Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp.

Exciting News: Clark-Pleasant Early Learning Center Expands Full-Day Pre-K to Clark Elementary! We are thrilled to announce that the Clark-Pleasant Early Learning Center (CPELC) is expanding its full-day pre-kindergarten programming to Clark Elementary School for the 2025-2026 school year! This expansion marks the fourth location for our growing early learning program, joining options at: -Main CPELC Campus at Grassy Creek Elementary -Pleasant Crossing Elementary -Whiteland Elementary With this addition, we continue our commitment to providing high-quality early childhood education, ensuring more students in our community have access to full-day pre-K opportunities. Stay tuned for more details on Clark’s enrollment and programming! We can’t wait to welcome even more young learners into the CPELC family. For questions or more information, please contact the CPELC Main Office at 317-535-2069.

Dr. Edsell recognized our WCHS Band Students who were selected for the "Indiana Bandmasters Association All-State Band". This is a high honor which includes the top band students from all across the state of Indiana. Congratulations; Chayse Couch - Trombone Mason Simpson - Clarinet Dylan Sloan - Trombone

Dr. Edsell recognized our CPMS Band Students, during Monday nights school board meeting. These young musicians were selected for the "Indiana Junior All State Band". This is a high honor which includes the top band students from all across the state of Indiana. Congratulations to; Avery Davis - Trumpet Molly Ambler - Trumpet Olivia Romine - Trumpet Stefan Milenkovic - Horn Julia Meyer - Horn Jack Diener - Tuba Samuel Steele - Tuba Caroline Gray - Oboe

Congratulations to Dawson Schrowe, an On-Site Support Technician at CES & WES, for being our Clark-Pleasant March 2025 Classified Employee of the Month. Dawson was recognized by Dr. Edsell during Monday evenings school board meeting.

Congratulations to Ellen Rice, a Resource Teacher from Ray Crowe Elementary, for being our March 2025 Certified Employee of the Month. She was recognized by Dr. Edsell during Monday nights school board meeting.

Ray Crowe kindergarten teacher, Jaymi Adams, was recognized by the school board, Monday night, for being the first in the district at completing the Indiana Wesleyan Step-Up program. The program allowed her the opportunity to get her dream job; becoming a full time teacher., "Around the time I was completing my courses at WGU, Clark Pleasant and Indiana Wesleyan University introduced the Step-Up program, and I was selected to pilot it", says Mrs. Adams. Initially, the program was projected to take 2-3 years, but given her desire and ability to complete the process it took just under six months, Congratulations Mrs. Adams.

The CPMS Music Department hosted the 2025 ISSMA Concert event at CPMS this weekend. Both choirs earned a gold rating from the judges and the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Wind Symphony earned a Gold Rating “with distinction” Bravo to all of our music students!

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**Hanging Out at the "Econ" Mall!** Whiteland High School students are participating in an exciting, real-life business course during the annual "Econ" Mall event, taking place today and tomorrow. Students have the opportunity to create their own business ideas, market their products, and hopefully make a profit from sales. While it sounds straightforward, the process can be quite challenging. They quickly learn that customers can be selective, so students must effectively pitch their products to encourage purchases. If their products don’t sell, they also gain insight into business losses. Fortunately, many students seem to be making a profit from their offerings this year. Some of the popular items include fruity lemonades, small chicken sandwiches, pretzels, waffles, burritos, and classic snacks like soda.

CPCSC KINDERGARTEN & PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION Kindergarten registration is next week. Don't forget to sign up.

All That Jazz!!! A huge congratulations to all four of the Whiteland Jazz Bands for earning GOLD ratings at the ISSMA Jazz Festival held at WCHS this weekend. The students also earned over a dozen "Outstanding Soloist" Ribbons for their great performances. Both Jazz Band One and the FIT Big Band earned special "With Distinction" awards for their outstanding performance scores. The Whiteland Jazz Band One has also been named an ISSMA JAZZ STATE FINALIST for the 5th year in a row. In having one of the top scores in the state, Jazz Band One will perform on Friday March 21st at Pike High School at ISSMA Jazz State Finals. When we learn more about our performance time, we will pass that information along and hope you will come support these amazingly talented musicians! Thanks for all your support and be sure to congratulate the students if you see them in class! Peter Sampson Director of Bands Whiteland Community High School

**Making the Pitch Perfect!** There is a lot of activity happening at the soccer complex this week. Crews are currently working on the undercut of the field in preparation for the proof roll and the installation of the new synthetic turf. Thanks to the warmer weather, workers are also completing the painting inside the main building, which is now about 90 percent finished. The ticket booth is ready to go as well. The press box on the west side of the field is progressing nicely and should be completed in the next couple of weeks. Most of the new concrete work has been finished, and everything is scheduled to be completed in time for the soccer season.

March 9-15, 2025, is Severe Weather Preparedness Week in Indiana. Every Hoosier business, school and family should participate in the statewide tornado drill each year. The drill allows you to practice where to go, what to do and what to take so you are prepared in the event of a real tornado warning On Tuesday, March, 11, 2025, around 10:15 am, The National Weather Service will issue a tornado warning alert through most notifications systems, including the Statewide Emergency Alert System!

Regional Game Details! / Fan Bus! Regional Information: Our game vs Terre Haute North will be on Saturday, 3/15 at the historic Hatchet House in Washington, Indiana. We will play the 7pm game. It is about a 90 minute drive, fyi. There is a game before us starting at 4pm, your ticket will get you into both games. Tickets are $10.90 if purchased online: https://public.eventlink.com/tickets?t=118661, they will be selling them at the door for $10, CASH ONLY. Fan Bus: Because of the distance, we are wanting to offer 2 fan buses for our students. If any CPCSC employee would be interested in chaperoning one of those buses (we need 4 adults), please let me know. We will provide you a ticket to the game, and we will handle the supervision of the kids at the game. Those buses will leave at 4pm on Saturday, I would anticipate arriving back to WCHS around 11:30pm. If interested, let me know! Broadcast: Our WBSN will be offering a broadcast of Saturday's game for those who can't make it: https://www.ihsaatv.org/ Finally, we would love to see everyone wearing blue/orange/white on Friday to show support for these kids! It would be awesome to see a huge crowd on Saturday, so if you can at all consider making the trip, these kids would certainly appreciate it! Go Warriors

Super Saturday for FFA! On Saturday Whiteland FFA competed in the District VIII FFA Leadership Contests. We had a great day with ALL members competing being recognized as “Top 3”, and 2 contests winning their division and advancing to the State Competition at Purdue in June! 1st Place Natural Resource Demonstration - Jackson Brown & Kiley Sullivan 1st Place Traditional Scrapbook - Chapter Event 2nd Place Ag Sales Presentation - Lillian Nick 2nd Place Employment Skills - Jack Kelsay 2nd Place Quiz Bowl - Jack Kelsay, Alexa Lee, Kayleigh Pumphrey, & Lane Corn 2nd Place Multimedia Presentation - Chapter Event 3rd Place Premier Leadership - Cazmin Tomamichel

WHITELAND WARRIORS are SECTIONAL CHAMPS for the first time since 2002!!

SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS!

Gold with Distinction! Our Clark Pleasant MS Jazz Band earned a gold “with distinction” at ISSMA Jazz Contest this weekend! Soloist Nolan Magers (trumpet) and Hope Lapaz (clarinet) also earned soloist awards for their performance! Bravo!

National Spelling Bee Bound! He Did It!!! Raian Timur, from Grassy Creek elementary, is headed to the National Spelling Bee! Congratulations on Raian’s SNSB Region Three Bee championship! Raian is advancing to the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.

Sectional Championship TONIGHT!!! Our Boys Basketball team defeated East Central, 59-33 to advance to Saturday night's sectional championship game at Columbus East HS (vs. Columbus East). We would LOVE to see a big showing from our Warrior fans tonight as these young men try to win the first sectional title since 2002! The game tips off at 7pm, and we highly recommend purchasing your ticket in advance: https://ihsaa.eventlink.com/Tickets?c=Basketball+%28Boys%29&l=Columbus+East+High+School+%28Columbus+East%29, tickets are $7/person, children 5 and under are free!