Calling all Tensas Academy Students and Parents! Make plans to attend the Back to School Bash on Monday, August 15th at 5:00 pm in the TA Cafeteria. 

Please take the time to come to the Cafeteria where our outstanding faculty will be set up, ready to meet each of their students. Parents can take this opportunity to sign up for Classroom Activities such as Fieldtrip Drivers, Party Helpers, and more. Take this opportunity to volunteer for a specific committee or activity at Tensas Academy. Students in Grades 6-12 will check out their Chromebooks and will need a parent to sign.

After completing your paperwork, join your classmates outside for a trip down the water slide. Lawn games will be set up for all ages (including parents) so challenge your relative or your friend to some friendly competition. Cool off with a snow cone from Kona Ice and fill that empty belly with hot dogs and chips.

Parents are welcome to bring their lawn chairs and enjoy the last of the summer evenings before school begins. 

Saturday, August 5th at 7:30 am.

Tensas Academy Parents (and older students), please join and help us prep the Tensas Academy Campus for a new school year.

We love seeing our TA families, friends, and alumni on our campus, helping to take care of general clean-up tasks around the school. Even the older students can participate! We hope to see as many people on campus as possible!

See you on Saturday, August 6th starting at 7:30 am.

Wear comfortable clothes you don't mind getting dirty and close-toed shoes. Bring work gloves, a broom, dustpan, and a rake if you have them. Don't forget a hat & sunscreen.

Here are a few of the things that need to be done around the school on Saturday, but more are being added as faculty submit requests:

• Pressure washing sidewalks
• Replacing ceiling tiles
• Tossing unneeded items
• Cleaning the gutters
• Cleaning and weed eating around the dumpster areas
• Replacing light bulbs
• Weeding the flower beds
• Spreading pine straw in the beds
• Trash pickup around the school
• Weed eating
• Tree Trimming
• Limb Pickup
• Flower planting
• Cleaning windows
• Spraying Weeds

In accomplishing these tasks, there are a number of materials that will be needed.
​Please bring them (labeled) if you are able:

• Power Washers
• Ladders
• Wheelbarrows
• Gloves
• Leaf Blowers
• Loppers
• Sprayer with RoundUp
• Cleaning supplies
• Scrub Brushes
• Buckets
• Brushes
• Powdered Tide
• Bleach
• Shop Vac​

​For more information, contact Deana White (601) 807-4829

Tensas Academy is looking to the future and it looks BRIGHT!

Our theme this year is “Chiefs in the Future”. We looked to and celebrated the past with our retro themed carnival last year and are focused on the future of Tensas Academy with our theme this year.  The Annual Spring Carnival will be held on Saturday, March 26th, the fundraiser activities that day will consist of the Big Raffle drawing, the Gourmet Shop, a daytime Silent Auction, Kids corner, and an evening Grand Auction.

WHEN'S IT ALL HAPPENING?

​9:45 - 12:15 - Kids Corner
10:00 - 12:00 - The Gourmet Shoppe
10:00 - 12:00 - Silent Auction
10:30 - 12:30- The BBQ Babes
12:00- Drawing for the Big Raffle

5:30 - Live Grand Auction
Cocktail hour starting at 5:30 with the live auction beginning at 6:30. There will be live music, food, and adult beverages. This event is 21 and up only. There will be some fabulous items and experiences to bid on, so we hope you will join us! Please help us with our planning and purchase your tickets early. Tickets are $60.00 purchased in advance and $75.00 purchased at the door. 

WHERE'S IT HAPPENING?
Kids Corner will be at the football field. Drop your children (Ages Prek-5th) off anytime between 9:45-12:15. There will be jumpers, hotdogs, snacks and a drink! $20 per child.  
The Gourmet Shop will be housed in the TA Cafetorium, opening at 10:00 am, with the usual array of home-cooked sweets, casseroles, and many other exceptional items that can be used to make or complete a great meal.

Silent and Grand Auction will be in the gym and BBQ Babes will be in the gym concession. 

The Tensas Academy Board of Directors, Staff, and students greatly appreciate your participation in this and all fundraisers necessary to help pay for the various expenses that we incur each year as we strive to provide quality education and experience for our students.

​Tensas Academy's 4th and 5th Grades traveled to Sci-Port for an interactive science field trip. The students took a closer look at our stars during the Starry Night presentation in the Planetarium. They were able to see the different snow and weather effects in the temporary exhibit, Sno Port. Almost everyone liked being up close and personal with the animals. Thanks to Miss Whitney and Miss Suzi for setting up this exciting and interactive experience. Thank you to everyone at Sci-Port for an excellent experience for our students, teachers, and chaperones. 

Hi everyone! So this is a little request from the Waters family for anyone who has known or worked with or been a student of Gail Waters (née Rives). On this July 4th she will be turning 70!! The big party idea is obviously out the window, so for our quarantine *SURPRISE* we are making her a scrapbook and a family ceremony. We would love to include your memories, well wishes, favorite moments, or even photos with Gail, so that all her neighbors and friends and students and loved ones from these seven decades on earth (and mostly in Tensas!) can also be present. You can send any contributions to bethwooden@gmail.com, or to her phone (PM for #). JULY 1ST DEADLINE!!

And remember, she doesn’t know!

Thank you so much, Thad, Kate and Beth

Tensas Academy will be holding a delayed and condensed version of its Annual Spring Carnival on Saturday, June 27, from 10:00 to 11:30 am. The fundraiser activities that day will consist of the Big Raffle drawing, the Gourmet Shop, and a Silent Auction of various donated items, including items that have typically been part of the Grand Auction in past years.
The auction will begin as an online auction on Friday, June 19, and will conclude as a silent auction on that Saturday morning in the TA gym. For those wanting to bid online at any time after the auction opens, they may access the auction website at https://charityauction.bid/tacarnival2020, where pictures and descriptions of the majority of the items, along with registration and bidding instructions, may be found. Online bidding will end at 11:59 pm on Thursday, June 25, before the beginning of the Silent Auction inside the gymnasium on Saturday, June 27, at 10:00 am. Be generous with your donation to make sure an in-person bidder does not outbid you on Saturday.


The Gourmet Shop will be housed in the TA Cafetorium, beginning at 10:00 am, with the usual array of home-cooked sweets, casseroles, and many other exceptional items that can be used to make or complete a great meal.


The Tensas Academy Board of Directors, Staff, and students greatly appreciate your participation in this and all fundraisers necessary to help pay for the various expenses that we incur each year as we strive to provide quality education and experience for our students. 
For this event, we encourage our participants and patrons to practice social distancing within the buildings and wear a mask (if possible).


Schedule of Events
June 19 - 11:59 pm on Thursday, June 25 - Online Pre-Bidding for Silent Auction Items. You can register and pre-bid online before the auction. Be generous with your donation to make sure an in-person bidder does not outbid you. 


10:00 am - Items Sell Out Gourmet Shoppe opens in the cafetorium. Come and purchase some of the best home cooking around—casseroles, Cakes, Pies, Jams, BBQ Sauce, Breads, and many other items.


10:00 am - 11:30 am Silent Auction - Come bid on a number of items. Handmade children's clothes, B.Viz Pillow, lake/outdoor, books, artwork, Saints Game Tickets with accommodations, too many things to list. Many one of a kind items, including items that have typically been part of the Grand Auction in past years.​



https://charityauction.bid/tacarnival2020

Tensas Academy welcomed students back with the time honored tradition of prayer around the flag pole this morning.

We are looking forward to an outstanding school-year.