ELWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS

These high school boys spent nearly an hour hearing Bill Weismann's stories about serving our country as a veteran. The boys wanted a picture with Bill. Our students realize that they have many freedoms today because of the many sacrifices all veterans gave for their country.

We are in the process of adopting SRP, an emergency response protocol through the "I Love U Guys" Foundation. We will soon be educating students/staff about SRP. Parents/guardians, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with SRP. For more info, please visit iloveuguys.org.

National Honor Society members along with other organizations from the school spent time visiting with our veterans after the Veteran's Day Program. We also elected officers this week for National Honor Society. Ryker Evans---President, Treyton Evans----Vice-President and Julian Seberger---Secretary. Congratulations to the officers and all members!

Elwood Public School was honored to host a Veteran's Day program for our local veterans today. The program included patriotic selections from the Elwood School band, the high school choir, and the elementary classes. Ed Arends, former Elwood School teacher and coach, was awarded a Quilt of Valor by the Prairie Quilt Guild. Following the program, the FCCLA chapter served homemade desserts and students had the chance to visit with the veterans.

Elwood One-Act will be participating at the Gothenburg Invite on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 9:00 AM. #gopirates

Congratulations to the following students for earning Outstanding Acting awards at Cozad's One-Act festival yesterday: Lilly Palmer, Delaney Collins, Kassandra Salisbury, and Kara Brockman! Also, the team placed 4th in Technical Theater! Great work!

Just a reminder, please join us for our Veterans Day program tomorrow morning at 9:00AM

Due to incorrect information, the Elwood JH Quiz Bowl team will not be included in the Axtell JH Quiz Bowl meet today. The Elementary Quiz Bowl team will still be competing today in Axtell.

Today is Give Big Elwood day, an opportunity for you to help the many worthwhile causes in our community. There are six we'd like to highlight that are part of the school or support the students and organizations here. Please consider donating to one or all of these groups. Beef in Schools https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodbeefinschools Elwood Booster Club https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodboosterclub22 Elwood TeamMates https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodteammates22 Elwood FFA https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodffa23 Elwood High Stampede https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodhighstampede Pirates Providing Hope https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Piratesprovidinghope Thank you for your generosity and support.

JHWR: Hi-Line @ Alma Invite: Thursday, November 9, 2023 starting at 2:00 PM. #gobulls

Congratulations to the following actors for winning Outstanding Performance Awards at Monday's One-Act festival in Wil-Hil: Gavin Tilson, Delaney Collins, Zach Whittaker, and Kara Brockman. Great work! The next performance is in Cozad, this Thursday at 6 pm.

Thank you Beef in School donors. Hamburger day!!!

Winter sports pictures will be taken on November 13th. Packets will be sent home with the athletes but you can order online as well. Click the following link or use the QR code, pictures must be ordered by midnight November 14th. https://h2ophoto.net/

Elwood High School Quiz Bowl will be participating at Arapahoe on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 starting at 4:30 PM. #gopirates

Elwood One-Act will be participating at the Wilcox-Hildreth Invite on Monday, November 6, 2023. Elwood will perform at 3:15 PM. #gopirates

Please join us next Friday for our Veterans Day program

During the week of November 13th-17th, students in grades 3-12 will be asked to fill out our annual school connections survey. If you would like to know more about this survey or would like to opt your child out, please email kilah.oaklund@elwoodpirates.org.

It has been a week of very challenging material in Chemistry. However, the juniors have persevered!!! So today we reviewed with a friendly competition using individual white boards. Great job juniors!!!

Our Intro to FCS classes had fun matching up with Kindergarten and PreK students to design a silly monster and story using story cubes. The students then sewed felt creations of the characters and wrote stories they read to the younger students. It was fun for all!

Here are the entries and winners from the 2023 Book Character Pumpkin Contest. All of the entries turned out to be AMAZING!! We want to thank all that participated this year. Each entry was very creative and unique, the kids did an AWESOME job on them!!! He are your winners for this years contest: Lower Division 1st- Ferdinand: Cooper Huyser 2nd- Bad Seed: Kip Gall 3rd- Dinosaur: Evrhett Oakland 4th- Pete the Cat: Peter Spivey Upper Division 1st- Patrick Mahomes: Bentley Schnacker 2nd- Piggie Pie: Lakyn Weissert 3rd- Mario: Reese Cunningham 4th- Nemo: Breckynne O'Hanlon