1 PALESTINE ISD Friday, April 5, 2013 2012-2013 Hello everyone, Jason Marshall, Superintendent Shanna and I enjoyed a visit to the Davey Dogwood Park recently where the dogwoods are in full bloom and a sight to see. WILDCAT WEEKLY PHS One-Act Play students coached by Eric Cates, Theater Arts Director will perform The Crucible in the Area Round of competition on Monday, April 8th at the Midway Performing Arts Center in Hewitt, Texas. The competition will begin at 1:30 pm with PHS in the second slot at approximately 2:15 pm. Have a great three day weekend! Note: Monday, April 8th will be a holiday for staff and students. Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 9th. Way to go to our PHS Soccer Team and Theater Arts students! We wish these students the best of luck as they continue competing. Coach John Absalom’s Boys’ Soccer Team is playing in the 3rd round Re- gional Sectionals and will play Waco High in Corsicana tonight at 7:00 pm.
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PALESTINE ISD
Friday, April 5, 2013
2012-2013
Hello everyone,
Jason Marshall, Superintendent
Shanna and I enjoyed a visit to the Davey Dogwood Park recently where the dogwoods
are in full bloom and a sight to see.
WILDCAT WEEKLY
PHS One-Act Play students coached by Eric Cates, Theater Arts Director will perform The Crucible in the Area Round of competition on Monday, April 8th at the Midway Performing Arts Center in Hewitt, Texas. The competition will begin at 1:30 pm with PHS in the second slot at approximately 2:15 pm.
Have a great three day weekend!
Note: Monday, April 8th will be a holiday for staff and students. Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 9th.
Way to go to our PHS Soccer Team
and Theater Arts students! We wish
these students the best of luck as
they continue competing.
Coach John Absalom’s Boys’ Soccer
Team is playing in the 3rd round Re-
gional Sectionals and will play Waco
High in Corsicana tonight at 7:00
pm.
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The conference will focus on mobile devices in education, best practices to integrate in curriculum, management & infrastructure, and classroom ideas. The event is open to everyone from classroom teachers, administrators, to technology directors. If districts are in the planning stages of acquiring mobile devices or if they have had a 1:1 structure for a while or need ideas to bridge technol-ogy and curriculum, we would love your participation and collaboration. This is an excellent opportunity to net-work with area schools, and share ideas and transform our educational practices to reflect 21st century job skills.
Palestine ISD will be hosting an Educational Technology Conference entitled “iHeartDevices” on August 8, 2013 co-sponsored by
TCEA (Texas Computer Education Agency) and Apple.
Registration is open at tcea.org and more information can be found on the website iHeartDevices.weebly.com. For more information contact Shannon Leisure at extension 1270 or Kim Nelms at 1272.
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BASEBALL
The Baseball team defeated Groesbeck Tues-day, April 2nd in extra innings. With the 5-4 win, Palestine is now tied for 2nd place with Groesbeck and ½ game ahead of 3rd place Fairfield.
SOCCER
The Boy’s Soccer Team defeated Brookshire Royal 5-1 in the first round, then defeated Mexia 2-1 in the 2nd Round of the playoffs.
Friday, April 5th, Boy’s Soccer will play Waco High in the 3rd round of the playoffs at Cor-sicana, 7:00 pm.
TRACK
District Track will run in Fairfield on Wednes-day, April 10th and Thursday April 11th.
TENNIS
The mix-double’s team of Ben and Lauren Shiller earned another second place medal at the Franklin tournament.
GOLF
After the first round of District Golf, the Pales-tine Boys are in first place leading by 1 stroke. The Girls are in 3rd place. The 2nd round will be played on Monday, April 8th for the Boys and Tuesday, April 9th for the Girls
See the following page for athletic schedule.
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Lance Angel, Athletic Director
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Friday, April 5th Soccer vs Waco High (3rd round of playoffs) in Corsicana, 7:00 pm
Friday, April 5th JV/V Baseball @ Mexia, 4:30/7:00 pm
Friday, April 5th JV/V Softball @ Mexia, 5:00/7:00 pm
Monday, April 8th Boy’s Golf @ Jacksonville, 9:00 am
Tuesday, April 9th Girl’s Golf @ Fairfield, 9:00 am
Tuesday, April 9th JV/V Baseball vs Fairfield @ PHS, 4:30/7:00 pm
Tuesday, April 9th JV/V Softball vs Fairfield @ PHS, 5:00 /7:00 pm
Wednesday, April 10th District Track Meet in Fairfield
Thursday, April 11th District Track Meet in Fairfield
Friday, April 12th JV/V Softball @ Center, 5:00/6:30 pm
Friday, April 12th JV Baseball @ Lindale, 5:30 pm
Saturday, April 13th Varsity Baseball @ Jacksonville, 7:00 pm
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PHS News -
“Congratulations to the First Annual Shorts Film Festival Winners. First place went to the film "What is Your Heritage?" by Roxanne Davis, Tyler Perkins, and Uriel Olguin. Second place went to "Not Span-ish!," a collaborative effort by Mrs. Whitaker's 4th period Spanish class. Third place was awarded to "The Break-Up" by Destiny Harding, Trevon Jones, Beth Dickerson and Jessica Jones.”
PHS Robotics Team members Avery Fuller, Evan Fuller and
Destiny Harding will compete at the Skills USA Texas
Leadership and Skills Conference in Corpus Christi, Texas
this weekend.
Teams will set up and demonstrate operation of a robotic
workcell from a word problem. Contestants are required to
create a flow chart and sequence of operation. Teams are
also judged on efficiency, speed and teamwork.
William Stewart, Principal
ROBOTICS TEAM
Shorts Film Festival
GOOD LUCK! ONE-ACT
PLAY &
SOCCER One-Act Play
Area Competi-tion, Monday, April 8th, 2:15
pm in Hewitt, Tx)
Soccer (3rd Round Regional
Sectionals vs Wa-co High, Friday, April 5th, 7:00
pm in Corsicana)
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Amber Magee won first place in Lincoln Douglas Debate at the
academic UIL district competition and was also the top speaker.
Amber also won first place in Persuasive Speaking.
Kody Harris won second place in LD. Kody and Amber will compete
at regional competition in April.
Academic UIL District Competition
District UIL Academic Results
Kody Harris 1st overall science, top biology score and top physics score
Eli West 6th overall science
1st place science team of Kody Har-ris, Eli West, Austen Evans, Alec Meyers, and Nathan McEwen
Coached by Kathleen Brown
Kevin Looney 1st overall current is-sues and events
Paul Webb 3rd overall current issues and events
1st place current issues and events team of Kevin Looney, Paul Webb, Abby Earle, and Elizabeth Ruiz
Coached by Richard Sylvester
Willis Foley 1st place overall social studies
Elizabeth Ruiz 5th place overall
2nd place team of Willis Foley, Eliza-beth Ruiz and Paul Webb
Coached by Cinda Hudson
Lauren Shiller 5th place Accounting
2nd place accounting team of Lauren Shiller, Willis Foley, Christina Evangelista
Coached by Janice Magee
Lauren Shiller 5th place computer applications coached by Hugo Perez
Roxanne Davis 6th place prose interpretation coached by Eric Cates
Amber Magee, Kody Harris, Kevin Looney, Paul Webb, Elizabeth Ruiz, Abby Earle, Alec Meyers, Eli West, Austen Evans, Willis Foley, and Na-than McEwen qualified for regional competition in April.
District UIL Academic Winners
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Larissa Loveless, Principal
PJH NEWS
Big kudos to our counselor, Mrs. Paris and the office staff for working so diligently to prepare our campus for our STAAR test this week. All your hard work has made a complicated, and stressful situation successful. Thanks for all you do to support our teachers and students behind the scenes.
Palestine Junior High students Jake Neal and Nick Williamson were fine representative of our dis-trict last week at the Rusk district track meet. They witnessed someone in the parking lot in need of emergency treatment. They acted as first responders and acquired emergency treatment for the person as well as informing the appropriate adults. All who witnessed the man-ner in which these young men responded were overwhelmed with the way these men respond-ed and acted in a serious situation.
Ms Ritz and her theater students are working after school to put the final touches on their Spring production, “Virgil’s Wedding”. They will be performing for the public at the high school auditorium on Friday, April 12th and Saturday, April 13th at 6:30 pm. This will be a treat for all.
TENNIS
Palestine Junior High tennis team is working hard in preparation for their first tournaments. We will have students participating in sin-gles matches as well as doubles. Coach Tyler has worked hard to or-ganize and locate other junior high school teams and tournaments for our players. We have nine students who are committed to our new sport. Our first tournament will be in Groesbeck this month.
KIK-KATS
Junior high girls are excited to learn they are now able to try out for Kit Kats. They look forward to the challenges of this great group who represents our district.
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Larissa Loveless, Principal
Boot Camp
Eighth grade athletes have successfully completed boot camp at the high school. They are proudly wearing their dog tags awarded for their great achieve-ment. We look forward to continued greatness on and off the field from this group of students.
TRACK
Congratulations to Eighth grade District Track Champions…great season and outstanding performances by our Eighth grade track team. Our seventh grade boys and girls track teams worked hard and represented us well also.
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Larissa Loveless, Principal
ART This weekend concluded our art exhibit downtown Palestine. Mrs. Hamel, PJH Art Teacher and her students showcased their work at Lee Loveless Photography during the Dogwood Trails. Many of our Dogwood Trails visitors were able to view the work of our students as well as our parents. It was an honor to have our art work included with other local artists.
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Brandon Jayroe, Principal
STAAR: Our 4th & 5
th Grade students completed their first round of
STAAR tests this week. Congratulations to Mr. Gonzales’ 4th Grade
class who won the field trip to Reagan Park for having the highest per-
centage of parents attend STAAR night last week.
STAAR Pep Rally: Our STAAR Pep Rally is scheduled for Tuesday, April
16th at 2 pm. We will have a key note speaker and the PHS Drum line
along with the PJHS Cheerleaders will perform.
Jump Rope for Heart: This year students raised $3,600.00 during Jump
Rope for Heart last week. Thank you to Coach Estes, Coach Birdow,
The 6th Grade Golf Class taught by Coach Chad Everhart has been practicing their swings
and learning the game of golf.
Congratulations!
Adrian Reagan -Teacher of the Month
Dora Hall-Paraprofessional of the Month
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“Southside students truly are WILD about learning”
Southside has begun a JEDI ACADEMY with our 3rd grade students. This ACADEMY has given us an opportunity to help our students in specific areas of need prior to the STAAR test. Trust me when I say…Southside is USING THE FORCE!!
On Tuesday, Southside hosted a STAAR parent information night which helped to provide our parents with important infor-mation and answer any questions they may have had pertaining to the test.
This week our 2nd grade students had the pleasure of participating in the Ms. Merryman’s Manners Clinic which focuses on “Keys to Becoming a Better Me”.
Also this week, Mrs. Woody and Mrs. Hardy still have our 2nd and 3rd graders “Walking Across Texas” during their specials rotation!
Stephen Cooksey, Principal
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Northside first grade students attended an Easter egg hunt at Greenbrier Nursing Home on Thursday before Easter. The workers "hid" 3000 eggs and provided cookies and punch.
Mrs. Pritchett's students made silly putty to put in plastic Easter eggs to take home for the weekend.
Art students are beginning preparation for the Second Annual Northside May Art Show. This dinosaur is the first project.
Barbara Dutton, Principal
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WASHINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
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Lots of fun in the sun activities with kite flying, Easter Egg hunting and fun with our staff,
students, moms and dads.
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We are winding down our Breakfast Promotion this week and will have the numbers next week. We will notify each
Elementary school which grade was the winner. The winning grade can decide what the school will eat for lunch on
Friday, April 12. We will also pick names at the Junior High and High School for their prizes.
East Texas Food Bank has been selected by Feeding America to participate in the Wal-Mart Foundation’s “Fighting
Hunger Together” Facebook campaign beginning April 1-30, 2013. This campaign will award grants of $45,000.00
to 40 Feeding America food banks that receive the most votes during the month of April at Wal-Mart’s Facebook page.
This money must go to programs that address child hunger.
Here is the link that will be publicized and where you can vote:
http://bit.ly/45KForETFB (this address is case sensitive)
Please help promote this link with friends, family members, business owners here in Palestine, but also friends and
family, no matter where they live, can vote for the East Texas Food Bank by clicking the link and voting. Vote once a
day, everyday in April and help Palestine receive additional funds for the Weekend Back Pack program that helps
students get nutritious meals on the weekends, who wouldn’t get them otherwise.
