Versailles Elementary School

October is National Principals Month We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to the amazing principals who lead our schools. Their dedication, passion, and commitment shape the educational experiences of our students and foster positive school cultures. Every day, our principals inspire teachers, staff, and students to strive for their best. They navigate challenges with grace and create environments where every student can thrive. This month, join us in recognizing and thanking these remarkable leaders. To our wonderful principals, thank you for all that you do. Your leadership and tireless efforts make a profound difference. Let’s all take a moment to #ThankAPrincipal and show our appreciation for their invaluable contributions to our schools and communities. To learn more about how you can celebrate and honor principals in your life, visit principalsmonth.org. If you wanted to send a note of encouragement or thanks for all that these wonderful individuals do, please feel free to email Mrs. Jacki Stonebraker - Versailles High School Principal Mr. Jon Hemmelgarn - Versailles Middle School Principal Mrs. Brenda Braun - Versailles Elementary School Principal Mr. Scott Broerman - Versailles Athletic Director and K-12 Assistant Principal jacki.stonebraker@vtigers.org jon.hemmelgarn@vtigers.org brenda.braun@vtigers.org scott.broerman@vtigers.org

A HUGE Congratulations is in order. The Versailles School District has moved up to the #5 school district in the state of Ohio based upon its most recent Performance Index Score. It truly takes a community to do what we do here. The support of our community, along with the absolutely excellent staff and students have earned the school district its highest Performance Index Score in school history at 109.5. Further, Versailles Middle School is the 23rd ranked school building out of 3172 ranked buildings in Ohio. Versailles Elementary Schol is the 24th ranked school building out of 3172 ranked buildings in Ohio. These score rankings put both buildings in the top 1% of all school buildings in the State of Ohio. Versailles High School is the 123rd ranked school building of 3172, which is in the top 4% of all school buildings in the state There is more to share, and more to continue to be proud of. None of it would be possible without the great people that make up this school district. Everyone plays a part. We all have to be rowing the boat in the same direction. This is what happens when we are able to do that. Excellent partnership makes for Excellent outcomes! Please feel free to share this, and to add a comment or two sharing your pride in your school system, and make sure everyone knows you are a Versailles Tiger!

Good evening. This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message ONLY for bus riders of bus #7 and bus #8. This information was shared with us by the Village of Versailles. Due to road construction purposes around the railroad, starting tomorrow, Wednesday, August 28, 2024, there will be road closures on North Center Street along with some side streets off of North Center. We are asking that students who ride Bus 7 and get picked up on Greenlawn and Brandon Streets to walk or be driven to Greenlawn and Chestnut Street. Students who ride 8 and get picked up on Jackson and Washington Street - we ask that they either walk or be driven to Jackson and Chestnut Street. Students who ride Bus 8 and get picked up on Oak and Brandon Street - we ask that they please either walk or be driven to Oak and Chestnut Street. Presently this is expected only to be for tomorrow, however, with the high temperatures, it may take longer for the new road surface to cure, in which case, traffic will not be permitted on the new road surface for longer than initially planned. If this will need to continue beyond tomorrow, we will communicate that out again tomorrow evening. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding as we work with the Village administration to allow for their road work to better our beautiful little village! Have a great night. Go Tigers.

Evening custodian position available. Depending upon applicant availability, the Versailles School District is looking to hire either a full-time or potentially multiple part-time candidates for a custodial position. This work will be outside of the school day with a preference for staff who can work in the evenings covering the building while there are events taking place. Applicants who have any maintenance experience will be given priority as those experiences and knowledge may lead to future internal opportunities for advancement. Please contact Bill Didier at bill.didier@vtigers.org or 937-423-2794 to express your interest. If you email, please include "Custodial Applicant" in the email header.

SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS NEEDED As the school year approaches, the school district is in significant need of school bus drivers. Versailles Schools is still looking to hire regular route drivers. Preferably applicants would be able to drive the morning route as well as the afternoon route, but we would consider applicants who could do either AM or PM as well. AM routes start at 6:45 am and finish at 8:05 am. PM routes start at 2:50 pm and end at approximately 4:10 pm. Drivers can also drive extra-curricular sporting events and field trips to earn additional pay beyond their route pay. Bus driving positions can become full-time by combining with any vacant cafeteria and/or custodian positions. Bus driver pay starts at $22.75 with no experience and ranges to $30.33/hour based on bus driver experience in the current school year. Following years will see increases beyond this. If you do not have a CDL with school bus endorsement, the school will provide training with Kyle Kunk, Transportation Supervisor. If interested or for more information, please contact Kyle Kunk at kyle.kunk@vtigers.org or 937-638-8139.

2024 Darke County Fair King and Queen Selected, Batten and Aultman to serve as Darke County Fair King and Queen On Tuesday, July 9th at the Radiant Church the Darke County Junior Fair conducted the pageant for the Darke County Fair King and Queen Contest. As a result of the application, interview and pageant the 2024 Darke County Junior Fair King was Colin Batten who represented Versailles FFA and will be a senior at Versailles High School and is the son of Susan Batten Hillpley and Chris Batten and the 2024 Darke County Fair Queen is Sophia Aultman who represented Ansonia FFA. Sophia will be a senior at Ansonia High School and is the daughter of Matt and Morgan Aultman. The court includes: Grace Borchers, the daughter of Charlie and Reana Borchers represented Versailles FFA in the pageant and was named 1st Runner-up Queen. 1st Runner-up King was awarded to Daxton Harter who represented Darke County Jr Fair. Margret McGlinch the daughter of Greg and Janet McGlinch represented Versailles FFA in the pageant and was named 2nd Runner-up Queen. Amelia Price was named 3rd runner-up and represented Kountry Kids 4-H Club in the pageant. In addition, Allee Grimme of Versailles, representing the Versailles Bust Beaver's Contest also participated in the queen contest and placed in the top 6th contestants. The ceremony was conducted by the 2023 Darke County Fair King Andrew Wuebker of Versailles and Queen Elizabeth Brewer. The fair king and queen process consists of a written application, personal interview with judges, a pageant with questions, and junior fair participation. Congratulations to 2024 Darke County Fair King and Queen and their court. Picture #1: The 2024 Darke County Junior Fair Court: (from left to right) Back row; 1st runner-up Daxton Harter, 1st runner-up Grace Borchers, 2nd runner-up Margret McGlinch, and 3rd runner-up Amelia Price. Front row; King Colin Batten and Queen Sophia Aultman. Picture #2: Versailles FFA members who participated in the pageant were (from left to right): Allee Grimme, Colin Batten, Grace Borchers Margret McGlinch and 2023 Fair KIng Andrew Wuebker.

Our next "Versailles Voices Project" participant is a unique one. These have generally been a person or a family, but today we'll be highlighting a program at Versailles Schools. The CLCE, or Civic Leadership and Community Engagement class is offered by Mr. Jason Ahrens to our Middle School students. CLCE students learned about many different types of leadership and specific leaders in a community over the course of the 2023-204 school year. Thank you CLCE kids for sharing what you did and what you learned this past year. We would love to continue to share these "Versailles Voices", but that is only possible if you take a moment to submit them. We appreciate and need your continued submissions to keep this going. Please consider submitting a response as we'd love to hear from you (and so does the community!) To do so, click the link below: https://forms.gle/D8f7p542BNJEjAVj8

It is the time of year that we start gearing back up for another season of Tigerball! Our fine football team starts getting to work next week. Of course, they've never stopped being in the weightroom. We are pleased to share some of the specifics of some very significant upgrades to our football facilities for the safety of our student-athletes. The practice field was completely reworked. Previously from the NW corner to the SE corner there was a more than 5 foot change in elevation, and from the NW corner to the SW corner the field dropped by more than 4 feet. Everything is now graded within 6 inches anywhere on the field. Thanks to the Village for letting us work on the area within the rules and requirements of the EPA. MANY thanks to Brumbaugh Construction who did the dirt work. Flow Masters Irrigation did the irrigation and sprinkler installation. Thank you to Brian Pearson, Mike Poling, and John Kindell who reseeded the entire newly graded field. All of the funding for this work came from the Friends of Hole Field. No tax payer dollars were used for this work! We are incredibly grateful to the Friends of Hole Field for their continued support and work to make things better for our kids. At H.B. Hole Field a failing retaining wall was removed and Luthman Concrete did the reinstallation of a new Concrete Wall and drainage behind the wall to ensure longevity. Lawn Plus did the dirt work and reseeding of the game field in the corner near the visiting band area as a result of the concrete work. The grass is starting to come up nicely in that area as well. We are proud of our facilities. We are proud of our students, and we are proud of our community who continue to provide support to the school district in innumerable ways. Tiger Pride! Let the countdown to Tigerball begin!

This content was from the end of the school year, but we thought it was awesome and wanted to share: The Versailles High School Drone team competed in a two day competition at the North Central Aerial Drone Competition in Flint, Michigan this past weekend (May 18-19). This particular competition fields teams from a ten-state region. Team 81834B, consisting of Jack Gerling and Cale Demange scored their highest individual skills score of the year and finished 16th overall. Team 81834T, made up of Patrick McGlinch, Luke Borchers, and Lance Keller, were able to qualify for the final tournament and finished 8th overall. Team 81834V, consisting of Alex Westgerdes, Cooper Keller, and Brady Rogers, had an awesome day and finished 3rd overall! Great job everyone!

Good morning Tigers this is Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message for our families. First, we hope you are all having a wonderful Summer break and that you are finding it restful, and rejuvenating. We are preparing for all of the students to return in the fall. One important task in having things ready to go is that we need all families to go into Final Forms and update your student(s) forms. Everything is color-coded. If it is red, it still needs to be addressed. Once you've updated and submitted each page, it will turn back to green. This is important for many reasons, but one is planning bus routes. Even if you do not use school transportation we ask that you update that screen as well. Please don't skip it thinking you don't use it so it doesn't apply to your family. We appreciate your help very much in getting those forms updated. Have a fantastic week. Go Tigers! You can update your child's form at https://versailles-oh.finalforms.com/

Good evening parents, This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message about your child's achievement testing results. New this year is a requirement by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (what was formerly known as the Ohio Department of Education). All schools are now required to notify families of their child's achievement results from the just concluded school year, on or before June 30. We don't believe we will have the glossy, colorful score reports that you may be used to seeing back from the state in time to meet this requirement, however the students' achievement results have been uploaded to ProgressBook and you are able to get them there in the same way you log in to check your students grades and work completion over the course of the school year. Scores are listed as "Placement level" of either 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1.  These correspond to the old language that you are also likely used to from the past.  Now everything is on a 1 through 5 scale.  But you can correspond a 5 to being "Advanced;" 4 being "Accelerated;" 3 being "Proficient;" 2 being "Basic;" and 1 being "Limited."    You may already have a link saved that takes you right to the log in, but if not, go to the school website at www.versailles.k12.oh.us then click the "Parents and Students" tab in the black bar near the top of the screen. From there you can select the link to the ProgressBook log in. From there, at the bottom of the screen will be the Versailles icon. Click that. Next, click "Sign in." From there you'll be brought to the ProgressBook login screen. Enter your username and password. Once logged in, on the left side of the screen in the menu where all grade information is organized, at the bottom of that list is an "Assessment Scores" option. Click that and you will be brought to all of your child's Assessment scores that have been loaded into the system. ​We hope this is helpful. Please let us know if you need assistance. Have a wonderful week and a beautiful summer with your friends and family!

Good evening Tigers, this is Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message for planning purposes about the last day of school. It is hard to believe that the last day of school is now only 2 weeks away. Pending Board approval at the upcoming May 21st Board meeting, we wanted to communicate to you for planning purposes, that the school district will let out 2 hours early on that last day - Friday, May 24, 2024.  Normal dismissal is at 3:05. On Friday, May 24, 2024, we will dismiss for summer at 1:05 in the afternoon. Thank you very much.  Let's make these last two weeks magical!

Our next "Versailles Voices Project" participant is Caroline Anthony. Caroline is a Senior at Versailles High School and is headed to Bowling Green next year Thank you Caroline for sharing. You mention in your post that you are proud to have gone to Versailles. Well....we're darn proud of you too! We would love to continue to share these, but that is only possible if you take a moment to submit them. We appreciate and need your continued submissions to the Versailles Voices Project. Please consider submitting a response as we'd love to hear from you (and so does the community!) To do so, click the link below: https://forms.gle/D8f7p542BNJEjAVj8

Let's flood the interwebs with positivity! Drop just a name, or a name and a story. Thanks for making someone's day! #BetterTogether

Our next "Versailles Voices Project" participants are Megan and Mason DeMange. Megan and Mason are 2016 Versailles graduates. Megan teaches 2nd grade, and Mason teaches vocal music. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. DeMange for your submission! It's been a while since we've posted one of these. Lets get this going again. We appreciate and need your continued submissions to the Versailles Voices Project. Please consider submitting a response as we'd love to hear from you (and so does the community!) To do so, click the link below: https://forms.gle/D8f7p542BNJEjAVj8

We are incredibly proud to share that Versailles High School has just been named to the US News and World Report's 2024 Best High Schools list. As we approach Teacher Appreciation Week next week, this notice was a pretty nice, and well timed "Thank you." None of what we do would be possible without the tremendous support of our community. We are blessed to have fantastic staff. We are just as blessed to have a fantastic community, and fantastic young people in our schools. Thank YOU Versailles! To read more, please follow this link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/ohio/districts/versailles-exempted-village/versailles-high-school-15405

Good evening Tigers. This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with a reminder about tomorrow's schedule. Tomorrow, Friday, April 12, 2024, will be a 2-hour delay for staff professional development. Buses will arrive at your stops 2 hours later than your normal pick-up time. Thank you very much. Have a fantastic weekend.

Good evening, This is just a reminder that school will not be in session on Monday, April 8th, 2024 - the Solar Eclipse day - due to anticipated travel and communication issues. Please be safe, have fun, and enjoy this once in a lifetime opportunity to observe this phenomenon - but do it safely. NEVER look directly at the sun without the protection of the special solar eclipse glasses.

The district bought Solar Eclipse glasses to provide to our students and staff and shortly after the shipment arrived, we were very graciously donated approximately 1500 eclipse viewing glasses from our wonderful community partner, Phelan Insurance. (Thank you Phelan!) As such, the district has about 1400 eclipse glasses that we would love to get into your hands so that anyone you know can participate in this viewing event safely. Please stop in at the Central office any day next week and pick up as many as you want for $1 each from Jodie Bohman! First come, first served. We are only hoping to make back what we spent on them. Please share so that anyone who wants them can get them.

Students have been designing and creating all year long. Check out this design, created by Lydia Bruns, for the football season. Videos like this can be found in the Yearbook by scanning QR codes. If you haven't reserved a 23-24 yearbook please do so soon, time is running out! https://youtu.be/oJ7asCAxOqc