Profile of a Graduate
We are excited to launch the process of re-imagining our graduate profile! This document will work together with our strategic plan and equity framework to help chart a path for the district’s future. Please view this short survey to provide feedback on our graduate profile.
2022-2023 8th Grade Future Readiness Parent Meeting and Activities Fair
Seventh grade parents and students please plan to attend the 8th Grade Future Readiness Meeting and Activities Fair on Monday, February 28th at Southview Middle School. School counselors and principals will present information about course options, what your child’s potential schedule could look like, and what to expect for the upcoming school year.
The Activities Fair will introduce our future 8th grade students to the activities, clubs and sports Southview offers at the 8th grade level.
The last name letters and times are listed below.
- Last Name A-L: 6:30-7:00 8th Grade Meeting (Lunchroom)
- Last Name M-Z: 6:30-7:00 Activity Fair (Gym)
- Last Name A-L 7:00-7:30 Activity Fair (Gym)
- Last Name M-Z: 7:00-7:30 8th Grade Meeting (Lunchroom)
We look forward to seeing you at Southview on Monday, February 28th.
Order your Southview Middle School 2021-2022 Yearbook
Don’t Miss Out! Order your yearbook today! Deadline 2/25/22.
Go to jostens.com, search for Southview Middle School and order your yearbook.
Black History Month Challenge
Calling all students ages 13-18!
- First Place: $3,500 scholarship
- Second Place: $1,000 scholarship
- Third Place: $500 scholarship
Scholastic Art and Writing Winners
Several students from the Ankeny Community School District were recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing contest during the month of January. Their work was blindly adjudicated by a panel of creative professionals and recognized as the most outstanding work submitted among their peers.
Scholastic Art and Writing is the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7-12. Our students will be honored at an online celebration in March sponsored by Belin-Blank at the University of Iowa.
Our two students with Gold Key honors are automatically considered for national awards.
Zoe Hutchinson, Southview Grade 8
Drawing and Illustration, The Purple Lotus Prophecy (Honorable Mention)
Elliot Sutton, Southview Grade 9
Short Story, Selcouth (Honorable Mention)
L to R: Vivian Powell, Celeste Rieder and Kalyani Bhat
L to R: Olivia Lammers, Brenna Coleman, Lillie Hamlin, Ella DeHaan.
Ella DeHaan, AHS Grade 12
Personal Essay & Memoir, Coming to Terms (Silver Key)
World Read Aloud Day – Feb. 2
World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, February 2, 2022! For 13 years, World Read Aloud Day has called attention to the importance of sharing stories by challenging participants to grab a book, find an audience, and read-aloud! The global effort, created by the non-profit LitWorld and sponsored by Scholastic, is celebrated annually in over 173 countries and is all about bringing people together through the shared connection of reading aloud in all of our communities.
Several opportunities are happening all week long in our schools! View the Scholastic World Read Aloud Kit here, or go to https://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday for more!
Congratulations to Kristen Recher, Iowa STEM Teacher Award
Attendance Reminder
68 Students Selected for the 35th Annual OPUS Honor Choir Festival
This fall, sixty-eight Ankeny Community School District students, grades sixth through ninth, were selected for the 35th Annual Opus Honor Choir Festival hosted by the Iowa Choral Directors Association. Over twenty-one hundred students were nominated by their directors for one hundred-eighty positions in each of the four OPUS Honor Choirs. Judges made their selections by scoring a recorded audition from each nominated student. The 2021 Opus Honor Choirs performed on Thursday, November 18th, in CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames. Congratulations to these outstanding young musicians and their directors: Nick Oswald and Jill Bjorklund, Southview; Ben Joseph, Northview; David Sponder and Emma Feldhans, Parkview; Riley Anderson and Lisa Rehms, Prairie Ridge.
Key:
*Solo Finalists
PR = Prairie Ridge
PV = Parkview
SV = Southview
NV = Northview
| 5th/6th Choir | 7th/8th Treble Clef Choir |
| Elin Alber (PV) | Mya Backstrom (SV) |
| Delaney DeAngelo (PR) | Ella Breuer (SV) |
| Shannon Frommelt (PR) | Caitlyn Chance (SV) |
| Sloane Gauerke (PR) | Charlee Cibula (SV) |
| Peyton Griffith (PR) | Shelby Davidson (SV) |
| *Taylor Harrison (PR) | Ella Dietrich (PV) |
| Sarah Heldt (PR) | Aubrie Kolner (NV) |
| Sloane Huisman (PR) | Whitney Lee (PR) |
| Zena Jorgensen (PR) | Reese Mitchell (NV) |
| William Peverill (PV) | Lilian Monthei (SV) |
| Derek Pross (PV) | Allison Muehr (SV) |
| Kahlan Simmonds (PV) | Sara Phillips (PV) |
| Abigail Tanner (PV) | Landry Wagner (PV) |
| Autumn Underwood (PR) | |
| Aaliyah Van Horn (PV) |
| 7th/8th Bass Clef Choir | 9th Mixed Choir |
| Austin Albaugh (PV) | Nick Ambrosecchia (SV) |
| Cael Austin (PV) | Ingrid Dietrich (SV) |
| Greyson Beenen (SV) | Tim Fairchild (SV) |
| Lincoln Blessing (PV | Eli Feldhans (SV) |
| Hudson Evans (SV) | Leah Hatch (SV) |
| Garrett Hemmingsen (SV) | Alex Hoxeng (SV) |
| Jayden Huegel (SV) | *Evelyn Huegel (SV) |
| Harrison Jansen (NV) | Cade Johnson (SV) |
| Zena Jorgensen (PR) | Mia Koka (SV) |
| Oliver Klein (SV) | James Lopez (SV) |
| Erik Kleve (SV) | Landon Pote (SV) |
| Zach Kragel (SV) | Zach Riley (SV) |
| Jefferson Menke (PV) | Nicholas Robie (SV) |
| *Logan Peterson (PV) | Tyler Sickerson (SV) |
| Anders Repp (SV) | Ethan Skow (SV) |
| Jack Reysack (SV) | Carlos Vergara (SV) |
| Gus Ringholz (PR) | |
| Jackson Robie (PV) | |
| *Ezekiel Scroggs (PR) | |
| Caleb Sensor (SV) | |
| Brannen Shanahan (SV) | |
| William Simmonds (SV) | |
| Jayden Song (SV) | |
| Jaxon Speer (PV) | |
| Billy Youngquist (SV) |
CONGRATULATIONS to the hundreds of Ankeny students who submitted recordings and especially to each of these fine young musicians who were selected! Prairie Ridge students Taylor Harrison and Ezekiel Scroggs, Parkview student Logan Peterson and Southview student Evelyn Huegel had the distinguished honor of being chosen as solo finalists for the festival, and Logan Peterson was chosen as a soloist! Congratulations to all!
Holly Anderson Named 2022 Middle School Iowa Athletic Director of the Year
Holly Anderson, Activities Director at Northview Middle School, has been chosen as the 2022 Middle School Athletic Director of the Year by the Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association. Holly was chosen for her outstanding dedication and leadership of young student-athletes.
“We are excited that Holly is receiving this much deserved recognition,” said Dr. Erick Pruitt, Superintendent of Ankeny Schools. “She is great leader, to both her students and also to her fellow staff members.”
Holly has been with the Ankeny Community School District for 16 years. Her previous roles for the district include P.E. teacher and girl’s basketball coach before beginning her current role in administration in 2013.
Honorees chosen as Athletic Director of the Year must have a minimum of five years’ experience and show qualities of achievement, excellence and character. Holly will be recognized at the annual IHSADA State Convention in March.