Don't forget... The Senior Auction is tonight! The baskets will be displayed in the commons area, and will be available for bidding by silent auction. The live auction for the work teams will be during halftime of the girls varsity game.
Come out, cheer on the Mavs, and support the Class of 2025!!!
This young lady earned a RARE award for being kind and helpful to her friends. Mrs. January presented her with this award for being empathetic. Great job!
We had great help after the Christmas concert cleaning up and getting the gym in order for Wednesday morning. These 3 boys did a lot of the work along with one of their dads. They all earned RARE awards for having RARE Character for helping Mr. Regier. Thanks!
Basketball games tomorrow starting at 4pm in Stapleton vs Sutherland:
JV Girls (1 quarter)
JV Boys (4 quarters)
Varsity Girls
Varsity Boys
Reminder about the live and silent auctions at the games as well!
SPS Parents,
This morning we conducted a HOLD in classroom drill in collaboration with local LE agents and their K9 drug detection dogs. During the drill students were in their classroom conducting normal business. These drills help ensure a safe school environment. Please reach out with any questions you may have.
SPS K-5 Christmas concert starts at 7pm in the main gym. Concert can also be seen at our live stream link: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/stapleton/organization/40010/sandhills-valley-high-school/video
Congratulations to Team 17 (Chloe Schaeffer, Danny Zuniga and Kyle Kramer) for placing in the top 10 out of 469 teams in the Statewide Fall Stock Market Challenge . Team 15(Shelby Layher, Cayson Johnston and Koy Eggleston/Kramer) placed 33rd. Our other three teams placed 190, 269 and 280.
Students receive $100,000 "investment" money at the beginning of the challenge and have approximately 3 months to grow their investment. All three of our teams ended up with positive growth. Team 17 had $136,368.37, Team 15 - $121,091,03, Team 18 - $106,092.61, Team 16 - $103,448.14 and Team 14 - $103,280.48. The top team in the state ended with $174,945.35.
Students will be able to play the Spring Stock Market Challenge when we return from Christmas break.
Busy day in the Stapleton Public Schools Gymnasium. Join us for our first home contests of the 2024-2025 winter season. JH Basketball tips off at 1:30pm. All games will be streamed live: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/stapleton/organization/40010/sandhills-valley-high-school
Congrats to Head Basketball Coach Bo McVay on his 12th career win last Friday evening at Anselmo-Merna. Coach McVay does so much for our kids, staff and community. A dozen wins equals a dozen cans of caffeine and a dirty dozen donut holes! We are so grateful for him and wish him and the boys continued success this season! Go Mavericks!
Stapleton Community: Please see the following article regarding concerns surrounding "group-chat" activities involving our students. Link to article: https://www.stapletonschools.org/article/1912651
JH BB Parents: Please see the attached picture on the SPS webpage and Facebook for most current dates/start times for JH Basketball. Contests are subject to change but will be communicated as soon as possible. Extra quarters/time will be played when possible to give all players a chance to participate.
Events for the week of December 9:
Monday, Dec 9:
--JH G/B BB vs Wallace in Stapleton--1:30 / 2:30
--G/B BB vs SEM in Stapleton--4:00 / 4:30 / 5:30 / 7:00
Tuesday, Dec 10:
--Elementary Christmas Concert in Gym--7:00
Thursday, Dec 12:
--G/B BB vs Sutherland in Stapleton--4:00 / 4:30 / 6:00 / 7:30
Friday, Dec 13:
--B WR at Twin Loup (Sargent)--11:00 am
Saturday, Dec 14:
--G WR SVM Invite in Stapleton--10:00
--G/B BB at Arthur Co--3:30 / 4:00 / 5:00 / 6:30 CST, bus leaves at 1:45 pm
GO MAVERICKS!!!
We are in the holiday spirit at Stapleton Elementary. The students have a calendar of dress up days that leads to the Christmas holiday. They and their teachers have been doing a great job. I have pictures of a few of the classes in their outfits for the day. They have to dress up as everything from a snowman to a candy cane. They are doing Fabulous!
Come out and support the Senior Class... and go home with all sorts of goodies!!!
The Stapleton Junior High are selling blankets as a fundraiser. Blankets will be here before Christmas. Price is $40. Blankets are 60" x 70" Contact a 7th or 8th grader to order yours today. Or email jeaninne.davis@stapletonschools.org or barb.doty@stapletonschools.org
Splash Pad Concession Fundraiser during Sutherland basketball game at home next Thursday Dec 12
Next Saturday's Basketball Games in Arthur will be a 3:30 cst start time (JV Girls). Start times are as follows (cst) JV Girls: 3:30pm JV Boys following Varsity Girls 5:00pm Varsity Boys - following 20 min warmup after girls game
Stream Links for Wrestling today:
Boys Link: https://www.youtube.com/@hilinebulls/featured
Girls Link: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/schools/southwest-high-school-bartley-ne (paid subscription required I believe)
Today we had 2 young men earn RARE awards. These 2 have done a fantastic job with following directions and following directions this last week. I am so proud of both of them and so are their teachers, Ms. January and Mrs. Schaeffer.
Mrs. Joedeman's 3rd floor December bulletin board has prompted some lively hallway discussions. Secondary staff and students were asked to nominate their favorite holiday movies. Nominations were tallied, then seeded into a 16 "team" bracket. Now, each head-to-head match-up will be voted on by the staff and students. Round 1 is being voted on today, and every few days we will vote on the next round, narrowing the field of competitors and eventually crowning the champion. Who would you vote for? Who do you think will win???
