Congratulations to Mrs. Vickie Fargen on her retirement. She has left a lasting impact on our school and community! 💙🦌🤍
Congratulations to these 8th grade students who earned their Certificate of Work Ethic Proficiency during CAPS class this spring! All 8th grade students completed the Bring Your 'A' Game course to learn about developing and demonstrating a positive work ethic. Those earning the certificate had to pass the Work Ethic Proficiency exam with at least a 90% and now list this credential on their resume. Great job Melanie, Madde, Maddisyn, Dailynn, Aron, Eli, Joseph, Caden, David, Felicity, Angie, Lola, Rozy, Gabby, Malyha, and Sydney (not pictured)!!
See attached flyer for info about some summer programming offered by Avera Behavioral Health :)
Thursday's Menu:
Breakfast is muffin and string cheese
Lunch will be enchiladas, Southwest pull-aparts, or quesadillas
Elkton School District will be dismissing at 2:15 on Thursday, May 25th because of a city wide water shutoff.
Progress is being made in the locker room remodel. All lockers are removed and walls are coming down. 🧱🚧💙🦌🤍🚧
What a fun morning! Thank you Phil Baker for helping us celebrate the end of our school year! 🤍🦌💙
Breakfast on Wednesday: Pancake on a stick
Lunch on Wednesday: Hamburgers
You are invited to join the state track qualifiers, coaches, and student body on Wed, 5/24 at 1:45 PM in the south gym for a pep rally / state send off!
Congratulations to our State Qualifiers & Coaches:
Levi Jaacks, Quinten Poindexter, Riddick Westley, Blake DeVries, Tanner Drietz, Tanner Stein, Tait Boersma, Eliot Erickson, Colt Beck, Quintin Westly, & Sydney DeVries
Coaches: Mark Harming, Kaleb Haas, Alyssa Brazil, Abbey Strait, & Avery Sage
Let's go Elks!
Due to road construction, we will begin to follow this procedure for pick-up beginning TODAY.
-Students who are walking home will exit the main entrance of the school.
-Students who are being picked up by parents, etc. will exit out the South gym doors facing the athletic complex (7th street).
-Students riding the bus will load buses at this location.
In the morning, all students can be dropped off following normal procedures.
Thank you for your flexibility this last week!
Here is the menu for Tuesday:
Breakfast - Uncrustable, string cheese
Lunch - BBQ rib, mashed potatoes, fruit, dinner roll
Officially Official - Tanner Drietz set a new School Record in the Triple Jump at the Region Meet in Estelline Wednesday. with a jump of 43'1.25 inches!
This breaks a record set by Steve Leech in 1988.
Congratulations Tanner!
Our students in grades kindergarten through second enjoy a morning of learning stations presented by SD Game, Fish, & Parks and Pheasants Forever. Students got to experience the following:
-Seeing the methods used to train a dog to retrieve and follow basic commands. Pearl the dog was a very well behaved example for our students. 😉
-Learning more about pollinator plots and their impact on nature. Students made their own seed ball!
-Doing a worm dissection with sticky, chewy, gummy worms!
It was a great time!
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Our remodel of the locker rooms and high school bathrooms has begun. Demo started today in the girls locker room and showers. 🚧🧱💙🦌🤍🧱🚧
Could you use help paying for school supplies for next year?
The Family Back 2 School Project is a program with a “store like” setting with school supplies available for the upcoming school year. This event will take place Wednesday, August 9th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 6:00 p.m. The supplies available will be the items requested by the school. Registration is required and can be done by either completing the paper form that is being sent home with elementary students this week or by visiting bit.ly/familyback2school to complete the online form. All registrations must be received by July 26th.
This program is for children entering grades K-12th grade for the 2023-2024 school year attending school in Brookings County. Families who receive free and reduced lunches or Economic Assistance, or if you do not qualify for either program and still need help, are eligible. Applications will be accepted on a case-by-case basis. If you have any questions about the program, please call Dawn at 605-695-4679 or Jan at 605-690-4319.
Please see the following from Miss Sherry in the library:
This is just a reminder that all students must return their library books this week. Most will do so during their library time.
The Elkton Public School - High School 2023 Yearbook is available for sale. This yearbook is a Signature Series Hardcover bound and available for delivery after 8/9/2023.NOTE: Purchases made post book approval may be subject to different production and delivery schedules. The last day to order is July 12th but still can be ordered after but will be more expensive. Link is: https://link.entourageyearbooks.com/my/ElktonHighSchool2023
Class of 2023, Congratulations to all!
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Class of 2023
