Check out the Center School District Comnunity Newsletter for December! Scholarships, School Board elections, Math Relays winners and more!
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Please join the students and staff at Center Middle School for a holiday musical celebration, Sounds of the Season at 7pm on December 7th. The program will feature the CMS band and choirs performing holiday music. No admission charge - we'd love to see you there!
Basketball season is underway! Varsity boys will be playing Central at home on Tuesday, December 5th at 7pm. The Center High School Student Government Assocation is holding a 50/50 raffle at the game. You can start purchasing tickets at the door at 6pm until the end of the first half of the varsity game. If your ticket is pulled during halftime, you will win 50% of the money collected. Tickets are one for $1, 7 for $5 and 15 for $10. Exact change only, and you must be present to win. Please attend the game on Tuesday, December 5th, and help support our SGA students at state!
The Center High School Athletic Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for the 2024 induction until December 15th. Please nominate a friend, a relative, a classmate, or even yourself! Looking for student-athletes who had amazing accomplishments in their sport(s) in high school or later. Click the link below to visit the HOF webpage. Scroll to the bottom to get the nomination form. Note - students must have graduated before 2014 and coaches/administrators must have retired from Center at least 3 years ago.
https://www.center.k12.mo.us/o/chs/page/athletic-hall-of-fame
The Center School District Board of Education will hold a Regular Session meeting on Monday, November 27th at 7pm. The meeting will take place at Indian Creek Elementary School at 9801 Grand beginning at 7pm. Click the link below to view the agenda and also get the link to view the meeting virtually.
https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/ViewMeeting.aspx?S=229&MID=14188
Thanks to Ward Parkway Shopping Center, the Boone Elementary Choir, and the Center High School band for a wonderful evening of music and celebration last Friday. The kids sang beautifully, the band rocked the holiday spirit, and the tree was spectacular. Lots of families and Center community members turned out to enjoy the evening.
Congratulations to two Center High Seniors who received $50,000 college scholarships on Friday on national television! The scholarships were awarded to Jaden Smith and Nariah Lovingood by Great Jobs KC (formerly KC Scholars) and were presented to 100 area students by KC based music star TechNine and actor Eric Stonestreet.
Click this link to view the KMBC television news story - https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-scholarship-surprise-tech-n9ne-good-morning-america/45877438
The Hive Society Employee of the Month Award for November goes to Mr. Daniel Reikena, Art Teacher at Center Elementary School. Mr. Reikena was nominated by his peers for his dedication to students and helping them thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.
Check out the video of the presentation - https://youtu.be/1RYn-NM57Us
This story from KCUR is about David Muhammad, who is the head instructor at Integrity Martial Arts in the Red Bridge Shopping Center. Many of our Center families participate in martial arts under his guidance. Family after family praise his skills and the positive impact he has had on their kids. Best of luck at Nationals!
https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2023-11-17/a-black-karate-master-from-kansas-city-will-represent-the-u-s-at-a-world-kickboxing-tournament
The National Honor Society is proud to announce 20 new inductees fo the Center High School society. Inducation ceremony will take place on January 9th. Thanks and congratulations to the new members on your service and accomplishments.
Tomorrow (Friday) night is the annual Tree Lighting at Ward Parkway Shopping Center. The program features the Boone Elementary Choir and Center High School Band. The weather forecast is pretty darn good for mid-November (temps in the low 50's). Come on out and support our kids, have a great time, and maybe even share some wishes with Santa. It all starts at 6pm at the Food Pavilion at Ward Parkway!
Last Saturday Center High School and Middle School scholars participated in the Prep-KC math relays. Scholars from KCPS, Hickman Mills, Grandview, and Center competed in a wide variety of activities designed to test their math knowledge and problem solving skills. At the end of the day, the winning school district with the MOST POINTS was Center School District!!!!
Congratulations to the 31 scholars who competed along with their coaches Diane Harris and Diana Elkishawi from CHS and Alanna Mangum from CMS.
Individual 1st place winners from Center included:
Algebra/Pre-Algebra - Dipanto Bhowmik, CENTER-MS
Algebra - Gamma - River Moreland , Center HS
Geometry- Pre-Alpha – Dipanto Bhowmik, CENTER-MS
Geometry - Gamma –Kevin Li, CENTER-HS
Number Sense - Pre-Alpha - Violet Noel, CENTER-MS
Data - Gamma - River Moreland, CENTER-HS
Data - Delta - Josephine Mosby, CENTER-HS
Amazing Race - team - CENTER M.S - Ignacio Gonzalez, Bhowmik, Haskins
Escape Room - team - CENTER HS - Mosby, Willard, Poole Williams, Besong
KU Engineering Scholarship; winners - Gamma—River Moreland, CENTER, HS
Delta- Josephine Mosby, CENTER, HS
Great job to all our Mathletes.
The Dolly Parton Imagination Library is now open for Missouri families! They provide a FREE BOOK every month mailed directly to the family for kids under the age of 5. Here's the link to register - https://imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability/
Please share with others.
Center High School Debate team came home with several medals on Friday, November 10. Scholar Besong and Susan Besong won First Place Varsity Policy
Debate. Susan won Second Place Varsity Speaker, and Rahman Franklin won Third Place in Student Congress. The Team won Second Place Sweepstakes for the tournament. We are very proud of our Yellowjacket Debaters!
Please join the Boone Elementary choir and Center High School Band as we celebrate the annual tree lighting at Ward Parkway Shopping Center this Friday, November 17. Musical performances will start at 6pm on the main stage in the Food Pavilion. Tree lighting will take place at about 7pm. Free food samples and prizes provided by Pied Piper Pizza.
Check out the winter sports pass for Center High School and Center Middle School games. Pass gets a family of four in for free to all home events. $40 for the whole winter season. Scan the QR code in the image or click the link below to place your order.
https://gofan.co/event/1211443?schoolId=MO18161
Monthly food pantry for our neighbors in need is this Friday morning. We need some volunteers to help with distribution of food. Sign up at the link below:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0848AFA929A6F58-45917878-friday
Center Elementary School kicked off Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month with a storyteller. Yazmeen Elzen, a member of the Cherokee Nation and also the mother of School Social Worker Roslyn Christopher, read a story to students that was based on actual events in Mississippi prior to the Civil War. A family of slaves was led to freedom by a group of Choctaw Native Americans. The book took about 20 minutes to read, but the students paid close attention throughout and asked some very good questions at the end.
Center High School Theater Department presents "Emotional Baggage". Tonight (Friday) at 7pm at Center High School. Lots of hard work results in a great production! Check it out!
