Friday, February 23, 2024
**The last day to buy tickets for the King’s Dance tickets is today after school and during academic lab, outside Mrs. Timmins and Mr. Daniels classrooms upstairs in the east building. Tickets are $10 and WILL NOT be sold at the door. The dance is tomorrow from 7-10pm.
**Juniors--EAWR will be offering a series of 2 SAT prep sessions for juniors to prepare for the April 10th SAT Test. Each of the 2 sessions in the series will be offered two times and juniors can sign up in the folder shared by Mrs Robinson. If a junior student attends both a math and ELA session series and completes the FAFSA senior year by April 1st he/she will earn an additional semester exemption (6 absences) second semester senior year if passing.
**Juniors and Seniors: Project Dream Dress out of St Louis is an organization that provides free dresses for students that need help with the cost of purchasing a dress. The dresses are used, but are newer styles, and come in a variety of sizes. If you would like more information about Project Dream Dress, please contact Mrs. Robinson by today.
**For all those interested in playing Apex Legends, there will be a preseason match today at 4:00PM. If you are interested in playing Apex Legends for EAWR please see Coach Verdun or Coach Mattix-Wand in the CCC.
**Big Sisters is excited to crown this year’s King of Hearts tomorrow at the King’s Dance. Please vote for your favorite candidate in the East Building Courtyard boxes by donating money, change, cash, checks! The King will be crowned at the King’s Dance tomorrow. This year Big Sisters will be donating all money raised to a local charity.
**Members of Peer Leadership, Big Sisters, Spirit Club, Saturday Scholars, and Student Council will have their yearbook photos taken in the East Building Courtyard during Academic Lab today.
**Seniors: Wednesday, February 28th we will be sponsoring a community service project for seniors from 4-7 pm. This will be a great way to earn 3 hours of community service. Please sign up if you plan to attend and Mrs. Robinson will provide pizza for dinner. If there are questions, please see Mrs Robinson. If you sign up, please meet Mrs Robinson in the courtyard on the 28th.
**Seniors: If you would like to volunteer to help with Parent Teacher conferences for community service hours next Wednesday the 28th and Thursday the 29th from 4-7 pm, please sign up in the Attendance Center.
Good luck to our track & field teams this weekend as they begin their meet schedule with a couple of indoor meets.
Congratulations to our latest group of "Caught Doing Great Things" recipients!
Congratulations to all of the EAWR Renaissance Honorees today for their outstanding grades, attendance, and behavior 1st semester.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
**Tickets for the King's Dance are for sale until Friday after school and during academic lab outside Mrs. Timmins and Mr. Daniels classrooms upstairs in the east building. Tickets are $10 and WILL NOT be sold at the door. The dance is this Saturday, February 24th from 7-10pm.
**Juniors--EAWR will be offering a series of 2 SAT prep sessions for juniors to prepare for the April 10th SAT Test. Each of the 2 sessions in the series will be offered two times and juniors can sign up in the folder shared by Mrs Robinson. If a junior student attends both a math and ELA session series and completes the FAFSA senior year by April 1st he/she will earn an additional semester exemption (6 absences) second semester senior year if passing.
**Juniors and Seniors: Project Dream Dress out of St Louis is an organization that provides free dresses for students that need help with the cost of purchasing a dress. The dresses are used, but are newer styles, and come in a variety of sizes. If you would like more information about Project Dream Dress, please contact Mrs. Robinson by this Friday.
**Any senior boy or girl still needing community service hours, please contact Mrs. Ulmer or stop by M103 to sign up. She has 11 bookshelves that need to be put together from 2:30-3:30 pm today and tomorrow.
**For all those interested in playing Apex Legends, there will be a preseason match Friday at 4:00PM. If you are interested in playing Apex Legends for EAWR please see Coach Verdun or Coach Mattix-Wand in the CCC.
**Attention new members of NHS: See google classroom for instructions on how to write your student biography, which will be read during the ceremony. Biographies are due this Friday by 8 am.
**Juniors and Seniors: Please use the link sent by Mrs Robinson to vote for this year's after prom theme. Voting ends after school today.
**Big Sisters is excited to crown this year’s King of Hearts Saturday at the King’s Dance. Please vote for your favorite candidate in the East Building Courtyard boxes by donating money, change, cash, checks! Will it be Tim Melton, Paul Nichols, Brad Quereaux, Kiyu Stilts, Jakob Stockman, or Aidan Wallendorff? The King will be crowned at the King’s Dance on Saturday February 26th. This year Big Sisters will be donating all money raised to a local charity.
**Members of Peer Leadership, Big Sisters, Spirit Club, Saturday Scholars, and Student Council will have their yearbook photos taken in the East Building Courtyard during Academic Lab on Friday.
**Today is the assembly to honor the first semester Renaissance winners. The assembly will be held at 1:00 in the Auditorium.
Jr. Oilers basketball got to play at the State Farm Center in Champaign over the weekend. What a great experience for our future Oilers!
Results from the Presidents Day Weekend. Winter sports have all concluded. Spring sports begin next week and students must register online for their spring sport. EAWR.net and click "Athletic Registration".
Oilers at Southwestern in IHSA Regional play tonight.
Congratulations Drake. We are all proud of your accomplishments at the IHSA State Wrestling Tournament.
Great job Drake on placing 2nd at 215 pounds in the 1A Championship Match. Tremendous season. Congrats again, Drake, Coach Donohoo, and Coach Lankford. Please join us tomorrow as Drake and coaches returned to the high school. We will welcome him back at the bus circle and do a short presentation in the East Building Courtyard around 1pm.
Drake at IHSA State Wrestling ups.
Whatever happens in the state championship tonight. We will have a welcome back for Drake Champlin in the east building courtyard tomorrow at 1 PM.
Champlin scores 2 points with one second remaining to force overtime and wins in OT 7-5 to go to the state championship!!
Friday, February 16, 2024
**Tickets for the King's Dance will be on sale February 20th-23rd after school and during academic lab. Tickets are $10 and WILL NOT be sold at the door. Guest forms for the King's Dance are available outside of Mrs. Timmins and Mr. Daneils rooms. If a student plans to bring a guest, the form must be turned in today. Guests are considered all non-EAWR students. Rules about which guests can and can’t attend the dance are listed on the form. The dance is Saturday, February 24th from 7-10pm.
**Juniors--EAWR will be offering a series of 2 SAT prep sessions for juniors to prepare for the April 10th SAT Test. Each of the 2 sessions in the series will be offered two times and juniors can sign up in the folder shared this morning by Mrs Robinson. If a junior student attends both a math and ELA session series and completes the FAFSA senior year by April 1st he/she will earn an additional semester exemption (6 absences) second semester senior year if passing.
**Attention Juniors and Seniors who applied to the National Honor Society. Notifications of acceptance have been sent out this week. Please check your school email account.
**Juniors and Seniors: Project Dream Dress out of St Louis is an organization that provides free dresses for students that need help with the cost of purchasing a dress. The dresses are used, but are newer styles, and come in a variety of sizes. If you would like more information about Project Dream Dress, please contact Mrs. Robinson by February 23rd.
**The Wood River Public Library is starting a High School Silent Book Club! Join Kristen on the first Wednesday of each month at 4:30pm to give book recommendations, hang out, eat snacks, then read whatever books you would like! This free event is open to all 9th-12th graders from any community! These events will begin Wednesday, March 6 at 4:30pm!
**Any senior boy or girl still needing community service hours, please contact Mrs. Ulmer or stop by M103 to sign up. She has 11 bookshelves that need to be put together from 2:30-3:30 pm next Wednesday and Thursday.
**For all those interested in playing Apex Legends, there will be a preseason match today and next Friday at 4:00PM. If you are interested in playing Apex Legends for EAWR please see Coach Verdun or Coach Mattix-Wand in the CCC.
**There will be an 11:25 dismissal today. Grab and Go lunches will be available as you leave.
Here is our schedule for the extended President's Day Weekend along with results from Thursday. Drake will wrestle in the semi-finals tonight at approximately 8:30 pm. The match will be on the NFHS Network and as soon as we know what mat he will be on, we will post that. Often, we don't know until 5-10 minutes before the match.
Drake Champlin wins in overtime and advances to the state semi-final tomorrow!
LCCC DiscoverDay
Monday, February 19th 4-6 pm
These students were "caught doing great things" the last couple days. Nice work!
Drake wins his first match at state with a pin in the third period over Michael Haas of Lena Winslow.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
**Tickets for the King's Dance will be on sale February 20th-23rd after school and during academic lab. Tickets are $10 and WILL NOT be sold at the door. Guest forms for the King's Dance are available outside of Mrs. Timmins and Mr. Daneils rooms. If a student plans to bring a guest, the form must be turned in tomorrow. Guests are considered all non-EAWR students. Rules about which guests can and can’t attend the dance are listed on the form. The dance is Saturday, February 24th from 7-10pm.
**Seniors--Tomorrow is a half day and we will have a community service project. We will provide pizza for lunch and all supplies needed. This will be a great way to earn 3 hours of community service. Please sign up if you plan to attend so we know how much pizza to order. If there are questions, please see Mrs. Robinson. If you sign up please meet Mrs. Robinson in the courtyard tomorrow.
**EAWR will be administering the 5 essentials survey to students during academic lab today. The student ID numbers (not the same as the school ID number) have been shared with staff and there are hard copies of the lists in both the attendance center and main office.This survey is required for all students to complete. There will be no movement/meetings tomorrow during academic lab.
**If you are interested in joining the Trap Club practice starts today at 5 pm and the season starts mid March. Please contact eawrtrapclub@gmail.com if there are questions.
**Juniors--EAWR will be offering a series of 2 SAT prep sessions for juniors to prepare for the April 10th SAT Test. Each of the 2 sessions in the series will be offered two times and juniors can sign up in the folder shared this morning by Mrs Robinson. If a junior student attends both a math and ELA session series and completes the FAFSA senior year by April 1st he/she will earn an additional semester exemption (6 absences) second semester senior year if passing.
**Attention Juniors and Seniors who applied to the National Honor Society. Notifications of acceptance have been sent out this week. Please check your school email account.
**Juniors and Seniors: Project Dream Dress out of St Louis is an organization that provides free dresses for students that need help with the cost of purchasing a dress. The dresses are used but are newer styles and come in a variety of sizes. If you would like more information about Project Dream Dress, please contact Mrs. Robinson by February 23rd.
**The Wood River Public Library is starting a High School Silent Book Club! Join Kristen on the first Wednesday of each month at 4:30pm to give book recommendations, hang out, eat snacks, then read whatever books you would like! This free event is open to all 9th-12th graders from any community! These events will begin Wednesday, March 6 at 4:30pm!
**Any senior boy or girl still needing community service hours, please contact Mrs. Ulmer at wulmer@eawr.org or stop by M103 to sign up. She has 11 bookshelves that need to be put together from 2:30-3:30 pm next Wednesday and Thursday.
**There will be an 11:25 dismissal tomorrow. Grab and Go lunches will be available as you leave.
**For all those interested in playing Apex Legends, there will be a preseason match tomorrow and next Friday at 4:00PM. If you are interested in playing Apex Legends for EAWR please see Coach Verdun or Coach Mattix-Wand in the CCC.
