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Villisca Community School District Mission Statement The mission of the Villisca Community School District is to provide a safe, nurturing and educational environment in which effective teachers and staff provide challenging curriculum through which each student can achieve his/her maximum potential while developing the ability to become lifelong learners and a productive member of society.
The Villisca community is supportive of the education system in a variety of ways and through a number of groups. An example is the number of community people who attend school events with no other reason but just to show support to the students. The number of local scholarships that have been established - 25 to date - are another example of Villiscans wanting to see that students reach their fullest potential. The Villisca Faith Community is supportive of Villisca students and school faculty and staff. The newly formed Villisca Alumni and Friends Association was formed with the specific purpose of supporting the school system and all its programs providing full educational opportunities for Villisca students.
Understanding the challenges of small schools in rural communities in providing a broad curriculum, the school board and the administration work to provide education opportunities beyond those classes available in Villisca, including Advanced Placement and Post Secondary Educational Opportunities (PSEO) online courses and ICN classes. The system also currently participates with Iowa Western Community College in their 5 in 4 Program where students take college courses, receiving credits for high school graduation and credit for college classes. Students are able to take courses in the building trades and nursing through a Southwestern Community College program. The culture and arts curriculum and extra-curricular activities in the school system give students the opportunity to discover and develop talents that will enhance their adult lives. Unlike many urban schools, students are able to participate in as many of the activities as they choose - arts, music, sports, speech, drama, ....
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Back to School Villisca students are back in school. for more information about the school district, you can visit their website at www.villisca.k12.ia.us. The daily bulletin is posted on the education page of the Villisca Review website. click here to go to that page. As the Villisca students head back to school they need school supplies. For some families, buying these supplies can be a challenge. Those who would like to help those families can do it by contributing supplies to the Interchurch Food Pantry. Click here for the list of school supplies needed for each grade level. Remember, if you purchase the items online, start at igive.com so a percentage of your purchases will come back to the Villisca Schools.
Students, parents and school supporters can make a difference in the finances of the Villisca School District:
The
boxtops4education and the Tyson A+ programs bring money into our community?
Clip and save both types of labels. Throwing away a label is like throwing
a dime in the wastebasket. Thanks to everyone who are already saving
boxtops labels. You can send them or drop them off at Enarson Elementary
at 219 Central Avenue,, Villisca, IA 50864 or at the high school.
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read the Villisca schools daily bulletin at www.villiscareview.com/Education.htm
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Work on the track at the football field was done on Sunday, September 22 to prepare the track for some renovation. Thanks to the volunteers who gave up their Sunday morning and those who offered their machinery to get the job done.
Sunday
morning residents and business owners in the Villisca School District
gathered at the football field to break-up, remove and haul off the
debris of the old cinder track around the field. According to Principal
Johnson, the next step is to complete tile work so the inside curb
can be poured. The track will then be covered with 2’ of ag lime
Below are listed just some of the accomplishments of Villisca students and student groups in the school year 2008-2009 [taken from the Villisca Community Schools Daily Bulletin]: 4/29/09
- In January,
the Reno Smith FFA competed in a video livestock judging contest which
included 26 states, 80 teams consisting of 320 individuals. Team 1
consisting of Breanna Sunderman, Jared Gillespie, Leah Robinson, and
Jared Dolch received 1st in the nation with Jared Gillespie placing
4th high individual, Breanna placing 7th high individual, Leah placed
11th high individual and Jared Dolch 17th high individual. Chris Schaaf
from team 3 placed 18th high individual and team 3 placed 4/20/09
- FFA STATE NEWS: 4/20/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE CHOIR AND BAND STUDENTS ON A GREAT DAY SATURDAY! CHOIR RECEIVED 1-I RATING, 9-II’S AND 5-III’S. BAND RECEIVED 1-I RATING AND 6-II’S! Be kind to Ms. Krueger today. She is recovering from 15 trips up and down 4 flights of stairs!!! 4/6/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO TAYLOR BURGESS FOR RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AT IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE JURIED ART COMPETITION. There were over 300 entries and many large schools competed. CONGRATULATIONS! 4/6/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO RYAN FOCHT YOU WAS NAMED THE DAILY NONPAREIL’S SOUTHWEST IOWA PLAYER OF THE YEAR! 4/6/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO RYAN FOCHT WHO WAS SELECTED TO THE COUNCIL BLUFFS NON PAREIL ALL SWI FIRST TEAM! ALSO TO ELI CORDON WHO WAS A SECOND TEAM ALL SWI SELECTION! The Nonpareil All SWI teams include all members of SWI teams from class 1A to 3A. 4/1/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO HEIDI MOYER FOR BEING SELECTED TO ATTEND THE HOBY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE THIS SUMMER! MARSHALL DOLCH WAS SELECTED AS AN ALTERNATIVE. March 27, 2009 CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. OBERMEIER FOR BEING SELECTED AS COACH OF THE YEAR IN CLASS 1A BASKETBALL! March 27, 2009 - CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. OBERMEIER FOR BEING SELECTED AS COACH OF THE YEAR IN CLASS 1A BASKETBALL! Congratulations to our boys for their trip to STATE You made Villisca proud for your accomplishments and your good sportsmanship.
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by Mike Freeman 3/30/09 - Congrats to Lisa Vanderhoof and Shayney Scott who were honorable mention All Western Iowa picks by the Omaha World Herald. Also, Becca Baker who was a second team All Western Iowa selection. 3/30/09 - Congrats to Timmy Myers who was selected honorable mention All Western Iowa and Eli Cordon and Ryan Focht who were chosen as first team All Western Iowa representatives. Ryan was selected as the honorary captain to the 1A team. 3/26/09
- CONGRATULATIONS TO ELI CORDON AND RYAN FOCHT FOR MAKING THE SUBSTATE
8 ALL SUBSTATE BASKETBALL TEAM! CONGRATULATIONS TO RYAN FOCHT FOR BEING SELECTED THE IOWA NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION ALL STATE 2ND TEAM BASKETBALL! 3/17/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. WOOD FOR ACHIEVING HIS 400TH WIN THIS BASKETBALL SEASON! CONGRATULATIONS TO LEAH ROBINSON AND SAWYER JOHANNES ON MAKING IT TO ALL-STATE INDIVIDUAL SPEECH! 3/16/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL INDIVIDUAL SPEECH STUDENTS ON RECEIVING ONE RATINGS ON SATURDAY!! YOU DID AN EXCELLENT JOB! We will be meeting in Ms. Feil’s room after school to check for All-State nominations. CONGRATULATIONS TO RYAN FOCHT WHO WAS SELECTED AS THE CLASS 1A FIRST TEAM ALL STATE CENTER FOR THE DES MOINES REGISTER NEWSPAPER AND THE IOWA SPORTS CONNECTION ONLINE SPORTS MAGAZINE! 3/12/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO RYAN FOCHT VOTED UNANIMOUS SELECTION FOR 1ST TEAM ALL CONFERENCE, ELI CORDON 1ST TEAM, TIMMY MYERS 2ND TEAM, AARON WILLIAMS HONORABLE MENTION, AND MARSHALL DOLCH HONORABLE MENTION! 3/9/09
- CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING FFA MEMBERS FOR ADVANCING TO STATE
COMPETITION: MARSHALL DOLCH IN AG BROADCASTING RECEIVED A GOLD! BREANNA
SUNDERMAN AND MARSHALL DOLCH RECEIVED A GOLD FOR THE CHAPTER SCRAPBOOK! 3/9/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 6TH, 7TH, AND 8TH GRADE BAND STUDENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN SOLO/ENSEMBLE SATURDAY! WE CAME HOME WITH 35 I’S AND 13 II’S INCLUDING 3 I+’S!! 3/3/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING GIRLS FOR MAKING THE CORNER CONFERENCE ALL CONFERENCE TEAM!! 1st team: Becca Baker and Lisa Vanderhoof, 2nd Team: Shayney Scott, Honorable Mention: Monique Cook and Brooke Johnston! 3/3/09 - *To celebrate National School Breakfast week, Dr. Seuss week and the Villisca School food service program is encouraging students and staff to participate by “Eating Breakfast with the Stars.” Stars will include personnel from varsity boys and girls basketball, all-state speech, dance team, fine arts, FFA, Student Council, building principal and other staff. There will even be a visit from “Cat in the Hat.” Breakfast with the stars will be on Thursday morning where will enjoy “Butter Battle” biscuits and gravy and other yummy items! 2/25/09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO THE VILLISCA INDIVIDUAL SPEECH TEAM ON RECEIVING ALL ONES AT THE CORNER CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT! Those receiving medals: Adam Sunderman: 3rd Place Original Oratory, Kelci Sunderman: 1st Place After Dinner Speaking, Sawyer Johannes: 3rd Place After Dinner Speaking, Brandy Sickels: 1st Place Public Address and Leah Robinson: 2nd Place Storytelling! 2-21-09 - Saturday, Feb. 21, the Reno Smith FFA Chapter participated in the Southwest sub-district FFA contest. Jared Dolch won first in arc-welding and advances to the district contest! Marshall Dolch won first in Farm Broadcasting with his diesel powered salad shooter spreader shredder deal and the conduct of meetings team consisting of Leah Robinson, Kyle Schut, Aleck Pafford, Rachel Schut, Brandy Sickels, Corey Shadden, and Katelyn Kernen placed first! Rachel Schut placed 3rd out of 41 and received a gold rating for the green-hand quiz! Dylan Dolch represented the chapter in the creed speaking contest. ALL first place students will compete on March 7 at the district contest in Audubon and are expected to compete April 16 at the state contest in Des Moines! CONGRATULATIONS!! 2-10-09
- On Saturday, Februrary 7th the Villisca Speech team took five groups
to state contest to compete: Readers Theatre, Choral Reading, Ensemble
Acting, Group Improvisation and Radio Broadcasting. All five groups
received one ratings. On Monday afternoon it was announced that VIllisca
had three groups make it to All-State: 17 of the 24 students who competed on Saturday will be receiving All-State medals. There
is no class distinction or knowledge of the school that is performing.
Villisca was competing with 4-A schools as well. This being said,
for the Southwest District, Villisca had three nominations. Other
schools in the area receiving nominations were Clarinda with three,
Corning with 1 and Treynor with one. 2-9-09 - Congratulations to the VHS Speech team for receiving ALL I RATINGS on Saturday! 2-5-09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING FFA MEMBERS FOR RECEIVING GOLD RATINGS, NICOLE FISHER FOR THE FFA SECRETARY’S BOOK, JORDAN WYATT FOR THE FFA TREASURER’S BOOK, AND BREANNA SUNDERMAN FOR THE CHAPTER FOR THE CHAPTER FFA SCRAPBOOK! THE TREASURER’S BOOK AND SCRAPBOOK MOVE ON TO STATE COMPETITION! IN OTHER FFA NEWS, CONGRATULATIONS TO MARSHALL DOLCH FOR BEING SLATED VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN IOWA DISTRICT! GOOD LUCK AT STATE IN APRIL AND AT DISTRICT CONVENTION IN MARCH 7. 2-5-09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO ELI CORDON FOR SIGNING WITH IWCC ON THE NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT DAY YESTERDAY TO PLAY FOOTBALL FOR THE REIVERS! 2-3-09 - CONGRATULATIONS TO BLAKE LUNA FOR WINNING ALL THREE OF HIS WRESTLING MATCHES LAST NIGHT @ LENOX! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW CHOIR ON THEIR II RATING AT STATE CONTEST LAST NIGHT IN WINTERSET! GOOD JOB! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HS BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS FOR EARNING A SHARE OF THE REGULAR SEASON CORNER CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP! THIS IS THE BOYS THIRD YEAR IN A ROW WITH THIS TITLE! 1-26-09
- Congratulations to the Villisca Speech team on receiving 5 I ratings!
1-26-09
- Congratulations to the Villisca boys’ basketball team on becoming
Corner Conference Tournament Champs on Sat. night! This is the Bluejays
third consecutive year holding this title! 12/12/08 - Congratulations to Austin Greig, Taylor Luna, Marcus Taylor, and Chuck Appel on all having pins at last night’s wrestling meet! They beat Creston in the dual, way to go! 12/10/08 - Congratulations to the following football players for making All Western Iowa: Eli Cordon 1st Team Defensive Line, Nick Berggren 2nd Team Kicker, Joe Adcock, Dustin Haffner and Dustin Thompson Honorable Mention! 12-10-08
- Congratulations to the following volleyball players for making All
Western Iowa: Shayney Scott 12/8/08
- Congratulations to the State Dance Team who received a one rating
on their Show Production! We received a two rating on pom and were
less than one point away from a one rating. The winner of the academic
award won with a team g.p.a of 3.87. Villisca’s team g.p.a. was
a 3.8. Congratulations! 11-18-08 - Congratulations to the following HS football players for making All-District Football Teams: Eli Cordon - unanimous vote 1st team offensive end, Joe Adcock - 1st team offensive lineman, Nick Berggren - 1st team place kicker, Dustin Thompson - 2nd team offensive running back, Nick Berggren - 2nd team punter, Dalton Morrison - honorable mention offensive lineman, Dustin Haffner - honorable mention offensive utility! Eli
Cordon - unanimous vote 1st team defensive lineman, Dustin Thompson
- 2nd team defensive linebacker, Aaron Williams - 2nd team defensive
back, Nick Berggren - 2nd team 11-6-08 - Congratulations to the following for making All Conference Volleyball teams: 1st team: Shayney Scott (unanimous) and Lisa Vanderhoof (unanimous), 2nd team: Becca Baker, Honorable Mention: Courtney Auxier, Brooke Johnston, and Emma Wright! 11-3-08 - Congratulations to Mikayla Dolch, MaKayla Gladman, Evan Baldwin, Travis Herzberg, and Andrea Liddell for being selected to the 7th and 8th grade Southwest Iowa Honor Bands! 11-3-08 - Congratulations to the following for winning the Student Council volleyball tournament on Sat.! The team consisted of Breanne Sunderman, Joel Herzberg, Jacy Shadden, Jed Jennings, Aaron Williams, and Amanda Lyda. 11-3-08 - Congratulations to Sawyer Johannes who received a one rating on Sat. at the State Solo Dance competition! 10-4-08 - Congratulations to the marching band on placing 7th out of 23 - 1A bands at the Band Jambouree on Saturday! 10-2-08 - For the first time in almost a decade the Reno Smith FFA competed in the District FFA Soil Contest held at IWCC in Council Bluff around the campus. Out of 36 chapters in the southeast district the team consisting of Chris Schaaf, Leah Robinson, Martin Dolch, and Courtney Pullen placed 12 in the district. High individual for the team was Chris Schaaf. On special awards congratulations to Alex Acosta on seeing a cow in the water.... 9-22-08
- Congratulations to the High School Marching Band on placing 2nd
in the Creston Hot Air Balloon Days Parade on Sat.! 9-15-08 - Congratulations to the livestock judging team of Breanna Sunderman, Leah Robinson, Marshall Dolch and Rachael Schut for placing 6th out of 45 teams at the Clay County Fair Saturday. Individual "at-a-boys" go to Leah Robinson for placing 8th and Breanna Sunderman for placing 10th individually out of 165 participants. 9-8-08 - In FFA news, congratulations to the team of Rachel Schut and Lilly Berggren for placing first in the pantyhose race at Madison County horse show last Saturday. Rachel placed first in barrels, baton race and water relay. Lilly placed first in pole bending and the boot race! 8-29-08 - Congratulations to the Reno Smith FFA Livestock Judging teams that competed last night at the Gutherie County Fair and capturing for the third time the first place and third place team! We were represented by Courtney Pullen, Mikayla Dolch, Daniel Martin, Rachel Schut, Leah Robinson, Amanda Fulton, Marshall Dolch, Dylan Dolch, Corey Shadden, Brandy Sickels, and Lillian Berggren. Special awards want to Amanda Fulton for placing 6th overall and to Lillian Berggren and for 1st place high scoring individual. On other FFA events, congratulations to Mr. Drevet for winning the 100 yard Marshall Dolch tennis shoe toss...you had to be there. 8-25-08 - CONGRATULATIONS to the FFA livestock judging team of Jared Gillespie, Marshall Dolch, and Leah Robinson. They placed 13th in the state! Special awards went to Jared for placing 1st in swine and 6th overall in the whole contest. With over 250 participation, we are very proud of these results! 8/20/08
- Congratulations to the following for making Corner Conference Baseball/Softball
Teams this summer: First Team: Aaron Williams - catcher, Matt Herzberg
- outfielder, Lisa Vanderhoof; Second Team: Scott Lindburg - pitcher,
Dustin Haffner - infielder, Shayney Scott - pitcher, Roni Riggle -
catcher, Brooke Johnston - infielder, Courtney Auxier - outfielder;
Honorable Mention: Greg King - infielder, 8-20-08 - Congratulations to the following for making All-State Softball Team this summer: Shayney Scott and Lisa Vanderhoof! |
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