🎃 Pumpkin Decorating Challenge Results! 🎃
Our Knight Time groups went head-to-head in a fun and festive Pumpkin Decorating Challenge! Building staff served as judges. 🧡 The winning Knight Time groups celebrated with orange floats!
Results:
✨ Prettiest: #8 Mrs. Yoney’s Knight Time – Minnie Mouse
🖌️ Most Detailed: #13 Resource Room’s Knight Time – Root Beer Float
👻 Scariest: #9 Mrs. Forde’s Knight Time – Baseball Man
🎩 Most Creative: #5 Ms. McMillin’s Knight Time – Skeleton in a Suit
Our Knight Time groups went head-to-head in a fun and festive Pumpkin Decorating Challenge! Building staff served as judges. 🧡 The winning Knight Time groups celebrated with orange floats!
Results:
✨ Prettiest: #8 Mrs. Yoney’s Knight Time – Minnie Mouse
🖌️ Most Detailed: #13 Resource Room’s Knight Time – Root Beer Float
👻 Scariest: #9 Mrs. Forde’s Knight Time – Baseball Man
🎩 Most Creative: #5 Ms. McMillin’s Knight Time – Skeleton in a Suit
Have a spook-tacular week!
Please plan to attend this eventful day!
Have a great week!
Here's to a good, short week!
The elementary has a special connection to the McVille Care Center. Classes frequent it often to visit, read, and sing to the residents. We are thankful and grateful for the ability to spend time with our neighbors next door!
The 5/6 boys basketball schedule is here. Let's go Knights!
Please take our annual Climate & Culture survey found on the DP website under the Elementary and High School tabs before Oct. 20th. We value your responses. Thank you!
To all the teachers around the world... thank you!
Did you know?
Children who read for twenty minutes a day will get exposure to over two million words per year.
Make it a habit; pick up a book and read.
Children who read for twenty minutes a day will get exposure to over two million words per year.
Make it a habit; pick up a book and read.
The weather is changing quickly; please prepare for the conditions each day brings. It's never too early to round up winter attire during this time of year!
If you are interested in becoming a bus driver, please contact Mr. Slade at the high school.
Have a great week!
If you are interested in becoming a bus driver, please contact Mr. Slade at the high school.
Have a great week!
5th and 6th grade boys basketball will begin soon. Students must have a physical done and turned into the office before the first practice, which begins on Tuesday, October 7th.
Look for a schedule in the coming days.
Go Knights!
Look for a schedule in the coming days.
Go Knights!
✨ The 2nd Annual Doris Forde 5K was a success! It may have been hot, but we had a great time celebrating a true Dakota Prairie legend. 💙🏃♂️🏃♀️
Dakota Prairie would like to thank our custodians for their dedication to keeping our school clean, safe, and welcoming.
Thank you Chris, Mike, Lee Ann, and Carol at the elementary.
Thank you Floyd, Debbie, and Kori at the high school.
Your efforts often happen behind the scenes, but they never go unnoticed. Your commitment makes a difference to everyone who walks through our school doors.
Thank you Chris, Mike, Lee Ann, and Carol at the elementary.
Thank you Floyd, Debbie, and Kori at the high school.
Your efforts often happen behind the scenes, but they never go unnoticed. Your commitment makes a difference to everyone who walks through our school doors.
Check out the latest edition of the Knight Reader!
https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4984/DPSD/6065043/Knight_Reader_October_2025.pdf
https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4984/DPSD/6065043/Knight_Reader_October_2025.pdf
Mrs. Avdem's 4th graders recently honored an important day.
Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up! Your child's teacher will send a message to get signed up to meet soon.
Congratulations to our September Knights of the Month!
Thank you to the Nelson County Sheriff's Department!
DP Graduates: If you took a dual credit course in high school, you are in luck! You can apply for a reimbursement scholarship from the state.
https://ndus.edu/paying-for-college/dual-credit-tuition-scholarship
This is a one time only scholarship.
$250 for 1 dual credit class
$500 for two dual credit classes
$750 for 3+ dual credit classes
https://ndus.edu/paying-for-college/dual-credit-tuition-scholarship
This is a one time only scholarship.
$250 for 1 dual credit class
$500 for two dual credit classes
$750 for 3+ dual credit classes