Smithville ISD

Check out the Winter Edition of the Tiger Insider, featuring STATE qualifiers from several campuses, teacher recognitions, and MORE! https://5il.co/2f998

LAST DAY TO RESPOND! SISD is exploring the possibility of offering extended care for students who do not qualify for ACE for the 2024-2025 school year. The program would follow the ACE calendar for days of operation. Programming would run from dismissal to 5:30 p.m. Students can be picked up, dismissed with walkers or ride the after school bus home. There is no penalty for attendance or early pick ups in paid programming. Please fill out this survey by March 1st with your interest: https://bit.ly/3uFuHTC

We will be hosting a family engagement "Lunch & Learn" at noon on Thursday, February 22nd via Zoom. See the flyer for more details and a link to join the session! We hope to see you there! https://5il.co/2euml

This is a reminder that Monday, February 19th, is a staff and student holiday in honor of President's Day. We will see everyone back on Tuesday, February 20th.

Dear Tiger Families - After concluding our investigation, along with Smithville PD, we found that a threat to the school was never made. Safety of our students and staff is of the utmost importance to us, and we appreciate your patience as we looked into this situation. Thank you, Smithville ISD

Dear Tiger Families - The safety of our students and staff is our highest priority. This evening, upon finding out about a rumored threat regarding the high school, our staff immediately took action and are currently investigating along with local law enforcement. We take all potential threats seriously and, as always, will ensure that appropriate safety measures are in place. We understand that this can be unsettling for students and parents alike; please understand that we are limited in terms of what we can share due to privacy and safety concerns. We ask that you please refrain from conjecture or spreading rumors as this situation unfolds. Thank you.

Congratulations to our Destination Imagination (DI) teams from SJHS! These students competed in their first ever DI competition this weekend in Austin, TX. Team "Hercules" placed 4th in the Engineering category, the "Old School Gamers" placed 5th in the Technical category, and team "Movin' and Groovin'" placed 5th in the Fine Arts category! We are very proud of all of you!

Congratulation to the "Tiger Team"! This group of SES students competed in their first ever Destination Imagination (DI) contest this weekend and placed 1st! They will be advancing to the State DI Competition in Arlington, TX! We are so proud of them!

WE LOVE OUR COUNSELORS! This week was National School Counseling Week, so the campuses showed some extra love to these ladies for working hard to make our lives better every day! Raven Behrens - Brown Primary & Elementary Cory Williams - Elementary Jennifer Edwards - Junior High Reena Reese - High School Cari Ulrich - High School #nationalschoolcounselingweek #weloveourcounselors #TigerPride

Congratulations to these students who competed in UIL CX Debate: Evyan Parnell & Arabella Gutierrez - 1st Place Will Metcalf & Amelia Blaeuer - 4th Place Rosalyn Martinez & Kaia Saffel - 6th Place Our 1st Place winners will advance to State competition in March! We can't wait to see how they will do. Congratulations to them and to their coach, Mrs. Kim Hemphill! #TigerPride

The Tiger Band is hosting their annual Silent Auction and Chili Supper during their Solo & Ensemble Concert on February 15th from 5p-7p (come-and-go). Please come enjoy some great music and a meal to support our band!

Pep Rally fun yesterday to celebrate the last home basketball games of the season! We heard from two of our Senior players, and Mrs. Berry "won" the pie in the face by receiving the most student votes! The Lady Tigers will be advancing to the playoffs! They play Monday, February 12th, at 6:30pm at Rice Consolidated-Altair against Houston Yates. Come out and support our Lady Tigers!

Several of our students had the opportunity to participate in ESC Region 13's "Thank You Notes" project and tell why they are thankful for the teachers at SISD! It was a really great experience, and they did such a great job. You can watch the finished product here: https://bit.ly/495XAXV Thanks to Region 13 for creating this for SISD! We love our teachers!

Smithville High School's Computer Science CTE Pathway offers students the chance to graduate with college credit or career-ready certifications in computer science and cybersecurity thanks to Ms. Mary Alice Castello and her partnership with Microsoft’s TEALS Program. She also helps students learn critical soft skills like collaborating and advocating for themselves both in the classroom and through the award-winning Tiger Trons robotics team and the brand new "Girls Who Code" club! Ms. Castello’s work was recently featured on FOX 7 Austin, and we’re so proud of her dedication to her students. Please join us in thank her for her hard work! https://www.fox7austin.com/news/smithville-high-girls-who-code-club-computer-science #TigerPride

Our SHS Medical Assistant students did clinical rounds in their new scrubs for the first time today! Congrats to them for making it this far in the health professions program! #TigerPride

Board Meeting Highlights: - Pledge Leaders from SES - Character Education Speakers - Tiger Award Winners - Outstanding Students of the Nine Weeks #TigerPride

Due to continued rainfall, and for the safety of our students and staff traveling home, Smithville ISD is canceling ALL after school activities for Wednesday, January 24th. This includes the ACE Afterschool Program. We will be monitoring the weather and will send out messages if there are other changes. Thank you.

For the safety of all students and staff traveling to school, and due to the flash floods in our area, Smithville ISD will delay start time for Wednesday, January 24th by two hours. The bell schedules will be as follows: BP - 9:55am SES - 9:45am JH - 9:55am SHS - 9:55am All buses will pick up two hours later as well. Thank you, and please be safe.

The Boys Basketball games against Manor New Tech have been moved to tomorrow, Wednesday, January 24th. Freshman team will begin at 5pm with Varsity following at 6:15pm.

Thanks to Fox 7 News for coming out to film an "Educational Feature" on our SHS Computer Science and Robotics programs this morning! We are excited to see this aired on the news later this week!