MAGNET COVE

Strong schools = Strong communities. January is School Board Member Appreciation Month. We want to give a sincere thanks to Glen Coston, Mike Hughes, Dr. Stephanie Jones, Jeff McJunkins and David Sulton for their volunteer service to the Magnet Cove School District and the students it serves. Our school board is empowering students to excel!

Congratulations to Jaci Hill and Claire Wallace for finishing first and third in an essay contest that is sponsored by the Elks every year. Students from the Hot Springs area participated in this event. The topic was: How can Patriotism be Demonstrated? Mr. G stated that "he was happy to have two in the top three!"

Magnet Cove Families!   Big Things are happening! 

Drop-off and Pick-up hours for K-5 are 7:30-8:00 and 2:45-3:15. The construction crews will be breaking ground on our new elementary school the first of January 2021. We are REALLY excited to see the new school begin to take shape, but this will mean some changes to our drop-off and pick-up routine! We have created maps that illustrate our new traffic flow for student drop-off and pick up. The PROCESS for K-5 will not change, just where we complete that process! You will no longer enter from highway 51 but will enter from Magnet School Road (which runs parallel and west of the High School Football Field) into our new queuing area, next and southwest to the High School Baseball Field. Our car tag reader has been relocated so for afternoon pick-up, you will wait in the queuing area until dismissal begins. The line will move BEHIND (west) the elementary school, where the new drop-off and pick-up area now is) and where buses have been running since the start of school in August. Once you drop-off or pick-up your child, you will exit onto Highway 51. If you are visiting the school outside of drop-off/pick-up hours, you will enter into the new visitor’s parking area at the end of the elementary school next to Hwy 51. You will park here and then you can walk down the sidewalk to enter the building as usual. 

Pre-K (Headstart and ABC Programs) will also enter from Magnet School Road, come up between the elementary building and the baseball field drop off/pick up in front of the Headstart building then exit down the ramp beside the Annex building following the road out to the middle school parking lot. 

Middle School traffic will flow as usual.

Attached are maps with arrows showing the new flow of traffic starting January 4, 2021. If you have any questions, please call the elementary office at 501-337-9131. Thank you.

COVID-19 Information

MC Families, 
Please read our updated COVID 19 information, which includes information pertaining to the length of time students will be required to quarantine clicking the following link; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN9FR5s9bAY2iygLsPtP5GN1VCeHvlt-DKWTfQhQaKk/edit?usp=sharing

 click the Image for COVID 19 Information Page

Magnet Cove School District follows the guidance of the Arkansas Department of Health. Per this guidance at this time, we do not share the campus or district number of positive cases. Both FERPA and HIPAA allow the sharing of information to the public health agency in an imminent threat or emergency.  We provide this data to the Arkansas Department of Health and these numbers are included in their data. Some school level data is provided via their website, but anything less than 5 becomes identifiable.  https://achi.net/covid19/

We have a Point of Contact identified to be our liaison with the Arkansas Department of Health and a process in place to help minimize the risk in our school. The Arkansas Department of Health is identifying confirmed cases on the county level.  If there are cases associated with students or staff in the school district, the student or staff member will be notified by the POC and health department officials.  For the privacy of students and staff, the district will not be sharing any information unless a student/staff member is identified as a Probable Close Contact to a person testing positive for COVID-19.  We are committed to provide the safest learning environment and will follow the guidance provided by the CDC and the Arkansas Department of Education in conjunction with the Arkansas Department of Health. However, if you are overly concerned, we do offer a 100% Virtual Learning Option for the students in our district.

As part of a coordinated response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in partnership with the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas has developed this Parent/Guardian Survey<https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X7aRF3ErNNXFel> for soliciting family input on what is working now and what may be considered for the future.

Parent Survey purpose

The survey seeks to involve families in an organized, ongoing and timely way in planning, review, and improvement. The survey—which will remain open until NOVEMBER 20th—will provide feedback regarding:

* family concerns

* how families are making decisions

* family awareness of options and resources available

* family considerations for the future

https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X7aRF3ErNNXFel

Arkansas Prevention Needs Assessment (APNA) Student Survey Parental Notification 

Keep up with your students' grades using our online system at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAiSwNGGadueVLCIVWHBZHJ5h2UtTnrEktrUfx15l5sWjJZQ/viewform?gxids=7628  If you are unable to log-in to view grades please e-mail kayla.westfall@magnetcove.k12.ar.us to set up your log-in information.  Thank you!

For more inormation, please contact Mrs Whiddon at whiddonp2magnetcove.k12.ar.us       Cookie Dough Order Form

Exciting news!  As of September 3, 2020, the Magnet Cove School District will provide FREE school breakfast and lunch meals for all Magnet Cove enrolled onsite and virtual students. This waiver does not include second meals, additional milks or a la carte items. Funding for the meals will be provided through a waiver issued by the USDA. This waiver will end once funding has been exhausted or on December 31st, whichever comes first.  

Even though all students will be provided free meals while this waiver is in effect, we still need every household to turn in a free and reduced lunch application. Click here to access the application. If you need a paper copy, please call your child’s building at the numbers listed below and we will gladly send an application home with your student.

Elementary office: 501-337-9131

Middle School office: 501-337-9293

High School office: 501-332-5466

Virtual students interested in Grab n’ Go meals, text the message @mclunches to 81010

        MCSD BLENDED OPTION (full plan)

        MCSD BLENDED OPTION (Hyperlink)       

Special Programs Information for the 2020-2021 school year

Thank you for all of your help and patience!  PANTHER PRIDE RUNS DEEP! 

We appreciate and recognize the history of our elementary school and all of our campuses. With construction of the new elementary school to soon begin, portions of our beloved rock wall located on the north side of our campus will be torn down. Our plan is to repurpose the salvageable rocks and all other historical aspects of the current elementary school into the new elementary school where appropriate and feasible. We appreciate and understand that many of our patrons hold sentimental attachment to our present elementary school building and the rock wall.

In the future we plan to provide an opportunity for our community members to obtain a little piece of Magnet Cove history by picking up a rock or brick from the building. We will notify those interested prior to the disposal of any of these sentimental materials. We look forward to merging the history of Magnet Cove Elementary School with its future!

Information on the new Elementary