Mexia Junior High School

📚🐾 MEXIA JUNIOR HIGH – STAAR TESTING WEEK 🐾📚 ✨ Hey MJH Families! It’s STAAR Time! ✨ Our students have been working hard, and we are ready to show what we know! 💪📖 🗓️ Testing Begins: Tuesday ⸻ 🎒 What to Expect: Students will be coming home TODAY with materials they can review over the next few days. ➡️ Take a little time each evening to look over these together! ⸻ 🌙 Set Them Up for Success: ✔️ Early bedtime starting Sunday night & Monday night ✔️ Positive encouragement & calm mornings ✔️ Remind them—they’ve got this! 💯 ⸻ 🍳 Free Breakfast for ALL Students Make sure your student arrives on time so they can eat and be fueled for success! ⸻ 🔕 Campus Expectations During Testing To support a focused environment: 🚫 No visitors will be allowed on campus 🤫 Quiet halls so all students can do their very best

⚽️JUNIOR HIGH SOCCER ⚽️ Schedule change, TUESDAY (4/14) The 7th grade BOYS game @Harmony has been canceled and will not be made up. 5:00pm Combined 7/8 girls game 6:16pm Combined 7/8 boys game BOYS Coach Sadler will be taking only 20 players to Harmony. The list of players (mixture of 7th and 8th graders) going will be sent out this weekend along with the boys practice schedule on SATURDAY.

🎓🐾 MEXIA JUNIOR HIGH – IMPORTANT REMINDER 🐾🎓 📢 Stay Connected to Your Student’s Success! Parents & Guardians, You can easily access your child’s: ✔️ Progress Reports ✔️ Report Cards 💻 ANYTIME through the Skyward Family Portal ⸻ 📲 How to Access: 1. Log in to your Skyward Family Portal 2. Select your student 3. Click on Gradebook / Portfolio to view grades and reports ⸻ 📌 Why It Matters: Stay informed, track progress, and support your student’s growth—because at MJH, passing is not the standard… growth is the expectation!

No Saturday tutorials ! Wednesday and Thursday of next week we will have math tutorials !

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From Coach Sadler ⚽️ Jr High BOYS soccer, 7th graders -report to the fieldhouse after school to receive uniforms -bring some black shorts and black soccer socks just in case. -kickoff at 5:00pm 8th graders, -you will be issued uniforms during athletics -report to the field by 5:00pm dressed. Have clothes to change into after the game All players, -if you have extra shinguards or extra cleats please bring them. You have some teammates that do not have cleats or shinguards. Please help them out.

🚨Please read from Coach Sadler🚨 ⚽️Junior High BOYS Soccer⚽️ Ladies and gentlemen I want to apologize if there was any confusion today about 7th grade practice. I will start posting on here as to best relay information to everyone. Here is the schedule for the rest of this week for BOYS soccer. WEDNESDAY -practice 4:30pm-5:45pm 8th Grade Only THURSDAY -games v China Spring 4:00pm-7th grade report to fieldhouse 5:00pm-7th grade kickoff 5:15pm-8th grade report to fieldhouse 6:15pm-8th grade kickoff FRIDAY -practice 4:30pm-5:45pm EVERYONE

Our Blackcats showed up and showed out all March long—putting in the work, growing every day, and building momentum across our campus! 📚 Now it’s time to carry that energy into April as we gear up for STAAR and continue pushing for excellence. We’re focused, determined, and ready to rise to the challenge!

📚🔥 Don’t Miss Out – STAAR Tutorials Are Here! 🔥📚 RLA STAAR is just 5 school days away—now is the time to lock in and grow! Join us for STAAR tutorials: 🗓️ Tuesday – Thursday ⏰ After school until 5:00 PM 🚌 Transportation provided This is a great opportunity for students to build confidence, sharpen skills, and finish strong. Remember—passing is not the goal, growth is the expectation!

🐰🥚 MJH Teachers Bring the Easter Fun! 🥚🐰 Who says Easter egg hunts are just for kids?! Our MJH teachers got in on the fun today with their very own Easter egg hunt—and let’s just say the competition was REAL! 😂

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📚✨ MJH Blackcat Family – Let’s Finish Strong! ✨📚 This is our last week before STAAR testing, and it is critical that students attend school everyday. We have tutorials going strong Tuesday-Thursday till 5. 📝 STAAR Reading Test: Tuesday, April 14 📅 No School for Students: Monday, April 6 (Staff PD Day) ⏰ Staff Report Time: 8:00 AM Monday, April 6 Every minute of preparation matters! Tutorials are a great opportunity for students to build confidence, strengthen skills, and move from approaches → meets → masters. Let’s lock in, stay focused, and show that growth is the expectation at MJH! 🐾

Today we celebrate the heart behind so much of what we do at MJH—our incredible paraprofessionals! ❤️🖤 On Paraprofessional Appreciation Day, we want to recognize the dedication, patience, and love you pour into our students every single day. Whether you’re supporting instruction, building relationships, or stepping in wherever needed, you are truly the backbone of our campus. Your impact does not go unnoticed. You make a difference in ways big and small, and MJH is better because of YOU. Thank you for your commitment to our Blackcats—All Grit. All Grind. All Heart. 🐾

Our MJH Band is making some noise! 🎶🔥 They received a Straight 1 (Superior Rating) in Sight Reading and straight 2 in Concert Performance! We are proud of the hard work, dedication, and growth our students continue to show every day. Great job, Mr. Lair and MJH Band! 👏🐾 #AllGritAllGrindAllBlackcat

📚 After School Tutorials This Week! 📚 Tutorials will be held today through Thursday until 5:00 PM. This is a great opportunity for all students to grow and improve! At MJH, we talk a lot about growth—moving from: ➡️ Did Not Meet → Approaches ➡️ Approaches → Meets ➡️ Meets → Masters Take a moment to ask your student: 👉 Where are you now? 👉 Where are you trying to go? Passing is not the standard… growth is the expectation. 🐈‍⬛ 📌 This week’s tutorials: • 6th–8th Grade Reading • 7/8th grade Math Groups Let’s keep pushing forward, Blackcats! 🐾❤️🖤

MJH students in action today at the county fair! 🐷🐑

Congratulations to our own Allison Cook for Reserve Champion in breeding

Wow! We had 52 students show up for STAAR tutorials on the first day! We talk about growth everyday and these kids want to see themselves GROW! Special shoutout to Starbucks and Whataburger for our prizes! Tomorrow we will be back in action till 5:00! Come grow with us!

Today kicks off our 6-8th grade math and reading tutorials till 5:00! Transportation will be provided if you call to let school know it is needed . Tutoriales para estudiantes hispanohablantes los miércoles y jueves hasta las 5:00. Por favor, avisen a la escuela si necesitan transporte escolar. Saturday 8th grade science tutorials and 6-8th grade math tutorials 10-12! No transportation provided

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