Administrative Professionals Week

Haywood Junior High School Principal Dontye Bradford says she and her staff salute their Administrative Professionals, Leslie Worle (standing) and Lane Holloway, during this special week. She says their work and professionalism are so appreciated.

HJH tennis teams complete season

Members of the HJH girls’ tennis team are Martha Jane Jameson, Lyndsey Yoder, Harley Baggett, Karina Pulido, Madison Eubanks, Taylor Primrose, Sara Long (not pictured), Gena Price, Anna Reid, Kaitlyn Kaiser, Rachel Johnson, and Raeann Williams.

Members of the HJH boys’ tennis team are Zach Austin, Haynes Russell, Nathan Peace, David Watts, Logan Eubanks, Tevyn Green, Christian Canada, Jay Clinton, Travis Richardson, Chris Harston, and Spencer Douglas. Coach for both teams is Mike Young.

The Haywood Junior High School tennis teams completed their regular season on April 30. The boys’ team is undefeated and finished with a 10-0 record. The girls went 6-4 for season. “Our girls team really did well. They are a really young team with only two girls returning from last year’s team,” Coach Mike Young said.

The #1 and #2 players on the boys’ team, Haynes Russell and Zach Austin, have not lost a match this year. The doubles team of Nathan Peace and David Watts, also went 10-0, and the #2 doubles team of Logan Eubanks and Chris Harston were 9-1 for the season.

On the girls’ team, Martha Jane Jameson is the #1 player with a record of 7-3. Harley Baggett is in the #2 position with a record of 6-4.

WTAC Tournament play begins Thursday, May 3, in Dyersburg, and Warrior Haynes Russell is the #1 seed in the tournament, as is the Warriors’ #1 doubles team of Nathan Peace and David Watts.
 

Warriors complete successful track season

The Haywood Junior High Track and Field team recently completed its season. Throughout the spring, weather was a problem for all outdoor sports; however, the team still managed to break 11 school records. It was a productive year with many personal and team accomplishments for both the Warriors and Lady Warriors who were coached by computer teacher, Ray Clark.

The old track jerseys had been used for several years, thus the guys and girls were thrilled when they received a surprise gift of new uniforms. The new blue uniforms with a white side stripe were bought by an anonymous community member from Brownsville. “We don’t know who paid for the new uniforms, but my students looked great and ran fast in them,” Coach Clark said. “The team is very appreciative and would like to thank our mystery donor and track fan.”

The next to the last meet was at Dyersburg on April 23. The D.H.S. “Big Kahuna” Track Meet is an invitational meet for junior high and middle schools from all around West Tennessee. In this meet the girls finished with the third-place trophy while the boys finished with the award for second place.

On April 30 the teams competed in the West Tennessee Athletic Conference Championships. The WTAC includes 14 West Tennessee junior high or middle schools. The girls finished in sixth place, and the boys managed to finish in third place. Six members were selected to the WTAC All-Conference Team. They were Diamond Robinson, Felicia Ingram, Dominique Adams, Dwayne Turner, Jerry Bradford, and Will Joyner. Will Joyner was the Meet’s most productive athlete by scoring 26 points more than any other single student in attendance.

Other members of the HJH track and Field team are: David Castro, Demarcus Coney, Jonathan Gayden, Troy Hamilton, Willis Hardaway, Raashid Murray, Isaiah Nixon, Quinterius Steward, Teron Taylor, Xavior Robertson, Cedric Tyus, Sharel Bell, Megan Cooper, Keyondia Gayden, LaSarah Johnson, K’Breona Lyons, Cordie Payton, Kristen Reed, and Shaniqua Tyus . Coach Clark’s lead student assistant was Lavarious Adams. Other student assistants included Chabrie Boyd, Nijja Murry, Karl Navarro, and Briana Shaw.
 

HJH softball team completes regular season

The Haywood Junior High School ladies softball team completed their regular season Thursday night, April 26, with a 2-11 record. The ladies play in the West Tennessee Athletic Association and compete against middle schools in Munford, Crestview, Brighton, Northview, Three Oaks and Dyersburg.

Members of the team are Aaliyah Whitmore, Leslie Smith, Ana-Coffman May, Keyuna Manns, Jasmine Phillips, Savannah Phillips, Katie Lacewell, Jecoliah Williams, Crystal Webb, Sheronica Mercer, Cory Jackson, Brooke Adams, Rachel Morris, and Chelsea Owens. Anthony Boyd serves as manager, and the coaches are Holly Pipkin and Thomas Young.
 

Haywood Junior High holds Knowledge Bowl

As a precursor to TCAP, seventh- and eighth-grade students at Haywood Junior
High School spent the week of April 9 competing against one another in the school’s fourth annual TCAP Knowledge Bowl. Students in both grades answered a daily question each morning and afternoon to accumulate points for the week. The seventh graders accumulated 1,500 points through daily questions, and the eighth graders accumulated 1,490.

In addition to daily questions, students also participated in a new program through the library called Reading Counts. In this program, students were given the opportunity to choose a book, read it, and take a test over it in order to gain more points for their grade. Students did a phenomenal job through their reading and literature classes, with a final result of the seventh grade gaining an extra 1,057 points and the eighth grade gaining 1,338 extra points.

The last leg of the competition consisted of a Jeopardy game in which students racked up more points for their respective grades. Jeopardy was the mystery factor in our scores, keeping the students in suspense until TCAP was finished. The results of the Jeopardy game truly made the winner this year. The seventh graders played it safe, moving from the lowest-value questions to the higher ones. They walked away with 11,900 points added to their final score. The eighth graders, on the other hand, took more of a risk by beginning with higher-value questions. Therefore, when their Double Jeopardy question rolled around, they had more to wager and wound up with a total score of 22,200.

When all points had been accumulated, the seventh-grade students had an outstanding 14,457 points, but the eighth-grade students surpassed them with a tremendous 25,028 points. The eighth graders are going to have the opportunity to participate in a fun-filled field day Friday, April 27, as a result of their win.

The Knowledge Bowl competition was designed with the intention of getting students motivated to do their best on TCAP, and the questions they received during the week made them think about what they could expect on the actual tests. “We at HJH are proud of all of our students for their hard work and determination. They make HJH a great place to be!” HJH Principal Donte Bradford said.


 

Parents learn at HJH TCAP Night

Parents were invited to a fun-filled evening of hands-on learning activities designed by teachers in math, science, language/reading, social studies, and physical education, music, art, computer. The purpose was to inform parents and students of the skills the state will be testing from April 16-20 during TCAP week, and to strengthen their child’s comprehension.

Children who came and brought their parents received three extra points on their final six-weeks grade in math, language, science and social studies. More importantly, parental presence expressed their support, interest, and their desire for their child’s academic success.

Attending were 318 parents and students. Activities ranged from a Jeopardy social studies competition, which simulated the actual TV game show, to a world geography floor quiz, exothermic reactions, decimal/fraction conversions, M/M bar graphs, analogies and Reading Olympics, cellular structure using electronic microscopes, sentence combining, and physical education, music, art, computer Tic-Tac-Toe.