A 2023 Snowball Royalty picture will be taken during seminar on Wednesday, January 18th! Candidates are asked to dress nicely!
The Ellis High School Forensics team is happy to announce its invitational forensics tournament to be held on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
Our tournament will consist of two preliminary rounds and one finals round.
The categories of competition will be Extemporaneous, Informative, Oration, Prose, Poetry, Humorous Solo, Serious Solo, Improvised Duet Acting, Duet Acting, Impromptu, and Program of Oral Interpretation (POI).
We are looking for community members to help judge!
Round 1 will begin at 8:30 A.M. Finals will begin ASAP after Round two.
Rounds will be 1 hr 20 min unless 1 hr 30 min rounds are needed.
Round 1: 8:30 - 9:50 am Round 2: 10:00 - 11:20 am
Even if you’ve never judged forensics before, we want you! I have a “Forensics 101” PowerPoint that explains the different events and example ballots.
Contact Savannah Downing - sdowning@usd388.com if you're interested in judging!
The HS girls basketball team travels to Trego today for the quarterfinal round of the MCL tournament at 6pm!
EJH Cheer and Wrestling Sport Pictures will be taken on Wednesday, January 18th after school in the WGS gym. Go to https://www.LeannsPhotos.com to submit your order! Orders are due by Saturday, January 21st.
This weekend the Ellis Kids Wrestling Club hosted their annual Open and Novice Tournament’s! Several familiar current and EHS alumni faces were seen refereeing on Saturday. From left to right. Gage Younger, Jarrett Mader, Kaydawn Haag, Zeke Haag, Easton Burton, and George Crawford. The Ellis High School Wrestling Team officiated and helped run score tables during Sundays Novice Tournament. Thank you all for the support and helping everything run so smooth! Railer PRIDE!
Students enjoyed ice cream today for making the honor roll or improving their GPA. Way to go Railers!
Read the EJH/EHS Weekly Announcements for the week of January 15th.
https://www.smore.com/eh08k-ejh-ehs-weekly-announcements-1-15
Congratulations to the High School Scholar's Bowl team! They placed 3rd in their home meet! The Scholar's Bowl team would also like to thank everyone who helped the meet run so smoothly.
The HS basketball teams travel to Hays today to take on TMP. Check out the infographics for gym locations and start times.
Congratulations to the 7th grade scholars bowl team placing 3rd at the Hays Middle School Meet. They went 5-2 today. 8th grade went 3-4. Great start to the season!
Congratulations to Jarret Mader for earning his 100th win with a pin today at the Hoisington tournament!
Please consider donating blood to the American Red Cross at the Knights of Columbus today. Available appointments are still available at
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5:30. Please go online at Americanredcross.org to secure your preferred time. You are also welcome to stop in and schedule in person. Thank you Ellis for saving lives!
TMP students are hosting a Food Drive Raffle for Friday's Basketball games.
Thursday's EHS Wrestling Tournament at Hoisington can be streamed on the USD 431 YouTube channel... https://www.youtube.com/c/VPUSD431
The 2023 MCL Basketball brackets can be viewed at the following link... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12ywoYPeE---jL8SxhGKNiYbNmHCErVlBlCJeJL86G2M/edit?usp=drive_web
There is an Ellis Junior High Wrestling Parent meeting tonight (Wednesday, January 11th) at 5:30 p.m. in the WGS gym. Hope to see all the parents tonight!
The January 9th USD388 BOE meeting is now available on the the USD388 Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/USD388
The meeting agenda can be viewed at https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd388/Board.nsf/Public
Ellis High School 1st semester honor roll! Way to go, Railers!
https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2518/EHS/2674719/2022-23_S1_Ellis_High_School_HONOR_ROLL.pdf
Ellis Junior High School 1st semester honor roll! Way to go, Railers!
https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2518/EHS/2674720/2022-23_S1_Ellis_Junior_High_School_HONOR_ROLL.pdf
EHS Carpentry is class enjoying the nice weather and making good progress on the class project today!