Kindergarten Roundup 2024
April 2024 BOE Agenda
Events for this Week
USD #397 Centre is taking applications for the following coaching positions:
Head HS 8-Man Football Coach
Assistant HS Volleyball Coach
If interested please contact Tim Vinduska at tvinduska@usd397.com or Kelly Steiner at ksteiner@usd397.com. Applications can be found on the Centre USD 397 website or from the central office. Centre USD #397 is an EOE.
Thank you, Tristen Cope and Erin Hein, for bringing this opportunity to our kids! Today was Safety Day at Centre for students Pre-K through 5th grade! Students learned ways to stay safe through attending a variety of sessions throughout the day.
The safety topics they learned about were:
Fire Safety
Farm/Animal Safety
Water/Pool Safety
Stranger Danger/Internet Safety
Storms/Preparedness
Railroad Safety
Bike Safety
Calling 911
It was a great day filled with a lot of learning and fun! This day would not have been possible without the number of agencies/individuals that partnered with us for this event!
(Marion County Safe Kids, Marion County K-State Research & Extension, Marion County Sheriff's Office, Lincolnville Fire Department, Lost Springs Fire Department, Hillsboro Fire Department, Florence Fire Department, Marion Fire Department, Cara Duell (Hillsboro Family Aquatics Center), Marion County Emergency Management, Bill Fitzgerald (retired railroad), & Marion County Health Department)
Olivia Carlson competes in the 1st dive meet of the season at Maize against 19 divers. Olivia placed 1st and is a state qualifier!
Fort Scott Aggie Day Results 🐜🍃
Today FFA members competed in various CDE’s & LDE’s at the Fort Scott Community College Aggie Days. This was a multi-state competition, and our members were exceptional! Results are as follows:
Speech Contest
Sophomore - Addison Bina - 5th place
Junior - Jimena Sanchez Gomez - 4th place
Entomology - 1st team overall!! 🏆
Karsen Kroupa - 4th place
Leah Brunner - 13th place individual tie
Addison Bina - 13th place individual tie
Hayley Whiteley - 17th place
Allie Stuchlik
Kathrine Whitson
Lily Hauck
Ellis Smith
Ryleigh Jones
Daniel Moenning
Robert Spohn
Floriculture:
Emilee Remmers - 8th place
Leah Brunner
Allie Stuchlik
Ellis Smith
Addison Bina
Jenaya Plett
Mariah Brasch
Food Science - 3rd place as a team! 🥉
Isabel Rziha - 1st place!!
Allie Stuchlik
Kathrine Whitson
Jenaya Plett
Mariah Brasch
Jimena Sanchez Gomez
Robert Spohn
Nursery Landscape - 3rd as a team! 🥉
Karsen Kroupa - 1st place!!
Emilee Remmers - 10th place
Isabel Rziha
Vet Science:
Lily Hauck
Ryleigh Jones
Leah Brunner
Mariah Brasch
Kathrine Whitson
Livestock Judging:
Sam Foster
Kaden Hutchinson
Blaise Kitzmiller
Leah Brunner swims to a 3rd place finish in the breaststroke, competing against swimmers from Bishop Carroll, Andover, Buhler, El Dorado, and Rose Hill in the first swim meet of the season at the Marion Invitational Swim Meet Thursday, March 21st.
Easter Activities at the Herington Library!
P-5 Parents,
Centre will be hosting a school safety day this coming Friday for our students in grades P-5. This will be a day-long event that will feature numerous sessions on such areas as fire safety, railroad safety, farm safety, how and when to call 911, and several other subjects. Atmos Energy is cooking hot dogs for the students for lunch and knowing it is Lent, I want to make sure that is okay with our parents who practice fasting during lent if they go ahead with the hot dog for lunch. Please let me know if you DO NOT want your child to eat the hot dog and we will have a non-meat option for them. You can email me at lgeist@usd397.com and let me know. Thank you.
Class and individual spring pictures are next Tuesday, March 26th. We will begin taking photos at 8:20 AM. Picture order forms were sent home with students before spring break, one for individual photos and one for class photos. Complete order forms and payment must be turned in to your student's teacher on picture day. If you did not see an order form, please check with your student, as they were handed out. Please make sure that you have your backgrounds picked on the form or you will get the standard blue background.
Today is the final day to order from our Spring Store!
https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/uvyL7fHrdS
Beginning today, March 18th, Cougar Cubs Daycare's new operating hours will be from 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM to help accommodate any parents working out of town and having a hard time picking their children up at 5. Please pass the word to anyone you may think is interested in the new hours of operation. If you have any questions, please contact Janine Foth at 785-983-4333.
There is a menu change for lunch on Tuesday, March 19th. The menu will now be hamburger on a bun, chips, baked beans, and a fruit.
Special Board Meeting, March 19,. 2024
Congratulations Olivia and Nick on Wheat State League honors!
Outstanding performance tonight by the 6-12 music department at Centre. The audience was treated to a wide variety or music that included solos, small ensembles, and choir and band performances. Centre is blessed to have an outstanding music teacher in Amy Harmes who is a dedicated and very talented music educator. Music educators are becoming harder and harder to find and if you don't think music education, or for that matter any of the arts aren't important, listen to the retirement speech by all pro football player and future Hall of Fame member Jason Kelcey who thanked one teacher in his speech, his band teacher! Yes, I may be biased as a former music teacher, but go for a week without listening to the radio or watching TV. Support the Arts, they impact every other subject in school.
Congratulations to the Centre Junior High Choir on their first division rating at the Wheat State League Music Festival last Tuesday. The choir is under the direction of Amy Harmes. Outstanding job!!!
Reminder for JH/HS music students: please be to the school by 6:30 tonight. The concert starts at 7:00.
Attached is the registration form for summer baseball.
