Students in our FACS (Family and Consumer Science) classes have been busy learning basic stitching practices.
Eight debate students came home with nine team and speaker awards
from the Tulsa Debate League Tournament #4 held on Dec 13.
Skiatook award winners included Isabel Womack, Jeneatta Martinez, Jacob
McKee, Addisyn Miller, Cash Stuever, Arthur Nicolas, Dalton
Vice, and Cole Farmer. Tyler Currey was team manager and judged the novice
debate division. Alumni Cole Martin and Cole Butler provided volunteer judging
for the team. The next TDL tournament will be Jan 24.
Mrs. Prock's FCCLA leadership class put together a door decorating contest between the high school teachers. They judged the doors and held a Parliamentary Procedure to discuss and vote on the winning door. Congratulations to Mrs. Perdue for Best Overall Door and Mrs. Crawford for Most Creative! Thank you to all the teachers that participated, our hallways look extra jolly!!
Skiatook High School Drama & Debate received a $5,000 grant from the National Speech & Debate Association. The grant is part of the Keith West Memorial Fund set up by the family of a former debate coach.
Skiatook was selected from over 200 applicants nationwide based on the extreme financial need to support a team achieving performance success. The money can be used for entry fees, judging fees, and team meals. The team needs matching donations to
make the most of the money. If you can help please contact Coach Keith Denslow
at the high school at kdenslow@skiatookschools.org
https://youtu.be/gonssVujqPo?t=165
The varsity boys' wrestling team is off to a strong start with their big win against Cleveland(65-15). This week is wrestling homecoming, featuring a home dual against Owasso on Tuesday. Students can earn class cup points by dressing up for theme days for homecoming week: Adam Sandler (Monday), Color Wars (Tuesday), Way Back Wednesday, Dress to Impress (Thursday), and PJ Day (Friday).
📸Kimberly Cordova Photography
Botany students started pansy and viola (Johnny jump ups) from seeds. They will plant these in the spring to help beautify the entrance of our campus.
GearUp sponsored a college visit to UCO on Monday, December 2nd for 25 of our juniors and seniors. They visited Nigh University Center, walked around Broncho Lake, the Business Building, Chambers Library and had lunch at Ayers Kitchen at Bausher Place.
The Bulldog Angel tree is up and running! We have MANY angels that need help this year. The angel tree is located in the commons area of the High School. You can grab your angels there!
All presents need to be returned by December 13th. You can drop them off at the front desk or in the choir room.
Please remember to attach the angel to the unwrapped present.
We hope that you can help us make Christmas bright for all of these students/angels in our district!
Skiatook won 8 team and individual awards at the
Tulsa Debate League #3 on Nov 22
Varsity
4th place team Kenneth Vice & Cole Farmer
Jr. Varsity
3rd place team Lucas Trego & James Seratte
4th place team Cash Stuever & Camden Stuever
Novice
11th place speaker Arthur Nicolas
17th place speaker Estella DeLong
Top 50 Evan Whitehill
Top 50 Caitlin Donoho
Novice judging was done by Jacob McKee and
alumni volunteers Cole Martin & Cole Butler.
Congratulations to everyone for a wonderful job on Turkey Challenge! On Friday the FFA Students delivered 15,365 cans/boxes of food to SEAC to be distributed. It is amazing how this district shows up every year to help the community. A special shout out to SIE. Stuco has the official numbers but the amount of food we picked up there was staggering. The three pictures attached are of the students sorting items.The trailer loaded with food, there is also 5 ft in front of the gate you see that is full as well as the nose of the trailer. A third picture is of the over 1,000 boxes of pop tarts.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
Parents,
Skiatook Public Schools will not be in session for the holiday break on November 25th through November 29th. All staff and students will return on December 2nd. We hope everyone has a wonderful holliday break!
Skiatook FCCLA competed in District STAR events in Collinsville today! Skiatook FCCLA will go on and compete in more competitive events at Regionals in January.
Yazan Al-Shaer placed 3rd in New Member Facts
Gabi Maturino placed 3rd in Repurpose and Redesign
Come out and support our SHS Choir!
Parents,
Please see the revised Thanksgiving Lunch Menu for all sites on November 21st!
We have some exciting things coming to all of our school sites this upcoming week!
Tuesday, November 19: Apple Pumpkin Parfaits (please see attached flyer) will be offered as a lunch option at all sites!
Thursday, November 21: Thanksgiving Holiday Meal will be offered at all Skiatook School locations. (menu is attached)!
Botany students have been propagating pothos cuttings and creating compost. We are grateful to offer this class this year.
Several of our students traveled to Pawhuska to attend the Osage Nation College and Career Fair on November 7th.
The Skiatook Drama & Debate Team won the Bishop Kelley Tournament on Nov 8-9
by winning all the styles of debate and being the overall performance team earning
a dozen qualifications for regional contests.
The Skiatook team won all three styles of debate in class 5A at the Bishop Kelley
Contest. Aidan Vincent and Elissa Freeman-Potter won the Public Forum style debate
arguing about reducing military support for Taiwan.
In policy style debate students continued arguing on the national debate topic about
intellectual property including AI. Lucas Trego & James Seratte won 1st place, Estella
DeLong & Arthur Nicolas won 2nd place, and Cole Farmer & Kenneth Vice placed 3rd.
The hardest debates for Skiatook were against the private school from Oklahoma City
named Heritage Hall.
In Value style debate, Tyler Currey was the champion, Emma Wallace was 3rd place
and Cash Stuever ranked 5th place. All three of the topic placers, qualified for regional
contest. Isabel Womack also competed in value debate. This month's value topic focuses
on whether America should have a wealth tax.
In Domestic Current Events speaking, Kyle George repeated his finalist placing from last week.
While in Foreign Current Events speaking, Addisyn Miller was the champion, Jacob McKee
was runner up, and Kenneth Vice placed 3rd. Lucas Trego and Emma Wallace earned team
points for being in the final performance. In the novice division, Logan Wisnoskie won a 2nd
place medal, while Noah Martinez was a finalist.
In poetry reading, Skiatook had four finalists: Cole Farmer, Tyler Currey, Riley Maple, and
Mauricia Gardner.
In prose storytelling, Skiatook had Vivian Rouse place 2nd, and Myla Webb place 4th. Both
earned regional qualifications. Other prose finalists included: Nettie Gray, Arthur Nicolas,
Jeanetta Martinez, and Michael Yanulis.
In one of the biggest accomplishments of the contest, first time performers Delilah Garrison and Maleah Daniels reached the Semi-Final round in the overwhelmingly large novice prose storytelling division.
The upcoming Freshman actor Gavin Reamy earned awards in Humorous Interp and Monologue
Acting. Camden Stuever presented in extemp speaking.
The team had 74 team points compared to Tulsa School of Arts & Science (TSAS) 54 points and Oologah's 23 points.
Volunteer judging help was provided by parents and alumni including: Josh Boultin, Baylee Boultin, Cole Martin, Damon Vincent, Angie Garrison, Lacie Currey, Ronald Stuever, Bryanna Stuever, Kimberly Seratte, Courtney Horn, and Aaron Rouse.
The team has online virtual tournaments over the next month and live debates with the Tulsa Debate League. If you would be willing to volunteer, please contact coach Keith Denslow at Skiatook High School 918-396-1790
This week is our District Turkey Challenge! This is a wonderful way to give back to our community! Please click the link to see the details provided by our high school Stuco!
https://youtube.com/shorts/NRYTXURCQzc?si=-Rv2i9Us-ig37gmZ
Student Council created a video to help explain more about Turkey Challenge!
https://youtube.com/shorts/NRYTXURCQzc?si=-Rv2i9Us-ig37gmZ