
The Bryant School Board has approved the 2024-25 school calendar. School will begin on Monday, August 19.
Next week parents will receive a survey about calendar options for the 2025-26 school year. Be sure to check your email.
2024-25 Calendar (English) https://5il.co/2axf8
2024-25 Calendar (Español) https://5il.co/2ay47


Mrs. Payton's 7th grade FCSI students are having so much fun with their "potato baby" project this week! Students are practicing the responsibilities involved in the care of human babies. Several students named their potato and designed a unique carrier. Some of the baby potatoes pictured include, Despotato, Lu Lu Who, and Batman Jr. 💙💙💙








🎶 Our Bethel Band Christmas Concert will be Tuesday, December 19th in the gym! We can't wait to see you there! Beginning Band students will need to be in their seats in the gym at 5:50 p.m. and 7th grade Band students will need to be in their seats at 6:50 p.m. All Band students must wear their short-sleeved Bethel MS Band t-shirt to the concert. 🎷🥁🎺


🎉 Mr. McGrew's 7th grade accelerated history classes completed a Revolutionary War study by building dioramas of their choice! Each class voted on a class favorite and then chose an overall winner from the finalists. Each winner received a Chick-fil-A gift card! Congratulations to Jonah, Cora, Lily, Berkeley, and Carolina! Special congratulations to Ryan for being chosen as the overall winner! #bethebest #bryantproud







🐝🏆💙 Congratulations to our 2023-2024 Bethel Middle School Spelling Bee Champions!! 1st place - Sawyer, 2nd place - Maddox, and 3rd place - Bailey! Sawyer will go on to represent our school at the upcoming Saline County Spelling Bee! We also want to congratulate the students who made it to the Top 12 during the competition. We are so proud of your hard work! Great job, Bethel Hornets!! #bethebest #bryantproud



Paid Interpreters Needed for Parent/Teacher Conferences
Help us connect with our non-English speaking families by serving as an interpreter. If you are an adult 18 years or older who speaks English AND Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog/Filipino, Arabic, or another language, we would love to visit with you.
Contact Courtney Chalmers in the ESOL Department at cchalmers@bryantschools.org to learn more about our interpreting services. Conferences are coming up in February!


🎉 Congratulations to our Behavior Matrix Winners for this week, Nevan and Kamrin! They earned a lucky ticket for following our S.W.A.R.M. expectations at school. Great job! We are so proud of you!! 💙 #bethebest #bryantproud


Check out our Bethel Middle School Weekly Update for Dec. 11 - 15! Visit the link: bit.ly/41h3EtF


🤖⚙️💙 Our robotics team and their fearless leader, Mrs. Maxwell, hosted an elementary VEX Robotics Tournament in our gym today! Over twenty teams from across the state participated in the competition. We loved seeing their hard work and ingenuity! #bethebest #VEXrobotics





📣 🏆 They are bringing home another trophy!! We are so proud of our Bethel Cheerleaders for winning 1st place today at the Benton Invitational!! Congratulations to our team and to Coach Stratton! 🎉🎉🎉 #bethebest #bryantproud #gobigblue




🐝 💙 The Bethel Spelling Bee will be Tuesday, December 12th at 8:30 a.m. in the library! Families of the students participating in the competition are invited to join us and watch. Good luck Bethel Hornets! #bethebest


🎉🎶 We want to congratulate our Bethel Choir students and their director, Mrs. McCombs, on a wonderful performance last night at the Choir Christmas Concert! The 7th grade Boys Choir, 7th grade Girls Choir, 6th Grade Choir, and the Bellas performed several Christmas songs, old and new, in front of a large audience. Several songs even featured soloists! We are so proud of you!! 💙🎄 #bethebest #bryantproud







We are honored to be named a Purple Star School by the Arkansas Council for Military Children! This award recognizes schools that show a major commitment to serving students and families connected to our nation's armed forces. Special thanks to our District Military Education Coordinator, Beth Jaime, for making this possible! #bryantproud


❤️🎄🎁 We want to share photos from our 2023 Christmas Card with our school community and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas during this holiday season! Only 17 more days until Christmas! #bethelfamily



✏️📋 We are always learning something new in math class at Bethel! Mrs. Weaver's 6th grade accelerated math students had fun yesterday doing a scavenger hunt while practicing combining like terms!💡💙 #bethebest #bryantproud






📖 🔍 Recently, our 7th grade English classes read the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis.” The story sparked a lively debate in Mrs. Finnegan's classes concerning the protagonist and antagonist of the story. Is Brother responsible for Doodle’s death, or is he not?! Students shared their thoughts while using text evidence to support their claim! 💙 #bethebest





🎶🎄💙 Our Bethel Choir students traveled to the Arkansas State Capitol and neighboring elementary schools this week to share their Christmas Concert music with others before their final performance at Bethel tomorrow night! The Bethel Choir Christmas Concert will be tomorrow in the gym at 7:00 PM! We can't wait to see you there! #bethebest #christmasconcert


💙 We are focused and determined to learn and grow at Bethel Middle School! Students in Mrs. Christmas's 6th grade math classes are learning all about ordering Rational Numbers on a Number Line in class this week. Keep it up, Bethel Hornets! 💙 #bethebest









♻️ Two of our Bethel YEA Green Team members and their sponsor, Mrs. Bratton, had fun representing our school on the Recycle Saline float in the Benton Christmas Parade last night! ♻️ Our YEA Green Team works hard each week to take care of our recycling needs on campus! They are currently collecting plastic bags for the TREX recycling campaign. Plastic bags can be dropped off in the TREX bins around our school. 💙#reducereuserecycle



💙🏆 We want to announce our CKH Students of the Month! Congratulations to Eliana, Jaxson, and Chyna!! They were nominated by their teachers for exemplifying our Word of the Month. This morning, their families surprised them by coming to the front lobby of the school to watch them receive their award! You make us #bryantproud! #bethebest #capturingkidshearts
