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Members of the yearbook staff with sponsor Ms. Kathryn Shuff

Latest Prep yearbook distributed

By Helen Fulcher and Morgan Marion September 5, 2023

On Tuesday, Sept. 5, during activity period, the Précis staff distributed the 2022-2023 yearbooks. All the students enjoyed looking through the memories from the previous year. The outside cover is a...

Students follow librarian Norma Cox across Egypt

Students follow librarian Norma Cox across Egypt

By Nolan Canoy August 30, 2023

Ms. Norma Cox, Prep’s head librarian, left the country on August 25 and will be traveling through Jordan and Egypt. Ms.Cox has traveled the world before and been on several Prep tripsk including ones...

Environmental Club

Club Fair previews year full of opportunity

By Brogen McCluskey and Morgan Marion August 29, 2023

The 2023 Club Fair was held on Patriot Avenue on Tuesday, August 29.  Prep students set up tables and recruited for the clubs that they are in charge of.  The tables were decorated  to attract people...

Blood drive lets students help others

Blood drive lets students help others

By Garner Young, Photo Editor November 29, 2022

On Tuesday, November 29, Mississippi Blood Services came to Prep as a part of a M.A.D. project put on by seniors Akhila Adari, Callie Knotts, and Paul Gregg. They were at Prep from 8 to 3, and all donors...

Mustard Seed named as Preps new community service partner

Mustard Seed named as Prep’s new community service partner

By Anna Blaire Bryant, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2022

The Mustard Seed is Prep’s 2022-2023 Service Club community partner. Located in Brandon, Mississippi off of Luckney Road, the Mustard Seed is a nonprofit that provides housing to mentally challenged...

The Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II

By Riley Spivey, Editor in Chief September 8, 2022

On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who passed at age 96. She was born April 2, 1926 and ascended the throne on February 2, 1952 after the death of her father....

One School, Many Books turns the page on summer reading

“One School, Many Books” turns the page on summer reading

By Baty Newman, News & Features Editor September 8, 2022

Prep’s annual “One School Many Books” event happened during activity period on Tuesday, September 6. Middle schoolers and upper schoolers alike clamored to the front of their respective buildings...

Water covers the Prep soccer field

Water creeps on campus as Pearl River rises

By Sentry I Class August 29, 2022

As students arrived on the Prep campus on Monday, they found that the river had beaten them there. Areas near the baseball and soccer facilities, as well as parts of the back campus, were under varying...

Edward Wilson, dressed  for success at the National Speech & Debate Tournament

Wilson advances to national debate finals

August 12, 2022

Rising Prep senior Edward Wilson made the Finals of Congressional House Debate at the National Speech & Debate Association (“NSDA”) National Championships. Over 4800 students from almost 1200...

Locker buddies!

Changes big and small greet returning students

By Anna Cate Hays August 12, 2022

With the 2022-2023 school year starting, some things will remain the same, but a number of things will change.  It is no secret that the ninth grade is joining the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth...

TOP L-R: Mr. Doug Goodwin (head football coach), Ms. Donna Goodwin (art), Ms. Leslie Buckley (Director of Dyslexia Services/6th grade), Ms. Lauren Markle (I.T. support/head volleyball coach/entrepreneurship), Ms. Joanna Dieckman (Spanish), Ms. Valerie Abraham (French), Mr. Joshua Glidewell (basketball/financial management), Mr. Bill Richardson (applied science)
BOTTOM L-R: Ms. Leslie Decker (art), Ms. Ginny Futvoye (art), Ms. Missy Davidson (science), Ms. Erin Mathews (6th grade), Ms. Allison Hurley (Middle School administrative assistant), Ms. Mimi Bailey (5th grade)
INSET: Ms. Emily Garner (Director of Branding and Marketing)

New Faculty Faces

August 12, 2022

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Jackson garbage dispute plagues the capital city

By Jake Mathews, News & Features Editor April 28, 2022

The City of Jackson has recently had a real problem on its hands: who is going to pick up the trash. The city’s contract with Waste Management expired on March 31. With the City Council unable to...

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