Students of the Month for December

Students of the month for December were Tre Lehoe and Rachael Smith!

Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Zac Schleuger signs with Morningside College

Zac Schleuger has signed with Morningside College.  He will play LB for the Mustangs next year.  Congratulations to Zac and best of luck at Morningside!

Zac and his parents on signing day

Zac along with WH coaches Mark Sanger, Stacy Goepel, Paul Francis and Bob Sanger.

Iowa Assessments

We will be doing the Iowa Assessments in the high school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.  Please see the information below:

STUDENTS (GRADES 9-12): ITED’S will be given on Monday, Feb. 6; Tuesday, Feb. 7, and Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 8:30 – 9:20 a.m. We will take one 40 minute test each day.

BE SURE TO BRING PENCILS and CALCULATORS.

TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU REPORT MONDAY MORNING FOR ITED’S, SEE LIST BY PEG’S OFFICE.

SENIORS: You do not need to report to school until 9:20 on Monday, Feb. 6; and Tuesday, Feb. 7, due to ITED testing.

SENIORS: On Wednesday, Feb. 8, there will be a senior informational meeting (regarding local scholarships) at 8:32 in the lunchroom. All seniors not in an academy need to attend. Seniors in an academy will meet in the lunchroom on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 3:00 p.m.

Make sure your studnets get good sleep and eat a good breakfast on testing days.  We will only be doing three tests, we want to make sure our students do their absolute best on these tests!

Coaches vs. Cancer and NIC Corn Bowl Wrestling

The boys basketball team dressed for the Coaches vs Cancer night.

Tonight is the annual Coaches vs. Cancer game in the NIC.  All four locations will be doing activities and dressing in pink to support cancer research.  Our game will be at Belmond Klemme.  Throughout the last weeks we have been doing activities to raise money.  We had a change war last week that was thoroughly dominated by the elementary school students.  The high school and middle school also did a nice job.  This is a great joint effort by our conference, to battle cancer.

Tomorrow will be the first annual NIC Corn Bowl Wrestling Challenge at NIACC.  Each conference will hold its own tournament in two separate gyms beginning at 10:00 AM.  Then at 3:30 the conferences will match up in a dual format.  The Champions from each conference will wrestle each other along with the runners up, third place finishers, and fourth place finishers.  It should be some great wrestling!

Lots of positive things going on in our Conference this weekend!

Congratulations Large Group Speech State Qualifiers!

Congratulations to our large group speech state qualifiers!  They will perform on February 4th at Dubuque Senior. Musical Theatre, Choral Reading, three Group Improvs and Ensemble Acting were the events that qualified.  

Mrs. Kudej and Mrs. Gretillat are the speech coaches.

Back - Tre Lehoe, Colin Becker, Ahna Bruns, Derica Jakoubek, Brookelyn Savoy, Jenna Arkema, Taylor Glawe, Katherine Jamtgaard, Brandon Luppen.

Front - Kaylee Weiland, Marcy Mayland, Larissa Christ, Angie Lynn, Cassi Jackson, Rachel Francis, Haley Hiscocks, Krista Kruger - Missing - Paige Thompson

Second Semester Off and Running!

Parents,

The second semester is off to a good start.  Schedule changes were made and incompletes were completed.  It was a busy couple of days but it went well.  As I have said before this is a fresh start for each of your students.  Let's all work together to make this a great semester!

We will have an assembly on Friday.  Jarred DeVries will address the students on Friday afternoon.  He is a former Aplington Parkersburg Falcon, Iowa Hawkeye and Detroit Lion.  I'm sure he will have a great message for our students.  We will have our advisory time directly after his speech to discuss the message.

It is a busy week at West Hancock. We will host two basketball quads and a wrestling triangular.  Our Music Boosters Pancake supper will be on Friday night. They will serve from 5-7.  Please stop out and support our Music departments.

Good luck to our large group speech team as they head off to competition this weekend!

Weekly Schedule

 Monday –Board Meeting – 7:00 pm – Britt

Tuesday –B/G JV/V BB Garner – quad – H – 4:00 pm

                   WR – Algona – Osage - @ Algona

Wednesday

Thursday – WR – Central Springs – NK – H – 6:00 pm

                    FR BB @ Garner - 6:15

Friday  - B/G JV/V BB – Osage – H – 4:00

               Music Boosters Pancake Supper
          
Saturday – Large Group District Speech

Honor Band Participants

Congratulations to honor band participants Paige Thompson and Natasha Peterson.  They are pictured here with Band director Ms. Janel Harms. They participated in the honor band last Saturday at NIACC.

Friday January 6th - Quite a night!

On Friday the 6th of January we hosted Forest City in a quad basketball game.  It was quite a night.  In my five years at West Hancock this might have been the most crowded and busiest.  But it was a great night!

We started the night off with two JV games.  During the JV games last years seniors were my guests for some pizza and good conversation.  Each year I invite the alumni back and ask how their first year of college has gone.  We had some good discussion.  Two things that they were clear on, taking the semester assesments was a positive thing and having some post secondary options as seniors was a definite plus.  I have inlcuded some pictures of our alumni below. It was nice to see them again!

At halftime of our Girls game we had some Queens of The Court!  Thank you to these volunteers for helping the after prom committe raise quite a nice sum of money!  All funds will be used for the after prom party. 
















Thanks to Gerrardo, Jon, Derek and Jacob!