Parents -- please review our policy for excusing absences -- help the school by calling the office or providing a doctor's note.
There will be a free Opioid and NARCAN education presentation on Nov. 8 from 6-9 pm at the Herington Community Building. Please see the flyer and sign up using the QR code. The presentation will be given by nurse practitioner and Doctoral student, Erica Sergent, from the University of Missouri - KC.
Students are encouraged to wear red on Monday for Red Ribbon week. The entire district students and staff will form a red ribbon on the football field for a picture. Red Ribbon week is an awareness campaign against alcohol, tobacco, smoking, and other drugs.
Herington FCCLA attended their District Fall Leadership Conference in Chapman yesterday.
Railer Football @ Home Friday, October 20th
Come Support your Herington Railers!
Senior Night and Military Night
The HHS sophomore class will be taking a field trip to the State Fairgrounds on Wednesday Oct. 25 for a Career Fair. There will be over 200 booths representing colleges, technical schools, businesses, military, and public services from across the state. Approximately 5000 students will be in attendance over the 2 days of the career expo. They will leave the high school at 8:30 am and return in the afternoon before the school day is over. Students need to bring money to eat lunch. There will be multiple vendors at the site for them to choose from.
Pumpkin Jack has arrived in Mrs. Steiner’s third grade class! We are excited for our year-long Science experiment!!!
HES Families: We will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week with spirit days beginning Monday, October 23rd through Thursday, October 26th. The HES book fair will also be going on during this time and you can find the hours the book fair will be open each day. Participation in the spirit week is optional and here are the spirit days:
Monday, Oct. 23rd – “Red”-y to live a drug free life (wear red clothing) Book Fair open 3:30-4:00
Tuesday, Oct. 24th – Don’t let drugs sneak up on you (wear sneakers) Book Fair open 3:30-7:45
Wednesday, Oct. 25th – Follow your dreams living drug free (wear pajamas) Book Fair open 3:30-4:00
Thursday, Oct. 26th – Team up against drugs (wear your favorite team attire) Book Fair open 3:30-6:30
We are also very lucky to be hosting a Resource Fair on Tuesday, October 24th from 3:00-6:00 in the HES Café. Some of the organizations anyone can visit with include: Family Resource Exchange, Central Kansas Mental Health, Neighbor to Neighbor of Abilene, CFK Addition Treatment, Flint Hills Job Corps, Pre-Employment Transition Services, Independent Connection Inc., Qualify of Life Coalition, OCCK, DCF, and there will be prize drawings. You do NOT have to have a conference on this date to check out the Resource Fair – this is open to anyone!
We will have our HES Halloween costume parade on Tuesday, October 31st at 2:45 in the HES gym that any family and friends are welcome to attend! This will last about 15 minutes and then we will transition into our HES October all school assembly in the HES gym on Tuesday, October 31st at 3:00.
Please check your e-mail around the beginning of November for information on the HES PTO GameOn POP! fundraiser that will begin November 6th and conclude on November 17th. Finally, school will not be in session on the following dates: Friday, October 20th; Friday, October 27th, and Wednesday, November 1st!
HMS Red Ribbon Week
HES Families: We have reached out to Interstate Studios to make sure that they are aware of the issues several folks have reported with the student portrait previews they e-mailed out to families. We will keep you posted with any updates and thank you for your patience while they get this resolved!
Check out the highlight reel for the Railers vs. Gorillas game last Friday!
https://youtu.be/ZgYSdYmmj_o?si=SpD7Bp9HpnbBCoqs
Congratulations to our HHS Railer Athletes and Coaches on their outstanding performances this weekend.
Friday Night the Railer Football team beat Solomon 28-26. Our Railers are 5-2 on the season.
The Lady Railers Volleyball team placed 2nd in the Wheat State League Tournament at Little River Saturday. They went 4-1 on the day. Their overall record is 21-9 going into sub-state week.
Great job Railers! Keep up the good work.
Good Luck to the HMS Lady Rails at the Wheat State League Volleyball Tournament tomorrow at Hope. 🏐
Week of October 16 - Activities at HMS/HHS
Go Rails!
Today, Professors from the Theatre Department at Emporia State University visited Mr. Hirsch’s theatre class to talk about their program. They also showed off the incredible puppets for their upcoming performances of Little Shop of Horrors. Thanks so much to Jim and Dennis for sharing their passion of theatre to the students. They are looking at creating some fun theatre clinics in the future to do with HHS Drama Club. Go Railers!
HES Families: We are going to move our Lunch on the Lawn event indoors due to the high winds. Please come in the front entrance and we will have space in the café and gym for you to join your student for lunch. Here are the grade level lunch times and we hope to see you soon:
Kindergarten 11:00-11:25
1st grade 11:05-11:30
2nd grade 11:35-12:00
3rd grade 11:30-11:55
4th grade 12:00-12:25
5th grade 12:05-12:30
HES students participated in the Mountain Plains Crunch-Off this week for school lunch week! #LevelUpRailers
HHS students wanting to take college classes from Butler during the spring semester need to contact Mr. Pritchard asap. Registration opens on October 16th.
HES second grade students in Mrs. Meyer's MTSS group wrote about what they thought Mr. Morgan should be for Halloween! #LevelUpRailers
HES second grade students in Mrs. Meyer's MTSS group wrote about what they thought Mr. Morgan should be for Halloween! #LevelUpRailers
