One last reminder for the year: If you want a 2024-2025 yearbook, place your order by May 14th!
This is a reminder for 5-7th grade students who are interested in running for Student Council next year. Your leadership question responses are due Tuesday, May 6th by 3:30 PM. For 5th grade students, you will turn your answers into your teacher. Sixth and seventh grade students will turn in their responses to Ms. Hawkins. Those 6/7th grade students who are participating in the track meet on Tuesday need to turn in their responses before they leave for the track meet. Elections will be in the afternoon on Wednesday, May 7th.
Mrs. Susan Mueller, her husband Ray, and community member Clarendene spent the day at the Middle School creating projects out of recycled materials in honor of Earth Day. Our middle school students were very creative and created some great projects! We appreciate the opportunity working with members of our community.
2A State Forensics is being held in Marion today. Your HHS Railers have 13 students competing in 16 events. Break a leg! 🚂♥️🧡
Update: 9 out of 16 entries made it to semi-finals! #railerproud
Herington High School received a visit from Senator Jerry Moran. Students Raquel Lawrenz, Henry Nelson, Isabelle Ecklund, Aidan Thibodeau, and Leslyn Kremeier led the tour and walked him around our school facilities. They were able to explain the importance of our career technical education pathways and the opportunities that it has presented to them so far. He met briefly with our seniors, the fine arts department, our student ran coffee shop, our ag department, and others. We are happy to have him come see the hard work our students and teachers do everyday.
Congratulations to the softball team for their win over Canton Galva tonight 17-16 in the second game tonight.
Mrs. Roth’s Kindergarten students each colored a May Day basket and filled it with candy for the teacher of their choice. They were so excited to deliver their baskets!
Second graders went to the Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina for their field trip. They saw lots of animals both at the zoo and the museum!
Come support our baseball team at their last home game of the season.
HES Families: reminder that tomorrow is field day from 1:00-3:00 on the HHS football field. Please send your student in shoes with laces, sunscreen, and a colored shirt for your grade level if possible.
Kinder - purple
1st - orange
2nd - green
3rd - blue
4th - red
5th - white
Our amazing PTO will have water bottles and snacks for the students. Thank you so much!
Dickinson County Transition Coalition hosted a job fair featuring 20 different local businesses. Students explored each booth and talked with the representatives about the details of the jobs, how to apply, and what the work is like. Each group also brought items for the students to take such as fliers, documents with more details and who to contact, stickers, pens, and more!
HHS would like to thank the businesses that participated in our job fair! We would love to see you all back again next year. If you are a business owner who would like to participate next year please contact HHS Principal Mark Paul.
Mrs. Adkins and Mrs. Gordon spent the last few weeks swapping classes! Mrs. Adkins taught the 8th grade Ag Explorations class some basic woodworking and Mrs. Gordon taught the freshman Agriscience basic welding.
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.