On March 16th, students from the Heyworth FFA visited the state legislature in Springfield. Please show your appreciation for the students that spoke on behave of education, "you" and the whole state of Illinois: Leon Peters, Travis Morr, Tyler Quinton, Erica Navis, Taylor Kaufman, Lauren Heidenreich, Zach Ferrie, Kristina Peters, and Olivia Harris. All the schools in Illinois that have agriculture education met in Springfield to visit with legislators. There were around 800 ag students that gathered. Prior to legislative day the students called each legislator and set up a time to meet with them in person and then spoke with them on the phone about our concerns.

On March 6th from 8-12, Heyworth Elementary hosted the annual Heyworth Literary Festival. This was a public speaking competition for 5th and 6th grade students from throughout McLean County. This year there were five schools participating: Holy Trinity, Lexington, Blue Ridge, TriValley, and Heyworth. Students entered the contest in up to two events from individual, duet, acting and choral choices.  Heyworth Elementary had 40 students in 20 events!  A total of over 200 entries from the 5 schools were judged and awarded ribbons for first, second and third places. Great job students! Special thanks to this year's Literary Festival faculty sponsors, Cathy Wentworth and Susan Fox.  

Enjoy the movies and support HJSHS programs by ordering gift cards from the Hornet Scrip Program.  Whether you like to rent movies, download them to your computer, or watch them in the theater, we’ve got a gift card for you.  You receive the full value of the card and the retailers give us a donation.