Burke School District 26-2

Herrick American Legion Auxiliary celebrated American Education Week by presenting the elementary school with 40 stocking caps/headbands, 24 gloves/mittens, 20 colored pencils, 80 pencils, and 30 ink pens. This fulfills the National American Legion Auxiliary “Give 10 to Education” program. Presenting the items were Diane Klein, Nancy Sieh, Kie Rolf, and Myrna Freeman.

🎉A huge THANK YOU to everyone who made today’s pep rally a success as we send off our Lady Cougars! 💙🤍 Your energy and support mean the world. Best of luck at STATE! 🐾💪 Go Cougars! 🎉

Congrats to Carter and Tamara Bull for receiving our Hometown Hero's Award presented by Modern Woodmen. Carter and Tamara play an integral role in making Cougars Live available to all fans. THANK YOU Carter and Tamara!

Burke Art 2 students created portraits for a nonprofit organization called The Memory Project. Their mission is to connect youth around the world through art to help build cultural understanding and international kindness. The Memory Project gets its name from its first intention, which is to provide handmade, heartfelt portraits as special memories to children in orphanages. They are using art to reach a distant destination: a kinder world in which all youth see themselves in one another regardless of differences in their appearance, culture, religion, or circumstances. The portraits made here in Burke will be sent to children in India.

⭐️Gregory County FFA Shines at Districts! ⭐️ Congratulations to our amazing Gregory County FFA chapter for their outstanding performance at the recent district competition! Their hard work, dedication, and teamwork paid off as they brought home several top honors, proving once again that our FFA members are among the best.

Thanksgiving Meal today in Burke. Thank you elementary students for decorating our placemats! 🍗🦃🦃

CAN YOU FEEL IT??!!! Even with the cooler temperatures, there has been a heat wave inside Burke High School! 🔥🔥Thanks to all the Cougar moms for sending our VB team Surfin' 🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️to the State Tournament! 🏐🐾🌊

Winter coats are available at the Winner Resource Center at 200 E 3rd St, Winner, SD.

The 12 days of Christmas dress up days have been set! 🎄🎄

🎉🏐 State Volleyball Week is HERE! 🏐🎉 Check out the game dress up themes 💙

Here's what's cooking in our cafeteria this week! 😋

💙 Today, Burke students proudly wore blue to show support and raise awareness for those living with diabetes. This is a day to honor the strength and resilience of all those affected by this condition, including members of our community who face the daily challenges diabetes brings. Let’s stand together, raise awareness, and show our support! 💙

🌟 Kindness Week was an absolute blast! 🌟 Our school community is filled with so many thoughtful individuals who genuinely care and share so much positivity. Kindness Week reminds us how simple acts can brighten someone’s day, but here in our community, kindness isn’t just a week—it’s a value lived out every day. Thank you to everyone for making our school such a welcoming place! 💙

🍁 Our 6th and 7th graders took Kindness Week to heart by rolling up their sleeves and raking! 🍂 Their hard work and smiles helped bring a little extra sunshine to our community, one leaf at a time. 🌞 Thank you to these amazing students for showing how kindness can make a difference!

🤩During Kindness Week, our elementary students colored kindness notes! Today, our 2nd graders helped spread the kindness by delivering these to Brun's Market and Cahoy's Kitchen, where each customer will receive a kindness message in their grocery bags. Thank you to our students, Brun's Market, and Cahoy's Kitchen for helping us spread kindness around our community! 🥰

🌟 In the spirit of Kindness Week, Mrs. B and our NHS students prepared delicious hot chocolate to share the sweet treat of kindness with everyone! The staff was also surprised with yummy treats from Ms. Klein. Huge thanks to all for spreading kindness and warmth throughout our school!

Our 3rd and 4th grade classes came together for Kindness Week to make a difference! They teamed up to rake and bag leaves, spreading kindness through hard work and teamwork. We're so proud of their efforts! 🍂

Happy kindness day. To celebrate 5th graders helped Officer Green finish painting the handicap spots on Main Street.

Middle school wrestling took 1st place as a team at the Valentine Tournament today. Congrats wrestlers 🥇🥇🥇🥇 Placers are Zane Vasquez 1st Loudan Vasquez 2nd Hadley Pepple - 1st Beckham Bauld- 1st Fielding Johnson- 1st Otto Reber -3rd Henry Witt- 1st Gus Witt- 1st Dane Johnson- 2nd Bryce Drews- 4th Gabe Ekroth- 1st Boone Beck- 3rd Reed Sedlecek- 1st Ryker Peck- 4th Ty Sachtjen- 4th Logan Hansen- 2nd Wyatt Beck- 2nd Rosin Brozik- 1st Kameron Longe-4th Austin Vosika- 1st

The Lady Cougars are headed back to STATE!! 🎉🎉🥳👏👏🙌 Clean sweep in 3 sets over the Ranchers 🧹🧹 Bring home some hardware 🥇🥇🥇🥇