Kenton City Schools

Congratulations to Alyssa Kitchen and Andrew Shepherd for being February’s Elks Teenagers of the Month! Seniors that are interested in applying, please see the high school guidance office.

Kenton Senior High School’s Recycling program is up and running. Two Kenton High School seniors, Mallory Bloom and Amber Paul, have combined efforts with the high school Life Skills Class to promote recycling at Kenton High School. Together with Linda Wuethrich, representing the local Solid Waste District and Ruth Crates, Life Skills teacher, the two FFA members have planned a school-wide pledge activity. Students at KHS have been challenged to pledge their support for school-wide recycling by signing a pledge card. The cards will be placed in a drawing. Eight red KHS Wildcat blankets, made from recycled materials and donated by the Solid Waste District, will be given away to the names drawn from the pledge cards. Two winners from each class will take home a blanket.

Red recycling bins have been place in most classrooms. Containers for plastic bottles and aluminum cans will soon be place in the cafeteria and other strategic locations in the building. KHS students and staff will have a cleaner building and help the environment as well.

Kenton Middle School sixth grader Courtney Fulton will represent KMS at the Sheridan WorldWise Regional Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 8, at the Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus. Seventh grader Lara Dulin placed second in the contest which began with 42 spellers. Continue reading “Student Heads to State Spelling Bee”

The Kenton Middle School 8th Grade Boys’ Basketball Team beat the Defiance Bulldogs Monday evening, 56-54 in overtime, clenching the 2008 Ron Dixon Memorial Championship Trophy. Continue reading “8th Grade Boys Win Championship”

Due to a scheduling conflict, auditions for the KMS Talent Show have been postponed one week. Auditions will now be held Tuesday, February 19, Wednesday, February 20, and Thursday, February 21. You will still audition at the same time on the same day of the week for which you signed up. Auditions will be held in the KMS auditorium. Please see Mrs. Ramge or Mr. Malany for questions.

KMS students Dakota Del Valle, Lara Dulin, Claire Long, Megan Nichols, Jessica Perkins, and Kate Sherman recently qualified to advance to the Power of the Pen Regional Competition. The district meet was held at Tiffin Middle School on January 19, 2008, where participants spent the morning responding to prompts in written essays. Kate Sherman also received the Best of Round award.

Power of the Pen is a series of interscholastic creative writing competitions for 7th and 8th graders throughout the state of Ohio. Schools send two teams of writers to tournaments to compete both as individuals and as teams.

The regional competition will be held March 15, 2008, at Findlay High School.

Kenton Middle School held grade-level bees this week. Each homeroom selected two participants to compete in front of their respective grade. Congratulations to the following students who will advance from grade-level spelling bees to the KMS Spelling Bee: Continue reading “KMS Students Advance to Spelling Bee”

The Paw Print is Kenton Middle School’s new student-produced newspaper. This monthly paper includes coverage of KMS news, music, sports, and much more! The Paw Print is available for $.25 at KMS or can be downloaded here. For advertising opportunities, please contact Mr. Malany at the Kenton Middle School.

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Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseFriday, January 11, 2008Contact: CDC Division of Media Relations404-639-3286Health Groups Release 2008 Immunization SchedulesChildren and Adolescents now Protected Against More Diseases than EverBefore Updated immunization recommendations for childhood influenza and adolescent meningococcal vaccinations are included in the 2008 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules released jointly today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians(AAFP). Continue reading “Health Groups Release 2008 Immunization Schedules”