A reminder: Tuesday, January 29, students at Valentine Elementary will not have school. This is just for the students at VES. The teachers have an opportunity to attend a one day training, so school is canceled for that day.
With cold weather, please make sure your student comes to school wearing a heavy coat, hat, and gloves/mittens. At VES, we go outside for recess as long as it's above zero (factoring in wind chill). We want your student to be dressed for Nebraska winter weather!
VES focus for the week: be respectful, include others. Way to go, Badgers!
The valentine speech meet for tomorrow has been delayed 1 hour so speech students will now be leaving at 6:00 am from the high school.
Nathan Flannery, Senior, Basketball
Nate tied a school record with 21 Rebounds in a game against Hemingford. For a player who is only 6'0 tall that's very impressive. He does a lot of work before the ball hits the rim to put himself in position to get the rebound.
- Levi Loofe, Business Teacher, Head Boys Basketball Coach
Due to weather forecast VES, VMS, and VHS will start at 10:00 a.m. Friday January 18
Update on upcoming events the next 2 days. Tomorrow the wrestling team will leave for Chadron at 7:00 a.m. If the roads are in poor condition or the bus driver doesn't feel the roads are safe they will turn around and come back. Basketball - We have been in contact with Broken Bow and will reschedule the basketball games to Saturday starting at 1 pm if they are unable to travel Friday. The speech team will do the same as the wrestling team on Saturday morning.
MS games in Ainsworth on Jan 24th. The B game will be played first and it will only be 3 quarters due to lack of numbers for Ainsworth. The A game will follow that game.
Boys SWC Bracket
Girls SWC Bracket
These are just some of the students who earned badger paws and positive office referrals last week. Way to go, Badgers! This week, we are focusing on including others.
SWC Basketball Tournament -
Girls will play in Minden on Monday Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm
Boys will play in Ogallala on Monday Jan 21 @ approximately 6:15 CT.
We will post official brackets tomorrow when we get them converted to correct format for our platforms.
The 7th grade science classes are going through Tech Lab Orientation. The Tech Lab is a non traditional approach to learning science.
We have had some inquiries about the SWC basketball tournament as far as location and times. The conference does the seeding next week based on power points as they want all games possible played to make sure the seedings are correct. Once they get those they will assign the brackets and we post them as quick as we can. Recently it was approved that all boys and girls game be played on Mondays and the conference is trying to secure officials for all the possible sites to make that possible. In years past we have alternated the boys and girls games on Mondays and Tuesdays but with such a tight schedule that week it was decided to allow a snow day during that week so they are hoping to move all games to Mondays from this point forward.
Saturday's basketball games in Ogallala - The JV boys will play in the Auditorium and all other games will be played at Prairie View Elementary School.
During the January 4 teacher in-service VHS teachers, led by Mrs Pilakowski, shared strategies and methods that they use to integrate technology in their instruction to enhance student engagement.
The girls JV game on Saturday vs Minden will only be 2 quarters due to low numbers for Minden. Please plan accordingly for the start of the Girls and Boys Varsity games.
Merry Christmas from the Valentine Community Schools faculty and staff!
VHS students, staff, and teachers all worked together to provide food baskets for families at our Head Start. Thanks so much to Lila O'Keefe for organizing and facilitating this awesome service.
The Valentine Middle School held their Quiz Bowl today with competitions against the Badger Pause groups. Mr. Pettigrew's won the final championship with a close match against Mrs. Cronin's group.
