Congratulations, SGS students and families! We met our first 9-weeks attendance goal by maintaining an average daily attendance rate of over 95%!
School attendance is important! Research shows that students who miss more than 10% of school days (excused or unexcused) are at risk for falling behind. These students are considered chronically absent. Last year, 20% of SGS students were identified as being chronically absent. For the first 9 weeks of this school year, only 8% of SGS students were considered chronically absent. This is a tremendous improvement!
We have something fun planned for the end of the month to celebrate this accomplishment!
Want to learn more about why school attendance is so important? Vist the Attendance Works website, https://www.attendanceworks.org/chronic-absence/the-problem/.
Picture retakes will be November 9.
USD 507 is proud to announce that KSDE has recognized the district with Kansans Can Awards for graduation rate and post-secondary success, as well as the Commissioner's Award with Honors for exceeding our predicted post-secondary effectiveness rate!
A couple of weeks ago a boys necklace was found on the playground. If you have lost one, please call the office.
USD 507 students have the opportunity to experience the KDHE Mobile Health Lab on October 18. Students will learn about DNA, mosquitos, germs, microscopes, watersheds, and chromotagraphy. More information can be found on the attached flyer. This is an optional activity, and students must return a signed permission form to participate. If you need another permission form sent home, please let the classroom teacher or Mrs. Naylor know.
USD 507 Parent Teacher Conferences will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on October 19. There will be no school on this day. School resumes Tuesday, October 24.
New trash crew on duty!
Please note the change in location for the USD 507 BOE meeting. The meeting will be held at the grade school following the literacy fair.
There is still time to order school pictures and sports pictures from the SHS Yearbook staff. Simply return your order form and payment to either school office to place your order!
SGS Kindness Week starts Monday!
NHS and KAY mentors visited SGS today!
First and third grade learning buddies working hard today!
A day with perfect attendance calls for popsicles! Great job TRIBE members and families!
The Ad Astra Mobile Planetarium visited SGS today.
SGS will celebrate Kindness Week October 2 through October 6.
Fall Literacy Night is Monday, October 9, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the SGS gym. We will have fun fall activities and crafts followed by a free sloppy joe meal. Please RSVP by October 2 to help us plan for this event. You can fill out this form, comment on this post, or return the paper form that was sent home with students. We are looking forward to a fun night with SGS families!
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SGS crossing guards in action!
National Box Tops Week starts today. Earn double points this week only when you scan your receipts using the Box Tops app and select Satanta Grade School!
Satanta Football Homecoming Festivities 2023
This year’s Homecoming Week at Satanta, which truly involved every student PK-12, was truly a memorable one. Participation in Spirit Week, based on the “We’ve Got the Beat” theme, was up from past years with the senior guys’ rendition of Motley Crue providing a highlight. The pictures from the grade school were especially adorable.
On Friday, the Satanta High School student council, led by Mr. Tim Dusin, organized a full day of activities for all students in grades 6-12, which started with two hours of school service projects. These projects included cleaning and organizing the main bus barn, weed eating and trimming grass at the football stadium, repairing siding on the press box, and organizing storage areas at the high school.
The most impressive effort of this service time, however, involved an expansion of project Remove-the-Wall-Carpet, which was begun last year when Mr. Dusin’s Enrichment group was awarded a Western Kansas Community Foundation grant for school beautification. This project is nearly complete with students on Friday adding quarter-round trim to frame out the newly installed, taped and mudded, painted sheetrock pieces. Vinyl school spirit wall art, created by Mrs. Carlie Rooney’s Indian Ink class has also been added and updated.
This ongoing project initially sought only to remove the 70’s-era wall carpet from the area above the student lockers in the main hallway. For Homecoming, the effort was expanded to include the removal of the carpet from the concession stand area and the addition of new sheetrock to cover the decades-old carpet adhesive that was left behind. This project has not been entirely completed (excuse our dust), but the transformation is well underway! These workdays (really work mornings) have become a Homecoming tradition with students working on school projects until lunch and then transitioning to float building for the parade in the afternoon.
The parade began on Friday at 2:30 p.m. with floats leaving the high school and making their way down Main Street before taking a slight detour to pass the Satanta LTCU before arriving at the grade school for an all-school pep rally that included the participation of both the junior high and high school cheerleaders and all-school photo taken by Mrs. Courtney Dunn from atop the elementary school gym.
Friday evening, Mrs. Crystal Naylor’s KAY unit sponsored a dodgeball tournament, and the Satanta Booster Club hosted a fall athlete booster meal. The bonfire was set aflame at 8:30 p.m., and the evening ended with an outdoor movie night hosted by Satanta FFA.
Before Saturday’s football game (moved because of a shortage of officials), Satanta FCCLA, now led by Ms. Erika Alexander, hosted a sloppy joe fundraising meal, which began before the Coronation Ceremony at which Edwin Arana and Yanisa Gonzalez were crowned 2023 Football Homecoming King and Queen. It was a FULL week of fun and school spirit that reminded us all that we have much to celebrate at small school, which definitely has a big heart.
October lunch menu
