Clark-Pleasant Middle School

Big BAND News!!! WCHS just received official word that both the Whiteland Jazz Band One and Shades of Blue vocal jazz are 2024 ISSMA Jazz State Finalists!!! This means that both the jazz band and vocal jazz were in the top nine scores in the state! They now have the opportunity to perform at State Finals on Friday March 15th at Pike High School (Jazz Band) and Franklin Central (Choir). We will be receiving schedules shortly and will share for anyone that would like to come out and support our talented students in this state-wide showcase! The Whiteland Community High School Band Department had the pleasure of hosting over 80 different performing groups from all of the state at the ISSMA Jazz event held this past weekend. The Whiteland Band Boosters and students did an AMAZING group of hosting these student musicians as they performed for adjudication. Friday night was a special night of jazz for the Whiteland Jazz Bands!!! FIT Big Band - GOLD with Distinction Jazz 3 - GOLD rating Jazz 2 - Group I - GOLD with Distinction Jazz 1 - Group I - GOLD with Distinction These groups also earned THIRTY ONE solo ribbons for excellence in improvised solos!! Whiteland is one of only a few schools across the state that enters their top TWO jazz bands in Group One (the highest difficulty of music and adjudication). For the second band to get a "With Distinction", is something quite special. And finally a special congratulations to Jazz One for knocking it out of the park and receiving the highest score in school history!!

Playing/Teaching the Part! Mr. Evans, 6th grade Social Studies teacher at CPMS won a grant from the Clark-Pleasant Education Foundation, (CPEF) that allowed him to purchase several costumes to help him teach his Social Studies class. As part of his Civics Unit he is teaching all about the constitution and decided he would do that in a full out Pioneer outfit. He teaches 6th grade Social Studies at CPMS.

Whiteland FFA had a great day at the District VIII FFA Leadership Development Events Saturday at Eastern Hancock High School! Below are the results. All 1st Places will be advancing to the State Contest at Purdue University in June! 1st Place Agriculture & Farm Business Management Demonstration - Josie Kelsay & Addyson Cox 1st Place Creed Speaking - Jack Kelsay 1st Place Multimedia Presentation 2nd Place Exhibit - Cian Cribbs & Brody Polesel 2nd Place Scrapbook 2nd Place Leadership Ambassador - Josie Kelsay 3rd Place Persuasive Essay - Leorah Morris Thanks for your support of our FFA Program!

The Clark-Pleasant Band Department was recognized at the Statehouse by the Indiana Arts Education Network. The Department was recognized for being an ISSMA All-Music Award recipient last school year but also for our district being named a "Best Community for Music Education".

Grassy Creek Elementary is honored to host a fundraising campaign to benefit the Riley Heart Center at Riley Children's Health. Your gift helps support a multidisciplinary team of experienced pediatric specialists who manage complex heart care. https://bit.ly/3SYT86q

Johnson County Champs! The future is looking bright for Whiteland Wrestling! The CPMS Warriors took home the Johnson County Championship!

Committed! Another commit for the Warriors! Leila Thomas will continue her wrestling career at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point next year! Congrats Leila!

Committed / Signed! Gwen Higdon will continue her basketball career at Indiana University Columbus! Congrats Gwen!

Making a Splash! WCHS Senior Noah Grady got a parade send off from his fellow students Friday afternoon as he heads off to compete for a State Title in Diving! Noah will compete Saturday morning at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI!

Today’s FFA Week Activity was “Teach the Teacher”! Members assembled and distributed teacher appreciation bags that also taught teachers a little bit about Indiana’s top agriculture products! Indiana FFA State President, Kelby Roberts, also joined us for this activity! We want to thank our sponsors for this project, Indiana Soybean Alliance, The Pork Checkoff, Thrivent, and the 2023-2024 Officer Team!

Diving for a State Title! WCHS Senior Noah Grady has qualified for the IHSAA State Diving Finals which will be held Saturday morning at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI! Noah is the first male diver since Collin Barton (our current WCHS Diving Coach) qualified in 2019!

With growth in our community, many students no longer come from a family farm. However, we still have families and students rooted in production agriculture. Today for FFA Week, we celebrate those students and families that contribute to our food supply with Truck & Tractor Day!

6th grade math is SWEET! Students in Mrs. Berger's classes used cookie baking to convert fractions and practice measuring raw ingredients. Mrs. Berger baked the student batches and brought the results back for error analysis. Some students realized that they converted units incorrectly and had some salty outcomes! Some deducted that math is sweet! What great real world learning!

Whiteland FFA completed its “Fired Up About FFA Week!” activity by packing and delivereing appreciation baskets to JC Firehouses. Firefighters are a crucial part of the ag industry assisting with field and barn fires and much more. We thank our sponsors for helping.

Circle the State with Song!!! On Saturday several of our elementary and middle school students participated in Circle the State with Song in Greenwood. The dark blue shirts are middle school singers and the tea/aqua shirts are elementary singers

WCHS Construction Photos February 2024

State FFA Champs! Whiteland FFA had two teams compete Saturday in the State FFA Milk Quality & Products Competition at Purdue University. We are so excited to report that one of our teams brought home the State Champion title! The team of Leorah Morris, Lillian Nick, Jack Kelsay, & Brody Polesel earned this honor and will be representing WCHS and Indiana at the National contest in October at the National FFA Convention! Please give these students a huge congratulations the next time you see them! This is the second State Champion Milk Quality & Products Team for WCHS, the last being in 2021. Thank you everyone for your support of our FFA program and Ag students. What a great way to kick off National FFA Week, which begins Sunday! 🎉

President's Day 2024! Enjoy your extended weekend. We'll see you back in class on Tuesday.

Virtual Teacher Recruiting Coming Up! We are now accepting applications from those wanting to teach in Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation for the 2024-2025 school year. If you have family members, friends, or colleagues interested in working for CPCSC, please send them this flyer. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffwrz4t62eG-K4fQn8pSar5fEC54MJUNqnUEWlYJHfGQas7Q/viewform

It's another gameday for the Warriors! Back at home with a Mid-State matchup against the Artesians! Tune in to all the action on WBSN! 📅 Friday, February 16 🕣 7:30 P.M. 🆚 Martinsville Artesians 📺 http://tinyurl.com/yz5vevkm