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!
