FFA Fundraiser items are on their way! All student boxes will be sorted and ready to be picked up from the shop today between 3 and 4pm.
Attention parents/community members: As can happen with day to day events - schedules do change due to a variety of circumstances. We try to do our best to inform our patrons of changes as soon as possible. The school calendar is always a reference to utilize to stay up to date on the latest changes. Every effort is made to update that as frequently as possible. There are changes to basketball games this week. The calendar has been updated to reflect those changes. Thank you.
After practice activity can schedule this week: Mon-Tues-Wed (normal time) - there will be NO activity van Thurs and Friday 12/7 and 12/8 due to Christmas concert and away events. Thank you
Events for the week of Dec 4:
Monday, Dec 4:
--One Act Performance for Student Body, 8:30 am
--B/G JH BB with Wallace, 2:00 / 3:30 pm
Tuesday, Dec 5:
--G/B BB at SEM, 3:30 / 5:00 / 6:30 pm--bus leaves at 1:00 pm
Wednesday, Dec 6:
--One Act at State Contest in Norfolk, 11:30 am
Thursday, Dec 7:
--K-12 Christmas Concert, 7:00 pm
Friday, Dec 8:
--B WR at Twin Loup (Sargent), 11:00 am--van leaves at 6:30 am
--G/B BB at Sutherland, 4:00 / 4:45 / 6:00 / 7:30 pm--bus leaves at 2:00 pm
Saturday, Dec 9:
--G WR SVM Invite in Stapleton, 10:00 am
--G/B BB vs Arthur Co in Tryon, 4:30 / 5:00 / 6:00 / 7:30--bus leaves at 3:00 pm
GO MAVERICKS!!!
CORRECTION: K-12 CHRISTMAS CONCERT, Thurs, Dec. 7: This year the program will be combined K-12 all in one. Elementary Band is due in the music room by 6:40. PreK-4th grade are asked to sit with their TEACHERS. At 6:50 Jr/Sr High band is asked to come to the music room. SHOWTIME for all grades begins is 7:00PM.
K-12 CHRISTMAS CONCERT, Thurday, Dec. 7th: This year the program will be combined K-12 all in one. Elementary Band is due in the music room by 6:40. PreK-4th grade are asked to sit with their parents. At 6:50 Jr/Sr High band members are asked to come to the music room. SHOWTIME for all grades begins at 7:00PM.
In hopes to promote some Christmas Cheer, we invite one and all to join us in having a little bit of Christmas Fun. Below you will find a Calendar of Dress days to lift our spirits through the rest of December.
FFA fundraiser items will be coming in Tuesday December 5th. FFA members, their parent or another designated individual are encouraged to pick up the items they sold right after school on Tuesday. Due to all of the activities scheduled for Tuesday if there is no one available to pick up the items your student sold please contact Miss Nichols to make arrangements for the fundraiser items your student sold.
REMINDER: We are no longer using the Youtube channel for streaming all of our events this year. For the 2023-24 year we will be using HUDL. The link is listed below. it is also posted at the top of the Stapleton School Webpage. https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/stapleton/organization/40010/sandhills-valley-high-school
STATE BOUND!!!!
Stapleton One-Act Play Production is the District D1-6 Champions!
They will be heading to state one-acts in Norfolk next Wednesday for the fourth consecutive year!
Congrats to Senior Tessa Hansen for winning a gold medal as Overall Best Actress in D1-6
The following students won Outstanding acting certificates: Tessa Hansen, Mariah Duran, Kelsey Amos, Cayson Johnston, Cameron Berliner, and Sheek Bruns!
Congrats to the crew for their 2nd place Tech Crew award as well! Way to go team!
Your coaches and community are so proud of you!
Sudents in 7th grade science are using Jolly Ranchers to understand the rock cycle. Students started them as whole rock. They crushed them, representing weathering and erosion. They then put them in a cup with another cup on top and squised them with a large textbook for a week. This represented compaction, when the took them out it was a solid chunck, sedimentary rock. I asked them how can we make igneous rock from this...and they were able to figure it out!
Students in Anatomy have been working hard on a fingerprint and hair analysis lab. Studens were able to discover what features on fingerprints made them differentiated to each person. They also compaired blonde, brown, and red hair under the microscope, did a scaler imprint of there own hair, and looked at different species hairs under the microscope.
REMINDER: Tomorrow Nov 21 is an early release for students. School is dismissed at 3:02pm. Buses will run accordingly. Thank you and have a great Thanksgiving!
Jr Hi wrestlers Place 6 up at the Mullen Meet
The crew continues to do well. We placed 6 of the 8 wrestlers we had at the Mullen meet, and all 8 of them won matches for us. We placed 6 out of the 10 teams there, but were only 14 points from 3rd place.
Top 6 team scores:
Valentine - 152
Sandhills/Thedford - 130
St. Pats - 107
Twin Loup - 106
Hershey - 101
Sandhills Valley - 93
Medal Placers were:
1st - Tucker Myers, Adi Brewer
2nd - Lilly Sheets
3rd - Hunter Schaeffer, Pierce Phelps
4th - Cotter Johnston
J P Zuniga and Jaxon Mcentee won matches for us but did not place.
We are very pleased with the team’s performance at Mullen. We won 18 and lost 9, and pinned 13 and were only pinned 5 times. Their hard work continues to pay off. Our short season ends next Tuesday out at Grant. We will see several new teams from the western half like: Bridgeport, Kimball, Perkins County and Ogallala.
Coaches Halstead and Chloe
Events for the week of Nov 20:
Monday, Nov 20:
--NHS Induction Ceremony, Stapleton Community Building, 7:00pm
Tuesday, Nov 21:
--Early Out Schedule, 3:02 pm dismissal
--JH WR at Perkins Co (Grant), 2:30 pm--van leaves at 12:00 pm
Wednesday, Nov 22:
--NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK
Thursday, Nov 23:
--NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK
Friday, Nov 24:
--NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK
GO MAVERICKS!!!
Don't forget to attend our Soup Supper at Stapleton Public Schools tonight and prepare to laugh with us as the Play Production team performs "Went with the Wind" - Soup starts at 6pm and the performance begins at 7! Hope to see you there!
REMINDER NORTH PLATTE BUS PICKUP: Parents - we ask that you please be mindful of picking up your students as promptly as possible. We understand that unique situations do occur and we will work with you - but in order to stay on our schedule we need to be as consistent as possible. Pick up times Mon - Thurs afternoon between 4:25-4:30 at the latest (CODY PARK). Friday afternoon pickup by 4:05 at the latest (CODY PARK). If you have issues or concerns please call Mr. Johnson at the school. Thank you!
NO ACTIVITY VAN 11/17: Tomorrow, Friday Nov 17th there will be no activity van after practice. Please plan accordingly. Thank you
The 2nd graders have been busy in science class learning how to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. They made frosting, graham cracker, and candy models of the land and water and then made a map of their landform creations.
Jr Hi Wrestlers Place 6 at St. Pats
This may have been our toughest match so far. We wrestled well, but not our best. We won 13, lost 10 matches, and placed 6 of the 8 wrestlers we had there. That’s a good day, but we felt like we could have won a few more of the close ones that we lost.
We wrestled against 13 area teams, the only new team we saw was the North Platte middle school team. They came in with 42 wrestlers on their team, but our team did well against them also!
Those placing for us were:
1st - Tucker Myer, Pierce Phelps and Cotter Johnston
3rd - Lilly Sheets
4th - J P Zuniga and Zeydin Palmer
Hunter Schaeffer also won a match, but did not place.
Our season is quickly winding down. We go up to Mullen and finish out at Grant. We hope to keep the momentum going as we close out our season. As of today our win/loss record is 61 - 34. They have worked hard to earn that!!