We are excited to kick off our Fall Sports for the year, and we want to share the excitement with you by giving away a Family Sports Pass this Friday. The pass will get you and your immediate family into all home games, across all sports for the year. If you would like to be entered in the drawing, please like, share, and comment about which Southerner Teams are your favorites to watch on this post. We will announce the winner Friday morning!
Athletic Update
Athletic Update
Following Open House, the Southside School Board will have a special meeting on Monday, August 16th. The meeting will start at 8:30 p.m. to discuss regular school business as well as issues related to COVID protocols. This meeting will be held in the SCHS Media Center.
A bus question hotline will be available this coming Sunday and Monday for families to call with any bus related questions that you may have. Routes have not been altered from last year, therefore if you have not changed your residence your bus animal and route will stay the same.
The bus hotline number is 870-251-4020 or if you would like to email your bus related question you may do so at bus@southsideschools.org
Due to the fluid legal situation with Act 1002 of 2021, Southside School District will continue COVID protocols such as social distancing and cohorting students in preschool through fifth grade. Multiple lunch periods will be provided to allow students to further social distance. A vaccine clinic will be provided on August 16th during open house. Masks will be recommended district wide and encouraged for vulnerable students and staff. The leaders of the district will continue to closely monitor the situation and update the protocol as needed.
Wilson's Pharmacy & Sav-On Pharmacy will be hosting a vaccine clinic at Southerner Gym on August 16th between 5:00-8:00 pm to coincide with Southside's Open House. The clinic will be open to parents and other family members who wish to receive the vaccine.
To reserve a time slot for your family please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/wXYrjo5sdzibnBqC9
Wilson's Pharmacy & Sav-On Pharmacy will be hosting a vaccine clinic at Southerner Gym on August 16th between 5:00-8:00 pm to coincide with Southside's open house. For more information please call Wilsons Pharmacy (870-251-2432) or Sav-On Pharmacy (870-793-4770).
Open house for the upcoming school year has been scheduled for Monday, August 16th. Students with a last name beginning with A-L are scheduled for 5:00PM - 6:30PM. Students with a last name beginning M-Z are scheduled for 6:30PM -8:00PM. Date and times apply for each campus.
In July we celebrated with a new teacher signing with three new teachers that will be joining our school family. Please welcome:
Jennifer Pate: Elementary Special Education Teacher
Hannah Heath Johnson: Jr High English Teacher
Taylor Phillips: Jr High Science
Attached is the updated school supply list for the 2021-2022 school year!
Southside School District Virtual Learning Center for the 2021-22.
In the 2021-22 school year, virtual options will have new structures for student success. Each student will be required to apply for the virtual academy. An admission committee will select students for virtual success.
Qualifications will include things such as prior virtual success (passing grades of 70% or better), ability to self-motivate, a strong track record in meeting deadlines, and attendance at onsite orientation. Documented medical reasons will also be accepted.
Other changes include attendance being monitored by joining regularly scheduled virtual class meetings. Students will also be required to attend testing sessions on campus.
Applications are being accepted through June 30, 2021. The admission committee will notify all students of acceptance by July 15, 2021. If you have any questions, call Ms. Novella at 870-251-2341.
Link for Application: https://forms.gle/BSQj8VCo2qN2AQ9v7
Youth Volleyball Camp!
June 21st-23rd
Kindergarten-3rd grade (8:00-10:00am)
4th -7th grade (10:00-12:00pm)
Registration Form: https://5il.co/tjjl
Southside Boys Basketball
Fundamental Skills Camp
July 7- July 9
For Boys Entering Grades K - 6
8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Registration form: https://5il.co/tgzw
Meet Superintendent Dion Stevens. A lifelong Independence County resident and educator, Dion Stevens is ready to serve the families of Southside Schools. He has supported students and families as a teacher, coach, principal and assistant superintendent.
With over 22 years experience, Mr. Stevens has been an educational leader at Southside Schools for 12 years. As middle school principal, he was named the 2015 Arkansas Middle Level Principal of the Year. Stevens also served as president of the board of directors for Arkansas Association of Middle Level Administrators.
With a life dedicated to the area, Stevens is a graduate of the local chamber’s Batesville Leadership Class and a member of the Independence County Impact Education Committee. He and his wife Coleen are active part of the Southside community. They have two daughters, Payton Jo Strain (Dalton) and Juliann Stevens.
Over the summer break, Southside School District will provide free meals to any child age 18 and under. Breakfast and lunch are available Monday through Friday. Families may dine in the air conditioned high school cafeteria; families may pick up to-go meals at Southside Elementary. Breakfast service is 8:00 to 9:00 am with lunch service from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. If you have any questions, please contact Food Service Director Rhonda Fowler at 870-251-2341.
All Arkansans age 12 and up are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines. In collaboration with community pharmacies and medical clinics, students are able to make an appointment for the free vaccine.
To schedule your student, please contact your pharmacy or our community partners, Wilson Wil-Sav Pharmacy (870) 251-2432 or ArCare Southside School Based Health Clinic (870) 569-4934.
More vaccine information is available from the Arkansas Department of Health: https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/topics/covid-19-vaccination-plan
Free athletic physicals will be offered by ARcare on campus Tuesday May 18th and Wednesday May 19th for any student planning to play a sport/sports in 2021-2022 in grades 6th-11th. You cannot receive a physical without a completed form. You can fill it out online. These will be the only free physicals offered by ARcare.
https://form.jotform.com/210705598388164
Thanks in part to an announcement by the USDA, meals for the 2021-2022 school year will be provided free of charge for all Southside students!
Preschool registration is coming up soon!
The registration application can be filled out at the link below:
https://register.runsandbox.com/Register/?form=a36d0eb8-deeb-406b-af20-d5138ded1993
