Holiday spirit is in the air! The Selkirk MS/HS Holiday Concert is tonight! Join us at 6:00pm at the Cutter Theatre for a festive celebration of the season, with instrumental and vocal performances from our talented music program students. See you there!
Selkirk Elementary is hosting a Birth-to-4 Fun event on Tuesday, December 17th from 2:00 to 3:00pm. Birth-to-4 fun events are an opportunity for your child to interact with others their age, and a chance for parents to connect with other parents and early childhood educators in the community. Parents, and children from birth to four years of age, are encouraged to come learn how to use arts & crafts to promote cognitive development, fine motor skills, and pre-academic knowledge. See flyer for more details!
Selkirk School District is accepting applications for substitute teachers ($200/day) and classified positions . See the poster below for more details.
Selkirk High School is partnering with InvestED to generate funds to assist students in need. InvestED provides funding that supports secondary schools throughout Washington State. Last school year, InvestED helped nearly 25,000 students in over 600 schools across the state, with over $900,000 in program support. InvestED’s mission is to provide immediate help for students in need, with a goal of encouraging students to get to school, engage in school, and graduate.
This year Selkirk is collaborating with InvestED to create an online funding campaign where 100% of the money raised by the community will stay in the community to benefit our students. In Addition, InvestED will match up to $500 per school, per school year. We are asking for your donation to make a large impact on students who desperately need our support. Follow the link below to donate, and THANK YOU!
https://invested.org/campaigns/selkirk-middle-slash-high-school-selkirk
The Selkirk School District has an opening for District Office Administrative Secretary & Accounts Payable Clerk. Please see www.selkirkschools.org for the job announcement and the application form. This is a full-time, year-round position with medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays, and vacation. Work shift to be determined when hired.
Are you ready for some Theatre? Don’t miss the Selkirk Theatre Arts performances this Friday and Saturday night at the Cutter! Curtain is at 7:00pm. The show will begin with a series of not so terrifying tales in "Super Scary", followed by the hilarious misadventures of a school theater club's efforts to put on a haunted house in "The Haunted House Disaster". See you there!
The Selkirk music program is once again looking for donations of used instruments. Students in grades 5-12 are able to participate in band using a school instrument rather than renting one from a music store. However, we do not have enough brass instruments to meet the interest. If you have a band instrument at home and no longer use it, you can drop it off at either the elementary or high school office and we'll refurbish it for our music program! Thank you to those who have donated in the past as well as those of you willing to dig through those closets to donate now!
Today is our Veterans Day Concert! The event is open to the community and will begin at 10:00 a.m. at Selkirk High School. For those of you who cannot attend in person and would like to view the concert online, here is the link to a live broadcast of the concert: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/schools/selkirk-high-school-ione-wa. This is the same site that hosts our athletic contests so scroll down to see the music program today and click on that event. It should allow you to view concert at no cost but you may need to create an account. Thank you to Commander Ken Jarrett our guest speaker today and to Mr. Estrada's music students!
The High School Music Program will present their annual Veterans Day concert tomorrow, November 7th, at 10:00am in the HS gym. Come honor our veterans and enjoy a performance by our talented music students! The public is welcome to attend!
🎃👻 Happy Halloween from Selkirk Elementary! Our students and staff had a spook-tacular time celebrating together. The hallways were filled with creativity from vampires and witches to princesses, unicorns, army heroes, and Minecraft figures. Even staff went all out with “blasts from the past” themes, like Mary Poppins and The Magic School Bus!
🌟 Exciting Learning Adventure!🌟 This month, our 1st and 2nd graders ended their mini unit on internal organs from the heart to the lungs and brain! Check out those bodies! A big thank you to our 4th and 5th graders, and our amazing adult volunteers who helped them trace and paint their bodies. It was a memorable month filled with fun, creativity, and teamwork!
The last football game of the season is this Friday in Northport! Arrive at 5:30 for a tailgate party with games, crafts, raffles, a pulled pork dinner, and more! Ranger fans come cheer on the team as they close out the season! Entry to the 7:00pm game is free.
Selkirk Elementary School's Pumpkin Math Night was a huge success last night thanks to Kathy & Donny Milliren of Donny-O's Donuts, Hidden Acre Farms of Green Bluff, and The Falls Market in Metaline Falls! Thanks also to the Cutter Theatre and Scout Troup #975 who each hosted a math center for students. 219 students, parents, and grandparents attend! Students charted and added their points in pumpkin bowling and pumpkin hoola toss, they tested their cooperation and balancing skills with pumpkin inertia, and practiced a variety of other art and math skills throughout the night! Donny and Kathy Milliren donated over 1400 free donuts for families to enjoy and thanks to the generosity of Hidden Acres and The Falls Market every student went home with a free door prize pumpkin! This truly is a wonderful community and we are grateful for the support. I also think a thanks should go out to Lois Whysong, the originator of Pumpkin Math Night all those years ago at Ione Primary School! Thanks for starting the tradition!
Just a reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23, is Selkirk Elementary School's Pumpkin Family Night from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. for students in grades TK-5 with fun learning stations and donuts from Donnie-O's! Thank you to Hidden Acres Farms and The Falls Market for the pumpkin donations!
Selkirk Elementary is hosting a Birth-to-4 Fun event on Tuesday, November 5th from 2:00 to 3:00pm. Parents, and children from birth to four years of age, are encouraged to come learn how to use blocks to promote cognitive and fine motor skills and develop counting and alphabet knowledge. See Flyer for more details!
Thank you to the Selkirk Humanities Foundation and the Cutter Theatre for today’s very exciting and energetic performance by Alex Serbe, The Zaniac (https://alexzerbe.com/)! Students in grades TK-5 were treated to a performance this afternoon at the Cutter. The Cutter Theatre is hosting a second performance this evening for the community. Again, thanks to the Selkirk Humanities Foundation and the Cutter Theatre, students can attend free with a paying adult. Tickets are $20 each for adult. Reach out to the Cutter (509-446-4108) for more information or tickets. To learn more about the Selkirk Humanities Foundation and how to donate, reach out to John Kinney, Kim Larson, Randi Shaw, or Kari Dawson. You can also visit https://www.selkirkschools.org/o/ssd/page/selkirk-humanities for more information.
Selkirk's AP English students travelled to the Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene today to watch a performance of Shakespeare's classic, Macbeth. Special thanks to the Selkirk Humanities Foundation for making this special experience possible!
Selkirk Elementary School received generous support from the Selkirk Humanities Foundation for a 4th Grade Dulcimer Camp this week. With that funding, the school district partnered with the Cutter Theatre to host the Heidi Mueller and Bob Webb Artist-in-Residence event. You can learn more about Heidi & Bob’s music from their website: https://www.heidimuller.com/
Each day this week, 4th graders will build and learn to play dulcimer instruments. Heidi and Bob have invited our fourth graders to perform on stage with them during their Thursday evening show at the Cutter Theatre which is open to the public. The show begins at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 17. Please contact the Cutter for tickets.
Founded in April of 1985, the Selkirk Humanities Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation which solely exists to help Selkirk students. While it is endorsed by and in cooperation with the Selkirk School District teachers, administrators and board members, all funding decisions are determined by the SHF Board of Trustees: John Kinney, Kari Dawson, Kim Larson, Donivan Johnson and Randi Shaw. In you are interested in supporting the SHF, you can contact a Trustee or mail a membership check to: Selkirk Humanities Foundation, P.O. Box 216, Ione, WA 99139
A big thank you to Pend Oreille County Fire District #2 and Seattle City Light for organizing the Selkirk Elementary Safety Day on October 10! POC handed out t-shirts to students, took them through the E.D.I.T.H. (Exit Drills In The Home) fire safety house, and gave them an experience in the ambulance. Students rotated through those three stations plus Seattle City Light's zipline safety rescue station! It was a fun and exciting day for the students! Thank you to POC Fire District #2 and SCL for your partnership!
Selkirk Elementary School 4th Graders have been showcased all week on the "Pledge of the Week" hosted by The Jay and Kevin Show of The Big 99.9 Coyote Country radio station. Each weekday morning a class recording of the Pledge of Allegiance is aired. Selkirk Elementary 5th graders will be on the week of October 21. You still have one day to tune in to hear the 4th graders this week and then dial back October 21-25! We'd like to thank The Big 99.9 Coyote Country show and its parent affiliate, KXLY, for giving our students this opportunity!
It’s Homecoming and Spirit Week at Selkirk High, and the school is overflowing with spirit! Students filled the hallways with streamers, lights, and decorations, and each day of the week has a different dress-up theme. Assemblies in the gym are full of silly games and friendly competitions between classes. Students and staff are having so much fun showing Ranger spirit! This exciting week wraps up with a 7:00pm football game vs Republic on Friday night. Homecoming royalty will be announced at half-time, and a semi-formal dance will wrap up the evening. Go Rangers!!
