Communicating with parents is an important part of the work we do as a school district. One of our many avenues for communication is the use of SchoolMessenger, a parent notification system that is provided to us courtesy of Commercial Trust Company. Many parents rely on SchoolMessenger for receiving important and timely information regarding school […]

Save the Date: 2018-19 Academic Banquet will be held at Harrisburg High School gym on Wednesday, May 8 at 6 PM. Invitations will be sent home next week (April 15-19).

The BOGO Book Fair will roll into the HEMS Library during the week of April 30-May 3. The fair will be open from 8:00-4:30 each day. Watch for letters and flyers about the fair to come home with your students the week before the fair and, if you’d like to sign up to volunteer at […]

The academic calendar for the 2019-20 school year was approved at the Board of Education’s meeting in March. http://harrisburg.k12.mo.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Harrisburg-R-VIII-School-Calendar-2019-2020.pdf

If you have children who meet the qualifications for enrollment in Pre-K or Kindergarten for the 2019-20 school year, please click the link for information about our spring roundup. We look forward to meeting our new Harrisburg Bulldogs! http://harrisburg.k12.mo.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/kindergarten-roundup.pdf

Ms. Tiffany chaperoned a group of 20 middle school students to Mizzou’s campus for the annual middle school writing conference on Friday, March 8. There, the kids attended four hands-on sessions led by writing project teaching consultants, including Dr. D. The theme for the conference was music, so students played with poetry, did music-inspired mad-libs, […]

High school art students attended a Visual Art Day at Culver Stockton along with 400 students from area schools. Students signed up for workshops taught by area artists. There was also an art show that students could enter. Grace Whitaker and Riley Critchlow each received honorable mentions for artwork they submitted. Riley also received a […]

Everyone join in to congratulate Riley Critchlow on her win at the speech team’s district competition this weekend, which qualifies her for state!. She placed second in dramatic interpretation with her own adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. She will perform this piece, along with the top scorers across the state, on Saturday, April 13, […]

The Scholastic DINO-MITE Book Fair is headed to the HEMS library March 4-8, 2019.   Super-size fun awaits when our readers are turned into reading raptors, bookceratops, and readasaurus rex bookivores ready to unleash their inner dino and enjoy a stomping, chomping, reading good time! Fair Hours: Monday, March 4 1:00-7:00 during Parent/Teacher Conferences Tuesday-Friday March 5-8 8:00-4:00 daily Spring Book Fair FlyerSpring Book Fair […]

In a surprise announcement while surrounded by family, senior Audrey McBride was awarded the Columbia College Presidential Scholarship on Friday, February 15. She competed in the Columbia College Scholarship Day competition in January. The competition involved a written essay and a personal interview. To be eligible to compete in the competition, students must have a […]

Harrisburg has named Christopher Starkey as their 2nd coach in the history of their program, succeeding Travis Kinkade. Starkey is a Missouri native, but most recently was the Interim Head Football Coach & Offensive Coordinator at River Valley HS in Fort Mohave, AZ. Starkey graduated from Vianney HS in St. Louis and played collegiality at […]