More Amazing Red 🎀 Week doors! We appreciate all the effort and dedicated time teachers and students put into these!!

🎀 Red Ribbon Week Fun 🎀 Our District STUCO members had a great idea to bring a little extra fun and creativity to Red Ribbon Week with a Door Decorating Contest and Spirit Days! 🧡🖤 We are so grateful to everyone who jumped in, showed their school spirit, and helped make this week meaningful and FUN! From creative classroom doors to awesome participation in our dress-up days, it was wonderful to see our Cubs come together! 📸 Check out the amazing doors created throughout our district, along with our HMS students who were lucky winners of Amazon gift cards through our Red Ribbon Week drawing! 🎉🎁 A HUGE thank you to our District STUCO for helping lead the way and to our students and staff for making this week a success! Red Ribbon Week may be coming to an end, but making healthy choices, supporting one another, and spreading kindness are things we can celebrate EVERY day! ❤️

Costumes, Creativity, and CUB SPIRIT! 🦹‍♀️👻🧡🖤 HMS was full of fun, laughter, and some AMAZING costumes this morning! Our students brought their creativity and school spirit as they competed in several costume categories: 🏆 Best Duo/Group Costume 🏆 Best Individual Costume 🏆 Best Villain/Superhero Costume And we couldn't leave out our awesome HMS staff! Our teachers and staff joined in on the fun, with the student body getting to be the judges! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make this morning such a fun one!

Humboldt High School staff costumes included the rock band KISS, emotions from Inside Out 2 and the Cheetah Girls!

Happy Halloween, USD 258!

The winners of the painted storybook pumpkin contest at HES have been announced! Our winners will receive gift certificates to Bridge Street Books.📚 1st Place 🥇- a tie between Sawyer and Sage Czarnowski 2nd Place🥈- Wesley Wilson 3rd Place 🥉- Nora Ellis

The HES painted pumpkin contest winners will be announced later today!🎃 Parents, we would like the pumpkins to return home by Thursday to be displayed and enjoyed at their homes on Halloween. 👻 THANK YOU to all who participated! 🖤🧡🖤🧡

30 championships, one legacy: A night celebrating HHS journalism

Humboldt High School journalism invites all Jerd alumni, supporters and community members to celebrate 30 state championships at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2027.

Please RSVP to Hailey.phillips@usd258.net by Feb. 1, 2027.

We ask attendees to please bring a dessert to share with others at the banquet.

We look forward to celebrating this fantastic milestone!

💙 CUB FAMILIES — LET'S WEAR BLUE ONE MORE MONDAY! 💙 Tomorrow, Monday, October 26th, marks our final Wear Blue Monday for Bullying Prevention Month! 💙 Every Cub Belongs! 🐾 We want to sincerely THANK our students, staff, and families who have participated throughout October and helped spread the message of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Your support matters more than you know! As we wrap up this month, our hope is that the message continues long after October ends. Every student deserves to walk through our school doors feeling safe, valued, respected, and most importantly, knowing they BELONG! Let's wear BLUE one more time tomorrow as a reminder that even the smallest acts of kindness can make a lasting difference in someone's life. Together, we can continue building a school community where EVERY CUB feels they belong! 💙 #BlueUp #EveryCubBelongs#CubsChooseKindness

The Cub Tracks Issue 1 of 2026-2027 can be viewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/129so1mbwb0-84QyyuXxb8htzhSQFsKH7/view?usp=sharing

Humboldt High School journalism students are selling trash bags at $14 per roll through Nov. 5. Your purchase helps support the program with buying necessary supplies, completing the yearbook and attending fall conference and other events.

Please reach out to a journalism student or Mrs. Phillips at hailey.phillips@usd258.net to purchase! Cash or checks (made out to Humboldt High School) are accepted.

We thank you for your support of Humboldt Jerds!

Get excited for voting!!! The storybook painted pumpkins did not disappoint this year! 🎃 Come check them out and vote for your favorite while you shop at the HES book fair🧡🖤🧡📚

The painted storybook pumpkins have started to arrive at HES!!! Get yours to school by Thursday!

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HUMBOLDT CUBS — IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP FOR THE READ-A-THON! 📚🍩

There’s still time to join the fun! 🎉 Make sure your reader is signed up THIS WEEK so they can start logging minutes NOW! 📖

👉 Sign up here:
https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/reader_information

🍩 THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: The class for each grade with the highest sign-up percentage can win a DONUT PARTY! 🎉
A big thank-you to Walmart in Iola, KS, for sponsoring this week’s prize!

Let’s get those readers signed up, build great reading habits, and see which class can rise to the challenge! 🏆 Every
minute counts!

Go, Cubs! Let’s READ!

Please join us for our second annual storybook pumpkin painting competition!

Our Fieldhouse was full of Cubs Alumni tonight. Over 500 people joined us as we remember and celebrate. 1986 and 1985 finally got their invite this year!!

HUGE congratulations to Kimberlyn who is our very first student EVER to complete all 50 community service hours during freshmen year... before the end of the first quarter! This is a massive achievement and we are so proud of you!

Senior students participated in the statewide "I Apply" event during Cub Futures Day. The "I Apply" event waives all college application fees. Look at all the applications our seniors completed! We are excited for their future!

🏐HMS Volleyball is excited to show our support! We’re cheering on Neosho County Community College as they take on Cowley College Once a Cub, always a supporter of athletics and our neighboring communities! Let’s bring the energy, cheer loud, and enjoy some great volleyball! 🏐🔥

Some of the new TSA (Technology Student Association) members travelled to Pitt State today to learn more about TSA and participate in activities and challenges geared towards the club’s competitions they’ll compete in this spring in Salina.