Secondary Report October 2014

·       Academics

o   PSAT Wednesday, October 15^th.

o   2^nd round of progress reports going out October 13^th.

o   Parent conferences will be held Nov. 6^th and 7^th. We will be contacting parents of students with low grades for a conference. We will also put information in the bulletin encouraging all parents to attend a conference.

o   Dual credit information-the number of students taking dual credit courses for this semester are about the same as last Fall. The majority of the courses that students are taking right now they will actually register for dual credit next Spring such as Calc, Govt, Stats etc.

o   Student laptops seem to be working well. Still less than 10% have died, which is what we expected. They are covered under warranty. Teachers are using a variety of platforms for classes, and sharing ideas weekly at our staff meetings.

·       Activities

o   FFA-Genesee Soils team took 2nd in Districts. The team traveled to Burley for state Soils on October 14^th.

o   Homecoming activities are occurred the last week of September (Sept. 22-26).

o   UI Homecoming Parade and game this Saturday. The Band and Cheer squad will be participating in the parade and pre-game show.

o   Ten students auditioned for All-State and All-Northwest Music groups. We will be notified if anyone is accepted in December.

·       Athletics

o   Dig 4 Pink is tomorrow night here against Troy.

o   VB team plays their final league match against Troy and will be the #2 or #3 seed into the district tournament, taking tie-breaker into account. District tournament will be Oct. 18, 20, 21 and 22 at LCSC.

o   VB State is October 31^st & Nov. 1^st at Wendell High School.

o   FB team has 1 remaining regular season game. We play Kamiah this Friday for a spot in the playoffs as a 3^rd or 4^th seed into the week 9 play-in. The week 9 game will mean traveling to S. Idaho, playing someone most likely on Nov. 1^st out of region 3.

o   JH FB has 3 games left, will finish at the end of the month.

o   JH VB has 17 girls participating. Games begin tonight and run through Nov. 10^th

·       Vision 21

o   Color groups are currently working on new ideas for posters and t-shirts. Groups will present their top 2 ideas next week, which will then go to the staff. The staff will pick 3 to vote on, and the students will vote at the end of the month.

o   Planning for community give-back day will take place over the next three weeks. Community give-back day will be on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 6^th.