Chase County USD 284 -

What a wonderful day to sketch a picture!

Every Wednesday, Mrs. Mansel’s 7th grade art students add a new drawing to their sketchbooks. Yesterday, a few members of the class took advantage of the beautiful weather and chose to sketch the limestone sign at CCJSHS.

Be sure to attend the spring art show, where you’ll have the opportunity to see all the amazing work our art students have created throughout the year!

On Monday, the district leadership team attended our assigned School Improvement Day, which is part of the required accreditation process for the Kansas State Department of Education. It was a great day of reflection, planning, and learning.

For our district’s action plan, we have chosen to focus on standards alignment. This means our teachers have been — and will continue — dedicating professional development time to mapping out the standards to ensure alignment across grade levels. They are also unpacking standards where data indicates our students are not performing as well, ensuring that our instructional resources fully support the intended learning targets.

The time and effort our district leadership team members invest in supporting our district’s accreditation process are greatly appreciated! Thank you Mrs. Hansford, Mr. Budke, Mr. Carrillo, Mrs. Blaisdell, Mrs. Lauer, Mrs. Matile and Mr. Pena!

**🐾 Good Morning JH Football Parents and Fans! 🐾**
Tonight’s game against **Inman** will **kick off at 6:00 PM**, not 6:30 as listed on the calendar.

📍 **Directions to Inman:** [https://maps.app.goo.gl/BLqkV1ve9c3rdBxP7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/BLqkV1ve9c3rdBxP7)

Thank you for your support, and let’s show our **red and black** pride!
**Let’s go DAWGS!! 🏈🔥**

**Good Evening,**
Due to the unfortunate circumstances of injuries within the Northern Heights football program, they will be unable to participate in the scheduled High School JV game on Monday. As a result, there will be no HS JV football game on Monday.

Thank you for your understanding.

Students in eighth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade participated in the Reality U simulation yesterday. The simulation teaches students about the reality of budgeting, and financial literacy skills. Community members and volunteers from surrounding area businesses were present to help students make financial decisions and guide them through the simulation.

**📸 Say Cheese, CCES!**
Picture Day is coming up **Wednesday, October 15th!**

Order **before Picture Day** to get **free shipping** straight to the school!
Place your order online at https://inter-state.com/FlyerEntry/0084FGF?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExZVdDMGhhOU4wR0RabmEzRgEe4O8aPrZWNbRGUFHD7SFqw2ugmOGaTQHPLYhWOLiBzlD9jTQmELz2Ojpzv28_aem_m2K011auyLchsfWtqvCG9Q

We can’t wait to see all those bright Bulldog smiles! 🐾❤️🖤🐾

Good luck to our JV Football team as they take on Flinthills tonight 🐾🏈

Homecoming Dance 🪩 - 9 - 12 graders we hope to see you tonight at the homecoming dance! - Students please park in the parking lot and walk around to the set of double doors on State St. (please no parking on State St.) - Dance is from 8-11 in the multipurpose room!

Congratulations to your 2025 - 2026 homecoming King and Queen, Bryson Koch and Reace Harshman ❤️🖤

Your Homecoming Cornhole Champions!

Good Luck Bulldogs!

Cross County ran the Goessel Invitational yesterday. John Paul medaled 17th, Maddie Peters medaled 18th with a PR of 23:18 and Sadie Mushrush medaled 19th. Alexys Miller ran a seasonal best time. Great Job!

Let's wish our cross country team good luck in Goessel tomorrow! 🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️👟

The Dental Screening forms for fluoride consents and opt-out are due by 8:00 tomorrow morning! Dental screenings will take place starting at 8:30! Thank you!

❤️🖤Homecoming Information🖤❤️ All the homecoming activities will take place on Friday, October 10! - The parade will start about 2:00 PM downtown Cottonwood! - Following the parade, the pep rally will take place in the north gym ~ approximately 2:30 PM! - Homecoming ceremony: 6:30 at the football field! After all the festivities don't forget to stay and cheer on the bulldogs as they take on Flinthills! ❤️🐾🏈

Get your pink on and come support the lady bulldogs at home!

🏐 HS Volleyball Parent’s Night 🏐 Join us Tuesday, October 7 in the south gym as we celebrate our senior volleyball players and their families! 💙 Parent’s Night will take place between the JV match and the 2nd Varsity match, around 6:00 PM. Participants, please plan to arrive between 5:30 and 6:00 PM. Let’s fill the gym and show our support for our Bulldogs! 🐾

We would like to apologize for the confusion in last night’s message. To clarify, it is Crest that does not have enough players for a JV team, not Madison. Below is the correct schedule for High School Volleyball this evening at Madison:

JV (best two out of three)

5:00 PM — Madison vs. Chase County
6:00 PM — Madison vs. Chase County
Varsity

5:00 PM — Madison vs. Chase County
6:00 PM — Chase County vs. Crest
7:00 PM — Madison vs. Crest (Senior Night)
Thank you for your understanding, and good luck ladies!!

Good Evening, Please note that tomorrow night’s High School Volleyball match at Madison will be Varsity only due to limited numbers on Madison’s team. We appreciate your understanding, and Madison extends their apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you!