Warrior Weekly
Week of December 6, 2021
Congratulations to the Warriors Football Team for Winning the State Championship!
Mask Criteria December 1 - 8, 2021
ACT Testing for Juniors
Attention Juniors and Junior Parents:
Smithville School District has chosen to cover the cost of an official ACT to be administered at the high school on March 29, 2022, for interested juniors.
A Sign up is REQUIRED. Juniors MUST sign-up by clicking here to complete this form. The deadline to sign up is December 17, 2021.
NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE HONORED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Karen Johnson at 816-532-0405 or johnsonk@smithville.k12.mo.us
Warrior of the Week Nominations
Nominate a student or teacher today!
Warrior of the Week Nomination Form
Let me know if you have any questions!
Student Absence Regulations
Students participating in sports and activities who miss time during the school day must provide a doctor’s note to excuse the time missed to be allowed to participate in practice or a game that evening.
Students who miss a full day of school are not allowed to attend after school activities that day.
Green Tie Affair
Date: December 9th
Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM in Auxiliary Gym
On December 9th Intro to Business, MGMT, and Programming students will be sharing and showing their innovative programming work, school retail design challenge progress, and a variety of different business plan ideas to stakeholders.
Free Vaccination Clinic
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Keeping your child immunized is important to their health. Clay County Public Health Center provides thousands of immunizations to children from all over Clay County each year. The Clay County Public Health Center Registered Nurses will be offering all required and recommended school immunizations for all middle and high schools in the Smithville School District. To be eligible for the school immunization clinic the student must be in middle school between the ages of 11-14 or in high school between the ages of 16-18. Clay County Public Health Center accepts and will bill most major insurance plans including Medicaid. Students without insurance or insurance that doesn’t pay for vaccines can also receive the vaccine at no cost during the school immunization clinic. The dates and locations for these clinics are listed below:
Smithville Middle School– Tuesday 12/07/2021
Registration Deadline 11/30/2021
Smithville High School–Thursday 12/09/2021
Registration Deadline 12/02/2021
The vaccines being offered are as follows:
Middle School
· Tdap (required)
· Meningitis ACWY (required)
· HPV9 (recommended)
· Influenza (recommended)
High School
· Meningitis ACWY (required)
· Meningitis B (recommended)
· HPV9 (recommended)
· Influenza (recommended)
To Register your student(s), use the Online Registration Consent Form or go to www.clayhealth.com/immunizations. The registration must be completed no later than the registration deadline prior to the scheduled date. Your student may not participate in the clinic unless they are registered by the deadline. No exceptions will be made regarding late registrations. During the online registration process, you will be required to attach a picture of both the front and back of your insurance card. You will receive a confirmation message after the registration is complete. Please encourage your student to have breakfast the day of the clinic!
Students not participating in face-to-face learning are encouraged to participate but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian if under the age of 18. Do not bring siblings. The student and parent/guardian must wear a mask, be symptom-free, and must not have had recent exposure to someone with COVID-19. Please arrive at the school between 8:45 am-10:00 am. All students who are going to drive themselves and are virtual learners will be required to stay for 15 minutes after vaccination for observation before they can leave the premises.
Click these links for further information: Vaccine Information Sheets HIPAA Privacy Policy
Thank you for allowing the Clay County Public Health Center to be a partner in your child’s health. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us or your school nurse.
Sincerely,
Records Department
School Registrations
816-595-4322
imms@clayhealth.com
Holiday Help
District Staff and Smithville Community Members,
Warm your heart with the fire within and help ignite a spark that will bring warmth and comfort to others this holiday season. Please join us in providing a nice holiday to the students and families in Smithville that are struggling this year and have requested assistance.
All gifts are to be dropped off at Horizon Elementary unwrapped and labeled with each number and letter identification for example (23a) by December 13th. We will need all gifts placed under the table in the tubs in the entryway doors. If you have a bigger item and or cash donation and want to connect with me personally for drop off please call me on my cell 816-315-1607.
Many of our unaccompanied youth are estranged from their families. Others may be victims of Covid 19 setbacks, financial circumstances, which have forced them to live with another family or grandparents due to shutdowns which resulted in wage loss. We have been blessed to come to know so many stories. We, as a School District, provide a safe learning environment for our students. Each of you can provide the meaning of being a good neighbor by signing up to provide a gift for these students and bringing joy to their families for the Holiday.
The Smithville School District would like to partner with each of you and/or your organization to bring hope and offer a season filled with joy and peace for all of our community.
If you want to purchase a gift, you can find the list of gifts needed on the SSD Holiday Help sign-up here. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D48ACAA29A6FA7-smithville1
Contact Lisa Manz, Smithville School District Family Resource Specialist, by December 10th, if you want to give directly. We will gladly accept monetary or gift card donations and do the shopping for you if needed. The money will be placed in a District Care Fund to be used for holiday gifts for our students. All gifts must be unwrapped and labeled with the number and letter assigned, for example (23a). The gifts need to be dropped off at Horizon Elementary and placed in the tubs under the table in the entryway doors by December 13th.
Thank you for your time and consideration in partnering with us!
Lisa Manz
Smithville School Resource Specialist 816-532-3178 manzl@smithville.k12.mo.us
Upcoming College Rep Visits
December 8 -Missouri Air National Guard
December 9 - Donnally College
December 14 - Marine Recruiter
Words of the Week - Is it 'Forty'? Or 'Fourty'?
Forty is the proper spelling of the number in all English variants despite the fact that four contains a u. Often people will believe that fourty is a British variant like colour but this is also false.
Hello, everyone. We have an announcement. We are pleased/sorry to report that there is never a u in forty.
That's right: the word for the number 4 is four, but ten times that is 40, which is spelled forty. This is true in all of the vast English language, despite rumors that users of British English like the word to resemble colour (they don't), and despite the frequent appearances of the misspelling out and about.
In related facts, the number 14 keeps the u: it's written as fourteen. But fortieth correlates to forty, so it too goes without a u.
There is no good explanation for why forty lacks a u that its near-relation four has. Forty simply is, as American English Spelling author D.W. Cummings calls it, an "ill-formed but accepted spelling." It is, however, also a relatively new spelling.
From Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-forty-or-fourty?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=peoplearereading-upperleft
Smithville High School
Email: communications@smithville.k12.mo.us
Website: smithvilleschooldistrict.net
Location: 645 South Commercial Avenue, Smithville, MO, USA
Phone: 816-532-0405
Facebook: facebook.com/SHSWarriorStrong
Twitter: @SmithvilleSD