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The PTSA's Annual Turkey Bingo was a resounding success this year, drawing an enthusiastic crowd for an evening of fun, prizes, and community spirit-all at no cost to attendees. Families and friends gathered to play bingo, laugh, and cheer as lucky winners walked away with fantastic prizes. Special thanks go to Steel Etc. and 468 Market for their generous turkey donations, ensuring the event lived up to its name. Many individual donors also contributed gift cards and other exciting prizes,...
Cascade Public Schools’ regular board meeting was held on Tuesday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m. Old Business: The board concluded old business with a motion to approve the recommendation to deposit the remaining Booster Club funds into the Pep Club account. The motion was seconded and passed, with one board member opposing. New Business: The first item of new business involved reviewing the behavior matrix. After some discussion, a motion was made to refer the issue to the policy committee. The motion was seconded and passed. The second order o...
Last Tuesday, twenty-four 5th and 6th grade students had the opportunity to use the Lego SPIKE Prime robots and code their robots to complete a couple of challenges. This week, on Nov. 20th, more 5th and 6th grade students participated in the STARBASE Chemistry: Sink or Swim program, engaging in STEM exploration. In the future, we hope to expand our partnership with STARBASE to include every 5th grade student in a week-long program of hands-on STEM exploration. STARBASE is a program through the...
Cascade Public Schools held a special assembly Monday morning to honor our Veterans. The Cascade Courier joins Cascade Schools in saying to our Veterans: "Thank you for your service!"...
Honor Roll students in grades 4-12 were treated to ice cream sundaes (for grades 6-12) and root beer floats (for grades 4 and 5) last Thursday. The Cascade PTSA celebrated the first quarter honor roll by serving ice cream after the students' lunches. These students earned their places on either the "A" honor roll or the "B" honor roll. "A" honor roll students earned all A's for their hard work in the first quarter, while those on the "B" honor roll achieved a grade point average of 3.5 to 4.0....
Mrs. Stevens' kindergarten class visited the gravel pit to see the big machines moving gravel. They watched as dirt was loaded into the crusher and then came out on the large conveyor belt. The students are learning that if they know how to read and understand numbers, they can pursue any job they want. Special thanks to Torgersons for providing the awesome hard hats and safety vests!...
November 12, 2024 4:30–6:30 PM in the school library Please join us for a night of fun and reading! We will have a book exchange, crafts, snacks, and lots of reading activities! As this is an event to promote family engagement, students must be accompanied by an adult at this event and cannot come on their own. If you would like to donate gently used books for ages Preschool–5th Grade for the book exchange, you can drop them off prior to the 12th at the school attendance office or send them with your students to be dropped off with their cla...
The regular board meeting for Cascade Public Schools was held at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, October 15. The atmosphere was tense, as several parents addressed concerns regarding alleged threats made by one student toward others. Parents also expressed frustration at not being fully informed about any disciplinary actions taken against the student. Some even claimed that their children were being disciplined for speaking out about the disruptions. During the public comment period of the meeting,...
Editor's note: I sat down with Superintendent Collins Monday morning in an effort to obtain a statement in response to last Tuesday's regular School Board meeting where several parents, during Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items, expressed concern over the safety of their children due to alleged threats from another student. Because by law the Board cannot deliberate, debate or take any action on any matter presented during Public Comment, neither the Board nor Mr. Collins could respond to their...
Thank you so much to everyone who helped make Homecoming 2024, "We Got the Beat," a success! Student participation was at a record high, staff support was excellent, and community turnout was strong! A big thanks to our Student Council advisors and members (Christa Hardy, Tina Mann, Audrey Rumney, Sophia Mortag, Sayre McElroy, Kylee Finn, Lane Ethridge) for the extra time and commitment it takes to plan all the fun events. Special thanks to our staff who participated in the inflatable costume ra...
Here is your reminder about the upcoming Fall Concert by the Cascade Schools Music Department! The annual Fall Concert is Tuesday, October 8, beginning at 7:00 PM. This concert will include all the bands in grades 6-12. They have been working hard on reviewing their instruments, learning new music, and, for some, starting a whole new instrument! Please come to hear our very talented musicians on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:00 PM in the north gym-you won't want to miss this one! Here are some more...
Students gathered around the flagpole last Wednesday at Cascade Public Schools, participating in the national and international prayer event known as See You at the Pole. Student-initiated and student-led, they prayed for their school, their families, friends, and country. See You at the Pole (SYATP), an annual gathering of thousands of Christian students at school flagpoles for purposes of worship and prayer, officially began in 1990 in Burleson, Texas, when a group of teenagers gathered to...
Fall has officially arrived, and the Cascade School Music Department has their fall concert scheduled for October 8—yes, October already! The first concert of the year will be on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:00 PM in the North Gym. The program will feature the bands from grades 6-12. The first concert of the year is always a fun one, where we get to hear the new things the students have been learning, as well as how they are building on what they've learned in past years. The Pep Band has been in full swing for the high school students, so t...
On Tuesday, September 17, at 6:00 PM, the Cascade School Board got together for its regular meeting in the conference room of Cascade Public School. Board members, school staff, and community members gathered to discuss several important topics. Twelve new items were addressed during the meeting, including a recommendation for the expulsion of a student and the use of cell phones on campus. Principal Wilson covered several topics in his report, including promoting the school’s new podcast, t...
On Thursday, September 5th, the senior class went on a field trip to study “place.” We walked from the school to the Charlie Russell Honeymoon Cottage and over to the Cascade Museum. During the tour, guided by Kendra Lane and Channing Hartelius, we noted things that stood out to us and what made Cascade our “place.” We were challenged to make the familiar strange, reflecting on things like how it might seem odd that we know so many people around town or that we choose to take the alley to the...
Cascade Schools held their annual Badger Community Pep Rally last Thursday evening at the Badger Football Field. Speed C printed and gave away nearly 300 Gold Rush T-shirts that night, encouraging everyone to wear them to Friday's first home game, filling the stands with GOLD! Principal Michael Wilson welcomed everyone in attendance, and the coaches introduced their teams to the cheering crowd. It was a great night! Go Badgers!...
Greetings and welcome back for the 2024-2025 school year. First off, I would like to recognize the efforts of our maintenance staff over the summer. Staff and students returned to a refreshed, clean, and organized school environment. The maintenance staff took on many large responsibilities as a number of changes occurred inside the building, room assignments changed, and a lot of technology was updated. Our staff consisted of our full-time crew, plus a couple of individuals from our teaching...
8/22/24 - Dear Parents and Community Members, Due to situations out of our control, the building was put on hold due to a disturbance in the hallway during class time at the end of the day. Because of our obligations to uphold FERPA laws, we can not give additional details regarding the situation. As a precautionary measure we held students in the classroom to help alleviate a potential for increased escalation. Student safety is our utmost priority and we reacted in a manner to ensure all students were safe. The school and grounds are safe....
And just like that summer vacation is over! Every year, summer break seems to get shorter and shorter. I remember when school would not begin until after Labor Day, but last Wednesday saw the familiar yellow and black school buses, filled with sleepy students, drop them off at their home-away-from home, for another fun-filled year of learning and reconnecting with friends that some hadn’t seen in the last few months. Actually, if students were honest, they would confess that they were really b...
I hope this message finds you well and the new school year is off to a great start for you and your families. I am writing to inform you of a change affecting our afterschool offerings. Regrettably, the XCELL afterschool program will no longer be available beginning the new calendar year, following the conclusion of the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year. The XCELL program has been a resource for our community, offering academic support, snacks, and childcare services for students after school until they were able to be picked up at...
Hello! My name is Amanda Iverson, and I am excited to be teaching the business classes at Cascade High School. I was born and raised in Cascade and while I've lived here and there over the years this wonderful little town has always been home. My husband, Dustin- who was also born and raised here in Cascade-and I are raising our three children and a herd of other critters just south of town in Chestnut Valley. In 2017 I graduated from MSU Bozeman with my degree in Secondary Education and since...
"No more pencils; no more books; no more teachers' dirty looks. Out for summer. Out 'til fall. We might not come back at all!" - Alice Cooper, "School's Out" Well, we all know that's not true. A couple of weeks into their summer break and they're going to miss the classroom and their friends. And their teachers! Yeah, they'll miss those teachers' "dirty looks", and they'll realize that they really were looks of love; looks which brought their daydreaming back into the lesson; looks that taught...
Always a treat to watch is the Kindergarten Graduation, not only because they'll amaze you with how much they've learned in one year, but also because they run the entire program! Kindergarten teachers Sharon Stevens and Alexis Culp did an outstanding job in preparing these kids for first grade. Kids that one imagines were probably unmanageable on that first day of school back in August (we all know what kind of kids we dropped on the laps of these unsuspecting teachers that first day), they've...
Friends, school staff, and former co-workers got together Friday morning to bid farewell to a beloved lady who had been a fixture at Cascade Public Schools for the last 35 years. Karen Matteson, libraian and former teacher, who has made an impact in the lives of almost every child who has passed through the hallways of this school, will at last take that well-deserved retirement, to begin a new chapter in her life. Presented with a rocking chair, signed by the staff, Karen has plans to travel...
Ending a hectic end of school week was the Eighth Grade Celebration, held Thursday evening, and marking the transition of these students from middle school into high school. Class advisors were Mrs. Formell and Mrs. Johnson. Following the Opening Procession, Principal Michael Wilson welcomed the parents and friends to the night's celebration. P.T.A. Awards were presented by Mrs. Costa to recipients Robert (Bobby) Rumney and Alexandria (Allie) Park. Mr. Wilson presented the Honors Awards to...
