On Monday, there was not school for our students. This was a planned Professional Development day for staff. We hosted the Iowa Valley staff for combined professional development activities. This was also the day for the gym punch list.
Thursday was a very busy day. Push-Pedal-Pull delivered the fitness equipment to be placed in our new community fitness center. The construction crew worked quickly and efficiently to put the finishing touches on our gym and fitness center in preparation for us to host our first event, varsity wrestling. Ralph Rowe did a wonderful job working drilling in letters and frames for the English Valleys Athletic Wall of Fame in the main area of the new gym, above the concession stand. The new gym was filled with many wrestling fans! At the same time, we hosted JV basketball games in our old gym. We also hosted a home junior high basketball game in our elementary. It was a busy night for EV fans!
On Friday we held our weekly Spirit Assembly. This week the assembly was hosted by the Drama & Speech group. They created an obstacle course that students were selected to take part in. This was a lot of fun to watch!
Also on Friday, we hosted our first varsity basketball games in the new gym against Iowa Valley. This was another night in which our gym held a significant amount of fans from both schools.
On Saturday, Mrs. Colbert hosted the Jingle Bell Run. There was a group of runners/walkers that braved the cold to help raise money for the track program.
On Saturday we held our Open House for the new gym and fitness center. This was also the anniversary of the 2003-04 Varsity Girls Basketball team that was the runner-up for state.
The area newspapers were present to cover our events.
KCRG- Channel 9 showed up to conduct interviews and do a segment on our grand opening. You can view this by clicking on the following link:
http://www.kcrg.com/news/
Other pictures and videos of the events can be found on the English Valleys Bears Fan Page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/evfanpage/
Those who oversee this page, as well as its members, have done a wonderful job with posting information here~
Reminder: According to Mr. Nachtman, next week the Student Council has planned "Gnimocemoh", or Winter Homecoming. The student council is sponsoring the dress up days below, a pep rally, and the Winter Formal dance on Friday (for high school students).
Monday: Come as you are Pajama day
Tuesday: Inside out Backwards day
Wednesday: Sports Day
Thursday: Hashtag Swag Day
Friday: Bearica Blue and Gold Day
*A JH formal is Feb 8, sponsored by FCCLA
This entire week was absolutely amazing. I am so thankful for all of the flexibility and understanding of students, parents, staff, and community members through this process. I am excited about the future of English Valleys and the amazing things that we will do~
Go EV Bears!
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