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Tweet Those talented thespians at SM East have drawn plenty of attention for their big production this year. But their young peers at Indian Hills Middle School have impressive talent of their own. The middle school’s performance students are preparing to stage their annual musical May 2-4: The Little Mermaid. Here’s the show description from [...]
Tweet Area residents may still be coming to terms with the long-term damage Tuesday’s storm has done to area trees — but the piles of snow are also producing an immediate problem: clogging up the sidewalks that people use to get to and from schools. Prairie Elementary and Indian Hills Middle School both sent messages [...]
Tweet View Larger Map KMBC News reports that Overland Park Police are investigating the attempted abduction of an Indian Hills Middle School student as she was on her way to the bus stop this morning. The girl told police she was on her way to the bus stop near 80th Street and Glenwood this morning [...]
Tweet Overland Park police are following up on an incident that involved an Indian Hills Middle School student walking to a bus stop last Tuesday. The female student was approached by a man who offered a ride. The following is the information that the Shawnee Mission School District sent by broadcast voicemail to Indian Hills [...]
Tweet Indian Hills students last week all had a chance to enter the NFL’s national Punt, Pass and Kick competition. Each of the gym classes of seventh and eighth graders took part, testing their skills in the three areas. The longest yardage in each category will get to compete in the regional in Tonganoxie and [...]
Tweet What do the Oregon Trail, Romania, the economy and an Indian Hills classroom of seventh graders have in common? The answer is Judith Schieszer, a social studies teacher who has been teaching at the middle school for seven years. The Oregon California Trails Association this year gave her its National Outstanding Teacher Award. A [...]
Tweet Anyone who drives past Indian Hills Middle School at 63rd and Mission can tell a lot of construction still needs to be completed, but when school started in August significant changes on the inside of the building greeted returning students. Among the improvements are a new library, offices, conference rooms and orchestra room plus [...]
Tweet Construction crews are putting in serious overtime in an effort to ensure Indian Hills Middle School is ready for students on Monday. Prairie Village City Administrator Dennis Enslinger told the City Council Monday that workers are starting at 5:30 a.m. and staying until as late as 11 p.m. The Shawnee Mission School District’s communications [...]
Tweet Summer hasn’t been a vacation for construction crews at Indian Hills Middle School. District spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal said workers have been putting in extended hours and weekends in an effort to complete the extensive project list scheduled for this summer prior to the start of the 2012-2013 school year August 13. Those projects [...]
Tweet Being a first time thespian can be nerve wracking. But you don’t need for luck to be a lady on the stage when you’ve been practicing for four months. Tomorrow night the curtain opens on the first performance of Indian Hills Middle School’s production of Guys and Dolls. Performances will run Thursday, Friday and [...]
Tweet SM East’s soccer teams won’t be able to use the fields at Mission Valley for much longer. But they also won’t have to travel far out of the way to practice once the new fields being constructed at Indian Hills are completed. The Shawnee Mission School Board approved a construction contract for the new [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police are hoping parents take the time to learn some new material this first week of school: how to drop off their children at Indian Hills and SM East. Because of the increased student population at Indian Hills on account of the merger with Mission Valley, police and the district devised a [...]
Tweet Adam Stern of architect Gould Evans presented the Shawnee Mission School Board on Monday with final drawings of the renovations and additions scheduled to begin at Indian Hills Middle School in the coming months. Gould Evans has planned the renovations out in four sequences, the first of which is scheduled to begin in October. [...]
Tweet Having received approval from the Prairie Village Planning Commission earlier this month, Indian Hills administrators are planning how and when a series of extensive building renovations will be carried out. A few of the smaller projects needed to accommodate Indian Hills’ larger student body after the closure of Mission Valley will be completed before [...]
Tweet Gould Evans, the Shawnee Mission School District’s architecture firm, will be holding a citizen participation meeting Thursday on proposed renovations and additions to Indian Hills Middle School. The meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at Indian Hills, will give citizen an opportunity to comment on the proposed work on the school’s library, administrative offices, [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District has announced three administrative moves affecting local schools. Mike Rasmussen, who served as the associate principal at Mission Valley Middle School in 2010-2011, had previously been scheduled to fill the associate principal’s role at Indian Hills next year. A recent decision by the district has him moving to Shawnee [...]
Tweet The decision of Indian Hills seventh grader Desiree Pugh’s mother Janice Lewis to pull her daughter out of school after being subjected to prolonged cyberbullying has gotten the attention of local television stations. Both KCTV 5 and NBC Action News ran pieces this week on the situation. Lewis said her daughter’s grades and self [...]
Tweet Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme. Performed by students as old as 14. Indian Hills Middle School opens its three-day staging of Beauty and the Beast tomorrow. The show will run at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday on the Indian Hills stage. A limited number of tickets will be available [...]
Tweet Local middle school parents on Thursday got a look at renovations proposed to help Indian Hills accommodate the larger student body it will house after Mission Valley closes at the end of this school year. At a PTA meeting at Indian Hills, Gould Evans architect Adam Sterns presented a handful of drawings laying out [...]
Tweet Thirteen visiting teachers from Eastern Europe got a firsthand look inside an American middle school classroom Tuesday — and learned a thing or two about about life on the California, Oregon and Santa Fe Trails in the process. The teachers’ visit, sponsored by the National Center for Economic Education and the KU Center for [...]
Tweet Indian Hills Middle School students on Wednesday got a living history lesson when 25 veteran of World War II came to the school. The visit served as the kick for a in-depth American History project. Students interviewed the veterans and got to hear firsthand about what they experienced during the war. For a photo [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Police Department has released its preliminary recommendations for traffic management around Indian Hills Middle School after its student body merges with Mission Valley’s next year: The main circle drive off Mission Road will be reserved for busses only. Jordan said the school would be instituting a staggered parking system for the [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet Current Indian Hills Middle School principal Carla Allen will retain her role next year after Mission Valley Middle School has closed and the two schools’ student bodies have been consolidated, the Shawnee Mission School District announced today. Mike Rasmussen, the current assistant principal at Mission Valley, will become the assistant principal at Indian Hills. [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
