Murphy Elementary School

🎒✏️ Murphy Families - Let's Get a Head Start on School Supplies! ✏️🎒

The 2026-2027 Murphy Elementary School Supply Lists are here!

With so many summer sales happening right now, we wanted to share the lists early so families can take advantage of the savings and start checking items off their lists. 🛒✨

📌 School supply lists are attached by grade level.

Whether you're shopping during summer clearance events, Prime Day, Target Circle Week, Walmart sales, or tax-free weekends, now is a great time to grab those deals!

We can't wait to welcome our Murphy Lions back for another year of learning, leadership, and success. 🦁💙

Happy shopping and enjoy the rest of your summer!

Drop a 🦁 in the comments when you've finished your child's supply shopping!

What an incredible evening at the Cardinals game! ⚾🇺🇸

We are so proud of our Murphy Elementary students for their outstanding performance of God Bless America last night. Their hard work, talent, and confidence were on full display, and they represented our school community beautifully!

A very special thank you goes to Ms. Joyner, our amazing music teacher, for her dedication, leadership, and countless hours of preparation that made this opportunity possible. Your passion for music shines through in our students every day!

We would also like to extend our appreciation to our wonderful chaperones who helped make the entire experience run smoothly. Your support helped create a memorable night for our students.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this such a special experience. We are proud to be Murphy Lions! 🦁💙

🌟 Spirit Leader Spotlight 🌟

This week’s Spirit Leader Spotlight shines on our incredible Student Support Team — Ms. Denise, Ms. Emmons, Ms. St. John, and Ms. Copeland!

These amazing ladies play such an important role in caring for the whole child at Murphy. As our nurses, counselor, and behavior specialist, they provide support, encouragement, and compassion to students every single day. Whether they are helping students feel better, offering a listening ear, teaching important coping and problem-solving skills, or guiding students through challenges, they are always there when they are needed most.

They help create a safe, supportive, and caring environment where students feel seen, valued, and understood. Their patience, kindness, and dedication help students grow not only academically, but socially and emotionally as well.

Murphy is so lucky to have this incredible team supporting our students, staff, and families. Their hard work and caring hearts make a lasting difference in our school community each and every day.

That’s what being a Spirit Leader is all about! 💛

📚🤘 Murphy Library is rocking it this year! 🤘📚

Our students have shown an incredible love for reading during the 2025–2026 school year, and the numbers speak for themselves!

📖 16,068 total checkouts
📚 626 new books added to our library shelves
⭐ Top classes checked out over 1,000 books!

We are so proud of our readers, teachers, and our librarian for creating such an exciting reading culture at Murphy. From graphic novels to mysteries to fan favorites, our students have kept those pages turning all year long!

A special thank you to Mrs. Tisius for all of the hard work, dedication, and passion you pour into our library each and every day. Your love for books and students makes a lasting impact on Murphy! 📚

Keep reading, Murphy! 💙

🌟 Spirit Leader Spotlight 🌟

This week’s Spirit Leader Spotlight shines on our incredible Administrative Assistants — Ms. Taylor and Mrs. Kelly!

These two amazing ladies are truly the heart of Murphy’s front office. They keep everything running smoothly each and every day with their organization, dedication, and endless hard work. From greeting students, staff, and families with warm smiles to helping solve problems, answer questions, and keep our school organized, they do it all with kindness and grace.

Ms. Taylor and Mrs. Kelly are always willing to lend a helping hand, offer support, and make sure everyone feels welcomed and cared for. Their positivity, patience, and ability to juggle so many important tasks behind the scenes help make Murphy the special place it is.

We are so grateful for everything they do to support our students, staff, and school community every single day. Murphy simply wouldn’t be the same without them!

That’s what being a Spirit Leader is all about! 💛

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🌟 Spirit Leader Spotlight 🌟

This week’s Spirit Leader Spotlight shines on our incredible Special Areas Team — Mrs. Tisius, Coach K, Ms. Joyner, Ms. Deichman, and Ms. Clark!

These amazing educators bring so much creativity, energy, and excitement to Murphy each and every day. Through art, PE, library, music, and computers, they give our students opportunities to learn, grow, and shine in so many different ways.

They inspire creativity through art, encourage teamwork and healthy habits in PE, foster a love of reading and imagination in the library, fill our halls with joy through music, and help students build important technology skills for the future. Their lessons are engaging, meaningful, and often some of the most exciting parts of a student’s day.

Each one of them brings their own unique talents, passion, and dedication to our school. They help students discover new interests, build confidence, express themselves, and develop skills that will last a lifetime. Their positive energy and commitment make Murphy a brighter, stronger, and more well-rounded place for all of our students.

We are so thankful for everything they bring to our school community and for the countless ways they help our students succeed.

That’s what being a Spirit Leader is all about! 💛

Bubble Bus Fun! 🤩🫧🚌

Today we celebrated our incredible Lion Leaders of the Year at Murphy Elementary! 🦁💙

These students have consistently demonstrated leadership through the 7 Habits all year long, serving as positive role models in our classrooms, hallways, and school community. Each student was nominated by a staff member who recognized their outstanding character, responsibility, kindness, and leadership.

This morning, Ms. Gorgal and Mrs. Elsner had the honor of reading each student’s nomination blurb aloud as we celebrated these amazing leaders and the impact they make at Murphy every single day.

We are so proud of our Lion Leaders and the example they set for others. Congratulations, Lion Leaders! 🌟