Mr. Pettigrew's Badger Pause class was the winning team for the Graham Cracker challenge by bringing in 55 boxes of graham crackers. VMS Badger Pause classes raised a total of 128 boxes altogether, which will be donated to the Elementary School students.
VMS Student Council enjoyed reading Valentine’s Day stories to some of the Elementary classrooms.
Camp Read S’more is tonight! Parents/guardians of K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students, please attend with your student! It’ll be a night of literacy fun. Can’t wait to see you there!
Badger Nation, we will be gathering at the VHS gym to welcome and congratulate our 2019 State Championship Wrestling team! They just left Broken Bow so we expect them to be escorted into town by the VFD around 4:00! Come join us in recognizing these great kids and coaches!
2019 Cherry County Oral Spelling Bee
Doc Lancaster a 6th grader from Valentine Middle School was runner up and Ciana Colvin a 7th grader from Valentine Middle School was the champion. Ciana will represent Cherry County and Valentine Community Schools at the Midwest Spelling Bee in Omaha on March 2nd. Congratulations to all the spellers and Ciana!
Good luck to our Valentine Badger wrestlers as they begin their quest for a 3rd straight state wrestling championship!
The following Middle School students attended an Acalympic Competition in Pierre, SD on Wednesday, Feb. 14. They ended up 4th out of 15, and had a great showing. Congratulations to Jack Lancaster, Taylor Battershaw, Grant Boes, Sadi Osnes, Doc Lancaster, and Cadence Swanson!
The boys basketball game with Gordon Rushville has been moved back 1 hour. The game will be at 5 central tine.
Due to the predicted weather on Friday the boys basketball game with Gordon Rushville has been moved to Thursday starting at 6 pm CT. This will be varsity only because Gordon Rushville will be hosting a girls sub-district final after our game.
2C has worked hard to learn all of these amazing things and so much more!
The boys basketball team will play their Sub District game on Feb 19th at 5:00 pm CT at Chadron State College.
We will have a sendoff off for the wrestling team Wednesday at 11 am in the HS gym.
We met with the Senior basketball players this morning to see what we could do since the last game was cancelled. We have decided that we will honor the senior basketball players and parents during Coronation. We would like to thank the Coronation committee for offering to do this.
The Girls Basketball team will take on Mitchell in the first round of sub-districts at Chadron Stare College. Tip off is at 5:00 pm CT.
The basketball games with North Central have been cancelled. We looked at several different options to try to get one last home game for our seniors but we just couldn’t get it to work.
Due to board policy we are unable to have our games tonight. We are working to see what we can do to get a game scheduled for our senior night. We will continue to work on this today.
*correction! No school today, Thursday, February 7, at VES, VMS, and VHS. Stay warm!
Due to dangerous wind chill there will be no school at VES, VMS, or VHS today, Friday February 7, 2019.
Today, at PTC, the elementary administered a parent survey. If you weren't able to make it to conferences or didn't have time to fill out the survey while there, please follow this link and complete this survey. It is only for parents of an elementary student--only one person per household needs to complete the survey. Thank you!
https://nde.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9t0PdmkTw2tVPXn&Level=elementary&SchoolID=16-0006-002
Due to forecasted weather conditions, Valentine Elementary, Middle, and High Schools will start at 10:00 a.m. on February 7, 2019.