GH 1st graders visited the Holstein Fire Station to learn all about fire safety today. They enjoyed a tour and a yummy lunch! Thanks Holstein fire department for sharing with our students today and volunteering in our community to help keep us all safe!
Raptor Nation: Tuesday's volleyball match will be all three levels JVR , JV and varsity on 1 net following WVC protocol starting at 5:30 versus Siouxland Christian . Go Raptors!
Raptor Nation: On Monday our JVR volleyball team will travel to Sioux Central to play in the Sioux Central JVR Tournament starting at 4:30. The same night the JV volleyball team will play two matches in Lawton Bronson starting at 5:30 before the start of the Varsity match.
HEY HEY RAPTOR FANS:
Let's pack the stands tonight!!
Tonight's Itinerary for the Homecoming Football game tonight vs. West Sioux:
6:00pm Ticket Gates Open
6:40pm Announcement of Homecoming Royalty, followed by introduction of the Grand Marshal
6:50pm Announce starting line-ups and officials for the game
6:55pm National Anthem
7:00pm Kickoff
Homecoming Halftime will include the Marching Band performance and Dance Team performance.
#CLAWSUP
JH Football update: Thursday's 7th grade game with OABCIG has been canceled due to quarter limitations. So we will send both the 7th and 8th graders to Moville on Tuesday to play Woodbury Central starting at 4 o'clock. The Woodbury Central game format will be 1 regulation game junior high game followed by additional drives due to participation numbers.
RAPTOR NATION: A friendly reminder there is no school for students on Monday, October 14, due to staff professional development.
Holstein Mayor, Kathy Breyfogle, was invited to be the Friday Mystery Reader to the 2nd graders at G-H Elementary today. Thank you Kathy for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read to our students!
Congratulations to the 2024 Homecoming Court and King Dramelle McCray and Queen Emma Mentzer!
The Raptors of the G-H Lower Elementary celebrated 2024 Homecoming today by sporting all their neon attire! What bright, colorful classrooms and hallways we had today!
The G-H Upper Elementary is celebrating the history of Galva Holstein with Trivia.
Which questions can you answer?
Monday's: What year was the Galva-Holstein Community School district established?
Tuesday's: Which teacher in the Galva building has been teaching the longest?
Wednesday's: Which Galva teacher is the most recent Schaller-Crestland graduate?
Thursday's: How many Galva teachers work in all four of the buildings in our district?
On Tuesday the 8th of October 2024, about 25 RidgeView High School Students loaded up a bus with their Manufacturing Instructor Tyler Wingert and the Industrial Tech teacher Paul Ahlers to enjoy the day visiting and partaking in many great events and activities at the Convention center sponsored by the Siouxland Home Builders Assn.,and the SiouxlandConstruction Alliance. Shown in photos below are just a few of the activities the students participated in. Several took part in laying up a masonry wall and setting up a Liteform safe room. Many also drove truck simulators along with skid loaders both virtually and by remote. Vendors were on hand with drones, and many other items used in the construction fields. All students attending felt it was a day well spent .
A BIG Raptor Thank You to the Galva Fire Department for presenting to our G-H Upper Elementary students today! #CLAWSUP
Look who was nominated for KCHE athlete of the week... very deserving freshman CC runner Talan Witzke after his PR run at the Poky CC invitational.
It was some of the 8th graders who got to spend some quality time in the daycare today. It is so neat to see the interactions between the kids. #CLAWSUP
RAPTOR NATION: Here is the parade route for Thursday evening. Parade lineup starts at 6:00 in the grocery store parking lot. Parade starts at 6:30 followed by the pep rally and coronation in the north gym. #CLAWSUP
The cross country team traveled to Lake City yesterday to take on some tough teams. The girls placed 2nd and the boys were 5th.
Top finishers included:
HS Girls: Addy Tesch 3rd, Clara Todd 15th, Destiny Chavez 16th
HS Boys: Odin Hanson 15th, Talan Witzke 16th
MS Girls: Avery Lundt 4th, Liz Martin 9th
MS Boys: Pryce Aschinger 4th, Gus Schweitzberger 13th
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10zPNhHo8X0VCc6HMm9UOpiwATjEEIF44
These cute and cuddly Holstein Lower Elementary students just rolled out of bed to come to school this morning-OR they came to school purposely dressed in their PJs as part of Homecoming week!
ELITE RAPTOR ALERT: The 7th grade football players were invited by the daycare to come down and spend some time with them during study hall today. When the big kids wearing football jerseys walked in, the little kids just lit up with excitement. #CLAWSUP #BeELITE!
Reminder: JH football game is in Aurelia today starting at 4:15. 3 quarters of 7th followed by three quarters of 8th.
HS volleyball at West Monona in Onawa. 1 net tonight following conference protocol. JVR at 5:30, JV at 6:20 and varsity at 7:30. Go Raptors!