Students and teachers at Joyner Elementary School celebrate the announcement of the school being named an MWS Model school with confetti and stringers during a pep rally Tuesday morning.
The administration at Joyner Elementary School announces the school being named an MWS Model school as the students celebrate with shakers during a pep rally on May 23, 2023.
Joyner Elementary School students walk through a parachute tunnel filled with bubbles on their way to a pep rally announcing Joyner becoming an MWS Model school on May 23, 2023.Â
Students and teachers at Joyner Elementary School celebrate the announcement of the school being named an MWS Model school with confetti and stringers during a pep rally Tuesday morning.
The administration at Joyner Elementary School announces the school being named an MWS Model school as the students celebrate with shakers during a pep rally on May 23, 2023.
Joyner Elementary School students walk through a parachute tunnel filled with bubbles on their way to a pep rally announcing Joyner becoming an MWS Model school on May 23, 2023.Â
TUPELO — Joyner Elementary School has been named a Model Whole School by the Mississippi Whole Schools (MWS) initiative for its efforts in integrating arts into the classroom.
Principal Kim Foster announced the designation Tuesday morning during a pep rally.
MWS, a program of the Mississippi Arts Commission, is a statewide arts education program that uses the arts as a vehicle for promoting high-quality instruction and learning for students in all disciplines.
Students learn academic concepts through arts-based instruction while educators learn the latest on arts education and implement it by integrating the arts into other subject areas.
"Inside of Joyner, we had teachers that worked like crazy to make sure that we didn't miss a beat when it came to showing our best, which came from each of you in every single classroom," Foster told Joyner's students.
She read a letter from MWS congratulating the teachers and staff on being approved as a Model Arts Integration school in the Mississippi Whole Schools program for the 2023-24 school year for its dedication to teaching and learning through the arts.
"I'm proud of this entire team," TPSD arts coordinator Kit Stafford told students during Tuesday's pep rally. "We're celebrating big this singular day, but we're celebrating what you do day in and day out. Your teachers work really hard to make learning fun."
Joyner is among a number of other Tupelo Schools currently in the Whole Schools program, including Carver Elementary, the Early Childhood Education Center, Lawhon Elementary, Lawndale Elementary, Milam Elementary, Parkway Elementary, Pierce Street Elementary, Rankin Elementary, Thomas Street Elementary and Tupelo Middle School.
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