Middle School picture retakes are tomorrow Wednesday. the 8th! If you were absent on the last picture day, please be prepared to take your yearbook picture tomorrow!
Mrs. Scott's Environmental Science class added tilapia to the aquaponics system! The fish were added on Friday, and we can already see a major improvement in our plant growth!
Mrs. Scott's Zoology students dissected sea stars as they continued their study of Echinoderms!
Middle School Parents:
Tomorrow students will be bringing home all of the information you need to access their school pictures. If they do not bring anything home, then they will need to take retakes on Wednesday, November 8th. Thank you!
Attention Seniors and Parents of Seniors, senior packets are due 11/17 and need turned into Yearbook. Parents will also need to turn in the Senior Salute by 11/17 to make the Yearbook deadline.
Thanks for all your help in celebrating our seniors.
Please come join us at the Tip-In Club meeting. We will be discussing the upcoming season, our Meet the Ironmen event, and fundraising ideas to support the basketball program.
ELEMENTARY THANKSGIVING FEAST 2023
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Huge Shoutout to two members of our Lady Ironmen Softball Team!
Faith Branstetter and Tatum Swalley both made All Conference Team.
Faith also made All District and All Region!!
Congrats to these two fantastic young ladies on their accomplishments!
Come check out our 4th grade Halloween Concert starting at 6:00 tonight in the elementary cafeteria! You don't want to miss this!
Nowata Athletics this week
Mon- girls basketball scrimmage cancelled
Thurs- boys basketball scrimmage at Cleveland
Fri- Varsity Football at Adair 7:00
To my Seniors, I cannot believe the time is here for your last marching season to end. It has been an amazing journey. Thank you for all the hard work, dedication, commitment, sweat and tears you have put into our program. Because of your leadership and talent our band is what it is today and it is a pretty amazing band. You have truly embraced what it means to be an Ironmen. You are going to be greatly missed my friends. I hope you always keep a song in your heart, you chase after your dreams and you always believe in yourself. You each have a special place in my heart and always will. Wherever you go and whatever you decide to do you will always have a home here in the Nowata Band. Always and forever a Marching Ironmen. #IronmenPride
Follow the link for new video content. The kids did great. I'm a work in progress. Lol.
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Good morning, Friends!! You might think I'm crazy, but I don't believe there are any bad kids. For a variety of reasons, however, at times kids will make horrible decisions and exhibit awful behaviors, but that doesn't make them bad people. Many of us Baby Boomers and Gen Xers want to poke fun at them, inferring that the up and coming generations are weak, soft, entitled, and lazy. First of all, we're the ones who raised them, so there's that... Secondly, they are growing up in a much more difficult, confusing, and faster paced world than the comparatively simpler one we grew up in 20, 30, 40 years ago. Just like we did back then, though, kids today need love, grace, and caring hands to guide them and help them along their paths. I always remind myself that the harder a kid tries to push me away, the more he/she needs me. We have EXTRAORDINARY kids in our schools and community, and I'm humbled and grateful to have a small part in their lives, if only for a short time. Have a wonderful day, Folks.
Birthdays are extra special when you get to visit the book vending machine!! 📚 Every student is given a token on their birthday (even those non school birthdays!), to visit the machine for a new book! 🥳 So much fun!!! Thank you to our generous donor for funding this project!
Last year, students in the elementary school left their mark by painting rocks for our front entryway. Last week, those rocks were added to our garden. Soon, we will be painting more rocks and adding to this unique & beautiful collection!
Athletics This Week:
MONDAY: JHFB 5:30. 1 Game
TUESDAY: Varsity girls basketball scrimmage at Pawhuska 4:00
FRIDAY: Varsity Football at Home Vs Salina. Senior Night Festivities beforehand.
Please join us for Senior Night at the home game on Friday! Cheer is also included!
REMINDER!! ALL Sophomores will be taking the Pre-ACT Tomorrow: Tuesday Oct. 24. Testing starts first thing in the morning. Don't be late!
I want to share something that’s on my heart this morning. It’s a little personal in nature, but hopefully it will resonate in one way or another with many of you.
I fail… a lot. Every. Single. Day.
I’m either failing myself, my wife, my kids, my coworkers, and/or people I’ve never even met. When the big tragedies and failures of life knock us to our knees, friends, family, and neighbors seem closer and more readily available to help pick us up and put us back on track. To me, it’s the small failures, missteps, and runs of bad luck that occur frequently that do the most damage. It feels like a death by a thousand cuts. In and of themselves, those innocuous little miscues might seem trivial and inconsequential, so we shoulder them alone and keep trying to push through. But over time, they sure take their toll as we stumble and fall and try to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps over and over again.
It’s hard and it’s tiresome, so why do we do it? Why not just stay on the ground?
I think we keep going because of the hope of what’s waiting for us on the other side—and that is redemption. It's the redemptive power of resilience, the redemptive power of courage, and the redemptive power of love and faith. Life is hard, but you’re not alone. At the end of a long day, I often think of this quote: “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” I hope you have great day, and life’s burdens are small.
Happy Friday! Coach Johnston's alternative education class made their annual Jack o' lanterns today! Very artistic group this year. Of course Coach J likes his the best! Go Ironmen!
