Harlan Middle School

🐉🏐 VOLLEYBALL MATCH!! 🏐🐉

The HHS Lady Dragons are headed to Barbourville to take on the Lady Tigers for their last regular season match! Good luck, ladies!! #GOBIGGREEN

📍 Barbourville High School
⏰ JV – 6:00 PM
🔥 Varsity to follow

🍁🍂 Falling Into Poetry at HES!🍂🍁 Our second graders have been exploring poetry through a fun fall-themed writing activity! Students created acrostic poems using the letters in the word FALL to brainstorm descriptive words and phrases that capture the season. This creative activity helped students strengthen their writing skills, expand their vocabulary, practice using descriptive language, and express their ideas through poetry. Students also decorated their own fall leaves to bring their writing to life! 🧡🍁✏️

🐉💚 Way to Go, Green Dragons! 🎉

The Kentucky Department of Education has released the 2026 Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) accountability results, and Harlan Independent School District is proud to report strong academic performances once again!

🏆 Harlan High School received the highest rating of Blue and ranks #24 out of 228 high schools in Kentucky! Harlan Elementary School earned a Green rating, and Harlan Middle School earned a Yellow rating.

👏 We are incredibly proud of our students, teachers, principals, and support staff, whose hard work and dedication have helped Harlan Independent School District achieve outstanding academic results.

The District looks forward to celebrating our amazing KSA results in the weeks to come! 🎉🐉

🍬🎃 Sweet Math Learning! ➕➖ Students had a sweet time practicing addition and subtraction using candy corn! This fun, hands-on activity helped students strengthen their counting skills, build number sense, and solve addition and subtraction problems within 20. By using candy corn as a math manipulative, students were able to model problems, explore different strategies, and develop a deeper understanding of addition and subtraction! 🧡📚

🏐 Volleyball Gameday!! 🏐

The HHS Lady Dragons are hitting the road to take on the Pineville Lady Lions this evening!!

⏰ JV Match: 6:00 PM
🏐 Varsity to follow

GO BIG GREEN! 🐉💚

🦸‍♂️❤️ RED RIBBON WEEK AT HES! ❤️🦸‍♀️ Harlan Elementary is celebrating Red Ribbon Week October 26–30! 🎉 Join us for a fun-filled week of dress-up days as we encourage our students to make healthy choices and stay drug free! ❤️ Monday: Dress Like a Hero 🦸‍♂️ 🐾 Tuesday: Camo or Animal Print 💚 Wednesday: Dress Like Your Everyday Hero 💤 Thursday: Pajama Day 🎃 Friday: Halloween Costumes ✨ Be a Hero, Stay Drug Free! ✨

💚🐉 Good luck to our Harlan varsity cross country runners as they compete at the SEKC meet in Williamsburg today! Run strong, give it your all, and make every mile count! Go Dragons! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

🏀 Boys basketball open gym will be held today from 3:00–5:00 PM for 5th and 6th graders only. This is a non-mandatory practice. Attendance is optional!

🔢🎉 Learning Through Bingo! Mrs. Goldey’s class had fun playing Bingo while strengthening their number recognition and practicing different counting strategies! This engaging, hands-on activity helped students build number sense, improve their counting skills, and develop mathematical thinking—all while learning through play! 💚🐉

🦸‍♂️❤️ RED RIBBON WEEK AT HES! ❤️🦸‍♀️ Harlan Elementary is celebrating Red Ribbon Week October 26–30! 🎉 Join us for a fun-filled week of dress-up days as we encourage our students to make healthy choices and stay drug free! ❤️ Monday: Dress Like a Hero 🦸‍♂️ 🐾 Tuesday: Camo or Animal Print 💚 Wednesday: Dress Like Your Everyday Hero 💤 Thursday: Pajama Day 🎃 Friday: Halloween Costumes ✨ Be a Hero, Stay Drug Free! ✨

🤠💚 Mamas & Cowboys Dance! 💚🤠 A big thank you to all the families who joined us for our Mamas & Cowboys Dance! We loved seeing everyone come together for an evening filled with dancing, laughter, and special memories! Thank you for making this event so wonderful! 🐉💕

🎗️💗 Harlan Elementary students and staff came together for our Cancer Walk! We walked to honor those who are fighting, celebrate survivors, and remember those we have lost. 💕 It was a wonderful opportunity to spread awareness, show support, and remind everyone that no one fights alone! 💗💚 #HarlanElementary #CancerAwareness #HESDragons

🐉💚 Good luck to Harlan Cross Country as they compete in the Bob Howard Memorial / Area 9 Championship at Harlan County today! Run strong, give it your all, and make every mile count! Go Dragons! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

🎉 Celebrating Perfect Attendance at HES! 🎉 126 students at Harlan Elementary School achieved perfect attendance during the month of September! 🌟 Today, these students were rewarded for their dedication and commitment to showing up and being ready to learn each day. We are so proud of their hard work! 💚🐉

🎉🎃 Congratulations to Kiah Green for winning the Fall Festival tickets! 🎟️🍂💚

🎃🍂 Our Harlan Elementary 2nd graders had a wonderful time visiting the pumpkin patch! Students enjoyed a fun-filled day of fall adventures, making memories, and spending time with their classmates! 🧡🌻 What a great way to celebrate the fall season! 🎃🍁

🏆💚 It was a great day for our Lady Dragons at the Regional Championship at Lynn Camp! 🥇 K–3 Girls — FIRST PLACE! 🥈 Middle School Girls — RUNNER-UP! Congratulations to our runners and coaches on these outstanding finishes! Go Dragons! 🐉🏃‍♀️

🔢✨ Math Fun in Mrs. Howard’s Kindergarten Class! ✨🔢 Today, our kindergarten mathematicians explored the pattern of 1 more in the forward counting sequence! Students used visual models and counting strategies to discover that as we count forward, each number is 1 more than the number before it. We practiced counting from 1 to 10, looked for patterns, and shared what we noticed and heard along the way. Our little learners are becoming such great mathematicians! 💕📚🔢 Way to go, Mrs. Howard’s Kindergarten Class! 🌸✨

📚🔥 The Literati Book Fair is coming to Harlan Elementary! 🔥📚 Get ready to cozy up with a good book! Our campfire-themed Book Fair will be October 26–30. Students will have the opportunity to shop for new books and discover exciting new stories throughout the week! 📖✨ 🌲 Family Night: Monday, October 26 ⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM Families are invited to come shop the Book Fair together! We can’t wait to fill those bookshelves and get our Dragons reading, dreaming, and discovering! 🐉💚📚

📣💚 CALLING ALL FUTURE GREEN DRAGON CHEERLEADERS! 💚📣

Harlan High School Cheer is excited to host a Cheer Camp this Saturday for girls in K4 through 7th Grade! 🐉📣

This is the perfect opportunity for our youngest Green Dragons to learn some new cheers, practice their skills, make new friends, and most importantly—HAVE FUN! 💚🤍

✨ WHO: Girls in K4–7th Grade
📅 WHEN: This Saturday, October 10th
📍 WHERE: Harlan High School

Bring your Green Dragon spirit and get ready to cheer, dance, and have a GREAT time! We can't wait to see all of our future Harlan High School cheerleaders! 🐉💚

LET'S GO, BIG GREEN! 📣💚🤍