Newcastle Elementary School
In September the Wyoming Historical Society hosted its annual meeting in downtown Cody, and the meeting’s highlight was an awards banquet for people and organizations nominated and recognized for their interest in and preservation of history.
Mike Jording, a longtime member of the Weston County...
Jodi McGuire, submitted photo
Jodi McGuire, a Newcastle Elementary School special education teacher since 2012, is in her 12th year of teaching at the school and was recently revealed as Weston County School District No. 1 Teacher of the Year at a ceremony in Casper.
Speakers at the ceremony included Sen. John Barrasso,...
Weston County School District No. 1 administrators reviewed recently released Wyoming’s Test of Proficiency and Progress testing results — better known as WYTOPP — with the school board this month, and revealed that the district saw some gains in middle school but still struggles to reach certain...
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Schedules are made, teachers have classes, school offices are open, and classrooms are being decorated in anticipation for the 2023-24 school year. With school beginning on Aug. 22 in Weston County School District No. 1, principals at each of...
As the end of the school year creeps closer, schools in Weston County School District No. 1 are beginning to enter the WY-TOPP testing window.
While both Newcastle Elementary School and Newcastle High School have been designated as “partially meeting expectations” by the Wyoming Department of...
The Weston County School District No. 1 board of trustees wants to use exit interviews or surveys to better determine why teachers and other staff members leave the district. The hope is to use the information to learn wha the district can do better retain quality employees.
Over the past two...
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated from its original published version as more information has become available.)
Two weeks after a situation involving an actual gun at Newcastle High School was diffused, all three schools in Weston County School District No. 1 were locked down on Monday...
Photo courtesy of Jill Pischke
FFA Saddle and Sirloin Chapter President JJ Lipp reads to elementary students at Newcastle Elementary
School during FFA Week. Lipp and other FFA members who read to the youngsters enjoyed the activity so
much they would like to make it a regular event.
When the 27 members of the Saddle and Sirloin chapter of FFA started planning events for FFA Week, the Newcastle students knew they wanted to do something different — they wanted to engage the community, show appreciation in a lasting way for Newcastle High School staff, and recognize the...
On March 8, the board of trustees for Weston County School District No. 1 voted to approve contract extensions for six administrators by numbering the contracts instead of specifying the name, title or position of the employees as they went through the annual process of renewing their contracts....
After engaging in some discussion over the potential strengths and weaknesses of a four-day school week, the Weston County School District No. 1 board of trustees approved a traditional school week calendar for the 2023-24 school year on first reading during its Jan. 25 meeting.
As previously...
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