April was Child Abuse Prevention Month. SGS student, Racilynn, was the winner of the t-shirt challenge by the Child Advocacy Center! Congratulations, Racilynn!
#tshirtcontestwinner #kansas #ChildAbusePreventionMonth
FCA is hosting a Baccalaureate for the SHS Graduating Class of 2024 at the Nova on Wednesday, May 8th at 7:00 pm. Fusion will provide refreshments following in the foyer. Please join us in celebrating our Graduates. The public is welcome to attend.
Thank you to our USD 271 Teachers and Staff!
This week is Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week!
Thank you to our amazing lunch (and breakfast) heroes!! School Lunch Hero Day! #TigerPride271
For our final 2023-2024 SGS Hi-5 Friday we were welcomed by members of the SHS Class of 2024! We wish you the very best! #TigerPride271
(We included a few family connections also!)
Next Tuesday, May 7th is our JH Pike Trail League Track Meet at Tescott!
Best Wishes to our JH athletes as you wrap up your season!
Thank you to our Coaches-Moffet, Rogers, and Billinger.
*Field Events start at 1:00 pm.
*3200 will start at 2:00 pm with the other running events starting at approximately 2:30 pm. #TigerPride271
Plant the flowers and let it RAIN!! Our SGS community groups planted flowers on Main Street on Wednesday just before the rain! We love our partnership with the City of Stockton! #TigerPride271
HS Softball at Plainville today, 5/2/24 is postponed for today and will be rescheduled.
Our SGS WATCH D.O.G.S. Program is gaining momentum! We are hopeful it will be even stronger next year! Thank you to our dads and grandpas! We value the positive feedback we have received! #TigerPride271
Stockton Grade School students spent the morning with AMAZING author, Jefferson Knapp. What an inspiration, and his props were phenomenal! His message: use your imagination and find what you want to do in life and do it! Jefferson is a Kansas author with an incredible 6 book series called The Kingdom at the End of the Driveway. What an opportunity for our students to hear his message and to buy his books. #TigerPride271
MEDIA RELEASE
BOARD TO INTERVIEW SUPERINTENDENT-HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CANDIDATE
USD 271
Dr. Angela McCollum will be interviewing for the position of Superintendent-High School Principal with the Board of Education on May 2, 2024. Dr. McCollum was selected to interview based on her fit with desired characteristics that were developed with input from focus groups and an online community survey utilized during the search process.
Dr. McCollum is currently serving as Asst. Director and Early Childhood in Dodge City, KS. Previously Dr. McCollum held a position with Wichita Public Schools for 12 years, serving in several positions.
You are invited to visit with Dr. McCollum at a Meet and Greet held at the School Cafeteria, May 2, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.
The staff and students of USD 271 would like to extend our most sincere appreciation to our principals, Stacey Green and Lindsay Cravens. You lead with grace, dignity, and integrity. Live your excellence.
2nd graders were fast learners with their first coding experience in the SGS library! Comments from students were: "This is so awesome!" "This is fun!" "Can we do it this again?" #TigerPride271
Each week in April, Rachel from the Extension Office, helped extend our kindergartners' reading and science learning with our focus of “ From Plant to Plate”.
Week 1: The classes added dye to flowers to see them change colors. Week 2: They planted wildflowers and watered them daily. Week 3: The classes painted and made a butterfly. Week 4: They focused on decomposition, recycling, and observed worms and pill bugs.
Thank you, Rachel!
8th Graders Teagann Shamburg and Meredith Gasper were awarded the Anita Gail Simons award at the 8th grade promotion. Congratulations ladies.
Congratulations to 8th Graders Meredith Gasper and Kolt Kuhlmann for being honored with the KSHSAA Citizenship Award
April 21-27 is National Volunteer Week! USD 271 is blessed by MANY volunteers who support our students and staff!
Pictured here are our 2024 AmeriTowne Volunteers!!
If you are a volunteer for USD 271 or know of a volunteer---please list your/their name in the comments!
A few more photos from our 5th and 6th grade trip to Young AmeriTowne!
"Nex-Generation has partnered with the Young Americans Center for Financial Education in Denver, CO, to bring Young AmeriTowne® of Kansas to Northwest and North Central Kansas.
Young AmeriTowne® of Kansas is a four-to-six-weeks, financial literacy and career development curriculum designed for 4th - 8th grades (adaptable for high school, too) that teaches basic economics, banking, money management, government, communications, entrepreneurship*, philanthropy, and employment.
The culmination of the classroom experience is a field trip to Young AmeriTowne® of Kansas in the former Lenora High School building, in Lenora, KS, where students-turned-citizens fill real-world roles as mayor, judge, police officers, mail carriers, managers, accountants, key employees, and volunteer fire fighters.
Students spend their “paycheck” at all 10 shops (Bank, Towne Hall, Snack Shop, Container Shop, NEW Digital Media Agency, Energy Resources, NEW Nex-Great Idea Entrepreneurship Shop, TV Station, Radio Station, and Medical Center), as well as donate to local charities.
Teachers evaluate student success through accomplishment of classroom exercises, involvement in Towne, and completion of shop books and individual bank accounts."
Taken directly from https://www.nex-generation.org/young-ameritowne
Our 5th and 6th graders attended Young AmeriTowne® of Kansas on Thursday, April 25th. Thank you Mrs. Dryden and Mrs. Moffet for leading the lessons that lead to this hands-on field trip.
🎤 It was a big day for our 6-8 band and 7-8 choir members as they performed at the league music festival! Thank you Mrs. Riener and Mrs. Jameson!
(It was also amazing to see them arrive at SGS this morning looking amazing as they dressed for success today!)
🎶 Ratings:
Choir II
Teagann & Aidyen I
Meredith & Lyric II
Kaley II
Adrienne & Faith II
Kourtnie & Lyllyn II
Proud of them for taking solos & duets!
7th grade girls ensemble II
Band II
