Sports are up and running, with our first home meets last week. Please check the high school website for dates, locations, and times for cross country, golf, volleyball, and football. We welcome people to all of our home events to come cheer our student-athletes. 

Homeroom lesson this week focuses on being kind to others and thinking about how your words impact others. It asks students to think about how they talk to people and that what they say to each other could have lasting effects on the others around them. We can’t take our words back, so make sure you are choosing them wisely. 

Mr. Joe Heavner was able to get grants and funding to purchase new welders and re-arrange the welding shop. Students have started to learn and practice their beads and will be ready to start projects and working through things in the next few weeks.

Agriculture construction classes are finishing up their safety unit and will start working in the shop next week. They have some requests for barn quilts and a pumpkin catapult they will be working on first, but if anyone in the community has a project, they would like the construction class to work on, please reach out to Mrs. Lexi Hilliker or the high school office, and they will see what they can do. The small engines classes will be working on two-stroke engines and are always looking for old weed-eaters or chain saws that don’t work anymore to take them apart & reassemble to learn how the parts interact with one another.

The food services program is proud to continue offering free breakfast and free lunch for all students each school day. Nutritionally balanced meals are provided at all schools as our participation in Community Eligibility Provision of the Nation School Lunch Program extends into the 2024-25 school year.

Every breakfast includes a choice of whole grain rich products like reduced-sugar cereals, pop tarts, pastries or donuts with various fruits, a juice and a milk. Lunch offerings include daily hot lunch choices or assorted cold lunch options, should hot lunch not be a student’s favorite. Both hot and cold lunches include fresh and cooked vegetables, assorted fruits, and a milk. Students are encouraged to select their favorites to create a meal to their liking. Our school nutrition professionals, faculty and administration are committed to strengthening the link between learning and a healthy diet by ensuring no student is hungry during the school day. 

The track should be finished next week, and we are happy to announce we have entered a sweepstakes through T-Mobile to try to win $5000. Help us add to our entries by posting your photos to Instagram, tagging @AmboyILClippers & @tmobile, and then adding the hashtags #FN5GL .