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Giant Summer Academy registration (K-8) now open

Posted: Apr 18, 2018 by Patricia Gibson, Communications Director

Do YOU have a plan for your students for the summer?

Did you know that students currently in grades kindergarten through eight can sign up NOW to attend the Giant Summer Academy?

The schedule:

The Giant Summer Academy is a free four-week program that includes breakfast and lunch, academic lessons, enrichment sessions, outdoor activities, and field trips. This year's theme is "Traveling the World".

Classes will run Monday through Thursday, June 4 through June 28. Breakfast is served at 7:30 a.m.; classes will run from 8 a.m. to 1:30, with lunch served midday.

Week 1 (June 4-7): Technology
Week 2 (June 11-14): Exploring science (field trip week)
Week 3 (June 18-21): Exploring the arts
Week 4 (June 25-28): My Passport project completion (field trip week)

Academic sessions will be tailored to each student's academic needs. (These will not necessarily be grade-level groups. Rather, each student will be guided and challenged to grow from whatever their starting point is, and will have the chance to interact with others who are at a similar level.) Enrichment sessions will be part of every day, but this year they will be staggered throughout the day, like specials (music, art, etc.) are during the regular school year.

Location

Incoming 1st through 4th grade students will be at Frances Slocum Elementary
Incoming 5th- and 6th-graders will be at Justice Intermediate School
Incoming 7th- and 8th-graders will be at McCulloch Junior High School.

Transportation

Bus pickup and dropoff will be provided to all Giant Summer Academy students.

How to sign up

1. Fill out a registration form and permission slip:

>> Click here to download the registration form and field trip permission slip

>> Para el formulario de inscripción en español, haga clic aquí

2. Return your completed registration and permission slip to your student's school by May 4!

>> NOTE: For information on summer classes for grades 9 through 12, click here.

MHS Black History Club presents: ‘And in This Corner: Cassius Clay’

Posted: Feb 09, 2018 by Patricia Gibson, Communications Director

WHAT: “And in This Corner: Cassius Clay”, this year’s MHS Black History Club play

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018

WHERE: Walton Performing Arts Center, Marion High School, 750 W. 26th St.

COST: $7

MARION — You know the story of Muhammad Ali, but do you know the story that came before? Later this month, you’ll have the chance to explore the famous icon’s early years, in the Marion High School Black History Club’s presentation of “And in This Corner: Cassius Clay”.

The play is set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Walton Center at Marion High School.

“And in This Corner” was written by Idris Goodwin, a contemporary playwright who has won many awards and accolades for his work. This vibrant historical drama focuses on the iconic boxer’s early life in Jim Crow-era Louisville, Ky. In it, Cassius Clay Jr. takes his first step into the ring and starts becoming the man would know as Muhammad Ali. It’s a classic story of an unlikely hero, but it also explores how remarkable communities help to create heroes.

The main actors in the play include brothers Jalen and Jordan Hill, a freshman and a senior, respectively, who play Cassius Clay in different stages of his life. Other cast members include Taliea Wells, senior, who is playing Clay’s mother, Odessa; Brett Cope, senior, playing Joe Martin, Clay’s trainer; James Bell, a junior, playing Eddie Green, Cassius’ best friend; Manual Davis, senior, playing Corky Baker, a neighborhood bully; along with seniors Kaleb Evans, Jacob Speikes, Jalon Spurgon, Joseph O’Donnell, Maria Porter, and Toosie Jackson, along with sophomore Darzuan Weaver.

>> Click here to see some of the cast members discuss the play on The Giant Showcase

In addition, several members of the Marching Giants will be performing in a parade for the play.

The cast also includes a wide range of ages, from a second-grader to adults in the community, among 25 extras adding life to the play.

The MHS Black History Club has put on a play every year since 1980. The play is the largest fundraiser of the year for the club, and proceeds help fund their annual spring college tour to historically black colleges and universities. This year’s trip is to the Atlanta area.

Tickets can be purchased from any Black History Club member or from Bobbie Owensby, MHS teacher and sponsor of the club, as well as director of the play. They will also be available at the door the night of the play.

Anyone who wants to donate to the spring college trip or help in any other way can contact Mrs. Owensby as well, by calling her at the high school, 664-9051, ext. 3234.

>> Click here to RSVP on our Facebook event page and get reminders about the play

MCS singers featured at Circle the State with Song festival

Posted: Feb 05, 2018 by Patricia Gibson, Communications Director

This Saturday, hundreds of students from our region — including dozens of Marion Community Schools students — will gather as part of the Indiana Music Education Association’s 29th annual Circle the State with Song festival.

About 420 talented young singers from elementaries, middle schools, and junior high schools in Adams, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells, and Whitely counties will spend the day working with guest clinicians — a chance to build their skill as singers — and then will put on a special performance together. This concert will start at 3:30 p.m. at the Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; it is open to the public, and tickets are $3 (free for ages 5 and younger). Tickets are available at the door, or online (click here).

The festival — which is held at several different sites around the state (this year from Feb. 10 through March 10) — exposes young singers to new music and gives them the chance to have a choral experience quite different from the regular school class or performance. Altogether, about 5,000 students around the state participate in this annual festival series.

After weeks of practice on their own and at their schools, students will spend most of Saturday rehearsing the concert selections with a guest clinician at the Honeywell Center. At our region’s festival, the elementary clinician is Julie Gray from Indiana Creek Elementary School in Indianapolis, and the middle school clinician will be Dan Andersen from Center Grove Middle School Central.

The Circle the State with Song began in 1989 as a choral festival for elementary students. In 1991 it expanded to middle school and junior high students. Not only does it provide students the chance to sing challenging choral pieces with peers from around the area, it also provides music teachers an opportunity to observe and learn from the clinicians, and to network with colleagues from around the area.

IMEA’s mission is to support and advance music education in Indiana by representing the united interest of music educators and students and by providing professional leadership and service in music education to enhance the arts in the schools.

Marion Community Schools students participating this year are:

McCulloch Junior High School

Kaylin Burke
Cassie Evans
Emily Fisher
Kaytlyn Richard
Jaden Sebastian
Shaylee Vermilion
Danika Ayers
Mia de las Alas
Chloe Hawkins
Faith Riggs
Dajaia Weaver
Marcus Bounds
Joseph Cheung
Austen Mills
Kaden Rinker
Eli Robinson
Christian Vermilion

Justice Intermediate School

Jaylin Drake
Michelle Elizabeth
Alecia Jones
Emily Luckey
Lillyan Parish
Emalee Rowland
Ashiyah Teague
Nathaniel Beck
Grace Chandler
Abigail Crouch
Caleb Huff
Noah Rhoadarmer
Aidan Ruley

Kendall Elementary School

Shaun Caldwell
Grace Carpenter
Emma Fail
Samarra Jordan
Sara Lootens
Jacqueline Ortega
Zoey Wayman

Frances Slocum Elementary School

Cambria Hamner
Trinety Hoff
Kenzie Larson
Mya Mezick
Jacob Sheetz

Allen Elementary School

Jacqueline Gallegos
Haylee Isenhower
Alicia Jimenez
Journey Koegel
David Mitchell
Hailey Ramos
Raven Sollars

Riverview Elementary School

Promise Andrews
Avanly Bokinsky
Micah Bryant
Kady Graves
Jalissa Hogue
Anjel Melgar Rocha
Elizabeth Parish
James Seybold

YOU’RE INVITED: MCS art, music faculty plan special show (1/21)

Posted: Jan 09, 2018 by Patricia Gibson, Communications Director

Originally posted Dec. 8, 2017

Marion Community Schools invites you to an afternoon of music and art featuring our outstanding fine arts faculty.

Arts in Action, a concert and art show, is set for 3 p.m. Jan. 21, 2018, at the Walton Performing Arts Center at Marion High School. Admission is free, and this event is open to the public.

All eight MCS music teachers will be performing solos, and then will join for a combined piece at the end of the concert. MCS art teachers will have their own personal work out on display as people are going in to be seated for the concert.

We hope to see you there!

>> Click here to view / download the full-size poster

Wrestling practice starts soon; return permission slips by 12/13!

Posted: Dec 11, 2017 by Patricia Gibson, Communications Director

Justice Intermediate students can be part of the Giants wrestling club at McCulloch Junior High School. Wrestling practice begins Jan. 3. If you are interested, please return your permission slip by Wednesday, Dec. 13, to the Justice office! (Permission slips will be available in the cafeteria, students.)

The team is open to boys and girls in fifth and sixth grades. Students will need an athletic physical on file before they can participate in practice.

Students will ride a bus to McCulloch after school for practice, Monday through Friday on most weeks. Students must be picked up at McCulloch at the end of practice, no later than 5:30 p.m.

If you need more information, please pick up one of the forms in the cafeteria. There is contact information for Coach Beck there.

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