
Congratulations to Highland Junior Robert Goehl for being named to the CCC Honorable Mention All Conference Basketball Team. GO Cougars!!

Congratulations to Highland Junior Alex Meyer for being named to the CCC 2nd Team All Conference Basketball Team. GO Cougars!!

Congratulations to Highland Junior Drew Mallett for being named to the CCC 1st Team All Conference Basketball Team. GO Cougars!!

Parents:
This is a reminder that school will be in session on Friday, 3/19/21.
The third quarter will also end on Friday, 3/19/21.
Parent/Teacher conferences will be held on Tuesday, 3/23/21 from 4-6 pm. Conferences will be virtual or via phone call. If you have concerns please reach out to your child's teacher.

Parents/Guardians: Teachers have been seeing an increase in cases of students not charging their Chromebooks. Please be sure to remind your children to charge their Chromebooks every night and to bring them to school fully-charged, as stated in the Chromebook handbook.


Highland HS did have a positive COVID case among the staff, which has led to 1 other staff member quarantined at present, as well as household contacts. It is still important to continue masking or it will lead to more students/staff quarantined! Please do your part!

The Highland Baseball Team will be having an online fundraiser through Fan Cloth beginning Monday, 3/8/21 and ending on Monday, 3/22/21. There are various Highland Baseball and Highland Cougar items. Examples of items that can be purchased are clothing, lawn chairs, tumblers, stadium blankets, and masks. Items purchased will be shipped directly to the buyer's home. When purchasing at the checkout page, people will be asked to select or type in a Highland Baseball Player's name. If you do not know a Highland Baseball Player just list "Highland Cougars" as the referring player. Here is the link to the team store. fancloth.shop/c1azu Thank you for supporting Highland Baseball!!!

Varsity Track and Field will have a Parents meeting Thursday March 11 at 5:30 PM in the HHS Gym. This is an informational meeting to go over procedures and expectations for the season. Parents or guardians of HS Track members are encouraged to attend.

REMINDER...
HES Spring pictures TOMORROW, Mon. 3/8/21
For: Any HES student interested (completely optional)
Info: Picture proofs (once available) & purchase information will be shared home for families to consider.


Mrs. Bainter’s kindergarten class celebrated Dr.Seuss. We made hats, wrote about wishing for duck feet, played green eggs and ham tic tac toe and made cat in the hat and green eggs snacks! We had a great day!


Mrs. Jennings' class celebrated Read Across America! We read The Cat in the Hat, made oobleck slime, and made "truffala tree" cupcakes!



THERE'S STILL TIME!
HES Kindergarten Screenings - March 10-12
Please follow the links below for all the info :)
WATCH THIS - http://bit.ly/QuickOverviewWithMrPost
REVIEW THIS - https://bit.ly/AllAboutKindergarten-Info
SIGN-UP HERE - http://bit.ly/KindergartenScreening-SignUp

SMILE!
- HES Spring pictures will be Mon. 3/8/21
For: Any HES student interested (completely optional)
Info: Picture proofs (once available) & purchase information will be shared home for families to consider.


Summer school enrollment folders are going home with students in kindergarten through 8th grade on Friday, March 5. Please complete and return the blue form in the folder if you have any interest in sending your child to summer school. Or you may choose to register your child online using the the following link. http://bit.ly/LCC1SummerSchool


Highland Alum and Marine Corporal Cole Schutte stopped by for a nice visit today. We always appreciate him taking the time to come and see us. Thank you Cole for your service and for checking in on us, it was great to see you.


Payton Miller also was in the juried High school art exhibition at the Quincy Art Center


Varsity track, first day of relay handoff work.


Varsity track, first day of relay handoff work.

Varsity track, first day of relay handoff work.

Administration has confirmed that we are OK to stop the precautionary boil order we have had in place for the past 48 hours. Water refill stations will be active at school tomorrow! Thanks again to Brian Ritterbusch and the Home Depot in Quincy for donating bottled water!