Erika Hiemstra

A big thank you to BSMS & BMS for bringing your Choir Club to visit with our 5th grade students! We appreciate you sharing about all the wonderful opportunities choir offers and for the great performance. Our students truly enjoyed it! 🎶 #WeAreBPS

Big day!!! Special shout out to all the BPS FCS teachers, Mrs. Diamond, Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Lichty and yours truly! Today and everyday we celebrate Life Skills and Career Readiness! @WeRBennington @WeRBenningtonMS #WeAreBPS

Both teams prevailed! Here we go round 9! This is getting exciting! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

Bennington A and Bennington C are still going strong! Round 8! @WeRBenningtonMS @Hiemstra_BSMS #WeAreBPS

Bennington B vs Bennington D in second round! I bet the Badgers will win! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

16 MS HAL students ready to show up at today's quiz bowl tournament! It's a mad hatter tournament, so will be an exciting day! Go Badgers! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

Bennington C is still in it! Let's go round 4! @WeRBenningtonMS @Hiemstra_BSMS #WeAreBPS

Bennington B and Bennington A are both playing in round 3 next door to one another. @WeRBenningtonMS @Hiemstra_BSMS #WeAreBPS

Off to the future cities competition with 10 teams of HAL students today! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

Rematch between the Gryphons and the Blobfish. Will the Blobfish take 1st place undefeated or will the Gryphons even the playing field for another match? #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

So proud of the top 4 teams! Blobfish- 1st (undefeated), Gryphons - 2nd, Sea Pickles - 3rd, Pibbles- 4th Taking 23 teams and running a competition is stressful, but these students make it completely worth it! Badger proud today for sure! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

Top 4 teams: Sea Pickles, Gryphons, Blobfish, and Pibbles. Let's see where they place! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

23 teams from BSMS and BMS competing today! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

A few more shots of MS HAL Quiz Bowl #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

Some action shots from our first few rounds of quiz bowl this morning! #WeAreBPS @Hiemstra_BSMS @WeRBenningtonMS

What is a teacher's favorite sight? A room filled with 90+ middle school HAL students ready to let their nerd flags fly at an all day quiz bowl competition! A HUGE shout out to all the volunteers that made today happen! @WeRBenningtonMS @Hiemstra_BSMS #WeAreBPS

This is powerful! 🙌 🌐 teachergoals.com

BPS staff is ready to roll for 2025-26! The energy during the Welcome Back address was pretty amazing this morning! 🦡💪🏻 #WeAreBPS

"Middle school is a glorious mess of growth, goofs, and grit. Your job isn’t to pave a perfect path but to be a steady guide. Embrace the weird, cheer the tries, and let your kid stumble a bit—they’ll learn to soar. And you? You’ll survive this adventure too with a few laughs and a lot of love." AMLE CEO Stephanie Simpson shares the best middle school parenting advice she's received from educators over the years 👇 ow.ly/Gi0K50WuaPk

Wishing a happy 133rd birthday to one of the best school districts in the state of Nebraska! Happy Birthday, Bennington Public Schools! 🎂🎉1️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ #WeAreBPS