Coleman Jr/Sr High School

Are you coming to Christmas at Coleman, hosted by the Drama Club? Well, you should! It's only one week away, on December 11th. Check out the flier for more info . . . and don't miss your opportunity to catch a glimpse of the upcoming Spring play, Beauty and the Beast!

Coleman Christmas band and choir concert is TONIGHT! Who else is looking forward to hearing what they've all been working so hard at?

Students at the Jr/Sr High and Elementary participated in making bulletin boards for kindness week. Great job, Comets! (Quilt is at the J/S High and leaves are at the Elementary).

Recently, Drama Club students went to a Theatre and Dance Day at Central Michigan University where they could participate in workshops on acting, voice, props and costumes. They got to meet members of the cast of the Fall production of Cabaret, and get to know other theater majors at the University. We love to see our Comets building skills and being proactive!

The Drama Club is hosting "Christmas at Coleman" on Monday, December 11th! It will be a fun opportunity to meet your favorite characters, get a present from Santa & Mrs. Claus, then catch a sneak peak of the upcoming Spring play, "Beauty and the Beast!" Add it to your calendars -- we hope to see you there!

Coming up next week: Coleman Band and Choir Christmas at Warriner 17 will be Monday, November 27th at 6:30pm in Plachta Auditorium, Warriner Hall, Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. Tickets are $4 per person ($16 max per family) and must be purchased in advance. Call 989-442-1998 or email band@colemanschools.net for more information.

Your high school bowling team started practice last week! Coach Francis and Coach Brown are excited to announce a girl's roster of eight bowlers as well as a boy's roster of eight bowlers. Comets will be practicing on Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 5PM. Parent permission forms are required if students need a ride from a coach. We will be bowling in two conferences this year, on Monday nights and Saturday mornings. We will announce a parent meeting on a practice night when we have all of the places and times decided. We are all really excited for a great season this year, go Comets!!!

Elementary PTO, parents, and students prepared dutch apple pies for pick up Saturdy. Pie sales, as well as gift card sales, are part of the anual fundraising schedule in October for the PTO.

Congratulations to Ms. Summer Yancer who will be starting her position as the Competitive Cheer Coach! Coach Yancer has been working with the younger cheer team the past year and as an assistant with Coach Klopf for some time. We're excited for her to share her experiences throughout many years of cheer and her skill in relating to students. We're looking forward to seeing how she will continue to build the program. Coach Yancer is excited to work with the athletes and staff to bring even more PR to the Cheer team and its athletes. Please help her feel welcome.

Thank you to this Kindness Crew for helping pass out donuts and hot chocolate Monday morning to kick-off our Kindness Week Activities!

Shout out to Mr. Skylyr Zink for all of his efforts to increase exposure and awareness to post-secondary learning opportunities and college access! In addition to coordinating well-attended college rep visits, Skylyr has secured two grants from the Community Foundation to provide transportation for college campus visits! Check out this graphic below that also highlights the work Skylyr (and students) put in for College Application Month in October. Thank you Skylyr for all that you do! For more information regarding scholarships, work-based learning, CTE, dual enrollment, early college, FAFSA, and more, check out the Student Resources page! https://www.colemanschools.net/o/jr-sr-high-school/page/student-resources

Mr. David Brown has agreed to be the High School Boys Bowling Coach starting this season! Mr. Brown teaches Physics and Chemistry, along with STEAM and Coding courses for Coleman Schools. He's excited to join Mr. Francis who is the Girls Bowling Coach in continuing to build the program as a primary or secondary sport for our students. Please help welcome him to this new position and if you are interested in Bowling, get signed up now in the High School Office. The Winter season starts soon - get ready to go and cheer them on!

Some of our awesome student leaders attended Midland County Youth Impact Partnership's Leadership Day on October 24 in Bullock Creek. Our students learned about sense of purpose, positive peer relationships, and self-esteem. After the break out sessions, they were given time to brainstorm ideas for their school's week of kindness, which is November 13-17. Our students did a great job representing Coleman Community Schools!

Coach Todd Halcomb will join us as the new Varsity Boys Basketball Coach. Coach Halcomb has coached in a variety of sports over many years, including Boys Basketball in Vestaburg. He chose to step away from coaching for a while for family reasons and is now able to come back to his love of coaching. Please help him feel welcome!

Recently, members of the Michigan FFA visited the Coleman Regional Agriscience Center. Following is a letter shared with Mr. Fischer and Mrs. Zwemmer about their visit. We are incredibly proud of the students, our teachers and the program. Great work! #GOCOMETS Good Morning Mr. Fischer, Logan and I had a great time visiting your chapter and getting to know you and your students! We really appreciate you opening your classroom to us. I especially enjoyed learning more about how your program works and seeing the barn. Your classes were so fun to work with, we loved being able to use those full 2 hours! I think I can speak for both of us when I say this was one of our favorite visits. Also, if you have those group pictures or any other pictures from the day we would love to have you share those! We look forward to hopefully seeing you and your students again soon. Thank you again, Lilly Nyland Michigan FFA State Secretary https://www.colemanschools.net/page/agriscience

The Cole family, with more kids than any other family in Coleman we believe, in Comet uniforms this fall. We'll let them start us off! Anyone else have some great pictures of their kids or family donning Comet gear or colors this fall? Send them to pr@colemanschools.net! Here's to a great end of the season run for our fall sports and ramping up for winter season sports. #GOCOMETS

Here's just a bit of what we've been up to with the IGNITE program at the Jr/Sr High School! Building STEM kits, designing models to print with the 3D printer, taking ownership of our space and painting cool space-themed billboards for program highlights, playing games, and chalking the sidewalks with things that we love! Our students have also been playing Dungeons & Dragons on Wednesdays with Mr. Kittle and participating in the new eSports gaming sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays ( must be grade-eligible to participate)! Whether you want to participate only one day or up to four days a week - we have a spot for you! There are still plenty of open spots. We can get you a meal during this time as well! Homework help is always available during IGNITE hours. Let us help you be successful this school year. We will be offering AM programming from 6:45 to 7:45 if there is enough interest and forms are turned in. ALL THIS IS 100% FREE!!!!!!! 7th - 12th grades! If you need an application, stop by and see Ms. Lea at her desk on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You may also send her an email at lcozat@cgresd.net or give her a call at (989) 240-0708.

A grandparent of one of our football players received a message from her friend about how polite our athletes were at the Football Dinner last week, and what a pleasure it was to meet and talk with the team! Outstanding job everyone, and thank you to our community for hosting the football supper! #GoComets #respect #community #CometPride

Catalyst Midland wrote this great story about the Culinary program! Check it out to learn more about what we've been up to and what the future holds for the program! (Photo taken by Ben Tierney) https://www.secondwavemedia.com/midland/features/colemanschools-culiinaryartsprogram.aspx Feel free to visit our Culinary page on the school website for more! https://www.colemanschools.net/page/culinary-arts-program

Absentee ballots are available now- don't forget to get out and vote for the Coleman Community Schools Bond Proposal for our students.