Category Archives: Academics

The Marketing Class has constructed a short survey on haircut preferences.  It is a simple ten questions asking high school students about where or how they take care of their hair. The questions should only take five minutes or less. Thank you high school English teachers for letting students take part in our survey during class. Thanks students for taking part, as we greatly appreciate your participation.  Please complete the survey by the end of school on TUESDAY, SEPT. 18.

Click this link to take the survey and submit your responses.

This week is visual arts in education week. The visual arts are so much more than what you see.

Did you know?

• Most children and youth spend 10 hours per day in front of screens composed of pictures and words.
• 1.25 million Americans currently work in the visual arts. Jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 43% by 2016.

10 lessons the arts teach:

• The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgement rather than rules that prevail.
• The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
• The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
• The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
• The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
• The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
• The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
• The arts’ inclusion in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Students in ITE 7 were given specific criteria and constraints for designing and constructing their own 3-D room in a scale model. Practical problem solving comes into play through the use of available space, material, expense and some construction code enforcement.

Student’s creative juices flowed as they were given the chance to build their virtual room. Accessories were the highlight, as they designed furniture from available materials and brought detail and personal touches that ranged from tiny clothes on hangers to huge flat screen TV’s displaying their favorite shows.

Critical thinking is the glue between abstract learning and practical life. Give your kids a problem and a plan and they might surprise you with the solution of what they are capable of doing when they apply themselves.

Purpose of the assigment:

To study and apply the engineering design process.

•  Define the problem
• Gather information
• Develop a solution
• Model the solution
• Test and evaluate the solution
• Refine the solution
• Communicate your ideas

Students will be headed back to school on Monday, August 13th for a half-day of school. All students need to report by 8:00 a.m. and will be dismissed at noon. NO LUNCH will be served!

Preschool – Parents, please walk your child into the preschool classroom using the main office doors.

Elementary – Students are welcome to bring their supplies into their classroom and then head to the playground. A para will be on duty on the playground to supervise prior to school each day.

Middle & High School – Students will report to the auditorium for an assembly. You will receive your locker numbers, planners, class schedule, and other information at this time.

We are looking forward to another great year!

Hay Springs students will be returning to school on August 13th! A school supply list will be available after July 30th. Stay tuned to the school website for more back to school information!

The Class of 2012’s final year came to end Sunday (May 20) with commencement exercises. Congratulations to: Seth Badje, Kelsey Kudrna, Dustin Lee, Tauna Letcher, Kerisa Marx, Dylan Mathson, Kyle Parker, Marcus Sandberg, and Jerilyn Scherbarth! This class earned over $102,000 in scholarships, which included Board of Regents, Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, CSC RHOP, and Leadership Scholarships to name a few.

Graduation Program

2012 Senior Slideshow

ACT prep will be offered in June.  If you are interested please see Mrs. Marx right away so we can plan for days and times.

Below is a list of 2012-2013 testing dates. Many other helpful tidbits can be found at http://actstudent.org/.