Pirate Pulse April 1, 2022 💙

The Pirate Pulse

April 1, 2022

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In this week's edition:

Shepherd I.S.D. Spotlight

Mr. Kevin Lee is our truancy and probation officer for SMS and SISD. Mr. Lee has been with Shepherd ISD for over 25 years and has established many relationships within our schools and community. This past week, Mr. Lee and our SISD Police Department have been tracking our student attendance and making home visits to ensure communication between our schools and our Pirate families. Anyone that knows Mr. Lee knows that he is a truly caring person and he wants the best for not only our Shepherd students but our Shepherd families.

Staff & Students across the District

Mrs. Lindsey Swiech's Principles of Human Services class studied the history of costumes and fashion, did a concept drawing, and then created a design in a group to make a complete outfit out of newspaper and tape.

#CTEmakingithappen

Shepherd ISD would like to congratulate all of these amazing Shepherd Middle School students for their hard work and dedication to their education.

Perfect Attendance

A-Honor Roll

A/B-Honor Roll

Congratulations

to the 2022- 2023 Shepherd Middle School Cheerleaders!

We finished with a total of 114 points!! Thank you to all the teachers that worked with our students and helped today! Thank you to the bus drivers that got us there safely! And a special thanks to JJ LeBlanc for his coordination and hard work putting this all together!! To ALL the kids that came out and competed today, y’all were awesome and a great representation of Shepherd Middle School! Congrats to you all!!

Kaci Roberts 4th place listening

Shayden Ferguson 2nd overall Prose finals Karelyn Hollingsworth 4th Modern Oratory Braylon Cherry 5th Modern Oratory

Uzieel Barillas Calc applications 1st and Science 6th

Theodore Waterman 6th place chess Addyson Morgan 5th place editorial writing Emily James 1st place Science and 3rd place spelling

Savannah Smith 2nd place science

Burl Bunting 6th place social studies

Logan Lacey 4th mathematics

Katie Childress 6th place Dictonary Skills

Congratulations to the Shepherd ISD Speech and Debate Team who competed at the UIL District meet Saturday and returned with several medals. Thomas Barton won first place in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Garrit Burton won fourth. In Persuasive Speaking, Garrit Burton won first place, Clark Addison won second, and Thomas Barton won third. These students will compete at Regionals. We are proud of the hard work and dedication of these students.

Ruby Morales and Lain Baker finished as the State Powerlifting Champs in their weight divisions!! Joel Weekes finished 6th. Shepherd finished as the 2nd place overall team. This is highest ranking in the history of our program. Coach White, Coach Courvelle and Coach Villafana have been outstanding leaders and we are blessed to have them represent our powerlifting program.

Great job Shepherd Pirates!

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Saturday, Shepherd HS and MS JROTCs, had another renewed opportunity to help clean up our local historical cemetery. Thanks to Sammy Herrod for his hosting support. Also, Mr. Minton and Mr. Irwin for lending their helping hand. #SHSPirateBattalion #CTEMakingItHappen

5th grade started coordinate planes this week. They moved the desks and created a life size coordinate plane. The students made up their ordered pair, wrote it on a sticky note, and plotted it with their bodies. Thank you to SIS for making learning fun!

Mr. JJ LeBlanc is one of our Science teachers and a coach here at Shepherd Middle School. He is also the Instructional Team Lead for the Science Department. Coach LeBlanc has also taken on the responsibility of leading our Academic UIL this year. He has done an excellent job throughout the entire process. This past weekend our SMS students competed in Huffman and 12 of them placed in an event or multiple events. Thank you Coach LeBlanc for your continued hard work with the success of our students.

Check out our newest AR Points Club Members! With their help, Shepherd Intermediate has read over 7 MILLION words this year!

Upcoming Events

Yearbooks!

We are excited to go back to one book for all grade levels. The yearbook staff is excited to bring back a more traditional book filled with memories that can be treasured for a lifetime. The cost is only $40 and can be purchased online using the following link. For more information contact

Mrs. Courvelle at lcourvelle@shepherdisd.net

Click on the following link OR just scan the QR code below:

Order your 21'- 22' SISD Yearbook HERE!

Estamos emocionados de ofrecer un libro para todos los niveles de grados. El personal del libro anuario está emocionado de traer de vuelta un libro más tradicional lleno de recuerdos que pueden ser atesorados para toda la vida. El costó es solo $40 y pueden comprarlo en línea en el siguiente enlace. Para más información comunica se con la señora Courvelle

lcourvelle@shepherdisd.net.