West Holt Public Schools

This Patriot’s Day, students at West Holt Public Schools took time to honor and express heartfelt gratitude to the dedicated public servants—past and present—who protect and serve our community.

Many of these individuals are deeply rooted in our students’ lives as parents, grandparents, relatives, neighbors, and friends. Among those in attendance from our local volunteer Fire and Rescue Department were Boyd Mitchell, Travis Schmitz, Tori Peterson, Michael Sholes, Tasha Gentele, Jon Wolf, and Matt Ketteler.

We’re also proud of our current students—AJ Pospichal, Jamison Slaymaker, Lane Keogh, Austin Keogh (not pictured), and Alex Gotschall—who are already stepping up to serve through the Junior Cadet program.

Community service runs strong at West Holt. Volunteers include girls basketball coach Randy Bilstein, superintendent Paul Pistulka, and school board members Scott Gotschall and Kelly Jelinek (not pictured).

Their commitment and example remind us all of the importance of service, sacrifice, and community.

A message from Coach Moser

West Holt students received their Nebraska Seal of Biliteracy certificates and are six of 118 students to receive this award across the entire state of Nebraska. The official news release and names of recipients can be found at the link below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJC9A3XMsFrzhnv0BpXAfnxczYOlCfjPY3FhGopgYH0/edit?tab=t.0

Boone Central Golf Tournament info.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gJiL6hLttzg6_ev133sw1nS2yEiwL65x2Ku_vPOgnsg/edit?usp=sharing

The kindergartners are using dice to show numeration in mathematics. Dice are a wonderful mathematical tool to use in the early learning stages, especially for teaching early number concepts and place value. Dice are a hands-on, interactive tool that makes learning numbers engaging and fun. Here you see the kindergartners in Mrs. Roemer's room using dice to play a "Gotcha"numeration game. Within this activities, students used multiple basic numeration skills, including counting, subsidizing, and the comparing of numbers one through six.

FFA Mums are ready for pickup or purchase in the Ag Building. Stop in or go to westholtffa.org to purchase. Thanks for supporting West Holt FFA!

Here is some information for the Volleyball Quad at West Holt on Saturday. Please read.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eBvOeYWPn9CEII-dx6atq_coxdSxQEtrPPD5ZY2NOUk/edit?usp=sharing

JV information for the VB Quad on Saturday at West Holt.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h8ld-o4TuZ0Rn5bFEA_-MJFckZyd0d2Geh0zb9YhlXw/edit?usp=sharing

Information for the JH triangular at Hartington.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KfP5oyZEaPLUpgPu1XwRSzRVCXhd11OjXahhJCTweRg/edit?usp=sharing

TIME CHANGE!!! next Tuesday VB at Ainsworth will begin with the JV starting at 5:30.

Golf information for the Battle Creek Invite
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FmZg5CbwOJJ7RrW0omRuJIx9gTTYyzmAYXiaYcNk0N4/edit?usp=sharing

JH/JV football information at Ainsworth
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kLW9Ng3Us8_m9Vne2Iw22akHoCA5gurX46bYHaWx6z0/edit?usp=sharing

2025 Homecoming Dress Up Days!

Happy International Literacy Day! Ms. Maddox's 2nd grade and Mrs. Pistulka's 1st grade had a blast joining together for buddy reading! The students loved diving into books and reading to each other!

Look very closely - one of these things is not like the other!!
BLACK OUT practice was a hit in the JHVB gym on Friday, September 5th. Players wore face paint and all!! Love this group!

Golf Quad at Ainsworth information.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1o6_4gtYmJJV9HREpfu2aI45rnO3KPR6X7oy6IqqYw/edit?usp=sharing

Information for football at Ainsworth.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jw10yo8vEw5Nqh51maAn4XrFfdWv04SXZU9mvhn5VMw/edit?usp=sharing

The West Holt Bands have been hard at work pulling together some songs for the Homecoming football game. This week, the JH Band played the Star Spangled Banner from beginning to end for the first time! They have come such a long way in a short time and I couldn't be more proud! The HS Band members are working on learning pep band music. We even have a high school student who switched from trumpet to clarinet to help build the woodwind section! They all are showing commitment and a fantastic work ethic to help rebuild the band.
The West Holt Choirs are preparing for upcoming concerts and auditions for Honor Choirs and All State Choir. We're finalizing a date & time for those concerts and will publish that information as soon as we have it. The choirs have been learning a wide variety of music and are excited to show them off in a few weeks.

I am a very fortunate music teacher here with the students of West Holt! -Mrs. Barnes

From heifers to barrows to wethers, our students are learning livestock terminology in Animal Science!