Prairie Hill Elementary School

09/25/2026

Congratulations to our Hill Pride Award winners! 🏆 These students excel with our new Prairie Ready Skills. They show positive interactions with others and are models of accepting directions. Way to go, Hilltoppers! 🧡🖤

09/24/2026

🚨UPDATE! 🚨 Due to current weather conditions and the safety of our students and spectators, the homecoming parade, scheduled for September 25 at 1:45 PM has been postponed until Friday, October 9. We hope to see you all in 2 weeks!

We are so excited for tomorrow's homecoming festivities!! (And rain, rain, go away-- we already dealt with you for the schoolwide picnic! 😅)

Here is our schedule for tomorrow:
🔶 Morning Spirit Items: The PTO will be selling spirit items before school tomorrow morning. Students are welcome to bring money if they would like to purchase items to gear up for the day!

⬛ School Picture: We will be taking an all-school picture at 9:25, so be sure to be on time to school.

🔶 Homecoming Parade (1:45 PM): Parents are invited and encouraged to watch the parade with us! Our 4th graders will be on floats in the parade, and all other students will be watching. 🚨UPDATE! 🚨 Our Prairie Hill group will now be seated along the west side of Kirkwood Blvd, starting at the roundabout by Prairie Point and extending north toward the Kirkwood Hotel.
Important Note: If you plan to attend with your student, please meet our school group directly at our designated seating area along the parade route. Please be aware that portions of the College Community campus and adjacent roads will be closed beginning at 1:15 PM and remain closed until parade participants and student spectators have safely returned to their schools. If the parade is cancelled due to the weather, a notification will be sent as soon as possible.

⬛ Special Attendance Celebration (3:00 PM): Thanks to our students' incredible efforts, we recently hit our attendance goal! To celebrate, students will get the chance to throw water at Mr. Schipper and Mr. Koch at 3:00 PM back at school. Parents are invited to stay and watch this fun event. We will be on the playground if the weather permits. We encourage students to stay at school until the special celebration is done.

Thank you for your ongoing support, and we look forward to a fun day of celebrating our Prairie Hill spirit!

09/22/2026

Homecoming week is here! If your child is interested in some new Prairie Spirit items, these will be on sale here at Prairie Hill on Friday morning. Go Hawks! 🧡🖤

09/20/2026

Even when the rain caused us to adapt our picnic plans, it was so great to have families enjoying us for lunch on Friday! We'll see you again for our spring schoolwide picnic!

09/18/2026

Picture Day is on Thursday! 😁

09/18/2026

Next week is Homecoming! To celebrate our Prairie Pride, we will have a Spirit Week full of fun dress-up days. Note that our awesome PTO has provided a Prairie Hill shirt for all students that they will get on Friday morning to wear for Homecoming. Friday's Homecoming Parade will begin at 1:45. Our classes will watch the parade as it ends right in front of Prairie Hill, and families are welcome to join us. Go Hawks! 🧡🖤

09/17/2026

We hope to see you at the schoolwide picnic tomorrow! Our event will be rain or shine. If it's raining beyond a light sprinkle, we will be inside. If it's not, we'll be outside, so feel free to bring a blanket for more comfy seating. We will also provide some tables and chairs to try to keep everyone out of the wet grass and mud. 🌧️

Save the date! It's almost time for our annual fall schoolwide picnic. We hope that families can join us while we have a picnic on our playground. Our nutrition staff will provide a Grab & Go option for lunch on this day that includes a hot dog and broccoli dippers to make it easy and fun to eat outside. Can't wait to see you!

09/15/2026

We are so very proud of Ms. Stelken!! 💜💛🧡🖤

The following information on Ashten Stelken was listed on the UNI Athletics website.A cornerstone of UNI volleyball’s success in the mid to late 2000s, Ashten Stelken joins this year’s Hall of Fame class as one of the top middle blockers in program history.

09/14/2026

Congratulations to our Summer Reading Challenge participants! We are so proud of all of our Hilltoppers who continued reading over the summer. These students celebrated their accomplishment with popsicles on the playground with Mrs. Pflughaupt.

09/13/2026

Our 2nd graders are expanding their math knowledge by sharing their strategies with one another.