East Sac County Community School District

East Sac County is looking for individuals to serve as Activity Bus Drivers.  Drivers must have or be willing to obtain a Class B CDL with the proper endorsements.  Activity drivers are paid for driving and watching the game.  With ESC having several activities throughout the entire year, we need drivers to safely transport our teams!  If you have questions, please contact Brian Wilson, Transportation Director.  Apply here: https://www.applitrack.com/eastsac/onlineapp/_application.aspx?posJobCodes=321&posFirstChoice=Transportation&posSpecialty=Bus%20Driver

East Sac County would like to thank Mrs. Yanda for her service and dedication to education and the ESC school district. Please enjoy your well deserved retirement!!!

East Sac County would like to thank Mrs. Niehaus for his service and dedication to education and the ESC school district. Please enjoy your well deserved retirement!!!

This spring, Culinary Marketing had the privilege of Dolly's Food Trailer visit the school. Dolly explained the it's and out's of a food trailer and she let the students prepare some of her menu items! Thank you Dolly Ortner for partnering with East Sac County schools!!!

Do not panic, this is only a drill!!! Later today Loring Hospital and Sac County EMS will be holding a Mass Casualty Exercise in the ESC Elementary parking lot and at the hospital. Please do not be alarmed by overturned bus in the parking lot. Thank you to our local EMS providers and the volunteers that helped make this training exercise possible.

Here at the start of summer, our Raider Softball and Baseball seasons are now in full swing!! Tonight we hosted Emmetsburg for both Softball and Baseball. Our girls won 12-9! Jamie Pierce had a lead off solo HR against E’Hawks, and the Raiders controlled the game from there. The girls have now won 2 in a row after beating Cherokee last week! The boys lost a close one today but they were coming off of a 6 run bottom of the 7th comeback win in their last game against Manson last Friday!! Both squads still have most of their season ahead of them, be sure to check the schedules and come out and support our teams this summer! https://www.gobound.com/ia/ihsaa/baseball/2023-24/eastsaccounty/v/schedule https://www.gobound.com/ia/ighsau/softball/2023-24/eastsaccounty/v/schedule

East Sac County would like to thank Mr. Gastelum for his service and dedication to education and the ESC school district. Please enjoy your well deserved retirement!!!

Cash Bieret, fourth grader from ESC was the 2nd place County Winner in the Soil and Water Conservation District for the poster he created. The theme was May the Forest be with you always. Congratulations Cash!!!

Although school is over for the year, we still have a few more posts from the school year we would like to share. Mrs.Bruce’s preschool class studied pets. Students learned that some pets have jobs. Last Tuesday the class was visited by two pets who have jobs with the police force. Archie is a golden retriever and is learning how to be a therapy dog. Jimbo is a black lab who is learning how to sniff out narcotics. The kids enjoyed their visit from the officers and their dogs!!!

East Sac County would like to thank Mrs. Mork for her service and dedication to the ESC school district. Please enjoy your well deserved retirement!!!

What a GREAT SCHOOL YEAR!!! Today marked the last for the Teachers at ESC for the 2023-24 school year. At 2:00 PM the staff gathered together to celebrate the year and recognize the accomplishments of our educators. The following employees were recognized for their years of service: Retirees Sammie Bruce has 37 years at ESC Jeff Niehaus has 34 years at ESC Donita Mork has 34 years at ESC John Kraft has 31 years at ESC Dave Gastelum 27 years at ESC Lauri Niehaus 20 years at ESC Irene Corbin 17 years at ESC Mary Yanda 12 Years at ESC Mark Berry 3 Years at ESC 25 Years at ESC Teresa Bettin Kelly Murley Dallas Pullen 20 Years at HMS Cheryl Rohlf 15 Years at ESC Zo Daisy Kathy Schmidt 10 Years at ESC Crystal Pudenz 5 Year at ESC Rebecca Brotherton Andreya Harms Rebecca Jackson Teresa Kotz Kacie Peters Congratulations and Happy Retirement!!! We hope all ESC students and families have a safe and happy summer break!!!

Congratulations to East Sac County Students of the month for the month of May! Elementary students are recognized for consistently following Raider expectations, being kind, and putting forth their best effort. Congratulations to the following elementary students: Preschool - Chelsie Galbraith Elementary - Easton Scharn (3), Heidi Swenson (1), Bexley Bieret (2), Briggs Kluver (4), and Dalton Uren (5) Not pictured:  Elina Smith (6) and Skyler Wirtjers (K) Junior High and High school students have been nominated and selected by staff for many reasons. Criteria can include being a role model for others, showing kindness, doing well academically, working to the best of their ability or having a positive attitude.  Congratulations to the following junior high and high school students: Junior High - Joe Hayes (7) & Peyton Ellerbrock (8) High School - Makylee Cromwell (9), Katelyn Schmitt (10), Hayli Kimsey (11), & Jennifer Aschinger (12) We appreciate your hard work and dedication to being a positive role model in our school!!! 

For the final day of school this year, our Elementary students were greeted by some Retired ESC Teachers in a special edition of High Five Thursday!!! Thank you to Lori Trost, Judy Miller, Susan Crabb, Diane Schroeder, Val Buse, and Marsha Phillips for joining us today! Students seemed to be excited and were looking forward to their last day of school!!! We will be excited to see everyone back on August 23rd, 2024, but first we hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable summer break!!!

On Monday and Tuesday, Chef Geoffrey Phillipson, Iowa Central instructor, along with Chef Cauy Hugeback and Chef Jordan visited Mrs Erpelding's FCS classes this week to teach the students about culinary options, talk about enrolled in Iowa Centrals culinary department, and plating meals. The students loved being able to try new foods and eating their masterpieces! Frying fish was a new skill for the students. Thank you to all of the chefs for a fun filled 2 days!!

In 3rd grade, unit 4 of our reading curriculum focuses on marine life. For the last few weeks the students have been working hard researching a marine animal. They used their information to create a presentation and presented them to the class!!!

On Monday, the Sac City Kiwanis took time to teach all of our East Sac County 1st graders about bike safety. They also gave each student their own brand new bike helmet!!! What an awesome community effort!!! Thank you to Kiwanis and Sac City Police Department for the presentation and helmets!!!

East Sac County would like to thank Mrs. Bruce for her service and dedication to education and the ESC school district. Please enjoy your well deserved retirement!!!

The talented Clinton Street Quartet -- four trombone players from the University of Iowa -- These U of I students performed for the East Sac County 7th and 8th grade band and the 5th and 6th grade band, and then answered numerous questions about how they got so involved in music. Later that evening, they entertained a crowd of over 50 at the Chautauqua Building on Wednesday, May 15th at 7:00 with a mix of jazz, pop, and classical music. The Clinton Street Quartet's performances were made possible by ArtShare, a grant-funded initiative to bring the arts to schools and historic venues throughout the state of Iowa. Thanks for providing this opportunity for our students!!!

Earlier this month, our East Sac First Graders went to visit different places in Sac County to learn about plants and about dairy farms. We visited the Prairie Pedlar where we had the opportunity to walk through the green houses, explore, and learn about the different plants. East student was allowed to plant their own flower to bring home curtesy of the Prairie Peddler. We then visited Fertig's Dairy Farm where they had the opportunity to learn how cows are milked, what it is like on a dairy farm, explore tractors, and bottle feed calves. Students were given hats and chesses samples. Then we went to Rustic River to learn about grapes and how you can grow grapes in Iowa. Students were given grape juice. Thank you to Prairie Pedlar, Fertig Farms, and Rustic River for providing great learning experiences for our First Graders!!!

On Thursday May 9th some of our 8th Grade students attended a hands on Health Care workshop in Carroll at St. Anthony’s to learn about different healthcare careers and to try some hand’s on activities! Students were able to practice giving injections, learn about different types of therapy- (PT/ OT, Speech), they toured the lab- learned about growing bacteria samples and the culturing process, learned about the blood bank, and seen real pathology samples. The students were shown how to draw up and give injections, how and when to do CPR. They seen how the cautery tool works, learned about infection control and the importance of good hand washing. Later we worked with a simulation mannequin, the students practiced “Stop the Bleed” and a mock code blue on the simulation mannequin. Just another unique and educational opportunity for our ESC students!!!