Upcoming Important Dates until the end of the school year.
Congratulations to Lin for winning 3rd place today at chalkalpse chalk art contest at SIU.
FFA Pizza Villa Night Monday!
AJ Youth Football League Spring Flag Football 2026
No High School Softball game today, it will be rescheduled. Practice after school.
Educators Rising Club had a successful trip to the state conference at Illinois State University in Bloomington today!
1st Place JV Children’s Literature: Natalia Godinez. She wrote a children’s book in Spanish!
2nd Place JV Children’s Literature: Belle Kruse & Autumn Mosley
2nd Place Educators Rising Moment Speech: Ada Morber
Honorable mentions: Zonia Zamora and Elisa Vicente wrote a children’s book in Spanish at the Varsity level and Amelia Long and Asher Miller competed in Job Interview. Way to go, future teachers!
1st Place JV Children’s Literature: Natalia Godinez. She wrote a children’s book in Spanish!
2nd Place JV Children’s Literature: Belle Kruse & Autumn Mosley
2nd Place Educators Rising Moment Speech: Ada Morber
Honorable mentions: Zonia Zamora and Elisa Vicente wrote a children’s book in Spanish at the Varsity level and Amelia Long and Asher Miller competed in Job Interview. Way to go, future teachers!
Jr. High Spring Fling Dance
The Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the CHS Beta Club and Cobden Fire Department scheduled for tomorrow at 2:00 pm will be rescheduled to a later date due to weather. Mrs. Reiman is working with the Village Hall and Cobden Lions Club to secure another date and will send out communication when she has that confirmed.
School Nurse Vacancy
Jr. High students enjoyed popsicles at the park to celebrate completing state testing this week 🌞
Prom Theme Announcement!!! Created with help from AV Club. https://youtu.be/qfxjBEHQxw8
REMIDER:
Early Dismissal Thursday, March 26 at 2:08pm for Parent/Teacher Conferences from 3:30pm-7:00pm.
Early Dismissal Friday, March 27 at 11:30am for Parent/Teacher Conferences from 12:30-2:00pm.
Parent/Teacher Conferences are by walk-in, no appointment for Jr. High and High School.
Spring Break March 30-April 6, return to school Tuesday, April 7th.
Early Dismissal Thursday, March 26 at 2:08pm for Parent/Teacher Conferences from 3:30pm-7:00pm.
Early Dismissal Friday, March 27 at 11:30am for Parent/Teacher Conferences from 12:30-2:00pm.
Parent/Teacher Conferences are by walk-in, no appointment for Jr. High and High School.
Spring Break March 30-April 6, return to school Tuesday, April 7th.
Jr. High Students will be doing IAR testing tomorrow through Thursday. Please make sure all chromebooks are charged ready to use.
Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Nash-Mayberry, and Ms. Osmond (student teacher) are excited and proud to announce this year's SIUC Regional history fair winners, who will now be advancing to State at Springfield. Cobden Junior High swept all 3 places- Group Exhibit Boards- 1st place Caroline Taylor, Clara Long, & Annaleigh Kaszubski(Carter's Cafe), 2nd place Addie Lawrence & Layla Leek (Women WWII), 3rd place Oliver Shalosky & Liam Uteg (Emmett Till). Cobden Senior High Group Exhibit Boards- 2nd place Yasmin Flores, Brisa Calderon, & Isabella Bartolo (Hispanic Immigrants), 3rd place Zonia Zamora & Mariana Palmerin (Hispanic Education Pathways- Su Casa & Amigos).
Sixth grade attended Maple Syrup Demo Days at SIU’s Touch of Nature on Thursday as part of a cross-curricular lesson in Science and Social Studies. Students learned about the origins of maple syrup production and participated in the process from start to finish.
Educators Rising Club has been busy! Last Friday, our future teachers spent the day job shadowing teachers in PreK-8th grade. Students gained valuable hands-on experiences and learned what it is like as a teacher behind the scenes. Yesterday, Educators Rising Club hosted a reading event with Appleknocker Club. The Southern IL Future Teacher Coalition provided a Dog Man book, snack, and a superhero themed art activity for each student. I'm not sure who had more fun, the high school students or the elementary students!
Senior Beta Club and the Cobden Fire Department are hosting an Easter Egg Hunt at Cobden New Park on Saturday, April 4th, at 2:00 pm. The Easter Bunny will make an appearance, and children ages 10 and under are invited to come hunt for candy-filled eggs. We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to the following 8th grade students for placing at the local history fair this week: Olive Kaeding and Bekah Oliphant on Women's Rights; Jimmy Bergseth and Joseph Venturelli on the 1908 Springfield Race Riots; and Daniel Amezquita, Osvaldo Zamora, and Sebastian Gonzalez on the Pullman Strike.
Last weekend, Madge Stevens and Zaira Uribe participated in the IHSA Solo and Ensemble where they each received a Division I rating. Congratulations ladies! #AppleknockerPride 🍎 🎼 🎶 🍎
The Eighth Grade class went to SCC to participate in the "Welcome to the Real World" program hosted by 4H. The Cobden Teen Leaders were the facilitators. This was a culminating experience in which the students chose a career path and made a series of related "real world" decisions. Students could then see how these decisions affected their bank account based on their chosen career salary.
