Stapleton Public Schools

In hopes to promote some Christmas Cheer, we invite one and all to join us in having a little bit of Christmas Fun. Below you will find a Calendar of Dress days to lift our spirits through the rest of December.

FFA fundraiser items will be coming in Tuesday December 5th. FFA members, their parent or another designated individual are encouraged to pick up the items they sold right after school on Tuesday. Due to all of the activities scheduled for Tuesday if there is no one available to pick up the items your student sold please contact Miss Nichols to make arrangements for the fundraiser items your student sold.

REMINDER: We are no longer using the Youtube channel for streaming all of our events this year. For the 2023-24 year we will be using HUDL. The link is listed below. it is also posted at the top of the Stapleton School Webpage. https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/stapleton/organization/40010/sandhills-valley-high-school

STATE BOUND!!!! Stapleton One-Act Play Production is the District D1-6 Champions! They will be heading to state one-acts in Norfolk next Wednesday for the fourth consecutive year! Congrats to Senior Tessa Hansen for winning a gold medal as Overall Best Actress in D1-6 The following students won Outstanding acting certificates: Tessa Hansen, Mariah Duran, Kelsey Amos, Cayson Johnston, Cameron Berliner, and Sheek Bruns! Congrats to the crew for their 2nd place Tech Crew award as well! Way to go team! Your coaches and community are so proud of you!

Sudents in 7th grade science are using Jolly Ranchers to understand the rock cycle. Students started them as whole rock. They crushed them, representing weathering and erosion. They then put them in a cup with another cup on top and squised them with a large textbook for a week. This represented compaction, when the took them out it was a solid chunck, sedimentary rock. I asked them how can we make igneous rock from this...and they were able to figure it out!

Students in Anatomy have been working hard on a fingerprint and hair analysis lab. Studens were able to discover what features on fingerprints made them differentiated to each person. They also compaired blonde, brown, and red hair under the microscope, did a scaler imprint of there own hair, and looked at different species hairs under the microscope.

REMINDER: Tomorrow Nov 21 is an early release for students. School is dismissed at 3:02pm. Buses will run accordingly. Thank you and have a great Thanksgiving!

Jr Hi wrestlers Place 6 up at the Mullen Meet The crew continues to do well. We placed 6 of the 8 wrestlers we had at the Mullen meet, and all 8 of them won matches for us. We placed 6 out of the 10 teams there, but were only 14 points from 3rd place. Top 6 team scores: Valentine - 152 Sandhills/Thedford - 130 St. Pats - 107 Twin Loup - 106 Hershey - 101 Sandhills Valley - 93 Medal Placers were: 1st - Tucker Myers, Adi Brewer 2nd - Lilly Sheets 3rd - Hunter Schaeffer, Pierce Phelps 4th - Cotter Johnston J P Zuniga and Jaxon Mcentee won matches for us but did not place. We are very pleased with the team’s performance at Mullen. We won 18 and lost 9, and pinned 13 and were only pinned 5 times. Their hard work continues to pay off. Our short season ends next Tuesday out at Grant. We will see several new teams from the western half like: Bridgeport, Kimball, Perkins County and Ogallala. Coaches Halstead and Chloe

Events for the week of Nov 20: Monday, Nov 20: --NHS Induction Ceremony, Stapleton Community Building, 7:00pm Tuesday, Nov 21: --Early Out Schedule, 3:02 pm dismissal --JH WR at Perkins Co (Grant), 2:30 pm--van leaves at 12:00 pm Wednesday, Nov 22: --NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK Thursday, Nov 23: --NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK Friday, Nov 24: --NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK GO MAVERICKS!!!

Don't forget to attend our Soup Supper at Stapleton Public Schools tonight and prepare to laugh with us as the Play Production team performs "Went with the Wind" - Soup starts at 6pm and the performance begins at 7! Hope to see you there!

REMINDER NORTH PLATTE BUS PICKUP: Parents - we ask that you please be mindful of picking up your students as promptly as possible. We understand that unique situations do occur and we will work with you - but in order to stay on our schedule we need to be as consistent as possible. Pick up times Mon - Thurs afternoon between 4:25-4:30 at the latest (CODY PARK). Friday afternoon pickup by 4:05 at the latest (CODY PARK). If you have issues or concerns please call Mr. Johnson at the school. Thank you!

NO ACTIVITY VAN 11/17: Tomorrow, Friday Nov 17th there will be no activity van after practice. Please plan accordingly. Thank you

The 2nd graders have been busy in science class learning how to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. They made frosting, graham cracker, and candy models of the land and water and then made a map of their landform creations.

Jr Hi Wrestlers Place 6 at St. Pats This may have been our toughest match so far. We wrestled well, but not our best. We won 13, lost 10 matches, and placed 6 of the 8 wrestlers we had there. That’s a good day, but we felt like we could have won a few more of the close ones that we lost. We wrestled against 13 area teams, the only new team we saw was the North Platte middle school team. They came in with 42 wrestlers on their team, but our team did well against them also! Those placing for us were: 1st - Tucker Myer, Pierce Phelps and Cotter Johnston 3rd - Lilly Sheets 4th - J P Zuniga and Zeydin Palmer Hunter Schaeffer also won a match, but did not place. Our season is quickly winding down. We go up to Mullen and finish out at Grant. We hope to keep the momentum going as we close out our season. As of today our win/loss record is 61 - 34. They have worked hard to earn that!!

Congrats to our Play Production team for receiving MNAC West Runner-Up today! Tessa, Mariah, Allie, Cayson, and Cameron received outstanding acting certificates, and Tessa received a medal for Best Supporting Actress! Be sure to come watch us this Friday night in Stapleton!

Stapleton Public Schools greatly appreciates the generous donation from the SPS Foundation to purchase these beautiful new weight room multi-purpose racks. These new racks will allow for more dynamic training for our students and athletes as we strive to upgrade the physical education and athletic programs at our school. Thank you to all the community members who support the foundation and our school!

New addition to the gym - Celebrating our accomplishments in Speech!

Yesterday, the FFA members represented our chapter well and punched some more tickets for the state competition in April! JH Quiz bowl team - Izzy, Layla, Lilly, and Luella won a hard match but had two tough losses to end their day. Conduct of Chapter Meetings team - Adeline, Briley, Cotter, JuanPablo, Kamryn, and Tucker were missing a teammate but gave it their all and came home with a red ribbon. Agriculture Demonstration - Cameron, Cayson, Elizabeth, Kyle, and Natalie N brought home the 2nd place purple and will represent us in Lincoln! Employment Skills - Cayson (blue ribbon) and Natalie S (red ribbon) went through the process of gaining employment. From creating application materials to the interview. We had 5 members write a speech and deliver it in their respective areas. Ag Literacy - Lilly wrote a speech about humane swine consumption and received a blue ribbon. Jr Public - Noah gave a speech centered around his custom leather business and came home with a blue ribbon. Extemporaneous - Cameron was given a topic at the beginning of the contest and 30 minutes to write a speech about technology advancements in agriculture. He received a blue ribbon in this very difficult competition. Cooperative - Elizabeth wrote a speech about the benefits Cooperative business provide to rural Nebraska. She received 3rd purple and will be giving her speech at state! Discovery - Luella gave her speech over the technology changes in farming. She received 2nd purple and will be the 1st junior high member to represent our chapter at the state competition in a speaking event!

Everyone is invited! This Friday evening (11/17) come out to support Stapleton School’s One-Act Play Production! This is their annual production for the public, and offer a soup and dessert meal prior as a fundraiser, in preparation for their District competition. This year they are doing a parody/ comedy titled “Went with the Wind.” This skit is full of chaos and laughter, you won’t be disappointed!

Events for the week of Nov 13: Monday, Nov 13: --NO SCHOOL: Teacher In-Service --FFA at District LDE Contest at Wallace, vans leave at 6:45 am --Start of Winter Sports Practice --JH WR at North Platte St Pat Invitational--4:00 pm --School Board Meeting in Library--7:00 pm Tuesday, Nov 14: --One Acts at MNAC Contest in Thedford Wednesday, Nov 15: --ASVAB Testing--8:30 am Friday, Nov 17: --NE Youth Beef Leadership Symposium at Lincoln--van leaves at 7:00 am --JH WR at Mullen--11:00 am --One Act Soup Supper and Performance GO MAVERICKS!!!