Help TSA raise money to compete at nationals in June by having your picture taken on the last day of school. This is what our actual backdrop looks like. It's 10 feet X 8 feet so plenty of room to get all your friends in there too! $5 per picture. Email jenniferheminway@stafford349 to get on the schedule.
Our middle school advisory students are collecting canned goods for the Stafford County Food Pantry. Please bring yours by Friday.
Graphic by Khloe McCloskey
Stafford hosts the HOPL Scholar's Bowl today. Start time is 4:00pm.
A little Cotton Eyed Joe.
Musical chairs at Neon Nights.
Mrs. Meyer's 2nd graders have been hard at work learning about economics, and are now entrepreneurs! Check out these businesses.
This morning, Class of 2006 alumni - Brent Fritzemeier, blessed our 8th graders, Business Communications, and Digital Media students with his time and energy. He Zoomed into our classroom to discuss his background, education and experience in his Digital Media/Communications career. What a fantastic community we share!
Together We Make A Difference!! March PEACE winners! "Proving you care more about each other than winning an argument"
Together we make a difference. Paired reading intervention with multi grades.
Our Middle School TSA team leaves this morning for State competition. They are semi-finalists in Video Game Design and are headed to Salina to present the game they designed and coded themselves to the judges. Wish them luck! We're awfully proud of them!
USD 349 is accepting applications for a Parents As Teachers Educator. Applicant must have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years’ experience working with families and young children.
The PAT Educator is responsible for gathering family data and maintain clear, well organized and comprehensive records; schedules and conducts personal visits with each family as often as determined by High Needs indicators; Practices confidentiality with all program participants; Provides information regarding child development and appropriate childrearing practices; Provides information regarding neuroscience research and the implications for child development; Individualizes presentations of information for each family; Observes strengths of parent(s) and child(ren) and recognizes behavior and/or development of child(ren) deviating from the expected norms; Identifies inappropriate parental expectations and/or childrearing strategies; Helps parents to be observers, to take responsibility for decisions regarding their child(ren)’s development, and to be actively involved in activities with their child(ren); Reports any child abuse and neglect concerns to coordinator and child abuse agency; Screen each enrolled child at least annually, following the screening protocol and funding source requirements, share results of screening with families, both verbally and written summary; plans and facilitates parent-child group connection; Collaborates with community agencies in providing services to improve the health and welfare of families; Prepares and delivers publication of monthly newsletter and varies other clerical duties. Must have a valid driver’s license.
This is a 20 hour a week position, salary and benefits are competitive. Application deadline: April 3, 2024. Apply at 318 E. Broadway, Stafford, Kansas. Phone: 620-234-5243.
USD 349 is an equal opportunity employer.
The 2024 ProStart Team is on the competition floor now! Returning team members Anna Alpers, Katelyn McCloskey, and Jimi Oleson are joined by Kirstin Langley and Brock Downing for the 2024 State ProStart Culinary Competition. The team will prepare a 3-course, gourmet meal using only 2 small butane burners. They do not have access to running water or any equipment that uses power other than those operated by hand, including no refrigerators or freezers. Students must remain inside of a 10 foot square work area and can’t leave the area except to wash their hands at stations located on the competition floor.
Students are judged throughout the competition, from product check-in, setup, production time, and cleanup. There are industry professionals continuously watching the team and scoring safety, sanitation, knife skills, culinary skills, followed by a critique of the full menu with a panel of judges for the starter, entree, and dessert. The team is also judged on their menu development and recipe costing.
Students developed the Italian inspired menu featuring Arancini (fried risotto balls stuffed with mozzarella), a Garlic-Thyme crusted filet (Sponsored by Golden Belt Beef) accompanied by freshly made Fettuccini, sauteed summer vegetables and Alfredo sauce. The finishing touch is the layered Lemon Polenta cake with lemon curd, mascarpone whipped cream, raspberry dessert sauce, and fresh raspberries.
Stafford is certainly the smallest school participating in the competition that includes 21 teams from Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Topeka, Maize, numerous Wichita schools, and more. This is the 8th year that ProStart Instructor Kim Unruh has taken a team to ProStart. Each year serves as a learning experience for future competitions.
This competition involves so much more than cooking - students develop leadership, time management, teamwork, and organizational skills, as well as problem solving and persistence in a high-pressure environment. This team, as have others in the past, put in hours of time practicing outside of the school day, including weekend practices (and this year, practice during Spring Break). Each practice can last up to three hours and involves a lot of preparation and cleanup.
Good luck team! Go Trojans!
Good luck to our culinary team today. They are competing in the Pro Start competition.
Hey parents!
On April 12th, the Kansas Learning Center for Health will be here to provide human reproduction lessons for 7th and 8th graders and a combination lesson of human reproduction and teen sexual health for 9th and 10th graders. Some of you already received the consent forms at conferences. If you did not already sign and turn in the form or you need a new form, please visit the high school office so your child is able to participate (or not)!
Middle school track practice is tomorrow from 4-5:30!
Thank you to everyone who came and supported our students by purchasing from our Scholastics Book Fair! It was a HUGE success!! Also, thank you to everyone who dressed up and participated in the Read Across America Spirit Week, and congratulations to our Spirit Week participant winners!
Elementary: Gracie Hoss
MS/HS: Kyndal McCloskey
Staff: Mrs. Kylie Meyer
Vote for your favorite Food Truck concept at Conferences!
T minus 14 hours to get your track gear!!!! https://factory233.com/stafford_track/shop/home
Thanks to the South Central Community Foundation for supplying $1000 to Stafford's Art room. They provided us with new supplies to enjoy such as do-a-dot markers and Mr. Sketch smelly markers, and weaving boards. They funded a new colorful rug for our little ones to sit on and a wonderful bookshelf that helps students locate drawing books, reading books, coloring books, weaving supplies, games, etc. We enjoy how fun and open our art room looks!
A HUGE Thank You to Golden Belt Beef for sponsoring the beef for Stafford High School's 2024 State ProStart Culinary Competition team! Golden Belt has provided the team with filet mignon steak for practice purposes and the final competition.
The 2024 ProStart Team includes Seniors Kirstin Langley, Katelyn McCloskey, Anna Alpers, Jimi Oleson, and Junior Brock Downing. The team will compete at the State competition on March 20th against 21 other schools from around the State. Students are judged on product check-in, safety and sanitation, knife skills, organization, communication, and the complexity, cohesiveness, and quality of the meal prepared. Students are challenged to produce a three-course gourmet meal using only two butane camp-style burners, no electricity, and no running water (water is available for cooking before time starts and for hand washing purposes). The menu developed by students this year has an Italian theme including Arancini, Garlic-Thyme crusted Filet Mignon, Sauteed Summer Vegetables, freshly prepared Fettuccini, Alfredo Sauce, and a Lemon-Raspberry Polenta Cake with Mascarpone Whipped Cream.
