Heard County School System

It’s School Bus Driver Appreciation Week! The Heard County School System would like to say “thank you” to all of our professionals who are charged with transporting our students safely to and from school each day. These professionals set the tone for a great school day each and every day! If you get a chance, help us let them know how much we appreciate what they do for our children!

USDA announced recently that all students will be able to receive free meals, both breakfast and lunch, at school until June 2021! Check out this news article for 5 great reasons your child should get a FREE school breakfast and lunch! https://www.heard.k12.ga.us/article/326896?org=hcss

New releases on the Heard County Middle School Virtual Book Fair: https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/featured-shops/new-releases.html?grade=6~7~8 6 pages for new items added to the fair (tap to view pages at bottom screen)

All Heard County students receive free meals! However, your student does have to pick up certain meal components in order for it to be considered a meal. Check out our Facebook page for a couple graphics that can help you and your student determine how to take advantage of the free meals this year! Don't forget to check the dining tab on the Heard County app to see our online menus!

A lot of great stuff going on in our Middle School Art program! Click the link below to see the recent artwork created by our talented students. https://heardmiddleart.blogspot.com/

Heard County School System will be closed for children on Thursday, September 17th. School will be closed due to an overabundance of caution after watching the 11:30 a.m. National Weather Service briefing. We have large concerns for the amount of rain forecasted for our area. Dirt roads and gravel roads will likely be washed out and make travel impossible in some areas.

HCHS Football Tickets for 2020

Head Start Registration Now Open

Heard County has a new Powerschool Code for you to enter on the Powerschool app! When you open the PS app, please enter JWJQ. The new Powerschool Student/Parent Url is https://heard.powerschool.com/public/home.html

Heard County School System is proud to announce the 2020 Young Georgia Authors Contest Winners K- Addi Kirk -My Cats, 1st Grade- Bailey Putman-How Can I Help My World. 2nd Grade- Zachary Tatum- The Hidden Treasure, 3rd Grade- Vivian Wilson- Short Story, 4th Grade- Owen Camp- The Creation of Bulls and Men, 5th Grade- Piper Busby- The Lusitania 6th Grade- Molly Moreland- Journey to the Center of the Earth, 9th- Sirus Rowell-Outside, 11th- Riley Hunter Bloodsworth- With Love: A Short Story

The Heard County School System is proud to announce the 2020 Reader of the Year Award Winners. CES Reader of the Year 2020 K-2: Carter Howland 3-5: Abby Mattocks CES Reading Achievement 2020 K-2: Will Brewer CES Award for ELL K-2: Yahir Rivera Lopez EES Reader of the Year 2020 K-2: Ulric Rowell EES Reading Achievement 2020 K-2: Parker Wilson 3-5: Aleah Kinard HCES Reader of the Year 2020 K-2: Kensley Tatum 3-5: Anna Stollar HCES Reading Achievement 2020 K-2: Reznor Pietsch 3-5: Cooper Fuller HCMS Reader of the Year 2020 Winner 6-8: Jay Barnes HCMS Reading Achievement 2020 Winner 6-8: Ava Wheat/

This is a reminder that the Back to School Bash school supply giveaway is tomorrow, Saturday, August 1st from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Please remember this year's event is a drive-thru only event at Heard County High School. Student's must be enrolled in Heard County Schools and be present in the vehicle to receive supplies- while supplies last.

Big shout out to HCES Assistant Principal, Mrs. Maggie Bonner! Mrs. Bonner spent countless hours on a self-directed project to bring online forms to the Heard County School System. Thank you Mrs. Bonner for your countless hours of work converting forms and streamlining the process for all Heard County stakeholders! Well done, and thank you for thinking of the entire BraveNation

Chromebook pick-up for K-5 Virtual students will be August 10th and August 11th. All courses will open August 12th. More information will be shared during parent orientation.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PARENTS OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN K-5 VIRTUAL SCHOOL We are communicating with you using the e-mail address you provided when you signed up for Virtual Education. You should have received an e-mail with details about parent orientation and beginning of school procedures. Please double check your spam and trash folders for this communication. You will also be receiving your child's Google log-in information today. You will need this information to access Google Meet. Parent Orientation will be via Google Meets-You can use the information in the e-mail or the link below to access the meeting. If you have students in multiple grade levels you can join each grade level meeting but will only need to join at least one. Wednesday July 29th - 5 pm- 2nd Grade- https://meet.google.com/pko-txes-fsg Wednesday July 29th- 6 pm- 3rd Grade- https://meet.google.com/iuw-pbzn-kox Wednesday July 29th - 7 pm - 4th Grade- https://meet.google.com/wts-xwjj-zfr Thursday July 30th - 5 pm- Kindergarten- https://meet.google.com/dek-woxc-vou Thursday July 30th- 6 pm- 1st Grade- https://meet.google.com/okq-ysqs-aze Thursday July 20th- 7pm- 5th Grade- https://meet.google.com/wjn-dhcu-vhh

Fill out free/reduced lunch application! Easy access with this link: https://secure.ezmealapp.com/ApplicationScreen.aspx

Hello Heard County Families! This year’s Back to School Bash school supply giveaway will be Saturday, August 1st from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. This year the bash has a new location and format. Supplies will be given in a drive-thru event at Heard County High School. You will enter the drive-thru line from Franklin Parkway, at the front entrance of the high school. Students must be enrolled in Heard County Schools and must be present in the vehicle to receive their supply kit—while supplies last. There will be no exceptions made for these requirements. Please make sure to visit the Heard County Community Partnership facebook page for a detailed event map.

Good afternoon , We recently released information on the virtual learning option for K-5 students in the Heard County School System. We are beginning to receive responses via the commitment survey from those of you who plan to take advantage of this option for the upcoming school year. Some of you may still be considering this option and have yet to make your decision. As we are planning for class assignments for all of our students, it would be most helpful if those of you planning to sign up for the K-5 virtual learning option would do so by Wednesday July 22nd. This will allow us to more accurately assign classes prior to regular open house on the following Monday. Thank you for your assistance. Marianne Cole Assistant Superintendent

Here's information regarding Heard Elementary Registration and Open House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxVWgh6Jzpc

​Brave Nation, YOU CAN NOW COMPLETE OPEN HOUSE PAPERWORK ONLINE! Please visit our school websites and follow the following steps to access the forms: 1. Once on the school website click "MENU" 2. In the far left hand column click the plus sign next to "OPEN HOUSE 2020" 3. Click on each of the documents and fill them out online and you're ready for Open House later this month!