Parents, Students and Eagle Fans,
The post season pairings have been released and we wanted to make everyone aware of the dates and times.
Large Group Speech will perform this Saturday at Dubuque Senior.
Wrestling - Sectionals will be this Saturday at Lake Mills beginning at 12:00 pm. Districts will be February 9th at Jewell beginning at 12:00. Information about the state wrestling schedule can be found on the IHSAA website.
http://www.iahsaa.org/
Boys Basketball - We will host first round district action on Monday February 11th at 7:00 pm. We will play CWL. There will be no passes accepted. The remainder of the tournament schedule can be found on line.
https://www.iahsaa.org/secure/bracket.php?year=2012&sport=bb&class=1A&district=3
Information about Sub State and State can be found at http://www.iahsaa.org/
Girls Basketball
The girls will have a first round bye. They will host the winner of Lake Mills vs. Belmond-Klemme at West Hancock on Tuesday February 12th at 7:00. No passes will be accepted. The remainder of the tournament schedule can be found online.
http://www.ighsau.org/IGHSAUwebsite/132aregional.html
Information for State Basketball can be found here: http://www.ighsau.org/
Good luck to all of our students and coaches!
Mr. Recker
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Coaches versus Cancer 2013
The North Iowa Conference put on it's annual Coaches versus Cancer night on Friday. This is a group effort to help raise money to cure cancer. There are four host sites, this year West Hancock was one of them. We played Lake Mills and there were several activities to help raise money and awareness for cancer.
Our elementary, middle and high schools all brought in change to help raise funds. The elementary was the winner by a long shot. Nice work for our little eagles.
The tumbling recital held before Christmas donated all of their proceeds. Thanks to Angie Johnson for her coordination of this event.
We had a silent auction and sold many items. Thank you to all the people who donated items. Thank you to all the people that bought the items. Thanks to Mrs. Verbrugge, Carol Madsen and Brenda Smith for helping with the silent auction.
T-shirts were sold leading up to the event and buckets were passed among the crowds at halftime. Thanks to all who supported the cause that way.
Mr. Peterson and the conference Athletic Directors are the people who put this on every year. Thank you to them for their efforts.
Our site alone raised $5241.63. Once we get a conference total we will let you know. It was a great event and our community did a great job supporting it!
The final numbers have came in and our conference raised over $26,000.00! What a great event!
Our elementary, middle and high schools all brought in change to help raise funds. The elementary was the winner by a long shot. Nice work for our little eagles.
The tumbling recital held before Christmas donated all of their proceeds. Thanks to Angie Johnson for her coordination of this event.
We had a silent auction and sold many items. Thank you to all the people who donated items. Thank you to all the people that bought the items. Thanks to Mrs. Verbrugge, Carol Madsen and Brenda Smith for helping with the silent auction.
T-shirts were sold leading up to the event and buckets were passed among the crowds at halftime. Thanks to all who supported the cause that way.
Mr. Peterson and the conference Athletic Directors are the people who put this on every year. Thank you to them for their efforts.
Our site alone raised $5241.63. Once we get a conference total we will let you know. It was a great event and our community did a great job supporting it!
The final numbers have came in and our conference raised over $26,000.00! What a great event!
Charity Bowl 2013
This year we tried a new activity for our advisory program. We decided to have a "Charity Bowl." It was designed as a fun activity with two purposes. First we wanted to bring attention to several charities that our students and staff may not be aware of. Secondly we wanted to raise some money to give to one of the charities.
Each advisory group had to work together and pick a charity. My group chose to donate money to breast cancer. I had recently watched a documentary about Stepahnie Speilman and her husband Chris. She had died of breast cancer, but before she did, she established a large charitable organization. Her husband Chris is a sports announcer and former linebacker for the Lions, so I was familiar with their story. It was very touching and they have a great charity. Our group decided to give them the money if we won. Every other group picked a charity and had each member of the advisory groups donate $1.00. All of the money raised by the school would go to the winning teams charity.
The competition was set up like a large group Jeopardy match. Each advisory group had a spokesperson who explained what charity their team was playing for. This way all of the students and staff were able to learn about the different charities. Another student would answer questions for the team. We then began the competition. The students answered several questions about a variety of topics. In the end Jacob Hejlik and Zach Paulus representing my advisory group, were the victors. (it was only a coincidence, I was in no way involved with the judging:) ) We will be sending a check for $183.00 to the Stefanie Speilman Fund for Breast Cancer Research.
This was a neat event and a worth while one.
Each advisory group had to work together and pick a charity. My group chose to donate money to breast cancer. I had recently watched a documentary about Stepahnie Speilman and her husband Chris. She had died of breast cancer, but before she did, she established a large charitable organization. Her husband Chris is a sports announcer and former linebacker for the Lions, so I was familiar with their story. It was very touching and they have a great charity. Our group decided to give them the money if we won. Every other group picked a charity and had each member of the advisory groups donate $1.00. All of the money raised by the school would go to the winning teams charity.
The competition was set up like a large group Jeopardy match. Each advisory group had a spokesperson who explained what charity their team was playing for. This way all of the students and staff were able to learn about the different charities. Another student would answer questions for the team. We then began the competition. The students answered several questions about a variety of topics. In the end Jacob Hejlik and Zach Paulus representing my advisory group, were the victors. (it was only a coincidence, I was in no way involved with the judging:) ) We will be sending a check for $183.00 to the Stefanie Speilman Fund for Breast Cancer Research.
This was a neat event and a worth while one.
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| Jacob and Zach with the check to the Stefanie Speilman Breast Cancer Research Fund |
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| The contestants at the Charity Bowl |
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| Zach Paulus Discusses the Charity Mr. Recker's group will be playing for |
Did you know?
We had an assembly today to celebrate some of the excellent things that are going on at West Hancock. I added information from the assembly below.
West Hancock
did you know?
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We
had 32 students achieve the A honor roll during first semester!
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We
had 40 students achieve the B honor roll during first semester!
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We
have students enrolled in 62 college courses for the second semester!
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We
had 28 students qualify for Large Group State Speech!
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We
had 4 young men who were conference wrestling champions on Saturday! Ryder
Clark, Gunnar Clark, Kevin Tlach and Chris Schleuger.
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Our
girls’ basketball team has not lost a conference basketball game since 2010
they have won 44 consecutive games!
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Our
boys’ basketball team has had a very exciting season and done many great
things!
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We
had three students qualify for NCIBA honor band in January. Lucas Collins,
Natasha Peterson and Paige Thompson.
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Natasha
Peterson qualified for the Meistersinger honor band at Wartburg.
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We
sent 4 students to the Dorian choral festival at Luther College!
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We
have over 20 students that will be performing in “Groovy” our spring musical.
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The
Coaches vs. Cancer night raised $5241.63 just at our event. There were three others!
There are over 25 adults who care about each of you and come here every
day for the sole purpose of helping you to improve and working with you to have
success!
We have a great school here let’s keep working hard every day to make it
better.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
New Microscopes
The Hancock County Foundation gave West Hancock High School a $2500.00 grant this year. Part of the funds were used to purchase new microscopes. We purchased six new microscopes in all. Thanks to the Hancock County Foundation for this gift!
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| Mrs. Schoenwetter and Ms. Carlson with some of our new microscopes. |
District Speech Participants
These students participated in large group district speech last week at Garner. Great job!
Missing from photo: Rachel Francis, Cassie Jackson, Emma Chizek, Lizzy Trulson, Taylor Glawe and Elizabeth Eckels
Monday, January 21, 2013
State Speech Qualifiers
Congratulations to the State Qualifiers in Large Group Speech! They will perform on February 2nd in Dubuque.
Madison Cook
Kaylee Owens
Emmorie Stokka
Natasha Peterson
Leah Christ
Alyssa Wood
Mallory Becker
Macey Harms
Brice Kudej
Broderick Trulson
Jordan Savoy
Kaylee Owens
Kelly Anderson
Ensemble Acting (Dud Wars)
M usical Theater (Annie)
Alyssa Wood
Choral Reading (e.e.)
Katherine Jamtgaard
Dusty KraftMadison Cook
Kaylee Owens
Emmorie Stokka
Natasha Peterson
Leah Christ
Alyssa Wood
Mallory Becker
Macey Harms
Radio (KTJS 92.3)
Brice Kudej
Broderick Trulson
Jordan Savoy
Ensemble Acting (VonHefflehorn)
Kaylee Owens
Kelly Anderson
Ensemble Acting (Dud Wars)
Mallory Becker
Leah Christ
Short Film (Express Yourself)
Rachel Francis
Cassi Jackson
Cassi Jackson
Katherine JamtgaardAlyssa Wood
Group Mime (Sneaking into the Band Room)
Kelly Anderson
Lizzy Trulson
Improv
Haley Hiscocks
Abby Paca
Improv
Tre Lehoe
Taylor GlaweSemester Grades
Parents,
Grades should all be updated and finalized for first semester. If you go on JMC parent access and click on the report card you will find your son or daughter's final grades. To avoid any confusion I wanted to explain something. Some of you have asked why the final grade in the online progress report or grade book might be different than the grade on the report card. The answer to this question is the impact of the semester test, project or assessment. Some of the teachers included these in the grade book and some did not. Based on weighting and how the semester test was figured, each class could be a little different. Semester assessments can be up to 20% of the final grade, some teachers figured the final regular class grade (which you see in the online grade book) and then added the semester final on after. For those classes you would see an exam grade and then a final grade on the report card. I hope this clears things up.
As always if you have concerns about a specific class or grade the teacher is the best source of information. Don't be afraid to ask teachers about the grade, exam or anything else.
Thanks!
Mr. Recker
Grades should all be updated and finalized for first semester. If you go on JMC parent access and click on the report card you will find your son or daughter's final grades. To avoid any confusion I wanted to explain something. Some of you have asked why the final grade in the online progress report or grade book might be different than the grade on the report card. The answer to this question is the impact of the semester test, project or assessment. Some of the teachers included these in the grade book and some did not. Based on weighting and how the semester test was figured, each class could be a little different. Semester assessments can be up to 20% of the final grade, some teachers figured the final regular class grade (which you see in the online grade book) and then added the semester final on after. For those classes you would see an exam grade and then a final grade on the report card. I hope this clears things up.
As always if you have concerns about a specific class or grade the teacher is the best source of information. Don't be afraid to ask teachers about the grade, exam or anything else.
Thanks!
Mr. Recker
Thursday, January 10, 2013
End of First Semester
The first semester is over. Grades have been posted and can be viewed online. We will not hand out report cards, but if you would like a paper copy, please contact Peg in the office. Some students may have Incompletes, these need to be taken care of by Friday. All grades will be final after Friday.
Second Semester began on Monday. We were able to get schedules in order and everything seems to be going smoothly. If you have any questions or concerns about your students new classes do not hesitate to contact their instructor.
We look forward to a great second semester!
Second Semester began on Monday. We were able to get schedules in order and everything seems to be going smoothly. If you have any questions or concerns about your students new classes do not hesitate to contact their instructor.
We look forward to a great second semester!
Lions Club Supper and Queen of the Court
This Friday we will host Forest City in a quad basketball game beginning at 4:00 pm.
The Britt Lions Club will be hosting a pulled pork sandwich supper from 5-7 in the high school cafeteria. There will also be hot dogs available for the kids. There will be a meal option or a la carte selections available. Please come out and support the Lions!
The after prom committee will also be hosting their "Queen of the Court" night. This year adults from the school and community will be dressed up in elegant outfits. Teachers, Parents, Coaches and Administration will all be involved. It should be a great evening!
The Britt Lions Club will be hosting a pulled pork sandwich supper from 5-7 in the high school cafeteria. There will also be hot dogs available for the kids. There will be a meal option or a la carte selections available. Please come out and support the Lions!
The after prom committee will also be hosting their "Queen of the Court" night. This year adults from the school and community will be dressed up in elegant outfits. Teachers, Parents, Coaches and Administration will all be involved. It should be a great evening!
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