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The SDHSAA Academic Achievement Team Award is designed to recognize varsity athletic teams and fine arts groups for their academic excellence. The SDHSAA believes that high school students learn in two distinct ways: inside classroom and outside the classroom on the stage and on the athletic field. The SDHSAA Academic Achievement Team Award program is designed to create a positive environment, as well as an incentive, to encourage school "teams" to have their members excel both in the classroom and the activity. The Avon Teams that have qualified for this award are the following: *All-State Chorus *Boys Basketball *Boys and Girls Basketball Cheerleaders *Football Cheerleaders *Girls Basketball *Girls Wrestling *One-Act Play *Oral Interpretation *Volleyball Congratulations!

Congratulations to Landon Thury on scoring his 1,000th point today at the Great Plains Conference Tournament in Scotland. Congratulations Landon!

Congratulations to the Bon Homme-Avon wrestlers on a great season! Congratulations to the following wrestlers for qualifying for the state meet next weekend! *Ryvr Larson *Corbyn Palsma *Jackson Kaul *Tyler Tjeerdsma *Jackson Caba *Isaiah Crownover *Randall Powers Good luck at state!

With Spring sports season quickly approaching, Avon School would like to remind parents of student athletes of the school’s voluntary student accident insurance program through Student Assurance Services, Inc. Students can enroll at any time during the policy period (school year). Families may enroll online by visiting www.sas.mn.com.

Gold Standard Pirates of the Week PK-4: Kayli Desheuquette-Ray 5-8: Ashley Soukup 9-12: Lila Vanderlei Congratulations

The schedule for tomorrow night Boys Basketball game vs KWL is JH1 - 4pm, JH2 - 5PM, JV - 6pm, then Varsity.

Circulation of nominating petitions for Avon School Board may begin on January 26th, 2024. Petitions may be filed in the office of the Business Manager located at 210 Pine Street, Avon, S.D., 57315, between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM, central standard time, not later than the 23rd day February 2024, at 5:00 PM ; or mailed by registered mail not later than the 23rd day of February 2024, at 5:00 PM.

The juniors were crafty yesterday making Valentines between various characters from The Great Gatsby!!

State Qualifiers for Girls BHSA Wrestlers 💥🤼‍♀️🥇 120# - Britney Rueb 126# - Hadlee Kracht 138# - Peyton Hellmann 165# - Ashley Tolsma 185# - Hope Kemnitz 💥💥💥Congratulations girls!!💥💥💥 Great year by Leah and Bailey as well!! The future is very bright for BHSA!!

The voting link is now open to vote for the 2024 Teacher of the Year in the Avon School District. We invite students, staff, parents, and community members to take part in the vote. Please click on the following link to vote for one teacher to be Avon School District’s 2024 Teacher of the Year. The voting link will close on Friday, February 23 at 10:00 p.m. Thank you for your input. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JH85W5X

The Boy's Basketball Team will play Freeman Academy - Marion on Saturday, February 17 in Scotland at 12:30 pm at the Great Plains Conference Tournament.

The Avon School Board voted to amend the 23-24 school calendar at yesterday’s board meeting. The first three snow days will be made up on Tuesday, May 14, Wednesday, May 15, and Thursday, May 16. The fourth snow day will not be made up at this time unless Avon would have more snow days this winter or spring. Therefore, Friday, February 23 will remain a NO SCHOOL day, so students, staff, and parents can attend the State Wrestling Tourney in Sioux Falls.

The Avon School District has joined districts across the state to thank school board members for their leadership and service to our school and community during School Board Recognition Week! Thank you to Bridgette Muller, Joe Sees, David Ratzlaff, Jeff Tolsma, and Craig Vanderlei for their dedication to our children and our community!

In education, the school and parents work together towards the success of every student. If you would please fill out the survey, this will help us to find areas of growth for our school. Mrs. Dykstra will also have a couple of devices set up at her table during conferences if you’d like to stop and fill out the survey then. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey! We appreciate your feedback. Family Survey: https://ties.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GhXH9RjaxK9978?Building=Avon&Stakeholder=Family

Bake Sale tonight at the Science Fair!

Here is the link for state wrestling shirts. We are going to have a similar design on the back as last year with the dual team and individual boys and girls all listed. Please have your orders in by Thursday, February 15th. There are no paper orders so please use this link to make your order. https://stores.inksoft.com/bha_bhsa_wrestling/shop/home

Congratulations to the Bon Homme-Avon wrestlers on placing 3rd at State Duals! Pictured are the 3 seniors, Tyler Tjeerdsma, Jackson Caba, and Brock Kotalik

Congratulations on another 2nd place team finish by the Girls Bon Homme-Avon-Scotland wrestlers yesterday at the Black Hills Last Chance Tournament! 2nd out of 16 teams! Individual Results - Britney Rueb -120 - 2-1 - 2nd Hadlee Kracht - 126 - 1-1 - 2nd Bailey Kemnitz - 132 - 2-2 - 4th Leah Whittington - 138 - 1-2 - 7th Peyton Hellmann - 145 - 3-0 - 1st Hope Kemnitz - 185 - 2-1 - 2nd Next up - STATE TOURNAMENT!!🤼‍♀️

Good luck to all the Bon Homme- Avon wrestlers this weekend at State Duals!

Gold Standard Pirates of the Week PK-4: Finn Rush 5-8: Cameron Ramirez 9-12: Jordyn Voigt Congratulations!