Congratulations to Rebecca Whipple on being our Tornado Appreciation Award Winner for this week. Rebecca was nominated by Mr. Nolte for her helpfulness in class.
Mrs Rice’s 7th grade geography class has been learning about different countries. This week Mrs Reindl worked with these classes on creating videos and editing. Students will be creating commercials to advertise their country.
THS is proud to present our next Tornado Futures Session! This month we will be highlighting the Law, Public Safety, Government, Corrections, and Public Administration career cluster!
SRO Beaman was honored today for School Resource Officer Appreciation Day. The students and staff at TJHS appreciate her efforts to keep us safe. Student Council Executive Board members presented her with flowers and a Starbucks gift card. Thank you Officer Beaman for all you do!
The TJHS Student Council celebrated the junior high counselors last week during School Counselor Appreciation Week. Mrs. April Durbin, Mr. Bowser, and Ms. Whitehead were each given a Coffee Can gift card and cookies. We thank them for the work they do every day to help the students at TJHS.
TCUSD3 Cafeteria is hiring!
Miss Basil’s class has some Valentine fun with Candy Heart Fractions.
TCUSD3 Parents - We need your help!
This is a reminder to participate in the parent survey supplement, part of the Illinois 5Essentials Survey administration. We guarantee that survey responses will never be connected to the identity of you or your child. School reports will only present aggregated information of how parents and students responded as a whole.
A parent survey report will be generated if at least 20 percent of parents respond to the survey. While the parent data will not be made public, the parent report will be made available to building principals and Dr. Chris Dougherty and will enable them to make considerations based on the responses given by TCUSD3 parents. Your participation in the parent survey will help us understand the conditions at your child’s school and guide improvement. Again, your identity and individual survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child.
Teachers and 4th through 12th graders throughout Illinois are taking the teacher and student 5Essentials Survey. School-level 5Essentials Reports will be generated if teachers and/or students meet their 50 percent response-rate thresholds. These research-based reports will be sent to schools and districts in March and will also be included in the State School Report Card, released statewide in the fall.
Please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/ to take the parent survey.
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact UChicago Impact Customer Support at 1-866-440-1874 or impact-surveys@uchicago.edu.
Thank you to the over 300 parents and students who attended the 8th Orientation last night. Welcome to the Class of 2027!
Izzy B rescheduled date!
January TJHS Students of the Month:
Front: (L-R) Isaiah Barbour-Smith, Allie Smith, Kyson McKinney, Abby Hankla, Maci Neighbours, Josephine Durbin, Maddie Smith
Back: (L-R) Cole Phillips, Emma Kilduff, Rogan Reindl, Grace Rogers, Taryn Hodson, Lincoln Coffey
The Taylorville Public Schools Foundation is updating their website! Access the Foundation at the top of the TCUSD3 homepage or under MENU > COMMUNITY.
The Foundation is accepting credit card donations through ConvergePay. If you are interested in contributing to the TPSF, visit our page and click DONATE NOW. Once you complete the form, you will be directed to pay securely through ConvergePay.
More information about our upcoming spring fundraiser will be posted soon.
https://www.tcusd3.org/o/tcusd...
Tonight is 8th Grade Orientation for the THS Class of 2027! No RSVP is required!
The students of the THS Choir Department helped form the core of a choir comprising around 200 voices in the annual Area Choral Festival on Thursday, Feb. 9 at Litchfield High School. In addition to Taylorville, student musicians represented several other area schools including Central A&M, Litchfield, Nokomis, Pana, Panhandle, and Vanadalia school districts. The singers enjoyed this unique educational experience under the direction of guest director Amy Lemons, Choir Director at Hillsboro High School. The festival choir practiced throughout the afternoon and presented an outstanding concert that evening.
Fourth grade students in Mrs. Hubbartt's class participated in a "Super Bowl Showdown!'' Students rotated through a series of six stations where they researched, answered questions, solved math problems, practiced origami, composed opinion writings, and were guided through directed drawings. These students are now ready for Super Bowl LVII this Sunday!
A message from Aramark Food Services:
Mrs. Thorpe's class drew monsters, wrote paragraphs, and used the chatterpix app to make their monsters "talk".
Miss Bitschenauer’s class is learning about character traits so they made this craft to show our traits on the inside.
THS Parents,
Please take some time to complete the 5 Essentials Survey.
Link for parents to take the survey: http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
Thank you in advance,
Mr. Hutchison
THS Information for April 12, 2023 Test Day! Freshmen and Sophomores will complete the PSAT 9/10 and be released for Community Service projects. Juniors will take the SAT then be released. Seniors will not be in attendance on April 12th, on that date our Seniors will have a Career Exploration, Job Shadow, Military Visit, Extra College Day or complete a Community Service Project. Please see the attached letter for more information.
