Preparing for the future
/KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Henley Middle School eighth-grader Feather Crume is considering a career in the medical field – or perhaps in education. Classmate Rachel Edwards is interested in agriculture.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Henley Middle School eighth-grader Feather Crume is considering a career in the medical field – or perhaps in education. Classmate Rachel Edwards is interested in agriculture.
Read MoreTeams from Bonanza, Lost River, Mazama, and Henley competed well at the VEX Robotics Oregon State Championships last weekend with four teams qualifying for the world competition in May.
Read MoreEighth-grader Lillian Beegle considers herself artistic. She likes to write and she has an interest in the digital arts. So when an aptitude test pointed her in a different direction, she was surprised.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - “Next week, for the first time in more than a year, most Klamath County School District students will begin returning to our classrooms full-time, five days a week,” said a newsletter sent to KCSD parents Wednesday evening.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - For most students, the seventh-period bell signifies the end of the school day. At Brixner Junior High and Henley Middle School, however, students now have the option to stay and receive extra help from their teachers on homework and assignments.
Read MoreBONANZA, Ore. – It’s below freezing outside as Bonanza Junior/Senior High School Principal Jordan Osborn loads a truck with boxes of food and wrapped gifts for families in the Bonanza, Gearhart, Bly, and Sprague River areas.
Read MoreWhen Henley Middle School students logged into their Pet World class last week, a local sheep ranch appeared on their computer screens. School counselor Stacey Ramirez, who grew up on her parent’s ranch off Hill Road, was their virtual tour guide and guest lecturer, introducing students to the ranch’s newest residents – lambs.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - In a letter written to Klamath County School District families, KCSD Superintendent, Glen Szymoniak announces options for county schools this fall. “There is not a one size fits all answer for the district,” said Szymoniak.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Students at Henley Middle School raised $300 for the Klamath Humane Society and a chance at making their science teacher Mark Nevala shave his well-known beard.
Read MoreStudents playing with a BB gun pistol that appeared to be a handgun caused Henley Complex schools to go into a lockdown for about 30 minutes today.
The lockdown occurred at about 9 a.m. after students recorded a video of two other students playing with a BB gun pistol that was a replica of a handgun. They quickly reported the incident to administration, the Henley Complex was put into a lockdown and law enforcement responded.
Read MoreWorkers poured the concrete foundation of a new classroom building at Henley Middle School Thursday, starting before sunrise and spending the day leveling, smoothing and buffing the surface.
Read MoreSchools throughout the Klamath County School District will be participating in “give back” activities this week, including food and clothing drives, clean-up activities, thank-you letters to community businesses, leaders and organizations, pet food drives for the Humane Society among other activities.
Read MoreBefore school started last week, six fifth- and sixth-grade teachers at Peterson Elementary School spent at least a week moving supplies, books and other curriculum materials from modulars and the main school building to classrooms in a new building on campus. Students were greeted with new desks, SMART technology, painted concrete floors and bright windows.
Read MoreAs soon as school is out for the summer, it’s time for the Klamath County School District to get to work on large improvement projects for KCSD buildings. This summer the district has construction projects at 10 of its schools throughout the district.
Read MoreOn Friday (02/23/18) the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from the Henley Middle School. In that incident, a parent was attempting to gain entry into the school at a controlled entry point and before she could be let in a student yelled, “She’s got a gun.”
Read MoreThys DeHoop, 17, can see his future in the skies over his home town every time he looks up and
sees an F-15 fighter jet soar high above.
“Growing up in Klamath, being able to see the F-15s, how fast they go, how loud they are,”
DeHoop said. “The atmosphere at the base, it’s so fun and family oriented. I want to be a part of that someday. And I think it’d be cool to go Mach 2.5, faster than the speed of sound.”
He and about 60 other Henley High School students recently got a closer look at the jets and Kingsley Field at the home of the 173rd Fighter Wing on a field trip to the Air National Guard base. The field trip was part of the Henley High School Aerospace Engineering program.
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