Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp.

Happy National School Principal's Day 2023!

Mental Health Month 2023 For Mental Health Month this year, Mental Health America is encouraging individuals to look around and look within. From your neighborhood to genetics, many factors come into play when it comes to mental health conditions. We encourage everyone to consider how the world around them affects their mental health. Check out the calendar attached for 31 ways to make the world around you work for your mental health.

Young Entrepreneurs! WCHS economics students are testing out the business world this week during their annual Econ Mall event. As part of their class students come up with a business idea, marketing strategy and a price for their product or service. The big test is trying to sell those goods and services to other students. Many stuck with selling familiar products like pop and pizza while others decided to really test the market by selling things like bamboo plants and homemade t-shirts. Students learn a lot through the exercise such as learning what it takes to make a profit or break even. Others unfortunately learn what a business "loss" can look like.

Sweet Book Fair! Ray Crowe Elementary held a family event, Friday morning, which included a book fair and donut truck. It proved to be a popular and sweet event with long lines and lots of interest in the latest children's books.

New FFA Officers Elected!

Savoring Success! Thursday, we celebrated, with a luncheon, 55 seniors who are on track to earn the Indiana College Core (ICC). We are very proud of their accomplishments! ICC is a "block" of 30 general education credits of college-level coursework. They earn these credits through WCHS dual credit classes and qualifying AP scores. The ICC is guaranteed to transfer between Indiana public colleges and universities. To earn the ICC, students must take at least three credit hours in six competency areas, as well as an additional 12 “elective” credit hours from the same competencies. Once students earn these credits, they will have fulfilled the core requirements equivalent to their first year of college starting college as Sophomores, saving time and money! Foundational Intellectual Skills Quantitative Reasoning Speaking and Listening Written Communication Ways of Knowing Humanistic and Artistic Scientific Social and Behavioral

It's a New School Record! During the 2022 season, Kevin Denham broke the record for most touchdown passes in a season. The record previously belonged to Adam Money who had 14 in 2005. Congrats Kevin!

Happy Administrative Professionals Day 2023! Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation would like to thank all of our administrative staff members for all they do to make the school day a success, each and every day.

Student Consultants! In the wake of the recent Tornado that tore a destructive path through the Town of Whiteland, a class of WCHS students have signed on to become consultants, so to speak, as the Town looks for ways to improve its public safety plan. Government teacher, Justin Schwenk, is leading his students through this real-life assignment to look for solutions and policies that could actually help improve how the town responds to disasters in the future. “Students will research, gather data, identify policy solutions, create an action plan and ultimately present their recommendations to Whiteland and Johnson County safety officials”, says Mr. Schwenk. Students are working in teams of four with each concentrating on specific areas. Local government officials including Carmen Young, from the Town of Whiteland, spoke to the students this week about areas where they can provide input. While it might be relatively easy to define problems, coming up with solutions and how to implement them as well as gaining public input will be more challenging for these government students during their last month of school. The project is to be completed by May 25th. They must do an oral presentation supplemented by a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. All materials that will be provided to Town and County officials.

Scavenger Hunt!!! Upstream is conducting (our first!) scavenger hunt from May 6 - 13th. This will be app-based using the Goosechase app, and the theme for May will be centered around the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. We are calling this The CHASE! This is a free, self-paced scavenger hunt that is open to anyone interested in playing. Scan the QR code for more information. Prizes are available.

A Letter from Mr. Edens

National Scholar-Athlete!

CPMS All-Music Winners! CPMS received the JME All- Music Award this year as one of 3 middle schools in the entire state to receive the "Total Department" award. The bands have received the "All Music" award at CPMS every year that it has existed but this is the first time that the choir department also received this award. Both Band & Choir received gold ratings at ISSMA Jazz Contest, ISSMA Concert Band/Choir Contest, & had gold ratings at Solo & Ensemble. We are very proud to earn this prestigious award together this year!

Warriors Win! Whiteland Girls Tennis takes a Mid-State win at Martinsville! That's two straight conference wins for the Warriors!

Committed! Earlier this week Mason Darlington announced his commitment to play football at Indiana Wesleyan! Good luck Mason!

School Library Month! April is School Library Month, School Librarian Day was April 4th and today is National Library Workers' Day. Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation would like to thank all of our School Librarian Media Specialists and our Media Clerks. THANKS!

Unified Track! When everybody gets a chance to compete, we all win. Whiteland Unified Track completes their first ever home meet with Martinsville Monday night.

Spanish Academic Competition! This past weekend, members of the Spanish Honor Society and other students in Spanish III attended the Indiana Academic Competition for Spanish sponsored by the American Association for Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese. Sycamore School in Indianapolis hosted this year's competition. This was the first time we had the competition since pre-pandemic, and only our second time ever attending. We participated in various events for speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Our students did amazingly well earning us four trophies for overall best school performance: 1st Place for High School Level III 1st Place for High School Cultural (piñatas/posters/trivia) 2nd Place for High School Heritage Speakers 3rd Place for High School Level Advanced A huge thank you to Mrs. Cara Adams for attending and being a tremendous help with the competition. And, a big thank you to our team for all of their support. Please congratulate these amazing students!

Everyone Invited! We would love to invite everyone to attend our very first (and only home meet of the season) Unified Track and Field meet tonight at 6pm at WCHS Stadium. Admission is free and our athletes would love to see you there! -- Unified Track is Here!!!

5A Player of the Year! Friday at the annual Griddy Awards, Peyton Emberton was named the 5A Player of the Year by Indiana Football Digest!