The students in Introduction to Agriscience are learning how to tie a tie as we wrap up the official dress section of our What is FFA unit. They have enjoyed learning how to tie a simple knot and have been challenging one another to competitions, both involving speed and skill.
The 2024-2025 Stapleton Chapter of the National Honor Society. Special thanks to Mr. Jon Walz for being the honorary speaker tonight.
Stapleton NHS Induction tonight at 7pm in the community center. We are excited to have Kelsey and Rhay joining! Congrats ladies! Open to the public!
Please see the following article regarding the addition of JH VB games on Monday, Oct 21st - Thank you:
https://www.mcstryon.org/o/sandhills-valley-mavericks/article/1769854
Students were also given a physical copy to bring home as well
Events for the week of Sept 16: Mon, Sept 16: —JH VB at Sandhills-Thedford in Thedford—2:30pm, bus leaves 1:00 pm —JV FB at Sandhills-Thedford in Thedford—6:00 pm, bus leaves 3:40 pm Thur, Sept 17: —National Honor Society Induction Ceremony—7:00 pm We’d, Sept 18: —JH VB vs Maxwell in Stapleton—2:00 pm Thur, Sept 19: —Bloodmobile @ Community Building, 9:00-3:00 —School Picture Retakes —JV / Var VB at Anselmo-Merna—4;00/5:00, bus leaves 2:15 pm —JH / JV / Var XC at McCook—5:00, van leaves 2:15 —Var FB vs South Loup in Stapleton—7:00 pm Sat, Sept 21: —Var VB at Pleasanton Tourney—10:00 am, bus leaves 7:15 am GO MAVERICKS!!!
We had our first RARE award for empathy today. This young man is very kind and helps his peers and adults!
Checking in with Math once again: From the desk of Mrs. Schrock.
Let's talk about Aleks.
Aleks.com is an online program created by McGraw Hill that uses an initial grade level test to determine if the student has mastered the required standards for the grade level. We use Aleks on most Fridays because it's a shorter day, and this allows students to get caught up from the week before they head into their weekend.
Aleks is also a way for students to earn bonus points towards their grades by completing extra topics. This not only helps their learning but helps their grade.
The initial test will assign a number of topics that the student needs to work on to master the requirements for the grade level. It's a way to differentiate levels of the same materials so that every students needs are being met. If a students masters all the requirements of their current grade level, they are allowed to move up into the next grade (on Aleks) to continue their learning. Making sure every student's learning needs are being met.
Senior Banners and Fall Sports team banners are up in the Stapleton gym for 2024-2025. Thank you to the Stapleton booster club and those who donate for making this possible for our seniors and teams!
SUPERINTENDENT'S DESK: Click on the link to get the latest. Go Mavericks!
September Spotlight: Music Department
The HS Band & HS Choir have been rehearsing the School Song and National Anthem for the home varsity games this fall. In class we are also learning more than how to sing or play the Anthem. We are also learning the history of our Anthem. Can you answer this short quiz about the Anthem?
1. What is the title of our Anthem?
2. Who wrote the words to the Anthem?
3. What war was going on when the Anthem was written, and which country were we fighting?
4. What American fort was being attacked when the Anthem was written?
5. What year did the Anthem officially become our National Anthem?
Answers will be given next week.
Wow! This has been a great day for RARE students. Two young men earned awards for having RARE Characteristics in the area of Accountability. One of them uses his class time wisely and the other follows directions right away. We are very lucky to have students with RARE qualities in our school.
Today we had a kindergarten student earn a RARE award. This amazing young lady is very responsible.
RARE awards are given to students who show exemplary effort by being Respectful, Accountable, Responsible and Empathetic in Stapleton Public Schools. Our first 2 students to earn RARE awards this year are Flint Isom for Respect and Gregory Walz for Accountability.
Events for the week of Sept 9:
Mon, Sept 9:
—JH VB at Mullen—2:00 pm, bus leaves 11:55 am
—JV FB vs Maxwell in Tryon—5:30 pm, bus leaves 3:35 pm
—School Board meeting in Library—7:00 pm
Wed, Sept 11:
—Partner Up Rodeo, Van leaves 9:00 am
Thur, Sept 12:
—JV/V VB vs Sandhills-Thedford in Stapleton—5:00/6:00 pm
Fri, Sept 13:
—Var FB at Bridgeport—7:00 pm, bus leaves 1:45 pm
Sat, Sept 14:
—JH/JV/V XC at Broken Bow—9:00 am, Van leaves 7:00 am
GO MAVERICKS!!!
September spotlight: Music Department
The Stapleton Music Department is warming up and tuning up in preparation for the Fall Sports season. The Instrumental and Vocal Departments are rehearsing and preparing to provide patriotism and school pride by providing groups to play or sing our National Anthem and our School Song.
Last Thursday, the High School Choir sang the National Anthem for the SVM Volleyball Triangular. Next week, the Jr/Sr High Band is scheduled to provide the School Song and National Anthem for the Volleyball matchup with Sandhills/Thedford. We also are grateful to our coaches for making it possible for players that are in Band or Choir to be able to perform in each group. We take great pride and honor to demonstrate our patriotism and school pride by making sure that our Anthem is performed for all of our home contests.
2024-2025 SVM Passes are here and available for purchase - Senior Passes are free and good for 5 years - Individual passes are $50 and Family passes (household members) are $80. You can get them at the game today or in the office at any time!
Checking in with Mrs. Schrock and Math this month:
The freshmen are finishing up their chapter on Algebraic Expressions and Equations with a Lesson called Descriptive Modeling and Accuracy.
Descriptive Modeling is a way to describe real-world situations and the factors that cause them, and they use what's called a "metric" as a rule to assign a number to a characteristic.
Real life examples of Descriptive Modeling are things like:
Earned run average to compare baseball players.
Quarterback ratings using comparisons of completions, yards, touchdowns, and interceptions to the amount of attempts.
Banking: Determining if their debt to income ratio will allow them to get a loan.
Using the Academic Index to qualify for a College Sports Program.
Even using your parents' heights to predict what your height will be as an adult.
Just to name a few.
Accuracy determines just how precise we need to be with our numbers given the situation.
For example: Do we need to bake our cookies down to the thousandths of a second, probably not. But when Olympians compete in their events, you're absolutely going to want those thousandths of a second to determine who the winner is.
This is putting the entire chapter together, determining variables, writing out the equations, using the order of operations, to solve for a real-world example.
First home game tomorrow for the SVM Lady Mavericks Volleyball team. First serve at 5pm. Concession stand will be open and there's no need to worry about missing any of the action on the court while you grab a snack - thanks to this digital projection TV that was graciously purchased by the Stapleton Public School Foundation board and all our generous donors and supporters! Thank you all for allowing us to improve the experience we can bring to parents, fans and the community!
TIME CHANGE: JH VB next Monday Sept 9th will begin at 3:00cst in Mullen (2:00mst) - the calendar has been updated to reflect the change.