Winside Public Schools

March Student of the Month Nominee: Halle Dankert

Halle works hard in the classroom. She is pleasant to be around and helps her classmates with whatever they need help with.

March Student of the Month Nominee: Brantley Schwedhelm

Brantley has set a positive example for his classmates. He is very respectful towards his teachers, he works hard at doing well in school, and he follows the expectations even when those around him are not. He has a positive attitude and he is always willing to lend a hand when needed!

March Student of the Month Nominee: Karoline Bowers

Karoline has always been a hard-worker and a very kind and respectful student. She gets along with others and is willing to help out whenever possible.

March Student of the Month Nominee: Eli LaDeaux

Eli has grown so much this year! He has worked so hard at improving and it has shown! He is consistently kind and helpful towards his classmates and teachers. He has jumped through many hoops and we are proud to have him in 5th grade!

March Student of the Month Nominee: Raylan Roberts

Ray has read several chapter books this quarter. I enjoy seeing a student finding a series of books that they like, and then continuing to read other books from that series. Ray enjoys learning new things. It has been fun watching Ray grow and improve in third grade this year.

March Student of the Month Nominee: Brayden Skokan

Brayden is a wonderful example of what it means to be a first grade Student of the Month. He comes to school each day with a big smile and a positive attitude. Brayden works hard on his studies, completes his work at home, and always returns it to school. He is also a kind friend to his classmates. We are very proud of Brayden and the effort he puts into his learning. Keep up the great work, Brayden!

March Student of the Month Nominee: Olivia Lowe

I would like to nominate Olivia for Student of the Month because of her strong work ethic and dedication to doing her best each day. She consistently takes her time on her work to ensure it is done carefully and correctly. Rather than rushing, she focuses on doing her very best and takes pride in the quality of their work.

March Student of the Month Nominee: Sadie Haase

Sadie is always ready for the day. She treats others with kindness and is always ready to learn. Sadie likes to be silly and adds so much laughter to our classroom. I can always count on her to be a positive role model to the rest of her classmates.

March Student of the Month: Emery Ames

Emery has done a great job this year with her works and has closed a gap in her reading levels. I can tell she has become more confident in her work and she doesn't need as much help as in the beginning of the year. She is very kind, respectful, and goofy. She is a joy to have in class and she gets along with all of her classmates.

STATE BOUND! 📣 Congrats to Natalie Cautrell on earning a 2nd place medal at the D1-3 District Speech competition! So proud of Natalie and Ben for their amazing performances. Next stop: STATE! 🏅🐾

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!

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.