The Cozad High School National Honor Society again held their annual Food Pantry Canned Food Drive competition in late November. A total of 13,111 pounds of food and $1,265 in cash donations were raised to help local families with Christmas boxes and food throughout the winter season. This is an annual community service project that our schools participate in and is a great opportunity for our students to give back to our community. As has been the tradition, classes compete against each other to earn early dismissal time on the last day of school for the semester. Below are the results of this year's Food Drive Competition.
4th PLACE - Sophomores – 487.6 pounds of food – dismissed after 7th period on December 21st
3rd PLACE - Freshmen – 1639.4 pounds of food – dismissed after 3rd period (they also met their class goal)
2nd PLACE - Juniors – 2562 pounds of food – dismissed after 3rd period.
1st PLACE - Seniors – 8422.9 pounds of food – NO SCHOOL December 21st!
Good Luck to our CHS Wrestlers today and tomorrow. JV Wrestlers are competing today (Friday) at the Ravenna Invite. Varsity traveled to Valentine to compete today and tomorrow at their Invite. Go Haymakers!
Shout out to our Middle School Students and Staff for a successful Paper Product Drive. Cozad Middle School students worked to collect paper products, laundry detergent and soap for the Cozad Food Pantry. This community service project is one that supplies the Food Pantry with the majority of those products for the entire year. The Food Pantry was very appreciative of all of the donations this year. A big thank you to Mrs. Kostrunek, Mrs. Teahon and Mrs. Walls for helping with this project. The student body donations were as follows: 8th grade 1st place- 4200 points, 6th grade 2nd place- 3300 points and 7th grade 3rd place- 2000 points. For their hard work, CMS Dismissal Times for Tuesday, December 21st are as follows: 8th grade, NO SCHOOL, 6th Grade will be dismissed at 10:00, and 7th Grade at Noon (7th graders will eat lunch at school).
In the fall of the school year we were allowed to adjust our calendars for teachers and students. I, along with district administrators, have tried over the last semester to continue our learning as usual but with high numbers of Covid many of our opportunities to allow teachers to attend professional development have not been possible due to high absence rates of teachers and students with Covid or a lack of substitute teachers. Therefore I asked the board to make 4 adjustments to the calendar for the second semester to accomplish these tasks.
On the following days there will be no school for students:
January 4, 2022
March 28, 2022
April 14, 2022
May 2, 2022 if we do not exceed our allotted snow days.
We appreciate your help and understanding as we continue to strive to create a quality educational environment for your children.
Congratulations to the following Economic students
for placing 1st place and 4th place in the Stock Market
Game for Nebraska. There were over 300 teams competing in the state. First Place Winners were Dante Dyches-Chandler and Samuel Hermosillo. Fourth Place Winners were Kevin Cruz, Morgan Morris, and Joel Favela.
Calendar time change for JV Girls' Basketball Saturday, December 18th, in Ainsworth--JV Girls will play at 2:30 pm (instead of 2:00 pm). All other games stay the same as printed on the school calendar (JV Boys 2:00pm, Varsity Girls 3:30 pm, and Varsity boys 5:15 pm)
Haymaker Basketball at Home this evening. Varsity games will be live-streamed on the Haymaker Media YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2JZrAydKhYx6X_dk2F3hKA
Cozad Early Education Pre-K Program this evening, Thursday, December 16th, at 6:00 pm.
All activities practices will begin early at 3pm and end by 5:30pm to get our students on the road.
Due to weather, Senior Scholarship Night scheduled for this evening (December 15th) has been cancelled. Help for FASFA will be rescheduled.
At the Dec. 13 board of education meeting, the board approved a change on the school calendar. January 04, 2022 is now a professional development day for staff. Students will not have school on this day. School will resume after the break on Wednesday, January 05, 2022.
Valentine Schools will be live-streaming the Wrestling Invite this Friday and Saturday on their StrivTV Channel at https://striv.tv/channel/valentine/
Seniors and Senior Parents,
On Wednesday, December 15th, from 5:00 to 8:00PM, we will be having a senior scholarship night at the high school library. This one will be a little different then normal because Jodi from Education Quest will be coming in and helping students and parents with their free application for federal student aid (FAFSA). For a lot of scholarships, students need a FAFSA completed, so it is important that students and parents both set up a FAFSA account and go through the process. The FAFSA will get you an expected family contribution (EFC) number which shows how much a family can help or not help a student pay for college. Students' EFC can qualify students for financial aid, like grants, work study, scholarships and loans.
Jodi is an expert at the FAFSA process and can really make the process easier. This will save you a trip to Kearney. So please try and make it tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th, in the high school library between 5:00-8:00PM to have Jodi help you. When you come, it shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to get your account set up.
The following website tells you what you will need to bring to fill out the FAFSA. It is important that both student and parents come because you will both need to learn the process you will be required to complete every year to get financial aid in college.
https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out
Mrs. Jordan Haarberg
CHS Counselor
Time Change: Tuesday, December 14th---Varsity Girls' Basketball. Due to the JV girls only playing 2 quarters, the start time of the Girls Varsity game will be 6:30 pm (Tuesday, December 14th--Cozad vs. McCook)
Cozad Board of Education meeting this evening, Monday, December 13th, at 7:00 pm at the District Office.
Good Luck to our MS athletes today. MS Wrestling at Broken Bow and MS Girls' at home vs. Ogallala. Also, good luck to our 9/10 girls' and boys' basketball at Broken Bow. Go Haymakers!
Attention 🏀 Players, Parents and Fans: GBB/BBB at Valentine today (Saturday, Dec. 11th) has been postponed. Both schools will work to reschedule these games.
The Haymaker Basketball teams will be hosting Hershey this evening, Friday, December 10th. JV Girls will play ONLY two quarters. Varsity Girls will start at the same scheduled time.
Want some holiday fun? Come to the 2nd and 3rd grade Christmas Concert tonight, Thursday, December 9, at 7 pm. The concert will be held at the HS auditorium and will be filled with lights, singing and dancing elves! Don’t miss it.🎶
We will be streaming the Cozad vs. McCook Wrestling Dual this evening through our Hudl focus camera. Wrestling starts at 6:30 and streaming should begin approximately at 6:20. The live stream will be on the Haymaker Media YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2JZrAydKhYx6X_dk2F3hKA/featured