Happy Labor Day! Check out what is happening this week at CMS HS! https://secure.smore.com/n/jpk12f
📸 Picture Day is Coming!
Mark your calendars – Tuesday, September 2, 2025 is Picture Day at Cutter Morning Star Elementary and High School.
All students will be photographed for the school yearbook and student records. Picture package information will be available to families in advance and online. Please see the attached flyers.
✨ Don’t forget to dress your best! We can’t wait to capture those smiles!
#CMSPictureDay #SayCheese #SchoolYear2025
Mark your calendars – Tuesday, September 2, 2025 is Picture Day at Cutter Morning Star Elementary and High School.
All students will be photographed for the school yearbook and student records. Picture package information will be available to families in advance and online. Please see the attached flyers.
✨ Don’t forget to dress your best! We can’t wait to capture those smiles!
#CMSPictureDay #SayCheese #SchoolYear2025
📢 The 2025 Yearbooks Have Arrived! 🎉
Yearbooks are here and going home!
✨ Students in grades 7–11 received their books today and some will receive their books tomorrow.
✨ Due to the rain today, elementary students (K–6th grade) will get theirs tomorrow.
✨ Seniors (Class of 2025) may pick their books up in the high school office.
📚 Didn’t order a yearbook?
No worries – we ordered extra! Yearbooks are $55.00 each.
💡 Want to spread the joy? You can also purchase a yearbook as a gift or donation – just let us know, and we’ll set it up for you.
🗓️ Why August instead of May?
Our yearbook covers the entire school year, including spring events, graduation, and summer highlights. The book isn’t officially finished until after school ends, which means it arrives in August. We truly appreciate your patience as our staff works hard to create one of the nicest yearbooks in the area.
CMS Athletics- The 5:30 PM 7th/8th-grade football game has been cancelled. The 7:00 JH game is still on as scheduled. We will continue to monitor the weather and provide updates if anything changes! Thank you and Go Eagles!
We are incredibly proud to announce that Cutter Morning Star High School has been named a 24-25 National Beta School of Merit! #betaSOM
Congratulations to Macy Bailey for being our first senior to receive a college acceptance letter this school year! #eagleschooseexcellence
CMS HS - School is in full swing! Check out what is happening this week at CMS HS! https://secure.smore.com/n/0dwbeq
It's game day! Come out tonight for scrimmage games against Episcopal. Games beginning at 6:00 PM. The bleachers may be hot, so bring something to sit on! Also, all children under the age of 12 must remain in the bleachers with their guardians at all times. Go Eagles!
Support our CMS HS Beta Club by donating gently worn or new shoes! You can drop them off at CMS High School, or call Laura at 501-545-5576 for pick up!
CMS HS - What's happening this week? Check out our newsletter to find out! https://secure.smore.com/n/xc8mq
Sign up your future Eagle Cheerleader for the CMS High School Mini Cheer Camp! We want to see them all cheering on our Eagles at the September 5th game!
What a great start to the school year! Be sure to read our weekly newsletter to stay up to date with everything happening at CMS HS! #excellentbychoicenotbychance https://secure.smore.com/n/6ewa3v
🚓💙 Exciting News for CMSPD! 💙🚓
Thanks to a generous donation from the City of Russellville, the Cutter Morning Star School District Police Department is proud to welcome two well-maintained police vehicles to our fleet!
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Russellville City Council, Mayor Fred Teague, Chief David Ewing, Deputy Chief Phillip Varnell, and Lieutenant Keith Spears for their support in making this possible.
📸 Pictured left to right: CMS Chief of Police Chad Durham, Lt. Keith Spears, and CMS Captain Patrick Naven.
#CMSStrong #CommunitySupport #SchoolSafety #Grateful #RussellvillePolice #CutterMorningStar
Thanks to a generous donation from the City of Russellville, the Cutter Morning Star School District Police Department is proud to welcome two well-maintained police vehicles to our fleet!
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Russellville City Council, Mayor Fred Teague, Chief David Ewing, Deputy Chief Phillip Varnell, and Lieutenant Keith Spears for their support in making this possible.
📸 Pictured left to right: CMS Chief of Police Chad Durham, Lt. Keith Spears, and CMS Captain Patrick Naven.
#CMSStrong #CommunitySupport #SchoolSafety #Grateful #RussellvillePolice #CutterMorningStar
📚 Cutter Morning Star Teachers & Staff – Days 2 & 3 Recap! 💡
Our theme this year is "Excellence by choice, not by chance," and our staff showed just that with two powerful professional development days led by Cara Shores from Solution Tree!
For two days, our educators dug deep into Supporting Students to Meet Standards. Cara guided us through building learning progressions, designing aligned assessments, and creating rigorous, tiered lessons to ensure every student is supported and challenged.
👩🏫 Day 2 Highlights:
✅ Unpacking standards to build learning progressions
✅ Designing both formative & summative assessments
✅ Using assessment data to drive instruction & intervention
✅ Examining rigor in instruction
✅ Planning extensions for students who master the standards
🧠 Day 3 Highlights:
✅ Tiering instruction based on assessment data
✅ Creating scaffolds for struggling learners and extensions for advanced students
✅ Designing complete tiered lessons with purposeful groupings
✅ Exploring digital tools & AI to support differentiated instruction
Our teachers worked incredibly hard – collaborating, planning, and preparing to meet every student where they are and take them further than ever before. 💙💛 #ExcellenceByChoice #CMSStrong #ProfessionalDevelopment #SupportingAllStudents #SolutionTree
Our theme this year is "Excellence by choice, not by chance," and our staff showed just that with two powerful professional development days led by Cara Shores from Solution Tree!
For two days, our educators dug deep into Supporting Students to Meet Standards. Cara guided us through building learning progressions, designing aligned assessments, and creating rigorous, tiered lessons to ensure every student is supported and challenged.
👩🏫 Day 2 Highlights:
✅ Unpacking standards to build learning progressions
✅ Designing both formative & summative assessments
✅ Using assessment data to drive instruction & intervention
✅ Examining rigor in instruction
✅ Planning extensions for students who master the standards
🧠 Day 3 Highlights:
✅ Tiering instruction based on assessment data
✅ Creating scaffolds for struggling learners and extensions for advanced students
✅ Designing complete tiered lessons with purposeful groupings
✅ Exploring digital tools & AI to support differentiated instruction
Our teachers worked incredibly hard – collaborating, planning, and preparing to meet every student where they are and take them further than ever before. 💙💛 #ExcellenceByChoice #CMSStrong #ProfessionalDevelopment #SupportingAllStudents #SolutionTree
We had some great things happen over the summer! Congratulations to our CMS High School students who placed 2nd in Apparel Design at the National Beta Convention in June!
🎉 Back-to-School Kickoff at Cutter Morning Star! 🍎
Today marked the first day back for our incredible teachers and staff – and what a meaningful start it was! This year's theme, "Excellence by choice, not by chance," set the tone for a day full of inspiration, connection, and purpose.
The morning began with a delicious breakfast prepared by our amazing Chartwells cafeteria associates. Superintendent Dr. Nancy Anderson opened the event with a heartfelt prayer, and staff members had the beautiful option to join hands in a circle around the room to pray together.
Each seat featured a Campbell’s soup can in a bowl – a fun and creative way to find a partner and connect! Once paired by soup type, each staff member and their partner walked the red carpet together, introducing one another to the group in a show of camaraderie and community.
Special thanks to Chief Chad Durham for providing essential Security Training and to all the faculty for diving into campus-specific professional development in the afternoon.
Here’s to a school year led by choice, passion, and excellence! 💙💛 #CMSStrong #ExcellenceByChoice #BackToSchool2025
Today marked the first day back for our incredible teachers and staff – and what a meaningful start it was! This year's theme, "Excellence by choice, not by chance," set the tone for a day full of inspiration, connection, and purpose.
The morning began with a delicious breakfast prepared by our amazing Chartwells cafeteria associates. Superintendent Dr. Nancy Anderson opened the event with a heartfelt prayer, and staff members had the beautiful option to join hands in a circle around the room to pray together.
Each seat featured a Campbell’s soup can in a bowl – a fun and creative way to find a partner and connect! Once paired by soup type, each staff member and their partner walked the red carpet together, introducing one another to the group in a show of camaraderie and community.
Special thanks to Chief Chad Durham for providing essential Security Training and to all the faculty for diving into campus-specific professional development in the afternoon.
Here’s to a school year led by choice, passion, and excellence! 💙💛 #CMSStrong #ExcellenceByChoice #BackToSchool2025
Reminder!! GameFace pictures are today and tommorow. Please have your forms ready or scan the qr code to pay online. If your athlete can not attend todays pictures, we will have a makeup date annoucment as soon as possible. Thank you and Go Eagles!
New and Current Registration is today! Thursday, July 24th, visit us anytime from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, at either the high school or elementary cafeteria, to fill out and update your child's paperwork. Athletic meeting for all athletes and parents at 5:30 PM. We can't wait to see you all!
Don't miss the 11th Annual Hot Springs Community Resource fair! August 9th, 4pm - 7pm!
Cutter Morning Star is pleased to announce free breakfast and lunch for all students! Please see the picture for more information. #eaglestrong
