Happy National School Counseling Week! KCSD’s school counselors are dedicated to working with students to help them overcome obstacles, achieve their goals and make big plans for the future. Today and all week long, we’re celebrating all they do for our district community.
We have had a great last couple weeks and have been so busy having fun we have forgotten to share all great things happening!
Our students have been working hard to earn "Snowballs" for rewards with special staff members in the building. Check out the dance party in Mrs. Galeazzi's class with Mrs. Taylor.
In Mrs. Cook's class they have been learning about fossils and what goes into making a fossil. Check out some of their fossil creations!
🗓 Reminder 🗓
West Elementary is hosting a Preschool Information Night this coming Monday, February 6th at 5:00 pm in the West Cafeteria!! Come learn all about Preschool at KCSD! We cannot wait to see everyone on Monday Night!
Check out this short video about the Little Panther Preschool: https://youtu.be/aL6BVlb0NiE
Students must be 3 or 4 on or by September 15, 2023.
Have you ever wanted to be more involved in the activities at KCSD? Check out all these opportunities for coaching our Panthers! Interested applicants should complete the application process here: https://bit.ly/3s5wMmX
Don't have your coaching authorization? Take classes to get that here: http://bit.ly/3HUKW2Z
Good afternoon! Take a look at all the Current Teaching Openings at KCSD for the 2023-2024 school year. We are so excited to welcome a new set of teachers into our district to help make an impact on all the students who enter our doors. Interested applicants should complete the application process here: https://bit.ly/3s5wMmX
#KCSDPride
Check out this awesome experience students were able to buy in the PBIS Panther Store! These kids bought a Cookie Baking Experience with the Northstar Kitchen Staff for 30 tickets. Keep up the great work kids!
Some Postseason events involving our students are coming up soon and they are online ticketing only.
Boys Wrestling - Regional Team Duals on Tue, Jan. 31 at Williamsburg
Boys Swimming - Districts on Sat, Feb. 4 at Ames
Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.iahsaa.org/tickets/
Our Varsity girls and boys basketball teams are playing Newton at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on Saturday, February 4. Girls game at 12:30 pm, boys game to follow. Our Chamber Choir will be singing the National Anthem before the girls game and our Dance Team will perform at halftime of the Varsity boys game.
Below is a link to buy tickets. That ticket gets one into our games and the Iowa Wolves game later Saturday night.
https://fevo.me/3VNVzbO
Attention KCSD Families,
We want to strongly encourage all of our families to ensure their contact information. This is going to be very important as we are moving to a new, more robust, notification system. This new notification system will not require any sign up, opting-in, or extra work on our families. All we need is for families to sign into their Infinite Campus accounts and make sure all of their contact information is entered correctly.
Disclaimer: We will be sending out a Test Message with this new system at 4:00pm this afternoon. If you do not receive this message, check your Infinite Campus account contact information. If you are having any issues with Infinite Campus, contact ICHelp@kcsd.k12.ia.us
The KCSD School Board will hold its regular meeting tonight at 5:30 pm in the Board Room at the KCSD District Office (418 S Park Lane Drive). Members of the community are invited to attend to learn more about the latest news from the district. Agendas, Minutes, and information for all School Board Meetings can be found here: https://www.knoxville.k12.ia.us/page/school-board
We are excited to announce we have launched a brand new app to accompany our new website (knoxville.k12.ia.us)! There are many great features to this new app that make it quick and easy to find the information you need. Some of our favorite features include; the updated building-specific lunch menus and building-specific calendars and events! Download the app from the links below, or search "Knoxville CSD IA" in your App Store to check it out for yourself.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knoxville-csd-ia/id1659112486
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptegy.knoxvilleia
2 Hour Delay for KCSD on Thursday Jan. 19, 2023
📣📣 Calling all parents of 3 and 4 year olds 📣📣
West Elementary will be hosting a Preschool Information Night on Monday, February 6th at 5:00pm in the West Cafeteria!! Come learn all about Preschool at KCSD!
Students must be 3 or 4 on or by September 15, 2023
Preschoolers in Mr. Murphy's class have been working on their creativity and math skills recently as they created this awesome quilt!! This is such a great project!! Way to go preschoolers!! 🐾🐾
🚨🚨 Reminder 🚨🚨
No School Monday, January 16th for Staff Professional Development
Our boys basketball team lost against a good Clarke team this past Friday night, 72-55. Our guys competed hard; it just wasn't our night.
Here is an excerpt from an email we received this morning from a Clarke parent: "I am......a parent of one of the (Clarke) basketball boys. I wanted to commend your Boys Basketball team for what happened AFTER the game. I saw a few of them bring out garbage bags so I paid a little extra attention.....What I saw was your boys showing respect for our gym by cleaning BOTH sides of the bleachers......Please let those players and parents know it did not go unnoticed. And THANK YOU for teaching these kids a lifelong lesson of respect, doing the right thing, and lending a hand when needed. I am sure our custodians appreciated it as well."
Tonight the Boys and Girls Basketball teams travel south to Osceola to take on the Clarke Indians! Let's pack the gym to support these teams tonight! If you can't make it, tune in here: https://www.youtube.com/@clarkecsd4996
Lots of KHS students in action today across a couple activities! The Band is over in Indianola today for the Simpson College Honor Band. That gets started at 9:00 am this morning. Then later tonight, both JV and Varsity Boys Wrestling teams take the long trip to Centerville to take on Centerville and Chariton in a Double Dual! Best of luck to all the Panthers in action tonight!!
Last Friday, KMS students earned the experience of having a hypnotist, H3 Hypnosis from Knoxville, come and put on a show for each grade level. This was such a fun way to celebrate students' hard work and success with PBIS goals. After the show, students received a message from the previous speaker, Joe Beckman. Joe kicked off the next initiative at KMS, the 10/5 rule. Any time a member of KMS, student or staff, is within 10 feet of another person, they must be acknowledged with a wave, head nod, etc. If they are within 5 feet, they must be acknowledged with a "Hello", "How are you?" etc. What a great way to kick off 2023!
❗️ Attention 8th Grade Families ❗️
January 18th from 5:30-7:30 families are invited to come make plans for their 8th Graders as they prepare for High School. The meeting will take place in the KMS Cafeteria, 413 Willetts Drive.
Plans: Review the purpose of the 4-year academic plan/schedule; Review your student's tentative 4-year plan with counselors (bring your students iPad); Approve your student's tentative 4-year plan.
Refreshments will be provided!
