Kenmare School District 28

🤩ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY🤩 Thank you to the following women who give their time, energy, and much devotion to our staff and students each and every day. We appreciate all you do-going above and beyond-to help ensure our offices run smoothly. Business Manager: ♦️Mary Ann Melin Administrative Assistants: ♦️Amy Harris ♦️Stacie Hedberg ♦️Lori Bauer

🚌 SCHOOL BUS DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY🚌 📣Today, we want to give an extra shout-out to our school bus drivers! 🤩Kenmare Public School operates 5 rural routes to aid in the transportation of our students. 🫶🏻💛Our bus route, sub-drivers, and extra-curricular drivers are absolutely amazing. We appreciate all you do for the students, including: braving the weather, being a listening ear, and providing a safe atmosphere for each student that is on your bus!💛🫶🏻 👏 Thank you for going the "extra mile!" We had to share pictures of last year's bus driver breakfast outing!

⛳️ DLB JH GOLF MEET ⛳️ Congratulations to the Kenmare-Bowbells JH boys golf team today! 🤩The students competed in the DLB Golf Invite and placed 4th out of 12 teams. 👏 Way to go, everyone!!

Please join us to celebrate these wonderful people and their time devoted to Kenmare Public School!

The 2023 KHS Prom will be live streamed on both the Kenmare Public School Facebook page and the Kenmare Honkers YouTube page starting around 8:20pm.

🎙️KHS News - Check out these talented students! 📰 https://youtu.be/MLjymPEEB28

Dear KPS Families, We will have a 10:00 am start time tomorrow due to the current weather conditions. The doors at KPS will be open at 9:30 am unless you hear otherwise. Breakfast will be served 9:30-10:00 am. Thanks for understanding my concerns. - Mrs. Hennix

Dear KPS Students, Parents, and Community Members, It is with much joy (and bittersweetness) that I let you all know that the Kenmare Pubilc School Board voted yesterday at their regular board meeting to consolidate all KPS students into one school. The preschool through second-grade classes and staff will be moving up to the high school. This decision has not come lightly and most of the community is aware that the school board has been trying to get all students to the high school building for years. We finally feel that we are in a place where we can handle this move with our current space and the number of students. We also feel that this is the best approach for the education of our students as space and staff will be able to serve students more effectively. I am excited to show you our plans for Phase I at the high school where we are developing a second serving line through our concession stand, we are expanding the elementary music room, and adding restrooms to the preschool and kindergarten classrooms. I will have more information in the newspaper next week but please feel free to reach out with any questions you have for me. Sincerely, Alex Hennix, Supt.

📣ZOOM LINK FOR BOARD MEETING📣 Due to inclement weather, we would like to provide a zoom link as an alternate method for "attending" the school board meeting this afternoon. ⏰ 3:45 pm ⬇️The link can be found below⬇️ https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus05web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84458579510%3Fpwd%3DeElJaklrUTZRYTFFQ24wZ1Y2TGhzUT09&sa=D&ust=1682352000000000&usg=AOvVaw0nGWNoKrtffW1dJVxbZpkE

🚨EARLY DISMISSAL DUE TO WEATHER 🚨 Dear KPS Families: Due to inclement weather, we will dismiss all students at 11:15 am with no buses running. We will keep all of our families and staff informed of plans for tomorrow, Thursday, April 20. Please stay safe and warm. Thank you.

🤩APRIL MS/HS STUDENTS OF THE MONTH🤩 Congratulations to our middle and high school students of the month for April.

📣EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 📣 🚌The Kenmare Public School has a job opening for the Director of Transportation position for the 2023-2024 school year.🚌 Please contact Mrs. Hennix if you are interested.

👕 T-Shirts for sale in the main office. Adult and children sizes. $10 each

🧩♟️FIFTH GRADE PROJECT ♟️🧩 Mrs. Schmidt's fifth grade students created "Road to the Revolution" game boards. Each game has consequences and triumphs which depict where to move and eventually win the game. 👏 Way to go, everyone! What a fun and creative project!!

🏆 REGION 9 SPEECH TOURNAMENT RESULTS 🏆 The Kenmare speech team made their presence known at the Region 9 Tournament at Burke Central School on Saturday, April 15th. 🥈 Overall Team Results: 2nd place out of 10 teams 👀‼️Our team won 19 awards and State Qualified 8 students! 👀‼️ Humorous Duo: Drew Houck and William Cook (1st) SQ, Roxy Quigley and Anna Petersen (4th) SQ Serious Duo: Diontrea Anderson and Abbey Kohler (1st) SQ Storytelling: Drew Houck (1st) SQ Poetry: Abbey Kohler (2nd) SQ Dramatic Interp: Diontrea Anderson (5th), Kylie Michel (6th) EPR (Extemp Programmed Reading): Anna Petersen (2nd) SQ Speech to Entertain: Brooke Zimmer (1st) SQ, Aden Anderson (6th) Speech to Inform: Ashe Hall (3rd), Landan Spear (4th), Shae Jensen (5th) Speech to Persuade: Madysyn Madrid (5th) Radio Broadcasting: William Cook (3rd) SQ and Jesse Rodin (4th) Impromptu Speaking: Aden Anderson (3rd) SQ, Ashe Hall (6th), Jesse Rodin (7th) 👏🫶🏻We are so incredibly proud of all these students and their coach! Way to go, everyone!!🫶🏻👏

🏥First District Health will be presenting information/prevention methods on the topic of Vaping/E-cigarettes to our 6th-12 grade students next week.🏥 All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend! 🗓️ Wednesday, April 19 📍 Kenmare High School Grades 6-8 @ 8:30 am Grades 9-12 @ 9:30 am https://fdhu.org/tobacco-programs-and-resources/vaping/

💛MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT💛 Please check out STOPit Solutions that helps empower students and staff to report inappropriate behavior, mental health and safety issues to ensure the safety and well-being of fellow students and staff. ⬇️Additional information below ⬇️ https://www.stopitsolutions.com/crea

Managing the Ups and Downs of Middle School 🫶🏻Families can use these strategies to better understand the unique mind and emotions of the middle school student to help them stay excited about learning and excel in the classroom and outside of it.🫶🏻 ⬇️Check out the link below for more information and resources. ⬇️ https://www.naesp.org/resource/managing-the-ups-and-downs-of-middle-school/

🏆2022-2023 ACTIVITIES AWARD CEREMONY 🏆 Please join us as we recognize our students during our annual activities award ceremony on May 25. All are welcome to attend and join us for hamburgers and hot dogs after the ceremony. 🗓️ Thursday, May 25 ⏰ 8:45 AM 📍 Kenmare HS Auditorium

📣EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 📣 Kenmare Public School is looking to hire for the upcoming school year an Agriculture Education teacher. ⬇️Please see below for a more detailed description.⬇️ If you have any question, please contact Mrs. Hennix or Mrs. Froseth.