Valley Falls USD 338

The VFHS Fall Award Ceremony was held yesterday to honor our clubs and take time to recognize students who have gone above and beyond this semester. Each club selected members they thought showed the most leadership, were most involved, and most involved as first year members. Recognition was also given to our HS Student of the Month for November, Cali DeLong, and November Rotary Student of the Month, Grayson Coleman. Congratulations to everyone that received an award! Others were encouraged to become more involved in their individual club or at school in general. Link for complete listing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZSXVVD_dG1Lj0FolcMKiBveYrc8kZ7e_lKSRLl4zCw/edit?usp=sharing

The elementary building is looking for a few volunteers to listen to students read individually or in small groups. If you think that this is something you would be willing to do, please click on the link below to complete a few questions. If you have problems with this link, please call the Elementary Office at 785-945-3221 and we will help you out. We are looking to start during the month of January. Thanks for your help! https://forms.gle/QcpwAANqH2fWUqbs7

High School Basketball Update: On Tuesday, December 17th, the Dragons will be taking on Troy at home. Troy is unable to play a JV Girls game, so we have adjusted the game time in order to play all games in the West Gym. The schedule is as follows: 4:30pm - 1/2 C-Team Boys Approx. 5:00pm - JV Boys Varsity Girls - follow JV Boys Varisty Boys - follow Varsity Girls

Valley Falls Middle School lost a nail biter today to St Benedict. They finished 4th in the tournament. Great season ladies.

Weekly Update: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHC4_pu37X_QTr-G-9HEhXmAljK9-EcjFv1aILMV2Ks/edit?usp=sharing Have a great weekend!

More pictures of the Holiday Dinner and program yesterday.

What do you get when you plan a holiday dinner and program for 165 community members and students? You get a lot of staff and students working together to make sure everyone has an enjoyable time. Thank you, Margo, for taking the lead role and directing the planning, prep and presentation of this event. Thank you to Nellis Trucking for donating the potatoes, and Shaun, Alex, & Josh of the Culinary Essentials Class for making ornaments. The Freshmen Leadership Class worked with Kindergarten students to decorate the ornaments and make necklaces that were given to all the guests. Our Journalism class took photos of guests with Santa (played by Shayden) and his elf (Myles) in front of a backdrop made by Heidi. The choir and second grade class sang multiple songs. Lots of others were involved in the background and we want to say THANKS to EVERYONE for your help!

Staff Christmas Party this week. We appreciate the important work our staff does throughout the year. Thank you to our Valley Falls Chamber and PTO for providing Chamber Bucks for some of our door prizes.

MS Pep Rally this afternoon to send our girl's basketball team off right as they face the Troy Trojans in the Oskaloosa Tourney at 4:30 today. Go Lady Dragons!

Good Afternoon, There will be a C-Team boys game at every home game through basketball season. The game will will be played in the East gym after the JV boys game. Given this information, if the opposing team does not have the roster numbers to play the game we will do our best to send out prior notification. Have a great day! In Dragon Spirit, Mr. Morgan

High School Basketball Update: On Friday, December 13th, the Dragons will travel to Royal Valley High School. The game time for both JV Boys and JV Girls is 4:30pm. The JV Boys will play in the high school gym, while the JV Girls will play in the elementary school gym. There will be a C-Team boys game following the JV Boys game in the elementart school gym. Hope to see you all there and GO DRAGONS!!!

Jodie Cook, Addison Lassiter, Olivia Partridge, and Ellie Shipley all participated in music opportunities with many other schools last Saturday! Jodie and Addison with Choir at Topeka High. Olivia and Ellie with band at Seaman. Wonderful experience for our students. Thank you Mrs Stottlemire for making this happen!!

Congrats to the middle school girls basketball players for winning their first game of the NEK tournament last night!! Next game will be in Oskaloosa at 4:30 on Thursday!!

Welcome to December, there are nine days left before our Holiday break and the end of the first semester at VFHS. Time is flying by and the slate for the next nine days is full with activities and events. For activities and events of November and early December at VFHS please visit https://5il.co/32ac0. Have a great evening!

"Starting this basketball season, the KSHSAA will recognize a League Sportsmanship Champion which is inclusive of the girls’ and boy’ teams (players and coaches), spirit squads, pep bands and spectators based upon regular season basketball contests as evaluated by the adopted sportsmanship rubric. Each high school League/Conference Champion will be awarded a championship trophy." Given this information from KSHSAA, let's start tonight with a run toward doubling up on some league hardware for boys and girl's basketball season. Come out and show your Dragon PRIDE!!!!!! Let's go Dragons!

BOE Agenda for Monday, 12/9/24 Meeting: https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/931/Valley_Falls_USD_338/5081281/1._Board_Agenda_12.9.24.pdf

The 2024-2025 High School Basketball season starts tonight at home against Jeff West. JV girls will start at 5pm in the West gym, and the JV boys will start at 5:00pm in the East gym. Varsity girls and Varsity boys will follow the JV girls in the West gym. Come out and watch some great games and cheer on your Dragons!!!

MSGBB: The NEKL MSGBB Tournament begins on Monday (12/9). The Dragons will take on JCN at 5:30 in Troy!

Warmer weather in the forecast. Hang in there! Here's our Weekly Update: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xh2swy4vIDuf7GXDzRNsnqIXSGYbA1t3TU6RXI1SwzA/edit?usp=sharing

For those unable to attend in person tomorrow night as your Dragons and Lady Dragons tip-off the 2024-25 season we will have all home games streamed at https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ks/valley-falls/organization/41987/valley-falls-high-school Let's Go Dragons!