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USD308 News
Marching season commences for HHS Sep 2, 2010The 2010-11 marching season for the Hutchinson High School Salthawk Marching Band formally begins with the pre-game and halftime shows of the HHS-Rockhurst football game Sept. 3, 2010, at Gowans Stadium.
The band will play the National Anthem at about 6:45 p.m. Friday. At halftime, the band premiers portions of its 2010 theme, "Russian Classical Show." Selections for 2010 include "Night on Bald Mountain" by Mussorgsky, "Sabre Dance" by Khachaturian, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Moussorgsky.
HHS marches at all home football games.
The first formal critique of the program will be on Sept. 15 when it marches in the Kansas State Fair in downtown Hutchinson and on the fairgrounds.
Other marching competitions for the fall 2010 season include Oct. 9 at the University of Central Oklahoma at Edmond, Oct. 23 at Kansas State University in Manhattan and Oct. 27 at Andover.
For more information, contact Daryl Koestel, HHS director of bands.
Football t-shirt sales Aug 26, 2010
Two different Salthawk football t-shirts are available to purchase in 2010. The shirts are "7 -- Leave Nothing to Chance Salthawk Football 2010" and a t-shirt specifically for the Rockhurst game.
Shirts will be on sale at the Fall Sports Kickoff at 7 p.m. tonight in the Salthawk Activity Center, Blue Gold Scrimmage, beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug 27, at Gowans Stadium as well as the night of the Rockhurst game (Sept. 3).
Youth and adult sizes are available this year. Youth shirts are $11 each and adult sizes are $12 up to XL and $13 for 2X to 4X. Shirts are all "in stock." Hoodies ("7 -- Leave Nothing to Chance") also are available as a special order in adult sizes only. All proceeds from sales of these shirts go directly to HHS football program.The Booster Club is encouraging all fans to purchase and wear the new blue Rockhurst shirts to the Sept. 3 game. Fall sports seasons begin Aug 26, 2010
With
the start of school, pre-season sports activities are beginning at HHS.
The
annual Fall Sports Kickoff for
During
the evening, fall sports teams and their coaches will be introduced.
The
annual Blue-Gold football scrimmage will be Friday, Aug. 27, at Gowans Stadium.
The freshman and junior varsity squads scrimmage at 6 p.m. The marching band will
perform at 6:45 p.m. The varsity football team will scrimmage at 7 p.m.
The
HHS Salthawks have won six consecutive state football championships.
Saturday,
Aug. 28, the annual AVCTL pre-season volleyball tournament for the league’s
Divisions I and II will be held in the
For
more information, contact Eric
Armstrong, HHS activities director.
Tickets
also will be sold at the Blue-Gold scrimmage at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at
Gowans Stadium.
HHS
plays
Tickets for the game --
and for all regular season home varsity football games -- are $6 for adults and
$4 for students. The district does sell an adult activity pass for $50 and
student activity pass for $25. The passes, good for all high school and middle
school home games, also are available at the HHS main office and on both
campuses of
USD 308 staff identification badges, AVCTL league passes and district-issued Golden Age passes also will be accepted for admission to the game.
For
more information, contact Eric
Armstrong, HHS activities director.
Students returned to Faris Elementary School Wednesday (Aug. 25, 2010) after a plugged drain pipe flooded a small portion of the school on Tuesday.
When staff arrived at Faris, 301 East 10th, early Tuesday, they found water in the four classrooms that surround the courtyard in the older part of the building. Water also had seeped across the hallway from the classrooms and into the school's gymnasium/cafeteria.
Hutchinson received anywhere from 2.3 to well over 3 inches of rainfall early Tuesday morning.
A decision was made to close the school to students after 7 a.m. Tuesday. Crews spent Tuesday cleaning water from the floors and dehumidifying the school.
A plugged storm water drainage line from the courtyard resulted in the water backing into the school. Crews were able to locate where the line was clogged and will repair the line on Wednesday. Locally, there is no rain in the forecast.
Parents were notified of Tuesday's school closure and of Wednesday's
reopening via the district's rapid communication system, which allows all parents and guardians to receive
the same message in a short period of time on their home or cellular
telephones.
The nearly 900 Hutchinson Public Schools staff members formally began the 2010-11 school year with the annual opening convocation Monday (Aug. 16, 2010) at the Salthawk Activity Center on the Hutchinson High School campus.
Superintendent Jan Strecker talked about her educational experiences as a student and as a young teacher as she kicked off the school year with her presentation titled "Roots and Wings." Keynote speaker for the event was Hutchinson Community College Instructor Carolyn Parson, who spoke on the importance of diversity. Diversity is one of the district's focuses in 2010-11.
Several
educators were honored during the event. The
Davis Foundation made its a
nnual Teachers of the Year Awards. The
elementary
school winners were Karla Pruitt, kindergarten teacher at McCandless Elementary School, and Pam
Allender,
second grade teacher at Graber Elementary School.
The middle school winner was Chanin Aumiller, social studies teacher at Hutchinson Middle School -- 8.
The high school winners were Nancy Williams, special education teacher, and Nathan Henry, social studies teachers. Both educators teach at Hutchinson High School.
Each winner receives $4,000. The Davis Foundation has contributed millions of dollars to Hutchinson Public Schools' staff and students since its first scholarships were awarded to HHS seniors 53 years ago.
Also recognized during the even were the USD 308 Kansas Teacher of the Year nominees -- Martin Vieyra, first grade teacher at Wiley Elementary School, and Lori Meis, reading teacher at Hutchinson Middle School -- 7.
Recognized during the convocation as the Classified Employee of the Year for 2009-10 was Valerie Armstrong, secretary at HMS-7.
This week, staff will have in-service training and room preparation for the 2010-11 school year. Students in grades one through nine return on Aug. 23. High school sophomores through seniors begin the year on Aug. 24. Kindergartners and students in the 4-year-old program begin on Aug. 25.Williams steps down as baseball coach Aug 2, 2010
Long-time Hutchinson High School head baseball coach Steve Williams has announced he will step down prior to the 2011 season.
Williams has been head coach of the Salthawks for 21 years, beginning with the 1990 season. During that time, the Salthawks went 277-178 for a 61 percent winning record. The Salthawks were 8-14 overall in 2010 and 4-6 in the AVCTL to take fourth place in the league.
During his tenure at HHS, 50 players went on to play in college or the pros.
The Salthawks won six league championships during Williams' tenure and made six trips to the state tournament where they finished fourth in 1997 and second in both 2002 and 2003.
Williams was named league coach of the year four different times and was state coach of the year in 2001.
Prior to coaching at HHS, Williams was an assistant coach at Nickerson and at Norway, Iowa. The coach also has been active in summer baseball with his teams winning five state championships and finishing as high as second in two different national tournaments.
A tenured educator, Williams will remain as a journalism teacher at HHS, a program that also has gained state and national awards during his tenure at the school.
Williams has submitted his resignation as baseball coach, which the Board of Education will have on its Aug. 9 agenda. No decision has been on his successor.
Online enrollment opens Jul 30, 2010Many of the families of Hutchinson Public Schools students will have the opportunity to enroll their students online for the 2010-11 school year.
The district has opened an online enrollment portal on its website, www.usd308.com.
Families who have emails on record in the district's student records database received an email Friday morning (July 30, 2010), inviting them to participate in the process. The emails went out to about 2,800 of the district's 4,500 students.
The pilot project, however, is not limited to families with email addresses in the student database. Any USD 308 parent or guardian who has his or her student's PowerSchool user name and password as well as the student's district ID number from the 2009-10 school year also can enroll online.
As part of the online enrollment, parents will be able to apply for free- or reduced-priced lunches online.
As of noon Friday, about 100 families already had taken advantage of online enrollment.
Walk-in enrollment for all USD 308 students (pre-K through 12) will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, and Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at the Salthawk Activity Center on the Hutchinson High School campus.
For walk-in enrollment, families are asked to park in the east Sports Arena parking lot. Families who only have HHS students are asked to enter from the southwest doors of the Salthawk Activity Center while all other families should use the southeast doors of the facility.
The Hutchinson Public Schools Board of Education Monday celebrated a national award given the district for clarity in telling its financial story.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Board was presented with the award from the Government Finance Officer Association for a budget document Lori Blakesley, executive director of fiscal management for the district, and the Business Office produced for the 2008-09 school year.
Known as the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the document reviews in-depth district finances for the 2008-09 school year. The GFOA gave the document its Certificate of Achievement, the highest award the organization grants.
The 2008-09 CAFR was the fifth the district produced. The district received the certificate for its four previous budget publications as well.
Unlike most school districts and other governmental units, USD 308 does not waive Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The CAFR provides the public with budget information that would be comparable to that provided by any major business.
Blakesley works hand-in-hand with district auditors to produce the CAFR.HHS debate/forensics places at nationals Jun 21, 2010
Three became a very important number for the Hutchinson High School debate squad in May and June.
Competing at the National Forensics League national tournament in suburban Kansas City June 14 to 19, the team of Katelin Morey and T.J. Blake placed 33rd out of 200 teams.
Morey is a recent graduate of HHS. Blake will be a sophomore at HHS in the fall and one of the few freshmen to qualify for nationals in 2009-10.
Individually, Morey placed third nationally as a speaker at the tournament out of 400 competitors.
"Katelin's finish firmly cements her as one of the top debaters in the nation, in the state of Kansas and in the history of Hutch High debate," said Kelly Thompson, HHS debate and forensic coach. "Her third-place finish was also the highest finish by anyone from the state of Kansas this year at nationals."
At NFL, students compete in six preliminary rounds where they have a total of twelve judges. Students who win eight out of 12 ballots qualify for the double elimination second half of the tournament. Morey and Blake won 10 out of the 12 ballots, easily qualifying them for the elimination rounds.
HHS then lost Round 7 on a tough 2-1 decision and won Round 8 on a 3-0 decision.
"They lost in Round 9 to the eventual third-place overall team from Glen Brook North High School, also on a 2-1 decision," Thompson said. "It is a bit of a moral victory to get a ballot from the third-place team!"
Morey and Blake also competed at the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament over Memorial Day weekend at Omaha. The duo placed 33rd in policy debate out of 250 teams, one ballot short of qualify for double octofinals.
Also at NCFL, recent HHS graduate Veronika Nelson competed in dramatic performance, placing 97th out of 350 students.
The tournaments end the 2009-10 competition year for HHS debate and forensics.
