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PALESTINE ISD

Friday, March 8, 2013

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Hello everyone,

Jason Marshall, Superintendent

Celebrate Texas Public Schools is held each year and it is our chance to

recognize the contributions made by the many individuals who forged

the way for public education. Many years ago, one room schools began

popping up in communities all over. Parents were excited for their chil-

dren to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic; skills that helped families

then and soon became a necessity. We at Palestine ISD appreciate all of

those who have sacrificed for education and all those who continue to

work for the good of all students.

As a part of Celebrate Texas Public Schools this week, students enjoyed

visits by their moms, dads, and grandparents where they were treated to

refreshments and got to spend quality time together. Palestine High

School invited the community to an open house for the newly renovated

Career and Technology Education Building. Visitors toured the CTE

Building and were served free hotdogs, drinks and desserts.

Palestine ISD will be out for Spring Break next week, March 11-15th and

classes will resume on Monday, March 18th. Have a great week!

Palestine High School CTE Building

Wildcat Café and Broadcast Journalism Class

WILDCAT WEEKLY

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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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From left: Xochitl Zavala to Jacksonville College to play Forward; Fabio Chavez to

Jacksonville College to play Goalkeeper; Lucy Ayala to Jacksonville College to play Midfield; and Kaleb Garcia to UT Tyler to play Forward.

SOCCER

Coach, John Absalom

with Palestine ISD

athletes who signed

letters of intent on

Monday, March 4,

2013

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TRACK

Congratulations to the boys and girls track teams. The

boys won the Crockett Track Meet and girls finished

2nd. The boys have now won 13 regular season track

meets in a row.

7th & 8th grade boys won the Elkhart Track Meet. Both

groups have now won both track meets they have

competed in.

SOCCER

On Tuesday (3/5/13) the soccer teams traveled

to Nacogdoches for important district matches.

The boys came away with a 1-0 win and are now in 1st

place by themselves with 3 matches to play.

The girls lost a hard fought match to the Lady Dragons

1-0 and are currently in 2nd place.

On Friday night (3/8/13) both teams travel to Jack-

sonville and these matches will make a major impact

on the district races.

BOOT CAMP

Our annual Boot Camp began this week with our 2013

football players. Boot Camp has become an annual

tradition that anyone wishing to play football must go

through. We have 145 players that will go through our

Boot Camp that will begin today with the Classroom

portion. We will spend 3½ days of intense character

training to try to instill the values they will need to be

successful now and later in life. Once the classroom

portion of Boot Camp is complete we will begin the

physical stage of Boot Camp. This stage is about learning

to encourage each other and pushing past fatigue. We

will continue with character training during this time

with the Word of the Day which will include topics such

as honesty, dependability, teamwork, courage, focus,

and commitment.

Boot Camp is a time that we strive to be “perfect”. In the

classroom, the dressing room, on the field and in life. We

will keep you updated with daily reports on how our

young men are performing.

See the following page for LadyCat Basket-ball information and the athletic schedule during Spring Break week.

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LADYCAT BASKETBALL

Congratulations to the followings members of the PHS LadyCat Varsity Basketball Team for earning the following honors for district 20-3A for the 2012-13 season.

Dana Whitehead - Offensive MVP

Paradyse Page - 1st Team All-District

Kierra Wilson - 1st Team All-District

Second Team All - District Selections

Nai'Koshia Handsborough

Sabrina Rogers

Breanna Jackson

Honorable Mention

Rokayah Beavers

KaMiya Caston

Academic All - District

Breanna Jackson Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

Tuesday, March 12th Baseball Here vs Rusk

Tuesday, March 12th Softball Here vs Rusk

Friday, March 15th Baseball @ Groesbeck

Friday, March 15th Softball @ Groesbeck

Great job LadyCats!!!!

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William Stewart, Principal

PHS Art students designed & created masks to celebrate

Mardi Gras

Congratulations!

March Students of the Month

Gabrielle Dantin and Caleb Lawson March Jr. Rotarians

Emily Salas and Tyler Perkins

The Palestine High School Ovation Theatre Department is busily preparing for the U.I.L.

District One-Act Competition in which they will perform the play, The Crucible.

The competition will be held in the new PHS Audi-torium on Saturday, March 23rd.

PHS will take the stage in the last position at approximately 6:00 pm.

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Larissa Loveless, Principal

CAREER EDUCATION CLASS

Students in Mrs. Campos Career Education class have been learning about skills necessary to be successful in the work place. They are applying all they have learned when we return from Spring break as they request posi-tions on our campus and perform tasks on campus. We look forward to our new employees.

CHEERLEADING CLINIC

Palestine Junior High has enjoyed hosting 6th grade students who have participated in our after school cheerleading clinic. They have joined our seventh grade girls in work-ing hard to present themselves to judges Friday after school. A big cheer also goes out to Mrs. Jenna Williams who has done a great job organizing and working with these young ladies and parents. Junior High cheerleaders are lucky to have such an out-standing role model.

TRACK

Junior High boys traveled to Rusk Monday and came home with two first place trophies for overall win-ning teams….We are not just proud of their wins in their athletic events but their winning attitudes and behaviors as they represent our campus. They have great coaches who lead by example. Mark your cal-endars to come watch our young athletes in action.

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YOUTH & GOVERNMENT

This past weekend, thirteen of your Junior Youth & Government delegates from the Palestine Junior High School (formally PMS) presented bills in the House of Representatives and Senate at our state capital in Austin. Over 270 plus 6th, 7th, & 8th grade dele-gates from across the state participated.

The purpose of the program is to bring the workings of state government alive to the students. Our students had to come up with their own bill topic, research, and present the bill at District. They then tweaked their bill proposals to present and debate in com-mittee and then on the House & Senate floors of the Capital all day Saturday. Six of the seven bills passed. Each of our students deserve a big round of applause for a job well done.

Also, our adult Advisors Sharie Bailey and Sandy Webb were also awarded with service pins for their participation in the program for 5 Plus years. Sandy Webb was selected as Distinguished Volunteer of the Conference and was presented a Texas Flag by the YMCA Texas Youth & Government and the Texas House of Representatives that was flown at the Capital.

Here is a list of our students and their bill topics that were presented.

Ricky Brown & Corbyn Mitchell – A bill entitled – “An Act Mandating that each county coordinate with agencies to provide training, transportation, and shelter for the homeless to promote them to self-sustaining citizens”

Jacob Hatfield & Jeremy Simms – A bill entitled – “An Act requiring the first time offense of DWI have the option of deferred adju-dication for sentencing at the judge’s digression”

Arielle Looney & Ashley Waldon – A bill entitled - “An Act mandating that no civilian person can carry a firearm that uses a clip with more than ten bullets”

Macy Stone & Davis Morton – A bill entitled – “An Act mandating that all wait staff receive minimum wage”

Katie Stone & Morghyn Harper – A bill entitled – “An Act demanding that animal shelters extend the holding time before euthaniz-ing from 72 hours to 2 weeks”

Destiny Toye – A bill entitled – “An act requiring that any business that serves alcohol must provide a keeper of the keys who moni-tors consumers on their alcohol level and prevents those over the allowed limit from driving”

Nick Williamson & Taylor Rosson – A bill entitled – “An act outlawing the usage of spiked tire rims on a vehicle”

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Brandon Jayroe, Principal

Student Council: Student Council members spent last Friday afternoon wrapping presents for the 5 year old girl recommended by CASA. The next child is a 9 year old boy that loves playing basket-ball and riding his bike. He enjoys board games. All donations are due by Monday, March 18th to the Story office.

Texas Public Schools Week: This week we celebrated with Muffins for Moms, Donuts for Dads & Goodies for Grandparents. Thank you to all the parents and family members who joined their child.

Jump Rope for

Heart: Jump Rope

for Heart is sched-

uled for March

26th & 27th.

This past week 4th & 5th graders

had the opportunity to raise

money by shooting free throws.

It was $1.00 for 3 free throws.

They raised a total of $83.00.

Incentives Party: 5th and 6th Grade stu-dents that did not have any tardies or discipline referrals enjoyed a movie and popcorn. Each six weeks students will enjoy some type of incentive for their excellent behavior.

Have a

WONDERFUL

Spring

Break!

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“Southside students truly are WILD about learning”

Southside Elementary celebrated Texas Public Schools this week. 178 3rd Grade students enjoyed a trip to the movies to see Escape from Planet Earth. The students earned this reward for making progress on their benchmark tests.

Our students had a great time with Muffins for Moms, Donuts for Dads, and Goodies for Grandparents. Thank you to all the moms, dads, and grandparents who visited this week.

Parents also visited for our 4th six weeks awards ceremony.

Have a great SPRING BREAK week!

Stephen Cooksey, Principal

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Barbara Dutton, Principal

This week was an active week for students and visitors for Texas Public Schools Week. We had the annual activities of Muffins for Mom, Donuts for Dad, PTO, Goodies for Grandpar-ents, and then Friday, we had our hamburger cook-out and the weather was great. We had the greatest attendance ever. It is nice to show off our students and our new building.

When we return from Spring Break, kindergar-ten will begin their two-week skating unit.

Have a Super Spring Break from Northside!

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WASHINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

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Students celebrated Dr. Seuss Day. For weeks

we were getting prepared for the big day. Doors

were decorated, hats were made, Librarian Ms.

Campbell hung pictures in the hallway and books

were read in the library and classroom. Mrs.

Campbell even dressed up as Dr. Seuss character

and made a Cat in the Hat Cake for the students

to enjoy.

We also had a great Texas Public School

Week. Moms came for muffins, dads came for do-

nuts and grandparents showed up for goodies

(cookies). Even some of the students were able to

go home for the day with their grandparents (if they were able to talk them into it).

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Chartwells served

refreshments for

Donuts with Dads,

Muffins with Moms,

and Goodies with

Grandparents at each

of the campuses. We

have had a great turn

out this week. All the

students were excited

to have refreshments

with their visitors.