
A HUGE thank you to Autumn Custom Seeding for spraying our field down with water to soften the playing surface to ensure player safety. Also, another HUGE thank you to Cooney Fertilizer for supplying the water from an outside source!




Ended our 2nd week at Kramper Lake in Hubbard today with a timed 5K run. Impressive runs all around. Ready for competition next week!


Elementary Parents: Here is a preliminary look at Elementary Homecoming activities for the week of August 29th -Sept. 2nd! Additional information will be shared in Thursday folders next week!


Update regarding September 2. No after school program on Friday, September 2. That is because we dismiss at 2:30 pm that day due to 3:00 pm homecoming football game. Have a great weekend!

The start time for the JV/Var Softball Triangular on Thursday, August 25th has been moved up to a 4:00pm start in Blair. Sorry for the late notice.

Best of luck to the TC Thunder girls Golf team today at the West Point Invite! Golf begins at 10:00am. Go Low, Girls!

The Gatorade football scrimmage will begin @5:00pm @ Heyne Field. Admission is a sports drink in the back of the pickup.
Also, the fall sports kickoff begins at 6:30 with the Booster club serving hamburgers out of the school concession stand. Coaches talk @7:00pm in old gym.

Congratulations to the NEN Viper SB team for their win over #1 rated Wahoo Neumann tonight! GREAT way to start the fall sports season!!!! They are back in action on Saturday at the Freeman tournament in Lincoln at 10:00am.

Your NEN Vipers take down preseason #1 Bishop Neumann 5-3 tonight! Congrats ladies!!!

Parents: A slight change has been made to morning drop-off procedures. Please feel free to drop your students off at Door 1 (New Gym Door) or Door 6 (Lunchroom Door ). You can pull off the street in both locations for a safe, efficient drop-off. Door 6 drop-off is in the same locations as afternoon pick-up. Thank you for your patience while we are under construction!


Pender community members-The school is in need of help watering the football field at Heyne. The purpose of this is player safety. If you have any ideas or think you can help, contact Athletic Director, Amp Ferg, at the high school.

On Friday, September 2, school will be dismissed at 2:30 pm. That is the day of the Homecoming Football Game, and it begins at 3:00 pm. Go Pendragons!!

The SB team travels to Wahoo Neumann for a JV/Var game beginning at 5:00pm. The varsity game will begin around 6:30pm. Best of luck, Vipers!

If your child plans on playing any sport this school year or plans on participating in an activity this year, parents must sign and return the form that was sent home in the beginning of the year packet. Link to the Extracurricular Handbook: https://5il.co/1g2h8

The Pender Cross-Country clothing store is now available online! Click on the link to get started. Store closes on Aug. 29th.
https://hauffsports.chipply.com/Pendercc/


Don't forget Back to School Night is tonight at Pender Public Schools from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Enter through door #1 (Main Gym Doors)
5:30 p.m. 7th grade orientation in Heese Event Center
6:30 p.m. mandatory 4th-12th grade meeting in Heese Event Center ( one parent with student)
Senior Class Meeting @ 7:15 p.m.
Free Hot Dogs in concession area and free snow cones to all students on playground. See you tonight!

The SB jamboree vs WPB at 6:30 in Pender is on as scheduled! Remember-since this is a jamboree game, everyone must pay to attend. $6 adults, $5 students. All proceeds go to the NSAA Hall of Fame.

Check out the youth VB camp information attached! Forms will be sent home this week.


Thank you to everyone who supported the Flames dance team with the Watermelon Days camp and our performances this afternoon! We can’t wait to be dancing in front of the best fans in a few weeks!



Softball will host West-Point/Beemer/Bancroft-Rosalie on Monday, August 15th at 6:30pm in a Jamboree game in Pender. The NSAA requires all schools playing to charge admission to all fans. All money raised will be sent to the NSAA Hall of Fame in Lincoln. Adults $6, Students $5