Make a Change and Be Positive

Positive awards students do the cookie challange

Positive awards students do the cookie challange

By Francesca Carten

 

Each month, Plymouth High School has positive awards for each grade level. Mr.Olsen and other teachers pick out students for the perfect attendance, student of the month, and the growth award. These awards are for students that help others by being positive. Each month there is an awards ceremony so those people that get nominated can show their fellow classmates how they can do positive things and their classmates can learn from them.

 

There is also a teacher of the month award in which students can nominate their favorite teacher that does positive things to make them feel better. The freshman October “Teacher of the Month” was Health teacher and football coach Mr. John Barron. He asks how students are doing and helps them excel. Mr. Barron said that it was “a great feeling knowing that students appreciate what I do, or what I try to do.” He said, “I love the relationships that can be formed between myself and my students. I love helping students. I love listening to students share their ideas. I love watching them grow and mature and become young adults through good, and not so good, decisions. I also love to coach. Coaching and teaching go hand in hand – the football field and the track are just extensions of the classroom.”

 

The freshman class Perfect attendance winner was Tiffany DeWitt and she said, “One thing that motivates me is that I hate missing a day of school because you can miss so much in just one day”. There is also a “growth award” where students that receive this award have improved on their academics and their grades and they have worked harder this year to improve and grow in their learning skills. Freshman Tanner Medina won this year’s growth award.

 

Dean of students Mr. Kenneth Olson is in charge of the positive awards and he gave a brief description over what the awards are. He said, “For student of the month, the teachers do it by filling out a positive behavior form.” After that, Mr. Olson pulls out the student’s name that are referred from a monthly ballot and then the teachers vote. Mr. Olson said, “For perfect attendance, I search to see who had perfect attendance and then use a google name picker to select the winner. For the growth award, the teachers recommend students who have shown growth academically, in attendance, or getting to class on time. Mr. Delp, Mrs. Portteus, and Mrs. Eveland (who are members of the PBIS core committee) then vote. Next month, all of the staff members on the committee will vote.”

Halloween Activities

CVS Halloween display

CVS Halloween display

By Francesca Carten

Niles Scream Park

Here are a list of some things that are happening during the month of October. One thing that is happening is in Niles, Michigan. It is called the Niles Scream Park. They have five new “haunted attractions” as they call it. The haunted attractions are called Niles Haunted House: Kingdom’s End, Ashes to Ashes, House of Horror 3D, The Field of Screams, and The Dark Terror-tory Haunted Hayride. They also had a special guest named Kane Hodder, an actor  who played Jason in the Friday the 13th and Victor Crowley in Hatchet I, II, and III. The Niles Scream Park is rated one of the “Top 31 Must- See Haunted Attractions.” Every year, they rebuild the haunted houses so they can provide new and unique shows.

Niles Scream Park is a non-profit community project. They have about 150-200 volunteers per night and they also represent over 65 Michiana area community and school organizations. It is located on Mayflower Road, south of Niles-Buchanan Road just off of Exit 5 off of the US 31 Bypass.  Tokens are only $1.00 depending on how many you get. The dates of these events is October 2nd-31st and also in November they have a “Black Out”.

The cost of the attractions are  the Haunted House 2015 is $12.00 with same night hand stamp is $5, Ashes to Ashes $7.00, Dark TERRItory $7.00, House of Horror 3D $7.00, and field of screams is $10.00.

Plymouth Activities

In Plymouth, there will be an on Saturday, October 31st, 2015, the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce will be having Downtown Trick or Treat from 1:00 p.m – 3:00 p.m. Plymouth will also be hosting other activities on the 29th. non-downtown trick or treat can only pass out candy is they already pre-registered for the tick or treat. There will be an annual costume parade at 12:45 p.m. and a downtown Merchants trick-or-treat opportunity from 1-3 p.m. Mark Senter and the city council declared that the city trick-or-treat will be on October 31st from 5-7 p.m.  Halloween is a time for fun and people get to do lots of activities. Junior Elizabeth Northcutt said, ”I like to dress up and be someone else who is not me.”

People can show their unique side and they can be just what they want to be and not get judged for it. Senior Brianna Allison said, “I love scaring people.” The weekend of October 4th-24th Potato Creek Park will have many activities going on.Sunday the 4th they will have Residents Birds of Prey from 10 a.m. to 3p.m., on Saturday the 10th they have a Fall Scavenger Hunt which will start at 12:30 p.m, the 11th is Forests at work,the 16th&17th they will have an Autumn Getaway Weekend and the Nature Center will be closed those days but it will reopen on Sunday the 18th.Then the Nature Center is closed then again on the 25th they will have the birds of Prey opened up.