West Elementary School

06/10/2026

Get ready to swing into kindergarten! 🕷️

The Amazing KQuest is a county-wide kindergarten kick-off event designed to help incoming students and families start the school year with confidence, connection, and a little superhero-sized fun.

Join us Tuesday, July 21, from 5–7 p.m. at the Batesville Community Center and Aquatics Park for a FREE event filled with food, school supplies, books, health screenings, and special web-slinging comic-book characters.

Families will complete KQuest missions throughout the event to find the friendly neighborhood pool party at 7 p.m.

This event is open to incoming kindergarten families across the county. Bring your future kindergartener and get ready for an amazing start to the school year!

06/09/2026

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📣CALLING ALL FUTURE LADY PIONEER VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS📣

The Lady Pioneer Volleyball Program is hosting a 2-day volleyball camp on July 29th and 30th! If your daughter is entering the 2nd-6th grade and she has expressed interest in, already plays, and/or loves volleyball sign her up!

The cost for this camp is $35, and you can pay cash or check the first day of camp!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Coach Carpino at [email protected]

Here is the link to the Google Form to sign your daughter(s) up:
English form: https://forms.gle/5joeauogNaHGof6h9
Spanish form: https://forms.gle/wduwQZHKopcrzhcs8

05/28/2026

Teachers in their “see you later, alligator” era.

05/28/2026

This week, employees from the Batesville School District attended sessions at UACCB to participate in hands-on learning experiences and explore programs currently offered to students.
As part of the district’s CTE Plan, planning focus groups identified a need for increased PK–12 teacher support and understanding of career pathways. This event provided teachers with valuable background knowledge and real-world experiences to help strengthen career readiness connections in the classroom.
uaccb University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville

05/26/2026

05/25/2026

Eagle Mountain and Jr High students joined Mrs. Sarah’s class for a day of fun! We played in the splash and ate hot dogs grilled by Mr. Terry. Thank you to all who helped put this together and came out to play!!

05/25/2026

Last week, our West Elementary staff showered Mrs. Kaden and Mrs. Kristina with lots of love as they prepare to welcome their baby girls. We are so excited for both of these amazing teachers and can’t wait to meet their sweet little one 💕💕

05/24/2026

Third and fifth grade students created stop motion animation projects in STEAM this year and did an amazing job bringing their ideas to life frame by frame. Students worked in teams to plan scenes, create characters and sets, problem-solve, and turn creative ideas into full animations.

A team of judges reviewed all projects and selected two projects from each grade level to represent West Elementary in the statewide AAIM Student Media Festival. With so many creative entries, choosing was not easy!
For 3rd grade, the two projects selected to represent West Elementary were:

“Tangled” by Nala-Bay Cartmill and Laney
and
“The Farm” by Jemma and Kory Jo

I am incredibly proud of BOTH teams.

Both projects showed creativity, teamwork, and a lot of hard work, and both groups represented West Elementary so well.

And I’m excited to announce that “Tangled” received 3rd place in the state for 3rd grade animation!

For 5th grade, the two projects selected to represent West Elementary were:

The Sandstorm by Alana Davis, Marley Davis, and Jase Drew
and
Twister 2.0 by Jordyn Ford, Kacy Mae Gott, and Waylen Wootten

I am incredibly proud of BOTH teams for the creativity, teamwork, and hard work they showed throughout this project.

And I’m excited to announce that BOTH projects placed at the state level!

The Sandstorm by Alana Davis, Marley Davis, and Jase Drew received 3rd place in the state!

And Twister 2.0 by Jordyn Ford, Kacy Mae Gott, and Waylen Wootten received 2nd place in the state!

05/23/2026

This year in STEAM, 4th grade students created interactive research posters about how diamonds made it to the surface at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas.

Students researched the science behind volcanoes, magma, and diamond formation, then designed informative posters to teach others about what they learned.

But they didn’t stop there.
Students connected their posters to a Makey Makey, which is a type of circuit board that allows physical objects to interact with a computer. They also used coding to program their projects so that when parts of the poster were touched, recordings of their own voices would play and explain each section of the poster.
This was an incredibly advanced project that combined research, engineering, coding, design, teamwork, and creativity all together into one finished product.

Out of all of the 4th grade classes here at West Elementary, we were only allowed to nominate TWO projects to move on to the Student Media Festival state competition.

Just being selected as a nominee was a huge accomplishment because these projects competed against all of 4th grade here at West before advancing to compete against students across the state of Arkansas.

The two projects selected to represent West Elementary were:
“Arkansas Diamonds” by Cason Lee, Jack Puckett, and Willa Sours
And “Digging For Diamonds” by Kayden Coleman and Liam Downs

I am incredibly proud of BOTH teams for the creativity, teamwork, and hard work they showed throughout this project.
And I’m excited to announce that BOTH projects placed at the state level!

Digging For Diamonds by Kayden Coleman and Liam Downs received 3rd place in the state!
And “Arkansas Diamonds” by Cason Lee, Jack Puckett, and Willa Sours received 1st place in the state!

That is an incredible accomplishment, and we are so proud of all of these students for representing West Elementary so well.

05/22/2026

If you’re ready for summer, DANCE! ☀️💃 We’re celebrating the last days of school with big smiles and summer energy!