Wildcat Weekly

Palestine High School enjoyed visits this week from the Kiwanis Club of Palestine and the Palestine Realtors’ Association. The Kiwanis Club and the Palestine Realtors each held their group meeting at the PHS Career & Technical Education Department in the Wildcat Café, and I enjoyed getting to tell them about our programs and district. Janeva Robertson’s Culinary Arts students prepared and served a meal for each of the groups and did a great job showing off skills they are learning.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant kicked off this week at each K-12 campus.

Through this grant, TACE after-school programs offer students additional learning opportunities during non-school hours. These programs are in their beginning stages and our campuses will be making improvements weekly as students’ needs are being identified.

I would like to say thank you to the Palestine Junior Service League for all that they do for the com-munity of Palestine. This Saturday, September 28, 2013, the Palestine Junior Service League is hosting performances by the au-thor of “Hank the Cow Dog” in the Palestine High School

Auditorium. Everyone is welcome and admission is free with one canned good item. There will be two shows, the first at 1:00 pm and the second at 4:00 pm.

from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall

Palestine Independent School District September 27, 2013 Volume 2, Issue 5

Athletics 2

Palestine High School 3

Palestine Junior High 4

A.M. Story Intermediate School

5

Southside Elementary School

6

Northside Primary School 7

Washington Early Childhood Center

8

Support Services 9

Inside this issue:

Produced by Palestine High School Printing and Imaging Technology students

Ana Balderas

Rozi Balderas

Kiare Jackson

Cheyenne Masters

Jessica Vallance

Palestine ISD will celebrate Homecoming next week with a Parade & Pep Rally at PHS on Monday, September 30th beginning at 6:30 pm. We would like to welcome our alumni who will be attending their Class Reunions during homecoming week. On Friday, the Wildcat football team will play Pittsburg at Wildcat Stadium.

HOMECOMING 2013

The Palestine Police Department will host National Night Out 2013 at Reagan Park on Tues-day, October 1st from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Every-one is encouraged to come out and be a part of “American’s Night Out Against Crime”. There will be live music, activities for children, crime prevention and drug awareness education-al exhibits, cookouts, exhibits from local busi-nesses, neighborhood watch program infor-mation, and an ID program for children.

At halftime, two Palestine ISD alumni,

Sandra Cummings-Glover, world class

Olympic hurdler, and Adrian Peter-

son, Minnesota Vikings running back and

the NFL Most Valuable Player for 2013,

will be inducted into the Palestine ISD Wall

of Honor.

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Lance Angel: Athletic Director

Go Wildcats

Palestine Athletics

WAY TO GO WILDCATS This past Saturday our Cross Country Teams competed in Neches. Varsity Boys, JV Boys and JV girls won their division. Varsity Girls were 2nd in their division. Top Boys varsity runners were: Tyler Barnard with a 1st place finish, Mason Munoz with a 3rd place and Chris Rangel with a 4th place finish. Top Girls varsity runners were: Olivia Cone with a 3rd place, Jessica King with an 8th place and Mallorie Sander with a 9th place. Jr. High Football Team results vs. Athens 7

th Grade A and 8

th Grade A

Teams remain undefeated at 3-0 Freshman tied 14-14 JV lost 28-0 Three hard fought wins and one loss tonight in Athens. 7th grade B-Team (W 8-0) 7th grade A-Team (W 46-16) 8th grade B-Team (L 0-6) 8th grade A-Team (W 14-7) 7th Grade Players of the game: LG Gray & Carlett Jefferson 8th Grade Player of the game Roderick Deyon

PHS seniors welcome Washington ECC students in Paw Pals to celebrate students entering their first years of school and students ready to finish their last year of high school.

PHS Paw Pals

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William Stewart: Principal

Palestine

High School

Jason Marshall leads Kiwanis Club members on a PHS building tour after Janeva Robertson’s Culinary Arts students prepared and served a luncheon for the group.

Kiwanis Club Tours PHS

Students gather at the PHS flagpole Wednesday morning to pray for our schools, community, and country in a nation-wide student led assembly.

See You At The Pole

Sergeant Carver, United States Marine Corps recruiter, speaks to Mr. King’s college and career prep class.

U.S.M.C. Speaks to PHS Students

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Larissa Loveless: Principal

Palestine

Junior High School

This past Saturday the Cross Country team participated in the Neches Invitational Meet. Our boys and girls did a great job and put a lot of effort to come in second place and fourth place respectively.

The volleyball girls had a tournament in Frankston on Saturday. Girls played great this weekend. 8th grade A team came home with the consolation championship trophy and our 7th grade A team came home with the 3rd place trophy. All girls did an outstanding job playing and representing our school this weekend.

Junior High members of the Wildcat Choir spent this past Saturday at Stephen F. Austin University learning their Region 21 All-Region music. These students worked six hours perfecting songs in English, Latin, and Hebrew so they can perform well at their All-Region competition next month. Their behavior and hard work were commendable, and they represented our school admirably.

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Amanda Jackson: Principal

A.M. Story

Intermediate School

During the Open-House parents bid on gift baskets. A

total of $473.00 was raised. This annual effort helps fund

student awards and incentives during the year. We

sincerely appreciate the generosity of our parents!

Winner winner…DUCK dinner?

As the first six weeks concludes,

students are proving their smarts by

completing their core subject

assessments. These assessments help

teachers prepare our learners in

mastering grade-level readiness

One and DONE!

Students have the opportunity to be leaders, not only in our

school, but our community as well. Several students joined in

Wednesday morning for See you at the Pole activities. Thank

you parents and staff members for helping our future leaders

with this endeavor.

Leaders…Story Style

Open House was well

attended. Our students

enjoyed having the

opportunity to showoff

their hard work.

Open House

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Stephen Cooksey: Principal

Southside Elementary

School

Dance Hall Fridays…To help with Positive Reinforcement for Good Behavior. Students with good behavior get to show they have “Moves Like Jagger” every Friday afternoon!

Numbers are still the BUZZ around Southside! 3rd grade students are working hard on learning place value and estimation!

Students are “Diving into Learning” at Southside Elementary!

On Tuesday September 24, Southside participated in a Fund Raiser Assembly…They were super excited about the possible awards and LIMO rides…

Northside TACE Academy began with our 3-hour before and after-school program on Monday. Wow! Students and teachers alike had a really good time, and we learned a lot. Then our first TACE parent meeting was held Tuesday evening. It was well-attended. Parents and students enjoyed this event as well – especially the learning activities that Mrs. Conner had available.

September 26th is our second annual Community Helpers event. Outside are 10 stations including a postal van, ambulance and ambus, fire truck, helicopter, sheriff, police, trooper vehicles, nurse, pediatrician, radiation therapist, maintenance backhoe and dump-truck, etc., and PISD bus.

Next week is the NS-Scholastic Book Fair ending with our Friday parent/guest hamburger cookout.

Next week is the NS-Scholastic Book Fair ending with our Friday parent/guest

hamburger cookout.

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Barbara Dutton: Principal

Northside

Primary School

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Rhonda Herrington: Principal

Washington

Early Childhood Center

Washington Early Childhood students, dressed in their school t-shirts, boarded buses to make their first field trip of the year to Palestine High School to meet their Senior Paw Pals for the very first time. The Paw Pal Program between Palestine High School Seniors and WECC 4 year old students go far beyond education. Throughout the year the Paw Pals will write letters to each other, attend special activities with their Pals and much, much more.

With a touch, a smile and a kind word, Paw Pals will strive to form significant positive relationships with each other, with the hope that these experiences will give the encouragement they need to succeed as students, and as people. While these relationships will provide immediate benefits of support and encouragement to the Little Paw Pals, they also have lasting positive influences on the Senior Paw Pals.

The Paw Pals are looking forward to our next meeting when we get to attend a Pep Rally at the high school and then in December when we are having a Pajama Day at Washington to watch Polar Express.

A big thank you goes out to Wendy Hallmark and Principal Stewart for arranging and welcoming us to their campus.

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Palestine ISD

Support Services

Operations Department

The Operations Department is continuing to fine-tune their reorganization efforts. We sincerely hope that your needs are being met in a timely fashion. We will have an exciting announcement within the next couple of weeks about some technology integration into our department!

Business Office News

Employees, please remember that your cafeteria plan programs begin October 1st and the deductions will be reflected in the October pay period.

As a reminder, the remaining pay dates for 2013-14 are: October 25, November 22, December 20, January 17, February 21, March 21, May 23, June 25, July 25, August 25

Food Service

We had a YAC (Youth Advisory Committee) meeting at PJHS on 9/25/13 with the students of Mr. Hawthorne’s yearbook class. Mimi Spreen talked about the

vegetable categories that we are required to serve our students:

Red/Orange – She served oven roasted tomatoes with Italian seasoning, raw & sautéed red bell pepper with Southwest seasonings.

Dark Green – she served raw broccoli

and oven roasted broccoli with black

pepper.

Starchy – she served cold corn salad

with onions & red bell pepper.

Legume – she served 2 kinds of bean,

white cannelloni with Italian

seasonings and black beans with

Southwest seasonings.

Other – she served raw mushrooms

and sautéed mushrooms with dried

thyme.

There were 18 students in the class

and most tried a little bit of everything,

some even went back for seconds,

including Mr. Hawthorne. Mr. Esparza

was there for a little bit, but

unfortunately he didn’t get to taste

anything.

We wanted to let them know why we

serve what we serve them, based on

the USDA requirements. They asked

questions and gave their opinion and

suggestions on food they would like to

see more of in the cafeteria.

29 30 8:00 am

Northside Book

Fair

5:00 pm PJH Volleyball vs. Fairfield (Home)

6:30 Homecoming Parade & Pep-Rally

1 8:00 am Northside

Book Fair

5:00 pm

LadyCats

Volleyball vs.

Fairfield (Home)

2 8:00 am

Northside

Book Fair

3 8:00 am Northside

Book Fair

PJH Football vs.

Pittsburg

(A teams only)

(Home)

4 4:30 pm

LadyCats

Volleyball vs.

Groesbeck (Away)

7:30 Varsity

Football vs.

Pittsburg (Home)

– Homecoming

5

6 7 6:00 pm

Story TACE

Parent

Workshop

8 5 pm

LadyCat

Volleyball vs.

Rusk (Home)

9 1:00 pm

JH & JV Cross

Country @

Grapeland

10 Blood Drive at PHS

5:00 pm - PJH Football vs. Madisonville (Home)

11 No football

Late

Registration

Deadline for

10/26/13 ACT

12 8:30 am

JV/V Cross

Country @

Lufkin

Looking Forward

September-October