East High School
5011 Mayhew Avenue
Sioux City, IA 51106
(712)274-4000 phone
(712)274-4670 fax
Holiday 2016
EHS Website: http://www.siouxcityschools.org/east-high-school
Inside this issue:
Report Cards 2
Graduation Caps/
Gowns 2
#BeGreat Awards 3
Rotary Student of
the Month 3
EHS Dance Honors 3
OURS Information 3
All State Music
Honors 4
More Music Honors 5
Madrigal Feast
Information 5
EHS Writers Guild 5
EHS Debate Honors 6
Other EHS
Happenings 6
EHS Calendar Links 7
SCCSD Menus Link 7
SCCSD “Let’s Talk!” 7
For a Printed Copy of the
Social Media Directory,
see Mrs. Ericson or
Ms. Winterlin
From the Principal –
We at East High want our students to become leaders and change the world. We can help our students be the positive role models our world needs by working together. Communication is key in this endeavor, so please feel free to contact your child’s teachers by email or phone to check on his/her progress. Canvas and Infinite Campus are available to monitor your child’s grades online. Please contact Ms. Williams (712-224-7440) if you need help accessing either program. You can also ask your child to show you his/her grades on his/her laptop. The staff at East High School wants OUR kids to excel and be college and career ready. If you have concerns or suggestions to improve our communication, please contact us using a new feature on our website called Let’s Talk! Registration will start in January for the 2017-2018 school year. Please talk to your child about the courses he/she will be signing up for next year. We offer classes in engineering, health sciences, construction, graphic design, welding, information technology, culinary, business, automotive, JROTC, and police science just to name a few. With so many opportunities to take dual-credit classes, many of our students are graduating high school with twenty plus college credits for free. [Students must be proficient on the Iowa Assessments and most dual credit classes require a minimum score on the ACT or CPT. Please contact your child’s counselor for more information.] During Parent/Teacher Conferences on March 1st and 2nd, you will sign the Verification Sheet for the courses your child has selected. Semester tests will be given on January 11th and 12th and account for 10% of students’ final grades. All students are expected to take semester tests. Students will not be able to take semester tests early. If a student is absent, he/she will need to make arrangements for make-ups. Students who miss a semester test will receive a zero on the test until it is made up. Students will not receive Incompletes or Conditional Grades at the end of the semester. Friday, January 13th is a Teacher Work Day and there is no school for students. Report cards will be sent home with students sometime during the week of January 25, 2017.
Please enjoy the holidays and relish the time spent with family and friends. Have a safe and joyful
holiday season! Richard O. Todd Principal East High School
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Report Cards
We will no longer be printing report cards. For the most up to date infor-mation you can view your student’s grades in two different programs.
Log into the district website www.siouxcityschools.org Go to Quick Links:
Infinite Campus (Student Information/Grades)
If you have problems logging in please contact Mrs. DeMarest at 274-4002.
Canvas (Grades/Daily Student Activity) If you have problems logging in please contact Mrs. Ericson at 224-7441.
Seniors
Reminder to order your cap & gown. If you did not receive a Josten’s order packet you can pick
one up in the office or you can go online to
www.negradshop.com
Get your order in to assure that your cap & gown arrive in
time for graduation.
Congratulations to the following students, as they have signed with
the following colleges/universities for EXCELLING in their respective
Academics, Athletics, and Activities.
Picture yourself here! Are you #FutureReady ?
#GearUpIOWA EHS faculty & staff with their college/university pennants
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Congratulations to all of our 1st Quarter #BEGREAT winners! There were many students who had been awarded #BeGreat cards! We had 105 cards entered into the Beats headphones drawing, which was won by Breana Paronto! We also had six winners for the Musketeers Hockey game tickets (2 tickets each). Those winners were: Jenna Angerman, Olivia Monk, Danny Tran, Alex Richard, Ariel Olson, and Marisa
Hernandez.
Continue to #BeGreatEHS
Congratulations to Noel Tolvanen—Finalist in the Iowa State Dance Team Association
scholarship contest. Noel will interview for one of the two scholarships to be given out at the
state competition in December. Each school in the state could submit four applicants and only
twenty were selected as finalists.
Madison
Zortman-Robinson
Taylor
Strawn
Brooke
Lester
Ashley
Flynn
Noel
Tolvanen
Whitney
Lange
Outreach, Understanding, Responsibility & Support (OURS) Parent Group
The Sioux City Community School District, Northwest Area Education Agency, the Local National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People will continue their collaboration with the
Outreach, Understanding, Responsibility, and Support (OURS) parent group. The efforts are
focused at empowering parents/guardians of African American/Black students who attend public schools K -12th grades.
The topics are in relation to the education of the Black student, community awareness, and other
suggested topics. The OURS parent group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00pm at the Sanford Community
Center, 1700 Geneva Street. For more information and to RSVP to the meetings, contact Lori Gentry, BSW, Educational
Equity Student Liaison for the Sioux City Community Schools at 712-203-1107.
November’s Rotary
Student of the Month
Lauren Page nominated by the East
High faculty and staff.
She was honored at the
November Rotary
luncheon.
Shyanne Peterson
attended the Young
Women in Business
Conference at Iowa
State University on
Monday, October 17,
2016
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Leai Britton
Viola: 13th Chair / Orchestra
Band—Orchestra—Vocal
Emily Croston (V) Juan Gomez (V) Lydia Prior (V)
Leai Britton
Viola
Amanda DeBates
Violin 1
Nathan Whitaker
Bass
Logan Curtis (V) Austin Clayton (V) Joey Turner (V)
Anna Geerlings
Flute I: 7th Chair/ Band
Bridget Carpenter
Clarinet I: 5th Chair/ Band
Jessica Melville
Clarinet III: 26th Chair / Band
Jessica Rebstock
Clarinet III: 14th Chair / Band
All State Band Alternates
Noah Cvrk
1st Trumpet
Andrew Flory
2nd Trombone
Amanda
DeBates
2nd Trumpet
Taylor Henry (V) Dan Gengler (V) Rachel Kitrell (V)
Sierra Gilmore (V) Nathan Kitrell (V) Alex Melville (V)
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Join us on Friday, December 9th and Saturday, December 10th
For More Information: Contact Mr. Hales in the Choir Room.
The Guild Gazette is a student-lead newspaper that was created this year to
showcase the positive activities and ‘great’ community that EHS is a part of. It is run through the EHS Writers Guild and every
new issue is emailed out. It can also be accessed by students and
parents through the Guild Website: http://ehswritersguild.wixsite.com/website.
There are regular features of student writings and artwork, but students do not need to join Writers Guild to write for the newspaper. All students are welcome to submit writings or art to the newspaper!
2016 Competition Season
Wildcat Classic, Omaha – 8th Place
Starfest, Sioux City – 8th Place
Festival of Bands, Sioux Falls – Superior Rating;
Color Guard—2nd Place 4A
Dutchmen Field Championships, Orange
City – 7th Place Class 4A
IHSMA State Festival –
Division I Rating
Quad State, Vermillion –
4th Place Class IV Open
Thank you for representing East High School at the All State Music Festival!
You can view the performances in their entirety on your local Iowa PBS Channel
Thanksgiving Day.
Picture by KJ
Congratulations Raider Marching Band on a Fantastic Year!
Show Title: SLIDE Band Directors: Anna Scott & Brad Anderson Color Guard Coach/Advisor: Angela Ericson
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Roosevelt Tournament Speech and Debate Competition
1st Place Team Sweepstakes 4 First place plaques
14 medals, beating 20 other schools including Dowling, Iowa City, Johnston, Okoboji, Waukee,
Roosevelt and Valley.
Prose-: 1st-Austin Clayton; 2nd-Denisse Camarena; 3rd-Emily Blatchford; 4th-Broden Spates; 5th-Katt Ortiz; 6th-Emily Oster-
buhr. OO: 3rd-Wilhelmina Blevins
Poetry: 2nd-Vanessa Perez; 3rd-McKenna Deaton; 4th-Emily
Osterbuhr; 5th- Salma Rio.
HI: 1st- Brittany Todd DI: 5th-Brittany Todd
Informative: 1st-Olivia Tidwell; 3rd-Austin Clayton; 4th-Manvi Virippil
POI: 1st-Vanessa Perez; 5th-Denisse Camarena.
Great Job representing EHS: Nyamal Dhol, Whitney Lester, Breana Paronto, Jordan Abrams, Rueben Arellano, Adam
Beasley, Malik Blevins, Bethany Burbridge, Thomas Burkhart, Peter Kochevar, Simon Miller, Gabe Ruiz, Hunter Uhl and Kaitlyn
Sandford.
Thunderbird Invitational at Bellevue
Impromptu: 1st—Olivia Tidwell POI Finals: 5th Denisse Camarena; 6th Nyamal Dhol
Great job representing EHS: Austin Clayton, Vanessa Perez
and Brittany Todd
JROTC
Shining up their shoes!
IA Tech showing off their framing skills
Flora Lee gives
presentation about
African American
Culture, in World
Cultures class at East
High
Heelan Tournament: Crusader Cup
Congress: 2nd Noah Engel-Cartie
Novice Congress: 3rd Kaitlyn Sanford
Varsity Congress: 5th Hunter Uhl ; 7th Rueben Arellano
Novice Public Forum: 6th Ally Evans and Alexa Ringling
Great Job Representing EHS: Jordan Abrams, 2nd competition
and was placed in the Varsity House and took 6th place. Ann Marie
Nguyen placed 6th at her 1st competition. Congratulations to
Breana Paronto and Whitney Lester.
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Fax: (712) 274-4670
5011 Mayhew Avenue
Sioux City, IA 51106-4527
Every day is a great day to be a Raider!
#BeGreatEHS
Nondiscrimination Statement
The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status in its educational programs and its employment practices. Inquiries or grievances may be directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, [email protected].
Spanish El Distrito Escolar de la Comunidad de Sioux City es una institución de empleo con oportunidad equitativa y acción afirmativa. Es una práctica injusta o discriminatoria de cualquier institu-ción educativa de discriminar basado en raza, credo, color, sexo, ori-entación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, religión, edad (para empleo), discapacidad, condición socioeconómica (para pro-gramas), estado civil (para programas), o estatus de veterano en
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Click the Let’s Talk! link on our school website to start a conversation. East High School,
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Bayaanka Takoor
School District Community Sioux City waa fursad loo wada
siman / shaqo-tallaabo ku raaca. Waa dhaqanka aan caddaalad
ahayn ama takoor waayo hay'ad walba oo waxbarasho si takoor
ku salaysan jinsiyad, caqiido, midab, nooca, nooca galmada,
aqoonsiga jinsiga, asal qaran, diin, da '(shaqo), naafanimada,
xaaladda dhaqaale (barnaamijyada) , xaaladda guurka
(barnaamijyada), ama xaaladda halyeeyga barnaamijyadeeda
waxbarasho iyo dhaqanka shaqada ay. Su'aalaha ama
cabashooyinka lagu hagaajin karaa Jen Gomez, Agaasimaha
Adeegyada Ardayda & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux
City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075,
Vietnamese
Học Khu Trường Học Cộng Đồng Sioux City là một nơi có cơ hội
bình đẳng/ hành động chắc chắn trong việc làm. Đó là không có
sự công bằng hay có sự kỳ thị thực hành trong bất cứ các cơ sở
giáo dục về phân biệt căn cứ theo chủng tộc, tín ngưỡng, màu
da, phái tính, khuynh hướng phái tính, nhận định phái tính,
nguồn gốc quốc gia, tôn giáo, tuổi tác (cho việc làm), khuyết tật,
tình trạng kinh tế xã hội (cho những chương trình), tình trạng
hôn nhân (cho những chương trình), hoặc tình trạng cựu chiến
binh trong bất cứ những chương trình giáo dục hay thực hành
trong việc làm . Ai muốn thắc mắc hoặc khiếu nại có thể tiếp xúc
trực tiếp với bà Jen Gomez, Giám Đốc Dịch Vụ Học Sinh và Bình
Đẳng (Director of Student Services & Equity Education) tại 627
4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-
6075, [email protected]
EHS Academics/Activities/Athletic Calendar:
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EHS Twitter Feed: @BlackRaidersEHS
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