Herndon ES Bee Hive, February 12, 2021

PTA lunch

Thank you to our amazing HES PTA for providing a most delicious “drive through” lunch from Café Rio for our teachers and staff on Monday!


New Bell and Lunch-Family Time Schedules Begin February 16 

Beginning February 16, our bell schedule will change to 9:45 am to 4:15 pm for both virtual and in-person instruction. 

While students remain virtual, their lunch time/family choice time will be 12:15-1:15.


Herndon ES Return to School, Town Halls, and Teacher Planning Days 

The Herndon Elementary grade level Return to School Days, Teacher Planning Days, and Town Hall schedules can be found on our Herndon Elementary School website.

Herndon Elementary Return to School Schedules

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PTA News...

Hello Herndon Elementary Families!

Our Jive-in-the-Hive Dance-a-thon is off to a great start! Our students are having so much fun with this event! We have more SURPRISE VIDEOS for your whole family to enjoy this weekend, starring our very own Herndon Elementary teachers. Keep your eyes open every day this weekend for a different Surprise Video to view -- it will appear in your email Inbox every morning! Our first surprise video will feature our Librarian, Sarah Richardson, with an amazing "No Leak" Bag experiment! That will be followed by a "Sweet Surprise" video on Valentine's Day, starring our Kindergarten teacher, Ms. Montero. Don't miss out on all of the fun this weekend!

In addition, there are some exciting chances this weekend for your child to win some cool prizes! Here are the details:

  1.     Just by REGISTERING on FUNRUN.COM & SHARING our event, your child will be entered into a DRAWING to appear in a weekly edition of the Friday News Show! We'll draw 3 students’ names at random who have REGISTERED and SHARED on Funrun.com and those 3 students will appear as a guest on our Friday News Show in just a few weeks! How awesome is that??
  2.     ALSO, by REGISTERING & SHARING on  FUNRUN.COM, your child will be entered into a sweepstakes for one of FOUR AMAZING GRAND PRIZES!! Go to FUNRUN.COM for all of the details. Your family doesn't have to financially give in order to enter the sweepstakes for one of these Grand Prizes! All you have to do is REGISTER & SHARE our event with others, and a winner will be picked at random! Go to  FUNRUN.COM for ALL of the details!
  3.     LAST BUT NOT LEAST, the GRADE that raises the MOST donations and pledges this weekend, will automatically win a special Virtual visit with our school mascot, Buzzy Bee DURING CLASS THIS TUESDAY! So make sure you collect as many donations and pledges as you can this weekend so YOUR CHILD'S GRADE wins the Special Surprise Visit with Buzzy Bee! Register your student on FUNRUN.COM by searching “Herndon Elementary.” Then, use FUNRUN.COM to log donations for your student(s).

Thank you for supporting our school, regardless of financial participation. We can’t wait for the "Jive in the Hive" Dance-A-Thon happening on 2/18!

Herndon Elementary PTA  


news show

Click here for the February 12, 2021 edition of the Herndon Elementary Morning News!


HES Calendar

February:  National Career and Tech Education Month

February 15: NO SCHOOL, President's Day Holiday

February 16: NEW Bell and Virtual Lunch-Family Times Begin

February 18: Jive in the Hive Virtual Dance Party, 2:30pm

February 18: Kindergarten Town Hall, 6:30 pm

February 19: PreK Town Hall, 3:00 pm

February 22-26: Custodian Appreciation Week

February 23: PreK and K In-Person Students Return to School

March 2: Read Across America-Dr. Seuss Day

March 5: 2 HOUR EARLY RELEASE at 2:15pm

March 8: NO SCHOOL for students; Staff Development Day

March 29-April 2: Spring Break, NO SCHOOL