🎉 Kindergarten Round-Up
🗓 Date: May 9th
📍 Location: Halsey Elementary
📞 Please contact the Elementary School at # 308-533-2203 by Monday, April 28th to sign up your student, and have an information packet sent to you.
FBLA SLC 2025 is in full swing!
We want to thank our entire chapter for their help in getting us the following ribbons: FBLA Foundation Donor (Thank you to the Cox Ranch!), Feed Nebraska, Connect2Business, Step Up 2 Tech, Go Green, and March of Dimes.
The following members participated in enough FBLA activities throughout the year to attend the conference: Kyle Cox, Emily Chavez, Shelby Schukei, Ross Martindale, Connor Sutton, Thatcher Teahon, Shaylee Milleson, Ella Held, and Cora Martindale.
Connor Sutton and Ella Held have been selected as the Sandhills Delegates to help us vote in the new State Officers.
Wish the kids the best of luck over the next 3 days!
Congratulations to Shelby, Connor, Rylyn, Thatcher, Kallan, Aaron, Tyla, Mason, Mattee, and Paizley on receiving the 2024-2025 Nebraska State Colleges
Multi-Activity Student Award. Great job to all of you!
The award recognizes students in grades 9-12 who participate in at least three NSAA
sanctioned activities during the academic year. Each high school student who participates in
at least three NSAA activities will be recognized and awarded a certificate of achievement by
the NSAA and the Nebraska State Colleges. Activity participation will be tracked using student
eligibility lists, submitted to the NSAA by each member school.
Great job to our Junior High track and field athletes today at Paxton! Our STK girls took home a 2nd place plaque!
The link below will take you to the results of today's track meet at Paxton.
https://live.athletic.net/meets/48272
Great job Sandhills Spanish Students!
We are pleased to announce the following winners in the poster contest sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and it's Nebraska chapter.
Local
Hand-drawn Division
1st Place: Emily Chavez
2nd Place: Caden Zutavern
3rd Place: Connor Sutton
Loup River Spanish Region (54 Entries)
Hand-drawn Division
1st Place: Emily Chavez
Tie for 4th Place: Caden Zutavern
Attention FFA parents, we are in need of a few donations for the FFA banquet next week! Ground beef, buns, mustard, pickles! Please email andra.smith@sandhillsknights.org or text 308-214-0290 if you can help!! Thanks!
I hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather! Have a great week!
*As always, things are subject to change!
Congratulations to Kora Winkelbauer, Heath Larsen, and Carter Jensen who had artwork on display at the Youth Art Month show at the State Capital in Lincoln during March. Heath's entry won Best of Show in the Junior High division at the show!
The FBLA Blood Drive is up and running in the high school gym! Last walk ins that will be taken is at 4:45 pm. We hope to see you there!
Attention high school Track and Field parents and athletes: the Pleasanton invite tomorrow at Kearney Catholic High School has been canceled due to weather. There will be NO junior high or high school practice tomorrow.
The junior high had a great day at science fair in Hastings yesterday!
*5 purples and 5 blue
*8 qualified for state and we had 4 punch their ticket.
Congratulations to Josie, Cesar, Harper and Holt!!
Help hope bloom: Join us at our blood drive Thursday, April 3, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Sandhills High School. All who come out to give blood with the Red Cross April 1-13 get a $15 Amazon.com Gift Card by email & a chance at a $5K prize! Book now: https://rcblood.org/4b4PsZy
Over the past few weeks Sandhills FFA officers shared the book " The Soil In Jackie's Garden" and taught grades K-5 about soil, compost, and plants! The kids got to make dirt cups with both dark and sandy top soil, as well as worms, bugs and grass!
State Speech Qualifiers will perform TODAY, April 1st, 2025 for the school and community 8th hour @ approx. 3PM. Connor Sutton, Mason Sutton, & Mattee Zutavern did a great job this speech season!!
MNAC Music is hosted in Thedford today! Connor Sutton will perform a trumpet solo at noon followed by a percussion duet with Rylyn Moody at 12:17PM. Have fun! 🎵🎵🎵
I hope everyone has a fantastic week!
*As always, things are subject to change!
You are invited to the Sandhills FFA Banquet! April 15, 2025, 6 p.m. at Dunning Community Hall!
Good luck to the Speech team at State Speech today @ Kearney High School starting at 8:30AM!
There is a change to the events on Saturday for Prom. Photos in Dunning will be on the stage in the gym instead of in the lecture hall.
STAY COOL today & good luck! 😎 Check out the schedule for the track meet today in Merna starting @ 11AM this morning.
Follow results with the attached link :
https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/590831/info?fbclid=IwY2xjawJSPjNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSMT10BGC2efJSbRHxgg8BAWBYkvJuX-79GycjeROuI9qJGAU-D59Kvq4A_aem_QA8xfh7mSr1h1vXM306SwA
