Sorted by date Results 276 - 300 of 533
Broadus Elementary students receiving Physical Fitness Awards are pictured above. Elementary PE Teacher Jerry Coulter uses the AAU Fitness Standards, which use a long run (up to a mile for older students), sit-ups, pull ups, and one other optional event. The students attaining the standard were awarded with a physical fitness patch, custom made by Daisy Patch Embroidery in Broadus. During the ceremony, Coulter encouraged the gathered classes to remain active during the summer, getting outside...
Continued from last week. 100 Meter Race First Grade Girls – Myla Gatlin, Sophie Ostendorf, Paisley Harper, Krystin Kramme, Emma Mills, Annabel Jesttes First Grade Boys – Trace Emmons, Caden D’Amico, Carson D’Amico, Cody Draine, Griffin Gardner, Thad Escott, Charles Hartman Second Grade Girls – Mikayla Capp, Hazel Kinzer, Rickee Bilbrey, Faith Hopkins, Maci Emmons, Peyton Martinson, Kaley Rumph, Kaya Hunt, Joelle Jurica, Avery Kramme Second Grade Boys – Cole Draine, Clinton Handran, Daxson Wahl Third Grade Girls – Courtney Kuhbacher, Anna Haged...
A retirement party was held last Thursday for four Broadus teachers. The party, which took place at the elementary gym, featured a cake, gifts, and was attended by a crowd of faculty and family of the teachers. On the south wall of the gym, a display was made for each of the retiring teachers – Marilyn Emmons, Marshall & Patty Williams, and Lisa Gaskill. The display featured each teacher's total minutes of teaching; Marilyn and Marshall each had 3,416,000 minutes of teaching, while Patty s...
By Sophie Irish On Tuesday, May 5, the Broadus FFA Chapter held a banquet as a final farewell to the graduating seniors, as well as Mr. Williams, hand out awards won by the chapter members, and announce the new officers. Proficiency Awards included: Beef Production Entrepreneurship - Marcus Mader, Silver, Diversified Livestock Placement - Kaydin Trent, Bronze, Equine Production Entrepreneurship - Oliveah Schaffer, Silver, Swine Production Entrepreneurship - Rheanna Schroeder, Gold, Star Agribusiness - Deanna Twedt, Gold, Star Agribusiness -...
The Broadus School Board Trustees met for their monthly meeting on Monday, with all members present, as well as a contingent of 19 community members. The board’s first order of business was certification of the recent school board election results. Two district 79J positions were up for election, the results were as follows: Ayche Draine: 138 votes. Patrick Emmons: 281 votes. Raquel Mader, 272 votes. Tricia Robinson: 63 votes. 754 ballots were cast in total, with 5 ballots rejected due to being mismarked. The board then accepted nominations f...
Courtesy Artsonia Powder River County District High School student Rachel Rasmussen is the proud winner of Artsonia's Artist of the Week contest, a voting competition held on Artsonia.com, the world's largest collection of student art portfolios exhibiting over 80 million pieces of student art. Rasmussen received more than a thousand online votes for her winning art. When asked how she felt when she found out she won Artist of the Week, Rasmussen said, "I was excited." Rasmussen's teacher,...
By Broadus Schools Superintendent Jim Hansen I have often referred to the spring graduation ceremony as our “Super Bowl.” It is the main event that transpires after thirteen years of education filled with adversity and celebration as our youth make the difficult transition to adulthood. Thirteen years is a long time considering many youth struggle to wait thirteen seconds. In a society so focused on “immediate gratification,” it is easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal. The educational and often over-looked social tribulations student...
By Dora Huckins Colton Jones, fifth grader at Broadus Elementary School, received 2nd place in his division at the 2021 Statewide K-6th grades Keep Montana Green poster contest with his poster titled "Keeping Montana Green Instead of Red." Jones is pictured above with his poster. He will receive a prize award of $175 and his poster may appear in the 2022 Keep Montana Green calendar. Colton is the son of Audrey and Robert Jones of Ashland, MT. Congratulations on a job well done! A complete list...
By Connie Barnhart Recently PRCDHS art students participated in the 2nd Student Juried Exhibition at the Waterworks Art Museum (WAM). Students from Miles City, Jordan and Broadus were invited to submit artwork for the exhibition in conjunction with the WAM annual Western Art Roundup featuring Andy Watson, PBR photographer. Ten PRCDHS art students were able to attend the opening of the Student Juried Exhibition on Friday, April 23rd. This year's juror, Ariel Grosfield, from Billings gave...
By Brandi Billing Come one come all to the 2021 Broadus High School play. This year the students and adult volunteer, Cody Earley, will be performing Snow White the Modern Musical; a play based off the Walt Disney original movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the humorous duo skit performed by director Brandi Billing & Cody Earley that won 3rd place at State Speech and Drama in 2014. The original Speech and Drama piece was written by Melissa Billing to play off the humorous nature of the duo performing it. Together with Melissa, Brandi...
By Connie Barnhart A new visual attraction can be seen in the PRCDHS weight room. New murals were recently completed by art students. The new murals replaced an "underwater fish mural" that was created in 1995 by PRCDHS art students for the former student lounge. It was appreciated for many years until the room was remade into the current weight room. The calming underwater scene really wasn't conducive to "pumping up" in a weight room environment. Last year, students voted on new mural...
By Kenda Hartman Broadus Elementary hosted our annual Battle of the Books last week. Each team of 2-3 students was responsible for reading 12 books from a predetermined list and then answered questions about the titles in quiz bowl style. Our 5th and 6th grade battle was held on Tuesday, April 20 with the following teams: Brock Gali and Bradyn Stoddard-Terrill competed as a team, Kassie Hagedorn, Justin Aye, and Kordell Schonenback on a team, Alexis Godfredson and Jordyn Schroeder as a team,...
The Broadus School Board Trustees met Monday evening for their monthly meeting. All members of the board were in attendance, with Raquel Mader and Waylon Billing attending the meeting via phone. The first item on the agenda was the hiring of staff for the 2021-22 school year. Motions were made and unanimously passed to hire the current tenured staff, as well as the staff that will be receiving tenure in the coming year (including Caroline Johnson, Rebecca Boman, and Jen Zellers), and classified staff. Coaches for the 2021-22 school year were...
By Broadus Schools Superintendent Jim Hansen 4-12-2021 People have a way of making some things difficult. School finance certainly falls into one of those categories. Maybe government tries to confuse us so we don’t ask questions, or maybe the plan is to hire more people to interpret all the regulations. Well, this is my best attempt to briefly discuss your general fund budget and, to explain why we did not run a general fund levy this spring. Montana general fund budgets are composed of two sections: a Base and Over-Base. The Base budget is t...
By: Libby Nisley, BPA Advisor The Business Professionals of America have been through an interesting year indeed. Nineteen high school members participated in the Regional conference virtually in December. All 19 members placed and qualified to go on to the state contest. Unfortunately, our chapter was notified of the decision to move both our State competition and the Nationals to virtual events and some members made the choice to be done for the year. A lot of the experience is lost in the vir...
"Cloud 9" was the theme of this yearʼs PRCDHS prom. The 2021 Prom Royalty included top row l to r: Layla Preite, Prom King Tate Page, Prom Queen Deanna Twedt, Jonathan Desatoff, and Joziah Brost. The Crown Bearers pictured in the front row are l to r Jameson Schuetzle and Emma Kolka. Wyatt Gee and Rachel Rasmussen (not pictured) were named Prom Prince and Princess. (Photo courtesy Jim Collins)...
By Julie Long Registration is now open for Shining Star Preschool for the 2021-2022 school year. Students must be 4 years old by September 10, 2021. Classes will begin on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:00AM-Noon at Powder River Congregational Church (UCC) and will expand to Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Molly Lloyd will be the teacher. This faith-based opportunity for Kindergarten prep and readiness is a combined ministry to the community by Our Savior’s Lutheran and PR Congregational churches. Registration deadline is May 1, 2021 with a r...
Broadus students with grade point averages between 3.5 and 4.0 during the 3rd Quarter are listed on the Honor Roll. Those students include: 7th Grade: Novalee Blakeman, Gracie Gali, Maggie Mader, Kayleigh Opstedahl, Darren VerWolf. 8th Grade: Rebecca Aye, Archer Edwards, Zach Jones, Jackson Knapp, Shyla Madsen, Riley Mitchell, Rebekah Rasmussen, Jayce Schroeder. 9th Grade: Mia Mader, Cooper Zimmer. 10th Grade: Lauryn Billing, Alex Edwards, Tytan Hanson, Marcus Mader, Rheanna Schroeder. 11th Grade: Lea Aye, Kori Kolka, Abigail Martin, Rachel...
By Broadus Schools Principal Denise Ternes **CALENDAR CHANGE** Due to the District Music Festival being cancelled, April 9th is no longer a day off from school. This will make April 8th a regular dismissal at 3:20. The calendar committee has selected April 30th as a no-school day, and April 29th will be a 2:20 dismissal. Kindergarten Roundup! The Annual Kindergarten Roundup will be Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 8:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Students must be five years old on or before September 10, 2021 to be eligible for Kindergarten. Appointments are...
The Broadus Fifth Grade performed their Unwax Museum last Friday. Students took up the part of their choice of a famous or historical figure, researching and performing as their character for the museum. In a change from previous years, only elementary students and the perfomer's families were able to attend, but videos of the museum are available to watch at www.broadus.net. Pictured below, from top left, back row: Kade VerWolf as Evel Knievel, Alexis Gotfredson as Charlotte Parkhurst, Addi...
By Tracie Earley The annual Kindergarten Roundup for kids starting Kindergarten in August of 2021 will be held at Broadus Elementary School on Wednesday, April 14th, from 8 am to 4 pm. Children must be five years old on or before September 10, 2021 to be eligible for Kindergarten. Appointments are required, and appointments will be staggered to limit the number of people in the building. Please call Tracie at 436-2637 to schedule a time for your child. We look forward to meeting our 2021-2022 Kindergarten students! Additionally, there will be...
By Alex Edwards On Tuesday, March 9th, the Broadus FFA chapter held a meeting to discuss plans for the upcoming State Contest being held in Billings on April 7th. Among the teams going to state are Parliamentary Procedure, Agronomy, and Sales. Members were also selected for a committee, which will pick winners for scholarships and the local proficiency awards. Plans were discussed for an upcoming teacher’s banquet and next year’s FFA were also discussed....
By Lisa Lynch March will bring excitement back into the auditorium with two performances of Missoula Children’s Theatre “Jack and the Beanstalk”. What happens when a young boy plants wonder beans in his own backyard? For Jack, it is the beginning of a great adventure. * Join us on Friday, March 19 at 5:30 pm and Saturday March 20 at 1:00 pm to see what happens. Tickets are $5.00 for students and adults and free for seniors and children not in school. Come join the local youth talent as well as two Missoula Children’s Theatre actors as they en...
By Jen Zellers Our fifth grade students have been working hard, researching facts and information about various famous and historical people during the month of February! We are excited to share our research with you during our annual UnWax Museum on March 12th! This year things will look a little different as our UnWax Museum will only be open to elementary classes and families of those participating. However, we will have a virtual option available for those unable to attend on the 12th! Visit our school’s website at Broadus.net to view v...
By Broadus Schools Superintendent Jim Hansen As many of you know we will be losing four teachers at the conclusion of this school year. Attracting new educators has become extremely difficult in most rural communities. The Montana legislature has made an attempt to increase beginning teacher salaries with House Bill 143. Qualifying schools would receive an additional State payment if they agree to increase salaries during the first three years for beginning teachers. Beginning Broadus educators would be eligible for this increase. However,...
