Vernon ISD

Dr. Harrison is here today visiting with our VMS and VHS students about bullying prevention. This morning he was at the high school and this afternoon he'll be talking to our middle school students. Our students were great in the presentation and by now I am no longer even surprised! Please remember that Dr. Harrison will be at the Wilbarger Auditorium TONIGHT at 6:00pm for our parents and the community. Please come out and participate so that we can all work together to prevent bullying in our schools.

I maintain that VISD kids are collectively the best kids I have ever been around. Our kids consistently demonstrate to me that they are not resistant to working within the expectations that we set for them. Although expectations for our students existed here before me, I encourage each staff member in this district to evaluate those expectations and ask themselves are there opportunities to elevate our current expectations thus forcing our kids to perform at an even higher level. While I do not consider bullying to be a critical issue in VISD, it is an issue that I want us to address. We have a responsibility to the community, and to our kids, to be proactive in our planning. For this reason, we are bringing Dr. George Harrison to Vernon to speak to our students. He will be meeting with the VMS and VHS students during the school day. In addition, we have asked him to meet with our community and parents as well. We want everyone to work together to help prevent bullying. I am encouraging each VISD parent to support the district’s effort and attend the parent presentation on bullying on Tuesday night at 6:00pm at Wilbarger Auditorium. Dr. Ward

🏀AREA CHAMPIONS🏀 Your Vernon Lions beat the Brady Bulldogs tonight to become Area Champions! Onto the Regional Quarterfinals next! Regional Quarterfinals WHO: Vernon Lions vs. Brock Eagles WHEN: Monday, February 27, at 6:30pm WHERE: Graham High School

🥎SOFTBALL GAME CHANGES FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY🥎 The softball games scheduled for today, Friday, February 24, in the Archer City Tournament have been cancelled. We will be playing the following games tomorrow (Saturday): 12:45pm: Vernon vs. Electra at Holliday 4:15pm: Vernon vs. Archer City at Archer City

Today, I sat in on the ACT prep sessions with all VHS 11th graders that we arranged. I am very proud of the effort and attentiveness of our kids as they learned quite a bit about the needed approach to being successful on the ACT test. The district paid for each 11th grader to have access to this opportunity and will follow this up with paying for each and every 11th grader at VHS to take the ACT on campus in a few weeks. Districts often say that they have high expectations for each student, yet will stumble when asked for proof. This is just one demonstration of our proof. ALL really does mean ALL in V.I.S.D. and I am loving it. Dr. Kermit Ward Superintendent

🏀AREA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME🏀 WHO: Vernon Lions vs. Brady Bulldogs WHERE: Anson High School WHEN: Friday, February 24 at 8pm Adults $5 and Students $3 Tickets will be sold at the gate. THSCA, TABC, District 5 and 7 3a, and senior passes will be accepted. Home: Vernon Visitor: Brady *Comments have been turned off due to the high volume of spam comments and links that have recently been posted on our posts from fake accounts.

Vernon ISD is bringing in Dr. Harrison to talk to our students and community about bullying prevention. Dr. Harrison will be at the following locations on February 28. - Vernon High School to meet with the students at 9:00am - Vernon Middle School to meet with the students at 1:30pm - Wilbarger Auditorium to meet with the parents and the community at 6:00pm We look forward to working with our students and the community to prevent bullying.

The 1st Annual Vernon ISD Education Foundation 4-person Golf Scramble is scheduled for April 22, 2023. All are welcome to participate! The Vernon ISD Education Foundation is a non-profit organization, created to uphold our mission of being an exemplary education community. In this inaugural year, the Foundation aims to raise funds to support teachers and staff in their role of increasing achievement and academic success for our students. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact Kori Eakin at kori.eakin@visdtx.org or by phone (940)553-1900 ext. 2229.

⚾Vernon Lions Club has a KID LEAGUE BASEBALL ANNOUNCEMENT! Registration Starts: Monday, March 6, 2023 to Wednesday, March 22, 2023 (Registration will NOT be accepted after March 22, 2023) ONLINE REGISTRATION: $35.00/Player Parents interested in registering their child to play Kid League Baseball should register them online using the website address listed here: https://bit.ly/KLBRegistration23 Download a copy of this Registration Form here: http://bit.ly/3ZfC3a7 (Registration information will be sent home with your student in the upcoming weeks) For Questions, Please contact League Director, Dustin Fraticelli at (940) 357-9422.

🏀BI-DISTRICT CHAMPS🏀 Tonight our Vernon Lions beat the Early Longhorns 58-46 to win the first playoff game since 2008! Congratulations!!!

Our girls powerlifting ended their regular season this past week and we have quite a few that qualified for regionals! Congratulations to our girls powerlifting regional qualifiers: 97- Zayley Horn 114- Carolyn Lucio 114- Jeana Martinez 114- Hser Soe 123- ZayLeigh Sweet 123- Yuleyka Ramirez 123- Mari Jasso 132- Courtney Saylor 148- Kellan Byars 148- Alyssa Andora 259+- Kamryn Hall The regional meet with be Saturday, March 4, at 2:30 pm at Shamrock High School.

🥎SOFTBALL GAME CANCELLED🥎 The softball game against Windthorst tomorrow, February 21, at home has been cancelled.

Congratulations to Sophomore McKyla Myers for placing 5th with her Hampshire pig at the San Antonio Stock Show! Great job, we are proud of you!

🏀BI-DISTRICT BASKETBALL GAME🏀 👉WHO: Vernon Lions vs Early Longhorns 👉WHEN: Tuesday, February 21 at 6:30pm 👉WHERE: Olney High School Early will be Home and Vernon will be Visitor. Tickets will be purchased at the gate. Adults: $5 Students: $3 TABC, THSCA, 7-3a, 8-3a passes will be accepted

Just a reminder that there will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20. All campuses will be closed on this day. Enjoy the weekend and we will see you all again on Tuesday!

🏀IT'S GAME DAY🏀 Your Vernon Lions go up against the Holliday Eagles tonight in a district playoff seeding game. The game will be held at Iowa Park High School at 6:00pm. We hope you will come out to cheer on our Lions Can't make it to the game? KVWC Radio will have a live broadcast that you can tune in at FM 103.1 or online at network1sports.com/station/kvwc.

We wanted to let your parents and students know that Skyward Family Access will be unavailable from February 17 at 6:00 pm-February 18 at 6:00pm. The program is conducting updates and maintenance.

🚨UPDATE: The reported threat in the Vernon area has been resolved by Vernon law enforcement. All campuses will revert back to their normal status. Thank you for your trust!!! We were made aware of a 3rd party threat on a building near the Vernon Middle School campus today. Although the threat was not regarding the Vernon Middle School campus itself, we take this and any other threats seriously and will be overly aggressive in keeping kids safe. For this reason, I have mandated that Vernon Middle School, Central Elementary, Opportunity Center, and DAEP be moved to “secure” status. What this means is that all exterior classes will be moved inside so that all of our students can remain safe under the close watch of all staff members. Respectfully, Dr. Kermit Ward

🩺A NOTE FROM OUR NURSE🩺 Today I was informed that Vernon College now requires the Men B vaccine as a requirement for entry into college. I am going to assume that other colleges may have the same requirement, so please look into it if you are applying to college. The health department has notified me that they can only give the Men B vaccine that they currently have in stock to kids aged 16-18. Unfortunately, if they are 19, they can not receive the vaccine for free at the health department. It is suggested that any student that is considering admission to college should go ahead and receive the Men B series before they turn 18. They are also still required to have the 2nd dose of MCV, but they will now need the Men B also. If you have any questions, please contact our nurse, Jennifer Walker, at 940-552-6231, ext. 3, or via email at jennifer.walker@visdtx.org.

📢 WE'RE HIRING!! 📢 Vernon ISD is hiring a Secondary Instructional Coach and an Elementary Instructional Coach. You can apply online at bit.ly/ApplyVISD. We can't wait to work with you!