Next Tuesday at SGS-We are going to have "TOO crazy" day on 2/22/22! Spread the word and tell your students to wear crazy clothes! Crazy hair, crazy socks, mismatched clothes, backwards clothes, clothes with "two" "to" or "too"...Whatever is "too crazy!"
Student: Hey, Mom! Have you seen my (insert clothing item here)?
Mom: No honey, I haven’t. Have you checked at school?
School: Uh…
These items available in the office through Friday. After Friday, they will be available at a local thrift store.
Here is this week's edition of the Friday Focus: http://sterlingusd376ks.apptegy.us/article/655051?org=usd-376
Congratulations to the Bear Cubs on their HOA Tournament Championship and an undefeated season. #WeAreSterling
Black Bear Alum Dustin Galyon shared with our students and staff this morning. “Every day you make a difference, positive or negative. It’s up to you.” And “We are all tailor-made and have unique gifts and talents.” #WeAreSterling
Reminder that school is dismissed at 12:30 today for professional learning communities for our staff.
The regular board meeting scheduled for Monday, February 14th has been moved to Wednesday, February 9th at 7:00 PM in the SHS Library.
Dear SGS Parents,
Today at 2:15 pm we are having our "opening ceremonies" as part of our own SGS Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony is not open to the public but you can view it live on our own 3BN Network today. Each classroom has selected a country that is competing in the Winter Olympics and students are learning about those countries in their classrooms. Students will also be participating in our own SGS Winter Olympic events in their PE classes with events such as bobsledding, curling, speed skating, the luge, and ski jumping. (Special thanks to our PE teacher, Ms. Susan Brown.) It should be a fun and educational time for our students! Our opening ceremony will involve each class presenting their country and will be recognized as SGS Olympians. You can view it at www.shsblackbears.com. Our SGS Winter Olympics will conclude with closing ceremonies on February 25th. Be sure to cheer on our SGS Olympians!
Due to inclimate weather, Sterling Schools will start two hours late. There will be no breakfast and no AM preschool. Students Testing To Stay do not need to test tomorrow to attend school. We will resume testing Friday morning.
Sterling Public Schools will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday February 2nd, due to the anticipated poor weather conditions.
Brackets are out for the junior high basketball tournament. The boys will play their first game this Saturday the 5th at 2:10 and the girls will play Saturday at 3:20. All games will be at Ell-Saline. Please see brackets here https://5il.co/150il
In attempt to beat the snow this evening, we are moving start times of the basketball games. The JV games will start at 4:00 and play 6 minute quarters. We will start the varsity girls game as close to 5:15 as possible and the varsity boys will immediately follow. C boys will play around 5:15 as well.
Here is this week's Friday Focus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jp_C-3TqNMCbWmzyBwPDLVDsPQQXtAOq/view?usp=sharing.
I would like to remind folks of the COVID Technology Support site that is available under the "District Information" heading on the USD376 website. Here is the direct URL https://sites.google.com/usd376.com/usd376covidtechresources/home
Today we added 2 new positive cases to SJSHS, bringing the total number of active cases to 15. The number of active cases at SGS is still 2. We actually had a total of 8 positive tests today. In these alerts, we only report the number of new positives that have close contacts at school. Of the 8 positive cases, 3 were in the test to stay protocol, 2 were testing to return on day 6 of being positive, and the other three were tests requested by families because they were symptomatic household contacts. Our testing program was able to keep 5 positive students that would have been in class out until it is safe for them to return. At the same time, all healthy close contacts (other than household contacts) can continue to attend school and fully participate in activities if they choose to participate in TTS. We believe our plan is working as intended, and keeping the spread slow enough that large groups of students and staff are not missing school. We know it is a strain on families to bring kids in early for testing, and it is stressful to wait for results. It has been a challenging time for everyone on our staff as we deal with the stress and strain of working with remote and absent students and try to cover for missing staff members. Everyone in the district is dedicated to keeping school open, and as good and normal as possible in this challenging time. The “experts” say the surge should drop off quickly, so hopefully we will be through this tough time soon and the spring will be as uneventful as this fall was.
We have had 5 SJSHS students test positive today. There are now a total of 13 actively positive students at SJSHS. An additional SGS student tested positive for a total of 2 active. Please monitor your students extra closely for cold and flu like symptoms and keep them home if they are ill.
The game scheduled for last Friday against Berean Academy has been rescheduled for Monday, February 14th.
There was a mistake in the updates to our reopening plan that were posted on Monday. RCHD let us know that we are not able to have household contacts participate in the Test To Stay protocol. Household contacts must stay home from school for 5 days from the last exposure, then test and wear a mask for 5 additional days. Sorry for any confusion.
Please pardon our tardiness with today's Friday Focus. We wanted to have the most up-to-date information in our 2-week schedule, even though it may change. http://sterlingusd376ks.apptegy.us/article/628604?org=usd-376
Because of staffing shortages and a spike in positive cases SJSHS will be closed tomorrow, Friday Jan. 14th and all activities and practices EXCLUDING state debate will be canceled. SGS will be in session. Masking is strongly encouraged during this time of rapid spread.