Congratulations to our Tri-Point Chargers JH ScholasticBowl team for their first victory of the season! They won with a score of 275 to Prairie Central’s 145 points.
Brynner brought in 80 points! Kara 30 points! And our new team members who each earned us 10 and control of the bonus round were Tucker, Max, and Grace! The team answered 26 bonus questions correctly!
Way to go team!!
Candy Bar Fundraiser :
We would like to thank all our students and parents for signing up for our candy bar fundraiser !!
We anticipate the candy coming in and handed out to students on Thursday, March 6th.
*If you marked that your student would like to sell both a box of Variety and a box of Carmel at the same time. The office will need $60 in advance of pick up. Students can only have one box in circulation each at one time. (to avoid un sold items as they cannot be returned )
If you have questions please call 815-686-2247.
Thank you
Track Athletes & Parent: Junior High
WELCOME to the 2025 track and field season!!
Practice starts Monday March 3rd right after school.
There will be an activity bus after every practice that will bus your child to Cullom or Kempton. (This bus does not run a country route.)
Monday March 3rd is also our athletic pictures. Your child will be given their uniform the morning of and given an opportunity to change before their pictures. After they are done, they will return their uniform to me. The uniforms will be handed out closer to our first meet, Tuesday April 8th. (Doing this helps decrease the chances of the uniforms being misplaced.)
We will have a parent meeting on Thursday March 6th at 5:15pm in the Piper gym. Please plan to attend. Your athlete may stay after practice if you will be attending the meeting. If you will not make the meeting, please let us know and we will send the packet home with your athlete.
If your child still needs their sports physical, please schedule that for as soon as possible. We can not allow any child to participate until we have an up to date physical on file.
Please check to see if your child owes an athletic fee for the 2024/2025 school year. If you are unaware if you owe this, please don’t hesitate to reach out so we can provide that information to you.
Please feel free to contact either of us with any questions. We look forward to working with you and your child this season!
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On Saturday the prairie cicada research crew presented their work at the Wild Things Conference at the Rosemont Convention Center. These 6 students in grades 4 to 12 did a wonderful job sharing their research with other interested scientists, naturalists, and citizen scientists. Pru Davies, Mitch Woods, Hunter Davies, Trace Rogers and Luke Tompkins presented, along with Phoebe Davies, who informed the audience about why "Two is not the magic number!" (its not the number of years that the cicadas spend underground before emerging. ) Finding out is a major part of their research. Once they know the answer of how long they take underground, they hope to publish their work and return to give a talk again!
Reminder :
Tomorrow, March 3rd is sport and club pictures day .
Students will need uniforms .
( Track uniforms will be handed out for photos and recollected )
Photos :
-Volleyball
-Track
-Band
-Choir
-Speech and Drama
-student council
-art club
-scholastic bowl
LONDON/PARIS TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY
The informational meeting for this travel opportunity has been postponed until Wednesday, March 19.
It is open to students currently in grades 5-10, as the trip will be in the summer of 2027.
It is also open to family members, homeschoolers, and other neighboring districts if you have family or friends who will be in grades 7-12 in 2027.
You can still RSVP to the meeting by using the QR code or bit.ly posted on the attached flyer. (Just ignore the date on the sign up page.) Food will be provided at the 5:45 pm meeting (either pizza or Subway).
It was a hard loss for our JH scholastic bowl team Thursday at their first match of the season. The 6-7 graders were bested by Odell, 115-255. Monty brought in 25 pts, Tucker had 20 points, and Grace earned us 10 points.
The next home matches are Monday and Tuesday next week. Thursday, they play at St. Joseph Middle School.
Dress Up Days UE/JH:
March 3rd -6th
Tomorrow is the last day that the site to order yearbooks will be available.
Please go to...
book.hrimaging.com
On Friday, March 14, 2025, the 4th-8th grade will take a reward trip to the Onarga Theater for a movie day. The junior high will be on a shortened bell schedule in order to attend all classes prior to leaving. Students will eat lunch before departing for the movie theater at 12:00. The movie will start at 1:00. We will return to school by 3:00 for regular dismissal.
In order to earn the reward, the students must meet the guidelines listed below.
Guidelines for Attending the Movie Theater Reward Trip - Guidelines start February 5
Detentions - 3 or less
No Missing Assignments
Assigned Study Table - 1 or less
Voluntary study tables are allowed and encouraged.
Before or After School Detention - 1 or less
No In-School Suspensions
No Out of School Suspensions
The school will provide each attending student with popcorn and a drink. Students may also bring no more than $5 to purchase movie theater candy. Students who do not earn the trip, will stay back at the school with Mr. Schmale. If you have any questions, please contact the Upper Elementary/Jr High Office at 815-686-2247.
The movie we will be showing is: Despicable Me 4
EF TOURS TRIP TO EUROPE meeting is cancelled for tomorrow.
For family and students of any district grades 5-10. Travel Summer of 2027.
New meeting date to be announced asap.
Today was the JH Cheer Lunch.
I would like to thank all the girls for an amazing season . All the girls are so appreciated. I appreciate all their hard work and effort this season .
Congratulations to Josie and Lilly for their Charger Awards .
We hope to see everyone next season !
Junior High Track :
*Practice starts on 3/3/25
*Pictures for track will be on 3/3/25 as well. Uniforms will be handed out for photos then collected back.
*Please make sure you have a current sports physical and athletic fees paid.
2024 – 2025 Junior American Citizens (JAC) Poster Contest Winners
This year’s poster theme was “Celebrate the 250th Birthday of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.” Several of our students placed first in the North-Central division, competing with entries from seven other states.
4th grade 1st place Laurel Meister
6th grade 1st place Zoey Van Hook
7th grade 1st place Joceline Clark
8th grade 1st place Brynner Dietz
These students won in their age group for the chapter, state, and North- Central division levels . Their posters have been sent on to the national level judging. Congratulations to all and good luck on the further competition.
Upper Elementary/Junior High:
Candy Bar Fundraiser !!!!!
We will be kicking off our school wide fundraiser next week!
Reminders
-Students will bring home permission to sell forms today. They must be returned by Friday, February 28th.
-Candy will come home on March 6th.
**Money raised goes to field trips, PBIS, end of the year days ect...***
Thank you in advance !!
Updated Volleyball:
-IESA 7th Grade Volleyball Regional :
Tri-Point received the #5 seed and will play #4 seed Elwood on Saturday, March 1st, at 9:00 a.m. The game will be played at Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle School. The address is 1013 North St in Mazon.
Bus:
7:00am Piper
7:20am Cullom
Parents,
All 6th grade students were due for their dental exams at the start of the school year.
If you have not turned in a copy of their exams , please do so as soon as possible.
If they have not yet received their exams, please due so as soon as possible.
Smile Mobile dentist will be here at the school on 4/23/25 (for those students who see them).
If you have any questions please call 815-686-2247.
Thank you
Upcoming Reminders:
2/26-Cheerleader Lunch
2/27-Freshman Orientation
3/3-Volleyball, Track , Club Pictures
3/6-2:10 Early Dismissal
3/7-No School
3/14-PBIS Movie Trip
3/21-Early Dismissal
3/24-3/28- Spring Break
Our special guest, Javier Chavira, shared his art with JH art club and we made some Javier influenced art. Javier is the gallery director at Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College and Professor of Fine Arts at Governors State University. It was an awesome college art class experience and they made exciting art under Javier's instruction.
Upper Elementary/ Junior High:
Congratulations to the positive office referrals and Champion Chargers of the week !
