Clay Center Community High School

It was a great morning of collaboration at the Grow Clay County "Wake Up Wednesday" event, hosted at CCCHS. The Wakefield High School culinary arts students provided breakfast. Curriculum and Instruction Director Jaclyn Pfizenmaier discussed an exciting new endeavor with PartnerEd (see insert). Superintendent Brett Nelson gave a bond issue update. And, community members got to tour different areas of the high school dealing with Career and Technical Education (CTE). Thank you to everyone who attended! #celebrate379

CCCHS Senior Intern Spotlight: Aiden Sweet
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CDL license complete!

On Oct. 21, the USD 379 Bus Barn hosted 28 people from the local area and beyond who completed their ELDT (Entry Level Driver Training), and 32 who completed their CDL tests. Of those 32 people, 128 new licenses and endorsements were obtained. This included 3 seniors from CCCHS and WHS!

Thank you to Prairieland Partners for hosting the event, USD 379 for coordinating, and to the State of Kansas for training and testing these new drivers. We also assisted 5 other school districts with new drivers and several local businesses benefited with new CDL permit holders. #celebrate379

Thank you to NHS members for volunteering their time at Harvesters distribution yesterday! #celebrate379

CCCHS and USD 379 invite you to Grow Clay County's Wake Up Wednesday tomorrow! #celebrate379

Mr. Roberts found a unique and fun way for his chemistry classes to review electron configuration today by playing Battleship! Students played against a partner by using the appropriate electron configuration to sink ships. #celebrate379

Freshmen in Ms. McFadden’s room work on vocabulary every week as part of the district-wide goal. This week, students took over teaching the vocabulary to their peers. This included writing the definition and part of speech on the board, along with helping the class brainstorm synonyms and antonyms. We may have some future teachers in our midst! #celebrate379

On October 30, the CCCHS Teaching as a Career students traveled to KSU for Future Teacher Day and explored what it means to be an EdCat. Their visit included a special small group session with Dr. Kimberly Staples, discovering the need for phenomena-based science education. #celebrate379

Mr. Pfizenmaier's construction tech students worked on installing the trusses to the Tiger House last week. This house is still available to purchase. Go to https://www.usd379.org/o/usd-379/page/tiger-house to see more details. #celebrate379

Last week, Mrs. Hamel's Life Skills students enjoyed a cooking lesson with curriculum and instruction director Jaclyn Pfizenmaier! #celebrate379

The November Tiger Talks Newsletter is here! #celebrate

Mrs. Hughes starts most days with a "bell ringer" activity for her Spanish II class. Today, they used Schoology to review how to say the correct time in Spanish. They also used Blooket to race against each other to answer questions about daily routines. Both are easy ways to make learning fun! #celebrate379

Today, students in Mr. Roberts' Integrated Science class tested the rockets they built by conducting launch tests on the football field. The air-powered rockets traveled up to 82.5 yards!!! It was a great lesson on projectile motion. #celebrate379

It was a great turnout at both CCCHS and CCCMS to listen to Amy Neville speak about the dangers of social media. Amy will host a Q&A session following the documentary, "Can't Look Away" tonight. They are expecting a big crowd, so please come early! Doors open at 6:00, and the movie will begin at 6:30. It is about 75 minutes long. We would love to have lots of parents AND students there! #celebrate379

Parent/Teacher Conferences are this week! #celebrate379

Tomorrow night, from 7:00-8:30 p.m., FBLA members will be trick-or-treating for canned goods to be donated to the Lighthouse local food pantry. After they leave, they will place a sticky note on your door. This is our system to try to avoid multiple groups going to the same house. Acceptable items are listed below. Thank you for supporting our cause! #celebrate379

Students are installing exterior ZIP sheathing on the Tiger House! #celebrate379

Mrs. Reichert's English 10 students wrapped up first quarter with a “deep dive” Socratic Discussion about the deeper meaning of William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies.” (Note the inspirational conch shell in the center of the circle!) #celebrate379

Mr. Craig's freshman Ag 101 class has had a busy and successful first quarter! Students in the class have learned about various careers in agriculture, planned a community service project, and completed in-depth explorations of soil science and management, and dairy farm management. The class made visits to community farms operated by Erica and AJ Carlson, Rick Chaffee, and Cott Family Farms to look at various soil profiles. The class also visited the Wohler family's 4J dairy to learn about the daily responsibilities of the dairy farmer.

All these experiences have led to success in FFA competitions! The Clay Center team placed 2nd at the Land/Soils evaluation (tied for 1st!), and took 1st place in the Dairy Cattle Evaluation competition. Various students have had top-10 performances throughout the school year thus far. #celebrate379

Mr. Roberts' chemistry students avoided the rain this morning and made sidewalk chalk artwork to help them visualize the periodic trends and atomic theory. #celebrate379