Wildcat Weekly Palestine ISD has had a SMART start to the school year. Each campus has some new programs that are benefitting students. Washington ECC Pre-K students will be tested with Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) Engage three times during the school year to ensure students are school ready before entering kindergarten. Northside Primary and Southside Elementary students are focusing on writing skills with the Lucy Calkins Writing Program. A.M. Story Intermediate kicked off Rachel’s Challenge, a new anti-bullying program that teaches and promotes kindness. New this year at Palestine Junior High are SWAG classes which stands for “Simply Wanting Academic Greatness”, where students receive academic support. Palestine High School students are learning to manage their time and tasks through Cat Connection. Thank you staff for a SMART first six weeks and hope everyone has a great second six weeks! Palestine Independent School District September 29 2017 Volume 6: Issue 6 Athletics 2 Campus Happenings 3-8 TACE 9-13 PISD Food Service 14 Looking Forward 15 Inside this issue: DISTRICT EVENTS Friday, September 29 7:30 pm - Varsity Football vs. Kilgore (Home) Foam Finger Night Monday, October 2 Tennis vs. Athens (Home) 5:00 pm - Junior High Volleyball vs. Mexia (Home) Tuesday, October 3 5:00 pm - Junior High/9th/JV/ V Volleyball vs. Madisonville (Home) Junior High Night Thursday, October 5 8:30 am - Girls & Boys JV/V Cross Country @ Lindale 5:00 pm - 9th/JV Football vs. Center (Home) Friday, October 6 4:30 pm - 9th/JV/V Volley- ball vs. Fairfield (Home) 7:30 pm - Varsity Football vs. Center (Away) Saturday, October 7 8:00 am - Girls & Boys Junior High Cross Country @ Fairfield Junior High Volleyball Cayuga Tournament from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall Have a great 2017-2018 school year! Schools Helping Schools Palestine ISD students and staff have raised close to $3,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief since the hurricane devastated the Texas Coast in August. Two school districts in need of assistance were chosen to receive a $1,500 donation from the funds given by PISD families and staff members. PISD will send the funds to Aransas County ISD and Aransas Pass ISD which were both hit hard by Hurricane Harvey and have closed indefinitely for renovations and rebuilding. Thank you to everyone who donated to help the schools recover. The Palestine Junior High School TACE Program invites everyone to join them at National Night Out for their Pumpkin Painting Event. Tuesday, October 3 5:30-7:30 pm Palestine Civic Center PISD staff were treated to SMART water for a SMART start to the school year. SMART START
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Wildcat Weekly
Palestine ISD has had a SMART start to the school year. Each campus has some new programs that are benefitting students.
Washington ECC Pre-K students will be tested with Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) Engage three times during the school year to ensure students are school ready before entering kindergarten. Northside Primary and Southside Elementary students are focusing on writing skills with the Lucy Calkins Writing Program.
A.M. Story Intermediate kicked off Rachel’s Challenge, a new anti-bullying program that teaches and promotes kindness.
New this year at Palestine Junior High are SWAG classes which stands for “Simply Wanting Academic Greatness”, where students receive academic support. Palestine High School students are learning to manage their time and tasks through Cat Connection.
Thank you staff for a SMART first six weeks and hope everyone has a great second six weeks!
Palestine Independent School District September 29 2017 Volume 6: Issue 6
Athletics 2
Campus Happenings 3-8
TACE 9-13
PISD Food Service 14
Looking Forward 15
Inside this issue:
DISTRICT EVENTS
Friday, September 29 7:30 pm - Varsity Football
vs. Kilgore (Home) Foam Finger Night
Monday, October 2 Tennis vs. Athens (Home)
5:00 pm - Junior High Volleyball vs. Mexia (Home)
Tuesday, October 3 5:00 pm - Junior High/9th/JV/
V Volleyball vs. Madisonville (Home) Junior High Night
Thursday, October 5 8:30 am - Girls & Boys JV/V
Cross Country @ Lindale
5:00 pm - 9th/JV Football vs.
Center (Home)
Friday, October 6
4:30 pm - 9th/JV/V Volley-
ball vs. Fairfield (Home)
7:30 pm - Varsity Football vs. Center (Away)
Saturday, October 7
8:00 am - Girls & Boys Junior High Cross Country
@ Fairfield
Junior High Volleyball Cayuga Tournament
from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall
Have a great 2017-2018 school year!
Schools Helping Schools
Palestine ISD students and staff have raised close to $3,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief since the hurricane devastated the Texas Coast in August.
Two school districts in need of assistance were chosen to receive a $1,500 donation from the funds given by PISD families and staff members.
PISD will send the funds to Aransas County ISD and Aransas Pass ISD which were both hit hard by Hurricane Harvey and have closed indefinitely for renovations and rebuilding.
Thank you to everyone who donated to help the schools recover.
The Palestine Junior High School TACE Program
invites everyone to join them at National Night Out
for their Pumpkin Painting Event.
Tuesday, October 3
5:30-7:30 pm
Palestine Civic Center
PISD staff were treated to SMART water
for a SMART start to the school year.
SMART START
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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
Cross Country:
Last Friday night, Ladycat volleyball started district play at Mexia. Varsity put up a fight but lost in 4 (25-23, 18-25, 22-25,
21-25). Faith Newman had 7 aces and led the team with 14 digs. Destiny led the offense with 12 kills and Ja'bria Simmons
and Shayla Arthur each added 6 kills. Destiny Mathews had 5 blocks on the night. JVA took care of business in 2 (25-20,
25-20)!! JVB won in exciting fashion (24-26, 25-15, 16-14)!! We will continue district play in Athens on Tuesday night!
This past weekend our Boys Cross Country Teams competed in our home meet at Story Intermediate School. All three teams, Varsity, JV and JH, won in a dominating fashion. The Varsity squad was led by Michael Guzman's 1st place, Luis Rangel's 2nd place, Daniel Sanchez 4th place, Garrett Bowden's 5th place and Francis Sis 6th place finish. The JV squad had a perfect score of 15 and were led by Cristian Castillo's first place finish. Then the JH were led by Tony Garcia's 1st place finish. Everybody did an awesome job this weekend and good luck tomorrow at the Elkhart Invitational Meet.
The Palestine High School Girls Cross Country Team competed yesterday at the Elkhart Invitational.
It was a very competitive meet. Our girls finished in 4th place. Leading the Ladycats was
Isabel A. Garcia, followed by Yarizeth Garcia, Laura Cabrera, Yazmine Cuevas, Jennifer Aguilar,
and Iris Chavez.
Our Junior Varsity Girls earned 1st place with Ashley Davis leading the group;
followed by Paola Rangel, Janet Aleman, Mia Ramirez, and Emma Bennet
Please congratulate the Ladycats for a great job yesterday!!
Cross Country will be back in action next week at the Lindale Invitational!!
Volleyball: This week the team headed over to Athens to continue district play. Varsity took care of business in 3 (25-17, 25-13, 25-12). Fazaria Edwards had 9 aces from the serving line. Shayla Arthur led the offense with 10 kills and Destiny Mathews added 6 kills. Mckenzie King had 15 assists and Ke'ondra White led the defense with 14 digs on the night. JVA won in 2 (25-14, 25-13). JVB lost in 2 (17-25, 22-25). We will resume district play at home with Madisonville next Tuesday. Football: The Wildcats will begin district play tonight at home against Kilgore. Fans will receive a GO WILDCATS foam finger tonight with the purchase of a ticket. Tonight is also Elementary Night so all elementary students will be admitted free with a parent.