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PALESTINE ISD Thursday, February 14, 2013

2012-2013

Hello everyone,

The Wildcat Boys Basketball Team won the 3rd playoff spot in UIL District 19-3A by defeating Rusk 76-61 on Monday. The Wildcats will play Jasper next Tuesday, February 19th at Angelina College in Lufkin. Our LadyCat Basketball Team defeated Pollock Central to become Bi District champions and advance to the Area round of the playoffs. The LadyCats will play China Springs in Corsicana, Friday night at 6:30 pm. These athletes have worked very hard and we wish them luck as they continue in the playoffs.

A Grand Opening of the new LadyCat Softball Stadium will be held on Monday, February 18th at 5:30 pm. Following the Grand Opening, the LadyCats will play Leon at 6:00 pm. The stadium is located on Ben Milam across from the Palestine Middle School.

We are excited to welcome Nashville Comedian and Motivational Speaker, Rik Roberts to Palestine ISD on Monday, February 18th. He will give a performance in the PHS Auditorium for our teachers and instructional aides sharing his clean and upbeat comedy.

Jason Marshall, Superintendent

Please note: Friday, February 15th is a staff & student holiday. Staff will return to work on Monday, February 18th. Students will return to school on Tuesday, February 19th.

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WILDCAT BASKETBALL

The LadyCat Basketball Team defeated

Pollock Central Monday night to become

Bi District Champions and advance to the

Area Round of the playoffs. They will play

China Springs in Corsicana Friday night

(2/15/13) at 6:30 pm.

The Wildcat Basketball team defeated

Rusk 76-61 to clinch the 3rd playoff spot in

UIL District 19 3-A. The Wildcats will

play Jasper on Tuesday, (2/19/13) in Lufkin

at Angelina College. Time to be deter-

mined.

POWERLIFTING

Powerlifting Meet at Fairfield H.S.

Thursday, (2/21/13), 5:00 pm.

BASEBALL

Friday, (2/15/13), 4:30 pm - Wildcats vs Kemp at PHS

SOFTBALL

A Grand Opening and Dedication for the new LadyCat Softball Stadium will be held Monday, (2/18/13) at 5:30 pm. The LadyCats first home softball game vs Leon will be held at 6:00 pm.

See the following page for next week’s athletic schedule.

Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

Friday, Feb. 15th LadyCat Basketball - Area Playoff Game vs China Springs in Corsicana - 6:30 pm

Friday, Feb. 15th Baseball here vs Kemp - JV at 4:30 pm/Varsity to follow

Friday, Feb. 15th Boys and Girls Soccer here vs Nacogdoches - 5:30 & 7:30 pm

Monday Feb. 18th Softball here vs Leon - 6:00 pm

A Grand Opening of the LadyCat Softball Stadium will be held at 5:30 pm

Monday, Feb. 18th Baseball here vs Malakoff - JV at 4:30 pm/Varsity to follow

Monday, Feb. 18th Boys and Girls Soccer here vs Jacksonville - 5:30/7:00 pm

Tuesday, Feb 19th Boys Basketball Playoff Game vs Jasper in Lufkin - Time to be determined

Thursday-Saturday Estes Baseball Tournament

Thursday & Saturday Softball Tournament in Longview

Friday, Feb 22nd Softball here vs Longview - 5:00 & 7:00 pm

Friday, Feb 22nd Boys and Girls Soccer at Center - 5:00/6:30/7:45 pm

Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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PHS News -

Kirby Chemical and Restaurant

Supply came to our Culinary

Arts facility and explained how

all the kitchen equipment is

used and how to care for it.

Cody Tunstall, CTE Director and

Mrs. Jan Robertson, Culinary

Arts teacher, along with Culi-

nary Arts students; Callie Flynn,

Erionna Jones, Hannah Dias,

and Brian Thlang attended the

training. Kirby Chemical pro-

vided demonstrations on how to

use all the new commercial

equipment. They also videoed

the demonstrations for the

students to use later as a refer-

ence.

William Stewart, Principal

Congratulations!

February Students of the Month

Elizabeth Ruiz & Caleb Ellison

February Jr. Rotarians

Caitlyn Morrow & Walter Sheridan

Twenty-one students travelled to Whitehouse this past Saturday to enter their artworks into the Visual Arts Scholastic Event. Upwards of 600 stu-dents were given a one-on-one interview with an individual judge and scored based on the interview and their artwork. Eighteen PHS students re-ceived a total of 22 medals for Superior Achievement. Two students’

Good luck to Avery Fuller, Evan Fuller, and Destiny Harding!

These students from Joseph Baker’s class have qualified for state and will compete in Texas SkillsUSA in the Ro-botic & Automation Tech category in

Corpus Christi this April.

artworks were selected to move on to State competition – Riley Martine in Division 4 and Jessica Ibarra in Di-vision 1. Congratula-tions to all who partici-pated and did a won-derful job representing PHS and the PHS Art Department.

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Larissa Loveless, Principal

Forty six of our middle school band students competed in the Region 21 Solo and Ensemble band competition in Nacogdoches. Forty six students received a total fifty medals. Students were rewarded individual medals as well as quartet and trio awards. See next page for results. Mrs. Lucinda Presley contin-

ues to work with our students in 8th grade science as they prepare to Skype with Nasa sci-entist. Students are using their science knowledge and critical thinking skills to prepare their Project Mars materials.

Students and teachers are working hard to put the final work into being

well prepared for up-coming benchmarks.

The campus is anxious to see the talent of our stu-dents at the end of the month. They are creating posters of either inventors or artist who are African American and who have made contributions that have changed our world. Prizes will be awarded and the posters will be displayed in our front hall and in our library. Our art, speech, careers, and his-tory classes are coordinating the effort and helping our students stay on track with their projects.

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Congratulations to Palestine MS Band! The band members brought back 50 1st division, "Superior" Ratings from the Texas Music Educators Association Region 21 Solo & Ensemble Contest. The Contest was at Nacogdoches High School this past Friday, Saturday, February 8-9, 2013.

Students receiving Superior Ratings for solo performance are:

Flute: Daniel Arzola,Andrea Chapa, Bre'anna Donnell, Megan Hafner, Jacqueline Rubalcava

Clarinet: Piper Elrod, Makayla Herod, Vericia Lomax, Brianna Samford, Keyona Willis

Bass Clarinet: Jaila Cook, Dillan Dennis, Benjamin Ruiz, Ashley Waldon

Alto Saxophone: Shannah Avila, Madalyn Dobbs, Martha Moore, Valerie Rangel, Gilberto Sanchez

Tenor Saxophone; Isaac Fulgham, Katherine, Stone

Baritone Saxophone: Rosa Hernandez

Trumpet: Morghyn Harper, Annalise Meyers, Macy Stone, Ethan Toscano, Javier Zamora

Trombone; Monica Attaway, Davis Morton, Taylor Valentine, Ian West

Baritone: Paul Jenkins

Tuba: Travell Bryant, Ana Gallegos,Corbyn Mitchell, Jesus Molina, Lucas Sheeley, Jose Zavala

Snare Drum: Carlos Arambula, Brandon Galloway

Students receiving Superior Ratings for Ensembles are:

Saxophone Quartet: Shannah Avila, Michala Landers, Isaac Fulgham, Rosa Hernandez

Trumpet Trio: Morghyn Harper, Annalise Meyers, Macy Stone

Percussion Trio; Brandon Galloway, Aaron Jackson, Darin Parkes

Students receiving Excellent Ratings on Solo performance are:

Michala Landers (Saxophone), Seth Gartner, Jesus Marquez (Trumpet), Cason Thomas (Tuba).

Again, congratulations to these students for their outstanding performances!

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Brandon Jayroe, Principal

Congratulations to our February Students of the Month!

Each student received a certificate from Mazzio’s Pizza. The students will also choose a friend to join them for lunch with a Story Administrator.

Austin Dobbs & Daniela Palacios

4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Monique Ybarra & Jesus Deleon Goldie Barnard & Jarrett Burgess

Journalism Club: Mrs. Aguilar’s journalism club

printed their first “Lion’s Chatter” for this year.

The students did a fantastic job on their stories

and articles! There was even a Comic section

written by the club. Great job!

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Stephen Cooksey, Principal

“Southside students truly are WILD about learning”

On Tuesday our students took their Individual Spring Pictures with Loveless photography. Special thanks to Mr. Lee Loveless for making this such a successful event!

Our 3rd grade students are really gearing up for the upcoming STAAR test and working hard on learning new concepts. Mrs. Davis put together a very ex-citing lesson dealing with geometric shapes and the kids absolutely loved it!

On Thursday February 14, Southside students were able to participate with their peers, teachers, and family members in their annual Valentine’s Day Par-ties!! What a blast!

Congratulations

to Emily Michel!

Emily won a

robot for her

participation in a

recent fundraiser.

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Barbara Dutton, Principal

Northside students raised $3000 for Hoops for Heart last week as students practiced their shooting skills.

This week PE students are improving hand-eye coordination, teamwork, and endurance learning and playing hockey. It is a sight to see.

Love is in the air at Northside with red, white, and pink hearts everywhere. Our parties are Thursday afternoon just in time for a long weekend.

From all of Northside - Have a nice break.

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WASHINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

Transportation was the topic for the 3 year old class-rooms. Thank you to Mr. Marshall and Mr. Gary for helping the students in Mrs. White’s class build trucks. Following directions was just a little handicap. I’m not sure for whom.

Pictures of 100 Days of School Activities

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A.M. Story Intermediate was part of the crew that helped unload the weekend backpacks on Tuesday, 2/12/13, off the semi truck from The East Texas Food Bank. The truck was a little late getting to the Court Drive Church of Christ, probably due to the weather.

Once the truck arrived and we started loading up the pick up trucks and trailers, the sky opened up and it started raining, so we were all soaking wet.

When all the back packs were loaded, we headed to Lone Pine Baptist Church and unloaded to their storage room. Mr. Haltom kept count of the num-ber of crates he carried into the Church and let us all know it was 52 crates he carried, on foot, not using a dolly!

Story is scheduled to help out again on the 26th of this month, but we are still looking for volunteers to help in March and April. Middle School will help in May.

Mimi Spreen, Director of Dining Services

Thank you to Brandon Jayroe, Linda Luce, Eric Haltom, and April Chatmon. Your help is very much appreciated!