Huntsville Middle School

💛 THANK YOU to Huntsville Dollar General and Mrs. Jennifer Bartlett for Sponsoring Bright Futures and the Huntsville Middle School’s PBIS School Store! PBIS stands for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and will recognize students for demonstrating positive behaviors and choices. Students earn Eagle Brags and use them to “purchase” items from the School Store. No money is required for students. Donations and Sponsorships are so important for this opportunity to be available for our students! 🦅 💛 The Huntsville Dollar General donation is truly a community effort! When community members donate their extra change to the jar in Huntsville Dollar General, Mrs. Bartlett is able to use this to purchase items that are donated to Bright Futures, and other school programs and efforts! Our Eagles benefit from your generosity in so many ways! 🦅 If you or your business would like to Sponsor the HMS School Store, please call the Middle School at 479-738-6520. Or, email our School Counselor at Sbrown@1hsd.org!

Growing Together to Better Serve Students! This week, some of our HMS team attended Solution Tree’s High Impact Teams Institute in Houston, where we learned strategies to strengthen collaboration, improve team effectiveness, and increase student success! Every session reinforced what we believe at HMS—that when adults work together with purpose, students benefit! It was a great time of learning!

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📚➗ Last week, Mrs. Wylie, our Algebra I teacher, and Ms. Rutledge, our Instructional Facilitator, attended Algebra-focused professional learning through the Arkansas Department of Education. The training provided new strategies, resources, and best practices to strengthen math instruction and support student success. We are proud of their commitment to continuous learning and bringing valuable knowledge back to HMS to help our students grow and achieve! 🦅 #HMSProud #ProfessionalLearning #EagleExcellence #StudentSuccess

🇺🇸 Flag Day Map Unveiling 🇺🇸 Today, Huntsville Middle School students were recognized for their outstanding community service and creativity during the Flag Day celebration on Polk Square. We are proud to congratulate Johana Reeves, Kynadee Clark, Arthur Schmitt, and Victoria Prado on the unveiling of Huntsville’s new city map, a project they helped create to benefit our community! Their hard work, artistic talent, and dedication resulted in a lasting contribution that will help residents and visitors learn more about our city. Thank you to these students for representing HMS so well and for using their talents to make a positive impact on Huntsville. We are incredibly proud of you! 🦅♥️🤍💙

📣 Exciting News for Huntsville Middle School! 📣 HMS is thrilled to announce that we will be launching a PBIS School Store during the 2026–2027 school year! 🎉 PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports — a schoolwide system that encourages positive behavior, responsibility, respect, and creating a safe learning environment for all students. How it works: Students will earn Eagle Brags for positive behavior, and use the Eagles Brags to shop for fun items, snacks, and special incentives during School Store days! 🦅✨ No actual money is required for students, just Eagle Brags! This makes the School Store an equitable opportunity for all students! HMS is currently looking for community sponsors to help stock our school store and support our students! Sponsors will receive: ⭐ A social media shoutout ⭐ Recognition on a banner displayed at our monthly school stores If you or your business would like to partner with HMS and make a positive impact with our students and school culture, we would love to hear from you! Please contact HMS or reach out to our School Counselor, Mrs. Brown! 🦅✨

Tuesday was a great day of adventure and learning for our 8th graders at War Eagle Cavern! Students explored the caverns, discovered unique rock formations, and made memories while enjoying a fun educational experience outside the classroom. A big thank you to our teachers, staff, and chaperones for making the trip possible and helping our students have such an amazing day!

HMS is thankful for the generous hygiene donations provided by Caleb’s Closet! 💙 Their support helps us meet the needs of our students and reminds us how fortunate we are to have a community that cares so deeply. We know these items will be greatly appreciated and put to good use by our students. Thank you for making a difference!

Today a group of students spent the day at Camp Harvest learning leadership skills such as: Communication, teamwork, problem solving, and patience. So much was learned, while having a ton of fun! A BIG thank you to our partners at the Madison County Health Coalition and Camp Harvest for providing this opportunity!

Our Advanced Art students have been putting their creativity and leadership skills to work by spending time with our kindergarten classes! 🎨❤️ Through a fun project focused on shapes and colors, these students are giving back in such a meaningful way while helping inspire our youngest learners. We love seeing creativity, collaboration, and kindness come together in our classrooms!

Our 7th graders stepped back in time today during their field trip to the Fort Smith National Historic Site and the U.S. Marshals Museum! Students got a firsthand look at history as they toured the historic site, explored the U.S. Marshals Museum, acted out a “trial” in the Hanging Judge’s actual courtroom, and experienced just how small the jail cells really were. What an unforgettable day of hands-on learning and history brought to life! A big thank you to our teachers and chaperones for making experiences like this possible and helping create such a memorable day for our students!

Our 6th graders had a great time exploring the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium last Friday! 🐠🦈 It was a fun day full of learning, adventure, and great memories. Thank you to our teachers and chaperones for helping make the trip a success, and we’re proud of how well our students represented our school! 💙

Our Huntsville Sonic showed our staff some love by providing Sonic drinks on Tuesday! We're so grateful! Thank you!

The Assembly Of God church provided lunch for our staff on Tuesday! We're so grateful for their generosity!

Today we’re giving a BIG shoutout to our amazing school nurse, Kelli Hafen! 🩺💙 Thank you for the countless ways you care for our students each day — from helping sick kiddos feel better to being a calm and caring presence for everyone who walks through your door. Your compassion, dedication, and love for our school do not go unnoticed. We are so grateful for all you do to keep our students safe, healthy, and cared for. Happy National School Nurse Day! ✨

It's Teacher Appreciation Week! We are incredibly grateful for the caring and impactful teachers and staff here at HMS. They show up each day with dedication, heart, and a commitment to serving and supporting our students. If you have a moment, a simple “thank you” can go a long way—please take the time to let them know how much they are appreciated. I can say with confidence that our team works hard every day to not only teach our students, but to truly know and care for them.

Happy Principal’s Day to our incredible leader, Mrs. Cartmell! 🎉

The time, effort, patience, and heart it takes to be a principal never go unnoticed. Every day, you show up for our students, staff, and community with dedication and care, and we are so grateful for all that you do.

Thank you for your leadership, your support, and the positive impact you make at Huntsville Middle School. We appreciate you more than words can say! ❤️

The morning group didn’t waste any time at today’s Outdoor Ed fishing derby 🎣 Plenty of fish caught and a great way to spend the day!

National School Lunch Hero Day 💙 They feed our kids every day—but more than that, they care for them. Hearing them say (again today!) how much they love our students says everything! We appreciate our cafeteria crew more than they know!