Meeting Change....The regular monthly meeting of the USD 487 Board of Education for December has been changed. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, December 18th at 6:30 p.m. in the Elementary school Flex Lab.
Good Luck HMS at Centre!
Little Railers Preschool students enjoying having a snowball fight and making snow angels during their gross motor time today!
Studio 24 will live-stream tonight's varsity games at HHS. Please follow the link to their page and look for the video! Go Railers! http://www.youtube.com/@hhsstudio24
Middle School Student Council held a cookie decorating activity during the Herington Holiday festival on Saturday! Thank you to The Broadway Station for letting us use part of your business for our activity.
Night One of the Herington Pre-Season Tournament. Good Luck Railers!
Busy week of Activities at Herington Schools! Good Luck Railers!
HES Families: We are excited for our winter vocal music performance by our kindergarten through fifth grade students this evening (Monday, December 9th)! We are encouraging the students to wear any festive pajamas or traditional attire (but this is optional). We will open the front doors at 6:30 (students will report to their classrooms) and the show will begin at 7:00 in the HES gym. Overflowing parking will be available on the HES playground parking lot and the HHS parking lot.
Congratulations to the HHS Wrestlers placing at Wamego today. Ethan Urbanek 132 2nd place, Reid Griffiths 150 2nd place, Cameron Svitak 160 1st place and Dakarai Melcher 285 3rd place. Good job Wrestlers and Coaches.
Good Luck HS Wrestling as you begin your season at Wamego on Saturday, December 7th.
Angels are still up for adoption!
Opening day of High School Basketball season. Good Luck Railers tonight at Ell-Saline!
HHS students are counting down the days to winter break by completing "12 Days of Mindfulness & Self-Love" during advisory time. Wednesday afternoon, students discussed stress and ways to cope with those stressors. After, they hung a paper chain garland created with self-compliments written on the strips of paper (located in the HS commons).
Mrs. Mortensen's second grade celebrated winning the Big Pencil Award for November. The big pencil is given to the top elementary classroom for good behavior in the library. Mrs. Mortensen and Mrs. Barnes share the award this month due to a tie. Students realized very quickly how hard it is to write with a pencil this big!
The application for FAFSA (financial aid) for the school year of 2025-2026 is open at the following link. https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa Both the student and the contributor (parent/guardian) will need to make an account. The tax return needed will be the contributor's 2023 tax return.
When the student is setting up his/her account, he/she will need to know how much money is in the student's savings and checking account. In order to send a parent/guardian an invite to complete the parent part, the student will need the parent email address, date of birth, and SSN. If the student has not set up an account yet, it will take 1 - 3 days to get verified. Once that happens, then the student will complete his/her portion and send you the invite to do the parent portion. The website has a good Q&A section and also a bot in the lower right corner that can ask questions. If either of those do not answer your question, you can email me at jpritchard@usd487.org and I will work on your question.
HMS Canned Food Drive
Herington Pre-Season Tournament Schedule
December 10-14, 2024
We are looking for volunteers to help teach important skills to our high schools students. We feel it's important to teach them how to budget, change a tire, mend a shirt, put out a fire, etc. If you have an important skill you feel you could teach, we will hold 4- 30 minute sessions from 1:20 - 3:20 pm at the high school on Wednesday, December 18th. Please call the high school at 785-258-2261 or email mpaul@usd487.org.
Additional Railer Gear! Support the Railers Sports Teams by purchasing this gear.
High School Boys Basketball Parents Meeting will be held in the high school cafeteria at 6:00 PM tomorrow, Tuesday, December 3rd.