🛡️ Internet Safety: Community & Parents Night

📅 Tuesday, September 15, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Burke High School Gym

The evening will be presented by Mary Beth Holzwarth, Human Trafficking Coordinator & Analyst with the DCI Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

We encourage all parents, guardians, and community members to attend!

Attention parents and fans, tomorrow's football game at Sunshine Bible will start at 2:30 pm.

🍎 Our Educators Rising students traveled to Sioux Falls today for the Fall Leadership Conference! They spent the day learning, connecting with other future educators, and building their leadership skills. 📚✨ And, of course, we couldn’t make a trip to Sioux Falls without doing a little sightseeing at Falls Park 📸🍂… and grabbing some Dairy Queen for the ride home! 🍦😋

🐾 7th grade art has been busy learning about two-point perspective and putting their skills to the test around school. 💙

We smell what those Rancherettes are COOKING! 🥩🔥

Fresh, local beef is on the menu today! A big THANK YOU to our Rosebud Rancherettes for supporting our Beef-in-Schools Program and helping bring nutritious, locally raised beef to our students.

We’re proud to support local ranchers — one delicious meal at a time! ❤️

Silent Book Club will be starting this Friday September 11th!!!

9:30-10:30
Burke Elementary Library
Grades 3-12 are welcome

Bring your book and settle in to read in the peace and quiet of the library.

See you on Friday!!!

We’re excited to kick off our first Cougar Friday with a special activity from Gregory County 4-H! 🎉

🌳 Exploring the Four Seasons
📅 Friday, September 11th
⏰ 9:30–10:30 AM
🍀 Presented by Morgan Rozeboom with Gregory County 4-H

Students will get to explore the four seasons through a fun, hands-on 4-H activity. We are so thankful to Morgan for coming in and helping make our first Cougar Friday extra special! 💙

📣 REMINDER FOR FAMILIES: If your child plans to attend Cougar Friday, please let your child’s teacher know by Wednesday (TOMORROW!) so we can plan accordingly.

🎉🏈 HOMECOMING WEEK IS ALMOST HERE! 🏈🎉

Homecoming Week kicks off September 13th! 🐾💙 We have a FULL week of fun, school spirit, activities, and Cougar pride planned!

🎶 Our theme this year is COUGAR PALOOZA! 🎸🎤

📅 Check out the Cougar for the full Homecoming Week schedule and make plans to join us for all the fun! 🐾💙

Let’s make this Homecoming Week one to remember! 🎉🙌

GO COUGARS! 💙🐾

🎉 Congratulations to Mary Hosford, our literacy-loving, creative, compassionate, and AI-guru K–12 principal! 🎉

Mary has been selected for the 2026–2027 Principal Leadership Cohort! 👏📚

Your commitment to continuous growth and your desire to keep improving make all of us better. We are so proud of you and excited to see all you’ll bring to this opportunity!

Congratulations, Mary, on this well-deserved selection! 🌟

Thank you to Brett Garland and the I Love U Guys Foundation for hosting emergency protocol and reunification training today in Pierre. It was a great opportunity for local law enforcement and school administrators to learn about and strengthen school crisis response protocols. A special thanks to Officer Mark Green for taking part in the training as well. Events like this help our communities prepare, coordinate, and respond effectively when it matters most.

Change in time for FCA today! Check it out!

🚨 LOST & FOUND ALERT! 🚨 Our Lost & Found is getting a little too comfortable… 😂 We have hoodies, sweatshirts, shoes, water bottles, jewelry, and more waiting to be reunited with their owners! 👀 Take a look through the pictures and see if anything looks familiar. If you spot something that belongs to your child, please call or have your child come to the school office to claim it. 📅 All unclaimed items will be donated after Friday!

The XC season is off and running - pun intended! 🏃🏃‍♀️ Congratulations to Coach Kenzy and all of our runners on a successful first meet in Winner today! 👏 🥈Alexis - 2nd in Varsity 🥇Kamrin - 1st in JV 🥇Jase - 1st in MS Way to go runners! Keep up the great work and keep pushing! 💙🐾

🎶🏠 Check out our Homecoming Dress-Up Days! 🏠🎶

Get ready to show your Cougar spirit and have some fun during Homecoming Week! (Spetember 14th-18th)🐾💙

2026 Homecoming Theme!

🏈 Check out Avon’s Tailgate this Friday before the football game 🏈

🏐💙 Little Cougar Volleyball Shirts! 💙🏐

Show your Cougar pride and support our Little Cougars! 🐾🏐

👕 Order your Little Cougar Volleyball Shirt today!
📅 Orders are due Saturday, August 29th!

👉 Order here: https://forms.gle/bRqx6Qq7WMr3ppDY7

🎉 WE’RE BACK, COUGARS! 💙🤍 What better way to kick off a new school year than with a little fun, laughter, and Cougar pride?! 🐾 We welcomed our new staff members to the Cougar family today and made sure they knew right away that they are officially STUCK WITH US! 😂🎈