We had a misprint on our NJHS acceptance letter. All new NJHS members will be inducted at the promotion and awards ceremony at Prichard on Monday, May 15th at 6:00PM. We apologize for any confusion.
Pies for the Falls City Music Booster's Pie fundraisers will be delivered to the high school on Tuesday, March 28. Students will need to make arrangements to pick them up between 3:35-5:00 pm. Please contact Mrs. Sutton with any questions.
FCHS prom will be April 1, 2023. For anyone involved, please see the schedule below. Thank you.
Falls City High School students participated in the Peru Math Contest on Friday, March 17th. The students and Mr. Jason Vitosh had a very successful day! Great job!
1st place individual in Algebra
Gunner Lippold
2nd place individual in Precalculus
Emily Vitosh
1st place individual in Precalculus
Ashleigh Kirkendall
2nd place individual in Calculus
Stiephan Fields
2nd place TEAM in Algebra
Gunner, Ethan Boatright, and Bailey Thimmes
1st place TEAM in Precalculus
Ashleigh, Emily, and Ella Kobza
1st place TEAM in Calculus
Stiephan, Elyse Poppe, and Ava Armbruster
The Class of 2036 signed up for kindergarten at our "Kindergarten Signing Day."
If you have a child who will be 5 by July 31, 2023, and did not attend kindergarten round up, please contact North School (402-245-2712) for more information.
These students escaped and "trapped the leprechaun" during an ELA escape room. The escape room focused on sequencing, author's purpose, fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension, main idea & details, inferring, context clues & vocabulary work!
Track Results from the Doane Invitational.
Ava Armbruster 6th in pole vault. Madi Jones 5th in triple jump. Ashleigh Kirkendall 4th in 60 hurdles. RaeAnn Thompson finished runner up in the 60, triple jump, and the long jump. Congratulations FC track and field teams!
Falls City High School track season is off and ready. Good luck to our athletes at Doane today.
St. Patrick's Day fun! We made rainbow sculptures and then the leprechauns bid a treasure for us but only if we could follow the map clues!
Doane Indoor meet in Saturday, March 18. Follow along with updated results through this site: https://results.blacksquirreltiming.com/meets/21518
These sixth graders presented a speech in their classrooms and moved on to a schoolwide contest. The topic was the greatest American hero. The top three will move on to the Eastern Nebraska District speech competition in Omaha in April. Congratulations, Caroline Powell (first place), Kaytlyn Rhodd (second place), Tessa Gossman (third place)!
Baseball today at Plattsmouth has been postponed due to cold temperatures. Make-up date will be March 31 at 4:30pm and 6:30pm.
NJHS practiced leadership skills and working together to build the highest pvc tower using only one hand! Two teams won different rounds. The activity was a culmination of a "Leadership Summit" unit with Kaytlyn Kennedy, UNL Extension.
Applederas Show Choir recently competed at "The Rock" competition and received 2nd place in their division.
Sophomore Caleb Zimmerman came home with the "best Performer" award.
Not pictured: Paige Young
Tiger Baseball on Saturday, March 18th at Wilber and Crete is cancelled due to the forecast of inclement weather. No make-up is planned.
The Middle School wrestlers place their 3rd place medal on the ECNC plaque. Congrats wrestlers!
Attention Sophomore class parents, the Class of 2025 students were given trash bag fundraiser forms today. An ice cream sundae bar will be given to the students who sell 10 or more trash bags. All profits will help pay for prom next year. 💃🪩🕺
National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
On Tuesday, March 14th, 9 new members were inducted into the Falls City Chapter of the National Honor Society. The program began with an introduction and history of National Honor Society led by the principal, Mr. Gale Dunkhas. The four qualities embraced by the National Honor Society are Scholarship, Leadership, Character, and Service. The four qualities were described by the current National Honor Society officers. 2023 officers are Elyse Poppe, president, Kacy Brewer, vice-president, Reece McNeely, secretary, and Gaby Niedfeldt, treasurer. The induction pledge was then recited and certificates were distributed. The ceremony was closed with a few words from Mr. Gale Dunkhas, principal.
The new inductees include senior; Kellen McAfee. Juniors; Alexis Brewer, Kemper Foster. Sophomores; Isabelle Armbruster, Ethan Boatright, Ruby Nguyen, Emilou Schulenberg, Sierrah Vermeer, Paige Young. The National Honor Society officers served cake and punch to the new members and their families following the induction.
Inductees: L to R: Kellen McAfee, Kemper Foster, Paige Young, Ethan Boatright, Ruby Nguyen, Emilou Schulenberg, Sierrah Vermeer, Isabelle Armbruster, not pictured Alexis Brewer
Officers L to R:
Elyse Poppe, Kacy Brewer, Reece McNeely, Gaby Niedfeldt
February Students of the Month
The staff and administration of Falls City High School have announced the
selections for February High School Students of the Month. The honors go to the following students:
Upperclassmen- Kellen McAfee, a senior, is the son of Nicole and Mike McAfee, Gaby Niedfeldt, a senior, is the daughter of Joe and Katie Niedfeldt.
Underclassmen- Hayden Findlay, a sophomore, is the son of Jeff and Susan Findlay. Emilou Schulenberg, a sophomore, is the daughter of Dusty and Kristi Schulenberg.
The 6th grade quiz bowl teams went to Freeman on Tuesday March 14 to compete.
Both teams competed and represented Falls City Middle School well. Team A advanced through two rounds of tournament action before being eliminated.
