Celebrating our retirees! Retiring THS educators pictured with THS Principal Mr. Hutchison. Retirees include Diane Wilham, Melissa Williams, Kate Dubre, Sara Pennock, and Alan Mills.
Mr. Nichols' Introduction to Industry classes built planter boxes for Mrs. Hoy's FaCES class. Thank you, Mr. Nichols! Pictured is the 5th Hour Introduction to Industry class.
Congratulations to the THS Band on their 1st Place, Superior performance at Music at the Hills! Picture of the THS Band and their trophies at Worlds of Fun Theme Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
FCA Bake Sale Fundraiser Thursday and Friday! All proceeds go to assist the Vocks Family!
THS Family, Let's support the Vocks family!
Taylorville Choir Students Receive Awards
Several awards were conferred upon students in the Taylorville Choir Program at a year-end Honors Concert held on the evening of Tuesday, May 7. Awards given out at the ceremony include:
Outstanding 7/8th Grade Choir Member – Landri Salmon
Outstanding 7/8th Grade Musician – Olivia Garren
Outstanding THS Mixed Choir Member – CJ Guy
Outstanding THS Mixed Choir Musician – Maelie Heberling
Outstanding THS Concert Choir Member – Mylie Sims
Outstanding THS Concert Choir Musician – Rhyker Wicks
Also announced at the concert was the recipient of the prestigious National School Choral Award. For the 2023-2024 school year, this honor goes to Mylie Sims
Thank you to Mrs. Davidson for organizing a Fishing trip for some of our THS students! A great experience and learning a lifelong love of the outdoors!
Congratulations to Jamison Jones who has been accepted to the Illinois Math and Science Academy!
Congratulations to these students for being selected as Peoples Bank and Trust and WTIM Taylorville High School Students of the Month for April!
Pictured: Elsie Williamson, RJ Cottrill, Brylie True, John Paul Jones
Congratulations to THS Journalism!
IHSA State Results
Journalism State Results
Lillie Jones - 6th Place editorial writing
Milana Henson - 6th Place yearbook layout double page spread
Mylie Sims & Anthony Rivecco - 2nd Place TV News
Each year, the business management class at THS does a non-profit organization project. After voting by students, teachers, and administration, Carlie Durham won with her presentation on Dinner Seasoned with Love. DSWL has been serving the community with a free hot meal on the third Saturday of every month. Anyone can join on a no-questions-asked basis. If you would like more information, please call 217-825-6824.
Pictured are Carlie, Kaity Traughber(DSWL member), and teacher Sara Pennock.
Unified Tornadoes went to Memorial School today to spend some time playing games with the FACeS students. THS students in attendance were Grace Rogers, Nora Thomas, Olivia Woodward, Aubrey Kietzman and Jessi Wright.
On Monday, April 22nd, Mrs. Williams' Housing & Home Furnishings class took a field trip to the Dana-Thomas house and Lincoln's home.
On the evening of Friday, April 12, 2024 the THS Music Department sent several
ensembles to participate in the Illinois High School Association State Music Contest.
The THS Concert Choir, Concert Band, and Jazz Band each prepared a set of very
challenging music to perform in front of a three judge panel. Each of those groups
earned the highest level rating of Superior, or Division I. These student musicians
did a great job, and represented our school and community extremely well.
Congratulations!
Today, Mr. Koniak presented "Current Events with Structure and Substance" at the ICSS Spring Conference. This year's conference, titled Emerging Narratives and Technologies in Social Studies, was held on the University of Illinois Springfield campus. Mr. Koniak shared how he integrates technology and a variety of instructional techniques in his current events class at THS.
Message from Jake Whetsell of the Christian County CEO Program:
This is Jake Whetsell with the Christian County CEO Program and I am also a senior at THS. Our CEO class is holding a murder mystery dinner and silent auction this Saturday, April 13th, with the show beginning at 7 pm. We have sold out of in-person tickets but we decided to have a livestream of the event. We are selling virtual tickets for $25 to join the livestream and enjoy the show. On the livestream, attendees will be able to submit their guess or bid in the comment section. The link would open at 6:30 and the show would begin at 7. I have included the link to sign up for the livestream at the bottom of this email. We hope to have your support and to see on the stream this Saturday to experience our production.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7Up3l--wdslKCEPVCwbq3_xOFGLDoz5UDufgFcL9dMKOHjw/viewform
TCUSD3 was well represented this evening at the Central Illinois STEM Fair in Rochester. Thank you to Mrs. Reindl, Mrs. Specha, Mr. Hohenstein and the TommyTV crew, and Mrs. Mateer and the Tommy Photo crew for sharing their expertise!
2024 Solar Eclipse viewing at THS! Great Memories! Thank you to Mrs. Hefner for the Pictures.
A reminder to all that nominations for the 3rd Annual Tommy Awards are still open and will remain open until April 7th at 11:59 P.M.
The Taylorville Police Department and Christian County Sheriff made us aware of an incident they were investigating involving weapons possessed by a person outside of school, which also resulted in the recovery of a look-alike weapon “BB Gun” located at school. They have assured us that at no time are they aware our students or staff were ever in danger. We are grateful for their thorough and rapid response and for keeping us apprised as the investigation unfolded. Please don’t be alarmed by the additional visibility of officers in the area over the next couple of days as we have asked police to be more visible in and around the school.