Can you believe this is the first school day in February?!!! Where did January go?
Here is the VISD cafeteria menu for January. Remember all VISD students are eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch from the school cafeteria every school day.
VMS hosted a Chili and Soup Cook Off today and invited local law enforcement officers to enjoy the food and vote for their favorite. Law Enforcement Appreciation Day was Jan. 9, however school was out that day due to bad weather. VMS wanted to show our appreciation to our law enforcement community and thank them for keeping our students, teachers and staff, as well as our town and county safe.
Yesterday one of our VISD teachers suffered a devastating house fire. To help with expenses we will be doing a "Hat For A Cause Day" fundraiser every day next week. For $1 donation, students, teachers and staff will be allowed to wear a hat or cap in the classroom that day. The hat or cap must be school appropriate. Let's have some fun with this next week and also help a member of our VISD family.
Vernon Middle School will be hosting a Public Meeting as part of our Targeted Improvement Plan. The meeting will be held at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4, at VMS. School leaders will go over the School Improvement Plan .
Last Friday, VMS Student Council President Olivia Hastings and members of the 8th grade class delivered donations from our VMS Canned Food Drive that was held in the Fall to the local USSV.
Our VMS tennis team competed in the Iowa Park Jr. High Tennis Tournament on Saturday and came away with two championships and a 3rd place finish. Steven Ybarra and Cameron Streit were the Boys Doubles champions, and Brooklyn DeLaune and Virshini Kadilaya claimed the gold in Girls Doubles. It was all Vernon in the 3rd place match in Boys Doubles, and Calvin Kemp and Brayden MacMillan just edged teammates Braxton Booth and Braeden German in a close battle.
Vernon ISD is helping the Vernon Boys & Girls Club help get the word out by sharing this flyer! Registration is currently underway for the B&G Softball League for students in kindergarten thru 8th grade. Sign up today!! Should be a great season!!
APP UPDATE!
Our Vernon ISD App has just had a big update! Please take a moment to go to your App Store or Play Store and make sure your app updates. Even if you have your app set to update automatically, we are noticing that some people are still needing to update manually.
With this new update, Rooms information is integrated more seamlessly with the rest of the app! Check out these videos to learn more about the app update!
English: https://youtu.be/zW9d0VzqDFI
Spanish: https://youtu.be/W8Cnu-tgK9M
If you have any questions about Rooms or the Vernon ISD app, please email Chantilly Sweet at chantilly.sweet@visdtx.org.
We were proud to be a part of the 113th Annual Vernon Chamber of Commerce Banquet held last night. Being part of this community means so much to us, and we know how important it is to build strong relationships between our schools and local businesses. Our schools are successful when our community thrives, and our community is successful when our schools thrive. Together, we’re creating a positive environment for our students to succeed. Looking forward to even more opportunities to work together and support our future leaders!
Vernon ISD will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. However, many of our students will be busy showing animals at the Wilbarger County 4-H Livestock Show being held at the Wilbarger County Exhibit Building. Good luck to all of our 4-H and FFA students.
Vernon ISD would like to share this information from Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star Wichita County. The organization is trying to expand and currently has a program at Vernon Middle School.
Jarrod David, who won a Special Election runoff for Place 3 on the VISD School Board, was sworn in during Monday's board meeting. January is also School Board Appreciation Month and trustees received several gifts from the district and campuses. We appreciate all of our trustees' dedication to help make the district the best it can be, and their commitment to helping the district ensure each student receives a quality education.
Current VISD School Board Trustees are Chris Lehman, Emory Byars, Patrick Parmer, Carrie Hawkins, Amanda Lehman, Jarrod David and Bryson Henry.
As we start the first full week of our 2025 Spring Semester, here are a few reminders from our VISD District Nurse Jennifer Walker, RN, on our health protocols.
Monday starts the 2nd week of our Vernon ISD Attendance Incentive for the 4th Six Weeks. Each week a student has perfect attendance they receive a ticket to put in a drawing for a MEGA QUEST 3 virtual reality headset. There will be a drawing for EACH GRADE!!
If a student has perfect attendance for the entire grading period, they will have 7 tickets for the drawing. If a student misses a day one week, they're not eliminated from the competition, they just won't earn a ticket for that week. They will start with a clean slate the next week.
Our 40th anniversary celebration honoring the 1985 Class 3A State Champion Lady Lions will begin with at 5 p.m., this evening with a public reception in the VHS Bandhall. At the conclusion of the Lady Lions' game, at approximately 7:15 p.m., a ceremony honoring team members will be held at D.O. Fulton Gym. Please make plans to attend and help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vernon High School's first team state champion.
Vernon ISD is operating on a 2-hour delayed start today. Roads are wet, but not frozen. Buses will run 2 hours later than normal.
Just a quick reminder that Vernon ISD will be operating on a 2-hour delayed start on Friday.
Vernon ISD officials have decided to close school today as weather conditions have deteriorated . We will also have a 2-hour delayed started on Friday.
Vernon ISD will be operating on a 2-hour delay start today due to the weather. We will continue to monitor the radar and weather conditions.
UPDATE -- Due to the weather models constantly changing, our VISD Administration team believes there is currently not enough concrete information to make a decision on whether or not have school on Thursday. Officials also believe there will not be enough information to make that decision tonight. District officials will make a decision early Thursday morning on whether we will have a regular school day, a late start, or close for the day. District officials will be up early and checking roads if necessary. As soon as a decision is made, we will announce it on our Facebook pages, through texts and we will let the TV stations know.
