Forest Park Weekly News

Friday May 17th, all parking passes need to be turned in to the Mrs. Sermersheim in the front office upon arrival at school.

Grade 9 students will participate in the ILEARN Biology Assessment on Tuesday, May 7th. Please get plenty of rest, charge your Chromebook, and restart your Chromebook before Tuesday's test. Testing will be from 8:00 to 10:30. Phones, smartwatches, or earbuds are prohibited in the testing rooms. These items will be put in student lockers.

We are excited about next Friday's Fine Arts Extravaganza. Thank you to the staff and students for their hard work in making this happen. We love showcasing our students' achievements.

I had a few families inquire about our seniors' schedule for the last week of school and the events leading up to commencement. Here is a copy of the letter sent to families earlier this semester. A few have asked about accessories to their cap and gown. Everyone should follow the dress code outlined in the letter.

All job postings can be found here. We need help in our cafeteria and classrooms.

Please avoid scheduling appointments when your child participates in state testing. Below is FP's testing schedule:

9th Grade: May 7 - Biology ILEARN

AP Calculus Exam: May 13

AP Biology Exam: May 16

"With opportunity comes responsibility." - Winston Churchill

May 10th- Fine Arts Extravaganza door open at 5:30 PM

May 17th- StuCo Cookout during lunch ** only to those who have prepaid before 5/3

May 23rd- Senior Awards (Details in the Graduation Letter sent this week)

May 23rd- Last Day of School

May 25th- Commencement at 2:00 PM (Students will report to the commons at 1:00)

Let's treat the staff of Forest Park the week of Staff Appreciation (May 6th-10th). It is a great way to show our support to the educators and staff of Forest Park! Please click on the link below to sign up and show your appreciation. You can drop off your treats in the office or send them with your child. Store bought items are absolutely okay :)

We would like to thank Indiana Furniture and Best Home Furnishings for the donation they have provided us this school year. We are grateful for all the new furniture Indiana Furniture has provided the school and to Best Home Furnishings for the backdrop used during commencement.

Forest Park will be holding our Jr. High Academic Awards Ceremony on May 17 at 11 AM in Buechler Arena to honor our students for their hard work, service, and academic achievement. We will recognize our students who have earned a 3.5 GPA, earned a class award, or who have participated in a club this school year. Parents are invited to attend this event and should enter through the main doors of Buechler Arena. Parents of students who will be receiving an award will be notified by email by next week. We look forward to honoring our students for all of their accomplishments this school year and appreciate all of the support from our families.

Guidance counselors have met with students to review their four year plans and course selections for next school year. Please talk with your students regarding their class selections and future career goals. To change their requests, students should reach out to their guidance counselor for a meeting. Please contact your student's guidance counselor with any questions.

Juniors

• SAT scores should be available to you via your College Board accounts. Please visit collegeboard.org to log in. Score reports have been distributed to students in English class. Students with additional questions can visit Mrs. Thimling or Mrs. Dilger.
• Junior Parents - This week your students learned about the initial steps to starting the process of applying to college. Please view the attachment for the information shared with them. Please reach out to Mrs. Dilger at any time for support.

Senior parents:

• Seniors were asked to fill out information regarding the Awards Ceremony to take place on Thursday, May 23rd at 11:00a.m. in Buechler Arena. Please encourage your child to correctly fill out what awards/scholarships they would like to be recognized for. Their response is critical in order to ensure that students are recognized properly for their achievements. Parents of students who will be recognized at the ceremony will receive an email invitation in May. Should you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Dilger.

Tutors

• Mrs. Thimling is seeking to put together a list of tutors in our community. If you or someone you know does private tutoring outside of school primarily for math, please ask them to email Mrs. Thimling at mallory.thimling@sedubois.k12.in.us to be added to a list that can be distributed upon request. Thank you.
• Jr. High Afterschool Tutoring
• Jr. High Afterschool Tutoring is being held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:05 to 4:05 PM. Our last day of tutoring will be Thursday, May 9. Thanks to all of the students who have participated this year! We would especially like to thank our high school tutors for all of their hard work: John DeWitte, Elizabeth Kerkhoff, Kennedy Boeglin, and Kendra Ubelhor.

Students,

Ivy Tech will be offering Free Summer courses for current high school students again this summer. See attached flier for more information. The website for this initiative is www.ivytech.edu/freecourses.

Course search link to see a complete list of courses: https://ivytech.search.collegescheduler.com/search?term=202410

2025-2027 grads without a C#-Ivy Tech application:

https://ivytech.dualenroll.com/login

For those of you with a C# (those who have taken a dual credit class before), see the 2nd attachment for directions to get scheduled.

I am happy to meet individually with any student who may need assistance signing up, or discuss whether or not an online summer course is a good option for you.

Note: These courses are also free for seniors graduating in May.

Please reach out via email if you have questions or need help enrolling.

Students and Parents/Guardians

We are very near to the end of the school year. Chromebooks will be collected on the last day. Please help us out and look at your device. If you notice the lid hinge area being loose or the plastic around the screen is popping up in the hinge area, come see me in room 105. Hopefully, we can make a quick repair of tightening the screws and avoid breakage. We are charging for broken screens and hinges if you wait too long and the hinge breaks. I will give you a loaner until yours is repaired. If you do not have it repaired now, you will get it back in the same condition when school starts in the Fall.

Help Desk is open periods 1 - 3, Resource Time, 6 and 7. I suggest asking your teacher to call 4105 first to make sure that I'm in the room.

Do NOT put stickers on your Chromebook or protective case. If you currently have some on, remove them and get rid of the sticky residue.

If your device has a protective case, do NOT attempt to remove it. These are very tight and damage can occur easily. If you have taken it off, make sure to turn it in on the last day.

PLEASE don't carry your device with the lid open and one hand holding the screen. This also causes hinge AND screen damage.

Mrs. Hochgesang

Friday, May 3

• Girls Varsity Tennis @ Boonville High School [5:15 PM]

Saturday, May 4

• Girls Varsity Tennis vs Princeton Comm High School [11:00 AM]
• Varsity Softball @ Jasper High School [11:00 AM]
• Varsity Baseball @ Hancock County High School [12:00 PM]

Monday, May 6

• Varsity Baseball vs Loogootee Jr-Sr High School [6:00 PM]
• Girls Varsity Tennis vs Gibson Southern High School [6:00 PM]

Tuesday, May 7th

• Boys Varsity Golf @ Southridge High School [5:00 PM]
• Girls Varsity Tennis vs Southridge High School [4:30 PM]
• Boys/Girls Jr High Track @ Dubois Invite [5:00 PM]
• Varsity Baseball vs North Posey High School [6:00 PM]
• Varsity Softball @ Heritage Hills Middle/High School [6:00 PM]

Wednesday, May 8

• JV Baseball @ North Posey High School [6:30 PM]

Thursday, March 9

• Girls Varsity Tennis @ Northeast Dubois High School [5:00 PM]
• Boys Varsity Golf vs Jasper/Southridge [5:30 PM]
• Varsity Softball @ Pike Central High School [5:30 PM]
• Varsity Baseball @ Tecumseh Middle/High School [6:00 PM]

Friday, March 10

• Varsity Softball @ Evansville Central High School

Saturday, May 11

• Varsity Baseball vs Jasper High School [1:00 PM]
• JV Baseball vs Jasper High School [3:30 PM]

May 8th

6-7:30 PM

Open to incoming 1st-6th graders

Bring cleats, meet at practice field

The Forest Park GIRLS BASKETBALL coaching staff will be hosting a series of skill development summer workouts for incoming 4th - 8th grade girls. All workouts will take place at Forest Park Jr./Sr. High School in Buechler Arena. Dates and times are as follows:

Incoming 4th, 5th, & 6th Grade

Workout sessions from 5:30 - 6:30 PM on Tuesdays (5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, and 7/30).

Incoming 7th & 8th Grade

Workout sessions from 5:30 - 6:30 PM on Thursdays (5/30, 6/6, 6/20, 7/11, 7/18, 7/25 and 8/1).

Please use the following link for summer workout/camp registration and payment. Registration will close next Friday, May 3rd, to allow time for ordering T-shirts.

The link is https://www.fpgirlsbasketball.com/players/summer-camp/register
The registration code is summer2024

We believe the extended summer schedule will provide a better all round experience compared to a quick 3 - 4 day camp. Our focus will be fundamentals and girls will be challenged each week to spend some time shooting/dribbling on their own at home. I encourage you to register your daughter even if she cannot make every session. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me with questions. Thanks for your support!

Coach Berg

jberg@vinu.edu

812-639-7604

Forest Park Girls Basketball and Volleyball have partnered to provide female athletes the following weight room training schedule. Please contact Head Coaches Jacob Berg and/or Tara LaGrange with questions.

All library books and materials will be due on or before May 10; students will not be able to check any more books out after May 8.

Mrs. Howard will send overdue lists to English teachers after this date

Mrs. Howard will be ordering books soon for next school year. If students have suggestions, please email her your lists natalie.howard@sedubois.k12.in.us.

National Honor Society

NHS applications for current Sophomores and Juniors were sent out via email. Applications are due by Monday May 13th. Please email Mrs. Begle if you have any other questions!

Student Council

The following students have been selected as their class representatives for student council for next year.

Freshmen:

Bailey Begle

Alexis Berg

Kinley Hawkins

Bree Howard

Leah Tyree

Sophomores:

Avari Boeglin

Sydney Berger

Mollie Combs

Brylee Longabaugh

Claire Warren

Juniors:

Sydney Bettag

Abbagail Collignon

Rheyse Fleck

Riley Hinson

Anna Jahn

Mya Wehr

Amelia Widolff

Seniors:

Olivia Bell

Jillian Healy

Kiersten Hubbs

Emma LaGrange

Claire Ruppe

The GAME Club:

• 3:30-5:30 on Monday's and Thursday's in the Library

Fine Arts:

The Fine Arts Extravaganza is Friday, May 10th. Doors open at 5:30 for the art show, and the musical performances will be from 6:00 to 8:00

ENL Fun Fact of the Week: More people have learned English as their second language than there are native English speakers in the world. If every language student wanted to practice English with a native speaker, there wouldn’t be enough native speakers to provide them with this experience.

Next Week's Calendar of Events

5/5 - District X FFA Officer Interviews

5/7 & 5/9 @ 7:30 am - Dairy Judging

5/8 & 5/10 @ 7:30 am - Poultry Judging

5/10 @ 11:20 am - HS FFA Meeting

5/11 - State Poultry Judging @ Purdue University

Congratulations to our outstanding FFA members in each grade.

Outstanding Discovery Degree - Jace Wright

Star Greenhand - Caiden Beck

Outstanding Sophomore - Bailey Anderson

State FFA Convention

We are looking for an adult chaperone to attend convention with us on June 17-20 and drive one of our mini buses. Please contact Mrs. Applegate if you are interested.

Summer SAE Course

If a student was unable to attend the SAE meeting on 4/26 during Study Hall, they should stop by and talk to Mrs. Applegate to get information. Our first class session is 5/24 at 8 am.

Outstanding Junior - Halie Jochem

Outstanding Senior - Emma Jamniczky

Star in Agricultural Placement - Carter Giesler

Star Farmer - Katlyn Betz

Congratulations to our Honorary Chapter FFA Degree Recipients, Tabitha Hurst and Jesse Uebelhor. We greatly appreciate their contributions to our chapter.

The Dubois County Sheriff's Office will be participating in the 2024 Indiana Sheriff's Association Youth Leadership Camp / Southern Session July 1-3 in Brown County. The camp is open to all of our current 7th and 8th grade students that have not previously attended . If you any questions please feel free to contact me at jeremy.lee@sedubois.k12.in.us or call the school at 812-817-0900 ext. 4108.

Click on the photo below for all documents needed.

• Christ the King Parish is looking for 2-3 people at least 16 years of age to trim mow and weed-eat the St. Ferdinand Church cemetery for the upcoming mowing season. Hours are flexible and not every day. Stop by the parish office in the Spiritual Life Center or call 812-367-1212 if interested. These are paid positions.
  
• Uebelhor and Sons have a part-time receptionist position available that would like to fill with a high schooler who is over 16 years old. The hours would be two evenings per week from 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM and one to two Saturday’s per month 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Anyone who is interested may email jillking@uebelhor.com or call at 812-482-2222.

• Rosie’s Tavern is looking for someone 13-18 years old. Jobs can vary from dishwasher, table bussing, frying, answering phones etc. Friday and Saturday evenings. Please call 812-326-2201 and speak to Savannah.

• Touch of Class in Huntingburg has part time positions available in our sales and customer service call center. Call center agents work to assist customers who are wanting to place an order. Computer and typing skills are required. The call center operates 7 days per week and hours are flexible. You can request an application or submit a resume by emailing resume@touchofclass.com.

For information about your child's bus route, please contact Dr. Jamie Pund. Please call 812-817-0900 extension 5 for the Superintendent's office or email jamie.pund@sedubois.k12.in.us.