Puxico R-8 School District

🚨 Exciting Start to the Year for Fellowship of Christian Students! 🚨 Today, we had our very first meeting before school for both high school and junior high students, and it was an amazing time! 🙌 Our guest speaker, Nathan Smith from Bluff First, delivered a powerful message on seeking Christ and the importance of building a strong community together. 🕊️ A big thank you to Lowery Acres for providing delicious donuts 🍩 that everyone enjoyed while listening to the message! What a way to kick off the year! Can’t wait to see everyone at the next meeting!

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ What an incredible day at Notre Dame for our cross-country team, honoring Barbie Davis in pink with both heart and hustle! 💖 In Boys Varsity, Jett Hancock ran an outstanding race, finishing 10th with a strong performance! Logan Robison also made Puxico Proud, securing 16th place—both boys pushed themselves and made us proud! 💪 In Girls Junior Varsity, Maddison Camden shined, finishing 17th—great work, Maddison! Our Junior High Girls team took 2nd overall, showing their depth and determination. Special shout-outs to: • Brylee Campbell – 6th place 🏅 • Braylen Fox – 10th place 🎉 • Lakelynn Scheafer – 12th place 🔥 • Reese Mattingly – 20th place 👏 So proud of each one of you!

Wednesday, September 25 Puxico FCS & the Puxico Ministerial Alliance hosted Prayer at the Pole There was a fantastic turnout of over 230 children and community members for the 2024 "See You at the Pole" event at Puxico School! A huge thank you to Jim Clark for his inspiring message and to the ministerial alliance for generously sponsoring all the donuts. It was a morning filled with faith, encouragement, community spirit, and a beautiful scene on the campus of Puxico R-8 School.

Thank you for your years of service to our district!

Mr. Davis’s 8th grade classes exploring Eclipses.

Puxico- JAG, Jobs for America's Graduates, had their Initiation and Installation Ceremony on September 26th. Students were recognized for their commitment to JAG in the hopes that they will acquire the skills they need to be successful in school and preparing for life after high school. This is high school's second year of JAG, and Jr. High picked it up for its first year this school year. Students will have the opportunity to listen to guest speakers from a variety of careers, tour different businesses, work on soft skills to help them be the best version of themselves, discover ways to help their community, meet and compete with JAG chapters from other schools, and more. Congratulations to the Puxico-JAG Chapter for the 2024-2025 school year!

What a great fair week! Here are some of the final details and pictures of our Stoddard County Fair wrap up! If we’ve accidentally missed any entries please feel free to send us a message. We have some hardworking kids with great sponsors. We are so thankful for the opportunities they have with our FFA organization and 4H Warriors! Here are some of the big award winners at the shows. Caleb Wagner – Sr Showmanship for pigs Madilyn Trout – Open Showmanship for cattle and pigs Miley Harmon – FFA Showmanship for goats and sheep Jesse Watkins - Supreme Grand Champion Market Goat (belt buckle) Buyers to thank Caleb Wagner's hog - McClung Excavating & Irrigation Kelsi Placher's hog - Matt Mills Drew Crisel's hog - Farm Credit Maggie Reinert's hog - Farm Credit Miley Harmons hog - First Midwest Bank-Puxico Eli Tilleys hog - Stoddard County Feed & Seed Logan Crisel's hog - Hillcrest Animal Hospital Maylee Stephens's hog - Keasler Farms Landon Faries's hog - Franklin Farms Miley Harmons lamb - Farm Credit Maylee Stephens's steer - Keasler Farms Maggie Reinert's steer - Farm Credit Caleb Wagner's steer - Farm Credit Jesse Watkins's goat - Stoddard County Feed & Seed Miley Harmon's goat - Southeast Coop Puxico

Puxico Cross Country competed today at the Arcadia Valley Invitational, where all of our athletes represented our school and community with pride. They demonstrated strong sportsmanship throughout the meet and continued to uplift their teammates long after their own races were over. With nearly 850 runners participating in total, we are proud of the performances of all our athletes. Below are the Puxico athletes who brought home medals. Varsity Boys Logan Robison 6th place Jett Hancock 9th place Varsity Girls Paisley Wilkerson 19th place JV Girls Maddison Camden 25th place JH Boys Ryan Seward 27th place JH Girls Brylee Campbell 6th place Braylen Fox 7th place Reese Mattingly 19th place JH Girls team scored 2nd overall.

Library Leader Award Winners for the week of September 9th. It is a joy to watch these students thrive in the library.

This year at the SEMO District Fair the following students showed livestock. Drew Crisel Caleb Wagner Jesse Watkins Maylee Stephens These students put a lot of work and time into their animals. We are very proud of them and their animals.

Friday, Mrs. Woolard took several high school students to the Mingo Job Corps Open House where they celebrated their 60th anniversary. Students were able to see the trades that are offered such as heavy equipment, welding, forestry fire fighting, bricklaying, and more. Students also had the opportunity to talk to the instructors and students about their trade and even participated in demonstrations that were setup. The students enjoyed their time learning about all the trades offered nearby no cost to them.

Miss Harris’ class worked hard to fill their ✨ star jar ✨ for their first whole class reward of popcorn and a movie on this Fun Friday!!! So proud of all their hard work already this year 🤗 it’s going to be an amazing year!!!

Mr. Davis’s 7th grade classes exploring force and motion in class this week.

Puxico Varsity Cross Country opened the season at Memphis on Saturday. All team members made our school proud and competed well.

**✏️ Writing Fun in Kindergarten! ✏️** Our kindergarten students are working hard this week on writing the letters "O" and "A." Keep up the great work, little writers!

Library Leader Award Winners for the week of August 26th.

Lots of fun at Puxico Open House stop by the cafeteria and check it out!

Back to School Information: We are so excited to welcome our students to class tomorrow, Thursday, August 22. Here are a few back to school reminders to help us kick off the school year: The doors will open at 7:30 a.m. Elementary students will report to their classrooms, JH students will start their day in the cafeteria, and HS students will report to the HS building. Breakfast will be available and is free to all students that want to eat. TRAVEL ALERT: Please use caution on your morning and afternoon drives and be extra alert for buses on routes. We ask all caregivers to discuss the importance of safe driving near buses and student walkers with younger drivers. MORNING DROP OFF: For added safety and due to heavy traffic, all elementary car riders are to be dropped off in the car line in the FEMA parking lot. Please do not travel near the elementary office, that area is reserved for bus traffic only. Parents should remain in the car while in the drop off line. Please do not stop or block the drop off line, and follow directions once you enter the lot. We will have helpers to escort smaller children to their classrooms. We ask that you watch for adults to cue you when it’s safe to let your elementary student out of the car. It is extremely helpful to have backpacks and lunchboxes near your child before arriving to the drop off location. It is recommended that JH and HS students are also dropped off in the FEMA lot. BUS RIDERS: We recommend for the first day - especially for younger elementary children - that students should leave school the same way the arrive. If you are driving a kindergartner to school for the first day, please consider picking them up after school as well. It makes for a smoother afternoon bus ride for our bus riders and bus drivers if the driver is able to pick up the child at their home in the morning. If any transportation changes need to be made, please call the office by 2:30 PM. Any changes after 2:30 PM, will not be made. Elementary 222-3542 Junior High 222-3058 High School 222-3175 Senior Class of 2025 will meet at 7:40 on the FEMA steps for their Last, First Day Picture at 7:45. Please park in your assigned spot prior to picture time. This year our District will implement a new student information system. Due to Tyler Technologies discontinuing their SISK12 platform, we will use Infinte Campus. Your parent portal login for SISK12 will not work at this time but directions to use the new system will be coming soon. We look forward to seeing all of the students and their smiling faces tomorrow! We greatly appreciate your help in creating a safe environment and efficient routine for the arrival and departure of our students. #GoPuxico Tomorrow is Day #1!

Returning students: Here are 3 great opportunities to have your back to school pictures taken before school starts. Parents: Make sure to save the QR code image and follow the link to go get your child’s picture code.

Attention parents and incoming 6th grade students: Just a reminder, 6th Grade Orientation will be held on Monday, August 12th @ 5:30 PM in the cafeteria. If you have any questions please email Mr. Jenkins at tjenkins@puxico.k12.mo.us or call the jr. high school at 573-222-3058.