Forensics Speaker

Mrs. Schoenwetter had a guest speaker in Forsenics last week.  This is her description of the presentation.

Paul Peiplo moved to the Britt area from Milwaukee, WI, where he had retired from being both a police officer and a detective.  He spoke to the students about the many different fields of investigation there are under the general heading of “Forensics”, showed us some of his police gear, and answered questions about his experiences in investigating crimes.  He ended his talk by saying how much he appreciated the “good kids” that we have in this community.

Schmit Family Makes Donation

The Joe and Billie Schmit family have made a donation to the West Hancock Industrial Arts and Agriculture departments.  The last two years the Schmits have made donations to these areas, in which their son Cody was very involved and talented.  This year the funds were combined with Perkins Grant money to purchase a new welder.  The welder will be used by our students in these career related areas.

Jimmy Harris, Mr. Francis, Braden Carlson, Joe Schmit, and Jason Verbrugge with the new welder

Jarred DeVries

On February 9th former Iowa Hawkeye and Detroit Lion Jarred DeVries addressed our student body.  He talked about making good choices, doing what is right and working hard to achieve your goals.  He is a great example of a small town Iowa student athlete who worked hard to achieve great things.  Ask your student about his message.

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