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| Freshman, Hanan Brower, shares her sheet music with an Austin High School student during the performance. Students were encouraged to dress up in costumes for the event, she dressed as a referee. | The Crockett Orchestra performed at the 30th Annual Monster Concert and Carnival, October 21, 2017, at Austin High School. The event included carnival games, food, a haunted house, and a performance from many Austin ISD schools. The Crockett Orchestras collaborated alongside Austin High School and Covington Middle School for three spook-tacular performances. The schools performed “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg, “Dies Irea” (“Day of Wrath”) from Verdi’s “Requiem”, and themes from the video game “StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty”. The performances were met with a positive reaction and a standing ovation for the final performance. The Crockett Orchestra is looking forward to their next spooky performance and opportunity to collaborate with other schools. | Junior, Justice Northcott, focuses on her sheet music while performing “Dies irae” from Verdi’s “Requiem”. Northcott plays the violin for Crockett’s advanced orchestra, it is her third year in orchestra. |
Freshman, Hanan Brower, shares her sheet music with an Austin High School student during the performance. Students were encouraged to dress up in costumes for the event, she dressed as a referee.
The Crockett Orchestra performed at the 30th Annual Monster Concert and Carnival, October 21, 2017, at Austin High School. The event included carnival games, food, a haunted house, and a performance from many Austin ISD schools. The Crockett Orchestras collaborated alongside Austin High School and Covington Middle School for three spook-tacular performances. The schools performed “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg, “Dies Irea” (“Day of Wrath”) from Verdi’s “Requiem”, and themes from the video game “StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty”. The performances were met with a positive reaction and a standing ovation for the final performance. The Crockett Orchestra is looking forward to their next spooky performance and opportunity to collaborate with other schools.
Junior, Justice Northcott, focuses on her sheet music while performing “Dies irae” from Verdi’s “Requiem”. Northcott plays the violin for Crockett’s advanced orchestra, it is her third year in orchestra.
PTSA General Meeting Dates
Crockett High School extends an invitation to ALL Crockett students, parents, and teachers. Let us here your voice and help make Crockett Always Victorious!
Nov. 13, 2017
Dec. 18, 2017
Jan. 22, 2017
Feb. 12, 2017
Mar. 19, 2017
Apr. 16, 2017
Crockett Garden Club
It was just a little over a year ago that we proudly featured our very own Crockett garden on the Central Texas Gardener. Here is a link to refresh your memory: http://www.klru.org/ctg/episode/fall-into-winter-vegetables/
Fall Into Winter Vegetables | Central Texas Gardener
Students or parents, if you are interested in joining our Garden Club, please email Ms. DelaTorre (christine.delatorre@austinisd.org). They also presented last summer at the national conference for High Schools That Work about our aquaponics system, please ask about it if you are interested in sustainable farming too.
We hope to have another garden work day soon to keep our garden thriving.
Help Crockett's NHS make the Holidays Brighter for Area Children
National Honor Society is collecting items for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Gift, with a goal of packing 250 gift boxes for area children. Gift suggestions for girls and boys aged 2-14 years, include personal care items, clothing and accessories, crafts and activities, and toys. Items may be dropped off with Ms. Fallin (241) or Mr. LeDoux (176).
For shoebox suggestions, click here.
Congratulations to the following guitar students!
Nancy Del Bosque
Elijah Flores
Oliver Patino
Rey Rodriguez
Margarita Vargas
Five of our top guitar students were selected for the All Region Guitar Ensemble after successfully making it through the grueling three hour audition process last Friday. Crockett students occupy five of the twenty chairs in the ensemble that was selected from AISD and surrounding districts. They've worked really hard and we are extremely proud of them!
In other Guitar news.....
The concert for All Region and All City Guitar will be on the evening of November 15th at the AISD PAC. These five students will be performing with the All Region group and a selected group of top guitar students will be performing as a part of the All City group. Mr. Hare will be conducting one of the All City pieces and the piece he selected is an arrangement of La Sandunga for guitar ensemble that will feature our top Mariachi Vocalist Jazmine Cortez singing with us! So clear your calendar and come on out!
Crockett Boys Basketball News
The Crockett boys' basketball program is hard at work preparing for the upcoming season, which will officially tip off on Tuesday, Nov. 14, with the second annual "Meet the Cougars Night" in the Crockett Gym starting at 6 p.m. Head coach Derrick Davis will introduce the 2017-18 Varsity squad, and they are looking to build on last season's success when they earned a trip to the state playoffs! The Freshman and JV squads will be introduced as well, and there will be music, food, prize giveaways and even an intrasquad scrimmage. So come out and Meet the Cougars!
AISD Bond Informational Open-Houses
Austin ISD is hosting a series of informational open houses to learn more about the 2017 Bond and how it could affect each campus. Meetings are 5:30–7:30 p.m. For the full schedule, click here. There will be one meeting held at Crockett ECHS on October 5, 2017. A districtwide open house will be 11 a.m.–1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, with presentations at 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
For more information, please visit AISDFuture.com, email future@austinisd.org or call 512-414-9595. For campus-specific information, please visit our bond projects page and choose a school from one of the dropdown menus.
Early voting is Oct. 23–Nov. 3, and Election Day is Nov. 7.
Fall Semester Final Exam Exemption Guidelines
Please read the following important information regarding final exam exemptions for fall 2017:
1. Students who have earned exemptions are expected to be in attendance for the final and must be at school. Students cannot miss school and still legally be counted present. If you do not show up to the class on the day of the final exam, you will get a zero on the exam.
2. Exemptions will be granted per class. Based on attendance and grade average, students may be exempted from taking their final exam(s) in courses if ALL of the following criteria are met:
- 85 average for the semester average (1st, 2nd, and 3rd six weeks)
- No more than 2 absences for the fall semester, beginning October 2, 2017
- No more than 2 tardies for the fall semester, beginning October 2, 2017
3. Exemption from a course’s final exam is NOT granted to a student if he/she:
- has been home school suspended
- has been required to attend ALC
- has obligations or fines
4. AP courses may be excluded from exemptions. There will be NO exemptions for EOC classes, SPURS, OnRamps, and ACC dual credit courses.
5. After the semester average has been finalized, the semester average will be used as the final exam grade.
COUGAR ATHLETIC INFORMATION
Please come out to support and cheer on our mighty cougars! As a reminder, AISD is asking that students and adults do NOT bring confetti, glitter, silly string, powder and noise makers to our games.
BOYS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE
GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE
Mark Your Calendars!
Future Important Dates
November 2: Talent Show
November 7: Senior panoramic photos
November 10: NO SCHOOL - Student Holiday/Staff Planning & Prep Day
November 13: Underclassmen picture retake day
November 13: PTSA Meeting
November 14: Meet the Cougars Night (CHS Boys Basketball), Big Gym at 6:00 pm
November 15: Parent Workshop Night at 6:00 pm
November 15: Boys Basketball "Meet the Cougars Nights" at 6:00 pm
November 20-24: NO SCHOOL - Student/Staff Holiday
November 30: Late Start Day
December 1-3: Theatre presents ELF Jr, The Musical
December 4-8: STAAR EOC Retest Days
December 7: Senior portrait retakes
December 8: Fine Arts Winter Showcase
December 14,15,18,19: Final Exam Days
December 20-January 1:NO SCHOOL - Student/Staff Holiday
January 2: NO SCHOOL - Student Holiday/Staff Planning & Prep Day
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