Due to lack of pre-registered kids, the FBLA sponsored Kids Night In, Parents Night Out has been canceled for the 2019 Friendly Festival.
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Due to lack of pre-registered kids, the FBLA sponsored Kids Night In, Parents Night Out has been canceled for the 2019 Friendly Festival.
HOMECOMING 2019
DRESS UP DAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Theme for Homecoming this year is “Reaching New Heights”
Poster Contest this year is open to Elementary – 12th grade. Posters need hung in the Old Auditorium by 9 am Thurs. morning.
This year classes will get points for: 1) Completing and hanging posters in Auditorium 2) Coming up with a Class Cheer (K-5th will come up with one cheer, 6-12th will come up with their own individual class cheer) 3) Number of students in your class that are dressed up. 4) Getting jobs completed for the “Reaching New Heights” Day.
Monday, August 26th
DeMoine Adams Speech 7th-12th Grade 8:30 am – Auditorium
KG-6th Grade – 9:45 am – Auditorium
Community is Invited!
Freshman/Juniors – Babies and Toddlers
Sophomores/Seniors – Old People
Elementary – Grandma and Grandpa
Middle Level- Choice of Old People or Babies
Teachers – Teenagers
7:00 pm – Blind Volleyball
Tuesday, August 27th
Denim Day aka the Canadian Tuxedo
7:00 pm – Kickball at the softball field
Wednesday, August 28th
Character Day – Dress like your favorite movie/TV/book/video game character
Hawks “Soar” Day
Thursday, August 29th
Hawk Pride Day – Hat and Jersey Day
2:00 pm – Coronation followed by pep rally downtown at 3:00
Bonfire at 7:00 pm
Dance TBA
Hay Springs After School Program Meeting
When: Tuesday, August 20th, at 4pm
Where: Hay Springs School Cafeteria
Who: All students and parents
interested in participating in ASP.
This will be a quick informational meeting discussing
the goals and plans for the after school program, as
well as providing an opportunity for parents to fill out
their contact information.
Contact Mattie Duzik for any questions at
mattie.duzik@eagles.csc.edu or (970) 756-8039
Friendly Festival is sneaking up on us again! Once again, Hay Springs High School FBLA will be sponsoring their annual “Kids Night In, Parents Night Out” Pajama Party on both August 23-24(Friday night) and August 24-25(Saturday night) from 7pm-8:30am. See the flyer by clicking the link below for more details, and REMEMBER, you can SAVE $10 by pre-registering!
There has been some demand for the re-purposed planter boxes that the woods students made last year from the renovated bleacher seats in hawk stadium. The school shop class will be taking orders for more and will be building them as time allows. If anyone is interested, please let Mr. Badje or the office know. Cost will be $20 each. Proceeds will go to the ITE program improvements. (Flowers not included. 😉 )
First day of school for all students will a full day on August 12th.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Adriene at 308-638-4434.
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Due to construction delays the first day of scheduled classes for students in grades 6-12 has been pushed back to Mon., Aug. 12th. All Pk-12 students are asked to report to school by 8:00. Elementary students will be dismissed at 4:00. Middle School and High School students will be dismissed at 4:15. We are very excited to welcome our students back into the building. However, we want to be certain that our custodial team has time to make sure all new systems are functioning correctly and our learning environment is ready for students. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to everyone who had played a role in the success of the Hay Springs Beef to Hot Lunch program during the 2018-19 school year. The program began by meeting with the western region of the Nebraska Cattlemen in the fall of 2017 in which Mrs. Shavona Henry, member of the Hay Springs Board of Education, and Mr. Lechtenberg the Superintendent attended. Following that meeting, the possibility of establishing this program to support our School Lunch Program was discussed at the Board of Education meeting. With the approval of the board the process began to move forward. Mrs. Henry contacted several area beef producers and we held our first meeting in the school cafeteria. Area beef producers who attended planning meetings included Brian and Muffy Forney, Travis Binger, Alisha Smith, Tara Rasmussen, and Greg Heiting. It appeared, to be obvious that we would have beef producer support to provide high quality locally raised beef for our student lunches. Next we met with Mr. Lambert, the Superintendent at Bridgeport Public School, and had a discussion about the processor they use and the particulars of the program. We then invited Denny Hoagland, the owner and operator of KDK Meats at Bridgeport, to speak at our Board of Education meeting about the slaughter process, packaging and delivery from the locker to the school. All local beef donations to the school lunch program had to be processed in a Federally inspected processing plant.
As the buzz about the potential to have locally raised beef for school lunch meals spread and individuals were contacted about support for the program, we received donations in-kind for freezers from BNSF Railroad and Russ and Sue Lechtenberg, delivery from the ranch to the locker from Greg Heiting, and from the locker to the school freezer by Forney’s, Jen Young, and School personnel. Security First Bank and First State Bank made donations to assist in covering the processing costs. The major donations came from the local beef producers who have donated to this program and include: Sheridan Livestock Auction Co., Judd and Brandy Hoos, Hinn Ranch XT, Marcy Cattle Company, Zach Kraenow Cattle Company, S&V Registered Angus–Don and Mary Vannetta, and Greg and Megan Heiting. We have had a total of seven beefs donated over the past year. We have improved the quality of our school lunch program.
In August and again on the last day of school in May Security 1st Bank brought their grill up and grilled burgers for our students to kick off the beef to lunch program. The school lunch program has utilized this locally grown beef in roasts, hamburgers, taco meat, and a variety of other meat menus. The cooks have developed a burger Thursday where locally grown beef is served every Thursday during the school year. Since the majority of the school lunch program utilizes ground beef in one way or another, the most acceptable quality of beef animals have been cull middle aged cows that have had 60-90 days of feed. We have had some higher quality beef animals donated and they are very much appreciated, but they will still mostly be utilized as roast or ground beef. If you are a beef producer or are involved in an agribusiness that supports our area beef producers, or are supporters of our educational system and are interested in supporting this Beef to School Lunch program please contact the school at 308-638-4434.
On behalf of the Hay Springs students, faculty, staff, kitchen personnel and the Board of Education I want to express gratitude for the tremendous generosity and support of our educational system in getting this program started. As a school district, we are so blessed to have the overwhelming community support of our patrons. — Mr. Lechtenberg
Hay Springs Public Schools has an immediate opening for a School Activity Bus Driver. Bus drivers must have a valid Commercial Driver’s License with Passenger Endorsements and pass random drug testing as needed. Successful candidates will provide safe and efficient transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantage from the district’s curricular and extracurricular programs. Our bus drivers are an integral part of our educational team. For more information contact Russell Lechtenberg at (308)638-4434.