
Howard B. Thomas Grade School
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Friday Focus – October 17, 2025
🎉 FRIDAY FOCUS 🎉Here’s a look at what’s happening across Central 301 this week: 🎭 Trunk or Treat Takes the Stage!For the first time ever, Central High School’s Drama Club is hosting a districtwide Trunk or Treat on Wednesday, October 22 from 4–6 PM at CHS. Everyone in the Central 301 community is invited for…
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“Trunk or Treat” Coming to CHS
Student-led event brings Halloween fun for younger Rockets for the first time We’re bringing Halloween fun to Rocket Hill! 🎃Central High School’s Drama Club is hosting our first-ever Trunk or Treat on Wednesday, October 22, from 4:00–6:00 PM in the CHS parking lot (outside Door 10) — and the entire Central 301 community is invited!…
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HBT Parent University
HBT Parent University Focused on School Technology On October 15th, families of students at HBT were invited to a Parent University event centered around all things school technology. This included Skyward, Canvas, RevTrak, and Parent Square. If you missed the event but wanted to still learn about these systems you can click the link to…
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HBT Fire Safety
HBT Fire Safety Week 2025 During the week of October 6th, the Burlington Fire Department is partnering with HBT to host various fire prevention and fire safety discussions. Students got to see a fire truck, visit a smoke house, or have a fireman/firewoman visit their classroom. In addition, some of the older students participated in…
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HBT Newsletter
HBT’s October Newsletter To view the October 2025 newsletter, please click HERE.
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HBT Reaches #7
HBT is ranked #7 in Kane County HBT was recently ranked #7 in Kane County of all elementary and middle schools, according to chicagomag.com. While we’re not yet where we want to be with student attainment, we have seen steady, year-over-year growth in both ELA and Math—progress that contributed to our overall rating. This is…
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HBT 4th Graders Visit LeRoy Oakes
This was the best field trip ever!
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HBT Fall Fest
HBT’s Curriculum Night/Fall Fest Event On Wednesday, September 25th, 2025 the HBT PTO and HBT teaching staff put on a fun family event full of math activities, fall themed games, pumpkins, popcorn, face painting, cotton candy, the book fair, and food trucks! Check out the pictures below:
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HBT 1st Grade
HBT 1st Graders Are Learning Our 1st grade students are hearing from community workers. Not only are they learning about variuos community jobs they are also learning how to sit in a large audience and attend to a presentation. In addition, our 1st graders are engaging in Math differently this year through the i-Ready resource.
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HBT Reads to Dogs
HBT Reads to Dogs Monthly Each month students are chosen by their teachers for exhibiting the Care Code. If they are selected, the students have the opportunity to read with some comfort dogs in the library. Here are a few pictures from this month’s visit with the dogs.








