Student Ambassador Program

Children live with stress.  Most stressors involve a transition of some kind.  Stress and change often go hand in hand.  For a child, moving away from a school and/or home can be traumatic.  Middle school is a difficult period of transition for most children.  Moving to a new community and being the new student in middle school can be not only stressful but frightful as well.

Our school wants to make new students feel welcome and help them develop some attachment to their new surroundings.  We will address this issue by implementing a student ambassador program at the middle school.  The primary responsibility of a student ambassador will be to serve as a new student mentor.  Specific duties are:
 

• act as hosts for building tours, new student orientations, special events and open house

• be information givers at special events (i.e. Mix-It-Up Day, 5th Grade Orientation)

• guide new students around the school and introduce him/her to students and teachers

• eat lunch with the new student

• arrange for the student to attend a school event

• make a follow-up phone call to the assigned student

• be a positive representative of the school
   

For this first year of the program, ambassador students were selected by the teachers.  Five students from each grade level have been chosen. Currently, students apply for this honor.

2007-2008 Student Ambassadors

Sixth Grade:
Kallie Lampe, Tyler Amsink, Megan Mason, Matt Brand,
Sydney Peitz, Ben Klausmeyer, Alexis Walker, Wyatt Lehner 

Seventh Grade:
Shianne Cokely, Tommy Hill, Meriah Leis, Nick Mullins,
Bailey McGuffey, Cody Reida, Katrina Ukena, Taylor Siruta

Eighth Grade:
Brittany Dome, Cash Kramer, Camby Elliott, Gage Scheer
Kelsey Gengler, Adam Wentworth, Paige Keller, Stephanie Spencer