On Wednesday, September 11, Troy High School’s 8^th, 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th graders participated in the Reality U program. Students were given a monthly paycheck, and then had to visit various booths to pay insurance, buy a car, buy a house, etc. Once the booths were complete, the students had a monthly balance left over. The program teaches budgeting and thankfulness, among other things.

Thank you to our volunteers from the community who helped run the booths, John’s Market for the sack lunches, and Patrick Sehl from Reality U.

Pic 1: Students buy groceries at the “food” booth.

Pic 2: Students participate in Reality U.

Pic 3: Patrick Sehl instructs the students.

Troy High School in cooperation with Amberwell will be adding weekly athletic trainer visits on Thursday late mornings. Joe Walter will start next Thursday, September 19th. Athletes must be signed up by noon on Wednesdays in the HS Office to see the trainer.

An athletic trainer provided by Amberwell will also assist on home middle school and high school football game nights.

This is a service that the Troy School District has been wanting to add but could not find coverage for for quite some time. We are excited to offer this and look forward to working with Amberwell to bring this service to our athletes.

Homecoming Week Activities

Theme: There’s No Place Like Homecoming -Wizard of Oz

Spirit Week Dress Up Days:

• Which Witch is which Monday (Dress as your a friend

• Lions, Tigers, and Bears, oh my Tuesday (Dress as an animal)

• There’s a Storm a brewin Wednesday (Dress as a storm chaser)

• Twister Thursday (Dress wacky “like in a tornado”)

• There’s no place like home Friday (School Colors)

Hallway Decorating:

• Each class will be given an area to decorate. The hallways will be judged by student effort, creativity, and overall appeal/ appearance. 

  • Seniors: Gauntlet

  • Juniors: Main hallway

  • Sophomores: Top floor hallway

  • Freshmen: Bottom floor hallway

  • MS: Main hallway of their building

• Everything should be securely attached and no glitter can be used. Also, no use of two sided tape on walls or floors  

Floats:

• Each class will need a float for the parade. Posters and banners for the float will need to coordinate with the following themes:.

  • Candidate Float (last)

  • Seniors: Tornadoes Float

  • Juniors: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore Float

  • Sophomores: Yellow Brick Road Float

  • Freshmen: Emerald City Float

  • 8th Grade

  • 7th Grade 

  • 6th Grade

  • Marching Band (first)

• Each class will be responsible for contacting an individual for use of a truck and trailer. No students will be allowed to drive or be in the trucks. All students will need to be on the float. 

• Decorations will need to be securely attached to the trailer

• Judging of the floats will be based on student effort, creativity, participation of class, connection with theme, and overall appeal.

Window Wash

• This will be Sunday, September 15th at 6pm. Food will be served on Main Street.

• Each class will be given a space of windows to decorate. Each window should coordinate with the overall theme of homecoming or class theme *See Floats above*

• Judging will be based on creativity, spirit, and overall appeal/ appearance.

  • $200 will go to the class that wins (From the Booster Club)

  • $200 will be split between any student(s) that shows up Sunday, September 22nd to help clean up at 6pm. 

Schedule

• Attend classes 1-5. 

• Lunch

• Boys Volleyball Tourney

• Work on floats

Sign/ Banner Creation:

• We will run the seminar schedule the week before Homecoming to allow time for the creation of signs and banners

  • Seniors will be in

  • Juniors will be in Mrs. Cluck’s room

  • Sophomores will be in will be in 

  • Freshmen will be in 

  • 6th-8th grade will be in the middle school commons area

Booster Club sponsored bon-fire will be Wed., Sept. 18th at 8:45 PM at the Troy 4H.  Cheer and THS Football Team members will leave THS at 8:30 PM.  Booster Club will have a game for 9-12 grade students to play at the top of the hill before the bon-fire officially starts.  After the bon-fire conclusion, students will "snake" up town to main street and around the courthouse showing their school spirit by honking!  This should conclude by 9:15 PM.  

The powder puff game sponsored by THS Student Council will start on Wednesday night at 6:30 PM on the Donald M Cash Football Field.  

As a reminder, HS students will paint windows up town on Sunday, Sept. 15th at 6 PM.  Booster Club will provide a light supper for students.

A huge thank you to the Booster Club for all the fun activities they have planned Homecoming Week!

JV Football @ Troy vs McLouth - Monday, September 16 - 6 PM

Admission is FREE! No concessions will be available.  

TMS Volleyball Tourney @ DWEST (DWest High School)

Saturday, September 21

9 AM

Full Schedule is posted below.

Good Luck Lady Trojans!

Mr. Frieling’s government students were learning different styles of governments and their economic systems by building towers out of marshmallows and toothpicks. Each group had to follow a different set of rules depending on their government and economic system. Some found it difficult to trade for adequate supplies, while others were free to bargain as desired. Students learned that while they may become rich in democratic countries with capitalistic economies, there is no guarantee and some may go bankrupt and homeless.  Also, in communist countries with command economies, nobody will go bankrupt but nobody will thrive either.  Those in monarchies and oligarchies fell somewhere in-between the extremes.

Pic 1: Brynlee Ashworth, Makenzie Christenson, and Sara Houghton are happy with their progress.

Pic 2: Gannon Bowe, Izzy Vanwey, and Gracie Grable contemplate their next move.

All senior students and their parents/guardians are invited to join us for senior financial aid night on November 20, 2024 at 6:00pm in the THS cafeteria. A financial aid representative from Highland Community College will be here to present about the FAFSA, types of grants and loans, and other financial aid information. They will also answer any questions you may have about financial aid. This is a great opportunity to get your questions answered and start your college or technical school bound student(s) off on the right path. We hope to see you there! Please contact eblevins@troyusd.org for questions.

LOCATION CHANGE!!!!!!

MS FOOTBALL WILL PLAY AT JACKSON HEIGHTS (12692 266TH RD., HOLTON, KS) ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 - 6:30 PM

This is a location change for MS Football ONLY.

MS Volleyball will still play AT OSKALOOSA on Thursday, Sept. 12 - 4:30 PM w/ St. Benedict's and Oskaloosa. Full Schedule is available on our website www.troyusd.org or on the THS Facebook page.

GAME NOTICE - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - 9 AM

TROY HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

HIAWATHA HS - 600 RED HAWK DR, HIAWATHA, KS

FULL SCHEDULE IS POSTED BELOW:

GOOD LUCK LADY TROJANS!