Neosho Heights Elementary

Due to the potential of inclement weather, The PaperPie Learning Book Fair has been rescheduled for March 12th and March 13th. • March 12th: 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. • March 13th: 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. The book fair will be held in the NeHi Lunchroom. Don't miss out. Usborne Books, Kane Miller Books, Learning Wrap-ups, SmartLab Toys.

The address for our archery tournament tomorrow: Bullseye: Joplin High School 2104 South Indiana Avenue Joplin, MO 64804 3D Joplin Administration Building 825 Pearl Avenue Joplin, MO 64804

We could still use some help with concessions, gate workers and possibly announcing for our home archery tournament on Feb. 22. If you are interested in helping with any of these positions please let me know. Once I get all positions filled I will communicate with everyone on what they are working. We really appreciate any help you can provide.

We will not have archery practice Thursday, Feb. 13. Next practice will be Friday, Feb. 14 from 3:30-6:00 at NEHI.

Good Evening Indian Nation. Due to icy conditions, we will not have school tomorrow, Thursday, February 13th. Stay warm and stay safe!

Spring pictures at Neosho Heights Elementary have been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 13.

We will not have archery practice tonight. We will have practice Thursday, Feb. 13 from 3:30-6:30 at NEHI.

Good Evening Indian Nation. Due to the predicted hazardous weather conditions, we will be cancelling school school tomorrow, Wednesday February 12th. Stay warm and stay safe.

The USD 504 archery teams traveled to Cherokee Saturday, Feb. 8 to compete our 4th tournament of the year. We had several archers missing on Saturday because of illness. That gave some other archers the opportunity to step up. They did step up in a big way. We had several shoot a PR and several medal. Was a great day for our archery teams.. Elementary team 1st place 2603 Middle School team 1st place 3085 Top three teams receive a trophy and top 3 shooters received a medal Axton Myers, Michael Varner, Elizabeth Dalton, Andelyn Johnson, Brooklyn Hazell, Odalys Santana and Axel Santana each received a medal. Odalys Santan, Emma Barnett, Xitlally Santana, Teagan Davis, Samuel Byrd, Ryder Collins, Jaden Perona, Brogan Marquardt and Persephone Fuller each shot their best scores of the year. Michael Varner 276 2nd middle school boys, 1st 8th grade boys, 3rd overall 4th thru 12th grade Elizabeth Dalton 273 1st place middle school girls, 1st place 8th grade girls, 4th overall. Andelyn Johnson 267 2nd place middle school girls, 2nd place 8th grade girls, 6th overall Brooklyn Hazell 265 3rd place middle school girls, 3rd place 8th grade girls, 7th overall Odalys Santana 263 PR 1st place elementary girls, 1st place 5th grade girls, 10th overall Chloe Rhodenbaugh 262 4th place middle school girls, 4th place 8th grade girls Axel Santana 261 3rd place middle school boys, 2nd place 8th grade boys Emma Barnett 258 PR 5th place middle school girls, 1st place 6th grade girls Amelia Head 256 6th place middle school girls, 2nd place 6th grade girls Amelia Owens 252 8th place middle school girls, 3rd place 6th grade girls Kobe Hazell 251 5th place middle school boys, 1st place 6th grade boys Aralynn Tun 245 2nd place elementary girls, 2nd place 5th grade girls Sydney Huebner 241 10th place middle school girls, 2nd place 7th grade girls. Ava Edmond 240 3rd place 7th grade girls Xitlally Santana 234 PR 4th place elementary girls, 2nd place 4th grade girls Teagan Davis 233 PR 2nd place elementary boys, 2nd place 5th grade boys Isabella George 232 4th place 6th grade girls Skyler Neblett 231 3rd place elementary boys, 3rd place 5th grade boys Paris Clifton 231 5th place 6th grade girls Maleah Moore 225 6th place 6th grade girls Samuel Byrd 223 PR 4th place 6th grade boys Brody Ghering 221 6th place 6th grade boys Ryder Collins 218 PR 5th place elementary boys, 1st place 4th grade boys Jazlyn Folk 212 6th place elementary girls, 3rd place 5th grade girls Maicee Wimp 211 8th place 6th grade girls Oakley Gatton 210 7th place elementary boys, 2nd place 4th grade boys Elias Smith 207 8th place elementary boys, 6th place 5th grade boys Lucas Schroeder 200 5th place 7th grade boys Gabe Spencer 197 McKenna White 195 7th place 7th grade girls Jaden Perona 192 PR 10th place elementary boys, 8th place 5th grade boys Stephen House 181 3rd place 4th grade boys Teazly Higgins 177 7th place elementary girls, 4th place 5th grade girls Camron Edmond 175 9th place 5th grade boys Allison Becker 166 8th place elementary girls, 5th place 5th grade girls Brogan Marquardt 159 PR 4th place 4th grade boys Raylan Gilliland 152 10th place 5th grade boys. Kenzie Rion 138 9th place elementary girls, 4th place 4th grade girls Patience DeMoss 132 10th place elementary girls, 6th place 5th grade girls Persephone Fuller 124 PR 5th place 4th grade girls Brayleigh Blake 8th place 5th grade girls High School Axton Myers 282 1st place high school boys, 1st place 9th grade boys and 1st place overall Connor Minor 271 PR 4th place high school boys, 1st place 12th grade boys, 6th place overall Tayton Hazell 252 8th place 11th grade boys Brody Braun 247 7th place 9th grade boys Paityn Edwards 247 4th place 9th grade girls Justice Spunaugle 221 9th place 9th grade girls Ella Shouse 213 10th place 9th grade girls Corey Shepard 211

We are still planning on attending the archery tournament in Cherokee tomorrow. The tournament is at Southeast High School. The address is Southeast High School, 126 W 400 HWY, Cherokee, KS 66724. Please let us know if you can't make it because of sickness. It helps the tournament run smoother if they know that before their flight begins. As always, don't hesitate to contact us with any questions. Looking forward to a great tournament tomorrow.

Good afternoon. Due to increasing student and staff absences caused by illness, USD 504 will not be in session on Thursday, February 6th and Friday, February 7th. This will allow the district to engage in deep cleaning of the facilities. Hopefully, our 504 family will be healthier when we return to school on Monday, February 10th. Thank You.

On Feb. 22, the USD 504 archery teams will be hosting our second archery tournament. On Feb. 21, we will be working to set up for the tournament in the high school and junior high gyms. Starting at 3:30 on Friday, Feb. 21 we will start setting up the ranges in both gyms. We will need all hands on deck to make this as easy a transition as possible. All coaches, archers and parents are invited to help with the set up. We will also need a tremendous amount of help running the tournament on Saturday, Feb. 22. A couple of positions we need filled are concession workers and gate workers. If we have parents that would be willing to work either of these positions we would greatly appreciate it. We will make sure that you are free to watch your child shoot on the day of the tournament. We have time slots for concession workers available every hour starting at 8:00 and ending at 4:00. If you are interested in working an hour session on Saturday, Feb. 22 please let us know. We will also do the same thing for gate workers. We will start hour long sessions for the gate at 7:30 on Saturday. We will have someone every hour ending at 4:00. Please let us know if you would be willing to work the gate. We will also need someone to announce in the 3D gym. Please let us know if you would be willing to do that. Last year we ran an extremely successful tournament. We are all very proud of what we accomplished last year. Without everyone’s willingness to pitch in and help it would not have been possible. We hope that this year will be bigger and better than it was last year. We look forward to working with everyone to make this happen. Please don’t hesitate to contact any of the coaches with any questions you may have.

We will have archery practice Saturday, Feb. 1 in the NEHI gym. Practice will start at 5:30 pm and run until 8:00 pm. Practice format will be the same as it is on Wednesday.

The USD 504 archery teams traveled to Carl Junction Missouri for our 4th archery tournament this year. Once again, our archers distinguished themselves as individuals and teams that can compete with the best shooters in our area. We were fortunate to be able to shoot against the defending national championship middle school team on Saturday. Our shooters shot side by side with their shooters and showed that they belong in that level of shooter. In the history of the middle school program, no 504 team has shot a higher score than the score we shot on Saturday. Would be a great accomplishment if we could shoot over 3200 by the end of the year. The elementary score of 2608 ranks in the top 5 scores our elementary team has ever shot. We are seeing a tremendous amount of improvement in the middle school and elementary teams. This has been really fun to watch so far this year. We are also seeing some increased participation at the high school level. We had a record number participate in the 3D shoot Saturday. We are excited to see how to grow in 3D as the year transpires. They have also been improving on the bullseye range. Extremely grateful to have the high school shooters contributing on our high school team. Shooters winning medals on Saturday were: Matthias Shaw 1st place middle school boys BE, Brooklyn Hazell 5th place middle school girls BE (Brooklyn also had a perfect round of 50 from 10 meters), Michael Varner 9th place middle school boys BE, Skyler Neblett 3rd place elementary boys BE, Odalys Santana 5th place elementary girls BE. Shooters that shot a PR on Saturday were: Michael Varner 3D, Brooklyn Hazell 3D & BE, Andelyn Johnson 3D & BE, Amelia Owens 3D, Kobe Hazell 3D, Paityn Edwards 3D, Connor Minor 3D, Brody Braun 3D, Corey Shepard 3D, Matthias Shaw BE, Maicee Wimp BE, Emma Barnett BE, McKenna White BE, Maleah Moore BE, Jazlyn Folk BE, Brody Ghering BE, Oakley Gatton BE, George McCready BE, Jaxson Blair BE, Raylan Gilliland BE, Vanslee Nading BE, Adelynn Queen BE, Kenzie Rion BE, Brogan Marquardt BE, and Persephone Fuller Middle School 3D tied for 3rd with Lamar with 1575 points. Lamar won the tiebreaker because they shot 3 more tens. Lamar had 60 tens and we had 57 tens. Top three teams receive a trophy and top 5 individuals in 3D win medals. Michael Varner 8th grade boys 4th place 267 PR Axel Santana 8th grade boys 5th place 266 Brooklyn Hazel 8th grade girls 4th place, middle school girls 8th place 264 PR Andelyn Johnson 8th girls 5th place 261 PR Matthias Shaw 8th grade boys 7th place 259 Chloe Rhodenbaugh 8th grade girls 7th place 258 Elizabeth Dalton 8th grade girls 8th place 255 Amelia Owens 6th grade girls 4th place 255 PR Kobe Hazell 6th grade boys 7th place 233 PR High School 3D Top 5 individuals receive medals. Paityn Edwards 242 PR Connor Minor 240 PR Brody Braun 227 PR Corey Shepard 188 PR Top 3 teams receive trophies. Top ten individuals receive a medal. Elementary /Middle School Bullseye: The elementary team shot a season best score of 2608 with 43 ten shots. The middle school team shot a season best score of 3194 with 118 ten shots. Middle school and Elementary Individual Results: Matthias Shaw Middle school boys 1st and 8th grade boys 1st. Overall boys rank 4th thru 12th grade 9th. 284 PR Brooklyn Hazell Middle school girls 5th and 8th grade girls 3rd 279 PR Michael Varner Middle school boys 9th and 8th grade boys 4th 278 Eric Martin 7th grade boys 5th 273 Andelyn Johnson 8th grade girls 5th 272 PR Elizabeth Dalton 8th grade girls 9th place 270 Amelia Owens 6th grade girls 6th place 261 Chloe Rhodenbaugh 261 Axel Santana 260 Sydney Huebner 8th grade girls 10th 258 Skyler Neblett Elementary boys 3rd and 5th grade boys 3rd 253 Maicee Wimp 6th grade girls 7th 249 PR Kobe Hazell 6th grade boys 10th 249 Paris Clifton 6th grade girls 9th place 248 Odalys Santana Elementary girls 5th place and 5th grade girls 4th 245 Emma Barnett 242 PR McKenna White 241 PR Maleah Moore 240 PR Emily Wible 235 Isabella George 233 Lucas Schroeder 233 Jazlyn Folk 4th grade girls 4th 231 PR Aralynn Tun 5th grade girls 10th 229 Oakley Gatton 4th grade boys 2nd 227 PR Brody Ghering 222 PR Ava Edmond 221 Elias Smith 215 Camron Edmond 213 George McCready 209 PR Cage Miller 207 Teagan Davis 207 Xitlally Santana 205 Jaxson Blair 205 PR Gabe Spencer 205 Samuel Byrd 203 Jackson Gilley 4th grade boys 6th 193 Raylan Gillilland 183 PR Vanslee Nading 180 PR Adelynn Queen 170 PR Kenzie Rion 168 PR Brogan Marquardt 149 PR Orrin Fuller 145 Teazly Higgins 132 Allison Becker 132 Persephone Fuller 120 PR Madison Spencer 101 Brayleigh Blake 89 High School Results: Top ten individuals receive medals in each division. Axton Myers 9th grade boys 9th place 268 Chance Mills 260 Paityn Edwards 259 Brody Braun 257 PR Connor Minor 226 Corey Shepard 222 PR Ella Shouse 214 Justice Spunaugle 171

The USD 504 archery teams will not be competing in Carthage this weekend. Our next tournament will be at Southeast on Feb. 8. Message Coach Cruse if you have any questions.

Here is a map of the campus at Carl Junction where our archery tournament is this weekend. Saturday morning we will set up in the high school. This is where you will get your bows and scorecards. If you are shooting in the junior high, we will walk from the high school to the junior high when it is your time to shoot. It is best to show up around 1 hour before you shoot. They will most likely let you in 10-15 minutes before your flight time . The address to the facility in on the map. Please let me know if you have any questions. I will communicate with everyone when your shooting time will be.

The USD 504 archers traveled to Pittsburg for our second tournament of the year on Saturday. Once again, our archers showed up and did a great job representing our school. This was an extremely competitive meet us. Throughout the day our middle school shooters battled Lamar. The tournament had 7 flights. At the start of the 6th flight Oswego was ahead of Lamar by 4 points. At the end of the 7th and final flight Oswego would trail Lamar by 9. Was extremely fun watching this play out throughout the day. Top three teams secured trophies. Oswego brought home three. One for the 3D, one for the elementary bullseye team and one for the middle school bullseye team. Medals were awarded for the top 3 shooters in each division. Those shooters for Oswego the won medals were: Axel Santana 1st place middle school boy 3D, Matthias Shaw 1st place middle school boys bullseye and Odalys Santana 1st place elementary girls bullseye. The following students shot their best score ever: 3D shooters Axel Santana, Michael Varner, Matthias Shaw, Brooklyn Hazell and Amelia Owens. Bullseye shooters: Odalys Santana, Gabe Spencer, Emma Barnett, McKenna White, Ellias Smith, Orrin Fuller, Oakley Gatton, Xitlally Santana, Samuel Byrd, Stephen House, Jackson Gilley, Maleah Moore, Vanslee Nading, Allison Becker, Adelynn Queen and Kenzie Rion. Congratulations to all of our shooters for a job well done on Saturday. Would like to also thank all of our coaches. They all dedicate many hours to ensure the development of our shooters. Without them we would not do as well as we do. A big thank you also goes out to all the parents for making sure our shooters get to the tournaments. Many of them leave meets and go straight to basketball or leave basketball and go straight to archery. Can’t thank them enough for doing what the do. Without the parents willingness to do this we would not have an archery team. Was a great day for Indian archers. Our next tournament will be Jan. 25 in Carl Junction. 3D Team finished 2nd with 1572 points. Carl Junction first with 1629 points Axel Santana Middle school boys 1st, 8th grade 1st, Overall boys rank 4th thru 12th grade 6th 275 PR Michael Varner Middle school boys 8th, eighth grade 3rd 265 PR Matthias Shaw Middle school boys 10th, eighth grade boys 4th 264 PR Brooklyn Hazell Middle school girls 7th, eighth grade girls 6th 261 PR Elizabeth Dalton eighth grade 8th 254 Chloe Rhodenbaugh eighth grade girls 9th 253 Andelyn Johnson eighth grade girls 10th 245 Amelia Owens sixth grade girls 2nd 243 PR Elementary bullseye team finished second with 2583 points. Carl Junction was first with 2780 points. Middle school bullseye team finished second with 3154 points. Lamar finished first with 3165 points. Matthias Shaw 1st place middle school boys, first 8th grade boys and sixth overall 4th thru 12th grade boys 279 Eric Martin 4th place middle school boys, third 7th grade boys 273 Michael Varner 5th place middle school boys, second 8th grade boys 272 Chloe Rhodenbaugh 4th place middle school girls, fourth 8th grade girls 268 Axel Santana 5th place 8th grade boys 264 Odalys Santana 1st place elementary girls, first 5th grade girls 263 PR Amelia Owens 7th place middle school girls, second 6th grade girls 259 Brooklyn Hazell 8th place middle school girls, sixth 8th grade girls 258 Andelyn Johnson 9th place middle school girls, seventh 8th grade girls 257 Kobe Hazell 2nd place 6th grade boys 255 Paris Clifton 4th place 6th grade girls 254 Gabe Spencer 4th place 6th grade boys 250 PR Isabelle George 5th place 6th grade girls 250 Ava Edmond 3rd place 7th grade girls 247 Emma Barnett 7th place 6th grade girls 241 PR Skyler Neblett 4th place elementary boys, fourth place 5th grade boys 240 Emily Wible 8th place 6th grade girls 235 Amelia Head 9th place 6th grade girls 233 Maicee Wimp 230 McKenna White 8th place 7th grade girls 230 PR Elias Smith 8th place elementary boys, eighth place 5th grade boys 229 PR Orrin Fuller 225 PR Kross Fuller 224 Camron Edmond 220 Sydney Huebner 212 Cage Miller 212 Oakley Gatton 1st place 4th grade boys 212 PR Aralynn Tun 8th place elementary girls, seventh place 5th grade girls 210 Xitlally Santana 2nd place 4th grade girls 208 PR Samuel Byrd 207 PR Stephen House 2nd place 4th grade boys 206 PR Jaxson Blair 199 Jackson Gilley 4th place 4th grade boys 199 PR Maleah Moore 198 PR Ryder Collins 6th place 4th grade boys 195 Teagan Davis 190 Jazlyn Folk 9th place 5th grade girls 189 Teazly Higgins 10th place 5th grade girls 187 Vanslee Nading 178 PR Allison Becker 170 PR Adelynn Queen 9th place 4th grade girls 169 PR Kenzie Rion 141 PR Raylan Gilliland 120 Brayleigh Blake 114 High School Axton Myers 7th high school boys, second 9th grade boys and eighth place overall 4th thru 12th 278 Chance Mills 7th place 10th grade boys 252 Paityn Edwards 7th place 9th grade girls 249 Brody Braun 239 PR Justice Spunaugle 231 Ella Shouse 215 PR

The address for the archery tournament Saturday, Jan. 18 is: Pittsburg High School, 1978 East 4th Street, Pittsburg, Ks 66762. There will be an admission charge of $4.00 for adults, $2.00 for non shooters under 18. Coaches and shooters get in free. Please let us know if you have any questions.

The archery teams will be traveling to Pittsburg Saturday, Jan. 18 for our second tournament of the year. Our original schedule had us attending two meets on that date. Southeast has moved their meet to Feb. 8. We will not be shooting at Southeast on Jan. 18.

Today the Oswego archery teams traveled too Liberal for our first tournament of the year. Boy did we represent our school! All we did was come home with 12 medals and 3 trophies. I honestly can’t tell you how much I enjoy watching these kids shoot. They never cease to amaze me with how much they improve each year. We have some extremely dedicated kids and coaches. Am extremely proud of our archers and the coaches for all they do every day to improve. Our middle school bullseye team placed first with a score of 3190 with 111 tens shot. Compare that to 3011 last year with 70 tens shot. What an impressive day for our middle school team. Our middle school also competed as a team in the 3D shoot for the first time in school history. We have had individuals compete. Have never had enough for a team. All they did was secure a second place finish with a score of 1514 with 40 tens shot. The winning team from Carl Junction shot a score of 1543. The elementary school placed first also with a score of 2403 with 31 tens shot. Last year at this time we shot a team score of 2255 with 20 tens shot. Pretty impressive improvement from them also. The high school did not have enough to form a team. We hope in the near future that we will have enough to complete a team. We also had 30 archers shoot their career best scores Saturday. Those shooters with PR scores were:Matthias Shaw 261 3D, Axel Santana 237 3D, Kobe Hazel 219 3D, Chloe Rhodenbaugh 259 3D, Elizabeth Dalton 257 3D, Andelyn Johnson 251 3D, Brooklynn Hazell 235 3D, Michael Varner 281 Bullseye, Elizabeth Dalton 275 Bullseye, Amelia Head 268 Bullseye, Skyler Neblett 260 Bullseye, Paris Clifton 260 Bullseye, Emily Wible 252 Bullseye, Camron Edmond 244 bullseye, Emma Barnett 219 Bullseye, Oakley Gatton 210 Bullseye, Elias Smith 210 Bullseye, Ryder Collins 208 Bullseye, Samuel Byrd 200 Bullseye, Xitlally Santana 195 Bullseye, Orrin Fuller 181 Bullseye, Jackson Gilley 180 Bullseye, Adelynn Queen 155 Bullseye, Kenzie Rion 123 Bullseye, Brayleigh Blake 121 Bullseye, Madison Spencer 113 Bullseye. Top five archers in each division earned medals for their efforts. Those receiving medals were: Matthias Shaw 3D, Chloe Rhodenbuagh 3D, Elizabeth Dalton 3D, Andelyn Johnson 3D, Michael Varner Bullseye, Matthias Shaw Bullseye, Elizabeth Dalton Bullseye, Skyler Neblett Bullseye, Camron Edmond Bullseye, Odalys Santana Bullseye, Cage Miller Bullseye, Xitlally Santana Bullseye. Trophies were awarded to the top three teams. Our middle school bullseye, middle school 3D and elementary bullseye teams all secured trophies. I can’t say enough about how we performed today. We have been shooting pretty well in practice. Sometimes that does not translate to tournament day. We definitely showed up on the big stage today. Next Saturday we travel to Pittsburg for our second tournament. I anticipate we will do well and can’t wait for that day to arrive. Thank you goes out to everyone that traveled to Liberal to show their support for all of our archers today. Was a great day to be an Indian. We also had two archers shoot two perfect rounds of 50 Saturday. Both Michael Varner and Matthias Shaw shot perfect rounds. Congratulations to both of those archers. Other students participating on Saturday were Cage Miller, Raylan Gilliland, Allison Becker, Junior Martin, Kross Fuller, Gabe Spencer, Jaxon Blair, Landyn Kratzer, Amelia Owens, Sydney Huebner, Ava Edmond, Maicee Wimp, Isabella George, McKenna White, Chance Mills, Brody Braun and Justice Spunaugle. Middle School team first place 3190 111 tens (3011 last year 70 tens) Middle School 3D team second place 1514 40 tens (first place had 1543) Elementary team first place 2403 31 tens (2255 last year 20 tens) I would just like to add a little more to what we accomplished yesterday at Liberal. Our team score of 2403 ranks us at 169 out of 355 elementary teams in the United States. Our team score of 3190 ranks the middle school team at 44 out of 591 middle school teams in the United States. As far as individual scores go. Skyler Neblett is ranked 133 out of 4981 elementary boys. Elizabeth Dalton is ranked 235 out of 4991 middle school girls. Michael Varner is ranked 124 out of 4901 middle school boys and Mathias Shaw is ranked 176 out of 4901 middle school boys. Axton Myers is 295 out of 5000 high school boys. To make this list you would need to be in the top 300 in your division. We had a pretty good day yesterday.