HHS girls' swimming hosts an invitational today at 3:30 in the YMCA. HHS varsity baseball hosts Wichita South in a double header at 4 at Hobart-Detter. HHS varsity/JV softball hosts Wichita South at 4 at Fun Valley. #308pride

HHS girls' soccer is in the Titan Classic at Wichita Southeast today while boys' JV golf is at an invitational at Great Bend. #308pride

McCandless has dental screenings Monday and Tuesday. #308pride

Set your alarms now. Classes resume in the morning! #308pride

HHS girls' soccer hosts Buhler today on the Salthawk Sports Complex competition field. JV begins at 5 with varsity thereafter. #308pride

HHS is excited to be able to offer our students a learning opportunity during the summer for students to recover credits and skills! We will have two three-week sessions that will have two classes a day. Session 1 runs June 7-24 and Session 2 will be from July 6-22. Classes are 8:00am-11:00am and 11:30am-2:30pm. Classes will meet Monday through Thursday every week except July 5-9. We'll meet Tuesday through Friday that week due to the Independence Day holiday. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for free for students attending the Salthawk Summer Learning program. Please contact Mr. Sawyer (620-615-4116 or sawyer.kyle@usd308.com) if you are interested in your student attending.

Boys Tennis, Soccer, and Track will be taking team pictures tomorrow. If you'd like to purchase individual or team pictures please remind your student to bring their order form.

The USD 308 Board meets in special session later today to talk about personnel matters. Meeting is at 5:30 p.m. in the Hutchinson Career and Technical Education Academy. #308pride

Come join us for Hutchinson High School Spring Sports Night on Tuesday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salthawk Activity Center. Doors open at 6:15 and athletes will be fed for free. *Spring Team Introductions *Games, Drawings, Giveaways *Special Speakers Parent meetings immediately following.

Hutchinson Magnet School at Allen and Faris Elementary School will have spring pictures on Friday (3-12-21). #308pride

HMS-7 will have dental checks on Thursday (3-11-21). #308pride

USD 308 Parent Enrollment Survey This survey will gather pre-enrollment numbers for our new virtual school as well as traditional schools in USD 308. For the 2021-2022 school year, students have two options for learning: in person or through our new virtual school. See below for more information about the virtual school. Hutchinson Virtual School (HVS) is a part of USD 308. HVS is open to K-12 students who reside in the state of Kansas. Local USD 308 teachers will provide support and instruction through daily online contact with students. In-person instruction sessions can be scheduled as needed. Adults wishing to complete their diploma are also encouraged to enroll. HVS will be open for enrollment soon and will follow the USD 308 calendar. Click on the link below to take the survey. It will ask you a variety of questions for each of your children. We know there will be families who move between now and August. This is just a preliminary indication of numbers and not the actual enrollment process. Thank you in advance for providing this valuable feedback. Please complete the survey by Monday, March 12th. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CZN529P

Students will not have regular classes at HMS-7 and HMS-8 on Wednesday (3-10-21) for the annual music contest. All other schools will be in regular session. #308pride

Remember juniors who have signed up for the ACT test will be the only students at HHS on Tuesday (3-9-21). ACT test takers should report at 7:45 a.m. All other schools are on regular schedules Tuesday. #308pride

The City of Hutchinson has informed us that Severance Street from East 12th Avenue to East 13th Avenue will be closed to all traffic through Friday (March 12). The water main and Severance Street are being repaired. This will change the traffic flow around Hutchinson High School. You will need to enter or exit either through the Arena Lot off of 11th Avenue or through the north end of Severance Street and 13th Avenue.

The USD 308 Board of Education will meet at 6 tonight (3-8-21) in the HCTEA Events Center, 800 15th Circle. Agenda is available at https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd308/Board.nsf/Public. #308pride

The HHS boys' basketball team takes on Haysville-Campus at 6 p.m. Monday at Campus High School. Gates will open at 5 p.m. Because of pandemic regulations, ticket allotment will be distributed to those participating in the game, and only those with a wristband will be allowed to purchase a ticket. All spectators will be required to wear masks/face coverings at all times. Social distancing is expected to be followed by all spectators. Go Salthawks!

The HHS Salthawk boys' basketball team is the Dodge City sub-state champion, defeating host Dodge City 67-43 Friday. The Salthawks will travel to Haysville-Campus for a 6 p.m. Class 6A state quarterfinal game Monday. The Colts won their sub-state Friday over AVCTL foe Derby. Because of the pandemic, the quarterfinals games are played at the site of the team with the best record. Boys quarterfinals winners will play Thursday at Wichita State's Koch Arena.

USD 308 Families and Staff, More good news. Our community positive test rate dropped again last week to 7.0 percent from 9.1 percent. Our active Covid-19 cases have dropped to 69 in Reno County. Keep up the good work. Masks, clean hands and social distancing make a major difference. If you have access to a vaccination, we would encourage you to consider taking it. The joint effort of the Reno County Health Department, the Medicine Shoppe and local schools vaccinated about 800 faculty and staff of all public and private schools in Reno County on Sunday. School staff members who were unable to receive this vaccine should contact the Reno County Health Department, Hutchinson Clinic, Prairie Star Health Center, Dillon’s pharmacies or The Medicine Shoppe for a vaccine. To learn about the current vaccines available or to find out information regarding the phase of vaccinations we are in and how to sign up, visit the Reno County web page https://www.renogov.org/741/COVID-19 Thanks for helping keep us all healthier.

Nominations are open for the Hutchinson USD 308 Classified Employee of the Year. Nominations will be taken until March 12. The award is open to all classified employees in the Hutchinson Public School District who have been employed in the district a minimum of three years at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. An individual may be nominated who works full-time or part-time in any classified position for the district. Guidelines for nominations and a link to the nomination form are available at https://www.usd308.com/page/ceoy. #308pride