To recognize and celebrate the Cincinnati Bengals’ recent historic run to Super Bowl LVI, Kings Local Schools will join with several other area school districts by deeming Monday, February 14 a calamity day for students, with no remote learning required. Kings staff and students will not report to school.

In the spirit of Bengals Quarterback, Joe Burrow, all of our schools will be participating in giving back to our community next week. Please check our Peachjar District page to view the Spirit Week activities for each of our seven buildings and how you can help us give back to the Kings Local Food Pantry and Matthew 25 Ministries!

We greatly appreciate your willingness to give back to our community. However, if you have donations, please contact us first. 

Beginning this week, the District is now reporting daily numbers of positive cases and quarantines of COVID-19. Those numbers will be reported by the end of the school day each day. You can find that information on our website. We will continue to report the weekly totals, as well.

The students who qualified for State are Ben Clark, Evan Scott (2 events), Franklin Dominguez-Davis, Dominic Rosiak, Nicklaus Grothaus, Justin Garter, Evan West (2 events), Max Astapenko, Dominic Rosiak, Sirojiddin Aripov, Jack Allison, Colin Hunter, Ella Linahan, Lauren Sawhook, Savannah Silva, Sophia Canino, Reece Wagner, Allison Escamilla-Martinez, Meredith Viox, Renae Gigliotti, Greg Englehard, Noah Bowman, Austin Newton, Brooke Sunderhaus, Abby Parnell, Maggie Harkins, and Parker Vacca.

The Kings High School BPA students are taught by Cassandra Barnes, Reggie Holtrey, Stephen Lickert, and Kelly Shields.

Click here to view all of the results from the Regional competition. Good luck at State, Kings BPA!

Warren County Sheriff, Larry Sims visited Kings High School Painting classes last Friday. He talked about the importance of giving back and addressed the following questions:

What is community?  

Why is it important to give back? 

What does it mean to have purpose?

How can I give back by using my strengths/interests as a volunteer or a future occupation? 

Sheriff Sims reached out to KHS Art teacher, Angie Guilfoyle after seeing the work that the Kings art students produced for the 9/11 Memorial Event over the last few years where he is a keynote speaker.

The KHS painting students are going to create a large-scale group painting addressing the quote- 'We don't heal through isolation, but in Community.' The students discussed the pandemic and how isolation can lead to issues with mental health. Connecting to people and to your community allows students to feel a sense of belonging and self-worth through helping others. Individual artmaking community service projects will be offered through Mrs. Guilfoyle this semester for graduation credit.  

The location of the mural is to be determined but will likely be housed in the new Warren County Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement buildings in Warren County.

The KHS Architecture students are also working on giving back to the community. They are currently designing outdoor pavilion spaces and building physical models for their designs. Students have the option to submit their models and sketches to the South Lebanon Elementary PTO who will then select the design(s) they like that will be used for some outdoor classroom spaces they want to build on SLE's campus. The PTO has $25,000 for this project and reached out to the KHS architecture classes for help in the design!

It’s hard to know when your child’s mood is “typical” behavior and when it is a sign of a mental health need. You are not alone in trying to define your child’s mood/behavior. There are resources to help you determine if your child could benefit from therapeutic support. You can start by talking with your child. Remember, talking about suicide won’t put the idea in someone’s mind. 

Take advantage of the Virtual MindPeace Room from our partners at Mindpeace Cincinnati! 

The Kings Local School District Board of Education will meet for a Work Session at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 8 in Conference Room 2 of the Kings Education Center. Watch the meeting LIVE on the Kings Youtube channel.

All Board meeting dates, agendas, and past meetings can be found on the Kings website.

Peachjar is live on our website! Visit the Flyerboard to check out events happening around the District and the community.

If you are an organization that would like to share a flyer for an event you will need to register at peachjar.com as a program provider.

Check out more information here.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to ensure parents are well informed about school programs, activities, and events!

It's time to register for Kings Preschool for the 2022-2023 school year!

Visit the Kings Preschool webpage for more information.

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