State Speech update: Kara Brockman qualified for finals in Entertainment speaking. Results to come! Go Pirates!!
This week's book drawing winners from the TeamMates book vending machine!
Intro to FCS recently completed their fabric buckets while studying the various ways technology has changed and improved design methods over the years. Students enjoyed choosing coordinated fabrics and practiced their time management skills.
HSTr: Hi-Line at Southern Valley Invite (@ SV High School) Friday, March 28th, 2025 stating with field events at 12:00 PM and running events starting at 2:30 PM. Admission: $4.00 for Students and $5.00 for Adults, Conference passes accepted. #gobulls
Parents & guardians: Please see this NavAlert about an app called Zepeto!
HSTr: Congrats to Chase Beitler on breaking his own 300 hurdles school record today at the Lexington JV invite. He ran it in 43.4 seconds
Current 8th-11th graders,
If you are interested in cheerleading for the 2025-2026 school year, there will be a meeting this Thursday, March 27th, at 6:00pm in the Elwood School commons area. If you are interested in cheerleading but are unable to attend the meeting, please email shelby.borden@elwoodpirates.org before Thursday. There will be a parent meeting following the student interest meeting in the following weeks. Thank you!
HSTr: Hi-Line at Lexington JV Invite (@ Lexington) Tuesday, March 25th starting with field events at 4:00 PM and running events at 4:45 PM. #gobulls
The Elwood junior and senior band students participated in RPAC Band Clinic held in Alma
yesterday. The guest clinician was Rick Mitchell from Kearney, Nebraska.
RPAC Instrumental Concert was held at Alma this evening. Outstanding job by all bands and the group as a whole was amazing. Great job Elwood Pirates Band.
We had a large crew for our first Mindful Monday! Join us again next week, kids!
A belated book drawing since we missed last week. Our students are loving the free books out of the TeamMates vending machine each week!
Please see the latest NavAlert from our digital citizenship curriculum, Neptune Navigate!
The juniors are learning all about the ACT from Chad Cargill this morning!
Speech: Congrats to Kara Brockman on making the NSSA State Speech Meet in three events! She will compete next Friday in Kearney in Entertainment Speaking, Extemporaneous Speaking, and Persuasive Speaking.
HSTR: Hi-Line @ Cambridge Relays (Cambridge) Friday, March 21st, 2025 starting at 1:00 PM with first Field Event Session, followed by first Running Event followed by second Field Events Session followed by Second Running Events. Admission: $5.00. #gobulls
Our first Mindful Monday will be Monday, March 24th at 7:50 am! All are welcome!
lt was a great to be a Pirate speaker at District Speech! Kara Brockman took 1st place in all 3 of her events (Persuasive, Entertainment, and Extemporaneous)! She will represent Elwood at State Speech in all 3 events. Kassandra Salisbury placed 4th in Program of Oral Interpretation and 5th in Informative. Christdolyn Hagan and Adrianna Seberger placed 6th in Duet Acting. With just 6 entries, Elwood placed 4th overall! Go Pirates!
District Speech Update: All events made finals! Stay tuned for placings. Awards will be sometime around 5:30 or 6:00.
Correction: The post with the Striv link for District Speech lists the wrong date. District speech is today (Tues. 3/18). We will try to give a heads up on the time later today.