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Board Meeting Agenda

The following link will allow you to view the most recent Board of Education Agenda and Attachments.

Central Elementary Bond Issue Passes

The Pottawatomie County Election Officer releases unofficial election results indicating passage of the Central Bond issue with 922 in favor and 327 opposed. Patrons of USD320 are encouraged to reference the following link to remain informed during the planning, finance and construction phases of this project.

WHS FCCLA members compete in District D’s FCCLA’s STAR event competitions

On Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 members from the Wamego High School FCCLA Chapter participated in District D’s FCCLA STAR event competitions hosted by Frankfort High School. STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) are competitive events in which members plan, carryout, and evaluate the results of their project. Members select projects that showcase skills acquired through Family and Consumer Science programs and link to the purpose of FCCLA.  Members, who participated in STAR Events, can obtain the rating of Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Top Silver or Gold medalist in each category qualify to compete at the state level.

The following WHS FCCLA members received the following medals in their event;

Ashley Rodgers and Daniele Wilson: Chapter Service Project Display (Occupational) Silver-State Qualifier, Elizabeth Hazelwood: Food Innovations (Occupational) Silver-State Qualifier, Nicole Lacey and Monica Devora: National Programs in Action, (Occupational) Bronze-State Qualifier, Brittany Hosfelt: Entrepreneurship, (Occupational) Silver-State Qualifier, Starla Simmons: Job Interview (Occupational) Silver-State Qualifier, Ashley Maike: Early Childhood, (Occupational) Silver-State Qualifier, Emily Stratton: Career Investigation (Junior) Silver, Madison Wiegers: Illustrated Talk (Junior) Silver, Amber Christian: Focus on Children (Junior) Silver, Luke Hannan and Kerea Lenard, National Programs in Action, (Junior) Bronze. We wish those who qualified for state competitions the best of luck in Wichita at the state FCCLA Leadership Conference, April 11-13th.

FCCLA Members also attending the STAR event competitions were Jenna McCowan, Malluarie Serb, Hannah Conroy-Philbrook, and Chelsea Boatwright. These WHS students along with Becky Wassom, Laura Hannan and Susan Huddleston hosted the STAR event competition room, for the STAR events; Recycle and Redesign/Fashion Construction.   Also attending was WHS FCCLA chapter advisor, Tammy Biswell.

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is unique among youth organizations because its programs are planned and run by members.  It is the only career and technical in-school student organization with the family as its central focus.  Participation in national programs and chapter activities helps members become strong leaders in their families, careers, and communities.

Lori Goodson is one of five individuals selected nationally to serve on the ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) Award selection committee, where she serves on the Board of Directors as of last fall.   The ALAN Award honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. The recipient may be a publisher, author, librarian, scholar, editor, or servant to the organization. Each year, an honoree is chosen and receives the ALAN Award at the annual ALAN breakfast, which is held the Saturday during the NCTE Convention. Past honorees include  Laurie Halse Anderson, Jerri Spinelli and Chris Crutcher, among others. 

Future Business Leaders of America

District Champions!!

Sixty-six members of the Wamego High School Chapter of Future Business Leaders of America attended the District III Conference at Topeka West High School on January 18th.   Advisers Mrs. Karen Hynek and Mrs. Anne Jardine accompanied the group.

During the conference, the WHS chapter took part in a variety of competitions including:  team presentation events, interview events, impromptu presentation events, public speaking events, production events, technology events, and objective testing events. 

The following high schools competed at the District III conference:  Wamego, Baileyville, Rossville, Topeka High, Hayden, Wabaunsee, St. Marys, Junction City, Seaman, Shawnee Heights, Washburn Rural and Bern.

Wamego High School placed first with a total of 756 points, and earned the distinction of District Champions! Hayden placed second with a total of 258 points.

Statistics:

• 66 students competed
• 60 students placed in at least one event
• 42 students placed in the top 3 in at least one of their events
• 37  - 1st place finishes
• 13 - 2nd place finishes
• 12  - 3rd place finishes
  
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ACT TEST TAKING STRATEGIES WORKSHOP

This workshop will provide participants with strategies that will help them feel more confident in the test taking process.  Click on this link for registration form, registration deadline information, cost and ACT testing dates.  If you have any questions you may contact the High School Office at 785-456-2214.

  Pandemic Flu Crisis Plan

   USD 320 has implemented a pandemic Flu Crisis Plan to ensure a continuation of operations in the event of an epidemic of H1N1 virus or should another type of pandemic circumstance occur.  Click on the following link to view this plan:

USD 320 Pandemic Flu Crisis Plan

Influenza A (H1N1)

Novel influenza A (H1N1) is a new flu virus of swine origin that first caused illness in Mexico and the United States in March and April, 2009. It’s thought that novel influenza A (H1N1) flu spreads in the same way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread, mainly through the coughs and sneezes of people who are sick with the virus, but it may also be spread by touching infected objects and then touching your nose or mouth. Novel H1N1 infection has been reported to cause a wide range of flu-like symptoms, including fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. In addition, many people also have reported nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea.

Wamego High School Power Lifting Teams Compete at Royal Valley Meet

Wamego High School’s power lifting team traveled to Hoyt, KS on Saturday, January 30th to compete in a power lifting competition. Twenty one lifters from WHS competed at the Royal Valley meet. Those lifters consisted of Caitlin Boeckman, Chase Conrad, Ciera Conrad, Eric Daniels, Alyssa Detwiler, Mariah Ekart, Colby Jackson, Mayabeth Jagosz, Chelsea Kohler, Jayson Kugler, Jonathan Lagerquist, Amy Melby, Ryan Patton, Kelly Roberts, Phillip Ruther, Elizebeth Scott, Elizabeth Scherer, Marissa Streeter, Brandon Swiger, Eric Westgate and Riley Woodward. The boys team finished 6th place overall out of 19 teams, while the girls team placed 4th out of 8 teams.

(Pictured above: Eliezer Martinez,  BJ Kohler & Lane Eichman)

Lane Eichman, BJ Kohler and Eliezer Martinez, members of Wamego High School’s Future Business Leaders of America, recently competed in the National FBLA Virtual Business Challenge.  They placed 6th in the nation out of 294 teams, and earned the opportunity to compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference this coming summer in Nashville, TN. 

              This is an official FBLA competitive event sponsored by Knowledge Matters and FBLA.  Students use highly visual simulation software to manage a distribution center.  Teams are ranked based upon their distribution center’s cumulative profit after running the simulation for an entire virtual year.  The challenge lasts for one month, and the students may work through as many virtual years as time will allow.  During this fall competition they were able to manage various aspects of their business including hiring employees, managing sales and managing their fleet at their distribution center. 

(Back Row: Matthew Thomas, Chelsea Prockish, Curtis Melby, Lane Lindhorst, Allison Burton, Macey Ebert, Janece Hurla, Jackson Harken , Taylor Jager, Front: Lindsey Leonard, Michael Gros, Cole Hemphill)

WHS FBLA Celebrates

American Free Enterprise Day

American Free Enterprise day was celebrated November 13th by the Wamego High School Future Business Leaders of America. Members delivered trays of a dozen freshly baked Otis Spunkmeyer cookies to fifteen different businesses in the city of Wamego. This is the third year WHS FBLA has celebrated American Free Enterprise Day, and each year they try to thank different businesses. This year’s participants had a fun time baking and delivering the goodies. FBLA members would like to thank Wamego businesses for everything they do for our community.

Wamego Schools achieve Standard of

Excellence on 2009 State Assessments

The State of Kansas has released the State Standard of Excellence results for the 2008 state assessment program.  The results for USD 320 are listed below.  The Wamego school received the State Standard of Excellence award in 21 of the 24 areas cited by the state.  These results are attributable to the fine work accomplished by the district's teachers, students, and building administrators.  To find out more information regarding your child's school performance results go to http://online.ksde.org/rcard/district.aspx?org_no=D0320

Central Elementary PTO & Site Council Meetings Central Elementary Site Council and PTO will meet on Monday, February 15.  The Site Council will meet at 6:00 p.m. PTO will meet at 6:30 p.m.  Both meetings will be in the school library. Please feel free to join us.