Viking Voyage
January 18, 2023
Calling All Cats -- Save the Date
Future and Current Wildcat Families:
You are invited to our Calling All Cats in person open house event at Plano Senior High School tonight, January 18, 2023 from 6-8 PM.
Plano ISD TONI&GUY Cosmetology Program Partnership
High School (9-10) Principals: This information is being shared in today’s Family Update. We invite you to also share with your students, families and counselors.
Plano ISD Career & Technical Education is excited to announce a new partnership with TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy to offer a cosmetology program for juniors and seniors.
Students selected by lottery will attend the Plano TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy beginning in the fall of their junior year, and successful completion of the program will allow students to take the state cosmetology licensing exam.
Interested current 10th grade students and families are invited to attend an Open House at the TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy to learn more about the program.
- What: Plano ISD TONI&GUY Cosmetology Program Open House
- When: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
- Time: 6:30-7:30PM
- Where: TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy, 1921 Preston Rd - Ste 2022, Plano, TX 75093
The 2023-2024 Selection Form is now open for interested sophomores and must be submitted by 9:00 PM on February 10, 2023. Please visit www.pisd.edu/ToniGuy for information about the program, cost, and selection process.
Yearbook Needs You!
Yearbook needs your help!
If you or someone involved in your class or organization has taken pictures of your event or neat things in the classroom, you can use the following link to share it with the Yearbook staff for possible Yearbook usage! Please help us out! We have tried, but we haven’t managed to make it to all events and we want to make sure everyone is represented!
Thank you! ~Kerri Barnette
Vines Tutorial Schedule
Admin and Counseling Contact Info
Mrs. Bettge: melissa.bettge@pisd.edu
Mrs. Armstrong: megan.armstrong@pisd.edu
Mr. Davis: reuben.davis@pisd.edu
Mr. Penio: justin.penio@pisd.edu
Maggie Lee (A-B & Newcomer ELL): maggie.lee@pisd.edu
Kiely Baer (C-H & Deaf Ed): kiely.baer@pisd.edu
Demetra Jackson (I-Pa): demetra.jackson@pisd.edu
Teresa Williams (Pb-Z): teresah.williams@pisd.edu
Teacher Spotlight
PTSA Announcements
Lifetime Membership Award nomination window is open!
Know a Viking supporter dedicated to our community and committed to outstanding service? Nominate them for the PTA Lifetime Membership Award.
Deadline: January 25, 2023.
For details and to nominate: https://forms.gle/ZwdFQWLLvkNPoDUa6
Our PTSA is winning awards!
Vines PTSA supporters are not only doing incredible things for students and staff on campus, your PTA leaders are showing a commitment to excellence in running the business of your PTA. Bravo!
**Want to be a part of this award winning team? Join here!
Nuestro PTSA esta ganando premios! Los partidarios de Vines PTSA no son solo haciendo cosas increíbles para los estudiantes y personal en el campus, los lideres de PTSA también están demostrando un compromiso de excelencia en dirigiendo el negocio de su PTSA. Bravo!
**Quieres hacer parte de este equipo ganador de premios? Unirse aquí!
The Book Blurb
Beasts of Prey
By Ayana Gray
Magic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family's debts and secure their eventual freedom. But the night her loved ones' own safety is threatened by the Zoo's cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn't fully understand--and the consequences are dire.
As the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six--an elite warrior--and uphold a family legacy. But on the night of his final rite of passage, a fire upends his plans. In its midst, Ekon not only encounters the Shetani--a vicious monster that has plagued the city and his nightmares for nearly a century--but a curious girl who seems to have the power to ward off the beast. Koffi's power ultimately saves Ekon's life, but his choice to let her flee dooms his hopes of becoming a warrior.
Desperate to redeem himself, Ekon vows to hunt the Shetani down and end its reign of terror, but he can't do it alone. Meanwhile, Koffi believes finding the Shetani and selling it for a profit could be the key to solving her own problems. Koffi and Ekon--each keeping their true motives secret from the other--form a tentative alliance and enter into the unknowns of the Greater Jungle, a world steeped in wild magic and untold dangers. The hunt begins. But it quickly becomes unclear whether they are the hunters or the hunted.
In this much-anticipated series opener, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they strike a dangerous alliance to hunt down the ancient creature menacing their home--and discover much more than they bargained for.
House of Salt and Sorrows
By Erin A. Craig
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose?
There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge.
Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and realizes there might be a traitor
among her crew, she must also reckon with who she has become, who she wants to be, and the ways love can change and shape you. Even - and especially - when you think all is lost.