Jenkins Independent Schools

Tomorrow, all seniors are invited to attend orientation at Southeast Community and Technical College. If you plan on attending Southeast or even think you might, you need to attend. We'll leave the school around 8:30 and will return around 1:20. You need no money.

Attention Families: please complete this survey to help us with Family Engagement activities. Thanks for your input!! www.tinyurl.com/KYCollabSurveys

Monday, March 14th will be an NTI day for the Jenkins Independent School system.

Congratulations to Cavalier Senior Joshua Wagner for placing first in Skills USA Carpentry competition. Josh competed at Mountain Empire Community College last week where he framed a wall and was awarded a brand new DeWalt Circular Saw for demonstrating superb skills in his craft. Josh has a 3.0 gpa, is a great school citizen, and has plans to run his own business post graduation. Josh represents Jenkins with pride and made our Cavalier family proud!! #GoCavs

As a reminder, we need ALL sophomores to be at school in the morning to take the district A.C.T. Get a good night's sleep, bring your Chromebook fully charged, and eat breakfast. Can't wait to see you in the morning.

On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 all juniors will need to be at school by 8:15am in order to take the state A.C.T. On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 all sophomores will need to report to school by 8:15am in order to take the district A.C.T. If you do not want your child to send their scores to four colleges or take part in an Educational Opportunity Scholarship service where colleges send your child information, please let your child know.

All juniors need to bring in all their Nothing Bundt Cake orders and money to school tomorrow before lunch! Thank you!

All juniors need to bring their orders and money to the school tomorrow morning!   It’s not too late to place an order for Junior’s Hibachi on Wednesday from 11-3!  Please call 832-2711 or 634-9308 to get your orders in by noon on Tuesday!

Friday, February 25, originally scheduled as a teacher PD day, will be a regular day of school for students.

At Burdine Elementary this Tuesday we will be celebrating Two’s-Day 2/22/22! Our students will have special activities during the day including a dance break at 2:22 and to celebrate this special occasion, we would like to allow our students an opportunity to have a good dress up day! So, you can wear ties, tutus, tie dye, tennis shoes or even dress to match your friend and be a twin for the day!! I can’t wait to see what great ideas our kiddos come up with!!

The Student Leadership Council of JMHS celebrated World Kindness Day by creating a bulletin board. All staff and students had an opportunity to sign a kindness pledge for the display. We encourage everyone to embrace being kind and respectful to others.

We need all students in grades 6th, 7th, and 8th to be in person tomorrow and Wednesday to take their Reading and Math Transcend Winter test. You will be testing in Reading on Tuesday and Math on Wednesday. If you are a virtual learner, you need to be at school at your normal Reading class time tomorrow and your normal Math class time on Wednesday. If you're not sure when to show up, ask your teacher.

Burdine Elementary School and Jenkins Middle High School will be offering after school tutoring to help students to receive help with NTI assignments. Tutoring will take place Monday - Thursday of this week, February 7th - 10th, for two hours after school. Bus transportation will be available Tuesday and Thursday. Students must provide their own transportation Monday and Wednesday. Snacks will be provided. All students need to bring their chromebooks and chargers back to school tomorrow.

Jenkins Independent Schools will be on a regular schedule tomorrow, Monday, February 7th.

Burdine Elementary School will celebrate their 100th day of school the first day we are back to in person instruction! To all our new families, we usually wear a cute shirt (sometimes it’s handmade) that represent a quirky part of our personality…you can find tons of inspiration on social media!! Counting to 100 is a big deal for our lower primary students and to understand and comprehend “how many” that actually is! Teachers will have activities to enrich learning centered on 100! We’ve missed all of our kiddos and we are looking forward to seeing them again real soon!!

Wise County Career Tech Center is having a virtual learning day today. Be sure to log into your Wise County Career Tech Center Google Classroom for assignments.

Due to impending bad weather, we will not have pee wee basketball sign-ups at Burdine Elementary this evening. We still plan to have sign-ups on 2/9 and 2/15 from 5-7 pm at this time.

Dear Cavalier Families, Unfortunately, due to our current covid positivity rate, we are forced to move to remote instruction for the remainder of the week, February 2nd - 4th. We know this is not ideal and will return to in-person instruction as soon as feasibly possible. We plan to run the vocational bus on a regular schedule. Morning students need to be at the school by 8:15 and evening students by 11:45. We will be delivering meals on Wednesday, February 2nd. The meals included will be for 3 breakfasts and 3 lunches for the remainder of the week. The bus will leave Jenkins Middle High at 11:00 delivering meals on the main road to Dunham Park, then on to McRoberts Community Center, arriving @ 11:40 and will park at the Community Center for 15 minutes. Then the bus will travel back to Jenkins and deliver the Burdine route @ 12:30. If you live in one of the hollows that is normally on the route, please come out to the main road. If you can’t meet the bus, you may pick up the meals at Jenkins Middle High from 12:00 – 1:00. Please pull to the side of the cafeteria and someone will bring the meals out to you. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The vocational bus will run on regular schedule tomorrow. Morning students need to be at school by 8:15 and evening students by 11:45.

Dear Cavalier Families, It is our goal to provide in person instruction as much as possible through this pandemic. However, due to our current covid positivity rate, we have no choice but to move to remote instruction for Tuesday, February 1st. We apologize for this interruption, but know that our staff will be working diligently to see that student learning and services continue. Buildings will be open and staff will be onsite so that students can gather materials if needed. Thank you for your continued patience and support.