FSHS TIGER NEWSLETTER

The Fort Scott High School Angel Tree is a giving tree established by FSHS staff to assist our students, their siblings and any district school students that may have needs this holiday season. There's an additional tree at G & W Foods Cash Saver, 911 E. 6th Street, Fort Scott.

If you have needs, please submit a completed application by November 27th (Thanksgiving Thursday).

If you have adopted an angel from the tree, please bring your gift-wrapped presents

to the high school no later than Friday, December 12th.

Thank you for your compassion this holiday season!

For a student to be exempt from final(s) the following guidelines must be met:

• an A or B in the class.
• no office referrals (FNS, ISS, OSS)
• no unexcused/unverified absences.
• no more than three tardies or less in a class (per class)
• no more than six absences

• activities/athletics excusals are not counted
• absences with a MEDICAL note are not counted

Students must take finals in:

1. any course taught for college credit
2. courses agreed upon by teacher, department, and administration

Monday, December 8th:

The FSHS/FSMS Choir Holiday Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the FSHS Auditorium.

There will be a 50/50 raffle and a bake sale at the concert.

Choir is raising money to cover travel and hotel expenses for April's trip to Dallas to perform at the Texas International Choral Festival!

Wednesday, December 10th:

The FSHS Tiger Band/FSMS Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the FSHS Main Gym.

Wednesday, December 17th:

The FSHS/FSMS Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Scott Middle School.

On Saturday, November 8th, nineteen choir students auditioned for the Kansas Music Educators Association’s Southeast District Choir. Only 144 students in the southeast district are selected for this choir. More than 400 students auditioned and, pictured above, are the ten FSHS choir students who scored high enough to be selected for this honor.

Seniors:

Levi Fairchild (3rd time selected for District)

Junie Fisher (3rd time selected for District)

Nick Lantz (2nd time selected for District)

Rhyla Lewis

Chris Newman

Luis Rivera (2nd time selected for District)

Sophomores:

Maddi Buckman (2nd time selected for District)

Gianna Gorman (2nd time selected for District)

Fallon Magee

Lydia O’Dell

District Choir is Saturday, December 6th, in Pittsburg. Following District Choir, the State Choir roster will be released. State Choir is in Wichita in February.

--submitted by Whitley Chesney, Director of Choirs

Twenty-five FSHS students are directing and designing the annual children's Christmas show.

This year, they are producing "A Christmas Carol." Senior Levi Fairchild is directing the production, senior Chris Newman is Assistant Director and senior June Fisher is the Music Director.

Forty-six children in 1st through 8th grades have been casted for the show. The entire production is staged with just two and a half weeks of rehearsal.

This link takes you to the recording of the concert.

The Chamber Orchestra portion starts at 8:20 (9:15 if you want to skip the introduction).

Performing at this event were:

Sypher Cannon, Senior

Dylan Carrell, Freshman

Kinley Clements, Junior

Stewart Davenport, Senior

Kinley Dillow, Senior

Enych Fields, Sophomore

Ava Johnson, Junior

Tessa Lancaster, Junior

Violet Mason, Freshman

Kellen Pool, Junior

John Ravenscraft, Junior

Natalie Suddock, Freshman

Divia Summers, Freshman

Alexis Tourtillott, Senior

--submitted by Carson Felt, Orchestral Director

SEK League Post-Season honors have been announced for Soccer and Volleyball.

For Volleyball, Kyndal Aikin was named to the All-SEK 2nd Team. In Soccer, Nathan Mintz was named to the All-SEK 2nd Team and Kaydan Russell was named Honorable Mention. Head Coach Danny Larsen was also named SEK Soccer Coach of the Year. Also announced was the SEK Cross Country Boys and Girls Coaches of the Year and Fort Scott's Tracey Bogina was named the SEK Girls Cross Country Coach of the Year. Football has yet to be released. Congratulations to all!

--submitted by Jeff DeLaTorre, Athletic/Activities Director