesday, Nov. 3rd. Games start at 5:00 Junior Boys Senior Girls Senior Boys https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefD1w_1u2Ummepo4BoAmXw

For this Halloween, listen to some fun yet creepy music by the THS Band in our FIRST EVER Virtual Band Concert! Share with friends and family! Stay safe this Halloween! https://youtu.be/wE76Oozw1_I https://youtu.be/GB_j-9ZCiVE

BULLDOG BASKETBALL LIVE!!! (Tuckerman vs. Marmaduke) Friday October 30th Homecoming Pep Rally- 2:30 Homecoming Ceremony- 5:30 Senior Boys Game- 6:00 Junior Boys Game- Following Senior Boys Game https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefD1w_1u2Ummepo4BoAmXw

BULLDOG BASKETBALL LIVE!!! You can watch your favorite Bulldog basketball teams play their home games live this year on our JCSD Youtube page! Please Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefD1w_1u2Ummepo4BoAmXw/featured

Bulldogs Team 1 wins season opener against South Pike County School District!!

Esports Bulldogs team 2 Match winners against Bradford

This message concerns this year’s basketball games and tickets. There will be no entrance to basketball games this year unless you have a voucher in hand which allows you to purchase a ticket. This is having to be done due to COVID restrictions by the ADH and AAA. The vouchers will be given out to the ballplayers and cheerleaders. Thank you for your understanding.

Chromebook Insurance for Swifton Middle School & Tuckerman High School students is currently on sale for $50. Forms with payment may be returned to the office at SMS and may be returned to the office or ISS room at THS.

The Tuckerman Elementary Library will be hosting a Virtual Pumpkin Parade this year! If your student has a pumpkin they would like to show off, please email a picture of your child with their pumpkin, and Mrs. Watson will print it and hang it in the hallway for all the students, faculty and staff to enjoy! Mrs. Watson's email address is ewatson@bulldogs.k12.ar.us. You can start emailing them today and the last date to send it in is October 29th!

Reminder to the Class of 2021: Senior class group picture will be tomorrow, October 15 at Jacksonport State Park. Seniors need to be on campus by 9:30am to load the bus! We will take the picture and then have lunch before returning to school. Thank you!

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Jackson County School District 2020 Public Meeting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBXDwqnOCeM&ab_channel=JCSDYouTube

Check out all the great clubs and activities that THS has to offer for grades 8-12. https://youtu.be/EPByvoeDLpE

Tuckerman High School students will return to onsite learning on the Tuckerman Campus on Wednesday, September 23rd. In an effort to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus within our staff and students we are asking that all parent/guardians notify our Point Of Contact nurse if a student is tested for COVID, someone in the house test Positive for COVID, or if there is someone in the house that has been exposed to a known positive case. In the event of testing of anyone in the household - students must remain at home until the results come back. Please contact Stacy Bright at 870-349-2657 ext. 210 or email information to sbright@bulldogs.k12.ar.us. This will allow us to take the necessary steps to ensure the safety of all students and staff.

Tuckerman High School is pivoting to Blended Learning starting tomorrow September 10th and continuing thru September 18th. Tuckerman High School will be closed to students during this time, with plans to return onsite on September 21st. Tuckerman Elementary School, Tuckerman Preschool, Swifton Middle School and Swifton Preschool will remain open and school will continue as usual with onsite instruction. Although we had a low percentage of our students at THS who tested positive, they were involved in large group activities that required several students to quarantine for the next 14 days. The IGNITE program students will be virtual tomorrow. All extracurricular activities at THS are suspended until students return to onsite instruction. This includes but not limited too: All sports competitions and practices, Club and Organization meetings, Fundraisers, E-Sports, Cheerleading practices, etc... Breakfast and Lunch will still be served for THS students. Any student wanting to eat breakfast or lunch please call Krystal Person at 870-217-3769 or email at krystal.person@bulldogs.k12.ar.us and place your order for the following day so they cafeteria will know how much food to prepare. Breakfast & Lunch pickup will be in the parking lot next to the agriculture building at Tuckerman. Pickup Times: Breakfast 8:00-8:30 AM, Lunch 11:45-12:30 PM. Wireless internet locations can be found in the following locations: Tuckerman Gym- Parking lot in front & beside the gym. Tuckerman Elementary- Parking lot beside & behind the 3rd & 4th grade building. Swifton Middle School- Parking lot in front of main building & parking lot beside the 5th & 6th grade building where the buses load/unload.

The 2020-2021 Jackson County School District school year is underway and we wanted to take this opportunity to say how proud we are of the students, staff, and parents for getting the year off to a great start. Everyone is having to adjust to a unique set of challenges which have the potential to create anxiety. We are impressed with the positive attitudes and the desire to make the best of a difficult situation. As much as we would like to make it through the year without any COVID-19 cases, we all realize that is an unrealistic expectation. Therefore, we wanted to take this opportunity to explain the protocols we will use in the event we have one or more positive cases. Should someone, student or faculty, test positive for Covid-19 we will immediately begin the process of contact tracing. Contact tracing involves determining if anyone at school qualifies as a “close contact”. A close contact is anyone who has been within six feet for more that fifteen minutes of someone who has tested positive for the virus. The school will contact the parent of any child who is determined to be a close contact. We will also contact the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) and the Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to acquire their guidance in best practices to stop the spread. Please remember that in order to protect the privacy of students and staff, we cannot share personal information regarding a positive case. Therefore, we will not issue a public statement in every situation where someone has tested positive or been quarantined due to the virus. In the event that we have multiple positive cases, it is possible that we may have to pivot to at home virtual classes. This will depend on the number of cases and could result in pivoting a single classroom, grade, building, or the entire district to at home virtual classrooms. The timeframe for this will be determined on the length of time it takes to control the spread. The district will work in conjunction with ADH and DESE to decide when to resume on campus instruction. Let’s continue to work together to control the spread of the virus while providing a quality education for the children of JCSD. Information regarding the levels of response, and much more, can be found on the DESE website at: http://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/divisions/communications/arkansas-ready-for-learning. Additional information regarding symptoms of Covid-19 and strategies to avoid exposure can be found at the Arkansas Department of Health website and the CDC website at the following web addresses: https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/topics/novel-coronavirus https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

As announced by Governor Asa Hutchinson & Secretary of Education Johnny Key, beginning Thursday, September 3rd, ALL students will receive free breakfast and lunch until December 31st, 2020. This does not include any additional items purchased in the cafeteria. We still must have every household complete and submit a free and reduced lunch application if you have not already done so. It is very important that we get these applications returned, as they effect the amount of other funding the school district receives. Thank You!

Picture Day for Elementary Sept 21st- 2nd & 3rd grade Sept 23rd- Pre-k & 4th grade Sept 25th- Kindergarten & 1st grade

Senior composite pictures are scheduled for Thursday, September 3rd, starting at 8:00 A.M. Yearbook pictures will be taken on Friday, September 4th for grades 8-11. No money will be needed on these days.

In an effort to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus within our staff and student body we are asking all parents/guardians, of students who will be in attendance on-site, and all employees to notify our designated Point of Contact immediately when the following occurs: * Someone in the household has tested positive for a COVID-19. * Someone in the household has been identified as a Close Contact to a positive case of COVID-19 and is requiring quarantine and/or recommended to be tested for COVID-19. * Student attending on-site and employees who are being tested for COVID-19. If symptomatic, student/staff should remain in quarantine pending results of their COVID-19 test. Please call Stacy Bright at 870-349-2657, or email information to sbright@bulldogs.k12.ar.us Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Together we can help our Jackson County School District safe, healthy and ready to learn during this unique time.