Armour School District

The 25-26 School Calendar is below. You can find it on our website, the link below, and we will also have copies at open house to grab. Thank you! https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2000/ASD/5604010/25-26_Cal_FinalV2.pdf

Congratulations to our Middle School Honor Roll students! Keep up the great work! Armour Middle School "A" Honor Roll Quarter 1—Back row—left to right—Kahre Barron, Preslyn Medricky*, Brooklyn Werkmeister, Callie Spaans, Madison Vanden Berge, Payton Karr, and Allison Wunder. Front row—Stella Barker, Max Karr, Luke DeWaard, Carter Spaans, Evelyn Srstka, and Emilie Dykshorn. *Straight A Honor Roll Student Armour Middle School "B" Honor Roll Quarter 1—Back row—left to right—Kayson Anderson, Dawson Koehn, Patrick Stewart, Alex Revoir, Wes Grosz, Brynlee Erlandson, and Berkley Wright. Middle row—Abel Slate, Chris Green, Javier Guerrero, Jaycie Anderson, Molly Krull, Alyla Wright, Brooke Hotchkiss, and Marissa Krumm. Front row—Camden Spaans, Jacob Fousek, Brayden Vogt, Lane DeWaard, Tia Hinckley, Aleah Wright, Jordan Chessmore, Kolton Dykshorn, and Callie Schelling.

Congratulations to our High School Honor Roll Students! Keep up the great work! Armour High School Straight "A" Honor Roll Quarter 1—Back row—left to right—Marissa Leonard, Kinley Spaans, Sarah Krull, Jace Werkmeister, and Lyndsey Chessmore. Front row—Alex Werkmeister, Cady Bitterman, Sara Bertram, Lexie Fousek, Brody Fousek, Alexis Hoffman, and Belle Hotchkiss. Armour High School "A" Honor Roll Quarter 1—Back row—left to right—Peytyn Medricky, Emerson Brosz, Tayla Hinckley, Ryenn Loneman, and Lila Chessmore. Front row—Beckett Erlandson, Sean Hinckley, Andrew Bitterman, Ryker West, Oakley Spaans, and Jayden Hinckley. Armour High School "B" Honor Roll Quarter 1—Back row—left to right—Branson Kok, Josh Tegethoff, Nate Irwin, Charlie Tree Top, Kameron Longe, Rosella Pfiester, and Marlee Comstock. Middle row—Gabe Brosz, Thad Srstka, Matt Messer, Ashton Koster, Michael Ross, Taite Olson, Holton Wilson, and Milo Fousek. Front row—Jaxson Koehn, Grant Wunder, Daxton Goehring, Jake Strand, Bradyn Medricky, Zach Ziebart, Zayla Stewart, Morgan Fink, RaeLynn Shulaw, and Leah Dewald. Not pictured are Lalo Lamig and Natalia Martinez.

🩸The Armour High School Student Council is hosting a Blood Drive on November 6th from 11:15AM - 4:00PM at the Douglas Country 4H Building. If you are interested in donating you can use the link below or call the school at 605-724-2153 to sign up! We appreciate the support!🩸

https://donor.lifeservebloodcenter.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/185988

November DOE Reading Tips

The Skills USA members are putting on a Halloween Carnival. Come dressed in your costumes and play Halloween themed games, join in on the cake walk & get your face painted! The carnival will be October 25th from 6-8 pm. See you there!

Check out our Parent Portal App and Armour School District 21-1 App! Both apps provide information you may want or need. If you need any help, please reach out to the school at 605-724-2153!

Friendly reminder that students are able to get their Flu Shot tomorrow at the school starting at 9:00AM. Forms were sent home- please make sure to send a copy of proof of insurance along with the form. If you need a form sent home, please contact the school today and we can send another home today!

Tonight's Thunderhawk football game is starting @ 6:00 PM in Gayville. Please note the change in starting time.

The Skills USA members are putting on a Halloween Carnival. Come dressed in your costumes and play Halloween themed games, join in on the cake walk & get your face painted! The carnival will be October 25th from 6-8 pm. See you there!

Reminder that we have a motivational speaker named Chaz Perez who will have a parent session at 6:30PM in the gym tonight- October 15th. We understand there are conflicts on Wednesday nights, but it was the only day he had available while in SD. Chaz says, "The session is built around us parents becoming the examples we want to see in our children. And how to strengthen our connections to create more peace and resilience in them and ourselves". Chaz recommends parents attending without their kids in lower elementary school and to come with their children if they are in upper elementary, middle, and high school. This session will be around 1 hour long. You can check out Chaz's website: www.chazperez.com for more information or call Craig Holbeck at the school.

PTCO Scarecrow Auction TONIGHT in the lunch room.

For those not able to attend, we will post pictures or a Live video of the scarecrows. If you'd like to bid on a scarecrow, please get in touch with Mrs. Bigge with the following information: 1. your name, 2. which scarecrow, and 3. your top bid amount.
If you are the winner, Mrs. Bigge will send you a message, and you can also pay using the PTCO Venmo: @Armour-PTCO.

Winners will be announced at the end of the 1st Varsity game.

Congratulations to our K-5 September Student and Citizen of the Month.

Reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for us to accept sealed bids!
Armour School Board has declared our two (2) shop sheds as surplus property. Sealed bids will be accepted until 4:00pm on September 30th, 2025. Both sheds are located outside the football field. You can check them out tomorrow night (9/12/25) at the homecoming football game OR you can reach out to Craig Holbeck or Jennifer Wilson to schedule another day/time.
Highest bidder will have first choice of surplus items with next highest bidder having second choice, etc. until supply is exhausted.
The Armour School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any irregularities therein and reserves the right to award sale to the highest responsible bidder as they so determine. The successful bidder must remove property within 30 days.

October SD DOE (Department of Education) Reading and Behavioral Tip.

You can also find the Monthly tips on our school webpage: armour.k12.sd.us--menu--documents--reading tips folder.

Wednesday October 1st, Lions Foundation will be here to provide free vision screenings for grades K-8. If you do NOT want your child to be screened, please call the school at 724-2153 to take your child off our list.

Friendly reminder, as the seasons change, temps fluctuate. School is in full swing, and, unfortunately, we also share illnesses.

Here is a little guide to help; however, most everything is usually 24 hours free from temperature (without meds), vomiting, diarrhea, or having a treatment for a rash, pink eye, etc.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the school.

📷HS/MS Football, HS/MS Volleyball, Football Cheer and HS/MS Cross Country will take pictures this Friday starting after our 2:00 Dismissal. The link to order is below. Athletes can also pick up order forms at the school. Thank you!

http://marks.hhimagehost.com/TDAACDCFallSports2025

Schedule of Pictures:
2:00 TDA cross country and cheer individuals and groups
2:20 TDA high school and middle school volleyball individuals
2:45 group photos for volleyball
3:00 Tripp and Armour football individuals for high school and junior high
3:30 AC/DC individuals for football
3:45 Football groups
4:00 Finish