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Showchoir Masters brings performance, crowds to Prep campus

Showchoir Masters brings performance, crowds to Prep campus

By Sayley Crawford, Jane Gray Barbour, and Aubrey Scott Moak January 29, 2018

For the past five years, Jackson Prep has been home to the annual Showchoir Masters competition. This year, Masters fell on the weekend of January 26. With Prep’s junior high showchoir performing...

Senior Financial Management students explore New York City

Senior Financial Management students explore New York City

By Avery Andress January 24, 2018

Senior members of Jackson Prep’s financial management class went on a trip to New York City January 18th through the 21st. The trip at first was delayed due to weather problems, so all of the seniors...

What happened with Parker Uniforms?

What happened with Parker Uniforms?

By Alex Gibbs January 23, 2018

On January 3, Parker Uniforms, which had been in business since 1931 and which had provided uniforms for more than a thousand schools across the country, including Jackson Prep and several other schools...

Saturday nights worship session

First Baptist’s D NOW resets students for new year

By Preston Dubberly January 18, 2018

Over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, First Baptist Jackson held their annual Disciple Now, also known as DNOW, which is a three day conference packed full of worship, missions, fellowship, and growing...

Précis Pageant 2017

Précis Pageant 2017

By Avery Andress, Bonnie Burge, and Eloise Moore December 18, 2017

                                                This...

Mississippis bicentennial commemorated with new museums

Mississippi’s bicentennial commemorated with new museums

By Charles Stephenson December 18, 2017

On the 9th of December, thousands of citizens from all over the nation witnessed the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History. This one-of-a-kind institution...

Prep star Jerrion Ealy commits to Ole Miss for football, baseball

Prep star Jerrion Ealy commits to Ole Miss for football, baseball

By Stewart McCullough and Steven Wyatt December 17, 2017

Flowood, MS -- The Jackson Prep Patriots football team had quite the success this season, and much of that success came due to the efforts of their junior four-star running back Jerrion Ealy. In November,...

Big Sis/Little Sis party welcomes holiday season

Big Sis/Little Sis party welcomes holiday season

By Sarah Cory and Mara Liston December 14, 2017

Oh, December. What a wonderful time of the year. Presents, fires, and Christmas cheer. But the most fun thing about December is clearly the Big Sis Lil Sis party! Everything from brownies to hat decorating...

Mississippi experiencing rough flu season

Mississippi experiencing rough flu season

By Tanner Gough December 13, 2017

With the flu season already in full swing, early signs have shown that this year might be particularly bad. According to a recent report by The New England Journal of Medicine, this year’s flu vaccine...

Delayed by snow, Hour of Code comes to Prep

Delayed by snow, Hour of Code comes to Prep

By Allie Wise and Olivia Moore December 12, 2017

The Hour of Code is an event that takes place in schools all around the world during the Computer Science Education Week, but schools can choose to host an hour of code anytime throughout the year.  Prep...

Students dive into virtual reality

Students dive into virtual reality

By Camp Carter December 6, 2017

On Wednesday, December 6, Jackson Prep hosted a virtual reality session in the library, the purpose of which was to show students how coding can make amazing things. Classes came in and experienced the...

No arguing this: Speech and Debate is lots of work

No arguing this: Speech and Debate is lots of work

By Mary Virginia Baldwin November 16, 2017

Arguing for sport may seem simple to some, but travel with Jackson Prep’s Speech and Debate team for a competition one weekend and you might feel differently. The team began their season in September...

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