Highland Art Day is April 17 at
Highland. Good luck!
Hayden built a neat American Flag. He learned that painting can have frustrations, but he kept at it, and it turned out well. These wall hangings are always a great addition to any room. Great job, Hayden!
Several members and parents of the WCHS FFA Chapter attended the North Central District FFA Banquet on Monday, 4/7 at Chapman High School. Students across the District were recognized for their outstanding achievement in FFA Competitions and their Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs. WCHS has three members earn their State FFA Degrees this year, Makenna Elliott, McKenzie Baker and Joseph Kern. McKenzie Baker was honored as the North Central District Star in Agribusiness this year, and will represent the NC District in the Stars Over Kansas program at the State FFA Convention in May, for a chance to earn the State Star Award. McKenzie Baker won the District Proficiency Award in Forest Management and Products, Tanner Baker was the District Winner in Vegetable Production, and Joseph Kern won the Agricultural Mechanics - Repair and Maintenance proficiency Award. Rowley Keesecker presented the FFA Creed at the Banquet, as the winner of the NCD Creed Speaking competition earlier this winter. Congratulations to our students on all their hard work!
Nine members of the forensics team competed at the Wamego Tournament on Thursday, April 10. Last regular season meet and our students finished strong! Out of 18 teams competing, our team brought home the 3rd Place Team Trophy.
Individual Results:
Aviana & Kelly – 6th in Duet
Kelly – 5th in Original Oration
Anna – 3rd in Impromptu
Angel – 6th in Impromptu
Charlie – 5th in Poetry
Faith & Charlie – 5th in IDA
Elin – 1st in Informative Speech
Elin – 4th in Extemp
Also contributing to the team’s third place finish were Garrett, Allisson, and Madison.
Congratulations to all our competitors for a great regular season! We are proud of your hard work and success.
2nd meet in the books for our Junior High Track team. Today they competed at Valley Heights in a quad style meet. This allowed for unlimited entries and kids to try new events. We came away with the 8th grade sweep, boys and girls both won the meet! 7th graders showed big improvements. Kids have tired legs and we have a bit of a break between meets, so we will NOT have practice tomorrow, Friday, April 11th.
Results: http://68.234.97.3/Track/
The North Central District FFA Horse Judging Event was hosted by Cloud County Community College on March 27th. Two WCHS students competed in this year's competition and did exceptionally well! Joree Bentz competed in the senior division of the event and finish as the 2nd high individual, while Rowley Keesecker finished as the District champion in the Greenhand Division. Great work you two!!!
Spring FFA is underway here at WCHS! We have had several competitions in the past few days, and our students have been working hard to learn about career skills and practical applications in a wide variety of focus areas. Our Agronomy team, consisting of Jonathan Wright, Amber Kolle, Dawson Strunk, and Destyni Christenson recently placed 1st in both the Cloud County Community College Aggie Days competition and the North Central District Agronomy Event. Jonathan Wright led the event as the first place individual overall in both divisions, with all four of our team members finishing in the top ten overall. In the District Event, results were: Wright - 1st, Kolle - 3rd, Strunk - 4th, Christenson - 6th place. Congratulations Agronomy team!
ALERT WCHS TRACK: We will have a split meet on Friday April 11th! Some of our team will attend the Wakefield meet and some of our team will attend the Riley County meet! Information for both meets can be found in the pictures provided! Both meets begin at 3:00 PM. Wakefield running events begin at 4:45pm and Riley County running events begin at 5:15pm. Good Luck WCHS Track and coaches!
There will be sport pictures April 10. don't forget your uniforms
Tomorrow (4-10-2025) WCJH Track heads to Valley Heights! Good Luck JH Track Athletes and Coaches! #BeTigerStrong
Congratulations to all of our student musicians today. 7-12th grade students competed today in Choir and Band at our state level competition. Both the Choir and Band both earned Excellent ratings from all the judges in their respective categories. With this rating they showed off not only their musicality and how much they have grown and worked over the past 9 months. I will share recordings later on my personal page (Abigail J Sawin) so you can listen to Just how wonderfully they truly did!!
The choir had massive improvement from the TVL event to today and I couldn't be more excited to
See what this last month and a half of
School will bring for them.
The band had a touch of nerves in the beginning but powered through and got some great feedback from the judges and knocked their second song out of the park. So very proud to be a Tiger today and the leader of the Washington County Players and Singers.
Good luck to the WCHS students participating!
Our 4th and 5th grades traveled to McCain Auditorium in Manhattan to attend Pirate School. The production provided a combination of learning and laughs.
There will be Forensics at Wamego on Thursday, April 10th. Come on down to the last meet!
The Modern Pioneers GFWC of Washington sponsored an art show this spring. Angel Cole (middle) received Best of Show, Jayden Laflen (left) Best of Painting, and Mauricio Meza (right) Best of Mixed Media. Their pieces along with 12 others are headed to the GFWC state convention this weekend for judging. Thank you so much to the ladies of this club for supporting the arts!
Good luck to the WCHS choir and band at State Music today!
We had our first golf tournament of the year at Cedar Hills Golf Course, and it started with a bang. The top 4 team scorers totaled 347! Also, those 4 individuals were in the top 8. A great start to our season!
Monte Huckett- 2nd-83
Noah Hoover- 3rd-84
Tucker Huband-7th-90
Grayson Votipka-8th-90
William Svanda-18th-102
Mayze Miller-25th-111
Monte Huckett holes out from 75yds on 9 for the eagle!! Way to go Monte! Currently +4 on the day.
Two students from Explore8 - Chancie and Aubri- are working with the local pickleball club to sponsor a fun, community activity coming soon! Make sure to sign up! Just scan the QR code to sign up.
Our band and choir will be traveling to Concordia tomorrow to compete at State Large Group competitions. We would love to have as many people come to watch and support as possible. We will be performing for Choir at the Brown Grand Theater (310 W 6th) at 9:45am. Then the band will perform at the High School auditorium (436 W 10th St) at 11:20am. Both groups perform for 3 judges, and are adjudicated on 9 different categories including Tone, Intonation, Expression, Technique, Rhythmic and Note Accuracy, Balance, Blend, and Presence.
We will be back before the end of the day so bus riders and sports kids will be back in plenty of time for after school requirements.
