Door decoration contest Winners🧡💙🧡💙 Thank you Blue Cross Blue Shield for judging the doors and providing prizes for our WINNERS!!!




And just like that our Black History Month celebrations are over! We enjoyed every minute of it and all the support shown from our McDermott Family 💙💙💙💙 Until next year! Stay tuned for a photo dump 🧡🧡🧡🧡
The Black History Month Show is about to start. If you aren't able to make it to school, we are live streaming on our news channel!
https://adesandbox.arkansas.gov/player?udi=TGl0dGxlUm9ja1NE&c=bWNkZXJtb3R0ZWxlbWVudGFyeXNjaG9vbA==
Black History Program LOADING.......
Today at 1:15!!! You are in for a treat!!!!!

Please enjoy this month's health newsletter compliments of LRSD's Health Services team:
https://5il.co/2fmss

Good Afternoon Mustangs!
This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow students with paid admission to our Ruby Bridges Movie Night will remain at school until 5:30. Students that have not purchased their admission may do so in the morning by seeing Nurse Miller or Ms. Strong! Concessions will be sold at the movie!

McDermott's first annual Black History Festival was a complete success last night! Our parents, students, volunteers, vendors and staff showed up and showed out!!!
Thank you everyone for making this event a success!!!










Good Morning Mustangs!!!
Ruby Bridges Movie Night, Monday, February 26th!!! Admission is 2 tickets and there will be concessions!!!! Students attending movie night will stay after school and be picked up by 5:30pm. $1 per ticket!!! See Ms. Strong or Nurse Miller with order form and money to purchase!!!
LRSD & Caissa kick off phase two of the partnership to recruit/retain students. Caissa enrollment specialists will be contacting families this weekend. If you get emails or calls/texts from 501-503-3168, 501-512-1656, or 501-260-7244 -they are legitimate communication from LRSD.

Good Morning Mustangs!!!
This is just a friendly reminder that our 1st Annual Black History Festival is tonight 5:30-7pm! Can't wait to see you there!!! Tank's food truck will be on site cooking chicken and fish! Free haircuts, Greek Show, 360 booth and lots of fun presentations!!! We are doing it "For the CULTURE"!

Good Morning Mustangs!!!
We can't wait to see you all tomorrow night for our first annual Black History Festival! You are in for such a treat!!! 5:30pm-7:00pm

Good Afternoon Mustang Families,
There will not be any afterschool tutoring or practice today. See you all today from 3-6 for Parent Teacher Conferences!!!
****LRSD Board Meeting/Public Comment, Thursday, Feb. 22, 5:30 PM Agenda: https://lrsd.diligent.community/Portal/ Public Comment: https://lrsd.jotform.com/form/203496938448067
Watch Live: www.lrsdlive.com
This is a friendly reminder that schools are open tomorrow, February 16th. Parent-teacher conferences originally scheduled for tomorrow will be held after school on Tuesday, February 20th.

Good Morning Mustang Families,
There will not be any afterschool tutoring or practice today. See you all today from 3-6 for Parent Teacher Conferences!!!
Hello Parents and Guardians! As you know, we are transitioning to Rooms for parent-teacher communication instead of Class Dojo or other platforms. Today, our second round of invites will go out if you have not already setup your account. Let's get this started!

Attention Parents/Guardians: TNT application window (Transfer No Transportation) runs Mon., Feb. 19-Thurs., Feb 22. See news article in following link: https://www.lrsd.org/article/1462131 for more or visit the Student Registration page on lrsd.org. Thanks for your support.
Good Morning McDermott Family!
Please join us on Thursday, February 22nd at 5:30 PM for an evening of fun!!! Please check your child's backpack for more information and to RSVP!

We have some amazing Leaders here at McDermott and want to share their work. Several of our students are working to create Black History Month news segments for McDermott Morning News. You can find all of the segments on our McDermott Media Page.
New videos will be added each week this month!
And you can also watch our news program, that is produced by our 3rd-5th GT Students every Tuesday- Friday, live at 7:55!
Check it all out here:
https://littlerocksdar.sites.thrillshare.com/o/mcdermott/page/mcdermott-morning-news

Attention LRSD Stakeholders:
Please read the important update to the current school calendar.Among other changes, the update impacts Fri., Feb. 16th.Students will now attend school on that day. For details, click here:
https://5il.co/2ejjn
Thanks for your support!
