WARSAW – The 10th Annual Lakeview Relays took place on Friday night at Lakeview Middle School and despite the cold weather, young athletes from four local middle schools created more than enough heat on the track. Though the meet included four teams, it was clear that the trophy … Read More
The music department of the Wawasee Community School Corp. will be conducting an informational meeting for students and parents of students attending sixth grade next year at Wawasee or Milford middle schools. Students interested in beginning musical instrument study on a band or orchestra instrument can get information … Read More
Thousands of students from both Warsaw Community School Corporation and Wawasee Community Schools filed into the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center at Grace College yesterday at noon to hear Holocaust survivor Eva Kor recount her dramatic and stirring story of surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp. The event was televised by … Read More
There is a noticeable increase in the emphasis being placed on hands-on, engaging learning in school classrooms. While traditional classroom lecturing still has value, it is less likely to engage students in the learning process. Within the Wawasee Community School Corp., one way hands-on learning has been implemented … Read More
The school board for the Wawasee Community School Corp. earned an outstanding award as part of the certification awards program of the Indiana School Boards Association. If a majority of a board attains a minimum of level one recognition, which is obtained by accumulating points for various ISBA … Read More
The Lake Area Community Band is looking for new members to start its 26th season. The band performs each summer throughout Elkhart and Kosciusko counties. Rehearsals are held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Mondays at Wawasee Middle School in Syracuse, beginning March 3. For more information, … Read More
Just before Christmas break, the Indiana Department of Education released letter grades for public schools. Wawasee Middle School was given an F grade and that meant the school was placed in priority status and had to submit a student achievement plan to IDOE by Feb. 1. During Tuesday … Read More
Wawasee Middle School’s wrestling team took second place at the Lakeview Wrestling Invitational Saturday. Wawasee wrestled against New Haven, Edgewood and Schmucker, winning all three meets. Concord defeated Wawasee to win the invitational. The Warriors had two forfeits and that proved to be the deciding score.
Read MoreKnights of Columbus in Syracuse is hosting an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast as a fundraiser for Wawasee Middle School. The breakfast will be held from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 414 S. Sycamore St., Syracuse. All you can eat pancakes, … Read More
Addison Torres, an eighth-grader at Wawasee Middle School, won the school’s spelling bee Monday morning. He correctly spelled the word “popularity” to win the spelling bee. The runner-up was eighth-grader Ethan Ousley. The county spelling bee will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Lakeview Middle School in Warsaw.
Read MoreDuring the first regular monthly meeting of 2014, the Wawasee school board approved moving forward with a bond project for construction work at Wawasee High School. A 1028 hearing, required by state law since the project will cost more than $1 million, was held in conjunction with the … Read More
The Syracuse/Wawasee Community Fund, a component fund of the Kosciusko County Community Foundation, recently announced three grants impacting the Syracuse area. Baker Youth Club received $1,000 in support of their after-school mentoring and homework help program for Syracuse Elementary School students. Boomerang Backpacks received $1,000 in support of … Read More
On the last day of school before Christmas break, after several months of delays, letter grades for schools were publicly released by the Indiana Department of Education. It left school administrators not exactly in a “holly jolly” mood. “Only the Grinch would release school grades on the last … Read More
A robotics team from Wawasee Middle School took second place at a state competition of the First Lego League at IPFW in Fort Wayne Saturday. The Wawasee “Fire Beetles” team made up of Braxton Studebaker, Jack Collins, Ryan Zorn and Clay Kelsheimer were given a trophy because of … Read More
Among the agenda items considered by the hearing officer for the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals Monday in Warsaw was a petition by the Wawasee Community School Corp. The school corporation wants to update signs at Wawasee Middle School on SR 13 at the intersection with CR … Read More
Milford Town Council president Doug Ruch read a letter addressed to the council from the Wawasee School Corporation thanking Milford for participating in the pilot program during its regular meeting, Dec. 9. In the letter, WSC addressed methods they were taking to improve school safety from door security … Read More
