Wildcat Weekly

Palestine Independent School District November 10, 2017 Volume 6: Issue 10

Athletics 2

Campus Happenings 3-8

TACE 9-13

Looking Forward 14

Inside this issue:

DISTRICT EVENTS

Saturday, November 11 Veterans Day

Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball

Corsicana Tournament

10:00a Boys’ Basketball

Bullard/Eustace Scrimmage

Tuesday, November 14 4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V Basketball

@ Rusk

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Huntington (Home)

Wednesday, November 15 Turkey Distribution

Thursday, November 16 Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball

Wildcat Classic Tournament

Friday, November 17

4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Lufkin-Hudson (Home)

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball @ Lindale

Saturday, November 18 Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball

Wildcat Classic Tournament

from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall

Happy Fall!

Palestine ISD is holding the first Flex Day of the school year today to provide an opportunity for students to receive additional academic assistance and for teachers to participate in professional

development.

Congratulations to the PHS Boys’ Cross Country Team on finishing 6th place of the 190 4A schools at the state meet on November 4th. The team has worked hard all season to beat their last season’s state ranking of 32nd. The team expects to improve on this year’s 6th place finish at the state meet in

2018.

The Wildcat Football Team hopes to clinch a playoff spot tonight with a win over the Henderson Lions. The game will be played at Henderson and kickoff

is at 7:30 pm. Go Wildcats!

The district will be closed for the Thanksgiving holidays during the week of Monday, November 20th through Friday, November 24th. Classes will

resume on Monday, November 27th.

Thank you to the PHS Spanish Club

for helping keep Palestine clean!

This past Saturday, 20 PHS choir students competed in Hender-son for the All Region Honor Choir, and 8 of students advanced! These students, along with 10 Junior High students who placed in the Middle School All Region Choir, will perform this coming

Saturday in Carthage.

Wildcat Choir Advances at All Region

Happy Veterans’ Day - Saturday, November 11

In honor of our Veterans, Palestine ISD held Veterans’ Day ceremonies at each campus this week. Thank you to all our

Veterans for your service.

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Welcome back, Wildcat fans! We are excited to kick off the new school year with a full athletic calendar. Our student

athletes have worked hard in preparation for the new season. Cross Country is ready for their first meet in Union

Grove on Saturday, Volleyball is in full swing with the varsity team competing in the Groesbeck tournament today and

tomorrow, Team Tennis hosted their first home match of the season on Thursday, and varsity football will kick off

their season on September 1st versus Mabank. We encourage our fans to come out and support all our fall sports.

As a reminder, please don’t forget Meet the Wildcats, Monday, August 28th, 7:00 p.m., Wildcat Gym! We look forward

to introducing our football, cross country, fall tennis, and volleyball teams, as well as student trainers, band

members, cheerleaders and Kik Kats. Representatives from the PISD Athletic Booster Club will be available, also, to

answer any questions you may have about memberships and volunteer opportunities.

For up to date information, schedules, and upcoming events, please visit the Athletic webpage at

www.palestineschools.org, Departments, Athletics.

WE WILL PUT FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE INFO HERE….COACH ROBINSON IS WORKING ON THAT…..

In Volleyball action:

The Ladycats played Pittsburg at home last Friday night in their first home game of the season. JVB lost a tough

match in 3 ( 25-13, 18-25, 11-15). JVA defeated Pittsburg (25-22, 22-25, 25-23)! The Varsity girls lost in three (20-25, 17-

25, 17-25). Faith Newman picked up 22 digs. McKenzie King had 22 assists. Destiny Mathews had 10 kills while Shayla

Arthur added 8 kills. The Ladycats will resume play in the Eustace tournament playing at 9 am vs. Mabank in the

Championship bracket.

The Ladycats hosted Alba-Golden Tuesday night. The JVB team fought hard in a 3 game match, but came up short (25

-20, 21-25, 23-25). Our JVA team won in exciting fashion coming from behind in the 3rd set to win (15-25, 25-16, 25-20)!

Our varsity girls showed heart and fight in their 5 game match with Alba-Golden. We came up short, but very proud of

the effort the girls gave (26-24, 15-25, 25-23, 22-25, 12-15). We will be playing in the Groesbeck tournament this Friday

and Saturday!

Go Wildcats Athletic Director: Robby Clark

Palestine Athletics Football: This past Friday the Wildcat Varsity Football Team took on the defending state champs and

currently ranked #1 Carthage Bulldogs. The Wildcats played a hard, gritty game and gave

Carthage a very tough ball game. Despite losing 48-31, the Wildcats played very well and

go into the last regular season game this Friday against Henderson still looking to clinch

a playoff spot. Sophomore, Jeremiah Davis rushed for 189 yards against a tough Carthage

defense, while Senior Roderick Deyon played an outstanding game defensively, leading all

tacklers with 13 tackles. The Wildcats will look to clinch a play-off spot this week with a win

over Henderson. Make plans to come to Henderson and cheer on the Wildcats tonight

(November 10th) at 7:30pm. Go Wildcats! Coach Morgan Robinson

Basketball: The Wildcat Basketball Team has been working hard to gear up for the start of our season. I am excited about this year because of the hard work that these guys have put in this off season. The team will scrimmage Bullard and Eustace at 10:00 am tomorrow morning (November 11th) at Bullard. Then next week the team will play Lindale next Friday, November 17th at Lindale. Coach JJ Johnson

Congrats to the team on the Best Cross Country Season in the school's history. We want to say thank you to everyone that has supported us all year and everyone who supported the team at the state meet! Coach John Absalom

Cross Country: Texas has 190 schools that participate in 4A Cross Country. Last year at this time the team was ranked 32nd in state for 4A Cross Country and this year we finished as 6th best team in the state of Texas for 4A Cross Country. Boys Cross Country had an amazing year and we are expecting to improve on our 6th place finish at the state meet next year. Our top runner at the state meet was Freshmen Luis Rangel with an 11th place finish out of 152 runners. Other varsity runners: Grant Attaway, Garrett Bowden, Christian Castillo, Christian Guzman, Michael Guzman, Daniel Sanchez, Jonathan Sanchez, and Francis Sis.

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Palestine High School Principal: Dr. William Stewart

Math

at

Work

The “Chemystery”

of Halloween

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Palestine Junior High School

Principal: Stephen Cooksey

Mrs. Boyd’s 7th grade STEM class work on building1/4 scale furniture from their originally designed blue prints.

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A.M. Story Intermediate

Principal: Jaime Clark

Red Ribbon Week Fun

Sports Day

Nerd Day

CHARACTER BOOK FOR THIS SIX WEEKS

Career Day

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Southside Elementary Principal: Grace Mancilla

RED RIBBON WEEK DRESS-UP FUN

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Northside Primary Principal: Barbara Dutton

Collecting donations for BARC

Trick or Treating at Greenbrier Retirement Home

Camo Day

Celebrating Halloween with “scary”

reading and pumpkin carving in

Mrs. Moore’s and

Mrs. Rubalcava’s classes.

Storybook Character Day & Parade

Library time is very important on our cam-pus.

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Washington E.C.C. Principal: Sheila Bradley

Trick-or-Treat in the Washington Halls

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Northside Primary TACE Center

Early morning is reading,

problem solving, iPads and computers.

We start our day right.

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Southside Elementary TACE Center

Journaling Class Pancakes in Cooking 101

Drums Alive Halloween Style

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

A.M. Story Intermediate TACE STEM Center

Robotics students working together and preparing for an upcoming competition.

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Palestine Junior High School TACE STEM Center

Coach Blake's Leadership and Mentoring Class

learning personal traits and life lessons

Getting homework

done during TACE

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Palestine High School TACE College and Career Readiness Center

Glee Club preparing for a flash mob

A&P Homework

Senior Serena Coker working on essay writing

with Ms. McComas

Chemistry Club experimenting with carbonating their own drinks. In the spirit of Halloween, they called this

one Witches Brew.

Art Club making altered books

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Looking Forward

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

5 Daylight Savings

Ends (Turn clocks

back one hour)

6 Begin 3rd Six Weeks

7 7a-7p Anderson County Election

4:30p Girls’ JV/V Basketball @ Carthage

8 Veterans Day

Programs

9:00a - PHS

9:30a - WECC

9 Veterans Day Programs 8:30a - Southside 9:00a - Northside Story: 4th grd 8:45a 5th grd 9:30a 6th grd 1:30p PJHS - 2:00p

5:00p 9th/JV Foot-ball vs. Henderson (Home) Junior High (Away)

Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball Corsicana

10 Flex Day

7:30p Varsity Foot-ball vs. Henderson (Away)

5:00p Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball vs. Lindale (Home)

11 Veterans Day

Girls’ 9th/JV Basketball Corsicana Tournament

10:00a Boys’ Basket-ball Bullard/Eustace Scrimmage

12 13 7:00p Regular School

Board Meeting

14 4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V

Basketball @

Rusk

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Hun-tington (Home)

15 Thanksgiving Turkey

Distribution to Staff

@ PISD Administra-

tion Office

16 Girls’ 9th/JV Basket-

ball Wildcat Classic

Tournament

5:30p TACE ESL

Celebration-Wildcat

Cafe

7:00p PHS National

Honor Society Induc-

tion-PHS Auditorium

17 4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V

Basketball vs.

Lufkin-Hudson

(Home)

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball @ Lindale

18 8:00a PHS TSI

Testing

Girls’ 9th/JV Basket-

ball Wildcat Classic

Tournament

19 20

Thanksgiving

Holiday

4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V

Basketball vs.

Kilgore (Home)

1:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Corsicana (Home)

21 Thanksgiving

Holiday

4:30p Girls’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Jacksonville (Home)

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball @ John Tyler

22 Thanksgiving

Holiday

23 Thanksgiving

Holiday

24 Thanksgiving

Holiday

25 Boys’ V Basketball

Woodman Classic @

Whitehouse

26 27 28

4:30p Girls’ JV/V

Basketball @

West Rusk

5:00p Boys’ 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Hen-derson (Home)

29 30

Girls’ & Boys’ V

Basketball Lorena

Tournament &

9th/JV Henderson

Tournament

1 Girls’ & Boys’ V

Basketball Lorena

Tournament &

9th/JV Henderson

Tournament

2 Girls’ & Boys’ V

Basketball Lorena

Tournament &

9th/JV Henderson

Tournament

Nov-Dec 2017