**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!
Road Closure Information
Date: March 7, 2025
What: Closure of Clark School Road(CR 700 North) TO ALL TRAFFIC at County Bridge #113 approximately 700 feet east of CR 600 East, in Clark Township.
When: Beginning Tuesday, March 11th. Road anticipated to be open to traffic Friday, March 21st, weather permitting.
Why: Removal of existing bridge railing and installation of concrete barrier on the south side of the bridge.
Detour: Road will be closed to all traffic. Traffic may utilize the following signed detours during the closure (see attached map):
- Eastbound traffic detour is north of CR 700 N along CR 550 East, along Rocklane Road and CR 825 West (in Shelby County)
- Westbound traffic detour is CR 825 West (in Shelby County), along Rocklane Road to Franklin Road (CR 440 East)
Don't forget to Spring Ahead on Sunday, March 9, 2025
**Publishing Party at BES!**
On Friday, these young third-grade writers at Break-O-Day Elementary confidently walked across the "red carpet" and into the cafeteria to share their persuasive essays with parents and grandparents! Each student followed the writing process to create their books, culminating in what we call the "golden step"—sharing their writing with the world!
Many of the short stories focused on subjects that were meaningful to the students. They compiled their writing into books, complete with colorful covers.
The postseason has arrived! Whiteland heads to Columbus East for their opening matchup against the East Central Trojans! WBSN will be on site with an audio-only broadcast! Tune in!
📅 Friday, March 7
🕧 6:00 P.M.
Taking a Look!
On Thursday CPCSC Principals along with some administrators took a tour of the construction and renovation project underway at Whiteland Community High School. Construction leaders say that progress is on schedule and progressing nicely.
Last Chance!
Congratulations to the new WCHS National Honor Society Inductees!
Envirothon!
“Ms. Tatlock and Mrs. Gootee took AP Environmental Science, Chemistry, and an AP Physics student Wednesday to learn about the environment and some issues that are being faced. This helps students understand the importance of finding solutions and how both plants and animals are being affected. Ms. Tatlock’s team got 6th out of 15. Mrs. Gootees students got 8th out of 15. Ms. Tatlock and Mrs. Gootee are very happy with how today turned out and getting to hear from professionals from different fields of Ecology so that their students got an experience that helps them further understand and share consecration efforts with others!
