The Scot Shop at McKay High School announced the 2nd annual Scot Shop Grants during the school assembly today. The student-run store is excited to present grants, using part of the store proceeds, to support the McKay community and help foster growth in many different areas of our students lives.

The grant recipients this year are:

Japanese Club – $100.00 for special supplies to help develop Japanese writing skill that will lead to an international pen pal experience for club members.

MECHA Club $400.00 – Will help fund a 5 de Mayo dance  event for the school and community members.

Speech & Debate Club – will purchase a resource package from the National Speech & Debate Association to build capacity within the McKay club.

Health Services $500.00 – The Health Services class will build emergency kits for each classroom at McKay. These could be used in the event of an emergency situation in our building.

Creative Writing Club $100.00 – The club will create a literacy zine composed of writing and art created by club members and others in the school.

Islander Club $250.00 – The club hosts Islander Club Family nights each year and the funds will be used to defray costs for feed that these events.

Black Student Union $500.00 – The funds will support development of a club curriculum, provide startup funds for t-shirts that can be sold to support the club, and to purchase BSU stoles for graduation seniors.

Outdoor Club $600.00 – The funds will cover transportation costs to take students up to the mountain to experience snow activities such as snowshoeing along with exposure to other amazing Oregon beauty along the way.

The Advanced Marketing class sent out the grant applications to all club advisers and then reviewed the applications we received. They had a scoring process for the applications and voted as a class which ones to fund and at what amount.  They evaluated each application for its merit and its school/community impact.

“It is amazing to watch future leaders of our community blossom as they have these hands-on experiences with business and community connections.  A textbook could never teach the lessons they learn through this process!” – McKay Business Teacher

Last Saturday was the OSAA State Solo Competition at Pacific University. Luis Mejia placed 2nd in state on euphonium (looks like a baby tuba). This is an amazing accomplishment. Luis is an extremely dedicated musician, and he just finished a recorded audition for one of the Marine bands. Congratulations Luis! Go Scots!

Career and Technical Education students from McKay in the Salem-Keizer FFA Chapter got up extra early last weekend. That’s because they volunteered all weekend at the Oregon Ag Fest, giving out free starter plants to visitors who dropped by the Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) booth.

Royal Scots freshman Rebekah Major says volunteering last weekend at the OAN booth tested students’ social skills, helped them improve problem solving and taught them how to work quickly to help customers. The OAN supports McKay’s agriculture program and the FFA chapter by donating giving students a chance to win scholarships, and by donating money to help raise the next generation of agricultural professionals.

Agriculture teacher Gearld Hosler says there are 30 students in the Salem-Keizer FFA Chapter, and about 300 students who study agriculture in Career and Technical Education classes at McKay High School.

Pictured from left: Volunteer Nicole Billington who is the parent of a McKay High grad and is the advisor of the Camelids and Critters 4H Club; McKay plant science teacher and Salem-Keizer FFA Chapter co-advisor Krysta Phillips; and McKay agriculture teacher and Salem-Keizer FFA advisor Gerald Hosler.

McKay teacher Krysta Phillips says she loves the Oregon Ag Fest, and has been bringing her children to the event for years. She says Salem-Keizer FFA students learn professional skills like customer service and benefit from interacting with people from the very young to seniors. McKay teacher Gearld Hosler says that Salem-Keizer FFA students learn professional skills like accountability, time management and communication. He said another important skill students learn is how to answer customers’ questions.

See the attached flyer regarding this summer’s Youth Litter Patrol, an ODOT program that was founded in 1977 to help clean up highway rights of way. This is a great opportunity for students at least 16 years old to work outdoors with a team and have a role in maintaining the environment—while earning pretty good money for a summer job!

The safety and security of every student is our highest priority here at McKay High School. Because we do strive to create the safest environment possible, the school district has recently adopted new policies and precautionary measures for school sponsored dances. These policies will apply to Prom, scheduled for April 27^th. Attached you will find:

·       A letter from Director of High Schools, Larry Ramirez, outlining the new policy in detail.

·       An agreement that must be signed and submitted prior to attending any dance.

·       An Application for a non-McKay student to attend a McKay dance that must also be submitted in advance.

Please take the time to review these documents so you are most prepared to have a fun and safe experience. Thank you.

During spring break we had 16 students travel to Redmond, OR for our State FFA Convention for 4 days.

We had our Beginning Parliamentary Procedure team compete against the other top teams in the State, our McKay students did a fantastic job and placed 4^th in the State!

Our other students also participated in a knowledge quiz and placed 4^th in the State as well!

GO SCOTS!

Parliamentary Procedure:
Lilli Benson
Taralynn Nguyen
Rebekah Major
Oscar Hernandez
Divina Alaniz
Shanela Ibarra

Knowledge Quiz:
Jackson Breyer
Shanela Ibarra
Elijah Boardman
Taralynn Nguyen
Oscar Hernandez
Zoey Eads
Divina Alaniz