Week of September 26
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Mission Statement:
The mission of Breitung Township Schools, in cooperation with families and our community, is to provide a quality educational experience to assist all students in developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become successful citizens.BTS Belief Statement
- All students can learn.
- All students have the right to a meaningful educational experience.
- Each student has dignity and worth.
- Achievement is a result of high expectations with realistic goals.
- The entire community shares the responsibility of educating its citizens.
School Improvement Goals
- All students will demonstrate improvement in Reading skills.
- All students will demonstrate improvement in Mathematics skills.
- All students will demonstrate improvement in Science skills.
- All students will demonstrate improvement in Social Studies skills.
Important Parent and Student Information
The Northern Lights YMCA Youth Volunteer Service Club
Scheduling Presentations and Handouts 2015-16
Instructions for ordering KHS transcripts
ATTENTION STUDENTS
"TEEN GROUP" LOOKING FOR MEMBERS
The Caring House will be starting a teen group on September 15, 2016. If anyone is interested, see the flyer below.
Homecoming Week Activities
The 2016 Homecoming week will be Monday, September 26 thru Friday, September 30. The them for this year's Homecoming Week is Mardi Gras. Activities for the week can be found on the 2016 Homecoming Page.
Many thanks go out to the Kingsford High School student council members who are coordinating the 2016 KHS Homecoming week activities.
Student Council members pictured are Joe Sturm, Alissa Kainraith, Katherine Mentel, Nicci Hofer, Caroline To, Rebecca To, Mitch Wiltzius, Advisor Kelly Bianco, Wyatt Gibler, Grace Barinotti, Dominic Occhietti, Matt Moreau, Matt Swanson, Caleb Rosenthal, Luke Sturm, Katie Bubloni, Anna Murvich, Lexi Robarge, Grace Cole.
Homecoming Court
Pictured in the front row is Brooke Kriegl, Annie McCole, Valerie Caylor, Maddie Ryan, Maya Schwamlien, Sabrina Orchard, Nicci Hofer, Abbey Erickson, Marianna Bianco, Katherine Mentel and Sierra Fayas. Back row is Luke Sturm, Noah Wilcox, Ethan Wilcox, Joe Sturm, Matt Swanson, Ennio Flores, Skyler Newman, Alec Shanks, John Fayas, Marcus Maracconi and Garret Johnson.
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist
Kingsford High School would like to congratulate senior Cory Cootware for becoming a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship. Of the 1.6 million students nationwide who took the PSAT in the fall of 2015, only 16,000 qualified as semifinalists.
Cory scored in the top 5% of the nation, securing his spot in this very elite group of test takers. He is one of 579 that qualified in the State of Michigan. From here, Cory will compete for the next level of recognition, finalist, and could eventually be selected as one of 7,500 National Merit Scholarship recipients in March of 2017.
Pictured are principal Lyle Smithson, counselor Nancy Jayne, Cory Cootware, and vice-principal Doug Roberts.
NMU/KHS Concurrent Enrollment
Northern Michigan University and Kingsford High School are proud to announce the expansion of their concurrent enrollment partnership. Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year Kingsford High School will be offering NMU EN 111 on the KHS campus for high school students. The NMU credit course will be taught by Kendalyn Sutton. The NMU credit EN 111 will be in addition to the Math credit MA 115 that is taught by John Kriegl on the KHS campus.
Pictured are Dr. Steve VandenAvond (NMU Vice President for extended Learning and Community Engagement), Kendalyn Sutton (KHS/NMU English Instructor), Nancy Jayne (KHS Giudance Counselor), Mr. Brad Hamel (NMU).
Art Viens Honorary Football Captain
KHS was proud to have Flivver alumnus Art Viens (Class of 1954) represent the Kingsford Flivvers as honorary football captain at Flivver field on Friday, September 9. The Flivvers defeated the Lakeland Thunderbirds 35-0. Art help in tossing the coin before the game and was presented with a commemorative Flivver coin!
Art and his wife Shirley are familiar faces to the grounds at the Kingsford High School and Middle School complex as well as Flivver field. Art and his wife have given many hours (too many to count) of their lives helping to keep the grounds at the KHS complex clean and tidy. Their hard work and dedication has been as invaluable commodity to our school district!
Many Flivvers will also recognize Art at most every home athletic event at KHS. From basketball to volleyball, Art gives of his time to help out or participate as a Flivver fan. Thank you Art for all you have done and continue to do for our school!
Pictured are KHS Principal Lyle Smithson, Art Viens, and KHS Athletic Director Al Unger.
Kingsford High School Faculty and Staff Begins New School Year
Kingsford High School would like to welcome back all faculty and staff members for the 2016-17 School Year! Faculty and Staff members were greeted by BTS superintendent Craig Allen to begin the day and served a breakfast by the BTS Food Service complements of Lenore Nelson at Meemic Insurance.
We hope that all faculty and staff have a great year! Go Flivvers!
Pictured below are Kingsford High School teaching staff at their August 29 Professional Development day. Teaching are receiving updates from technology directors Justin Cowen and Jean Constantini on PowerSchool and PowerTeacher Pro for the 2016-2017 school year. Teachers spent the day preparing for students return to school on August 30.
Safe Sports School Recognition
Kingsford High School, with the assistance of Dickinson County Healthcare system, is very proud to announce that they have been recognized by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association as a Safe Sports School. Kingsford is the first and only school to be recognized in the Upper Peninsula or Northeast Wisconsin. The award champions safety and recognizes secondary schools that provide safe environments for student athletes. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention and treatment by Certified Athletic Trainers.
Kingsford High School Students at U.S. Air Force Academy
Kingsford High School would like to recognize former KHS graduates Sean Ryan (Class of 2013) and Hannah Allen (Class of 2015). Both Hannah and Sean are cadets at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Sean Ryan is pictured below pinning the cadet shoulder boards on Hannah Allen at the Acceptance Day Ceremony at the Academy. Sean is a Senior Cadet First Class and Hannah is a Freshman Cadet Fourth Class. Upon graduation in the spring of 2017. Sean plans to attend pilot school.
Congratulations Sean and Hannah! We are proud of you!
All-State Softball Team
Congratulations go out to Sydney Wickman for being selected to the Division 2 All-State Girls Softball team.
Last year as a junior, Sydney had a dream season! She lead the team in hitting with a .553 batting average. This included 57 hits with 41 of them singles, 10 doubles, and 6 triples. She also stole 28 bases.
Sydney played incredible defensive at second base. She really anchored the infield. She accomplished many things this year and with her great play she was awarded for her skills.
To go with Sydney's honors, she was also selected to the All-District team as a second baseman and was named Co-MVP of the Flivver Softball team along with sophomore Cassie Barglind.
2016 Flivver Open Golf Outing
Breitung Township Schools and the Kingsford Athletic Department would like to thank all of those individuals who helped make the 2016 Flivver Open Golf Outing a success! We would like to thank all participants and sponsors for their part in helping raise money for the Flivver Athletics!
Watch a recap of the Flivver Open:
2016 COMMENCEMENT
2016 PRE-COMMENCEMENT MUSIC
Videos courtesy of Justin Cowen.
Student of the Week
Congratulations go out to senior Rebecca To
for being named Student of the Week for the week of
September 19.
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