🐝 Yellowjackets are #RazorbackReady2026! 🏃♂️💨
Over the last two weeks, our amazing students at East End Intermediate have shown the true heart of a Yellowjacket! 💛 💙
By jumping headfirst into the Governor's #RazorbackReady2026 Fitness Challenge, they’ve been working hard to improve their overall fitness and build healthy habits in everyday life. We are so proud of the energy, enthusiasm, and determination our students are bringing to this challenge every single day!
https://bit.ly/4fzZPJ7
Keep moving, East End! Let's finish strong! 💪🎉
#RazorbackReady2026
🏆♟️ EEI CHESS TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! ♟️🏆
We have some massive news to celebrate from Monday! Our brilliant East End Intermediate students competed in the Sheridan School District's Chess Tournament, and they absolutely swept the competition!
Please join us in sending a huge congratulations to our amazing winners:
🥇 Wyatt Ritchie – 1st Place Champion!
🥈 Emmanuel Ramirez & Avalyn Jaggars – 2nd Place Winners!
🥉 Jon Luke Cary – 3rd Place Winner!
We are incredibly proud of your strategic thinking, focus, and excellent sportsmanship. Way to represent East End Intermediate, crew! ✨
🍕📖 MORE READING CELEBRATIONS AT EEI! 🎈🏰
The hard work just keeps paying off! After our sweet ice cream and cotton candy parties, it was time to celebrate our incredible Tier 1 and Tier 2 Reading Challenge winners!
Our rockstar readers earned some unforgettable rewards:
📚 Tier 1 Field Trip: Students visited our wonderful Saline County East End Branch library to explore and show off their creativity with a fun craft. Afterward, they enjoyed a delicious lunch sponsored by Pizza Hut, and Jump N Stuff invited them to come flip, bounce, and burn off some of that celebratory energy on their awesome bounce houses!
🍕 Tier 2 Celebration: On Monday, our Tier 2 winners enjoyed an exclusive pizza party with Deputy Fashank! A huge thank you to Larry's Pizza for sponsoring the delicious food for our hard-working students.
❤️ To our amazing community: Thank you for continuously helping us encourage our students to read. Your incredible support makes these student rewards possible and shows our kids that dedication to reading really pays off!
Keep reading, EEI! ✨
Last Monday, East End Intermediate hosted an incredibly inspiring Career Day for our students! Before the big event, students completed interest surveys to help identify their potential future career fields.
Based on those interests, our students gathered in groups to hear directly from real-world local professionals! Our guest speakers shared invaluable insights into their daily lives on the job, including:
🎓 The education, training, and certifications required for their fields.
🛠️ What a typical "day in the shoes" looks like on the job.
❤️ What they love most about their professions.
🙋♂️ Answers to all of our students' curious questions!
🙌 A HUGE shout-out to all of our volunteers! Thank you so much for giving your time, sharing your passions, and inspiring the next generation of leaders, creators, and professionals. We appreciate your investment in our students!
Our East End Intermediate students had a massive day of celebrations on Friday! We were thrilled to hand out rewards for Tiers 3 and 4 of our school-wide reading challenge with some well-deserved ice cream and cotton candy parties.
This sweet reward wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing community partners:
--Smoothie's Plus: A huge thank you for generously donating the delicious ice cream and all the toppings! 🍨✨
--Our Wonderful PTO: Thank you for sponsoring the cotton candy and volunteering your time to help run both parties! 🤝❤️
🎟️ ATLAS TESTING RAFFLE DRAWING 🎟️
Also on Friday, EEI held our highly anticipated drawing for the ATLAS Testing Raffle! We want to extend a special thank you to the incredible local businesses whose donations allowed us the opportunity to purchase great prizes for our students:
--Manatt Law
--Malvern National Bank
--Pinnacle Gymnastics
--Simmons Bank
With your incredible support, we are continuously able to uplift our students and reward them for their hard work and achievements. Way to go, readers and test-takers! Keep up the fantastic work! 🐝✨
🌟 A huge shout-out to our incredible 5th-grade volunteers! They did a fantastic job leading the tours, showing the incoming students around, and making everyone feel so welcome. We are so proud of your leadership! 👏
❤️The students left full of excitement for the upcoming school year, and our staff is already looking forward to seeing all those smiling faces on campus this August!
Welcome to the EEI family!
Our East End Intermediate 5th graders took a big step toward their future last Friday with a tour of East End Middle School! They got a firsthand look at their home for next year, and now it’s the parents' turn.
✨ TONIGHT is Rising 6th Graders Night at EEM!
We invite all our 5th-grade families to join their students to learn more about the middle school, meet the staff, and see all the amazing opportunities awaiting our future 6th graders.
We hope to see you all there! 🐝✨
Our East End Intermediate students reached new heights last Thursday during our very first rocket launch! After weeks of studying NASA’s Artemis II mission and building their own custom rockets in STEM class, it was finally time to see that hard work take flight.
🌟 A HUGE shout out to the mastermind behind this incredible project, Mr. Brostrand! As the newest member of our East End Intermediate family, he’s already making a stellar impact. We are so lucky to have his passion and expertise in the classroom!
We are bursting with pride for our EEI 5th graders! Huge congratulations to Mia Dailey, Hadlee Lunsford, Ava Upchurch, and Abel Worrell for taking home 1st Place in the 2026 Spring Stock Market Game (Region 2, Elementary Division)! 📈💰
This talented team was honored last week at a special awards luncheon held at the Clinton Presidential Library. Their hard work and collaboration really paid off. Way to represent East End Intermediate! 🐝✨
#LearnBIGDreamBIGGER
This week, East End Intermediate held our final Monthly Morning Meetings for the 2025-2026 school year! It was full of celebration and Yellowjacket pride.
🌟 Perseverance in Action: We honored our CKH Nominees for April, who modeled "Perseverance" so beautifully. Speaking of perseverance, a huge congratulations to ALL our students for their hard work during ATLAS testing over the last two weeks! We know testing can be tough, but that data helps us ensure every student is growing and succeeding.
🙌 A Special Thank You: To our parents and staff—thank you for motivating our kids to "show up and show out" every single day. Your support makes all the difference!
✨ Looking Ahead: Our final CKH word of the month is INTEGRITY. We challenged our students this week to stay true to themselves and always do the right thing, even when no one is looking.
Let's finish this year strong, Yellowjackets! 💙🐝
Our East End Intermediate science teachers are pumped and ready for the ATLAS Science Test today! 🚀
To our amazing students: Today is the day to show up, show out, and let all that hard work shine. You’ve got the formulas, the facts, and the focus. Let’s do this, Yellowjackets! 🐝✨
#LearnBigDreamBigger
On Wednesday, we celebrated Administrative Professionals' Day, and we want to give a massive shout-out to the heart and soul of our front office: Mrs. BJ and Mrs. Lindsey!
These two amazing ladies are so much more than secretaries—they are:
😊 The smiling faces that greet every student and visitor.
💡 The ones with all the answers (no matter how tough the question!).
⚓ The glue that keeps our building running smoothly every single day.
EEI truly would not be the same without them. Mrs. BJ and Mrs. Lindsey, thank you for your endless dedication to our students, staff, and families. We appreciate everything you do!
A Standing Ovation for Our 5th Graders! 🐺🎶🌎
Our 5th-grade students took us on an incredible journey this past Tuesday! The evening kicked off with a spectacular musical performance of "What's up with the Big Bad Wolf?" The talent on stage was matched only by the hard work on display in our Social Studies & Art Gallery. Visitors had the chance to "travel the world" by exploring student-created displays of different countries, featuring deep-dive research projects and beautiful traditional artwork inspired by cultures across the globe.
A Huge Thank You: This magical night wouldn't have been possible without the tireless dedication of Ms. Burris, Mrs. Whitehead, and Mrs. Raney. Thank you for your hard work and for creating such a wonderful opportunity for our students to shine! 🌟We are so proud of the creativity, research, and courage our students showed this week. Thank you to all the families who came out to support our young performers and historians!
Click the link to view students' projects and artwork - https://bit.ly/4vqNEDY
#LearnBIGDreamBIGGER
🐾 Merle Monday: Calling All Professionals! 💼🌟
Merle needs YOUR help! We are looking for guest presenters to join us for East End Intermediate’s Career Day on Monday, May 11th.
Do you have a career you're passionate about? We want our students to see the amazing variety of paths available to them! Whether you're in tech, trades, healthcare, the arts, or anything in between, come share your expertise and help our students explore their interests. Your career could be their inspiration.
✨ Interested? Fill out this quick form: https://forms.gle/3kqCkJqyFwJ3WoTG7
Let’s make this the best Career Day yet! #LearnBIGDreamBIGGER
Our 6-week school-wide book challenge came to a close at Spring Break, and the dedication of our readers blows us away! Our students and staff have spent the last month and a half proving that reading is a superpower.
Check out these incredible totals by grade level:
--3rd Grade: 66,496 pages
--4th Grade: 121,347 pages
--5th Grade: 111,883 pages
--Staff: 77,674 pages
That brings our grand total to a staggering 377,400 pages read in just six weeks! 🤯
Congratulations to all of our participants for pushing yourselves and discovering new worlds through books. We are so proud of our EEI family! 💙📖
We are so thankful for Mrs. Nowlin and everything she does to instill a passion for reading in our students. She doesn't just manage a library; she builds a foundation for student success.
Did you know?
--Students who read for just 20 minutes a day score significantly higher on standardized tests across all subjects.
--Reading for pleasure is one of the strongest predictors of a student's vocabulary growth and math ability.
--Schools with a certified librarian consistently see higher student academic achievement.
Thank you, Mrs. Nowlin, for making our library the heart of our school!
We had a wonderful Monthly Morning Meeting today at East End Intermediate! We are so proud to announce our students, classes, and staff of the month for March. This month, our school focused on the CKH Word of the Month: Courage. Courage isn’t just about being fearless—it’s about doing the right thing even when it’s hard, trying new things, and standing up for others. Congratulations to all our honorees who led by example and showed us what true bravery looks like in our hallways every day!
