Quanah High School

Quanah High School will host a school wide celebration on November 11 at 10:00 a.m. to honor our local veterans. The band will perform, elementary students will present a program, and guest speakers will lead our program. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Veterans are encouraged to gather at 9:30 a.m. in the HS cafeteria for registration and refreshments.

We will be having school pictures on Wednesday, Sept. 14.  Order forms are in the office.

What are tutorials? When are they and who get’s to attend? At Quanah High School we offer tutorials Tuesday through Friday from 7:55-8:15. Tutorials are designed to aid students who are 1) failing a particular class, 2) Have not shown success on TAKS tests, 3) your teacher deems it necessary for your success, or 4) you just need a little extra help. For some students tutorials are mandatory (you have to attend) but tutorials are open to anyone who might need some help. Our teachers are always here and in their rooms if you need to just drop in for some guidance. For those students who are assigned tutorials, attendance is mandatory. Failures deem tutorials mandatory for some students. Those students will remain in tutorials until the next grading period (3weeks progress or 6 week report card). Anytime an assigned tutorial is missed or you are tardy, you will be given lunch detention for that day. Be sure and check the list that is posted by the cafeteria entrance to see if you are assigned a tutorial.

New look,new expectations,new attitude. Be a part of it! School starts Monday, August 22nd. 8:00 a.m. All students report to auditorium.

Freshman don’t forget fish camp Thursday 7:00 pm in the auditorium. Get a feel for our campus, see the teachers, eat a cookie or two. Parents are welcome to attend.

All state competition is over for Quanah High School students for 2010 and it ended on a high note as the FFA Senior Farm Skills Team finished first at the State LDE contest at Sam Houston State University.  Jacie Randolph, Tyson Marsh, Haley Quisenberry and Brady Whitaker earned the banner for winning the skills contest.  Kyle Gilliam, Quanah FFA advisor, was the coach of this team.  Beverly Marsh placed 5th in the Junior Creed Contest.  Kylie Watson competed in Job Interview for the second consecutive year.  Kyle Bates, Quanah FFA advisor, also accompanied this contingent to Huntsville.

Cody Bodine and Olivia Jalamo also ended their cross-country season at the State Meet in Round Rock.  These runners both placed in the top 25 in Class A for the 2010 season.  Jan Forrest, QHS Cross Country coach, trained and accompanied these students all season long.

The Quanah Indian football team ended their season in the Regional round of the Class A playoffs with a record of 8 wins and 5 losses.  Roderick Woodard was named the Offensive MVP of District 3.  A big thank you to Head Coach Jason Sims and his staff of assistant coaches including Matt Cunningham, Trenton Boyd, Steve Lucy, Tim Holt and Kim Smith.

It has been a great year for extra-curricular competition for the Indians.  I have great expectations for all other sports, for UIL academics and for FFA and FCCLA contests in the spring.

The Class of 2012 received their senior rings yesterday.  It is a tradition that juniors receive their rings as a reward for their efforts so far and as a reminder that much work is yet to be done.  A special thank you goes out to Brad Darland of Graduate Sales for assisting in the ceremony. 

Brandon Bush won the local “Water is Life” poster contest sponsored annually by the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education for K-12 students in our state. His poster was submitted for state-wide judging.  Tana Riley placed second and Martina Guajardo was third.  These top three students received certificates from TAGE.  All freshmen in Coach Jason Sims’ World Geography class submitted an entry and received participation certificates.  The contest is a state wide event held in conjunction with geography awareness week held by the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education. November 14th-20th was designated as National Geography Awareness Week.  Congratulations to all our students, good luck to Brandon and thank you Coach Sims!

Two individuals and one team from the Quanah FFA Chapter qualified for State competition in Huntsville on December 3rd and 4th.  Three other teams placed third to miss qualifying by one postion.  Overall, twenty Quanah students participated at the Area Contest at Tarleton State University.

Kylie Watson won Area in Job Interview and qualified for State for the second consecutive year.  Beverly Marsh was second in Junior Creed Speaking to earn her trip to Huntsville.

The Senior Farm Skills team finished second at Area.  Members include Tyson Marsh,  Jacie Randolph, Brady Whitaker and Haley Quisenberry.

Third place teams for QHS included Senior Quiz, Senior Chapter Conducting and Ag Issues.   The Public Relations team was fifth to round out results for the Quanah Chapter. Members of each team were as follows:

Senior Quiz:  Quentin Read, Gary Gorley, Nathan Morris, Jordon Morris

Senior Chapter Conductin:  Hayley Griffin, Marley Sparkman, Dakotah Simpson, Ryan Reid, Megan Loveless, Gary Gorley, Garret Betts

Ag Issues:  Marley Sparkman, Jacie Randolph, Jessie Loveless, Tyson Marsh, Cody Bodine, Mackenzie Andrews

Public Relations:  Haley Quisenberry, Megan Loveless, Cody Bodine, Bailey Hendrix

FFA Advisors Kyle Bates and Kyle Gilliam coached and accompanied the Chapter members to Stephenville.

The Quanah High School Class of 2012 will receive their class rings on Tuesday at 12 noon in the auditorium.  An organized ceremony to distribute rings has been going on for at least 30 years at QHS.  Tomorrow’s presentation is organized by Brad Darland of Graduate Sales and Balfour but all students participate no matter where they choose to purchase their ring or have not purchased one yet.  Come join us in this exciting time for our juniors as they receive their class rings.  See you at noon!

Students using the new TI-84 calculators in the science lab.

Quanah High School just received 130 new TI-84 graphing calculators to be issued to the freshmen, sophomores and juniors.  Paperwork will be distributed to students today and calculators will be issued on Monday if the calculator loan agreement is signed and returned.  The decision purchase these calculators was based mostly on student input to Mrs. Campsey, QISD counselor. Several students felt they could have done better on the TAKS test with more practice using the graphing calculator.  With that information, Mrs. Campsey was persuasive with her argument for individual calculators.  The current classroom sets will remain in Mr. Hale and Mr. Freeman’s classes and are available to seniors to check out as needed.  QHS is appreciative of the decision to make calculators available on a one-to-one basis like our MacBooks.