Wednesday at New Central, students practiced their tornado drill procedures and assembled to hear Fire Chief Matt Fliege share weather safety tips. Today, our final event was brought by the ThinkFirst - Injury Prevention Program from SIU Medicine. They focused on bicycle and carseat safety. Thank you to the volunteers who took time to help educate our students on their health and safety this week!
HS students in the Interior Design class had "SEW" much fun hand sewing pizza slices. They practiced different stitches on their slices. Go Ducks!
Reminder for JH and HS parents: Early dismissal today, 1:50pm for the JH and 1:55pm for the HS.
No School tomorrow, 3/29 and No School on Monday, 4/1...see everyone back here on Tuesday, April 2nd...Go Ducks!
Reminder...HS girls softball travels to the University of Illinois at Springfield for the PORTA Slam on Saturday, 3/30. Ducks play at 9 AM, NOON, and 1:30 PM. See the attached photos for additional information. Go Ducks!
Updated score from yesterday's HS boys baseball game at Knoxville...Ducks over the Blue Bullets 4-3. Go Ducks!
HS track hosts multiple teams for a meet this afternoon. The meet starts at 4 PM at Havana High School. Teams attending the meet today include Illini West, South Fulton, Illini Bluffs, PORTA, and Greenview. Good luck to the HS track team! Go Ducks!
JV boys baseball travels to Rushville this afternoon for a JV-only game. The game starts at 4:30 PM. Go Ducks!
HS students in the Parenting class went to the Havana Public Library to complete an assignment on how books are an integral part in helping young children learn and grow. Go Ducks!
The Havana Junior High School student council led a canned food drive the last two weeks and gathered over 700 canned foods to donate to the local food pantry! Great work! Go Ducks!
HS boys baseball travels to Knoxville today for a varsity ONLY game this afternoon. First pitch for the game this afternoon will be at 4:30 PM. Any updates due to the weather will be posted to the district's social media pages. Go Ducks!
New Central kicked off Health and Safety week with our annual Erin's Law presentation on Monday, where students learned about personal safety. Today they browsed educational tables from the Mason County 4-H, U of I Extension office and Mason District Hospital Paramedics. The topics discussed were food preparation, poisonous plants in our area and first aid. Thank You to everyone who volunteered your time and expertise!
This year we will be requiring pre-registration for Havana Prom Portraits to avoid having to hand out QR cards to the kids before they head into Grand March. This way, if parents pre-register they won't have to worry about the kids losing the QR papers on Prom night and you will automatically get a notification when their photos are online. Any students attending prom wanting to get portraits taken and then order online afterwards can use this QR below to pre-register. If students/parents do not pre-register, they will have to turn in a paper order form on prom day when they have their photo taken. I will give paper order forms to Mrs. Buzzell next week for anyone who wants to go that route. Students will be able to pick them up from her at school.
We are customizing the prom backdrop to correspond with this years' prom theme! I will try to get some backdrop example photos up in the next couple weeks.
With JH track practice canceled for today, the JH spring musical practice will now take place from 3:30-5 PM at the JH band room. Go Ducks!
JH track practice scheduled for today, Tuesday, 3/26, has been CANCELLED. Go Ducks!
The Havana School District has several employment opportunities listed on the school webpage, including several extracurricular coaching opportunities available for next year. Visit the following link for additional information: https://www.havana126.net/page/employment
Mark your calendars...JH Spring Sports Pictures will take place on Wednesday, April 3rd, during the school day (starting around 1 PM). Coaches will be sending picture forms home with athletes and QR codes will be available to order online. Go Ducks!
Please consider recognizing your favorite senior in this year's yearbook! More information in the flyer attached.
3rd and 4th-grade students at New Central recently competed in the Blue Stem Reading Challenge. 20 Blue Stem books are available for students to read each year. Any student who has read 15 or more books qualifies to participate in the reading challenge. The challenge is a quiz bowl format and asks questions about the books the students have read. The winners this year are: Max Barrett - 1st, Melvin Fornoff - 2nd, Gavin Southwood - 3rd, Liam Lascelles - 4th. Great job!
Oscar Hurley was Principal for a Day at New Central! Oscar earned Duck Bills for following schoolwide expectations and bought a certificate with his earnings at the Duck Bill store. Great job, Oscar!
HS girls track meet at Beardstown this afternoon has been canceled. Coach Foster will notify athletes regarding practice after school. Go Ducks!