August 1, 2023
Dear Tiger Family!
As the summer is quickly winding down, our staff is working hard to plan for another great school year. Much like celebrating the New Year, we experience the same feelings as educators as we start a new school year. That excitement never fades for our educator families. As you may have heard, we spent a lot of time listening to students, staff, parents, and surrounding areas about how we can continue to make the Jeff West community even better.
You may be asking yourself why this is important. Our community schools are the economic engines of our Kansas communities and the most significant investment in our future generations. As you may have heard, the legislature changed the laws governing how parents can choose which public school their children will attend starting next year.
Here in Jefferson County, we proudly have six community school districts serving our communities. For those outside of Jefferson County, they don't understand the impact our beloved community districts provide to our families and patrons and they want to see this changed.
Now, for the first time in K-12 public school history in Kansas, we will have to start competing for students much like our public universities have done for many generations.
Our family of staff has been working hard to adapt to the ever-changing landscape facing our public school systems. With that, we have taken all the information and began to work on improving the areas where we most need to improve. You will see many more things completed next year based on that feedback, leading to our theme, Reason to Believe. With that in mind, we must ensure we are ready to tell the world how wonderful our community and schools are here at Jeff West so we can save the communities our past generations have built.
Our board of education has worked hard to position our district to be ready for the new changes we will face with the 2024-2025 school year. We want to make it easier for students and parents to receive communication from us and to better align our district functions to best support student success. As a parent and patron, we want to ensure that the Jeff West experience is great across all aspects of the district, by better aligning policies and expectations. I look forward to joining you as we share our Reason to Believe. Wishing you and your family a great rest of the summer and a very successful new school year. I look forward to seeing you at one of our many great activities.
It's always a great day to be a Tiger!
Jason
The Jeff West MS Cheer has a Gambinos Pizza fundraiser Wednesday July 26th from 5-9pm. 20% of sales that night will go to the cheer team to help support them with their uniforms.
Public Notice: The July Board of Education Meeting will be held now on Monday, July 17th at 6:30 PM at the district office.
Parents and Guardians,
This week you will find a consent form with a copy of an end of year student survey. Please sign this permission form if you want your child to participate & view the survey. It will be used so we can plan for next school year to be better for students!
Tonight at 5:30pm at the Middle School will be a parent meeting for any current 6th and 7th grade students interested in Cheer for the 23-24 School Year.
Don't forget tonight is our 6-8 Art Night, Band Night and Vocal Night! Doors will open at 6pm for the Art Show which is truly something you do not want to miss! The band and vocal concert will start at 7pm which will be amazing!
Thursday May 11th will be our last Middle School Band and Vocal Concert for 6th-8th graders. Mrs. Turner will have an art display in the commons to showcase all of the wonderful art the students have created throughout the year.
Doors will open at 6pm to view the art show, band and vocal students do not need to report to the music room until 6:45pm.
These are the following events that still need to be completed today, reminder only the students in those events will go to the meet.
1600m, 4x100, 4x200, 400m, 200m Hurdles, 800m, 200m, 4x400
MS League Track is rescheduled to finish events tomorrow May 10 starting at 2:00pm. Only the students who have an event left to finish will be got to the meet tomorrow.
May 1 is National Principal Day. We are thankful for our building leaders & their dedication to our students, staff and community. Thank you for all you do as a member of the Tiger Family. Please help us by thanking your principal and all our educators as we celebrate this week.
Come on out if you aren't busy! The kids have been working hard.
Tigers Family-
The Jeff West High School and Middle school track teams will be host four meets this season, and we are needing work to help run off these meets. Please use the following links to sign up for one or more of these events.
This is the link for the 4/6 Fr/Soph meet
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0848A8AE2EA3FA7-hsfrso4
This is the link for the 4/4 and 4/18(scroll down to find the 4/18)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0848A8AE2EA3FA7-hsvtrack5
and finally, here is a link for the middle school meet on 4/13
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0848A8AE2EA3FA7-mstrack5
Also, if there is an event that needs help and you are not feeling confident about how that event works, the Tiger coaching staff are going to host a quick training school on Monday 4/3 at 5:30-6:30 to explain event rules for different events.
If you have any questions, please contact the coaches with the following emails.
Shawn Dolezilek shawn.dolezilek@usd340.org
Scott Campbell scott.campbell@usd340.org
Mary Williams mary.williams@usd340.org
Reminder, parents meeting for Cheer Tryouts tonight @ 6pm at the HS
