Community Helpers: Day 3!

Thank you Dakota for talking to our 1st graders about the importance of battery manufacturing for our community and for the cool Frisbees!

Beautiful fall day today! It is cool to see our students being able to take advantage of a great day! High school conditioning and PE have been able to take advantage of using our new track and turf, along with our JH band for their classes! And we have 13 juniors who went to the Herzog campus today in Saint Joe to attend a career fair hosted by Herzog.

Senior Night for softball as they take on conference rival West Platte. 4:30 varsity first pitch with JH to follow. Today, all North Platte students get in free so let's pack the stands at Dean Park! Go Panthers!

First graders knew the special community helper today from the bus route, Mrs. Shiela! The kids enjoyed listening to "Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus". Mrs. Shiela brought a bus along with her, but no pigeon! I wonder what our community helper tomorrow will bring along.

Panthers in action: Softball travels to Plattsburg for a KCI matchup against the Tigers. JH starts at 4:00 with Varsity following. There is no JV game. Volleyball travels to South Holt for JV/V action starting at 5:30. JH/HS cross country head to Mound City for their meet. 4:30 start. JH volleyball is at home against St. Joseph Catholic. B team starts at 4:30 with A to follow.

Our first graders are learning about community helpers. They will have special guest readers from our community coming in over the next couple of weeks to read and share about their role in our community. Yesterday, Mr. Fedrizzi shared what it is like to be firefighter. Stay tuned for today's guest reader!

The new track has been completed and is ready for use! We will keep the big gates locked on most occasions to keep out vehicles but leave the small personal gates open for school and community use! Please follow the rules of the signs to keep our facility in top condition!

Panthers in Action today: Golf is underway at the Plattsburg Tourney! JH Softball plays at 4:00 against Mid-Buchanan. Varsity follows them with a big conference matchup against the Dragons. JV finishes off the triple headers. Volleyball travels to Northland Christian for a non-conference match! Go Panthers!!

The KCI Conference Golf Tournament was yesterday. Emily Goodlet scored in the top 10 to become the first All Conference golfer ever at North Platte!

It's GAMEDAY!! Our football team takes on the Penney Hornets at home today. Kickoff is at 7:00!

Athletics update for today. JH/HS Softball against Mid-Buchanan is postponed to Monday October 5th. Same schedule as before 4:00 JH. Varsity after JH and JV to follow Varsity. Golf to Moila has been cancelled. JH football has been moved from away at Plattsburg to a home game. 5:00 start with 6 quarters of action. JH volleyball travels to West Platte today with a 4:30 start. High school volleyball is at home against Penney. It is Senior Night for our Panthers so come cheer on our 4 seniors, Emma Crawford, Rylee Perkins, Dakota Miller, and Nevada Shaw.

Parent/Teacher Conferences are THIS Week. Please check out the image below for times and days for our JH and HS conferences.

North Platte FFA began the FFA Pals Program this year! Our FFA Pals teamed up with the 5th graders on Friday! With harvest season right around the corner, the Pals talked about soybeans! The 5th graders also got to make their own soybean germination kits!

Last week NPE and NPI students enjoyed the first surprise attendance celebration. Students had fun in a "laser maze" and doing some minute-to-win-it games.

Students in both schools continue to show great character. We had several Shout Outs this week!

FFA Pals taught a lesson to our 5th graders about the importance of soybeans. After the lesson each 5th grader planted a soybean to grow at home.

Fourth grade students learned about different types of erosion and completed a lab with Ms. Sharp.

****Reminder, Parent Teacher Conferences are this Thursday. We will dismiss at 12:30. Conferences are from 1:00-7:30. Please call the office to set up a conference time. NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, October 2.****

Our students had a great time today at the Arrive Alive event. This event is held annually together between North Platte and West Platte. This year the event was held in Dearborn. Students were given the opportunity to explore what happens during impaired driving and the consequences it can have. A huge thank you to all the vendors who came out, the Platte County Health department, Mrs. Justus, the many SRO's, Dearborn and Camden point Fire, NRAD, and countless others that came out to help educate our students.

Homecoming week sure was busy, but fun!

North Platte was proud to open the new turf field at last night's homecoming game! A ribbon cutting ceremony was held before the game to celebrate the opening of the new field. A huge thank you is due to the North Platte community for the passing or Proposition K.I.D.S. as well as Midwest Synthetic Turf Professionals for building this beautiful facility!

We had a fantastic homecoming day yesterday! Our students had a fun day with class competitions, volleyball, our parade, pep rally, and then all of our evening activities! Below are some photos from the day. We want to give special thanks to Nodaway Valley Bank for providing lunch, and the Army National Guard for helping to make the game memorable for our community with canon fire and a tunnel for the football team to run on to the field. Thanks to all who participated in helping make it a fun and memorable day for our students.

This is the hill 4 hours before kickoff! The Panthers are ready for homecoming! Alumni, bring your letter jacket for free admission tonight!

We had our first ever hot dog eating contest today during our high school lunch to kick off our 2026 Homecoming festivities! We had a representative from each grade level, along with Mr. Davis representing the staff to participate! Congratulations to CJ Spencer on winning the first ever competition at NP! Special thanks to Nodaway Valley Bank for sponsoring it, and providing the champions tee shirt!