Year: 2015

BiDistrict Football Time Change The Bidistrict football game here at Norton Community High School will be played at 6:00 pm instead of 7:00 pm, on Tuesday, November 3. We want to remind you that passes do not work for KSHSAA playoff activities. 

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE VETERAN’S DAY: We will be dismissing at 1:00 PM. on November 11th, so that students may attend the Veteran’s Day Parade. Buses will run at that time. PICTURE RETAKES: The picture retakes are scheduled for Friday, November 6th at 8:30 AM. BULLYING BEHAVIOR: One area that Eisenhower school is looking into is in the area of bullying. If you know of bullying occurring at the school, please contact your child’s teacher or the principal. PROGRESS REPORTS: Read more

Preschool Jack-O-Lanterns The Eisenhower Elementary Early Childhood Preschool carved Jack-O-Lanterns as part of the class on Wednesday. The students have been learning about pumpkins in class and no had the opportunity to see their favorite pumpkin carved into a scary Jack-O-Lantern. Miss Darcie got the job of being the official pumpkin carver for this year. Mrs. Lindquist and the class agreed that she did a great job! While the pumpkin was carved the students worked on their colors and their Read more

Author, Entertainer-Ronda Friend to Visit Northwest Kansas Schools Ronda’s life is all about children! Ronda Friend is not just a children’s author – R. Friend is a master storyteller, musician, singer, songwriter and a motivational speaker. Making memorable, magical moments in over 1,300 schools across the United States, Ronda engages the whole school using character messages, storytelling, music, puppets, sign language and audience participation. Combined with being a professional storyteller for Scholastic Books for nine years, Ronda has presented her humorous, heartwarming program to over Read more

Reminder Time change November 1 Remember that we have a time change this weekend. Remember to set your clocks back one hour Sunday morning!

Regional Cross Country It was another successful regional cross country meet for the Norton Bluejays at Cimarron. The girls team place 2nd qualifiing for state with 68 points. There was one medalist for the girls. Casey Ambrosier placed 9th with a time of 21:39. Congratulations girls, this is the 9th straight trip to state for the girls cross country team! The boys team barely missed out on a team trip to state finishing just 3 points out of third. There Read more

KAY Club News For KAY Club’s 2015 regional project, members will spend Monday, Oct. 26 at the Andbe Home playing board games with residents. KAY Club is selling Holly until November 1. Nov. 1st. KAY Club will hold a canned food Volleyball Tournament Nov. 14, 2015. All items will be donated to God’s pantry in Norton. 

Kindness Award winners at Eisenhower Elementary School for the weeks of  October 12-23 K-Maleah Hempler and Toby Wells 1-Eric Kuhlman and Emma Collins          2-Noah Bristol and Savana Rumback     3-Jacque Nairn 4-Jade Bolin                                       5-Lauryn Schumaker, Dahn Hanlon and Jaelyn Rumback 6-Aaron Estes and Josie Stover

Scholar Bowl at Rawlins County Our first scholars’ bowl meet in Atwood, Rawlins County, was a great success, with both Varsity and Junior Varsity bringing home gold medals!  The junior varisity team was seven and o, and the varsity team was seven and one, which they lost in a tie breaker. Both teams did an outstanding job, and as always, displayed good sportsmanship. Members of the junior varsity team included: captain Callie Uehlin, Taylor Wahlmeier, Brian Clavijo, Brionnah Fessler, James Read more