Hardin Northern Local School District

Happy School Custodian Appreciation Day!
Today we give a huge THANK YOU to the hardworking custodians who keep our spaces clean, safe, and running smoothly—often behind the scenes and without enough recognition.
Your dedication, attention to detail, and pride in your work make a difference every single day. Whether it's staying late, arriving early, or going the extra mile, we see you and appreciate you!
Let’s all take a moment to say THANK YOU to the amazing custodial staff, Brian, Jeff, Scott, Albertina, Marlene, and David!

Our fifth graders turned into a rotating Earth today! We put maps on ourselves and spun around to see how our planet's rotation creates the cycle of day and night. The best part? Watching how different parts of the world experience sunrise and sunset. They had a blast!

"Sweet Math in Action! 🍬 Our 2nd graders created candy corn arrays to practice repeated addition!"

Last night, the Jr. High Volleyball team hosted North Baltimore and both 7th and 8th grade took the Tigers down.
Final Scores:
HN 7th Grade-25, 25
N. Baltimore 7th Grade-6, 9

HN 8th Grade-25, 25
N. Baltimore 8th Grade-12, 12

Way to go, Bears!

Good luck, Bears!🏐

Picture Day is October 1st!

Results from JH Volleyball vs. Lima Temple Christian.

Griffin joined the kindergarten 100 sight word club last week! Way to go!

The sound of Civil War cannons and the smell of the blacksmith's fire will return to Hardin Northern next week. The History Brigade will host their annual Living History Day for the elementary classes next Tuesday afternoon. Several student presenters will join local living historians as they entertain the elementary students with tales of the Civil War, the French Revolution, and much, much more.

Good luck, Bears!

Tonight, Hardin Northern celebrated Homecoming 2025. It was amazing to see so many people come out to support our Polar Bears!

👑Congratulations to our 2025 Homecoming King and Queen, Lainey Thomas and Riley Newton!👑

Our Royalty Court included:
⭐Freshman Attendants – Riley Robey & Madilyn Suter
⭐ Sophomore Attendants – Addy Bacon & Treysen Eibling
⭐Junior Attendants – Lexi Oakley & Cody Thiel
⭐Senior King & Queen Candidates – Lainey Thomas & Kyler Sedlock, Mariann Woodruff & Riley Newton, and Kathrine Hipsher & Alex Gatchell
⭐Crown & Ball Bearers - Hazel Ribley, Griffin Rettig, and Logan Watkins

The mini cheerleaders did a fantastic job performing for the crowd, and we’re so proud of them!

Final Score: Ridgedale 14, Hardin Northern 0.

We’re thankful for such a wonderful turnout, a week full of fun and spirit, and for the Polar Bear pride that shines so brightly in our community.

4th grade has been working on growth mindset and today learned about parts of the brain. They discussed what each part of the brain does, how they can exercise these parts of their minds, and finished with putting it all together by creating a cross-sections model brain out of doh!

Don’t forget! Tonight is the Hardin Northern FFA Chicken BBQ! 🍗

Meals can be picked up from 4–6 p.m. and our FFA kids are doing a fantastic job putting it all together. It smells absolutely delicious!

Good luck, Bears! 🏈

Way to go, Bears!🏈

Results from Thursday, September 25th
HN vs. Ridgemont🏐

Today, the Hardin Northern boys competed in the Division III Sectional Golf Tournament at Sycamore Springs. The Bears finished with a team score of 444.

Top scorers for HN were:

⛳ Cody Thiel – 93 (24th place overall)
⛳Xaviour Emerine – 104
⛳Zander Richardson – 122
⛳Wesley Linke – 125
⛳Zack Hartman – 125

We are so proud of our Bears! You have improved so much throughout the season. We look forward to seeing your continued growth and hard work as you prepare to get back at it next fall. Great job, Bears!

Good evening. This is a follow up to the message that I sent out last week about the 3-hour delay. There a couple of reminders for you all concerning delay days, including Friday delays. First, on any day that we delay, there is no breakfast available. The first lunch starts at 11:25 on delay days, so the cafeteria staff is already working on lunches for the day when the students arrive. So, if you could make sure that your son or daughter gets a little breakfast snack before they come to school on delay days, that would be great. The other additional piece of information concerning delays is for early release Fridays. On any regularly scheduled early release Friday (2:15) that school delays (2 or 3 hours), the early release would be eliminated, and students would stay until 3:15. Thank you for your cooperation and have a great night.