Open House: As a district, we are preparing for the return of our students and the start of the 2020-2021 school year. The pandemic and Covid-19 have required us to change how we handle a variety of items within our district. Open house is very popular and draws a large crowd for us. To help reduce the number of people we have in a classroom or our building at once we are spacing the open house out. We will have our back to school open house on Monday, August 17th from 10:00am-8:00pm. We are asking families to sign up for a 25-minute time slot, we are allowing 6 families per slot. If you and your family are able to attend during the day, we ask that you sign for a day time slot. We have many families that will need an evening time slot because of work and travel. Our open house will be for our preschoolers through eighth grade students. Our high school students have separate registration times. Please sign up using the Google Doc link below with your family name and grade levels (Knight (Nash K, Ellie 4, Boche 6, Luke 8). If you have questions or a time does not work for you once you have had a chance to sign up, please contact Mr. Knight, 605-563-2291 or Eric.Knight@k12.sd.us
Please follow the link below to sign your family up.
Thank you,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1esYe3w2_CaPjPibKamvGdFY4TYi33t6jp6E0zbf8c9o/edit?usp=sharing
Any high school student interested in cheer leading for the 2020-21 season, tryouts will be Wednesday, August 5 at 8 am in the Gold Gym. Please enter through the west gym entrance. We will learn a cheer which will be performed and every athlete will be required to execute two cheer jumps of choice.
Good Afternoon; as a part of open house our 6th graders will be required to attend a middle school orientation. We have three different 1-hour time slots for people to sign up. For social distancing precautions, we are allowing 8 students and a parent to sign up per hour. Please enter the west door by the ag/shop. Please sign up using the attached Google Doc. If you have questions, please call 563-2291. Thanks
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhf4yaK4HPGh146kR6_MU_MYMYmsuyTytDQF1xhwMEs/edit?usp=sharing
Follow the link to the 2020-2021 school calendar.
https://5il.co/iufw
Back to School Start Well 2020: Video 7, Resulting Consequences.
https://youtu.be/MuwoRSS2QZU
As we move forward and start planning the fall sports season, I have a few updates for you. Football will start August 6th. Volleyball and Cross Country will start August 13th. All 6-12 grade student athlete wishing to participate are required to have a physical on file with the school. Pioneer Memorial will be offering physical Thursday, July 30th for $30 from 8:30-11:00 am in the school commons.
Start Well Back to School 2020: Video 5, Response to sick students & Common Space Use
https://youtu.be/q5HJdEkN9mo
Tornado Time will be looking for staff to work Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays once school starts. Hours on those days will be from 3:00-6:15pm. If you are interested, please contact Eric.Knight@k12.sd.us.
Start Well Back to School Video 4: Passing Periods, Entering the School Day, & Dismissal from the School Day
https://youtu.be/yl74u3fMzvI
Start Well Back to School Video 3: Bussing, Water Fountains, & Cafeteria
https://youtu.be/s-H_jcMa_N8
High school students/parents please sign up for a time to register with Mrs. Lindstrom. 9th grade has it's own link all others use the other link.
9th Grade - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TivVz83jBr9fUzah1aS5jBtFoDRI676t9BgtuTormfY/edit?usp=sharing
10th-12th Grade - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uA-T4Tu4MtU1Rrsc3sGBgeyqocQKWs3jDSKPahUEr9g/edit?usp=sharing
Start Well Back to School video number 2: Masks and Pre-screening. If you have questions, please let me know.
https://youtu.be/umvna7dqcnk
Mr. Knight will be making some short videos describing the return to learn protocols. If you have not reviewed our approved return to learn plan, please do so. This first video discusses hand washing/sanitizing and touch surface. If you have questions, please reach out to us here at the school. Thanks,
https://youtu.be/DQuzAN9881k
Order your pizza for tomorrow night. Tuesday is the last originally scheduled delivery date for Pizza Ranch in Vermillion. Because of the great turn out, they would like to make this an every Tuesday event. Thank you for your continued support. See flyer for ordering details.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Pizza Ranch delivery nights. Collin the general manager from Pizza Ranch in Vermillion present the Tornado Education Foundation with a check.
The link below will take you to our 2020-2021 school supply list. https://5il.co/ib1s
Good Afternoon; The link below will take a you to our reopening plan. If were to start today, we would open using tier 2 protocols. Things are ever changing, but this plan will guide our decision making. If you have questions or concerns, please call Mr. Knight at 605-563-2291 or email Eric.Knight@k12.sd.us
https://5il.co/iazz
Options for Athletic Physicals.
Hello Parents: The district is interested in your thoughts about getting back to school in August. Please take a couple of minutes to complete our back to school survey. We thank you for your assistance.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QDXYX25
The district's start well back to school committee met this morning. The district's plan to start school is a four tier plan. Three of the four tiers have the goal of educating our students in a face to face environment. Please look for a complete back to school plan shortly.