Winter Sports will be starting up on November 15. The girls basketball team will have enough numbers to fill a JV and Varsity team. The boys basketball team may need to bring up a couple of eighth graders. We will know more once we get into the first full week of practice. We are gearing up for our Badger invite, which is only a couple of weeks away. We are always looking for volunteers to help make this event run seamless year after year. If anyone is interested in helping out this year please let me know.Our basketball tip-off tournament is ready to go the week following our invite. We have added Great Falls Home School and Valier to the schedule. We will be using both gyms this year and we are hoping to get a few JV games in as well. Honor Band/Choir will be traveling to Cut Bank November 26-27th.We had ten students attend the MBI Youth Days in Great Falls November 4th and 5th.
Parent/Teacher conferences were conducted last week on November 6th and 8th. 99% of our students were represented by parents or guardians. The elementary school is in the process of implementing a new policy for missing assignments. Because academic success is dependent upon learning important information and skills from the work teachers assign, we feel it is imperative that all assignments are submitted. Missing assignments reports are printed daily and all students with missing assignments conference with a staff member to formulate a plan for getting the work completed. Staff members follow-up to ensure that the work is done and additional academic support and time to finish the task is made available. Additionally, parents receive email notification for any assignments that their child may have missed. This fall, the elementary staff has focused on improving our walk-to-read and walk-to-math programs. Additional materials for reading were purchased this summer, and professional development was conducted to train our teacher in best practices. This allows us to move students to groups that best satisfy their learning targets, and use high-quality materials that provide consistency from one grade to the next. Currently, we are in the process of improving our walk-to-math program. Short online assessments will be conducted to target students’ learning needs whether it be remediation or acceleration. Then teachers use our existing Eureka Math materials to match their lessons to student needs. This year, we have extended our RTI (Response to Intervention) program to include monthly meetings for our elementary teams that we started in October. The primary purpose of these meetings is to monitor student academic progress on a regular basis and make curricular adjustments when needed. The monthly RTI meetings are also a time for teachers to collaboratively evaluate our elementary programs and make changes when warranted. Mr. Skogley is busy preparing the elementary students for our annual Christmas program on Dec. 13th from 7:00-8:00. There will be a dessert social and a visit from Santa to accompany the performance.
Thursday Nov 15 at 6:00pmCome and enjoy desserts and drinks on us while you try your hand at winning a FREE turkey for Thanksgiving. Keep playing for a chance to win more prizes at end of evening. Chili, potato soup, cornbread and rolls available by donation. Silent auction bake sale provided by our Culinary students. Proceeds benefit Culinary/ProStart Competition. To be held in the Commons area at Cascade School. Limit one turkey per household.
In an effort to help our students succeed and improve academics, Cascade Schools has started a missing assignment program. One of the main reasons for students performing below their abilities is because of missing assignments.Missing assignments will be monitored and tracked by the district. The school will do everything possible to help our students complete these assignments. The ways we will help our students is by notifying students in person of missing assignments. Teachers in the students' homeroom class will have a list of students with missing assignments and will work with the student to complete those assignments. Parents will receive an email from the school when a student has a missing assignment. The school will also begin offering text messages to parents soon. The school will also offer students extra time to complete the assignments before school, after school, and during lunch. In addition, students can attend after-school homework club. Homework club is available for all grades and will be run by one of our teachers.We look forward to helping our students succeed and improve. We would appreciate any input you may have concerning this program and parental involvement and encouragement will be a big help in achieving improvement goals.
Cascade Schools will be honoring all US Military Veterans and celebrating Veterans Day on Monday, November 12th at 9 am in the new gym. Please join Cascade Public Schools for our annual Veterans Day Celebration. We will be honoring our veterans with guest speakers, elementary presentations and staff presentations. Please use the north entrance to the school and make sure and leave time for cake and coffee immediately following the program.
The district volleyball tournament starts today, 10/25/18. The Badgers play at 10 am. Good Luck Ladies!!!
XCell! is hosting our BACK TO SCHOOL dinner on Tuesday August 21st at 5:30PM. They'll be serving BBQ chicken sandwiches, potato salad, baked beans, chips, and drinks. The meal is free, but we'll they'll have the donation jar out.
Best wishes to departing staff, and we extend a warm welcome to new arriving staff:Departing: Supt Justin Barnes is headed to Anaconda as their new Supterintendent. Mandy Eike, Maintenance Supervisor, is also moving to Anaconda. Andy Perry, Science teacher, will remain in the area as a fishing guide.Teresa Weems is moving back to St. Regis to teach. Linda Cotton is retiring from teaching after 44 years. David Dobbins has accepted a job offer in Great Falls. April Pepos and Emily McCormick have both resigned from Xcell. JoAnn Vinson will leave the kitchen but will remain onboard as a sub. Board Chair Rick Cummings was defeated in his re-election attempt on the School Board. Erin Wombold is stepping down from the School Board.Arriving and/or Changed Positions: Rick Miller is coming from Fairview as our new Superintendent. Neal Coon is coming from Plevna as our new Science teacher. Sarah Pederson is coming from Fairview to teach 2nd Grade. Eric Brandt is the new Maintenance Supervisor. Michelle Price and Heather Bricker will coordinate Title 1 services. Rachel Schaefer will return to teach 3rd Grade. Tina Mann and Andrea Ethridge will co-direct Xcell. John Rumney and Ruth Mortag were elected to 3-year terms on the School Board.Technology Director pending interviews. Business Ed Teacher / BPA Advisor pending interviews.
Here is a photo of the 8th graders with their CPR Life Keys they received upon certification in CPR and First Aid, made possible by a One School at a Time Grant.
CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2018Raija Buley, Krista Cope, Trent Cox, David DiAngelis, Zach Douglas, Christina Eike, Rebecca Gerard, Brooke Hanson, Joseph Hersey, Ryder Jackson, Alex Kline, Cassy LaFromboise, Kelsey Lappier, Steven Lendrum, Kara Lorance, Calder Ludvigson, Molly McRorie, Michellai Mikes, Kelli Ober, Kaicey Oliver, Joshua Pepos, Joseph Phillips, Rylen Robertson, Victor Roso, Ashtyn Schlotter, Savannah Spurzem, Yoko Tran, Madison Vandevender, Payten Zenahlik.