Junior High Baseball/Softball updates:
Junior High Baseball tonight (9/1) will be played in Williamsfield.
Junior High Baseball will play at Farmington starting at 12:00 on Saturday, September4.
Junior High Softball with Brimfield on Saturday, September 4 has been cancelled.
HS Yearbook Information (see image).
Varsity Football - The varsity football game scheduled for Friday, Sept 3 at West Hancock will now be played on Thursday, Sept 2. Game time is 7:00 and will be played in Hamilton.
Junior High Baseball - The game on Wednesday, September 1 will be played in Williamsfield.
Information concerning the District's Rapid COVID Testing Program and Consent Form will be sent home with students on Monday. Please read the information and return the voluntary Consent Forms to the GS and HS offices by Friday. Consent forms can also be downloaded via the school website under Documents then click on the file: COVID Documents.
Tonight's A&W Titans Football Game can be viewed online: https://www.geese230.com/Page/173
Home AHS volleyball games can be viewed online by clicking on the Livestream Icon on our Annawan School District website.
Good luck to all of our Titans, Bravettes, and Braves this year!
High School Volleyball - The HS VB game on Thursday (8/26) at Bureau Valley will now have a JV start at 6:00 with varsity to follow.
Junior High Baseball - The make up date for the United game is Wednesday, September 8. This date will be a DH starting at 4:00.
Thank you for a great start to the 2021-2022 school year! We wanted to remind everyone that we will begin our regular dismissal time next Monday, August 30th. Annawan Junior High and High School will dismiss at 2:59pm and the grade school will dismiss at 3:04pm. Also, picture day will be this Thursday, August 26th for the high school and K-8 picture day will be September 15th. Thank you!
Junior High Baseball - Today's game (8/23) at United has been postponed due to wet weather. Make-up TBD.
The Annawan Staff & Students are "BRAVE" Strong for Mrs. Savage!
The Annawan FCA is selling Annawan Masks again.
If interested, print out / return the form below with your payment by Tuesday, August 24th.
Masks are $5 each.
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https://5il.co/xjx0
Annawan CUSD #226 Presents Service Awards
Annawan Unit 226 presented service awards at their opening day institute on Monday, August 16th. Service awards recipients were from left sitting: 30-year honorees– Chris DeMay – Janitor and Brenda Smith – Elementary Teacher. Standing from left – 5 year honorees – Amber Jannie – Cafeteria Staff and Hope DeRycke- Special Education Teacher; 15 year honorees – Duane Richter – Bus Driver, Creston Fenn – HS Social Studies Teacher and Andrea Hakes – Elementary Teacher; 20 year honoree – Tammy Celus – HS Guidance Counselor and 25 year honoree – Ann Chapman – Learning Disabilities Aide. Missing from the photo were Joe Boelens – 15 years bus driver and Jerry Baele – 5 years bus driver.
Annawan CUSD #226 Welcomes New Staff Members
New staff members were introduced at the opening institute day on Monday, August 16th. New staff members from left are: Brad Hulick – Assistant PreK-12 Principal, Dawn Heitzler – PreK-12 Principal, Joe Hasbrook – Bus Driver, Ryan Hartsock – GS Physical Education Teacher, Jessica Storm – HS Science Teacher, Melody Ellis – Cafeteria Worker, and Hope DeRycke – Special Education Teacher
New HS Student Orientation (2021-22)
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Freshmen and new high school students are welcome to come in on Monday, August 16th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. to open lockers and walk through their schedules. Senior helpers and staff members will be available to answer any questions that aren't answered by this orientation video.
We are looking forward to welcoming all our students back on Tuesday, August 17th.
Just a reminder, Illinois has a mask mandate in place for everyone entering a public school.
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-HS Orientation Video-
https://youtu.be/zOk9n3g9Ako
At Wednesday night's school board meeting the Annawan School District approved a Return to Learn Plan for the 2021-2022 school year. At this time, the plan will continue to follow the Governor's Executive Order 2021-18 that supports safe in-person learning and requires masks to be worn indoors by ALL students, staff, and visitors, regardless of vaccination status.
Students in the classroom setting do not require quarantine as long as both the positive case and the contact were consistently masked so the mask mandate will promote less students being quarantined. Vaccinated students who are not showing symptoms will not have to quarantine as well.
Contact tracing will still be used by the health department to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and will be used inside the school building. The CDC defines a close contact as an individual not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or where either party was unmasked who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24 -hour period. The exception to quarantining will be if both parties were correctly wearing masks.
Full details of the Return to Learn Plan along with updated guidance from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education will soon be available on our Annawan School District website documents page. This plan is fluid and subject to change based on updated state mandates and guidelines.
Thank you for your continued support as we prepare for a safe, healthy, and educational school year for all of our students!
Cancellations for today (8/11) - JHSB vs Stark County, JHBB at Princeville and golf practice.
Back to School Night:
We hope to see you on Monday, August 16th from 6:00-7:00 to bring your supplies and meet your teacher (K-5).
6th Grade Orientation-6:00-7:00 will be held in the Media Center.
Preschool will be held on Thursday, August 12th from 5:30-6:00(AM students) and 6:00-6:30(PM students).
Please limit the number of parents attending if possible to decrease traffic and masks will be mandatory for everyone inside the building.
Thank you and we look forward to a wonderful start to the year!
Junior High Softball - The game scheduled for Thursday 8/12 has been moved to Friday 8/13. Game time is 4:30 at Mercer County, Apollo Diamond in Aledo.
Junior High Football
Please fill out the following form to sign up for 7th-8th Junior High Football for the 2021-2022 fall football season:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3ZdPQkuKWQHFeLT8M7upQbO1WrXKGUCrL3G0GgZ8b2rZqOw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link
