Dear 2025–2026 Junior Class Families,
Can you believe the end of the year is already here? It snuck up on me before I had a chance to get this information out—but here we are, ready to kick off another exciting junior year!
As your Junior Class Advisor (year 19—let’s do this!), I’m thrilled to be working with this awesome group of students. We’ve got a large class, big energy, and a lot of TROJAN PRIDE—and I can’t wait to see what we accomplish together.
Let’s Get Connected!
To make sure no one misses important updates, I’m building a parent contact list. Please email me at colleen.mette@k12.sd.us with:
Your preferred email address for any parents/guardians involved - please also list who your student is in the email.
Your best phone number
While I can reach the students through their school email, I know firsthand that high schoolers don’t always share everything—so I’ll do my best to keep families in the loop while still putting responsibility on our juniors.
Please share this message with other junior class parents to help us get everyone on the same page from the start!
🎨 First Up: Painting the P’s!
Our first big fundraiser is the traditional Painting of the P’s around town. It’s a great way to kick off the year with some Trojan spirit and raise funds.
✅ All juniors are required to participate, we will split into four groups on one day, 2 in morning and 2 in afternoon to paint over 100 P's
🚗 Parent volunteers needed to help drive and supervise
More info will be emailed soon once I gather the contact list—so don’t forget to reach out!
We want all the P's done before school starts, and definately before homecoming! Paint the town blue and orange!
🍂 Save the Date: Fall Festival
We’ll be hosting the Fall Festival on the Friday of our football bye week. This is our largest fundraiser and includes a silent auction, food, and fun. We’ll need:
Student help with setup and planning - every junior is required to attend and host a booth, parents/ guardians are welcome to join in the fun!
Donations for our silent auction baskets - I will email out more info, every student will donate at least one basket!
The students really look forward to this night—let’s make it amazing!
🤝 PTO & After-Prom Planning
We’ll also be meeting with the PTO early in the year to go over After-Prom event planning and important scheduling details. This is another great opportunity to get involved and make a positive impact. After prom has always been a junior parent event, and we will continue this amazing tradition!
We will also be doing clothing sales the beginning of the year, and posibly one more depending how things go, we strive to complete all fundraising by end of october!
Let’s make it a memorable year for the Parkston Trojan junior Class —full of teamwork, pride, and success. I’m looking forward to working with all of you to support our students in a fun and meaningful way!
GO TROJANS!
With Trojan pride,
Mrs. Mette
Junior Class Advisor
colleen.mette@k12.sd.us
Great first day of State Track!
*Congrats to the Girls Medley - 6th place and new school record!
Lauren Ziebart, Berkley Ziebart, Marissa Storm, Ella Pollreisz
Time - 4:15.83
*Congrats to the Girls 4x800 - 7th place and new school record!
Marissa Storm, Sadie Mueller, Morgan Maxwell, Ella Pollreisz
Time - 9:56.07
*Congrats to Keeara Oakley - 8th place in javelin and a new school record! 108'10"
Good Luck to all of our athletes competing at the State Track Meet today in Sioux Falls!!
Ethan-Parkston Softball vs Tri-Valley SoDak 16
Game Time 5:30 pm
https://bigsiouxmedia.com/webcasts/
The softball game vs. Wagner has been canceled.
-Congrats to the Girls 4x200 Relay for setting a New School Record yesterday in Platte!
-Team Members - Rory Juhnke, Marissa Storm, Berkley Ziebart, Lauren Ziebart
-Time - 1:48.49
The State Track Meet is next week! May 29, 30, 31 in Sioux Falls.
Best of luck to these two Ethan-Parkston Softball seniors as they get set to finish out their softball careers! Thank you for the time, dedication, leadership and love that you have given to this sport and your fellow teammates!
Parkston HOSA is headed to Nashville, TN, in June to compete at the 2025 International Leadership Conference! Seven of our very own members have chosen to take their skills to the next level because of their placement at the State Conference this past April. These girls have proven to be some of the best in their events and are going to try to rise even higher against their peers around the world. But they need your help! It is a BIG DEAL for our students to qualify for an event like this and it comes with expenses. If you would be willing to help by sponsoring a donation, that would be amazing!
Some of the girls will be Ampi-Thursday tonight in the Park if you would like to stop and say hello and wish them well! They have a board that has 100 envelopes on it. Each envelope is numbered 1-100; each envelope is worth its number (i.e. #1 = $1, #10 = $10) and represents your donation. All donations will go towards trip expenses. If you can't make it to the Park tonight, we will be there next week too! Or please contact one of the girls below to donate!! Thank you so much for your support! It is very much appreciated!
ILC Attendees are:
Taryn Bialas - Senior - Respiratory Therapy
Mya Wickersham - Senior - Nursing Assisting
Chantal Wuertzer - Senior - Pharmacy Science
Finley Bogenreif - Junior - Research Poster
Rory Juhnke - Junior - Dental Science
Lexi Schoenfelder - Junior - Research Poster
Mackenzie Titze - Senior - Medical Assisting
Carmen Bartells - Advisor
We have a surplus of Yearbooks. Please contact Heather Andera (heather.andera@k12.sd.us) or the school office if you would like to purchase one.
Congrats to Katherine and Finley on a fun season of golf!! They battled the elements today and gave it their all in Regions!! TROJANPRIDE
One day only BOOK FAIR tomorrow from 8-4! Buy one get one free! Get books for students for the summer or donate to your classroom to say thanks to a teacher!
enter in the elementary school entrance!
Spring Sport Update:
Softball @ Avon postponed to Saturday at 1:00.
Regional Baseball postponed to tomorrow.
Region Golf- in action at Lakeview in Mitchell
The softball game at Scotland/Menno has been canceled. The game will not be made up.
Hey Parkston Parents and Summer Cleaners!
First off ... Summer art camp is almost full! So if you are still filling out that paper please get it in ASAP before I have to cut off for the year!
As kids clean out lockers and you tackle the house, don’t throw away that treasure—donate it to the Parkston Art Department!
We’re happily accepting gently used or leftover school supplies, including:
Markers
Crayons
Glue sticks & Elmer’s glue
Scissors
Rulers
Erasers
Pencils
Incomplete decks of cards
Just about ANY school supply!
PLUS—we’re all about the crafty extras!
As you clean this summer, please consider donating:
Craft & scrapbooking supplies
Yarn, ribbon, washi tape
Sticker books & adult coloring books
Magazines (for collage fun!)
Paintbrushes, all sizes
Hot glue sticks & glue guns
Rolling pins, forks, spoons (perfect for clay and texture tools!)
AND—we're still collecting:
Plastic caps (any size or color—milk jugs, soda bottles, etc.) please clean
Cereal boxes (please flatten them)—we use the cardboard for tons of creative projects! We have new hands on tools coming for STEAM activities!
New this year: If your child doesn't need to haul all those supplies home, a donation box will be set outside the art room during locker clean-out days! Let them know they can lighten their load and support student creativity at the same time.
Your donations help inspire over 400 student artists each week and truly make a difference. Thank you for supporting the arts in Parkston!
Drop off anytime this summer—we’re always creating!
thank you for helping grow these programs!
mrs. mette k-12 art advocate
CAN DRIVE - Starts TOMORROW! Reminder FCCLA is sponsoring a can collection May 17-23rd. A trailer will be parked at Parkston Food Center. Proceeds will help fund national competition in Orlando, FL for FCCLA members this July!
Due to the wind, rain, and sloppy field conditions, the softball game scheduled today vs. MCM has been canceled.
We'll be back in action again on Monday in Menno.
Due to some missed errors in names I am reposting this.
Again congratulations to the class of 2025! We are all so proud of you!
Due to the wind and rain, the track meet scheduled today in Parkston has been canceled.
Congratulations to the Class of 2025
Congratulations to the Track & Field teams!
Both Boys and Girls are BACK-TO-BACK CONFERENCE CHAMPS!!!
