EAGLE NATION NEWS

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The Goal of Athletics/Activities at Norwich Schools

1. Teach life lessons of being a part of a team, working towards a common goal, time management, and communication.

2. Build memories and relationships that will last a lifetime.

3. We want to be competitive, and learn from both wins and losses.

Equation for Winning

Those who say it isn’t all about winning have never put forth the substantial amount of effort to have had any meaningful success. Winning is not strictly the end result.

A Successful Mindset Consists of:

Ethos: Never Be Outworked

1. Be On Time: Great things don’t happen when you’re late.

2. Be Prepared: Great things don’t happen when you’ve failed to prepare.

3. Be Coachable: Listen to and follow directions. No response is needed.

4. Be Respectful: Treat others as you wish to be treated.

5. Never Be Satisfied: Get better, stronger, and tougher as a whole person.

6. Be Selfless: Team before self.

7. Be Competitive: Life is a competition whether you like it or not.

Summary of Fall Sports & Activities

• Football: 25 out (great numbers/3-6 overall/1-3 District/3-1 League).

• Young men bought in and worked hard.

• Cheerleading: 12 student/athletes on the fall roster.

• Hosted two pep rallies with large community support.

• Coach Walter does a great job with putting on great pep rallies and amping up student/teacher/fan involvement.

• Hardworking young ladies as the majority of them play volleyball as well.

• Volleyball: 23 student/athletes participated.

• Hosted our Invitational Tournament where the Eagles took 2nd.

• 4 Players garnering All League honors.

Winter Outlook

• Basketball

• Junior High Basketball has already begun.

• Both boys and girls teams look to have a good number of student athletes out.

• Scholar’s Bowl kicked off in October

• Scholar’s Bowl Team placed 4th @ Fairfield on the 10/16/23.

• One of our own 2nd in individual points.

Is your child sick or plans have changed during the day? If you need to contact the school office for any reason by email, please use our new email address norwichoffice@knusd331.com. This will help us get messages to your child when there are substitutes in the office for the day.

The State of Kansas has a compulsory attendance law for public schools. This law’s main purpose is to ensure equal opportunity for all youth to receive instruction in foundational education. After five (5) unexcused absences in a semester, three (3) consecutive unexcused absences, or seven (7) unexcused absences in a school year a student will be declared truant and his or her name will be given to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and/or the Kingman County Attorney’s office as set forth by the law KSA-72-1113. After 6 excused absences in a semester, a dr. note will be required.

All students enrolled in the Kingman-Norwich School District between the ages of 7-17 are required to attend school on a regular basis in accordance with Kansas statutes and district attendance guidelines. Daily attendance records shall be maintained for each student and building Principals are responsible for enforcing the attendance policy. The Kingman Norwich Board of Education has approved seven (7) reasons for students to be excused from school. The reasons are as follows:

1. Personal illness – Up to 7 absences for personal illness will be considered excused when parents make appropriate notification to the school office. Any absences due to illness in excess of 7 days will require documentation from a doctor or other qualified medical professional;

2. Health-related treatment, examination, or recuperation;

3. Serious illness or death of a member of the family;

4. Obligatory religious observances;

5. Participation in a district-approved or school sponsored activity or course;

6. Absences pre-arranged by parents and approved by the principal; and

7. Students of active-duty military personnel may have additional excused absences at the discretion of the principal for visitations relative to leave or deployment.

An unexcused absence is one which has been classified as such by the building administration. An absence will be classified unexcused if it does not fit one of the board’s seven stated reasons for excusable absence or if the building attendance procedure is not followed by the student and the parent or legal guardian.The long-term truant student may be dropped from school enrollment once the student has not attended for 10 consecutive school days.

The following information outlines the USD 331 Board Policy regarding our district meal policies and procedures.

· Board policy allows students to charge up to 3 days.

· Once they have charged 3 days, we will provide students an alternative meal (lunch only.)

· Parents will be notified using the following protocol:

o 1st charge - parents will receive a text and email from Thrillshare.

o 2nd/3rd charge - parents should receive a personal phone call to discuss payment arrangements or alternate meal plans.

Free and reduced meals are available to students who qualify. If you think your child may qualify for free or reduced meals, please fill out an application. These can be found on your Skyward parent portal account or there are paper applications in each school office. The information on the application and the results are completely confidential.

At any time if you feel your family may qualify for free or reduced price lunches, you can apply. If you have applied before but were denied, remember that a job loss or change, a disability or accident that prevents you from working or a life status change (divorce, marriage, etc.) may change your status. Once you qualify for free or reduced lunches, you maintain that status for the rest of the school year. You can apply through your parent portal in Skyward or there are paper applications in each school office. A child’s free and reduced lunch status is confidential.

For more information contact your child's school office or Amy Wallace at (620) 532-3134.

All ages of students have the opportunity to purchase extra milk. At some ages students can also purchase extra entrees or ala carte items with their lunch. In order to purchase these extra items, students must have money on their account or cash with them at the time of purchase. These items can not be “charged.” This applies to all students no matter if they are full pay, free or reduced. If you do not wish for your children to get anything extra, you can contact your child's school and we can turn off that feature for you. Students who receive free lunches, please understand these extra items are outside the scope of the lunch program and must be paid for by either putting some money on your child’s account or sending your child with cash.

Breakfast is served at school daily between 7:45 and 8:00 a.m.

Hot breakfast is served on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

If you would like for your child to eat school breakfast, please make sure to have them at school by 7:45 as students need to be through the line by 8:00.

Yearbook staff has finalized most page templates, and is in full swing of working on pages of the Powering On section of the 2024 yearbook. Check out the title page shown here. They are beginning to work on fall academic/activities, special events, and sports pages. You will also see staff and club members out taking photos at various activities. Special thanks to Micoli Bates and club member Jillian Wineinger for all the sports photos they are providing for yearbook staff. Staff is gearing up for picture day of retakes and club photos and for the next online campaign to sell 2024 yearbooks. Thank you for supporting your yearbook staff!

Beginning November 6th for two weeks ONLY the 2024 yearbook will be on sale again through the Jostens website ONLY for a discounted price of $28.00 plus tax or more with personalization. Sale ends November 17th! Get your yearbook bought early as the price goes up with each sales campaign! ONLY prepaid yearbooks will be ordered! Don’t miss out on this digitally interactive yearbook! Thank you for supporting the yearbook staff.

Senior salutes are parents’ opportunity to commemorate student achievements and important milestones. Jostens is managing the senior salute sales so please do not contact or send materials to the school. This opportunity is for senior parents only! Page space is limited so ONLY ¼ page MAXIMUM is allowed PER senior. Room only allows for ¼ page to be dedicated to each senior. Parents in different households may share the ¼ page space and create it together or each buy an 1/8 page. The staff needs to know how much space to reserve so all online senior salutes MUST be complete and paid for by January 31, 2024. The staff needs to know how much space to reserve so all salutes MUST be finalized and purchased by this date. A printable instruction sheet and link to order online will come home with your senior. Senior salutes can be created online from both desktop and mobile devices. Parents have various salute designs to choose from giving them more creative freedom over their salute. Watch the school newsletters and school social media for important information regarding seniors. Contact Mrs. Brewster at tbrewster@knusd331.com with questions.

Strawbridge will be here again Wednesday, November 8 to take fall individual retakes as well as first round of club group photos. Please make sure students have any needed attire for club photos. Any student, faculty, staff, administrator, etc. who was absent or has not had their picture taken on September 13th will need to be photographed. Students being photographed for the first time; an order form may be picked up in the office or from Mrs. Brewster. Any student who wants retakes needs to let Mrs. Brewster know so they can be put on the list.

Please be aware that yearbook fund gets a commission from Strawbridge for the photos you purchase. It is one of the yearbook fund raisers. Thank you in advance for your support in purchasing pictures. Mark your calendars as it’s IMPORTANT for all students, teachers, and staff to be present on picture days!

11/8/23: Retakes of individual and senior portraits, senior & 13 year senior groups, and first round of clubs/organizations.

1/17/24: Spring individual portraits, winter sports and second round of clubs/organizations.

3/20/24: Spring sports and final round of clubs/organizations.

Yearbook staff has set up YBK+ again for students, parents, and teachers to upload 10 photos to be seen digitally from their portrait. YBK+ allows the yearbook to be more digitally interactive, and it is a way to see more of your student in the yearbook. Pre-K -5 students need parents to upload photos using their parent email that is on file, and 6-12 students use their own school email to log into the website. Click the image, link, or scan the code to get started with YBK+ and begin uploading your photos NOW!

If you haven’t purchased a 2023 yearbook, there are ONLY A FEW available on a first-come-first-serve basis. The cost is $43.20, which includes tax. Contact Mrs. Brewster at tbrewster@knusd331.com if interested in purchasing one. Be reminded there are digital photos that accompany the yearbook. If the scanning of a photo doesn’t work, then you can look up the event with the search feature. Ask a staff member or Mrs. Brewster if you need assistance. They’d be happy to help!

Hello November to everyone!! There is a LOT going on this month in the counseling department!

November 1 all 11th and 12th graders will be taking the ACT Wokkkeys. This is NOT the ACT we will have juniors take in the spring. This ACT assesses student knowledge of workplace documents, applied math and graphic literacy.

November 2 all 9th graders will take the PreACT assessment. This is used to predict how they will score on the real ACT taken as juniors. It can help us identify areas of strength as well as areas that may need to be reinforced before the actual ACT is taken in the spring of their junior year.

November 7 is Apply Kansas! During ELA class, our seniors who are interested in applying to a Kansas college or university will get to do so with no application fee. Myself, Mrs. Brown and a few others will help the students fill our their applications on this day. If seniors are planning to enter the workforce after graduation, we can also work on their resume and job applications they may be ready to fill out.

At the elementary level, we have been learning about Respect in Character Strong. Kids have made classroom promise posters about what respect looks like in their classrooms. We will help each other keep our promises to respect one another, our classrooms, our school and ourselves!

Norwich Eagle Booster Club is selling smoked hams again this year. The hams will be delivered November 18th - 21st (right before Thanksgiving). Whole hams are $65 and half hams are $40. Quantities are limited & orders are needed ASAP. Please let a Booster Club member know if you would like to order.

As proud Eagle alumni of Norwich High School, we want to help get the word out to all alumni of important events that will interest you so you can remain involved and support your high school alma mater. Please help us in making sure that we have your most current up to date information by either sending us an email at norwichalumni2015@gmail.com or sending us a note to Norwich Schools 209 S. Parkway Norwich, KS 67118.