Date: October 26—November 8

The ASVAB will be given November 5 at MCHS.

Interested students need to sign up in the Guid-

ance office. The exam is free! There is No School on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Parents, are you aware of the teacher web pages available for both you and your student to check at any time with-

out a password? Teachers are keeping their pages up to date this school year as a device to help drive instruction as well as offer information to students and parents alike about the learning environment at MCHS. Information on

contacting teachers is available through the website as well as methods of contact and best times. Log on today and see what is happening at MCHS!

Its the FAFSA time of year. Students will probably need help with completing their FAFSA this year. Amy Marvin

from KEA is coming to MCHS cafeteria on December 3rd at 6:30 to speak with students/parents about completing the FAFSA.

The MCHS Library Media Center was awarded a Kentucky Bluegrass Award book grant. We'll be receiving two com-

plete sets of this year's Kentucky Bluegrass Award nominees. The complete list of 2013 nominees can be found on Destiny.

The culture at the school is changing into a more positive, engaging attitude. The students are winning in the class-

room, on the field of competition, and in life. Together with your help, we will continue to see our community, our

school, and our students reach their full potential!

Ms. Dye's Small Animal class is hosting a char-

ity dog walk for the Montgomery County Animal

Shelter. We are asking that each participate bring a dry or canned dog food item to donate to the

shelter. The walk will begin at 11:00am. Registra-tion is from 10:00-11:00am. There will be home-

made treats available for the dogs and a booth set

up displaying the animals currently up for adop-tion at the local shelter.

Montgomery County High School’s First Annual Pink Week was the week of October 22—October 25. The students

and faculty participated in numerous spirit functions and raised money for local charities that deal with breast cancer

awareness. Here were the activities the students participated in as well some pictures of the rally we had on Friday,

October 26! All proceeds were donated to the Mansfield Family, and our Pink Warrior,

Jamie Mansfield.

Tuesday & Friday: Donate $1

for a Pink Ribbon and Hat

Day

Friday:

Lounge Time Reward for

Class That Raises the

Most Money

Pink Warrior Awarded to

Local Warrior Fighting

Breast Cancer

Pink Out! Everyone is en-

couraged to wear pink.

All Week:

Donations Accepted

Purchase a Pink Butterfly

Collin Potter

Collin Potter he is a National FBLA Officer – only nine in the nation. Has had to travel extensively and

receive leadership training. He is the FBLA Southern Region Vice President over the largest region in

the US.

Ronda Bowles

Crystal Stinson

I would like to suggest Crystal Stinson. This summer, she participated in an enrichment program at

MIT. She was part of an international group of future engineers.

Pamela Callahan

Steven Rehnborg

I grew up in Pennsylvania and New York State. I went to college at

David Lipscomb College in Nashville, and I've attended UK and University

of Cincinnati. My B.S. is in Engineer-

ing Science with a minor in Math. I was an electrical engineer for 20+

years. During this time, I worked all over the country and in Mexico and

Germany. I moved to Winchester in 1988 to work for Sylvania, but I

moved to CA for awhile in 1999 and

again in 2004 (I used to live 8 blocks from the Pacific Coast beach!) I went back to college,

Chapman University, in California to get my teaching cre-dential in Math and a Master's degree in Education. I

taught for about 4.5 years in California. I moved back to

Kentucky in 2008 and worked in Clark County Schools and then taught Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Physical

Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for Winchester Christian Academy for two years.

Krystal Howard

Hi, my name is Krystal Howard. This is my second full year of

teaching, my first here at Mont-gomery County. I previously

taught mathematics at Menifee

County High School for a year and a half. I graduated from

Morehead State University in December 2010 with a Bachelor

of Science degree in Mathemat-ics Secondary Education, I am

now beginning my M.A. degree

in Mathematics at Western Kentucky University this fall. My husband and I love going to the movies, being

involved in our church, and spending time with friends and family.

Come and help

us celebrate

Veterans Day

on November

8, 2012 at the

M o n t g o m e r y

County High

School in the

Arena at 1:45-

3:15. All veter-

ans and family

are welcome, let us honor you for your service.

There will be a free reception for all veterans after the cere-

mony!

Montgomery County High School

Varsity Cheerleaders will be host-

ing a Cheer Expo on December 9, 2012.

JROTC is holding its home competition this Saturday, 8:30

a.m.—3:00 p.m.

Fourteen high schools will compete. The cadets run the entire competition by themselves.

It will include a highly physical Raider Course, drill and

ceremony, color guard competitions, track and field events, and a mystery event.

There will be trophies presented to the top 3 finishers in

each event. You are welcome to stop by and take pic-tures. There is no cost for entry and concessions are

available.

MCHS Girls’ Golf finished the season strong, finish-

ing 4th in the 11th Regional Golf Tournament. Con-

gratulations girls! MCHS Volleyball finished their season with a win

over Mason County and will play Bourbon County on

Monday, October 8 at 5:45 in the first round of Dis-

trict tournament play. Soccer stepped up and scored a big goal with their

support of Breast Cancer Awareness. It was a large

crowd to support a great cause and we are all very proud of the soccer players for their support.

Cross Country will compete against Clark County

this weekend. Best of luck team!

MCHS academic team won their match against Harri-

son County 3-0 on Thursday, October 18th.

Academic Team defeated Augusta – swept written

Competition, JV, and Varsity Quick Recall on Monday, October 22 here at MCHS. Overall Limestone League

record is 5-1 heading into this week’s contest vs. Ma-

son Co.

MCHS Chorus traveled to Raceland on October 17, 2012 for the All-State Chorus Auditions. The following students

were in attendance: Tabitha Bishop, Amanda Brown, Michael Campbell, Dylan Elliott, Will Haydon, Alyssa Keeton,

Gabe Kirk, Evan Richardson, Leslyn Spaulding, Marianne Thomas, Lukas Thompson, Hannah Turner, John Tyree, Brittany Wilhoite, and Trevor Williamson.

Great job goes out to the MCHS Marching Band on a tremendous season! We are all so proud of what you accom-

plished this year and the future is bright at MCHS!

To all young and upcoming Plainswalkers who

wish to delve into the unknown multi-universe of

Magic The Gathering. Ms. Miller allows us to

gather in her world of classroom 225 upstairs of

the mystic realm called The School, every Thurs-

day (except for the 3ed Thursday of every

month) after school between 3:30-4:30. Any

and all who think they have what it takes to say

“Here I Rule” then come test your magical

power here against all types of professional

Mages or if you’re a beginner then take on our

apprentice Mages who are eager to become bet-

ter plains walkers.

The choice is yours, are you ready?

This message is brought to you by Master Jace.

Tuesday, October 23, 16 Future Business Leaders of

America (FBLA) members stayed after school to help

clean the High School grounds. FBLA usually does

Adopt-a-Highway but this year the group decided to

clean up their own schools grounds. Overall this was a

very successful day, resulting in 7 trash bags full of gar-

bage picked up at the end.

The students that attended and pictured above were Katy

Wilkins, Logan Donathan, Miranda Casey, Shelby Bing-

ham, Chay Nipper, Hogan Gagle, Shelby Blanton, Kayla

Preece, Melissa Becraft, Alexia Gibson, Bella Kam-

merer, Cody Sutphin, Ashlyn Robertson, Breanna

Bishop, Dakota Barnette, Parker Lowe and Madison

Davis. The two advisers that participated were Angela

Barker and Cassidy Davis.

This information is being sent out to all staff because we want to get the whole school involved in College Application Week!

Here are the highlights:

-Door Contest-All faculty/staff are asked to decorate their door with information about their college alma mater. All doors are to be

decorated BY Monday, November 5th. There will be judging taking place by community members at some point during the week

and prizes will be given.

-College apparel-all staff are invited to wear college gear on Thursday (Nov. 8th) and Friday (November 9th)

-Announcements-Beginning on Monday, College Application Week announcements will be made each morning. Please be sure that

your students are listening.

-Celebration-all seniors that complete an application will be registered in a drawing for door prizes and be invited to attend an end of

the week celebration!

-Below is the schedule for seniors to fill out college applications. This will take place during their assigned English classes. College

representatives, community volunteers and counselors will be on hand to assist with the process.

Please begin now talking this up to any seniors that you have in class. The more they hear about it ahead of time, the more likely

they will participate! We appreciate your support with this!

College Application Week at MCHS- You can’t enroll if you don’t apply!

Schedule

Students will be asked to come to their designated location to fill out a college application of their choice. Volunteers, including

college admission reps will be available to assist and answer any questions the students may have. Once the application is com-

pleted, the student will complete the exit slip. After they turn in the exit slip, they will be entered into a drawing for a door prize.

All students who also complete the exit slip, will also be invited to the end of the week celebration. (TIME AND PLACE TBA)

To complete the application students will need:

-Copy of their high school transcript-provided by guidance

-Knowledge of their biographical information

-College resume

-Essay

-Test scores (provided on high school transcript)

-Payment Information

(Students will need to remember their account information when creating an online application account. Please stress this with the

students and assist them. Most classes will have the opportunity to work on their application(s) for the two day period.)

*Those students not interested in applying, may have the opportunity to meet with a recruiter at that time if possible.

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The Weekly Word – October 26, 2012

Test Scores! – Finally, on November 2nd we will be able to share our testing success with the public. A student celebration has been planned for Friday. Letters will be mailed to each student household. Mississippi Educators’ Visit – Thank you to those who helped host our visitors from Mississippi this week. The group had the op-portunity to visit Montgomery County Intermediate School, Camargo Elementary School, and Montgomery County High School. Though Monroe County School District is a high-performing Mississippi district, they learned of our processes and success and wanted to see our outstanding staff and students in action to learn best practices for continuous improvement. They were impressed with our school district. Celebrating Success…In Addition to Great News About Our Test Scores – (1) Approximately 12 Office of Systems Technology stu-dents are working toward Internet and Computing Core (IC3) Global Standard 3 certification. The Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³) provides students and job-seekers with the foundation of knowledge they need to succeed in environments that require the use of computers and the Internet. (2) Sixteen Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) members stayed after school to help clean the High School grounds. FBLA usually does Adopt-a-Highway but this year the group decided to clean up their own schools grounds. Overall this was a very successful day, resulting in 7 trash bags full of garbage picked up at the end. Our Employees Did What? – Among the bizarre and notable things our employees have done that were shared this week: MCHS Assistant Principal Rocky Franz kissed a pig, while wearing a pink shirt (Mr. Franz, not the pig), and two teachers, Melanie Kelly of Camargo and Holly Smallwood of Mapleton, measured Nerlens Noel’s hair. Student Attendance – Mapleton Elementary had the highest one-day attendance for the week with 96.73%, but Mt. Sterling Elementary barely edged Camargo Elementary out (by .03%) for the weekly title. Dates –

Oct. 30 - Board of Education meeting, 6:30 p.m., Montgomery County Intermediate School Oct. 31 – Trick or Treat – Halloween Observances

Nov. 2 – Testing Data Release and Celebration Nov. 6 – No School, Election Day Nov. 8 – MCHS ROTC Veterans’ Day Program, 1:45 p.m. Nov. 8 – MSE SBDM Council Meeting, 5:00 p.m. Nov. 9 – Camargo Veterans’ Day program, 10 a.m. Nov. 9 – MSE Fall Festival, 5 p.m. Nov. 12 – MSE Veterans’ Day program, 8:30 a.m. Nov. 15 – Camargo PTO Meeting, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 21 – 23 – No School, Thanksgiving Break

Be sure to notify the designated person at your school if you have calendar information that should be added to your website calendar.

Thank you so much for your effort and commitment to children. If you have questions about any of the information contained in this issue of The Weekly Word, please contact me at josh.powell@montgomery.kyschools.us