Support our 5th grade DARE program as well as our DARE educators and local SROs. You'll also get a chance to meet Deputies Streeter and Brandt, and our own, Deputy Wakeman!
Summer EBT is back! ☀️ "Sun Bucks" is the new name for Summer EBT. Eligible families of school-age children will receive $120 per child for qualifying groceries. Stretch your grocery budget and buy more of the foods your children love!
Apply by April 15: https://www.fns.usda.gov/summer/sunbucks?utm_campaign=SEBT1&utm_content=family&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
MAYAC is Striving to Thrive and they're taking you with them! Area Teens & Tweens are invited to come get to know a baker's dozen of our area's best mental health service providers who will be on site to discuss their services, rates, and availability. Families and parents are welcome to come and learn as well!
Last week we celebrated Absolutely Incredible Kid Day at the Jr/Sr High! Students were nominated by staff and acknowledged with their name & reason for nomination both on their lockers and in the cafeteria. Thanks for making this school a better place to be, Comets! ☄️ #LEADLikeAComet #AbsolutelyIncredibleKidDay
Coleman Comet Kapre Lynch heads to the Powerlifting Nationals today and will be livestreamed with a 9 or 10 a.m. start time on Platform 2, Flight C. Livestream can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/live/QYNrRTQV1zs if you'd like to cheer her on. (Link had to be updated) #LEADLikeAComet
Coleman's own, Kapre Lynch finished competing at the USA Powerlifting HS Nationals today. She set a PR in the deadlift and finished 11th! She did an amazing job on the biggest stage and showed what Coleman has to offer. Great job to her and Coach Thomas for all of their hard work!
Congrats to our bonus March employee of the month, Jr/Sr High Teacher, Holly Wentworth! ☄️These awards are granted based on staff nominations; final decisions are made by the Board. She was nominated for making some really amazing connections with students, making her classroom look AMAZING, and for hitting the ground running after only having her own classroom here for just a few months.
Holly will enjoy one month of parking in the reserved 'Employee of the Month' parking space at her building, one month of getting the 'Employee of the Month' trophy on her desk, and one month of bragging rights. Thanks for being an outstanding employee! We appreciate your hard work and dedication to the district! #LEADLikeAComet
Congrats to the 2025 Board Scholars! We're so proud of your hard word and dedication to academics. For more information on this unique program, check out our Board Scholars webpage here: https://www.colemanschools.net/o/jr-sr-high-school/page/board-scholars-eligibility #LEADLikeAComet
Deputy Wakeman stopped by Mr. Klopf’s 3rd hour Advanced PE class yesterday and took on a challenge from the high schoolers of a game of kick ball!
Here's a fantastic opportunity for a recent college graduate! MCAN is seeking college graduates to serve as AdviseMI college advisers in selected high schools across Michigan. Our current advisor, Mr Zink, is moving on and leaving some very big shoes to fill.
For details, check out the MCAN link: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=1cc7b335-c707-4346-8444-93785889e3fc&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=512574&lang=en_US&source=EN
Ms. Dittenber's 2nd graders are feeling like archeologists and finding out the mysteries of ancient Egypt, one mummy at a time!
The Athletic Department would like to recognize another sport on another day. Today are our powerlifters who represented our school at the State competition. Zach McPhee showed growth all season and finished with personal records in every category during the final competition. Zach set a PR in every. lift. He went 9 for 9 with the following records: squat 430lbs, bench 240lbs, deadlift 445lbs, Total of 1115lbs. Kapre Lynch finished the day going 8 for 9 on her lift attempts. She finished All-State in 4th place with a total PR of 655lbs. She also set PRs in Squat with 215lbs and Deadlift with 315lbs. Kapre is heading to Wisconsin to compete at the National level on Friday! We want to wish her the best.
Terry Farley and her daughter McKennzie donated 100 boxes of cereal for the Elementary’s cereal drive. Thank you so much Terry and McKennzie!
Elementary students hope to collect more than 1,006 boxes of cereal for a dominos set up and food drive donation. Donations are accepted through next Thursday.
Alum Brandon Cotton made the news recently - in a good way! He's an assistant construction engineer with MDOT and spokesperson for some upcoming bridge construction: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CaYyZWaQz/
Wednesday brings the boys' basketball team's accomplishments to the spotlight.
Logan Glazier - All-conference first team
Jared DeVrieze - All-conference second team
Logan Dudley - All-conference honorable mention
Robert Harsh - All-conference honorable mention
Collin Stockero - All-conference honorable mention
We are excited to announce that we have another Comet signing to play college football this Friday at 11:00 in the auditorium. Jared DeVrieze will be taking his talents to Trine University this fall. We would like to congratulate Jared and his family for their dedication and hard work and wish him the best at the next level.
6th graders were able to spend some time up close and personal with flowers this month. After a lesson on the anatomy of a flower, students took their flower apart, looking at all the parts. Students then got cutting and opened up their flowers to see what was inside, then used a dissecting microscope to observe the sections up close.
Mr. Frisbee from the Chippewa Nature Center visited Mr. Liechty’s class last week to talk about ecological weather. The 3rd graders learned about how the earth’s positioning to the sun affects our daily weather, played weather bingo, and then built shelters to protect animals from a disaster .
Elementary students who read 10 books during March is Reading Month are rewarded with the opportunity to select and donate a book to the school library. Thanks to the students who, so far, have read and earned all of these new books to share with others!
Thanks to the support of MidMichigan Health Services, our School Based Health Clinic will now have extended hours effective immediately providing even more times that students can access LOCAL medical and counseling services.
New Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday 8am – 4pm
Friday 8am. – 1pm
For more information, check out the clinic page on our website: https://www.colemanschools.net/page/school-based-health-center