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Good Things Happening

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

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 - Pre. K Screening

Knoxville Junior High

Science Fair ✢ Brooklyn Van. Beveran won 1 st 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 2 nd 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 Van. Beveran, 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 6 pm.

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 8 th. ✢ 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 Strive. Scan. 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 ○ 4 x 200 m relay - ranked 6 th (Ki Stearns, H Jones, O Hall, A Larson) ○ 4 x 400 m relay - ranked 2 nd (M Pruett, A Larson, O Hall, B Shreeves) ○ 4 x 800 m relay - ranked 2 nd (M Pruett, M Rader, K Shreeves, B Shreeves) ○ 400 m run - ranked 24 th (K Stearns) ○ 800 m run - ranked 2 nd (B Shreeves) ○ 1600 m run - ranked 5 th (B Harris) ○ 60 m hurdles - ranked 7 th (H Jones) ○ Shot Put - ranked 1 st (G Lambasio) ✢ Softball ○ Game day! ✢ Baseball ○ Hosting West Central tomorrow @ 4: 30