April Vaccines for Children Public Clinics Offered
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Maywood sophomore to compete at 2021 State Speech Championship
MPS Sophomore Emmy Oldham will take her humorous prose speech to the 2021 Nebraska State Speech Tournament in Kearney, this Friday, March 19, 2021. Emmy has been honing her speech with feedback from Maywood's speech coach Shyanne Foster. Emmy is scheduled to compete early Friday morning at Kearney Senior High School. If she wins, she will compete again later that afternoon. MPS will have a send-off . . .
MHC Lady Wolves advance to district finals
On February 18th, the Lady Wolves defeated Wauneta-Palisade 55-38, winning the D2-9 sub-district championship! They will be competing in the district finals against Diller Odell at Minden High School for a spot in the state championship! Let’s all help support our girls team and help them bring the heat on Friday! The MCH Boys' team had a great season run with a 16-9 W-L record. They played their hearts out in . . .
5th graders build aquifer - learn dynamics of well . . . water!
As a way to further synthesize information for the 5th grade students with a hands on practical experience, Mrs. Fletcher chose an extension activity suggested in her Mystery Science curriculum that involved students working with a model of an aquifer. With this model, students were able to dig a pond, drill a well, and pump water from their well using a pump from a used hand soap container. Students used the scientific . . .
Maywood Public School gets some new upgrades
Thanks to our steadfast custodians - Rick Gilmore, David McMurtry, and Eric Storm, Maywood School got a major facelift. The following are just some of the projects they worked hard to complete in the past year: Put up a new scoreboard by the football field Planted grass on the baseball field Painted the following: Concessions stand History . . .
1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades celebrate Christmas around the world
The Maywood 1st and 3rd grade classes are studying holidays around the world as Christmas closes in. These classes have fun as they learn about Christmas in 21 different countries and continents. The students study the traditions, fun facts, and symbols from each of the countries and are able to locate these countries on their maps. Students create paper passports and suitcases for their travels to each country. They . . .
4th graders study Mass, Volume, and Density
Mrs. Bollish’s 4th grade science class had a lab exploring the different properties of mass, volume, and density. They used their scales to measure the mass of different classroom objects in grams. Then they used the graduated cylinder to find the volume of several irregular shaped objects. After that, they discovered that syrup is more dense than water and oil is less dense than water. This was a good way for . . .
Cam-Man & Striv channel bring MHC games into our living rooms
This year is the first year that our school has streamed school events on StrivTV . Striv is a website where you can stream events. This fall, the games were streamed by Maywood High sophomore Troy Rutherford, aka "Cam-Man". To video the games Troy uses a tripod and a video camera. He then has an HDMI cord that puts the video from the camera onto a computer. He uses a hotspot to . . .
Spectacular volleyball season comes to an end
Our MHC Wolves had a spectacular volleyball season! Maintaining an undefeated record up until they qualified for state. We are all proud of them for representing our school at the state competition. In the end, they won 4th place and took home medals and a trophy. Sadly, this marks the end of this volleyball season. However, we still have a lot to remember this season by. Our MHC Wolves ended the season with a 29-2 win/loss record!!
Current Highlights
MHC Lady Wolves show hustle & focus
B ump! Set! Spike! Volleyball season has begun and our MHC Wolves started us out with a strong victory against Sandhills Valley and Paxton on August 27th! I interviewed Coach Armstrong about the coming season: when . . . read more
School and Community Reunited
The sounds of laughter and people talking drifted across the school yard. Small groups clustered around picnic tables eating hotdogs, chips, and cookies happily as the sun was shining and children played. Parents, teachers, . . . read more