Homecoming Week 2019 is in the books. What an outstanding week with the students, staff, alumni, and community coming together to celebrate Valley Heights!
The Kansas Masonic Lodge Essay Contest is available to all juniors and seniors. Statewide, prizes up to $4000 are awarded. Locally, Sutton Masonic Lodge in Waterville offers cash prizes to Valley Heights essay writers as well. Deadline is Nov 1. See Mrs. Buck for details.
VH Robotics class is making lots of progress building their competition robots. Check out the newest VEX challenge “Tower Takeover” on the internet.
Junior Class is selling Tasty Pastry DONUTS and COFFEE at homecoming tonight by the concession stand $10.00/dozen or $1.00/donut!!
VH will be revealing a dedication to the LEW Whitson Memorial at 6:45 pm tonight before the Homecoming football game.
Come out tonight & watch the 2nd annual Spikefest Volleyball and Powderuff Football games! Boys will play in the high school gym starting around 7:15. Powderpuff will follow. Happy homecoming!
Homecoming Activities: ALL Valley Heights fans are welcome to join the Homecoming activities this week.
Thursday night at 8:00 pm will be the bonfire and pep rally located in the overflow parking lot.
Friday afternoon the Homecoming parade will be in Blue Rapids beginning at 2:30 pm.
Friday night will include a Booster Club hamburger feed before the football game. The football game will begin at 7:00 pm. Then the Homecoming crowning will take place at halftime.
Come out and join the Valley Heights school spirit!
During KRR afterschool programming 3rd graders took turns with 1st graders reading to each other! #lovereading
There will be no Colt's Round-Up After school Monday, September 23 & Wednesday, September 25 due to scheduled Student Success Meetings.
GONE WITH THE Breeze
rehearsals underway with choreography by alumni, Pat Breeding. Production will be November 15, 16, and 17.
USD 498 has a tobacco free policy in force at all times which includes VAPING. Click on the link below to be ALERT and be INFORMED. Talk to your children about the dangers of VAPING:
http://www.kdheks.gov/vaping/index.htm
If there are any parents interested in a parent/caregiver presentation on human trafficking and safe internet/phone app use, the Stop Trafficking Project will be having a "caring adult" presentation tonight (Wednesday, September 18) beginning at 7:00 pm at the high school in Frankfort.
The registration deadline for the October 26th ACT is this Friday, September 20th.
Regular board meeting scheduled for tonight, 5:30 at the District Office.
Tomorrow is picture day. Don’t forget your uniforms.
Congratulations on a great day to the Lady Mustangs. They took home the gold at the Riley Tournament today going 4-1 on the day with wins one Holton, Saint Marys, Jeff County North and Chapman in the championship! Great job Lady Mustangs!
Congratulations to the Jr. High volleyball team for finishing 3rd at the Axtell Tournament. Great job girls!
Wes Denton, along with the Northeast FFA district officers helped show people around the FFA barn today at the Kansas State Fair.
Biology students are learning how to conduct a controlled experiment. The theme of the experiments center around human impact on decomposers and the test subjects are Armadillidae. Topics include the effects of manmade trash, global warming, flooding, use of rubber as a ground cover, and soil compaction. Students will present their finding at the science fair this spring.
Join us Monday, September 16th, at 7:00 pm for a financial aid presentation by Larry Moeder of the financial aid office at Kansas State University. Seniors and parents will benefit most, but any parent interested in sitting in is welcome.