Wapello Community Schools

It's Throwback Thursday! Back to the 1988 WHS Tomahawk for today's memories! #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

The Wapello CSD Board of Directors will meet this evening at 6:00 p.m. at the Central Administration Office for their regular monthly meeting. The meeting is open to in-person attendance or by livestream via Zoom. The instructions to join the meeting via zoom can be found on our website in the news section. https://www.wapellocsd.org/news #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

Just a reminder, today there will be a 1:00 p.m. early dismissal today for staff professional development. #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

20 Days, Just under three weeks, (March 1, 2022), will be the PPEL (Physical Plant and Equipment Levy) Renewal Election, the polls will be open from 7:00 am - 8:00 p.m. at the Briggs Civic Center. Did you know that the revenue that comes from the Voted PPEL Levy funds our teacher computers? While our students use Chromebooks, our staff use MacBook Air Laptops. We lease these machines from Apple on a four year lease cycle and typically keep the machines for five years before they are replaced. The Voted PPEL Levy allows us to make the annual payments on these machines and replace them every five years to put the latest and greatest technology in the hands of our teachers. The MacBook computers offer our teaching staff a little more flexibility for the day to day tasks that they encounter. The MacBook Air computers allow for integration with the Chromebooks and allow the teacher to have additional tools at their disposal that may not be available on the Chromebook devices. The current devices are four years old, so the district will be looking to replace the current MacBook laptops within the next year. That is today's PPEL Fact of the Day, so now you know! To learn more about this important funding stream and the projects that it funds, visit our website at www.wapellocsd.org and click on the menu button and look for the PPEL Renewal Election and take a look at the resources to get a better idea of the kinds of projects that we are able to fund because our voters have kept this levy in place for the past 24 years. #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

The Wapello Jr/Sr High Daily Announcements for Tuesday, February 8, 2022 have been posted to our website and mobile app. They can be found in the documents folder, or by clicking on this direct link: https://5il.co/15bj8 #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

Schedule Adjustment for tonight's JV Boys Basketball vs L-M. The game will begin at 6:30 and will be two quarters in length. The Varsity game will plan to tip off around 7:30. Tonight is the last regular season home game for the Indians, so come out and cheer them on!

21 Days, Three weeks from today, will be the PPEL (Physical Plant and Equipment Levy) Renewal Election, the polls will be open from 7:00 am - 8:00 p.m. at the Briggs Civic Center. Did you know that PPEL is the funding stream that allows the Wapello Community School District to resurface/replace the running/walking surface of our All-Weather Track? The life of the running/walking surface is approximately 15 years at which time the surface is ground down to asphalt and replaced with a brand new surface. In between the replacement, the district has a maintenance coating applied, where the loose material is removed and a thin layer of new material is applied and the track is repainted. The Wapello Community School District is set to have the maintenance coating applied in the summer of 2022 at a cost of approximately $55,000. We take a portion of the revenue from the PPEL tax that we collect each year and earmark it for All-Weather Track Maintenance, so that when the time comes for a maintenance coating or a total resurfacing, we have the funds available. That is today's PPEL Fact of the Day, so now you know! To learn more about this important funding stream and the projects that it funds, visit our website at www.wapellocsd.org and click on the menu button and look for the PPEL Renewal Election and take a look at the resources to get a better idea of the kinds of projects that we are able to fund because our voters have kept this levy in place for the past 24 years. #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

Get your postseason tickets https://wapello.hometownticketing.com/embed/all?es=51i9716pt5fovgcice2pgup0gj

National School Counseling Week 2022, “School Counseling: Better Together,” sponsored by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), will be celebrated from Feb. 7–11, 2022, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems and how students are different as a result of what school counselors do. National School Counseling Week highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.School counselors work with students in five different areas: academic, social, emotional, college, and career needs.

"I saw a bald eagle. They do NOT hibernate. I want to hibernate." You never know what elementary kids will decide to share with you on a cold Monday morning!

Here are the Tribe Pride winners for the week of January 31: B. Allworth, A. Ball, B. Beeding, M. Gonzalez, E. Grimm, D. Harlow, F. Hayes, R. Hayes, J. Kracht, E. Peterson, Z. Schwartz, K. Springsteen, A. Strickland, C. VanWyk, and T. Wright. Staff winner is Mrs. Lynn Proffitt. Congratulations!

The Arrows Basketball team will start their bid for the 2022 IGHSAU State Tournament when they host WACO in Region 6 first round action. Remember, you have to purchase your ticket in advance of Thursday's game. Click the link to get yours (tickets go on sale 2/8/2022 @ 12:00 pm) https://wapello.hometownticketing.com/embed/all

It has been nearly 10 years since the voters of the Wapello Community School District have renewed the Voted PPEL Levy. Over the course of the next 22 days we will give you facts about the PPEL Levy and why it is important to keep this levy in place. Did you know that in 2012, voters reauthorized this levy with an 89% approval rate? To learn more about PPEL and how it is important to continue this levy, please visit our website at www.wapellocsd.org Click on the menu, scroll down to find the PPEL pages we have created and take a look at the materials that will give you more information on this important funding stream for the district. #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

The Winter Sports Seasons are entering the home stretch, Wapello High School Teams will have to win to keep their season alive starting this week. The girls will host the first round of regional play on Thursday evening against WACO with a 7:00 p.m. start time, Wapello will host the District Wrestling meet on Saturday beginning at 11:00 a.m. The boys basketball team has one final regular season game on Tuesday evening against L-M and then throw in some JH Boys Basketball games and a School Board Meeting, it is another busy week for our students. Come out and cheer on the Indians and Arrows this week in their final home events of the season.

The Arrows knock off the Warriors from Van Buren County tonight in the SEISC Shoutout game at Pekin 40-35. #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

The Varsity Girls Basketball will take on Van Buren County tonight at 6:00 pm (at Pekin). Can't make it? Check out the action on Pekin's livestream. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhVCCS82Ytws1_qF0aBc9w

It's that time of year again! The IHSAA and the IGHSAU Basketball and Wrestling tournaments will soon be underway. As in the past, all ticket purchases need to be made in advance through the HomeTown Ticketing platform. To purchase tickets for the IHSAA Wrestling (Sat. 2/5/22), or IHSAA Basketball (Mon. 2/14/22), check out https://www.iahsaa.org/tickets/. Tickets for the IGHSAU game can be purchased at https://wapello.hometownticketing.com/admin/events

Game Day. Shootout at Pekin.

The Wapello Jr/Sr High Daily Announcements for Thursday, February 3, 2022 have been posted to our website and mobile app. They can be found in the documents folder, or by clicking on this direct link: https://5il.co/155qu #WeAreWapello #WapelloTribePride

Mackenzie Lazar was our 1st grade “Star of the Week!” Mackenzie’s cats Lily and Pepper were able to meet her classmates!