Leopard Pride
GISD Newsletter
January 20, 2017 Edition
Welcome to the first edition of the Leopard Pride Newsletter, which will be distributed weekly, focusing on accomplishments from throughout Gainesville ISD.
Elementary UIL Champions!
The Elementary UIL competition was hosted by Gainesville ISD at NCTC on January 12 & 13. We are THRILLED to make the official announcement that our 2nd-5th grade UIL students finished in FIRST PLACE!
Detailed individual results will be released next week.
Point totals
Gainesville: 584
Sanger Clearcreek: 442
Krum: 434
Sanger Butterfield: 260
District Spelling Bee
On January 18, GISD students in 1st-8th grade participated in the annual GISD District Spelling Bee. All 19 of these students first competed at their individual campus spelling bees last month, and the highest performing students from each campus were invited to compete at the District Bee.
Amira Khan, 4th grade student at Chalmers Elementary, finished in first place. Nolan Gardner, Lee 6th grade student, finished second and Johany Marin, Lee 5th grade student, finished in third place. The students finishing in first place at their individual campus bees will represent GISD at the Cooke County Spelling Bee on February 7 at 2pm at the GISD Administration Center. Those students are Amira Khan (Chalmers), Johany Marin (Lee) and Jonah Chisolm (GJHS).
Edison Elementary
1st grade: Swayam Rawal, Jarek Marin, Gibson Morgan, Ryan Byork, Adonai Gonzalez
Chalmers Elementary
2nd grade: William Drew, Maliah Diaz, Destiny Cardona
3rd grade: Jackson Otts, Isabelle Bumpus, Phoenix Kemp
4th grade: Amira Khan, De'Marcus Dunn, Avery Crutsinger
Lee Intermediate
5th grade: Johany Marin, Joey Stephens
6th grade: Nolan Gardner
Gainesville Junior High
7th grade: Pearson Neal
8th grade: Jonah Chisolm
Youth Fair
Gainesville FFA was busy exhibiting various animal projects at the Cooke County Youth Fair. Congratulations to these students for an outstanding job representing Gainesville FFA!
8th Grade Champs!
Congratulations to our 8th grade boys basketball team and Coach Searcy! First State Bank Cooke County Shootout tournament champions!
All-Region Band
Congratulations to the GJHS All-Region Band: Harmony Rutherford, Dwayne Wilson, Melody Rutherford and Asst Band Directors Alyssa Abney and Jeff Hodges.
Top Cat Chef Competition
Top Cat is a dynamic competition that challenges Gainesville High School culinary students to create a healthy school meal. This year, three teams competed to create delicious, healthy Asian influence entree for a panel of six judges. Each team chose an entree that met school nutritional guidelines, and worked on perfecting the dish in culinary class during the weeks leading up to the competition. At the competition, they were given an additional three mystery ingredients and were required to include at least one of them in their Asian entree.
Judges for the competition were: Chef Patrick “Whitey” Hershorn (SYSCO chef); Mary Gerken (GHS Student Council President), Phil Nash (GHS Asst. Principal), Doug Wade (School Board), Dr. Jeff Brasher (Superintendent), Donna Hertel (Sarah’s on the Square). Thank you to our Aramark staff, Food Service Director Lynn Prichard and Asst. Director Pam Lammers for coordinating this event.
The first place Top Cat Chefs will move on to the regional competition in March at Baylor University. Congratulations Florence and Caleigh!
1st Place
"Sweet and Sour Chicks”, Florence Cook and Caleigh Jones
2nd Place
“Golden Plate Warriors”, Jayden Jackson, Anthony Zaragoza
3rd Place
“Saucy Sauciers”, Jose Gomez Garcia, Angelica Huerta, Zoey Washburn
MLK Scholarship Recipients
Leopard Drama Presents....Annie, Jr.
TASB Student Video Contest
Gainesville ISD
Website: gainesvilleisd.org
Location: 800 S Morris St
Phone: 940-665-4362
Facebook: facebook.com/gainesvilleisd
Twitter: @gainesvilleisd