Spring Fling Beach Bash 2024, Friday, April 12, 6:00 - 8:00.
2024 Team Illinois Youth Police Camp! June 9-15, 2024, at Makanda, IL.
Student Council Blood Drive will be held April 15th, in the cafeteria at the Joppa - Maple Grove UD #38 school building. The time will be 1:15 PM - 6:15 PM. We hope to see you there!
Consumer Education had a guest speaker from the Army today. SFC Weaver spoke about goals and life plans. He shared his favorite places he has had the opportunity to visit and explained why he decided to go into the Army.
A lot of scholarship deadlines are this week:
Massac Academic Scholarship
Southern 17 Scholarship
Schmidt Scholarship
Gary Miller/Class of 1996 Scholarship
Save the date! SCC Parent Night at JHS will be April 22 at 5:00 at Joppa High School. Find out how your high school student may be able to earn college credit while in high school. Flyers will be sent home with students.
Craig Bradley from SCC visited Joppa to discuss the upcoming eclipse. Craig, thank you for visiting us today and demonstrating what is involved during a solar and lunar eclipse.
Reminder for 8th grade parents: Please send $32.50 payment for caps and gowns to the office by Thursday, March 28th! Checks should be written to Joppa-Maple Grove #38. Thanks!
Congratulations to Hayden Castleman! He placed second at WYSE/ACES Sectional competition at Southern Illinois University in Computer Science. He will compete at Eastern Illinois University for the state competition in April. Good luck, Hayden! We are proud of you!!
Shawnee Community College is hosting a Parent Night, Monday, April 22, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. at Joppa High School.
We are KIND at Maple Grove!
The Joppa High School chapter of Educators Rising Leadership Team competed in several events at Shawnee College today through the So. IL Future Teachers Coalition. The team placed 3rd in Marketing and Communication and received an award for Team Based Challenge.
Please mark your calendars for the Blood Drive coming soon, April 15, 2024. It will be located in the cafeteria at the Joppa-Maple Grove UD #38 building, at 911 Joppa North Ave., Joppa, IL. 62953. The time is set for 1:15 PM - 6:15PM. Hope to see you there!
We need your help! If you are a member of the Joppa-Maple Grove Community, please take the time to complete the survey about Maple Grove Jet and Joppa Rangers. (The Building Committee is looking to make a recommendation to the School Board.)
https://forms.gle/kEudZaSCcFo4sMns5
Illinois Broadband
We need your help Joppa-Maple Grove community. It is important to verify the accuracy of the state’s availability map so funds can be distributed to the underserved areas. Underserved locations are those without reliable service of at least 25 Mbps download speed and 3 Mbps upload speed.
I encourage everyone to participate in the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity broadband challenge process. You can participate in the challenge phase by completing internet speed tests at BEADchallenge.org. Speed tests completed anytime through March 18 will be accepted. Don’t forget, you need to complete the test three times from your home residence. Thank you!
ESSAY COMPETITION! Please check out this opportunity for high school students to win a cash prize for writing an essay for the Carl . Please see the flier for more information. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2024.
THANK YOU to all of the families that came to our Family Fun Literacy Night. I hope you all had as much fun as we did. Congratulations to Ralph Myers. He was the winner of the 50/50 drawing. Mr. Myers didn't even take his half of the money. He donated it back to the senior class. Thank you so much for your generosity! Thank you to Ms. Johnnie Owens for being the photographer last night. We will be having one more event toward the end of the school year to raise funds for PBIS and the new playground. Stay tuned for more information about that night.
Tonight is the Night! Family Fun Literacy Night starts at 5 pm. The Seniors will have a 50/50 raffle and the Class of 2028 (8th Grade) will be selling Sweet Treats. The Spaghetti Supper starts at 5 pm (and will only be served until 6 pm). Here is the link to the survey if you want to take it ahead of time and come straight to eat: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/login/ We will be serving Spaghetti, Garlic Bread, Caesar Salad, a cookie, tea or lemonade. We really hope to see you here tonight because our teachers and staff have some fun activities planned.
Just some clarification- Literacy Night has been renamed to Family Fun Night. We are going to have some amazing reading activities along with some other sessions that will give families some fun ideas that you can do at home too. We have added some more sessions to choose from as well. You will get a program when you arrive that detail the locations and session names. Also, here is the link to the family survey for the schools: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/login/
So far we are at 29% parent participation for Joppa Jr/Sr High School and 10% for Maple Grove Elementary. We really need to boost these percentages so our scores on the Illinois Report Card can rate us Exemplary.
Thank you and see you tomorrow evening!
Ms. Whitney is helping the students develop their strength and flexibility. She is teaching them the benefits of yoga!
