Herington USD 487 -

Sophia and Mrs. Beye have spent the past four days in Missouri helping with their FBLA State Conference. Sophia presented workshops, helped with competitions and installed the newly elected State Officers.

FCCLA spent two days in Wichita at our State conference. Thank you to Jennifer Deuanes for helping chauffeur kids around. 15 kids got the experience life outside of Herington… This is all due to help from our community that make donations and supports our organizations. So thank you for that. Big thank you to the girls and Korey whom behaved and represented Herington well.

FCCLA Star Event we’re yesterday. Today we got all silvers very proud of them…. Korey will be our only Herington student attending the national conference in Denver as a District President for District C. Korey completed in Professional Presentation, and Karizma and Eleanor both completed in Job Interview.

All spring sports pictures have been taken. If you are interested in ordering spring sports pictures, all forms need to be returned to the HS/MS offices by next Thursday. Forms are located in the HS/MS offices.

On Wednesday, April 12, members of the SALT leadership team travelled to Centre HS for a second session with Mr. Joe Coles and his "Uncommon Leader" workshop. HHS members worked with students from Centre HS and Rural Vista on ways to improve school culture and climate.

Congratulations to the 8th grade girls for placing 1st at the Centre Track Meet today at Marion and 8th grade boys for placing 2nd. Individual Results - Girls 7th Grade - 100 - 5th Atalie Alexander 200 - 5th Cheyenne Hineline 1600 - 5th Maci Kinser 100 M Hurdles - 4th Alexis Sjodahl 200 M Hurdles - 3rd Alexis Sjodahl 4x100 - 2nd - Sadie Haws, Mia Cambron, Atalie Alexander, Alexis Sjodahl High Jump - 3rd Alexis Sjodahl Long Jump 4th Atalie Alexander Triple Jump - 4th Sadie Haws Shot Put - 4th Journey Davis Discus - 4th Ivy Osburn 8th Girls 100 - 3rd Morgan Simmons; 4th Kenley Kickhaefer 200 - 2nd Kenley Kickhaefer; 5th Navaeh Bonhomme 400- 2nd Nevaeh Bonhomme; 4th Sienna Brown 800 - 1st Makayla Simmons; 2nd Cadance Sill-Sheppard; 3rd Sienna Brown 1600 - 1st Makayla Simmons; 2nd Sienna Brown; 3rd Cadance Sill-Sheppard 3200 - 1st Makayla Simmons 100 Hurdles - 2nd Kora Kinchen 200 Hurdles- 1st Kora Kinchen 4x100 Relay - 1st Kenley Kickhaefer, Nevaeh Bonhomme, Kora Kinchen, Morgan Simmons 4x200 Relay- 1st Kenley Kickhaefer, Nevaeh Bonhomme, Kora Kinchen, Morgan Simmons High Jump - 1st Cadance Sill-Sheppard Triple Jump - 2nd Makayla Simmons Shot Put - 1st Morgan Simmons Discus - 5th Koryn Alexander 7th Boys 400 - 5th Aidan Johnson 800 - 1st Ty Braucher 1600 - 1st Ty Braucher 4x100 Relay - 2nd Gage Billinger, Aidan Johnson, Tyson Schlesener, Ty Braucher Medley - 2nd Conrad Mueller, Conner Hight, Chase Stevenson, Jaesyn Johnson Long Jump - 3rd Ty Braucher Shot Put - 5th Hunter Purkypyle Discus - 3rd Hunter Purkypyle 8th Boys 100- 2nd Cameron Strauss; 3rd Pierce Schlesener 200 - 2nd Reid Griffiths 400 - 2nd Reid Griffiths 800 - 2nd Colton Meyer; 3rd Maddix Faulkner 1600 - 4th Colton Meyer; 5th Maddix Faulkner 4x100 Relay - 1st Cameron Strauss, Pierce Schlesener, Jax Kickhaefer, Reid Griffiths 4x200 Relay - 1st Cameron Strauss, Pierce Schlesener, Jax Kickhaefer, Reid Griffiths Medley - Caden Collins, Maddix Faulkner, Jax Kickhaefer, Colton Meyer Long Jump - 5th Cameron Strauss

Here is the schedule of events for the HHS track meet on the 18th in Moundridge.

The HES March student of the month is Nathaniel Haney – first grade student in Mrs. Martin’s class. There are so many positive things we can say about Nathaniel! He is kind to his friends, works hard on assignments, and has worked very hard to follow directions. He has grown so much this year and now shows a great deal of focus in school and knows why it's important to learn. We are very proud of him and what he has accomplished! Nathaniel is the son of Grant and Dawn Haney.

Congratulations to the 2023-24 HHS Dance Team Members!

Yesterday, 4/11/23, the HHS Forensics team had a FANTASTIC evening at the Salina South Last Chance Tournament. It was one of the best tournaments the team has ever had. They took 17 events and broke into finals in 12 of them!! And prose and poetry had over 40 entries in them. It was a great day to be a railer. The following medaled: *State Champs Qualified +State Festival Qualified *Henry Nelson & Ethan Urbanek-IDA-1st +Aiden Souza-Humorous Solo-3rd Alyssa Price-Humorous Solo-5th +Aiden Thibodeau-Impromptu-6th Mallory Arnold-Oration-3rd Aiden Thibodeau-Informative-3rd Hanne McDermott-Informative-4th *Avery Monnington-Poetry-2nd *Aiden Souza-Poetry-3rd *Morgan Magnett-Poetry-4th *Aiden Souza-Prose-1st +Avery Monnington-Prose-6th Coaches Hirsch and Rookstool were over the moon with excitement! “We could not have been more proud of the kids, ALL of them. Even the ones that didn’t break, performed outstanding! There were 28 schools and hundreds of entries. The team stood proud and tall yesterday,” said Coach Hirsch. The LAST normal tournament will be on April 17th and regionals will be ok April 22nd, both at Wamego. The team has 12 qualified for state champs (16 is the max you can take) and 1 for state festival, which are on May 6th in Wichita. The next two tournament will hopefully raise both of those numbers. Go Railers!!!

Meet Schedule for Centre meet at Marion on Thursday, April 13th HMS 9:30 am Coaches Meeting (Scratches/Substitutions) 10:00 am 7G Shot put followed by 8G, 7B, 8B 8G Discus followed by 7G, 8B, 7B 7B High Jump followed by 8B, 7G, 8G 8B Long Jump followed by 7B, 8G, 7G 7G Triple Jump followed by 8G, 7B, 8B 7B Pole Vault followed by 8B, 7G, 8G 10:15 am 3200m run, 8G followed by 8B (Note: If there are a few entries and enough stopwatches, the girls and boys will be combined). 1600m run (7th grade only) 200m hurdles (30” tall) Remainder of running events will be in this order: 7G, 8G, 7B, 8B 11:30 am 100m hurdles (girls @ 30”, boys @ 33”) 100m dash 1600m run (8th grade only) 4 x 100m relay 400m dash 4 X 200m relay 800m run 200m dash Medley relay

Job Fair

Wheat State League Art Competition Results - Post Three - Congratulations!

Wheat State League Art Competition Results - Post Two - Congratulations!

Wheat State League Art Competition Results - Post One - Congratulations!

Congratulations to the HHS track team on their performance Tuesday at the track meet at Burrton. The boys team came home with 2nd place and the girls team earned 3rd place(4 points out of 2nd place). As a team, they had 21 personal records(PRs), 7 event wins, and 21 top 5 placers! Well done team! Event Winners were: Kris Jones - Javelin, Colson McIntyre - 300m hurdles, Koy Mueller - 1600m, Davanne Schaffer - 3200m, Justin Widler - 110m hurdles and High Jump, Tyus Becker - 400m

Middle school track members please remember your uniforms for pictures after school tomorrow.

HMS Track Meet @ Marion (Hosted by Centre) Thursday, 4/13 @ 10:00 am

Good afternoon! Herington High School HOSA is hosting the third and final blood drive for this school year on Thursday, April 20th from 8:30 -2:30 p.m. Please consider donating - and to donate, please follow the registration link! The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime. Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program! Download the Red Cross Blood Donor App on the App Store, Google Play or text BLOODAPP to 90999. Schedule appointments, view your blood type and results of your mini-physical, and track your donations. Here is the correct Red Cross Link: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=heringtonhs&cid=siebel&med=email&source=bdc_email&utm_source=siebel&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bdc_email

Community members, if you need help with any tasks. Contact the High School office at 258-2261 or email the Principal at mpaul@usd487.org. There are several seniors who still need community service hours as a graduation requirement. Thank you!