Parents,
As we finish up this week of school I wanted to take some time and share with you some of my professional and personal thoughts about the power of communication. Hopefully you have noticed the priority that our school administrators and staff have placed on communication with our weekly newsletters, social media posts, and much more. I know there are times that it may seem like a lot and we most definitely don’t want to overload you with communication, but we have a priority to keep you informed and share our celebrations.
For many school communities communication is the start to build strong parent and community support. Unlike some districts, we are very blessed to already have a tremendous amount of parent and community support. Your support is evident in a variety of ways: attendance at school activities (fine arts and athletics), attendance at school events, and the priority you place on our students to do their best. To move from support to involvement we must keep you informed about not only what is happening, but those instructional activities that are happening within our schools and those that your children will be expected to do outside of school. This information, in most cases, does not require you to take on the role of an educator, but does provide you the information to have meaningful conversations with your child about what and how they are learning. These purposeful conversations send a clear message to your child that you care, you are there to help if needed, and ultimately that you know what they should be doing and that brings with it accountability. Without an emphasis on communication, parents and community members only have enough information to ask only open ended questions. With the information you get from our school leaders and staff, we hope you are better equipped to ask more detailed follow up questions. These well informed follow up questions, and conversations that follow, take your involvement as a parent to another level and one that has a great impact for your child and for our work as a school to help them to learn and grow. This level of involvement, one equipped with the knowledge from our communication, puts us all on the same page to help your child do their very best in and out of school.
School communication is not all about academics and learning, it is also about celebrations. To this end we try to also keep you informed of what is not only happening at school, but also after the school day in our various activities. More often than not, these highlights and celebrations are shared on our social media platforms and can be great ways to see our students showing their school spirit and the involvement of many of our students within our activities. At the end of this communication you will see some of the addresses for our social media presences so you can stay current on some of these celebrations and information.
Our school district success is in large part a result of your support and our continued growth will be dependent on your involvement with students. To this end we need to provide you the information you need to support our mantra of Excellence is Expect and Excellence is Achieved and share with you those achievements of excellence from our students.
Thank you for your support and the time you take to stay informed through our communications.
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Dr. Joel Beyenhhof
jbeyenhof@treynorcardinals.org
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Picture retakes will be done by LifeTouch on Friday, October 14th. If you originally had pictures and need retakes, you do not need to place an order. Bring your original packet back on the 14th. If you did not have pictures on the original date or need to order a whole new package, follow the directions below to place an order:
For Middle School or High School students, go to mylifetouch.com and enter Picture Day ID EVT3T9WWB or download an order form.
For Elementary students, go to mylifetouch.com and enter Picture Day ID EVTFBR67B or download an order form.
A huge thank you is in order to the Junior Treynor Women and everyone who purchased items to fundraise for the new robotics equipment. Over $1500 was raised to help purchase these kits. "I am so excited for students to experience learning about such an important subject with high quality equipment and curriculum. Robotics play such a vital role in the healthcare, automotive, and manufacturing industries. Building curiosity and skills in this subject matter will set students up for future success", stated Alex Herrington, High School Physical Science and Computer Science Teacher.
The fundraiser went toward the purchase of five VEX robotic sets and competition arena. VEX has a full set of curriculum available to teachers and students. Click on the picture slideshow to the right to see some students in action building their robots for an upcoming Robotic Freeze Tag Competition.
Follow Mr. Herrington's Twitter account for future videos of these projects.
Treynor High School fall sports are well underway for the 2022 season with great participation in football, volleyball and cross country. Check the Activities Calendar to make plans to come watch our talented athletes while the season is still in session.
KMA of Shenandoah, Daily Nonpareil of Council Bluffs and other news outlets have done a great job of covering our spring sports. Linked below are their articles to catch you up on the latest sports news.
Rosters and Stat Information can be found at Treynor's Varsity Bound page.
To follow spring sports action on Twitter for more real-time updates, click the links below.
The 6th annual youth Cardinal Combine was held at the Treynor Football Complex on Homecoming. 70 youth in grades K-5 participated in 5 events (punt, pass, kick, broad jump, and 40 yard dash). There were ten records set and the following kids were the top finishers in their age group. These kids will be recognized at halftime of a home varsity basketball game at a date TBD.
Pre-K/Kindergarten Boys
1. Cruz Sornson
2. Miles Anderson
1st Grade Girls
1. Sloane Fleissner
2. Olivia Bintz
1st Grade Boys
1. Carter Mackland
2. Jace Frain
2nd Grade Girls
1. Taylin Damrow
2. Sawyer Frain
2nd Grade Boys
1. Kyler Maguire
2. Toby Campbell
3rd Grade Girls
1. Alexa Dudley
2. Quinley Leick
3rd Grade Boys (TIE for 2nd)
1. Lance Croushorn
2. Keaton Chlupacek
2. Wyatt Fleissner
4th Grade Girls (TIE)
1. Camryn Kotrous
1. Breclynn Leick
4th Grade Boys
1. Jase Bass
2. Reed Chambers
5th Grade Girls
1. Tenley Hemmingsen
2. Zoey Campbell
5th Grade Boys
1. Bentley Lauver
2. Tracen Frain
The Treynor Community School District has cooperated with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff Department and other first responders to utilize the Standard Response Protocol in all of our schools. These protocols are based upon the work from the I Love U Guys Organization. Here is some information for students and parents with a summary of the different protocols. All first responders in Southwest Iowa and neighboring areas are using the Standard Response Protocol.
In addition to our staff being trained on the Standard Response Protocol and other safety procedures, these are also reviewed with our students. We also use some of our Homeroom/Card Pride classes to discuss different emergency scenarios, and then we have a drill to practice our responses.
In the event there would ever be an emergency situation in our schools, communication with parents and guardians would begin as soon as possible. We also realize in such an emergency situation, informal communication may occur by students through text messages or calls, but the most accurate information will be communicated by the school through our JMC Messaging System. This is one of the reasons it is vitally important that the contact information within our student information system, JMC, is up to date. Please refer to this guide for how to update your contact information, email address(es), phone numbers and notification choices.
As a parent, you want to make sure you also know what to do in the event of an emergency at school. One of the first steps is to stay at home. Law enforcement personnel will be focused on keeping your student safe. Your next step is to make sure you keep informed by working off the information provided to you by our school district personnel. Lastly, be ready to receive information associated with the reunification procedures. These three steps are described in this video provided by the Douglas County Schools. While our procedures might not be exactly the same as those described in this video, the framework and steps of Stay Home, Stay Informed, and Be Ready are the same. Please do not call or text a student’s cell phone during a crisis.
If your family would like to do additional emergency planning, FEMA has provided the following information: https://www.ready.gov/make-a-plan
Thank you for taking the time to review this information and for your support in making sure that Treynor Community School District is a safe place for students to learn.
