Southern Valley School District

The JH Music program competed today at the Cambridge contest with the band receiving a "good" and the choir was rated as a "good" from one judge and an "excellent" from the other.

JH Music is leaving Cambridge now and should be back @ SV around 3:45 pm.

Mrs. Ruskamp's class earned a kindness award. We filled our kindness jar and voted on what we wanted to do as a reward. They chose a balloon fight with music. This was lots of fun.

First graders are learning about geography. Today we made landforms and the class had to guess what landforms each group made.

We had our annual pizza party in the elementary library this week! 17 students and 9 staff members earned pizza party tickets by playing Reading Bingo or by reading 2025-2026 Golden Sower Nominees.

Good Morning SV Nation and Happy Friday!! We close out the week celebrating Camila Hudson in our Senior Salute series. Please join us in congratulating Camila and wishing her the best of luck as she starts her new journey after graduation. Way to go Camila!!!

Tonight Southern Valley was proud to honor 47 students in grades 7-12 for achieving the Honor Roll with Distinction all year. After a catered dinner by Donovan's, the crowd received a motivational speech from DeMoine Adams and the students were recognized with a medal.

On "National Name Yourself Day" 5th and 6th graders took full advantage of choosing their name in Mrs. Marquez's classroom.

Here is the time schedule and order of events for the Don Stine HS Track invite this Saturday, April 11 @ Cambridge.

Good Morning SV Nation. Today we highlight Tytus Hall in our Salute to the Seniors series. Please join us in congratulating Tytus and wishing him the best of luck going forward. Way to go Tytus!!

On Thursday, April 9, all 7-12 students will need to park in the paved parking lot and not on the rocks in front of the High School as we are having some work done on the rocks during the school day.

Congratulations to our 55 HS Students who have been recognized by the being honored with the NSAA & Nebraska State Colleges Multi-Activity Award. The award recognizes students in grades 9-12 who participate in at least three NSAA sanctioned activities during this school year. Congratulations to these 55 Eagles for being involved in our extracurricular activities programs!!

We are now one month away from graduation, so that means it is time for our annual Salute to the Senior Class of 2026!! Today we highlight Kolton Dodson. Please join us in congratulating Kolton and wishing him the best of luck as he starts his journey after Southern Valley. Way to go Kolton!!

Thanks to our Librarians, Amy Russell and Kristi Bose for all they do for our students!

Meet results from the Wood River Invite.

Action photos from the Wood River invite. Results to follow.

First graders are learning about geography. Today we made landforms and the class had to guess what landforms each group made.

The 4th graders had a wonderful trip to Lincoln to tour the State Capitol. We learned about Nebraska's government and the history of historic building. While we didn't get to go inside of the stadium, we ate lunch outside of it and some braved the cold and walked around.

There is a high school track meet at Wood River this afternoon. It will start at 1:30 PM. Go Eagles!