Vernon ISD

Friday will be a day of celebration here at VES!! We will be handing out 3rd Six Weeks/Fall Semester Awards during ceremonies throughout the day. Parents, guardians and other family members are invited to attend and show their support for their student!
Here is the awards schedule: 2nd Grade -- 8:30 a.m.; 3rd Grade -- 10 a.m.; 4th Grade -- 12:35 p.m.; 5th Grade -- 2:05 p.m.
All the ceremonies will be held in the VES Gym.

We're just starting the Spring Semester, but May and the end of school will be here in a blink of an eye. We want to make sure our seniors, and their parents, know and understand the criteria requirements for seniors being eligible to participate in our Class of 2026 Senior Activities. Please review the information below.

VHS seniors!!
Balfour representatives will be on campus Thursday to provide you with information on graduation caps, gowns and other items. This is just to provide you with information you can take home and share with your parents. Balfour will return later in the spring to take orders for caps and gowns.

A big THANK YOU!! goes out to the United Samaritan Services of Vernon (USSV) for donating a large number of CDs to our VES Art Department for the student's Spring art project. Due to that donation, we have all the CDs we need for the project. We appreciate everyone who donated to our project.

Welcome back!!! To all of our VISD students!! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas Break and are ready to learn and have fun as we start the Spring Semester. Here's to a great Spring Semester!!

VHS senior Zach Sanchez will be competing at the Class 3A Congressional Debate Meet today in Austin. This is his 3rd year to advance to the state meet. Logan Wehrein and A.J. Ragland were named alternates to state at the Region 1 meet and are also in Austin.
GOOD LUCK!!!!

We are excited to welcome our students back tomorrow as we start the Spring Semester of the 2025-26 school year. Here is the cafeteria menu for January. Please remember all VISD students receive a FREE breakfast and lunch every school day in our cafeterias.

Time is running out if you are a parent of a VHS senior and would like to put a Senior Ad in the 2026 Yearbook, and if you're a local business owner who would like to show your support for VHS with a Business Ad in the yearbook. Scan the QR codes below by January 23 to get your Senior Ad or Business Ad in the yearbook!!

Calling former Vernon Lions baseball players!! The annual Alumni Baseball Game is set for Saturday, Feb. 14, at Jabe Brazzle Field. Those interested in playing will need to contact Lions Head Coach Leo Murguia by email at leonel.murguia@visdtx.org
The cost for a t-shirt is $20 for S-XL, and $25 for 2XL-4XL. The game is a fundraiser for the Lions baseball program. The deadline to sign up to play and/or order a t-shirt is Monday, Feb. 2.

This morning, the Vernon Police Department and Vernon ISD welcomed Autumn Thames to their staffs. Autumn will hold the rank of lieutenant with the Vernon PD and will serve as VISD's Director of School Safety and Security, as well as be the School Resource Officer at McCord Elementary. Interim Supt. Dr. Blaise Boswell explained this is a newly-established position and reflects VISD's and Vernon PD's collaborative commitment to maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all students, staff, and visitors.

The nomination window for our Vernon ISD Gifted and Talented Program is now open. The deadline to nominate a student is Monday, Jan. 19. Parents, teachers and others in the community can nominate students. Nominations will only be accepted via a Google Form you can access by scanning the QR code below, or by following this link: https://bit.ly/VISD-GTProgram
Parents/guardians will have two opportunities to attend an informational meeting on our GT program. Both meetings will be held Tuesday, Jan. 13, the first will be held at 1 p.m., at the VISD Boardroom, and the second will be held at 6 p.m., at the VHS Media Center.

Our VES Spring Art Project involves using old CD and DVD discs. If you happen to have any you would like to donate to the project, please contact the VES Office or drop them by the school office. We just need the discs only.

Our Lady Lions resume District 7-3A action today as they host the Holliday Lady Eagles at D.O. Fulton Gym. The Lady Lions will take the court at 1:15 p.m., following the boys JV game. The Lady Lions are 0-2 in district play, while the Lady Eagles are 1-0. Tickets must be purchased online at www.vernonisd.org
GOOD LUCK LADY LIONS!!!

We would like to wish all of our students and their families, along with all of our VISD staff and their families a very Happy New Year!! We hope 2026 is the best year yet for everyone!!

We would like to wish all of our students, staff and their families a very, very Merry Christmas!!

Girls in our high school athletics program sponsored two Jaycee Star Tree Kids this year and earlier this week the students went shopping for their Star Tree kids. Today the presents were delivered to the bank.

On Thursday, students in Mrs. Julie Terry's 8th grade Honors class created food trucks connected to the novel they are reading, "The Giver." The book is a dystopian novel where everyone is the same and no one can see color. The students chose different characters to staff their food trucks and created menus that only connected back to the book. Some chose their menu by color, others by important symbols from the novel and others from giving the food names that tie to the novel. They created uniforms based on the novel, playlists, and eating utensils. Mrs. Terry said all of the students did very well.

Our Winter Formal was held Thursday evening and during the event a ceremony to crown our Winter Formal King and Queen for each grade was held. Selected as our Winter Formal Kings and Queens were: D'Angelo Galvan & Keely Lehman for 6th Grade; Lux Limon & Torren Adams for 7th Grade; and Bryson Boswell & Brillet Castillo Beltran for 8th Grade. Congratulations to them all!!

Receiving Teacher and Staff Member of the Month honors for December are English teacher Kayla Bennett and Administrative Assistant Catherine Scales. They are outstanding co-workers who go above and beyond for the students and their VHS co-workers to help make VHS the best place it can be!! We appreciate them both!!