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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to our wonderful Waterville Grade School teachers! Thank you for all you do for our students!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to the Blue Rapids Elementary School teachers!! We are so blessed to have such amazing teachers at Valley Heights!! Thank you for all you do!! You are appreciated!!

Good luck to the golf team as they head to the Onaga Varsity Tournament!

Your Mustang Forensics team made history, placing as the Runner-Up at the KSHSAA 2A State Forensics Championship. The following students are the top six performers in the state: Carter - 1st Solo Acting Serious and 1st Prose Lawson and Everson - 1st Improvised Duet Acting Lawson - 3rd Original Oration Julia - 3rd Solo Acting Humorous and 4th Informative Klara - 6th Informative

The Valley Heights Forensics team is coming home with some hardware! 7 of our 14 entries ranked as the top 6 in the state! Carter - Solo Acting Serious and Prose Everson and Lawson - IDA Julia - Solo Acting Humorous and Informative Lawson - Original Oration Klara - Informative

At the State Forensics Competition, 9 of 14 entries have made it into the Semifinal round. Stay tuned for updates and see who makes it into the top 6 in the 2A state competition. Carter - Solo Acting Serious and Prose Julia and Dino - IDA Everson and Lawson - IDA Julia - Solo Acting Humorous and Informative Dino - Solo Acting Humorous Klara - Informative Lawson - Original Oration

The golf team started out with a rainy tournament at Seneca this week. Today we hosted 9 schools in the Valley Heights Invitational tournament. No hardware to show off this week but a great effort was given by the team these two tournaments!

Only 2 weeks left to order your 2025-2026 yearbook! Reach out to Miss Jones (ajones@valleyheights.org) for more information.

Check out the latest happenings at the Valley Heights Junior High/High School

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Fourth graders had a fun filled day today on their field trip. We went to K-State and toured The West Stadium Center, Shamrock Zone, Bramlage Coliseum, and the Morgan Family Arena. Students even got to see some of the football players practicing and volleyball players! Afterwards, we had a fun afternoon of bowling!

The fourth grade students went to K-State for their field trip. We saw the football field, basketball court, and volleyball courts. We also got to see the inside of the one of the locker rooms. The students then enjoyed bowling at the Union bowling alley and many students enjoyed seeing some special players throughout our visit.

Please see the link to this week's elementary newsletter. https://app.smore.com/n/ndqej

It's Mental Health Month! Follow @schoolsthatcare to explore what @PawneeMentalHealth has to offer Marshall County. #moregooddaystogether

Check out this edition of Mustang Stories: From a Student's Perspective! In this video Lawson takes to halls of Valley Heights to investigate the Mustang Culture that is thriving.

https://youtu.be/qL8-i8sRhRo

Today we host our Varsity Golf Tournament at the Waterville Golf Course. Good luck to our golfers!

Live scoring here: https://prep.golf/

Celebrating National Principal's Day with the best Principals around. We are blessed with the best!

Happy School Lunch Hero Day!

Mustang baseball picks up two wins vs Onaga! Game 1: 6-4 Game 2: 5-2 The Mustangs rallied in game 2. Down 1-2 in the bottom of the 7th, Preston Smerchek hit a walk-off home run to left field to secure the victory.