Farewell Letter - Nestucca Valley School District

Jr Sr High School
May 1st & 2nd
May 21st
Farewell
Letter
May 6th
May 21st & 22nd
from Mrs. Lenzi
Spring Musical
7:00 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz”
JCE Presentations
7:00 p.m.
May 8th
Community Prom
7:00 p.m. Kiwanda Comm.
Center
May 9th
High School Prom
8:00-11:00 p.m. NJSHS gym
May 13th
Nestucca Bands Festival
May 15th
State HS Band
May 15th & 16th
District Track
May 19th
Jr. High Choir Festival
May 21st
MS Band Festival
St. Helens
Music Ala Carte
NJSHS
State Track
Eugene
May 27th
Baccalaureate
7:00 p.m. at NJSHS
May 28th
8th Grade Trip
May 28th
Senior Awards Night
7:00 p.m. at Kiwanda Comm
Center
May 29th
NHS Graduation
7:00 p.m. at NJSHS
June 1st
8th Grade Promotion
7:00 p.m. at NJSHS
June 4th
Last Day of School
Release at 1:00 p.m.
To current and past NHS staff, students, and community members,
After graduating from Nestucca
High School in 1971, I returned in
1975 as a bright-eyed, 22 year old
college graduate, ready to make a
positive difference in the world. It
is difficult to believe that it is now
forty years later, and I am now
teaching my third generation of
students. (Former students from
early on in my career will be glad to
know that I have mellowed a bit
over the years.)
I have seen many changes in forty
years, but one thing remains constant: people’s needs. People of all
ages need to feel loved, appreciated, respected and significant. Fads
come and go, technological advances increase, the media barrage is
NHS Graduation
May 29th at 7:00 p.m.
May/June, 2015
Nestucca
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Farewell Letter (cont.)
growing stronger, but our basic needs still remain the same. I encourage all of us to slow down and really seek to find the real person behind the face. Whether the face belongs to our children, our students,
our colleagues, our family, our friends, or members of our community.
We are all going through stages of our lives and we need to take time
to encourage one another along the journey.
Many years ago, former superintendent-principal Jim Brown once said,
“Our product is people.” He was absolutely right. Our product is people. We help to grow children to adults, and we help to grow adults to
be better versions of themselves. It has been a pleasure to see our little
people enter our elementary school and later, as young adults, receive
their high school diplomas on our NHS stage. As they enter the “real
world,” together, we hope that we have given them the right tools to
be successful, contributing members of society. They get married, have
children, and the process repeats. It truly does take a village to raise a
child. As adults, we need to keep our communication lines open and
our student’s needs first and foremost, to encourage their positive
growth.
I am grateful to have worked with such knowledgeable and caring staff
members over the years. It has been a privilege to work with each of
you.
I am proud of our students. If you have been in any of my classes or on
one of my teams, you are forever one of my “kids.” One of my great
joys is to have former students update me on their lives and introduce
me to their families. Please continue to do so!
Warning: You will still see my face around here, as I plan to occasionally substitute teach as well as teach First-Aid/CPR classes and Driver
Education classes. I bleed orange and black, and will continue to always
support our Bobcats.
Senior
Happenings:
Week of May 25th)
Final exams
Wednesday) May 27th)
Baccalaureate at 7 p.m. in the gym-guest speakers Pastor Josh Gard
from Beaver Community Church
Thursday)May 28th)
Senior Awards Night from 7-9 p.m.
at Kiawanda Community Center
Friday) May 29th)
8:10 a.m. Sr. Breakfast in the cafeteria
8:45 a.m. GRADUATION REHEARSAL in gym--Senior attendance at rehearsal is MANDATORY--caps and
gowns are required at rehearsal
10 a.m. Senior Group/Individual pictures--final checkout with Debi before they leave campus
6 p.m. Senior check-in
7 p.m. Graduation Ceremony
Immediately after ceremony--seniors
leave for parent sponsored SAFE
Graduation Party
Thank you, for making my time here, so enjoyable.
My best to you always,
Mrs. Lenzi (aka Miss Bones)
A Great Big
Thank You!
The Positive Behavior Intervention &
Supports (PBIS) committee would
like to thank the owners of Cape Kiwanda RV Resort & Marketplace,
Marty and Terri Johnston, for their
support. As a part of our incentives
program, they have generously offered a FREE Small Pizza & Drink
Award Certificate to students who
have earned 15 PRIDE Bucks here at
Nestucca Jr/Sr High School. THANK
YOU, Marty & Terri!!
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What’s New:
Nestucca’s WOW Club
W.O.W. Wonders of the World.
The Nestucca Club gives students
the opportunity to do (volunteer)
activities in a group with other students. All activities are organized by
students with the help of Advisor
Terri Lalor and Advisor Nicole Huth.
Leadership development is a benefit
for many students who take on more
responsibilities with the Club. Leadership positions include: President
Crystal Langley, Vice President Daisie
Dixson and Secretrary-Treasurer
Dakota Logan.
Participants attend monthly lunch
meetings,
and participate in one
club activity
bi-monthly.
Currently
the club
participants
with: public
relations,
PEERFection
(collecting
clothing for
students
and South County famililes,) Upkeep
Peer-Fection Thrift Store, greeting
Substitute bus drivers are needed, with a starting wage of
$14.13 per hour. These drivers are needed quite often,
so this is fairly steady work. If you are interested in finding
out more information, please contact Jerry Boisa at (503)
392-3194 x131.
cards (students photograph and create cards for all occasions 3/$5.00)
and Fundraising
(various
fundraising activities and
work in a
group.)
Our mission statement is:
Coming
together is
a beginning, keeping together is progress,
working together is success.
~Henry Ford
Girls Youth
Basketball Camp
All girls entering grades 1-8 are invited to attend the Lady Bobcats basketball camp June 8th-11th. Camp
will take place at the
high school from
10am-Noon beginning Monday June
8th and will run until
Thursday June 11th.
Camp will be led by
Coach Foster and members of the
girls varsity basketball team. Cost is
$20 and each camper will receive a tshirt. If you have any questions please
contact Coach Foster at
[email protected] or 503-3923194 ext. 210. Forms will be sent
Monday
Monday Music
Music Club
Club Performances
Performances
Morgan Kirkpatrick and Cameron Weger, private voice students of Kathleen Serven of Nestucca Jr/Sr. High, performed
vocal solos at the recent Monday Music Club Freshman/Sophomore Recital. They both sang beautifully and with professional decorum.
The Monday Musical Club of Tillamook (MMCT) was formed on October 10, 1920 when Mrs. Edwin E. Koch, a music
teacher, invited a group of ladies to her home for the purpose of studying the "history of music. The formal organization
of the Monday Musical Club of Tillamook didn't occur until two years later in 1922. The initial 12 ladies of the MMCT grew
and changed over the years, but the biggest change came in 1994 when they took on the challenge of bringing the Oregon Symphony to Tillamook County. (Info taken from their website.)
Kirkpatrick and Weger look forward to being old enough to perform at the Junior/Senior MMC Recital, which offers
monetary awards for students of high calibre.
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Speech Team
The Speech
Team finished
off their long
season represented by five
team members
at the State
Championships
at Western
Oregon University in Monmouth on April
24-25. Marie
Krueger and
Tiarra Thompson both comState Speech Team: L to R: Coach David Schaefer, team mom
peted in Prose,
and Isaak Welch Maggie Mick (alternate to state), 2014-2015 captain Marie
Krueger (prose), 2015-2016 captain Tiarra Thompson (prose),
and Chelsea
Wallace compet- Isaak Welch (congress) and Chelsea Wallace (congress).
ed in Congress
Debate. Maggie
Mick was an alternate in Prose, and also
highlighted by Marie Krueger winning
an alternate in Public Forum Debate,
in Prose Sam Barlow, Tiarra Thompson
along with her partner in the event,
winning in Prose at Oktoberfest, Maggie Mick winning in Humorous Interp.
Isaak Welch.
at Oktoberfest and Susannah Floyd
This was a very successful season for
winning in Dramatic Interp. at Wilson.
Speech, with huge gains in confidence
and ability throughout the team. Again
Some of the unexpected highlights of
operating on the very flexible participathe season included Adrian Perez ention rules that have opened up Speech
tertaining everyone who competed at
to a wider segment of the student body,
District with a very funny After Dinner
there were a total of 25 students who
Speech during the awards ceremony,
participated on the team either all seaand Chelsea Wallace and Isaak Welch
representing the entire District in the
son or at least some portion of it.
very demanding Congress Debate event
The team as a whole competed in nine
at the State tournament.
tournaments and District this season.
And in addition, Marie Krueger and TiarThe team will be losing four seniors –
ra Thompson also competed in the very
Nathan Hirsch, Chelsea Wallace, Magtough 2-day Pacific University tournagie Mick and Marie Krueger.
ment, where Marie captured 2nd Place
Maggie has done an outstanding job as
and Tiarra was a semi-finalist in Prose.
team
Den Mother to the freshmen and
Both girls plan on attending Pacific in the
novices
for the past two years, and will
future, and utilized their free time at the
be going on to compete on a Speech
tournament to meet with coaches and
scholarship for Mt. Hood Community
members of Pacific’s Speech team, and
College next year. There she will be
as a campus visitation opportunity.
joining former Nestucca Speechie, JenNumerous team members placed in
ny Sewell, who also is competing on a
tournaments throughout the season,
Speech scholarship for the Mt. Hood
team.
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Last Day to
Charge
Lunches:
May 20, 2015
Oregon
Food Bank
The Oregon Food Bank will have
it’s mobile food bank distribution at
Nestucca Junior Senior High School
on the following dates:
♦ Friday, June 12th, 2:00 to
3:00 p.m.
♦ Friday, July 17th, 2:00 to
3:00 p.m.
♦ Friday, August 14th, 2:00 to
3:00 p.m.
Marie Krueger has also done an outstanding job leading the team as both
Captain and Student Coach for the past
two years, and will be going on to compete on a Speech scholarship for Pacific
University next year.
Tiarra Thompson will be stepping up
into Marie’s position as team Captain
for the next two seasons.
As we head into the summer break,
team members are already searching for
new material for next season.
Mrs. Groves
7/8 grade Tech
7/8 Grade Media
We are enjoying all the wonderful options in Google
Earth. We have explored the oceans, the sky plus had an
opportunity to visit every country on earth. Assignments
range from visiting the rainforest to identify the latest in
new animal discoveries to identifying the oceans of the
world. Students enjoy the ability to look at our school
over time and watch the building of the new high school
and the demise of the old building.
Computer Applications
We are just completing our section on employment with a
look at body language and how it can benefit you on the
job. Learning to read people is a learned skill so we are
identifying some of the most common behaviors and how
it applies to getting along in the work place.
Mrs. Elder
English 12:
Students are reading Fallen Angels, a
contemporary novel by Walter Dean
Myers that takes place in Vietnam
during the war there in the 1970's.
We are discussing the novel using the
literary terms we have studied this
year and will be writing a final essay
related to the themes from this
book. Students are still working toward completing passing writing samples as well.
AP English Literature
and Composition:
This class has been working their way
through “the poetic revolution” of
Whitman and Dickinson and into the
“new poetics” of Ezra Pound, T.S.
Eliot, Robert Frost and others. We
have also been preparing for the AP
Exam, which is scheduled for
Wednesday, May 6 at 8:00 a.m. in the
TBCC building.
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Keyboarding is big in tech right now. We have evaluated
those who have been working hard on their keyboarding
skills and those that don’t challenge themselves. We are
beginning to push to the next level in speed and accuracy.
Next week we will begin a big project. In addition to the
keyboarding, students will have the ability to create a
number of documents in Publisher or Word for their
own rock band. Students will learn many skills concerning a variety of software to accomplish the goals of the
project.
Yearbook/Publishing
We have a huge deadline approaching at the first of the
month of May and this requires constant review of pages,
adjustments and reviewing again and again. Not very
glamorous of essential for a great product in the end.
The 2014-15 yearbook will be a very special keepsake so
get your copy set aside now before we are sold out.
English 11:
Students have read the first couple
of chapters of The Great Gatsby, but
have been interrupted by the mandated state testing. We are keeping
our fingers crossed that everyone is
doing their best each day toward
completing this assessment of essential skills and the common core
of knowledge. Beginning Monday,
May 4, English 11 students will be
back in the classroom finishing up
this novel. Following Gatsby, students will have an independent novel of choice to read for the end of
the year from a selection I will provide.
the letter responses from the Spanish
2 students and trying to guess who
they are. In such a small school, the
secrets don’t usually last too long!
Spanish 2:
We have also composed our first pen
pal letters to the Spanish 1 students.
We are reading our book about the
history of Mexico, which has been
great reinforcement of internalizing
the preterite and imperfect verb conjugations. Coming up, the students
will have a final project for the end of
the year that will tie all their skills
together in a product showing their
speaking, reading, and writing abilities.
Spanish 1:
Spanish 3:
These students continue to read
their novelette called Enrique y Maria and have written a pen pal letter
to the Spanish 2 students. The
identity of their pen pals is a mystery, so they will have fun reading
In this class we are working on reading a series of short novels in Spanish
to help achieve fluidity and reinforce
all the tenses they have learned this
year. We will also place heavy emphasis on speaking skills to round out
our year.
Mrs. Serven
General
Announcements:
♦ Calendar change: MAKE A
NOTE! Due to the NHS Band
going to STATE this year, our
concert date for the Nestucca
Valley Bands Festival has been
changed from May 14 to May 13
at 7pm. This applies to all band
students, grades 5 through 12.
♦ NHS Band parents, you’re invited
to come hear us perform at
STATE on May 15th, at OSU. The
1A/2A Band State Performances
will be the morning hours of May
15th in the LaSells Stewart Center
at: 875 SW 26th St, Corvallis, OR 97333. We won’t
know our exact performance
time until after April 29th, so we
will send that info home with
students after that date.
♦ NHS Choir students from both
the junior high and senior high
groups are priming for the production of our spring musical,
Wizard of Oz! Make sure you call
for reserved seating: 503-3923435, ext 305. It takes place Friday and Saturday at the Nestucca
gymnasium at 7pm on May 1 and
May 2.
♦ Community members and band
parents: Come to the annual
Community Prom on May 8th
from 7-9pm at the Kiawanda
Community Center! Dress up
and come try out the wooden
dance floor at KCC or sit on the
side and enjoy the old time jazz
and dance music! We are preparing songs from the ‘20s and ‘30s
on up through the ‘50s and ‘60s!
English 9:
Freshman students have finished the
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novel, The Light in the Forest. They
are now reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and are working on
creating films of different scenes
from the play.
Students recently wrote letters
home to parents about their quarter 3 grades, to practice communication skills and letter-writing skills.
Lexile tests were taken in April, and
most student scores went up. Great
job on improving those reading levels, students!
We also looked at comparative data
on 125 “Root Words” students
learned throughout the year, and
those numbers all improved drastically. The goal is that this knowledge
will greatly help students understand unfamiliar vocabulary words
they come across in their education
and life.
Junior High Choir:
We attended our first festival at
Delphian and it went well! Fifteen of
our 20 students had good enough
grades to attend the festival. They
had an enjoyable day of hearing 11
other choir perform, two of them
being brand new choirs like ours! At
the end of the festival, all students
performed a “mass” (group) song all
together. It was great to hear over
100 junior high choral voices working together to create music!
Several junior high choir students
are also performing in Wizard of Oz
on May 1 and 2. Come watch the
entertainment! (See calendar note
regarding how to reserve seats!)
♦ Congrats to Cameron Weger,
as she performed at the Freshman/Sophomore Recital in Tillamook at the Nazarene Church
in April. (Yes, they gave her a
variance to perform there as an
8th grader.) –She stunned the audience with her vocally-mature
performance of two classical
pieces, one of them being in Italian. Way to go, Cameron! Cameron will perform these pieces
again for the MS Solo/Ensemble
Contest, held at Scappoose HS
on May 16th.
♦ Mark your calendars for our next
junior high choir festival, which
will be at Forest Grove High
School on May 19th! We hope all
our students have high enough
grades to be eligible to attend!
HS Choir:
Come see us put on Wizard of Oz
this year on May 1 and 2 at 7pm! If
the newsletter reaches home in time,
there is also a matinee performance
available to folks at 11 am on
Wednesday, April 29th. See the calendar note on how to reserve tickets
ahead of time. Students have been
rehearsing long hours to bring you
this classic musical!
**Congrats to Morgan Kirkpatrick,
who sang beautifully at the Freshman/
Sophomore Recital in Tillamook, put
on by the Monday Music Club. She
sang two classic pieces, one being
contemporary, and the other being
from the classical period.
**Choir students: remember that our
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA trip is
on May 22nd! We will leave school at
2pm that day, head to Portland for
dinner, followed by the show at the
Keller Auditorium.
HS Band:
CONGRATS ON MAKING
NESTUCCA BOBCAT BAND
HISTORY AND QUALIFYING
FOR STATE!!!!!!!!!!!
Our festival, held on April 10th (the
Roarin’ 20s Prom
first NW League Band Festival), was
hosted by Nestucca, and it went
very well. Nine bands performed
here in our gymnasium, and
Nestucca High Band scored the
highest, receiving excellent comments from the judges.
Our state performance will be on
May 15th at the LaSells Stewart Center at OSU. Exact time is TBA. Parents and community are welcome to
attend!
Parents and Community Members:
You’re also invited to attend our
Community Prom, which is on May
8th from 7-9pm and is put on by the
HS Band. We are stretching ourselves to learn 25+ songs for this
event, PLUS prepare for our state
performance!!! Please come and support the kids!
Junior High Band:
Nestucca Junior High Band went to
District III Band Festival on April 21,
and did well! The students agree it
wasn't quite their "best" performance, due to a couple little glitches,
but even with those, it was quite
good, overall. Given that, their performance was better than last year-way to grow and improve! We
placed 4th amongst 10 quality bands.
We shared the stage with Scappoose, St Helens, Astoria, Warrenton, Jewell, Amity, Sheridan, Forest
Grove, and Seaside middle schools.
We enjoyed getting to hear other
bands play, and to share our music
as well. We look forward to the festival at St Helens in May, exactly a
(May 21st) month away. We hope
ALL the students have good enough
grades to attend!
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PROM will be held on Saturday, May 9th, from
8pm-11pm in the high school gym. There will be
a DJ, refreshments, and chances to win raffle
prizes! The boy and girl who come dressed in
the most "1920's style" will win a prize as well.
Come and join the party of the year!
Last Day of
School
The last day of school for students will be Thursday, June 4. Again this year, it
will be a shortened day. We will be dismissing students at 1:00 p.m. Students
will eat lunch at school, but instead of remaining in school until 3:07 p.m. buses will load students at 1:00 p.m. and deliver them home early. Students
should arrive to their regular bus stops approximately 2 hours early. I hope
everyone has a great summer vacation!
Junior High End of the Year
The last few days of school are going to be very busy for junior high students. The 8th grade promotion ceremony will be June 1 at 7:00 p.m. here
at the high school. Students are not required to wear formal attire for the
ceremony. We only ask that they dress nicely. All students need to bring
in or email three pictures for the slide show. One should be baby/younger,
one middle years, and then a current pic. Email pictures to
[email protected].
The last day of school for 8th grade students is June 1, unless the student
needs to remain at school in order to complete school work needed to
pass classes.
The 8th grade field trip to Bullwinkle's is scheduled for May 28th. We will
leave the high school at 9:00 a.m. and return by 5:00 p.m. The cost for the
trip is $25.00 per person and is contingent upon grades. Students who are
not passing English, science, history, and math will not be allowed to attend
the trip and will be expected to remain at school.
Incoming Jr. High
After the 8th graders are promoted, we will focus on the new junior high
students! 6th grade move up day will be June 2nd. Students will come to
the junior high for a tour and orientation with the 7th grade students. Finally, 6th and 7th graders will go to Camp Winema for their end of the
year celebration and getting acquainted time on Wednesday, June 3. The
cost is $5.00 per student.
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