Come support the Railers tonight at Home vs Little River!
Congratulations to the HHS wrestling team for their 1st place finish at Chase County Saturday, December 16th.
Individual Results:
Ethan Urbanek 3rd
Reid Griffiths 1st
Caleb Darrow 1st
Cameron Svitak 1st
Trent Nuss 4th
Gabe Gardner 5th
Peyton Taylor 1st
HMS Stuco and HHS NHS sponsored a food drive for the Herington FRE. The middle school collected 614 items and the high school came in with 687. Good job to both schools!
Gage Billinger, Herington 8th grade student, performed in "Trombone Christmas", on Sunday, December 10, 2023, at East Heights Methodist Church, Wichita, KS. Trombone Christmas is a nation wide organization in which all Christmas songs are performed only on Trombones.
Hunter Matthews, 8th grade student, participated in "Tuba Christmas" in Manhattan, KS, on Saturday, December 9, 2023. Tuba Christmas is a nation wide organization that performs Christmas songs using only low brass instruments - tubas, sousaphones, baritones and euphoniums.
Today 8th -12th grades had a guest speaker from Jana’s Campaign. This was part of HHS HOSA CTSO Sexual Violence Awareness week. Jana’s Campaign did a presentation on education about and preventing against gender and relationship violence.
Principal Morgan was our music teacher today and got to hang out with Kindergarten students for a whole hour! It's awesome that he stepped in when we were short on subs. #LevelUpRailers
Results from HHS Wrestling at Chase County December 14th. Great Job Wrestlers.
Ethan Urbanek- 1st, Colten Gehrke- 1st, Reid Griffiths- 1st, Korbyn Gentz- 2nd, Caleb Darrow- 2nd, Cameron Svitak- 1st, Trent Nuss- 3rd, Gabe Gardner- 3rd, Peyton Taylor- 3rd.
**Thank you to manager Taygean Gentz for the few pictures.
In reading the students in Ms. Collins’s class each chose an animal and found facts about their habitat. The students then created a poster that included their animal’s name, a drawing of their habitat, and a fact about the animal’s habitat.
Mrs. Roth’s Kinders had a great time decorating a gingerbread house with their parents. It was amazing to see all the creative ideas on each house! They all turned out great! #LevelUpRailers
Mrs. Roth's kindergarten class recently made a book and had it published. The students are excited about their pages and sharing with others what they want to do when they grow up. They look forward to checking the book out of the library. #LevelUpRailers
Herington Elementary School has an opening for a paraeducator position. This is a USD305 CKCIE cooperative paraeducator position (these positions report for duty on site at Herington Elementary School but are employed through USD305). If you are interested in applying please follow the link below:
https://www.applitrack.com/usd305/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Support+Staff&subcategory=Paraeducator+for+Sped
Click on the Apply button under the "Paraeducator - USD 487 Herington Unified School District" tab (you will need to scroll down and the tab is located about halfway down the web page). If you have any questions please call 785-258-3234 and we hope you will consider joining a great team!
This week's activities at Herington High/Middle Schools
Go Railers!
All games tonight are in the HS Gym starting at 3:30.
Go HMS Railers!
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS -- The food drive ends on Wednesday! If you don't bring 400 items (100 per grade), we won't have Big Chill Day on the 20th. Bring your items!
Congratulations to our wrestlers for placing at the Onaga Tournament today.
Varsity
Cameron Svitak 1st place
Reid Griffiths 3rd place
Gabe Gardner 2nd place
Colton Gehrke 1st in JV Tournament
Corbyn Gentz 4th Place
Great job HHS Wrestlers!!
Nice wins Railers and Lady Railers.
Lady Railers over Centre 35-19 and Railers over Centre 60-44.
Here is the link for tonight’s matchup against Centre. It will just be a static camera.
https://www.youtube.com/live/p7_H-dVU8bw?si=4hoxnpv9RnkLSLbQ
Important Time Change!! We understand that Mondays game change affects parents of both middle school and elementary. In order to try to avoid overlap we are going to start the 1/2 B girls at 3:30. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
HMS vs Centre
3:30 "B" Girls 1/2
4:00 "B" Boys
5:00 "A" Girls
6:00 "A" Boys
Games will run ahead of schedule if possible.
Congratulations to our wrestlers participating in the Chase County Meet on December 7th.
Reid Griffith 2-0
Caleb Darrow 2-0
Cameron Svitak 3-0
Ethan Urbanek 2-1
Peyton Taylor 2-1
Colten Gehrke 1-2
Korbyn Gentz 1-2
Gabe Gardner 1-2
Trent Nuss 0-3
