West Point Public Schools

NEW SCHOOL RECORD!! Congratulations to West Point-Beemer Sophomore, Mia Hunke, who set a new school record in the 300 meter hurdles yesterday at the North Bend Invitational! The previous record was held by Laura Langemeier and was set at the State Meet in 2006 with a time of 45.929. The new record that Mia set yesterday at North Bend was a time of 45.916. Another fun fact about the record, Mia also passed up her mom, Holly Hunke, who was 2nd on the list from 1995 in Districts!

Congratulations to the West Point-Beemer track participants who have qualified for the Norfolk Classic this Thursday in Norfolk! Girls: Campbell Snodgrass: Long Jump, Triple Jump & 4x4 Relay Mia Hunke: 100 Hurdles, 400 Dash, 300 Hurdles & 4x4 Relay Lesly Sanchez: 3200 Run Kenna Hughes: 4x4 Relay Allie Kaup: 800 Run & 4x4 Relay Meg Anderson: Shot Put Claire Paasch: Shot Put Boys: Treven Weddle: Triple Jump, 4x1 Relay & 4x4 Relay Jax Jacobson: Pole Vault Bennett Meyer: Long Jump, 4x1 Relay Juan Lemus: 4x1 Relay & 4x4 Relay Noah Ernesti: 4x1 Relay Christian Ramirez: 4x4 Relay Blaize Brockmann: 4x4 Relay #cadetpride

4TH PLACE FINISH! Congratulations to the West Point-Beemer State Journalism team who placed 4th in Class B. West Point-Beemer had 15 students qualify and earned 23 medals! Team members include: Jackson Winn Broadcast Feature Story - 6th Place Sonja Schultz Editorial Cartooning - 4th Place Entertainment Review Writing - 7th Place Yearbook Layout - 8th Place Julianna Perez Broadcast Feature Story - 6th Place Stephany Quinones Yearbook Layout - 4th Place Editorial Cartooning - 7th Place! Hailey Heller Broadcast Feature Story - 5th Place Sports News Writing - 8th Place Nevaeh Weborg Sports News Writing - 7th Place Meg Anderson Yearbook Sports Feature Writing - 6th Place Angel Perez Broadcast Feature Story - 7th Place Jaylen Kile Newspaper Feature Writing - 3rd Place Broadcast Feature Story - 5th Place Yearbook Layout - 7th Place Editorial Writing - 7th Place Grayson Meyer Broadcast Public Service Announcement - 8th Place Tanner Renner Broadcast Public Service Announcement - 3rd Place Christian Ramirez Broadcast Public Service Announcement - 8th Place Editorial Cartooning - 1st Place! Angel Garcia Photo/Artistic Illustration - 5th Place Gonzalo Gonzalez Broadcast Feature Story - 7th Place Juan Lemus Broadcast Public Service Announcement - 3rd Place Coaches: Mr. Kile & Mrs. Guenther

The Junior High East Husker Conference Meet scheduled for Friday, May 5 will be in Tekamah! Start time for the meet will be 10:00 AM! A full meet schedule will be announced later.

PROM 2023!!! Doors open at 5:00 PM with Grand March at 5:30 PM. After Grand March, we will have Coronation! See picture below for complete schedule! We are looking forward to a fun and exciting evening "Under the Sea!"

We are making a change to the location of the Glow Run so we can be INSIDE! Please enter through the elementary doors for registration. We will forego the hot chocolate since we will be indoors. If you didn't register and you'd like to join us we'd love to have you! Adults $15 and students $10.

WEST POINT FFA BARN YARD!! Big smiles in the Ag Department today! It’s the most popular day of the year. Students from West Point-Beemer, GACC and St. Paul's in grades preschool thru 6th will get to attend the West Point FFA Barnyard at West Point-Beemer today!!

GOLF CHAMPIONS!! Congrats to the West Point-Beemer Boys Golf Team who captured the team title at the Blair Invite today!!! Team members are Collin Sullivan, Aden Hughes, Zach Johnson, Nate Kaup, and Peyton Penrose. #cadetpride

Mammal March Madness winners!! Students read about the animal’s characteristics, habitats, and other interesting facts. From that information, they pick winners for each round. The animals compete against each other with students keeping track of winners & points. Top three students were awarded a trophy designed by Mrs. Wooldrik! #Cadetpride 1st- Nolan Hasenkamp 2nd- Graidy Tusha 3rd- Gunner Gibson

The baseball game vs Centennial that was postponed on Saturday will be made up on Thursday, April 27th at 4:30 in West Point!

The JH track meet on Thursday will be in Oakland!

Todays baseball game vs Centennial has been postponed!

Reminders for Seniors and parents: Senior class photo will be Wednesday, April 19. Wear jeans and a black shirt. All pictures for the hall composite are due by Thursday, April 20th. Senior information and digital photo are due to the newspaper by Thursday, April 20th. Please be sure to also be checking emails.

Good Morning 5/6 Parents! We will be celebrating Cinco De Mayo this year by inviting parents or grandparents to eat a Mexican-style lunch with your 5th or 6th Grade student! Please RSVP if you or another guest will be attending with your student. Day: Friday, May 5th Time: 11:45 pm Meal: $3.90 per adult, prepay in the MS/HS office, or pay upon arrival. RSVP: HS/MS office at 402-372-5546 or email: Alewis@wpcadets.net. RSVP by Thursday, April 27th. Please enter the elementary doors, we are doing this in coordination with the elementary school! Look forward to celebrating with families!

Congratulations to our middle school Cadets of the Month! 5th-Morgan Doggett 6th- Keanu Meyer 7th- Chloe Harrington 8th- Miriam Montenegro #Cadetpride

Hello Middle School Families! NSCAS and MAP testing will start tomorrow for all middle school students. Please help make sure that students are getting enough rest and eating breakfast each day. We are looking forward to having our Cadets show off all that they have learned! We will be testing mid-week until the second week in May in different subject areas! Thank you for all your support! #Cadetpride

Late message coming! Congratulations to our February Cadets of the Month! These students were recognized at our 3rd quarter celebration! #CadetPride 5th: Sophia Doyal 6th: Kaydence Voyles 7th: Nicole Esquerra 8th: Bryce Popken

The voting is OPEN today! This link will take you DIRECTLY to the West Point Elementary video: American is Our Hometown! - West Point Elementary Click on the white heart by the video and the heart turns black to show you've voted. Please help us to win by voting EACH day! We are the ONLY NEBRASKA ELEMENTARY school in the running so please SHARE, SHARE, SHARE with everyone you know and VOTE for West Point Elementary School. The host site for the contest is the Woodmen's Life Insurance Facebook page. You can check out all 33 videos in the contest if you'd like. Here's the link: https://gleam.io/g/1433S/1exxgc?fbclid=IwAR3UUz6AvspG23ivlo0DZ08I-kKlO5qppowpRV7y1Nvis1xHvIUzLU5AnkU THANKS! THANKS! THANKS! WPES 4th Graders and Teachers too ;)

Here is the schedule for the Cadet/Tiger Invite tomorrow. Field Events start at 12:30 PM Running Events start at 3:00 PM

Congratulations to the West Point-Beemer Boys and Girls Track teams who finished as CHAMPIONS of the Snowmelt Track Invite on Tuesday! #cadetpride