Announcements

May 22 - 6-8^th Grade Talent Show

May 23 - 8^th Grade Promotion Ceremony

May 24 - Full Day regular dismissal time

May 27 - No School (Memorial Day)

May 28 - Last Full Day of School, Dismiss at 2:20 (make up for snow day)

May 29 - No School (Teacher's Institute)

May 30 - Report Card Day

We are still having trouble with our phones.  If you cannot get through on the elementary line please call the junior high phone number at 217-489-5201 and ask for the elementary school. Thank You.

The 6^th/7^th grade field trip is Thursday, May 28^th.  Permission slips have been sent home and are also attached .  If students are planning to use the rock climbing wall they must get a permission slip from the office.  Students who come to school and are not going on the field trip will follow a regular schedule of classes on that day. 

Junior High Boosters would like to invite all 6th grade parents to our next meeting - Wednesday June 5th at 7:00 p.m. in the Junior High Art Room. 

Special thanks to the Junior High Student Council's for raising over $20,000 with their Diabetes Walk. 

Congratulations to Mitchel Morrow for finishing 2^nd in the long jump at the IESA State Track Meet.  Mitchel also broke a school record.  He jumped 17 feet 8 inches.

Track uniforms need to be turned in as soon as possible to Mr. Swigart and Mrs. Houser.

A letter to 8^th grade parents about the last few days of school and promotion ceremony is attached .  Also if you have someone attending 8^th grade Promotion who has special seating needs due to a disability, please call the office at 217-489-5201 by Wednesday, May 22^nd to make special seating arrangements.  Handicapped parking will be near McKinley Street in the parking lot south of the junior high school.

We are currently planning to install the new playground east of the new school building in early to mid-August.  We are planning to do what is called a "supervised" installation, where a single installer from the playground equipment company is on hand to help and supervise while we provide volunteer labor for the installation.  This was recently successfully done by the Kiwanis with the new playground installation at Weedman Park in Farmer City.  The reason for choosing the supervised installation option is that it will enable us to purchase more equipment as we save a tremendous amount of money by not having the playground company do the actual labor for the installation  If you would be willing to provide volunteer help in August with this project, please email the me at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  I will pass along a list of potential volunteers to the playground company and Mr. Wilkinson, the new principal so that they can contact you when we know specific dates and times for this installation.

ALL Knight-Lite basketball equipment stored above the stage at Mansfield Elementary School must be removed by the end of the school year.  This is due to moving from the old building into the new on for next school year.

Please turn in Registration Packets. 

Kiwanis Club of Farmer City Benefit Gold Scramble for Your Projects will be June 20^th at 1 p.m.  Registration is $40 (includes green fees, cart, prizes, dinner and donation).  Teams of three or four individuals will be used to form teams.  Kiwanis members and non members are welcome.  Please sign up by June 6^th.  Call Mike Hendricks at 309 928-2946 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Donations will go toward: Project Eliminate, Spastic Paralysis Research and FC South Park.

The DeWitt-Piatt County will be closing their dental services.  They have provided us with a dentist in Champaign that takes Medical cards, All Kids dental insurance along with private insurance.  If you would like that name and number please call the school office.

For the 2013-14 school year the State of Illinois is requiring that all students in grades 6-12 have a Tdap (Whooping Cough) immunization or proof thereof or they will face exclusion from school. Blue Ridge students must have this proof of this vaccination by the first day of school in August of 2013 or they will be excluded from school. All 6^th and 9^th grade students must also have a school physical and proof of that physical in the school office before the first day of school.  Please make your appointments now.

Farmer City Genealogical and Historical Society presents Abraham Lincoln as portrayed by Bob Rutledge, A Unique look at President Lincoln's life prior to his Presidency, on Tuesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at the VFW Building, 110 S. Main St., Farmer City.