Stapleton Public Schools

More details from yesterday's dynamic speech district event!! 🎭 Congratulations to Stapleton’s D2-5 District medalists!🎭 11 students and 6 events will be competing at the Class D2 State Championship in Kearney March 28! We brought home 14 medals, also earning the D2-5 Runner-Up Plaque as a team! STATE QUALIFIERS: 🥇1st Place - Danny Zuniga & Cayson Johnston Duet 🥇1st Place - Avery Weems Poetry 🥇1st Place - Lexi Hagan POI 🥇1st Place - Coltan Clouse Informative 🥈2nd Place - Noah Anderson Entertainment 🥉3rd Place - Ani & Allie Trimble, Kelsey Amos, Lexi Hagan, & Cameron Berliner Many more were so close to making state, actually tying for 3rd yet simply losing the mathematical tie breakers! We had a very loaded and tough District! 🏅4th Place - Luella Joedeman Poetry 🏅4th Place - Cayson Johnston Entertainment 🏅4th Place - Hope Correll & Luella Joedeman 🏅4th Place - Allie Trimble Extempt 🏅4th Place - Noah Anderson, Cayson & Cotter Johnston, Sheek Bruns, Coltan Clouse 🏅5th Place - Madilynn McEntee POI 🏅5th Place - Cameron Berliner Persuasive 🏅6th Place - Danny Zuniga Humorous

NO SCHOOL TODAY: Due to the weather there will be no school today.

D2-5 RUNNER UP!!!! Some awesome victories but also heartbreaking losses, however, these kids are amazing! Top 3 medalists will move on to the state competition in Kearney!

WEATHER FORECAST: Due to tomorrow's weather forecast, there is a chance for a late start or no school. Stay tuned for school closing information tomorrow morning.

We had 3 sixth grade students earn RARE Awards today. The two boys earned them for being responsible and helping in the classroom. The young lady has volunteered two days in a row to help clean the 6th grade area in the cafeteria. They are very responsible young people.

Best of luck to our speech team at districts in Wallace today!!!

Please join us at our Preschool Open House on May 5th at 6pm!!

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We had 4 students earn RARE Awards last week. One was a 3rd grade student and 3 were 6th grade students. The 3rd grade students received his award for being responsible. He consistently brings his planner signed and cleans out his folder everyday. The second student is a 6th grade boy who received his RARE Award for being empathetic. He helped show a new student around on his first day. The next student to earn a RARE Award was a 6th grade girl. She earned the award for being Empathetic. She volunteered to clean tables at lunch. The last 6th grade student to earn a reward last week was also an 6th grade girl. She earned her reward for being empathetic. She cleaned up the classroom without being asked.

Events for the Week of March 17: Monday, March 27: —Start of JH Spring Practices —Spring Sports Pictures, 3:00 pm Tuesday, March 18: —District Speech at Wallace, 10:00 am Wednesday, March 19: —FFA Contest at Eustis, Van leaves at 7:00 am Fri, March 21: —HS & JH Quiz Bowl at MNAC in Tryon —Senior Trip March 21-23

Happy Pi(e) day!!! Pi is an irrational number, meaning it never ends and never repeats. We use it to calculate things like area of a circle, or a circular sector, or volume and surface area of a sphere. 3.14 is the approximate value we use for Pi. So every year on or about March 14th, Mrs. Schrock lets the kids vote on types of pies and brings them to all the kids to celebrate!!! We had a great time Tuesday celebrating. Happy actual Pi(e) day guys!

Three of our Ag Ed students traveled to Kansas last week for an amazing learning opportunity within the welding industry. These students were able to compete in a GMAW competition completing a written exam and two weldments. Following the competition our students were able to work with students of the Fort Hays Technical college pursuing a degree in welding. The college students discussed the path from high school to industry, and demonstrated to our students the difference between GMAW and SMAW industry blueprints and tips to decipher challenging blueprints.

🏆🎭 2025 MNAC SPEECH CHAMPIONS! 🎭🥇 Congratulations to our Stapleton Speech Team for a first place finish against our 10 MNAC conference schools! Super proud of their accomplishments, EVERY SINGLE STUDENT brought home a medal today! Below are our amazing individual results, they brought home a trophy case full of medals! 🥇Noah Anderson Entertainment - 1st Place 🥇Lexi Hagan POI - 1st Place 🥇Cameron Berliner Persuasive - 1st Place 🥇 Pirates OID - 1st Place (Sheek Bruns, Coltan Clouse, Noah Anderson, and Cayson & Cotter Johnston 🥈Danny Zuniga & Cayson Johnson Duet - 2nd Place 🥈Ali Trimble Extempt - 2nd Place 🥈Madilynn McEntee POI - 2nd Place 🥉Cayson Johnston Entertainment - 3rd Place 🥉Coltan Clouse Informative - 3rd Place 🥉Avery Weems Poetry - 3rd Place 🥉Briley Kramer Persuasive - 3rd Place 🥉Parent Trap OID - 3rd Place (Cameron Berliner, Kelsey Amos, Lexi Hagan, Ali & Ani Trimble) 🏅Hope Correll & Luella Joedeman Duet - 4th Place 🏅Noah Anderson Serious - 4th Place 🏅Cameron Berliner Extempt - 6th Place 🏅Lily Sheets Informative - 6th Place 🏅Luella Joedeman Poetry - 6th Place

WOW!!!

Speech Team: meet at the school at 7:00 am tomorrow to help load the vans. We will leave by 7:15. Good luck at MNAC!!!

Part of our speech team attended the Maxwell Wildcat Invite this weekend! The tournament was 3 rounds, no finals, which means final rankings are based off their 3 rounds, and not head to head competition with the top performers in a finals round. All novice students also had to compete at the varsity level. The students did amazing, and several students brought home hardware! As a team (we had 6 entries not participating Saturday) we placed 6th out of 20 teams! While waiting for final results the entire gym was alive with line dancing! Medalists: Entertainment Speaking 🏅2nd Place Noah Anderson Programmed Oral Interp 🏅3rd Place Ellexis Hagan Persuasive Speaking 🏅 5th Place Cameron Berliner Informative Speaking 🏅 5th Place Coltan Clouse Oral Interpretation of Poetry 🏅 7th Place Luella Joedeman Results: Oral Interpretation of Poetry 9th/25: Avery Weems Persuasive 13th/18: Briley Kramer Oral Interpretation of Humorous Prose 13th/28: Danny Zuniga Programmed Oral Interp 13th/18: Madilynn McEntee Duet Acting/Duo 14th/22: Luella Joedeman and Hope Correll Informative Speaking 14th/26: Lily Sheets Oral Interpretation of Serious Prose 16th/29: Noah Anderson 22nd/29: Madilynn McEntee Extemporaneous Speaking 18th/20: Cameron Berliner 17th/20: Noah Anderson 19th/20: Coltan Clouse

Events for the week of March 10th: Monday, March 10th: --Scholastic Book Fair in Library --MNAC Speech at Dunning, vans leave at 7:30 am --School Board Meeting in Library, 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 11th: --Scholastic Book Fair in Library --County Government Day at Courthouse, 9:00 am--1:00 pm --Parent / Teacher Conferences, 4:00--7:30 pm Wednesday, March 12th: --NO SCHOOL, Parent / Teachers Conferences, 8:00 am -- 4:00 pm --Scholastic Book Fair in Library Thursday, March 13th: --NO SCHOOL--Spring Break Friday, March 14th: --NO SCHOOL--Spring Break

Stapleton Schools hosted their annual Quiz Bowl Invitational March 6. We hosted 6 Varsity and 4 JV teams including our own team in each category. Our varsity team ended the evening by receiving Gold Medals. Congratulations!!!!

We are rolling through Read Across America Week!! Books, crafts, games, and more! The 3rd grade even had a very special guest.

We had our 2nd Annual Bingo for Books tonight. We had a great turnout and lots of kids took home some books. Thank you to all who came out and supported our program!