Winside Public Schools

Winside Public Schools will offer Driver’s Education during the summer of 2026. Students who are interested in enrolling must be between the ages of 14 and 17 and must possess a valid Learner’s Permit (LPE, SCP, or LPD) by the first day of class.

The cost of the course is $425. Registration must be completed through Northeast Community College (NECC) prior to the start of class. Registration may be completed in person at NECC or by calling 402-371-2020.

The classroom portion of Driver’s Education will be held Monday, June 1 through Thursday, June 4, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. A total of 20 hours of classroom instruction is required. The driving lab portion will be scheduled throughout June and July. Scheduling later in the summer will depend on vehicle and instructor availability.

Registration forms may be picked up in Mr. Gubbels’ office.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. or Mrs. Gubbels at jgubbels@winsidewildcats.org
or mgubbels@winsidewildcats.org
.

The Winside Student Council would like to announce a Red Cross Blood Drive on March 11th. It will be held in the WHS gym from 8:30am-2:00pm. You can schedule an appointment by calling Mr. Gubbels at the school phone number or by visiting RedCrossBlood.org and entering: Winside .

Huge shoutout to the Wildcat Speech Team! 🐾 Yesterday, they traveled to Emerson-Hubbard for the Lewis and Clark Conference Speech Meet. A special congratulations to Natalie Cautrell for bringing home 2nd Place in Honors Finals for Oral Interpretation of Serious Prose! 🥈🎭 So proud of all your hard work. Way to go, Wildcats! 👏

The Winside HS FFA chapter Qualified for State FFA in:
Floriculture
Nursery/Landscape
Welding
Ag Mechanics
Farm/Agribusiness management
Forestry
Agriscience

They had several top 10 Individual CDE Placings:(There's more than 100 students in some of these events so a top 10 placing is a big achievement)
Mathew Gubbels- Farm Business Management -7th place
Katelyn Jaeger- Floriculture - 8th place
Adrianna Miller- Floriculture 4th and Nursery/Landscape - 10th place
Stratton Sellni- Agronomy- 4th place
Hadley Sellin- Nursery/Landscape - 3rd place
Riley Petersen- Nursery/Landscape - 10th place
Riggins Sellin- Welding - 1st place SMAW
Landon Carlson- Welding - 2nd place OAW
Carter Sellin- Welding - 6th place GTAW
Aden Sellin- Welding - 7th GMAW

Great Job! A big thanks to Ms. Johnson for her work with the students.

Winside Elementary School will be having a March Mathness competition the week of March 16-19. Students will be placed in brackets and will compete for the top three places in each grade. There will be a grand champion (PK-K) (1-2) (3-6) between grades of numbers, addition, and multiplication.

PK students will identify numbers up to 25.
K students will identify numbers up to 50 and also play addition war.
1st students will identify numbers up to 100 and play addition war.
2nd students will play addition war.
3-6th students will play multiplication war.

I have provided flashcards and number cards for grades. Please practice the flashcards with your students at home and play rounds of war with playing cards. Playing cards will be handed out this week to K-6 students.

Wildcat Speech students traveled to Laurel on Saturday. Both students performed 3 rounds and earned personal best scores!

Elise Bilstein and Zylie Lagsub represented Winside this year at the Wayne County Spelling Bee in Wayne. Zylie was the County Runner-Up!

Great job, Wildcats!

Winside HS students, with the support of the Sons of the American Legion, are holding a spaghetti dinner fundraiser on March 22nd from 10:30am-1:00pm at the American Legion hall in Winside.
Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, salad with dressings, and dessert will be served.
A free will donation will be accepted at the door. Please join us and support Winside HS students

Spring Picture Time! If you would like for your child to have their picture taken for spring portraits, please scan the QR code and sign up. Sign ups will be open until Thursday, March 12, 2026

Students are coming home today with lanyards from the SchoolStore. Participation in the SchoolStore is voluntary. Students send invitations to people to participate in the SchoolStore. I do not expect people to buy gift certificates for the teachers. What I do like about the SchoolStore is that if you shop at Walmart, Kohl's, and other participating stores, a percentage of what you spend can come back to the school. We would use this money to look at new playground equipment.

If your student does participate, have them bring back their lanyard with the prize code written in to receive their book buddy.

I have attached a partial list of participating stores.

The Winside School weight room is being made available to the public on a trial basis starting January 5th, 2026. Membership is required. See the Public Weight Room guidelines document for more information. For questions, contact Supt. Jeff Hoesing. To sign up for a membership, contact Crystal Magwire at Winside School.

Just a reminder when using Rooms - teachers and staff are to reach out through messages in each Room. Make sure you are looking at your messages not only the announcements that are posted. Messages will be on the left side of the screen and if you have a new message there will be a red circle with a number in it. We have told our staff to keep communication through Rooms and some are concerned when they don't get messages back from parents for meetings or upcoming events. Please reach out to Mrs. Knust if you have questions on this.

AQuESTT is Nebraska's accountability system that rates schools on their performance in 6 domains. To learn more about AQuESTT ratings please visit aquestt.com.

Vocation Rehabilitation has many wonderful resources for students. Please reach out if you have questions and/or are interested.