East High's Daily Announcements
12/11/2019
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RAIDER NEWS:
Congratulations to Annabelle Helm (violin), Hank Dibble (string bass), Brandon Ogle (string bass), and Connor Maeng (string bass) on being selected for the NWIA Honor Orchestra on January 30th.
Students be sure to get your #BeGreat cards in the box as the PBIS team has started their 12 Day of Giveaways! All cards pulled will be placed back into the box before the next nine week drawing.
Seniors: Yearbook pictures are due before the winter break, please email your picture to shultzd@live.siouxcityschools.com.
Sophomore students will be attending a Career Fair Day at Western Iowa Tech Community College on the morning of Wednesday, January 8th. Sophomores will be given the opportunity to speak with professionals in various careers. East High will be busing the sophomores to and from this event. Parents, if you do not want your child to attend, please call East High at (712) 274-4000 ext. 3109.
Yearbooks are on sale online only at www.yearbookforever.com. They are $50 until January 15. After January 15, the price goes up to $75 until April 30. Buy now!
The Iowa State Board of Education is seeking applications for a student member to serve on the board. The application and supporting documents are available on the Iowa Department of Education’s website; please see the attached document below for additional details.
SPORTS ACTIVITIES/MEETINGS:
Wednesday @ 7:00pm - 10 Talents Band Performance/Terrence Talley/Joel Penton in the Auditorium
Thursday @ 4:00pm - Freshman Girls Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Thursday @ 5:30pm - JV Girls Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Thursday @ 5:30pm - Sioux City Metro Boys Swim Meet @ Atlantic, Nishna Valley YMCA
Thursday @ 7:00pm - Varsity Girls Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Thursday @ 7:00pm - Winter Vocal Choir Concert @ Morningside Colleges Eppley Auditorium
Thursday @ 7:05pm - Sioux City Musketeer Hockey vs. Fargo (HOME GAME)
Friday @ 4:00pm - Freshman Boys Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Friday @ 5:30pm - Sophomore Boys Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Friday @ 6:00pm - Varsity Sioux City Metro Hockey (HOME GAME) vs. Omaha Jr. Lancers
Friday @ 7:00pm - Varsity Boys Basketball Game vs. West High @ East High
Friday @ 7:05pm - Sioux City Musketeer Hockey vs. Fargo (HOME GAME)
Friday @ 8:00pm - JV Sioux City Metro Hockey (HOME GAME) vs. Omaha Jr. Lancers
Friday, Saturday & Sunday - Debate Tournament @ Dowling Catholic in Des Moines, IA
Saturday @ 8:00am - ACT Testing @ East High until 12:30pm
Saturday @ 9:30am - Varsity Wrestling Tournament @ Jackson County Central
Saturday @ 2:00pm - Freshman Girls Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 2:00pm - Varsity Sioux City Metro Hockey (HOME GAME) vs. Omaha Jr. Lancers
Saturday @ 2:00pm - Freshman Boys Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 3:30pm - JV Girls Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 3:30pm - Sophomore Boys Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 4:00pm -JV Sioux City Metro Hockey (HOME GAME) vs. Omaha Jr. Lancers
Saturday @ 5:00pm - Varsity Girls Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 6:30pm - Varsity Boys Basketball Game @ South Sioux City
Saturday @ 7:05pm - Sioux City Musketeer Hockey vs. Cedar Rapids (HOME GAME)
Visit East High Activities on Twitter at @BlackRaiderEHS for all of your activity and school information.
CLUB ACTIVITIES/MEETINGS:
Wednesday @ 3:05pm - After School Study Session in the SWS/AEC Room until 6:05pm
Thursday @ 7:30am - Environmental Club in Mrs. McCaslen-Hibbs room S112
Thursday during Homeroom - Multicultural Club Bake Sale
Thursday during Homeroom - Hispanic Focus Group in the Auditorium
Thursday during Homeroom - Mentors in Violence Prevention w/ Freshmen Homerooms
Thursday @ 3:05pm - After School Study Session in the SWS/AEC Room until 6:05pm
Friday @ 3:00pm - Stomp Out Stigma Meeting in Ms. Helseth's room 118
Tuesday @ 3:00pm - GSA Meeting in Ms. Fielding’s room 217
Tuesday @ 3:05pm - After School Study Session in the SWS/AEC Room until 6:05pmWednesday @ 7:20am - FCA meeting in Mr. Jepsen’s room 208
Wednesdays during Homeroom - R.A.P. & Native American Focus Group in the Auditorium
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY VISITS:
12/13/19 @ 10:30am - The Creative Center (Omaha, NE)
-Contact Mrs. Ericson in the Counseling Department with questions or to register for a college visit.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
AXA Achievements Scholarship (up to $25,000) due December 15, 2019
GFOA Scholarships (Varies) due January 6, 2020
BBB Student of Integrity Scholarship Torch Awards ($2,500) due January 13, 2020
Haney Family Archery in Schools Scholarship ($1,000) due January 15, 2020
America's Farmers GROW Ag Leaders Scholarship ($1,500) due January 15, 2020
Grand Lodge of Iowa Masonic Scholarship (up to $2,000) due February 1, 2020 (see Mrs. Ericson)
Morningside Lodge No. 615 A.F. & A.M. Scholarship ($500) due February 1, 2020 (see Mrs. Ericson)
Siouxland Community Foundation Scholarships (Varies) due February 15, 2020
Masonic Charitable Educational Corporation Technical Scholarship (Varies) due March 1, 2020 (see Mrs. Ericson)
United States JCI Senate Foundation ($1,000) Due March 1, 2020
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Scholarships ($10,000) due March 15, 2020
Sioux City Relays Dwight Hauff Scholarship ($1,500) due March 20, 2020
SFM Foundation Kids' Chance Scholarships (up to $10,000) due March 31, 2020
Siouxland Unidad Latina Scholarship ($1,000) due March 31, 2020
State Farm Companies Foundation Scholarship Program ($5,000) due March 31, 2020
Students, please watch your email for newsletters and communications from the Counseling Department. If you have questions, please see Ms. Ericson.
Last Dollar Scholarship Opportunity Information
Last Dollar Scholarship Opportunity List
COUNSELING INFORMATION:
Western Iowa Tech Community College will be offering a ACT Prep Sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 4:00pm - 6:00pm and Saturdays from 10:00am - noon. The dates are 1/4/20 - 2/8/20, 2/29/20 - 4/4/20, 5/9/20 - 6/13/20, or 6/13/20 - 7/18/20. If you are interested, please contact Bea.Houston@witcc.edu or call (712) 274-8733 ext. 1334.*
WITCC Online Classes for 2nd Semester are due prior to Winter Break. If you have questions about what is offered, please make time to visit with your counselor. An appointment may be needed. Classes will begin January 13, 2020.
Seniors who plan on attending an Iowa Community College to study from one of the attached “Last Dollar Scholarship Opportunity List” should check out the “Last Dollar Scholarship Opportunity Information” sheet and visit with their counselor if they are interested.*
In addition to your school counselors, you can visit http://yourlifeiowa.org, call 1-855-851-8111 or text 1-855-895-3898 (between 2:00pm and 10:00pm) if you or a friend is being bullied (in-person or cyber bullying) or needing to talk about teen suicide. In addition you can visit http://www.caasaonline.org or call 1-877-362-4612 for sexual assault concerns or call 1-800-382-5603 to discuss teen dating violence.*
Visit East High Counseling on Twitter at @_EHS_Counseling for all of your Scholarship, College, and testing information.
STUDENT NEWS & INFORMATION:
East High is collecting Hy-Vee receipts in the main office for Hy-Vee Cash 4 Students. Please drop off your receipts dated from August 1st to present. Hy-Vee will donate a percentage back to East High for every dollar spent.
Student Handbook Reminder: Students should not be in the halls or classrooms before 7:45am and after 3:05pm unless they have a pass from a teacher or are involved in the current season’s activity. At the end of the day we expect students who are not involved in school activities to leave the school grounds by 3:05 pm. (As always, if you child is needing to be in the school before or after hours and they are not in a current activity please don't hesitate to call the school and make proper arrangements. Student safety is one of the many goals that East High strives for at all times.)
Student Handbook Reminder: The Sioux City Community School District has a Closed Campus Policy. Students are not allowed to leave campus for lunch (see School Board Policy 505.14). Students may purchase a lunch or bring a lunch from home. Outside commercial food is not allowed or to be brought to students for lunch. Students are not to be in the hallways during lunch unless they have a pass from a staff member.
Students just a quick reminder that when you are crossing the street to please use the appropriate crosswalks, this keeps you safe as we have a lot of traffic passing through every day. If you are dropping someone off, please make sure that you do not park over a crosswalk so that students can cross the parking lot safely.
The East High Thrift Shop is located downstairs in the AEC. There is clothing available if needed for any occasion. Did you forget your gym clothes? We can help! Can’t find a coat? We can help! Visit us through the big double doors located downstairs and remember all of the items are FREE! Mrs. Elder is glad to help.
Students that are in need of Food 4 Thought bags can head down to Office 107 at the end of the day on the last school day of the week. These bags are for home use, if opened at school students will no longer be allowed to receive one.
Students, as you may have noticed there are signs on the doors reminding you to not let anyone in the school. Due to recent events we would really like for visitors and students to ring the doorbell to get in the building. If we all follow this protocol we can monitor who is coming into our school at all times. Also, please do not remove these signs from the doors.
VAPES ARE ILLEGAL regardless of what is in them. Getting caught in possession with one is a violation of the student code and will result in school consequences, an athletic code violation (making you ineligible for athletics and activities), and a $50 ticket plus a mandatory court appearance from the police. YOUR AGE DOES NOT MATTER, it is a violation for all students. SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURES OF YOU VAPING CAN LEAD TO THESE SAME CONSEQUENCES.
This includes “Juuling”, Juul pods are not permitted on school grounds and the consequences are the same as any other tobacco products.
PARKING NOTICE: Just a reminder to students that there is to be no parking along or on any yellow curb, on a sidewalk, in front of any entrance, on the grass, in front of any gate leading to any part of the school grounds, in visitor parking or handicap parking, or where any cones have been set up, etc. The bottom line, students should be parking in actual parking spots and not making up their own parking spots. This is so O&M, contractors, delivery drivers, bus drivers and (if necessary) emergency personnel can easily access those parts of the building and grounds. Students that are parking incorrectly may not be warned going forward and take the risk of being towed. Also, if you are parking on the street please make sure that you are not parking in front any of East High’s neighbor’s driveways, mailboxes, etc.
MINOR SCHOOL PERMIT: Students and Parents of students who are driving on a minor school permit should read over the school driving permit rules attachment. A quick few bullet points are:
- Students must take the most direct route from their home to their school and vice versa.
- Students can only travel to and from their school between the hours of 5:00 AM and 10:00 PM; this rule supersedes the curfew law.
- Students can ONLY travel to an activity they are involved in as long as the school is a bordering school to the Sioux City Community School District and not more than 25 miles away.
- Students cannot drive to an activity they are not participating in even if it is at their school of enrollment.
- Once the student’s activity is over, the student must go home (for example, a JV player cannot stay to attend a Varsity game).
- Students can have one minor household member in their vehicle at a time as long as they are traveling to the same school.
- Students can stop for fuel at the closest station to their route home or to school
If you have any questions about these rules, please call the Iowa DOT at (515) 244-8725.
Western Iowa Tech Community College offers a variety of Teen Driver’s Education classes, to register for one of their classes please call WITCC at (712) 274-6418. The class dates are either March 2nd – April 20th, June 1st – June 24th, or July 6th – July 29th.*
SILVER CORD OPPORTUNITIES:
Santa's House volunteers are needed, please visit this link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0D49AAA62BA0FE3-santas for more information.
Do you want to inspire Iowa kids in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math? Celebrate 16 teams’ amazing, learning experiences? Want to enjoy your Saturday with some grateful kids? We would like to invite you to join our volunteer team for our FIRST® LEGO® League Qualifier Event on Saturday December 14th from 8:00am to 1:00pm in Sergeant Bluff! It would mean a lot to the students competing in the event to see people from their community who support them and encourage them to take the next step in their education! Iowa FIRST LEGO League is a statewide program in its 18th year of getting children eager to learn science, technology, engineering, and math. FLL helps children develop skills in problem-solving, teamwork, strategizing, and creative thinking. 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF! This year’s challenge is all about improving cities. Teams will focus on shaping a better future for everyone by researching big issues our cities and towns face and improving them. Sign up now! Volunteers are what makes these FLL events successful. FIRST has a system for volunteer registration that will allow you to see all events in Iowa. Login or create an account in the FIRST Volunteer Registration System and look for “Sergeant Bluff Qualifier” under “Volunteer Registration” to volunteer on December 14th. Link: my.firstinspires.org/AccountManager/Account/Register or for a more detailed notes on how to sign up and apply, please go to www.isek.iastate.edu/volunteers/registering-to-be-a-volunteer/. Please let fll@iastate.edu know if you have questions. More detailed information about the program can be found at www.isek.iastate.edu/fll/.*
Siouxland Rocks hold a free public Kindness Rock painting once a month at the public museum. The basic hours are 1 Saturday a month at the museum from 12:30-4:30pm (event is 1-4pm). We get around 100 to 300 guests each time. The guests come and create and take their own kindness rocks to be placed with-in the community to help continue the mission of spreading kindness one rock at a time. The coordinators of Siouxland Rocks provide all the supplies needed, rocks, paint, brushes, sealer, etc. We also have other events during the year. Volunteers would help set up and tear down tables, chairs, tablecloths, fill and set out water jars for the paint brushes. Once the event starts they would continue helping pour paint, assist children in helping with their creations, help answer basic questions like how it works what is the process from picking your rock, picking your paint, creating your creations, drying your creation, and sealing your creation, dump and refill water jars, help clean up messes, we are always in need of extra helping hands. If you are interested check out our website at www.SiouxlandRocks.com. Events, dates, times, and locations are posted to this site 3 months in advance.*
Unity Point Health St. Luke’s has a Junior Volunteer Program for high school students up to 18. The areas of service for Junior Volunteers a include The Pediatric Unit, Rehabilitation Unit, General recovery floors, The Education department, The Foundation, The Gift Shop and many other areas and projects as assigned. The application to become a volunteer can be found at the following: https://www.unitypoint.org/siouxcity/volunteer-1.aspx or contact Jackie Stellish at Jackie.stellish@unitypoint.org or (712) 279-3220.*
Beyond the Bell is always looking for volunteers to help with their afterschool and before school program, please contact kkoser@beyondthebell.us.com if you’re interested.*
There is a terrific resource for students who are working on earning their Silver Cord or meeting community service requirements. This is an online volunteer center for Siouxland, there are now more than 100 nonprofit organizations on VolunteerSiouxland.org, with more than 50 active needs for volunteers on any given day. It is absolutely the EASIEST way for students to find and sign up for volunteer opportunities. It’s also the easiest way to track their volunteer hours – confirmed by the organization. We’ve even added a field to volunteer profiles so they can identify which school they attend, allowing us to provide reports to the schools. And, it’s completely free for the organizations and the volunteers! Finding volunteer opportunities has NEVER been easier!*
Please see Ms. Benson in the Main Office for Silver Cord (http://www.siouxcityschools.org/east-high-school/general-academic-information-2/) opportunities.
NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT:
The Sioux City Community School District offers career and technical programs in the following areas: Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Science, Health Science, and Industrial Arts, Technology, & PLTW. The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information (for employment), national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status (for employment) in its educational programs and its employment practices. Inquiries or grievances, including Section 504 grievances and grievances under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, may be directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com. Please see District Board policies 103 and 504.4 for additional information on available grievance procedures.
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Location: 3200 South Cypress Street, Sioux City, IA, USA
Phone: (712) 274-4000
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