Skiatook High School

The Skiatook Drama & Debate Team won the Bishop Kelley Tournament on Nov 8-9 by winning all the styles of debate and being the overall performance team earning a dozen qualifications for regional contests. The Skiatook team won all three styles of debate in class 5A at the Bishop Kelley Contest. Aidan Vincent and Elissa Freeman-Potter won the Public Forum style debate arguing about reducing military support for Taiwan. In policy style debate students continued arguing on the national debate topic about intellectual property including AI. Lucas Trego & James Seratte won 1st place, Estella DeLong & Arthur Nicolas won 2nd place, and Cole Farmer & Kenneth Vice placed 3rd. The hardest debates for Skiatook were against the private school from Oklahoma City named Heritage Hall. In Value style debate, Tyler Currey was the champion, Emma Wallace was 3rd place and Cash Stuever ranked 5th place. All three of the topic placers, qualified for regional contest. Isabel Womack also competed in value debate. This month's value topic focuses on whether America should have a wealth tax. In Domestic Current Events speaking, Kyle George repeated his finalist placing from last week. While in Foreign Current Events speaking, Addisyn Miller was the champion, Jacob McKee was runner up, and Kenneth Vice placed 3rd. Lucas Trego and Emma Wallace earned team points for being in the final performance. In the novice division, Logan Wisnoskie won a 2nd place medal, while Noah Martinez was a finalist. In poetry reading, Skiatook had four finalists: Cole Farmer, Tyler Currey, Riley Maple, and Mauricia Gardner. In prose storytelling, Skiatook had Vivian Rouse place 2nd, and Myla Webb place 4th. Both earned regional qualifications. Other prose finalists included: Nettie Gray, Arthur Nicolas, Jeanetta Martinez, and Michael Yanulis. In one of the biggest accomplishments of the contest, first time performers Delilah Garrison and Maleah Daniels reached the Semi-Final round in the overwhelmingly large novice prose storytelling division. The upcoming Freshman actor Gavin Reamy earned awards in Humorous Interp and Monologue Acting. Camden Stuever presented in extemp speaking. The team had 74 team points compared to Tulsa School of Arts & Science (TSAS) 54 points and Oologah's 23 points. Volunteer judging help was provided by parents and alumni including: Josh Boultin, Baylee Boultin, Cole Martin, Damon Vincent, Angie Garrison, Lacie Currey, Ronald Stuever, Bryanna Stuever, Kimberly Seratte, Courtney Horn, and Aaron Rouse. The team has online virtual tournaments over the next month and live debates with the Tulsa Debate League. If you would be willing to volunteer, please contact coach Keith Denslow at Skiatook High School 918-396-1790

This week is our District Turkey Challenge! This is a wonderful way to give back to our community! Please click the link to see the details provided by our high school Stuco! https://youtube.com/shorts/NRYTXURCQzc?si=-Rv2i9Us-ig37gmZ

Student Council created a video to help explain more about Turkey Challenge! https://youtube.com/shorts/NRYTXURCQzc?si=-Rv2i9Us-ig37gmZ

Nine Skiatook High School students traveled to Norman to participate in Oklahoma University’s Math Day event. The students competed against the top students from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. They tested in the subject areas of Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2. They also competed in the math bowl where 1 team made it to the second round (out of 3 rounds total). Melany Gaytan won a prize for her work on a lunch time puzzle. It was a fun day and a good experience for our students!

📣School Picture Day Reminder!!!

The High School Varsity cheer squad placed 10th out of 33 teams today at the Game Day Cheer Regionals Competition. They will compete at State on Friday, November 15th at Moore High School. Time TBD.

Skiatook Debate & Speech 2nd Place Overall Team at Broken Arrow Tournament on November 1-2, 2024 with entries in only five events. Public Forum Style Debate Aidan Vincent & Elissa Freeman-Potter 1st place champions & regional qualifier Ashlynn Gaither & Nettie Gray-Regional qualifier Mac Coons & Mauricia Gardner-Regional qualifier Policy Style Debate Jacob McKee & Addisyn Miller 2nd place & regional qualifier Kenneth Vice & Cole Farmer 5th place Value Style Debate Emma Wallace 3rd place & regional qualifier Foreign current events speaking Tyler Currey 3rd placem & regional qualifier Kyle George 5th place Cash Stuever 6th place Domestic current events speaking Kenneth Vice 5th place Addisyn Miller 6th place Novice Foreign current events speaking medalists Logan Wisnoskie Noah Martinez Other Skiatook students attending included: Isabel Womack, Jeneatta Martinez, Lucas Trego, & Bradon Gorton. Volunteer judging was provided at the tournament by alumni and parents including: Damon Vincent, Cole Martin, Cole Butler, Baylee Boultin, Josh Boultin. Team is headed to Bishop Kelley on November 8-9

Picture Day for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will be on Monday, November 11th. No money needs to be turned in or forms filled out before Picture Day. Show up with your best smile!

"Government class is such a vital subject to learn as an American, so I've been excited to be given the opportunity to teach Freshman all about it. We’ve covered the creation of the government and the documents which developed our governments foundations. They have learned about the rights every American citizen has and how each right came to be established. They did a dive into political parties and how they have changed throughout history. We just finished a unit about the role of the President and with the election upon us, I decided to try to make voting as real to the students as I could. I had them research a few things from the ballot. I then set up a ‘voting’ area in the library on Tuesday. The students went through the same process as adults to vote. They stood in line, showed their student ID, grabbed a ballot, voted in a voting booth, submitted their ballot in a box, and received an ‘I Voted’ sticker. To finish the semester we will look at how different types of governments function, see how the media is considered the fourth branch of government, and take a fun look at some conspiracy theories related to the government." Mrs. Jordan

Parents, At approximately 12:34 when Osage county received the tornado warning all site took their tornado percautions. We communicated with our local city management teams and at approximately 12:53 all sites were released from their tornado percautions.

We are all clear to move out of shelter. There will be heavy rain for the next hour!

At this time all sites should be taking shelter! We will keep you posted.

Our annual SPS Turkey Challenge is November 11th - 20th! Please read the attachment for all the details.

FCCLA members got to attend districts yesterday at Owasso High School! They represented our school so well!

Preschool and Kindergarteners designed their own monsters, and our FACS classes used some creativity and basic sewing skills to make the kids' monsters a reality!

Red Ribbon Dress Up Days October 28th - November 1st

SHS Marching Band Highlights from Mr. Stotz. Congratulations on your accomplishments so far! Come watch the marching band perform at our last home football game this evening!! 📣 The band went to an early contest this year in Carl Junction, MO and received 2nd in their class and 8th overall in finals against some very large Kansas City area bands. 📣 We were 3rd overall at the Bixby Tournament of Bands this year! We were second in class 4A there as well. 📣 At the Oklahoma Bandmasters’ State Marching competition we were 5th overall in the state for marching band in class 4A. We are very proud to be in the top 6 in the state of Oklahoma for the past 3 years! 📣 We capped off the season with straight superior ratings at OSSAA last week. This sets us up for a sweepstakes run the rest of the year.

SHS recently hosted nearly 50 colleges, business leaders, military recruiters and student service representatives at our annual College and Career Fair. We appreciate all of the participants.

James Seratte, Lucas Trego, Dalton Vice, Kyle George, and Addisyn Miller participated in the first virtual debate tournament for the season on Oct 17. They presented their Pro Con Challenge arguments and were judged alongside students from across America. The online series is sponsored by the National Speech & Debate Association and the Julia Burke Foundation. Students will be traveling to a live contest at Broken Arrow on Nov 1-2. The team is still seeking volunteer judges to help cover entry costs.

9th, 10th and 11th grade students will be taking the PreACT/ACT on Tuesday, October 29th. They will report to their testing rooms at 8 am. They can bring a calculator to use on the math portion of the test. Students will not be able to get checked out of school during testing times.