Wildcat Weekly

Palestine Independent School District April 7, 2017 Volume 5: Issue 22

Athletics 2

Campus Happenings 3-8

TACE 9-12

Looking Forward 13

Inside this issue:

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, April 10

Begin 6th Six Weeks

JH District Track Meet @ Fairfield

8:00 am District Golf Tournament @ Athens

Tuesday, April 11

8:00 am District Golf Tournament Round 2 @ Athens

6:30 pm Pre-UIL Band Concert

Thursday, April 13

Flex Day

8:00 pm Softball vs. Madisonville

(Home-Senior Night)

8:00 pm Baseball vs. Madisonville (Home-Senior Night)

Friday, April 14

Good Friday Holiday

4:30 pm JV Baseball vs. Madisonville (Home)

from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall

Students at A.M. Story Interme-diate have been busy creating inventions to benefit their com-munity and possibly the world. This week, the students took their inventions to Kilgore to compete in the Region 7 Inven-tion Convention. Story students won 1st place for Effective Dis-play, Potential Benefit to Society, and Prototype Performance in Division 1, and earned 3rd place overall in Division 1. In Division 2, Story came in 3rd place for Innovative Design. These students are on their way to becoming innovators which has always been and always will be the way to a better world.

Palestine ISD will begin the final six weeks of the 2016-2017 school year on Monday, April 10th.

A Flex day will be held next Thursday, April 13th.

On April 13th students will be released early according to the following schedule:

11:45 am WECC, NS, & SS 12:00 pm Story 12:15 pm PJH & PJH

The district will be closed for the Good Friday holiday next Friday, April 14th.

Due to the holiday next Friday, Wildcat Weekly will take a break.

Stay tuned for more news from PISD when Wildcat Weekly returns on Friday, April 21st!

Happy Spring!

The Wildcat Soccer Team had a great season this year but unfortunately lost to the Kilgore Bulldogs in the Regional round of the playoffs this week. It was a tough loss to a tough team. Although we know that the team was focused on another state championship for Palestine Wild-cat Soccer, the PISD family is so proud of all that the team accom-plished this season. 25 wins, 1 loss, and 3 ties, and 55 straight wins over the past two seasons was not easy. We are proud of our Wildcat Soccer Team!

The UIL 18-4A District Academic Meet was held on Friday, March 31st in Athens. A lot goes into preparing students for UIL Aca-demic events each year. Many thanks to the students, as well as, the sponsors and coaches for all the work that is done outside the regular school day to prepare for competition.

The district placed first in Current Issues and Events and Computer Science, second in Science and Social Studies, and Charlee Cockrell was the Top Biology scorer.

We wish the best to the following students who will advance to the Regional Spring Meet in Huntsville next week:

Speech and Debate/LD Debate: Charlee Cockrell and Nicholas Dominguez

Informative Speaking and Biology: Charlee Cockrell

Soccer News Region 7 Invention Convention

Next Week

District Academic Meet Winners

On Tuesday, April 4th, the Ladycat Soccer Team won the Regional Quarterfinal round of the playoffs with a score of 2-0 over Pleasant Grove. This win advances the team to the semifinal round of the Regional Tournament this Friday, April 7th at 1:30 pm in Tyler, at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium located at 609 Fair Park Drive, Tyler, Texas 75702. Go Ladycats!

UIL District Academic Meet

UIL 18-4A District Track Meet Next Week @ PHS

April 12th - 8:00 am

April 13th - 6:00 pm

GO PALESTINE TRACK!

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Go Wildcats Athletic Director: Robby Clark

Palestine Athletics

Tennis The Palestine JV tennis team participated in the JV tournament on

Monday in Madisonville with every Palestine player coming home

with a medal.

Taylor Kelly took first in girls’ singles to lead Palestine. Lily Nolan

and Morgan Lasiter took second in girls’ doubles; Salvador Castillo

was fourth in boys’ singles; Raheal Egbe and Carlos Adame were

fourth in mixed doubles and Clara Moellers and Shana Fitzgerald

were sixth in girls’ doubles.

The Palestine girls took second place overall as a team.

The Varsity Tennis Team will compete in the District Tournament

this week in Madisonville.

Coach Scott Tyler

Track The Wildcats competed well in the Madisonville Relays this week. This was a very competitive Track Meet. The Wildcats Varsity

Team won the Team Championship scoring 163 points. The Junior Varsity also won the Team Championship scoring 143

points. The outstanding Varsity performer was Irric Deyon with a 1st place in the 100 meter and 1st place in the Long

Jump. The outstanding Junior Varsity performer was Tre Calhoun with 1st place in the 100 meter and 1st place in the 4x100

Meter Relay. The Wildcats will compete in the District Track Meet on April 12th and 13th at PHS. Come out and support your

Wildcats. Thank you for the support.

Coach Darold Turner

Upcoming Events

Monday, April 10 Junior High Track Meet Fairfield

Monday, April 10, 8:00 am District Golf Tournament Athens

Monday, April 10, 5:00 pm JVB Softball Edgewood

Tuesday, April 11, 8:00 am District Golf Tournament Round 2 Athens

Tuesday, April 11, 5:30 pm V Softball vs. Kerens (Senior Night) Palestine

Weds-Thur, April 12-13 District Track Meet Palestine

Friday, April 14, 4:30 pm JV Baseball vs. Madisonville Palestine

Thursday, April 13, 8:00 pm V Softball vs. Madisonville Palestine

Thursday, April 13, 8:00 pm V Baseball vs. Madisonville Palestine

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Palestine High School Principal: Dr. William Stewart

“Romeo, Oh Romeo”

Coach Tyler’s class working on

Romeo and Juliet quote project.

You’ll find it in the “Big Book”

British Literature class discussion with Mrs. McComas.

It Pays to Increase your Vocabulary.

Vocabulary study in Mr. Storment’s History class.

What are the Chances?

Sample distribution project in

Mrs. Nolan’s Statistics class.

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Palestine Junior High School

Principal: Stephen Cooksey

The Junior High Year Book students are traveling around

town looking for sponsors for this year’s yearbook!

Mrs. Oranch’s 8th Grade class

work on their reading strategies.

Mrs. Hardinson’s 7th grade

Pre-AP Math Class work on

understanding the constant of

probability.

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A.M. Story Intermediate

Principal: Jaime Clark

The STORY Robotics Team that traveled to Iowa

this week to compete in the state competition

displayed their work at the March board

meeting. Good Luck to them!

Mrs. Bell’s

Choir Class

performing at

the STAAR

Pep Rally!

We have the best custodians at Story.

Taking a “Selfie”!

“Believe in Your #SELFIE” is our

STAAR theme for this year.

4th & 5

th Graders enjoyed a STAAR Pep

Rally to get our students pumped up for their

STAAR Tests!

TACE presented “Bags & Baskets” for our March

Family activity. Thank you to Vicky Braly of Braly

Builders Supply who taught the class.

Story students and family members had a great

time!

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Southside Elementary

Principal: Melissa Molandes

TWO BAD ANTS - Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Gore, and Ms. Kendrick have a reenactment of the story.

Sitting on desk earning

more AR points

Ms. Brantley’s class

made a tree

describing the

3 branches of government.

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Northside Primary

Principal: Barbara Dutton

Mrs. Carroll’s students made S’mores as

they learned about halves, quarters, and

fair shares.

Mrs. Moers students learn their shapes in

creative ways.

Northside students welcome Spring in the Rose Garden.

Kindergartners

are learning

to skate

in P.E.

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Washington E.C.C. Principal: Sheila Bradley

WECC had a blast at CURIOUS!!

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Northside Primary TACE Center

Northside TACE

April Family Paint Night

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Southside Elementary TACE Center

Building Bridges in Tech Lab

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

A.M. Story Intermediate TACE STEM Center

Story TACE Spanish Club

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

PHS TACE

Palestine High School TACE College & Career Readiness Center

Good luck to PHS Robotics Team in the

CREATE US OPEN ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIP

in Councils Bluffs, Iowa where the team will be competing in April.

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Looking Forward

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

2 3 JH Track Meet -

Madisonville

JV Tennis District Tournament

5:00p Maroon Baseball

vs. Van (Home)

6:00p JVB Softball vs.

Elkhart (Away)

4 1:00p Northside TACE

Academic Encourage-

ment

4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Athens (Away)

6:00p V Softball vs.

Athens (Away)

7:00p V Baseball vs.

Athens (Away)

5 6 V Tennis - District Tournament

3:00p Track & Field - Madisonville HS

7 End of 5th Six Weeks

V Tennis District Tournament

4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Mexia (Away)

5:00p V/JV Softball vs.

Mexia (Away)

7:00p V Baseball vs.

Mexia (Away)

8 7:30a ACT Testing

10:00a & 12:00p JV Soft-

ball Double Header vs.

Cameron Yoe (Home)

9 10 Begin 6th Six Weeks

JH District Track Meet

@ Fairfield

8:00a District Golf

Tournament @ Athens

5:00p JVB Softball vs.

Edgewood (Away)

5:00p Youth & Govern-

ment Banquet @ Wildcat

Café

11 8:00a District Golf

Tournament Round 2 @

Athens

6:30p Pre UIL Band

Concert

12

High School District

Track Meet

13 Flex Day

High School District

Track Meet

WECC Field Day

8:00p Softball vs.

Madisonville (Home-

Senior Night)

8:00p Baseball vs.

Madisonville (Home)

14 Good Friday – Student & Staff Holiday

4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Madisonville (Home)

15

16 17 4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Alto (Home)

7:00p School Board

Meeting

18 4:00p JV Softball vs.

TK Gorman (Away)

4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Fairfield (Away)

7:00p Baseball vs.

Fairfield (Away)

19 20 4:00p Athletic Physicals

21 4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Athens (Home)

7:00p Baseball vs. Athens (Home)

22

23 24 25 26 27 6:00p CTE Compass

Awards

28 2A Regional Track &

Field

4:30p JV Baseball vs.

Cushing (Home)

7:00p Baseball vs. Cushing (Home)-Senior Night)

29 2A Regional Track & Field

30 1 2 5:30p Northside Art

Show

3 4 Northside Safety Town

5 6 6:30p Coronation

8-12p Prom

April - May 2017