Railer Families: If you have a child that will turn three before August 31st, 2025 and you are interested in the Little Railers Preschool program at Herington Elementary School, please pick up a preschool application from the HES office and get that completed and submitted to HES as soon as possible. We will work on sending out our “acceptance” and “wait list” letters sometime in the next few weeks. A completed preschool application is required for consideration of entry into Little Railers Preschool. Please call the HES office at 785-258-3234 if you have any questions.
Happy "Blue Ribbon Tuesday" from HES!
Free Kindergarten Round-Up Event at Herington Elementary School
Kindergarten Round-Up in Herington Schools USD487 will be Wednesday, April 30th at 5:30 at Herington Elementary School. Your child must be five years old on or before August 31st, 2025 in order to attend Kindergarten next term. We will be doing an individual photo of each student signing their "letter of intent" to attend kindergarten at HES next year. We will plan on posting an individual photo of each student (with or without parents and siblings) on our school district's Facebook page. Your student will need to attend kindergarten round-up on Wednesday, April 30th in order to have their photo on the school district's Facebook page.
Prospective students and their parents are encouraged to attend Kindergarten Round-Up and become informed and prepared for your child’s Kindergarten year. Students and families will have the opportunity to meet staff members and hear some important information for next year.
Parents will have some time to fill out enrollment forms and go over medical information with the school nurse. Parents are asked to bring their child’s state-certified birth certificate, immunization records, and a recent health assessment (if available).
Please call Herington Elementary School at 785-258-3234 to confirm your attendance for Kindergarten Round-Up on Wednesday, April 30th. The process will take approximately one hour.
The senior class enjoyed an activity filled weekend in Kansas City. They wore themselves out playing games like bowling, mini golf, lazer tag, and more at Rush Funplex and Activate. They spent Friday evening cooking a family dinner and playing games.
On Saturday they spent the morning shopping at Legends. Then they headed to the KC Zoo and Aquarium before heading to dinner and traveling home.
It’s hard to believe they only have two more weeks of high school! 🚂♥️🧡
Good Luck Railers!! Have a great week!
HMS Track at Herington on Monday, April 28th. Field events starting at 1:00 and running events starting at 2:00. Go Railers!!
Henry Nelson, Isabelle Ecklund and FBLA. Adviser, Lisa Beye, spent Friday and Saturday morning at the FBLA State Executive Board meeting in Topeka, Ks.
HES Families: Final reminder that we have "Night at the Library" tonight - Friday, April 25th. Students need to be accompanied by an adult. "Night at the Library" will be from 6:00-7:30 at HES.
Due to field conditions, today's baseball game against Little River has been postponed to Thursday, May 1st at 4:30 pm in Herington.
The March Railer Review from your HHS Yearbook staff!
Hello HES Families: We have field day coming up Friday, May 2nd at 1:00 at the HHS football field. Students will rotate to different stations around the football field until 3:00. At that time, we will have the class tug of war games on the football field. Students are welcome to wear/bring sunscreen. A big thank you to PTO for providing water bottles and snacks for field day. We will send out text alerts, make a Facebook post, or send a note home if we have to postpone or change the field day start time for anything weather related (i.e. if an HMS/HHS home track meet gets rescheduled to Friday). Each class is also invited to wear a specific color of shirt on Friday for field day:
- Kindergarten – purple
- 1st – orange
- 2nd – green
- 3rd – blue
- 4th – red
- 5th – white
Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up soon and we are wanting to express our gratitude to the amazing staff we have at HES. The HES PTO and USD487 Administrative Team will be putting together our “Treat Train” for all of our HES staff to select items from during Teacher Appreciation Week. If any parents or community members would like to add any items to the “Treat Train” that would be greatly appreciated. Gift cards to local businesses, candles, jewelry, snacks, drinks, and any other items similar to this would be terrific. This will begin on Teacher Appreciation Week – Monday, May 5th. Please drop off items you want to add to the “Treat Train” in the HES front office any time. Thank you!
Here are a list of other events coming up:
Friday, April 25th – 11:00-12:30 K-5th Lunch on the Lawn, 3:00 K-5th Assembly, 6:00-7:30 Night at the Library
Tuesday, April 30th – 2nd Grade Field Trip to Rolling Hills Zoo, 5:30-6:30 Kindergarten Round-Up
Thursday, May 1st – 12:00-3:00 3rd-5th Grade State Assessment Celebration
Friday, May 2nd – 1:00-3:00 HES Field Day
Monday, May 5th – 3rd Grade Field Trip to Milford Nature Center
Wednesday, May 7th – 4th Grade Field Trip to Flint Hills Discovery Center
Tuesday, May 13th – 6:30 Little Railers Preschool Graduation
Wednesday, May 14th – 2:30 5th Grade Promotion
Friday, May 16th – No School (Teacher Work Day)
Tuesday, May 20th – 3:00 K-5th Assembly
Wednesday, May 21st – Last Day of School 1:00 Dismissal
We are still planning on playing the Baseball/Softball games at 4:30 in Roselia, Flint Hills this afternoon. Good luck!
Free Kindergarten Round-Up Event at Herington Elementary School
Kindergarten Round-Up in Herington Schools USD487 will be Wednesday, April 30th at 5:30 at Herington Elementary School. Your child must be five years old on or before August 31st, 2025 in order to attend Kindergarten next term. We will be doing an individual photo of each student signing their "letter of intent" to attend kindergarten at HES next year. We will plan on posting an individual photo of each student (with or without parents and siblings) on our school district's Facebook page. Your student will need to attend kindergarten round-up on Wednesday, April 30th in order to have their photo on the school district's Facebook page.
Prospective students and their parents are encouraged to attend Kindergarten Round-Up and become informed and prepared for your child’s Kindergarten year. Students and families will have the opportunity to meet staff members and hear some important information for next year.
Parents will have some time to fill out enrollment forms and go over medical information with the school nurse. Parents are asked to bring their child’s state-certified birth certificate, immunization records, and a recent health assessment (if available).
Please call Herington Elementary School at 785-258-3234 to confirm your attendance for Kindergarten Round-Up on Wednesday, April 30th. The process will take approximately one hour.
HS meet at CG cancelled
The Centre Track Meet at Herington tomorrow has been cancelled. MS will have practice tomorrow after school. HS track and Baseball/Softball are still on at this time.
Here is our May Menu! #FuelingKSKids
USD 487 is happy to partner with CARES Coalition of Dickinson County in effort to help connect families with resources available in the area! Scan the QR code or visit https://www.caresresources.org/ for more information.
Dear HMS Parents, here is the daily update I wanted to share of classroom assignments for HMS students. Please take a moment to check in with your child to ensure they are working on the assignments listed for their respective grade levels. You can also check for missing assignments at the following links
https://skyward.iscorp.com/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wseduheringtonks/seplog01.w
or
https://ksherington.myeducationdata.com/login. Your support in helping them stay on track is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your continued partnership!
Live result for HHS track meet today at Herington. Good luck to our softball team playing at Bennington today as well.
Happy "Blue Ribbon Tuesday" from HES!
