ELWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Elwood Speech Team competed at District Speech in Litchfield today. What a great team, and we've been so proud of their hard work this year. District medalists include: Kara Brockman in Extemporaneous - District Champion and State qualifier; Kara Brockman in Persuasive - District Champion and State qualifier; Aliah Nelson in Persuasive - 3rd Place and State qualifier; Kara Brockman and Lauren Cunningham in Duet - 2nd Place and State qualifiers; Isabelle Exstrom in Humorous - 6th Place; Adrianna Seberger, Christdolyn Hagan, Kyra Udstrand, and Landon Hieter in OID - 5th Place. Class D State Speech is next Saturday, 28 March, at Kearney High School.

HSTr: Hi-Line competed yesterday at the Cambridge Relays yesterday. Kids competed very well throughout the day, very proud of their efforts. Congrats to the boys team for winning the meet. Congrats to Whitney Wall for breaking the school record in Triple Jump! She jumped 32'6". #gobulls

Our Elwood Early Intervention Team put together a series of flyers with information about developmental milestones. Take a look and reach out to the Elwood Early Intervention Team if you have concerns about your child's development!

Lots of great ACT tips are being learned at the juniors' Chad Cargill ACT workshop today!

Shout out to the Methodist Church in Elwood for doing High Five Friday this morning!

HSTr: Hi-Line @ Cambridge Relays (@ Cambridge HS) Friday, March 20th, 2026 starting with first field events starting at 1:00 PM followed by first running session at 2:00 PM followed by second field events starting at 3:00 PM followed by second running session at 4:00 PM. Meet schedule attached. Admission: $5.00 for Students & Adults. #gobulls

RPAC Band Clinic will be Monday, March 23rd at Arapahoe Public School. There will be a concert open to the public, free of charge beginning at 7:00 p.m. Elwood will perform as an individual band as well as in the large ensemble. Reminder that band students will need white shoes to wear with their uniforms.

Use the link below to register you student.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTcQRyM_pnVwzFm9NamOAsLqu1ftTXoXFZtsqw7rwlYeAraw/viewform

This week's happy book winners!

National Honor Society Applications due to Mrs. Crofton by next Monday. (March 23rd, 2026)!!!

Congrats to Brody Diefenbaugh for making RPAC East 2nd Team All Conference. Along with Kane Cochrane for marking RPAC East Honorable Mention Congrats to Olivia Wall for making RPAC East Honorable Mention. #gobulls

Remember to join us for Literacy Night and High School Speech Team Presentations tomorrow night at 630 in the high school lobby and gym.

**Hi-Line Volleyball**

There will be an informational meeting this Thursday, March 19th at 3:45pm in Elwood (Coach Loontjer's Classroom). This meeting is open to all current 8th-11th grade girls planning to go out for volleyball this upcoming fall.

All E-F non-track members will ride over to Elwood after school with the track team. Coach Loontjer will bring you back to Eustis after the meeting is over.

If you have any questions or are unable to attend the meeting, please contact Coach Loontjer via email at quinten.loontjer@elwoodpirates.org

Thanks!

Attention Sophomore, Junior and Senior Parents---

National Honor Society invitations went out via email this morning to those that are academically eligible.

The informational meeting is this Wednesday during lunch. Students who are interested in applying are required to attend this meeting.

I encourage all students who were invited to attend this meeting so they can make a decision on whether they want to pursue the rest of the application process.

If students or parents have questions about this process, please contact Mrs. Crofton.

All Current Elwood and Eustis/Farnam 8th-11th graders, If you are interested in cheerleading and/or dance team for the 2026-2027 school year, there will be a brief interest meeting on Monday, March 16 at 6:00 PM in the Elwood School commons area. If you are not able to attend the meeting but would like to join OR if you attend Eustis/Farnam school and need transportation to and from the meeting, please email shelby.borden@elwoodpirates.org ASAP.

Thank you!

-Coach Borden and Coach O'Hanlon

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: The Speech Team has had an excellent season. Come see them perform at Evening of the Arts on the 17th as they prepare for districts next Saturday.

Please join us on Tuesday evening to support the Elwood Speech students and celebrate literacy!! *updated information*

Foods 2 classes made homemade chicken noodle soup last week, learning how to make homemade noodles! Both classes were excited to learn how to make the soup and noodles from scratch, practicing safe food handling methods learned in their lessons.

A reminder that on Thursday, March 12th, there will be no school Pk-6. There will be a 10:00 am late start for grades 7-12. Thursday's dismissal time will be 3:34 pm. There will be no school on Friday, March 13th, due to winter break.