There have been many of positive things going on at West Hancock in the last few weeks. We have a lot to be proud of in our academics and activities. I am very proud to be working with our staff and students so far this year. It has been an exciting year. This week is no exception as we will be very busy.
We will be hosting our fall parent-teacher conferences this Tuesday and Thursday. Conferences will be in the high school from 4:00 until 7:45. Conferences will be in teacher's classrooms. Maps will be available for those parents not familiar with our layout. Please make an effort to get to school on one of these nights to speak with your children's teachers. If you cannot make it to conferences, make sure you contact teachers that you have questions for. Teachers all check their e mail regularly and have phones in their rooms. They are available from 7:50 - 3:30 each day. We will also be hosting a college fair on Tuesday night in the high school gym from 4:15-6:15. We will also have a FAFSA meeting for parents of juniors and seniors Tuesday at 6:30pm in the high school lunch room. The college fair and FAFSA meeting are great opportunities for students interested in college. Please make plans to attend. We will have one hour early outs on Tuesday and Thursday. There will be no school this Friday.
I hope you were able to see the article in the newspaper discussing our increased MAP scores. I was very happy with how our students responded to our increased focus on MAP improvement. I really feel that increased student awareness and effort helped drive the scores up. Hopefully, the education the students receive from now until May, along with their continued effort, will really show what our students were able to learn this year.
Congratulations to our Band on their 2nd place finish at Algona Band Days! The band has also done a very nice job for all of our half times this fall. The Chorus had a great concert on Thursday night. It was a great first performance. Our speech team has begun practicing, and looks forward to their contests down the road.
Congratulations to our Cross Country team on their state performances. We combine with Garner Hayfield and Ventura and run in the 3A division for Cross Country. The girls finished fourth in the State and the boys were ninth! It was a great year for our Cross Country team.
On Monday night, our football team will host West Sioux - Hawarden. Game time will be 7:00 pm and no passes will be accepted. For those of you who traveled to Moville, you got your money's worth. Our boys were down by 22 and came back to win 28-22. A great team effort by our boys. Our volleyball team had their ups and downs this year, but finished on a high note advancing to the second round of tournament play before falling to WCLT in round two.
It is a great time to be an Eagle and we have many things to be proud of. Let's keep up the good work! As a reminder to parents, you can always access student's grades and teacher's lesson plans through the school's website. We continue to have Success Center each night after school from 3:30-4:30. Please encourage your child to take advantage of this opportunity to catch up on missing work or just to complete regular homework.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Start of the Second Hex!
Well it's hard to believe, but October and the start of the second Hex are here. Things have gone well in the high school and we continue to have a lot of positive things happening at West Hancock! Congratulations to our high school and middle school bands who both finished 2nd in their divisions at Algona Band Days!
Grades will be handed out to students on Tuesday. Please ask to see your student's grades and have a discussion with them about their scores. We will devote our advisory time on Friday to discussion of Hex 1 grades.
We are finishing up MAP testing today and tomorrow. I really feel it went much better this time around. I hope the score reports will reflect our students increased efforts. We have spoke with students in advisory about their MAP tests and will also be discussing the results.
Homecoming went very well. We had a whole week of positive activities. Thanks to Mrs. Lang and student council along with Mrs. Sanger and pep club / cheerleaders for their efforts in planning and carrying out our homecoming activities.
We had our first parent advisory meeting and it went very well. We discussed several topics and had some good discussion. Any parent is welcome to come to these meetings. We will meet three more times throughout the year.
We have had some issues concerning some bullying and harassment in the school and community. I have had some parents in and we have had good discussions. Mrs. Clark, the staff and I are making every effort we can to prevent this from happening. I know some of you have had some involvement in these cases. I encourage you to support your children but also act as a model for appropriate behavior. Our actions as parents have a direct impact on how our children act. Some of our advisory sessions have been focused on bullying and we will continue that into October. We will have one session discussing Internet safety and bullying. Technology is a great thing, but like anything else, if it is used inappropriately it can be a negative. Facebook and texting have made it easy for people to say things that they might not say in person. My message to the students has been that we do not have to be friends with all of our schoolmates, but we do have to be decent and civil. In the last week things have calmed down and hopefully we can move on and have a great year.
This is a link to the video we watched in relation to bullying: Advisory bullying video
The Lutheran church will be having a pork burger supper this Friday night when we play Belmond Klemme. All proceeds will go to the Cody Schmitt scholarship fund. They will be set up in the South parking lot. The cost will be a free will donation. On another note please remember that the Chamber of commerce's Chili Cook off will be the following Friday when we play host to Bishop Garrigan. This is a really neat event. It will be held in the Elementary Gymnasium. Please stop in and support the Britt Chamber of Commerce.
I know many of you have heard, but I am happy to announce that a nationally known Christian Radio program has chosen West Hancock from a national contest. The contest was designed to pick one place in the United States where the DJ's would visit and cheer on a high school football team with an inspirational story. People from our community nominated our football team for their determination in dedicating this season to Cody Schmitt's memory. They will be here on Friday night before the Garrigan game. They will be talking with the team and several members of our community before the game. We will have a pep assembly at the end of the day on Friday and are hopeful the DJ's will be here for that. This is a great honor and we are very excited for Ron and JJ to visit us.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Mr. Recker
Grades will be handed out to students on Tuesday. Please ask to see your student's grades and have a discussion with them about their scores. We will devote our advisory time on Friday to discussion of Hex 1 grades.
We are finishing up MAP testing today and tomorrow. I really feel it went much better this time around. I hope the score reports will reflect our students increased efforts. We have spoke with students in advisory about their MAP tests and will also be discussing the results.
Homecoming went very well. We had a whole week of positive activities. Thanks to Mrs. Lang and student council along with Mrs. Sanger and pep club / cheerleaders for their efforts in planning and carrying out our homecoming activities.
We had our first parent advisory meeting and it went very well. We discussed several topics and had some good discussion. Any parent is welcome to come to these meetings. We will meet three more times throughout the year.
We have had some issues concerning some bullying and harassment in the school and community. I have had some parents in and we have had good discussions. Mrs. Clark, the staff and I are making every effort we can to prevent this from happening. I know some of you have had some involvement in these cases. I encourage you to support your children but also act as a model for appropriate behavior. Our actions as parents have a direct impact on how our children act. Some of our advisory sessions have been focused on bullying and we will continue that into October. We will have one session discussing Internet safety and bullying. Technology is a great thing, but like anything else, if it is used inappropriately it can be a negative. Facebook and texting have made it easy for people to say things that they might not say in person. My message to the students has been that we do not have to be friends with all of our schoolmates, but we do have to be decent and civil. In the last week things have calmed down and hopefully we can move on and have a great year.
This is a link to the video we watched in relation to bullying: Advisory bullying video
The Lutheran church will be having a pork burger supper this Friday night when we play Belmond Klemme. All proceeds will go to the Cody Schmitt scholarship fund. They will be set up in the South parking lot. The cost will be a free will donation. On another note please remember that the Chamber of commerce's Chili Cook off will be the following Friday when we play host to Bishop Garrigan. This is a really neat event. It will be held in the Elementary Gymnasium. Please stop in and support the Britt Chamber of Commerce.
I know many of you have heard, but I am happy to announce that a nationally known Christian Radio program has chosen West Hancock from a national contest. The contest was designed to pick one place in the United States where the DJ's would visit and cheer on a high school football team with an inspirational story. People from our community nominated our football team for their determination in dedicating this season to Cody Schmitt's memory. They will be here on Friday night before the Garrigan game. They will be talking with the team and several members of our community before the game. We will have a pep assembly at the end of the day on Friday and are hopeful the DJ's will be here for that. This is a great honor and we are very excited for Ron and JJ to visit us.
I hope everyone has a great week!
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