Selkirk School District

Selkirk School District is providing a Birth to 4 “Fun with Outdoor Toys” event on Wednesday, May 1rst, at the elementary school. Bring your child to school at 2:00 for an hour of fun activities.. Each child will take home a free book from Pend Oreille County First Book, and an outdoor toy compliments of Selkirk’s Parents as Teachers program. See you there!

Selkirk students will be helping to beautify our highway tomorrow! Mrs. Cain’s classes will be picking up litter along the highway between the High School and Metaline. Caution signs will be visible, and students will be wearing orange safety vests. Please drive carefully and wave to our amazing students!

Selkirk School District is always considering long-term facilities options, but we are just at the beginning of a new (old) concept. Nothing has been finalized so there is little to share in terms of a public meeting but based on some Facebook speculation, we felt it was important to get out the basic facts, so here they are: Long-term Facilities is not an agenda item at the March board meeting, but ANYTIME community members have questions I would encourage them to reach out to a source of information: school board members, the superintendent, or other staff. The work to modernize our buildings and build a quality education program has been ongoing for years. Any plan that we move forward with is not something that would happen overnight and there will be plenty of opportunities for everyone to get the facts and share input. Specifically, we have worked hard over the past 10 years to leverage grants, Seattle City Light impact fees, and state-matching money to create an opportunity for our community to upgrade our buildings that would NOT require a new tax or bond. That is a pretty amazing option and unheard of as generally a tax bond is required to build a building! Every other district around us (and across the state) has relied on taxes to build school buildings, but that would NOT be the case for Selkirk!! The most efficient use of our funds for modernizing our campuses includes consolidating our students on the high school campus. All of the other Panorama B-sized school districts except one are located on a consolidated campus so we have lots of examples of how this can be done well! In past explorations of this idea, the plans to move the elementary to the Selkirk High School campus have always included an elementary wing separate from high school. We would continue with that idea, but a single campus would maximize safety, security, health, and educational opportunities! In April the board will interview architect firms and task the firm with drawing plans by August that would include many of the details we need, but within the budget of funds we have collected. We do not want to design something so extravagant that it would exceed our budget. Once the architects start, they would meet with staff to gather education specifications (to build classrooms that meet teachers’ needs) and then there would be community meetings to provide information, answer questions, and gather feedback on the conceptual plan with the goal of staying within the budget we have created with grants, impact fees, and state-match. By August, we would know if this was even a real possibility for our community. If it is, then there would still be a full year of finalizing plans. The timeline would be something like breaking ground in summer 2026 and finishing in 2028 if this were to happen. This is a long-term concept but requires some exploration up front. It is also amazing that we might be able to provide a modernized high school with new classrooms spaces for TK-5 (around $31 million dollars total) with NO NEW TAX! Rest assured we will keep everyone posted via newsletters and Facebook whenever there is a public meeting on the planning project. In the meantime, however, just reach out with questions, but remember details have not been finalized because this is just the exploration stage! I do have faith in our staff, school board, and community that if we move forward with this plan, we will create an amazing space for kids to learn and grow! Nancy Lotze Superintendent Selkirk School District

Selkirk is offering an informational Zoom meeting regarding the Running Start program and Dual-Credit possibilities for students in the Sophomore and Junior classes! The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 20th, at 6:30pm. For full details see the attached flyer. To register for the meeting, please follow this link: https://ccs-spokane.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pfu-qqDIjGNI1Icqy3Nwr856Clv8jKLwq

Today is the last day of classified staff appreciation week! Selkirk would like to express gratitude for all our hard working and dedicated classified staff who keep the district running! Thank you to our secretaries, bus drivers and transportation director, para-educators, maintenance and custodial crews, our technology director, our safety officer, our kitchen crews, and everyone else who helps make this district as amazing as it is. Classified staff are celebrated all week long with special food and gifts in the staff rooms of both buildings. We wouldn’t have a school without them!

The Selkirk Theatre Arts program will be presenting its spring plays at the Cutter Theatre this Saturday! Performances are at 2pm & 7pm. Selkirk’s talented actors and actresses have been working hard and practicing late to bring their characters to life in two comedic tales. The middle school play, “The Ever After”, features a cheesy talk show host who invites traditional fairy tale characters to reconcile their differences on live television. Can Snow White and the Evil Queen be friends? Come find out! In the high school play, “The Search for Delicious”, the cast recreates a mythical medieval kingdom in the midst of a fierce disagreement over the most “delicious” food. Follow the crazy adventures of the cast as they attempt to define delicious and avoid a civil war. Don’t miss these hilarious performances! See you Saturday!

Hello Rangers and Ranger Fans! Many of you have been enjoying the Selkirk app for its convenient access to school information and the alerts it provides. We would like you to know that our app has received an upgrade, and the programmer has instructed us to let our users know that they will need to delete and reinstall the app for notifications to work properly. Please do so at your earliest convenience so you don’t miss anything! For those of you who haven’t yet taken advantage of the Selkirk School District app, now is a great time to get onboard! Our app is easy to navigate, and provides current news, sports and event schedules, dining menus, and much more! The app also gives you timely notifications of important news and alerts so you are always up-to-date. The app is available for Apple and Android devices, and can be located in the App Store or Play Store by searching for Selkirk School District.

Rural Resources is offering a Youth Employment & Training Program on March 13th at Selkirk High School. If you are between the ages of 16 and 24, and need help getting a job, you may benefit from this program. See flyer for details!

Selkirk Elementary is holding a Birth-to-4 Fun With Jungle Animals event on Wednesday March 20th, from 2:00 to 3:00. Bring your young child for an hour of fun and educational activities! See attached flyer for more information.

Selkirk Elementary Parents: When you are in the building this month for Parent/Teacher Conferences, stop by the Lost & Found table to see if your child has left anything at school.

Thank you to the Selkirk Class of 2023 for the gifted Foosball Table. Students are enjoying playing it during their breakfast and lunchtime. It is a Selkirk tradition for graduating classes to leave the school a gift with some of the funds their class has raised throughout the years.

Congratulations, Coach Chantry! Today at the state wrestling tournament, JL Chantry was announced as the 1B-2B State Wrestling Coach-of-the-Year. Way to go, Coach Chantry and good luck to our Selkirk wrestlers this weekend. Of our four competitors qualifying for the state wrestling tournament, two are still in it! Good luck today, Jameson & Nathan!

Selkirk School District is providing a Birth to 4 “Fun with Toy Vehicles” event on Wednesday, February 21rst at the elementary school. Bring your child to school at 2:00 for an hour of fun activities. See flyer for more details!

Selkirk School District is providing a Birth to 4 “Fun with Music” event on Wednesday January 24th at the elementary school. Bring your child to school at 2:00 for an hour of fun activities focusing on music. Each child will take home a free book from Pend Oreille County First Book, and an instrument from Selkirk’s Parents as Teachers program. See you there!

Selkirk is pleased to announce that we are hosting a wrestling tournament at the high school this Thursday the 18th, at 5:00pm. There will be dinner available, and concessions as well. Come support your wrestlers on their home turf! Go Rangers!

There are water issues at the high school that could not be resolved today so we are cancelling school for ALL TK-12th grade students on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Staff will use the day as an inservice day and report to work. We will offer Friday, January 19 as a student day for all TK-12th grade students as a replacement for tomorrow. We apologize for any inconvenience and we’ll see students Wednesday through Friday this week!

The Selkirk MS & HS Band concert honoring Martin Luther King Jr. is Thursday at 10:00am in the HS gymnasium. Come listen to our talented band students perform a variety of musical selections and vocal performances. See you there!

Congratulations Selkirk Rangers! Thanks to the school spirit of our students, families, staff, and community members, Selkirk won the Battle for the Paddle competition last week! We are appreciative of Sherriff Glen Blakeslee, Prosecuting Attorney Dolly Hunt, and County Commissioner Brian Smiley for spending their evening with us judging this fun event! Special thanks to the Cusick Panthers for being our partner in this competition, we were honored to host you!

Selkirk is grateful for all the donations provided by our community during the Battle for the Paddle food drive! Special thanks to Alicia Seaney and her helpers from Rural Resources, the Metaline Town Hall, and the Falls Market!

Ranger Fans… get ready for the Battle for the Paddle! We host Cusick today at 5:15pm. Come join in the festivities! In addition to some exciting basketball, there is a line dance competition during half time of the girl’s game, and an ASB basket shooting fundraiser during half time of the boy’s game. Don’t worry about dinner, the girls’ basketball team is offering a hamburger or German sausage meal for only $8.00! If you would like to help Selkirk win the paddle, remember that 27% of the battle is a food drive competition. Please drop off your donations at the HS today! See you tonight at the game!