🎉📚 We’re excited to celebrate our outstanding Jr. High students at the upcoming Academic Awards Ceremonies on Friday, May 16th in the Fine Arts Center! Students receiving Subject Area Awards and/or Honor Roll Certificates will receive invites today. Families are welcome to attend—come cheer on your scholars! 🎓✨
🕣 9th Grade – 8:30 AM
🕙 8th Grade – 10:00 AM
🕐 7th Grade – 1:00 PM
🏀 Junior High Boys Basketball Tryouts are coming up!
May 13th & 15th | 3:30–4:45 PM
Location: VV Jr High Gym
Bring your game—and your updated physical!
Questions? Email Coach Gramling at beau.gramling@valleyviewschools.net
Bump, Set, Spike your summer off right!
Join us for the 2025 McGee Volleyball Camps @ Valley View!
Open to all schools, 2nd–8th grade athletes are invited to train with 16x state champs, VV coaches, and alumni in this ELITE individual skills camp!
May 27–29 | Early bird deadline: May 15
Secure your spot, get the right shirt size, and save!
Scan the QR code to register now!
The junior high girls basketball tryouts are this Thursday, May 1st.
Every year the freshmen Physical Science students participate in the egg drop project. The students are tasked with using some simple materials to build a contraption to save their eggs from the effects falling on to a hard floor from a height of about 25 feet.
It’s Administrative Assistant Week, and we would like to express our appreciation for ours. Cynthia Norris and Crystal Poole are the friendly faces in the office that greet our visitors, and they are the unsung champions of organization for our school. They complete so many tasks that often happen quietly behind the scenes, but the impact of their work is immense. We are enormously grateful for their work and dedication!
Our students in the visual and performance arts courses would like to invite you to Cinco de Mayo night. Please come and help celebrate the talents that will be on display this evening.
Don't forget to purchase your copy of the Blazer Yearbook before the end of the school year deadline. Preordering is the only way to ensure that you will be able to purchase a copy. Don't miss out!
#BlazerPride #LTF
Congratulations to freshman Daniel Leslie for winning the Arkansas Technology Student Association essay contest! This is the third essay contest that Daniel has won this year. In addition to his April 7th TSA essay win, he has also won essay competitions with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Daughters of American Revolution organizations. We are all very proud of what Daniel has accomplished. #BlazerPride
Get ready for a night to remember!
Valley View Junior High’s Spring Soirée is happening May 9th from 7–9 PM in the Commons!
Dress to impress for our semi-formal event featuring a DJ, photo booth, and concessions.
$5 entry at the door — don’t miss it!
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WEATHER CANCELLATIONS
Spring Pictures will be taken after spring break on Friday, April 4th. Forms are available now in the junior high office. Students must pick up a picture form if they want spring pictures.
The spring edition of the Valley View Junior High Chess Tournament was held this week in the library. After multiple rounds of some intense competition, the spring champion is 8th grade student, McKinley Burns. Congratulations to McKinley and all the students that competed!
🌮🚚 Taco ‘bout a fun project! 🚚🌮
Coach Betts's students just wrapped up a deliciously educational unit on percents by designing their very own Taco Truck businesses! 🌯💰 They created creative menus, took orders from friends, and calculated tips, taxes, discounts, markups, and markdowns—because even in the taco biz, math always adds up! 🔢🌶️
VVJH teachers cast their “spicy” votes 🔥, and the most creative businesses from each class were crowned Top Tacos! 🌮🏆 These winning entrepreneurs were rewarded with a goody bag yesterday—no tax or tip required! 😉
🌟 Congrats to our future business moguls! 🌟 Keep crunching numbers (and maybe some tacos, too)! 🌮🎉 #TacoBoutMath #FutureCEOs #VVJHTacoTrucks
Grade reports will be available this Friday, March 21st.
🎉 Congratulations to our Blazer Buggy Winners! 🎉
Each week, students are nominated by their teachers for demonstrating excellence in a variety of areas—whether it’s showing kindness, going above and beyond in their work, or displaying great leadership. We are so proud of you all! 🌟
This program is sponsored by PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports), and we’re excited to continue recognizing our students’ hard work and dedication. Keep up the amazing work, Blazers! 💪 #BlazerPride #PBIS #BlazerBuggyWinners
March 14th (3.14) is Pi Day, and several junior high Blazers were happy to be in math class today. Pi, the special proportional relationship between the circumference and diameter of circles, is celebrated by snacking on all things round and tasty!
The students in Ms. Mathis’s English classes created Body Bio projects this week to expand on their understanding of the novel they just completed: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. The novel is young adult fiction set during WWII that, in part, tells the story of the single greatest tragedy in maritime history. Body biographies are designed to help students take a closer look at character analysis and think critically about a character's motivations, beliefs, and role in a story.
Congratulations on a great opener at the GCT Glenn Sain Relays for the 7th Grade Boys and Girls track team!
Girls 4x800 meter relay - 1st Place
Camryn Oholendt
Claire Ohelendt
Peyton Byron
Annalee Fergerson
Girls 4x100 relay - 6th Place
(Not sure which girls ran this?)
Taylor Sage - 1st in triple jump, 2nd in 100 meter dash, and 6th in long jump
Lyam Rennels - 3rd in triple jump, 4th in long jump, 5th in 100 meter dash
Tye Thornton - 4th in shot put, 7th in discus
Kyle Figuerido - 6th in triple jump, 10th in 400 meter dash, 16th in long jump
CJ Williams - 3rd in high jump, 6th in 300 meter dash, 12th in 100 meter hurdles
Kollin Lipscomb - 9th in discus, 14th in shot put
Bentley Smith - 8th in 100 meter hurdles
Peyton Byron - 4th in 1600 meter run
Camryn Oholendt - 7th in 1600 meter run
Emelia Smith - 7th in high jump
Mollie Fischer - 8th in high jump
Kennedy Hampton - 8th in 400 meter dash
Congratulations to both the boys and girls choirs! They received superior ratings in both performance and sight reading at choral performance assessment.
#BlazerPride
