Upper Scioto Valley School District

A total of 437 items were donated and grouped into 222 total prizes. Of the students 7-12 at USV, 40% won a prize!  Out of the 117 winners, more than half won more than once, some students, in fact, won as many 4 or 5 times!

The students won prizes by earning lottery tickets. The way the tickets are earned is by making the All A (2 tickets) or A/B (1 ticket)  honor roll or having perfect attendance (1 ticket) each grading period. Additionally, students could earn any number of teacher tickets through grade or behavior improvement, helping out, or by doing good deeds. Each teacher had 2 tickets that they could submit each grading period as well.

The attached thank you list is a list of all of our donors for this year's lottery. We had far fewer local businesses who were able to donate this year, however, many local community members, parents, teachers and staff stepped up to make this year's academic lottery even better than the last two!

The two pictures show the prize tables and staff handing out the donations and the "big" winners. The winners are, front left to right, Shelby Rowe, Sydney Williams, Chris Netzer, and Ali Shobe. Not pictured are Mason Howard and Tyler Williams. The major items this year were 22 in. LED TVs, an Xbox 360, a digital camera, DVD player, and $50 iTunes card. We also had an assortment of t-shirts, mugs, lanyards, coupons, book bags, movies and gift cards donated. The gift cards ranged from $10 to $50  and were for various business in the Ada, Kenton and Lima area.

(From Left: Paul Ralston, John Ramsdell, David Schneer, Jason Ramsdell, Dan Rickard, Kathy Watkins, Susan Lasure, Jane Rigsby. Absent: Kathy Guyton, Cindy Ferkins, Tim Hamilton)

The first Monday in May has been designated by the Ohio Legislature as School Bus Driver Appreciation Day. Stan Heffner, State Superintendent of public instruction, reminds Ohioans that Monday, May 7, 2012, is School Bus Driver Appreciation Day in Ohio.

“Safely transporting students to and from school is vital to education,” said Heffner. “The professionalism of Ohio’s 15,000 school bus drivers is why the school bus remains – by far – the safest way for students to get to school.”

Ohio school bus drivers transport over 900,000 students daily, traveling 1 million miles per day to accomplish that task. At the same time, the school bus safety record is unsurpassed, greatly exceeding that of automobiles, commercial buses and even passenger trains.

To qualify to become a school bus driver in Ohio, an applicant must complete pre-service training and certified on-bus training, pass a driving evaluation and obtain a commercial driver’s license. In addition, drivers must pass pre-employment background and drug screenings. Drivers are required to be recertified every six years.

The Ohio Legislature designated the first Monday in May as School Bus Driver Appreciation Day to “increase public recognition of the important function that school bus drivers serve in safely transporting children to and from school.”

Upper Scioto Valley School is looking for persons interested in being trained to drive a school bus in our district. Training can be completed over the summer so that new drivers will be qualified to start at the beginning of the 2012 – 2013 school year. If you think that you or someone you know may be interested please contact Susan Lasure, Transportation cilitator at 419-757-3231, extension #7, to set up an appointment to discuss your future with Upper Scioto Valley Transportation.

The 2012 Volleyball Camp will be held Tuesday, May 29th through Thursday May 31st from 9AM until 12:00 noon.  The camp will be in the middle school gym.  The cost of the camp is $20.00 which includes a T-shirt and a volleyball.  Please complete the form and return to Coach Rose by Monday May 21st.  Checks may be made out to "USV Athletic Boosters".

Form

The 2012 Lady Rams basketball camp is designed to help improve each players fundamentals of basketball. There will be a great deal of emphasis placed on the individual skill of defending , dribbling, passing and shooting. The camp will also deal with the team concepts of offenses and defenses.
The cost of the camp is $30.00. Additional members of the same family attending will be charged half price.
The camp is for girls who will be in the 4th- 8th grade in the Fall of 2012. The camp will run Monday June 4th to Wed. June 6th.
Each session will run from 9:00am- 12:00 (noon)

Please complete form & return to Coach Risner ASAP.