Good Things Happening

Mable Woolsey Good Things Happening Spelling Bee - 4th Grade - Stephanie Heiden Runner Up - Brielle Bank 3rd Place - Emersyn Rask 3rd Grade Spelling Bee on Thursday, April 18th

Jump with Jill Assembly Star Student of the Month

Mable Woolsey Upcoming Events 3/20 - Lockdown Drill 3/21 - Kindergarten Pre-Registration 5:30 & 7 pm 3/22 - Kindergarten Pre-Registration 9 & 10:30 3/22 - Decades Day with donations to Camp Kidz 3/23-3/31 - Spring Break 4/8 - Begin State Testing 4/12 - PreK Screening

Knoxville Junior High

Science Fair Brooklyn VanBeveran won 1st place/Grand Champion at the Regional Science Fair and will compete at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Science Exposition May 4 at SIU-Carbondale. Maggie Wilder placed 2nd with her project and was also awarded an Award for Geoscience Excellence. Job well done ladies!

Solo and Ensemble Contest These kids (along with Jensen Stoneking, Brooklyn VanBeveran, Neena Turnblom, and Skylar Turpin) all placed in either Division 1 or 2 at the Solo and Ensemble Contest at ICC. Great job kids!

Athletics/Activities William Stowe went 2-2 at the IESA State Wrestling Meet, falling in his final match 1-0. Scholastic Bowl has a home meet tomorrow night against Abingdon-Avon. Track practice begins tonight, March 18.

Upcoming Events at KJHS 3/19 - Scholastic Bowl meet @ KJHS 3/20 - KJHS Band/Jazz Band Concert @ KHS - 7:00 pm 3/23-3/31 - Spring Break 4/3 - Joe Fingerhut Presentations 4/9 and 4/10 - KJHS Home Track Meets 4/15 - IAR (formerly PARCC) Testing begins

Knoxville High School

KHS Clubs FCCLA Foods classes are making the sides for the ag banquet this week. Maren Wilder is running for State FCCLA Officer position. Five members are competing in STAR events at State Conference the first week in April. FFA 14 FFA members completed record books on their SAE projects. 10 Advanced to Section, 4 advanced to District, and Mackenzie Pruett and Evan Link will compete this weekend at State in their respective areas. Tomorrow 15 FFA members travel to Springfield for Ag Legislative day to promote agriculture and ag education Annual parent, community and FFA member banquet is this Thursday at 6pm.

KHS Activities Academic Challenge team is State-bound after winning sectionals. E-sports has their first week of competition this week for the Spring Majors. Esports will also be having a fundraiser at Pizza Ranch on May 8th. KHS play - Clue Band/Orchestra/Jazz Band Vocal Showcase

KHS Activities (con’t) Bradley College Fair: Here is a list of the top 5 high schools who had the most students use StriveScan. We will follow up with a list of the students from each high school so you can see who all attended. KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - 23 PEORIA NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL - 17 WASHINGTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL - 16 EAST PEORIA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL - 13 PEKIN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL - 11

Activities Scholastic Bowl - CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!! Track Current indoor state qualifiers @ Illinois Wesleyan Friday March 22 4x200m relay - ranked 6th (Ki Stearns, H Jones, O Hall, A Larson) 4x400m relay - ranked 2nd (M Pruett, A Larson, O Hall, B Shreeves) 4x800m relay - ranked 2nd (M Pruett, M Rader, K Shreeves, B Shreeves) 400m run - ranked 24th (K Stearns) 800m run - ranked 2nd (B Shreeves) 1600m run - ranked 5th (B Harris) 60m hurdles - ranked 7th (H Jones) Shot Put - ranked 1st (G Lambasio) Softball Game day! Baseball Hosting West Central tomorrow @ 4:30