Open position for 8th Grade Girls Basketball Coach at Highland Middle School for the 2022-2023 school year.
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Our Snowball team met with our 6 grade students in advisory to discuss the dangers of social media today!
Good luck to the track teams who compete at home today at 4pm v.s Collinsville and O'Fallon Carriel. Go Dawgs!
HMS cheerleading registration is open for tryouts. A parent meeting will be held on April 14th with a time TBA.
Tryout dates will be April 25,26 & 28th with a time TBA. Tryouts are for current 6th & 7th graders plus incoming 5th graders to the 6th grade for the 2022-23 school year.
Please make sure to get a physical on file and register on the athletic site.
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Highland Middle School is collecting textiles to be reused or recycled in our USAgain bins located at the corner of Troxler Ave. and Rt. 160. Clothing, footwear, linens, and accessories. We would love to have your garage sale leftovers! Every time a bin is full, a tree is planted and funds are earned for HMS! We can earn an extra bonus for items collected in April. We appreciate your support!
We honored another group of Positive Pups on Friday!!! These students are being recognized for a variety of reasons including working hard, being a positive leaders, and showing kindness towards others. Keep up the great work HMS!!!
Lucky Lotto Buck winners for Team 8 Black!!
Congratulations to our HMS bands. They both received a first superior rating at contest yesterday. We are so proud of them!
Congratulations to our Team 7 Black 3rd Quarter Award recipients:)
Happy April Birthday, Team 8 Red!
The HMS track meet scheduled for today is cancelled due to the weather. We hope to make up the meet at a later date. Coach Smith will send out a message to parents about practice today.
Congratulations! Third Quarter AR awards for Team 6 Black.
Congratulations to Lucy Becker who won the Jim Burnes Leadership Award for Region 7 member schools of SIJHSAA. This is a special award and Lucy will be honored at banquet on May 13 at the Rend Lake Golf Course. Way to go! HMS is proud of you and your accomplishments! Go Dawgs!
Congratulations to some of our 6th grade boys who participated in a Middle School State Championship held in Champaign. They came away with the Championship for 6th grade level teams. Great job by the boys! Go Dawgs! The future looks bright!
Here are the Positive Pups we honored on Thursday! These students went above and beyond to show true Pup PRIDE! Keep up the great work HMS!!!
Congratulations to our boys bowling team who placed 11th overall at the state bowling meet today! Congratulations to Haley Merkle who placed 8th overall for the girls at the state meet today! Great job by Coach Ginestra! Go Dawgs!
Good luck to all our bowlers as they compete at the State Bowling Meet held at St. Clair Bowling Alley today. Go Dawgs!
HMS lost and found is overflowing with coats, shorts, hoodies, water bottles, gym bags and shoes. Please check out the photos to see if any of the items belong to your students. All items that are not claimed by April 13th will be donated.
HMS teachers started our institute day by doing a Highland Middle School timeline activity which lead to several great discussions!!! We also spent our morning vertically collaborating with the 5th grade teachers from Highland Elementary and Grantfork Elementary!
8th graders celebrated Pi Day on March 14th with several pi related activities. Each class had the chance to enter an option Pi Reciting contest for a chance to win some pie!!
