Vernon ISD

This morning, the Vernon Police Department and Vernon ISD welcomed Autumn Thames to their staffs. Autumn will hold the rank of lieutenant with the Vernon PD and will serve as VISD's Director of School Safety and Security, as well as be the School Resource Officer at McCord Elementary. Interim Supt. Dr. Blaise Boswell explained this is a newly-established position and reflects VISD's and Vernon PD's collaborative commitment to maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all students, staff, and visitors.

The nomination window for our Vernon ISD Gifted and Talented Program is now open. The deadline to nominate a student is Monday, Jan. 19. Parents, teachers and others in the community can nominate students. Nominations will only be accepted via a Google Form you can access by scanning the QR code below, or by following this link: https://bit.ly/VISD-GTProgram
Parents/guardians will have two opportunities to attend an informational meeting on our GT program. Both meetings will be held Tuesday, Jan. 13, the first will be held at 1 p.m., at the VISD Boardroom, and the second will be held at 6 p.m., at the VHS Media Center.

Our VES Spring Art Project involves using old CD and DVD discs. If you happen to have any you would like to donate to the project, please contact the VES Office or drop them by the school office. We just need the discs only.

Our Lady Lions resume District 7-3A action today as they host the Holliday Lady Eagles at D.O. Fulton Gym. The Lady Lions will take the court at 1:15 p.m., following the boys JV game. The Lady Lions are 0-2 in district play, while the Lady Eagles are 1-0. Tickets must be purchased online at www.vernonisd.org
GOOD LUCK LADY LIONS!!!

We would like to wish all of our students and their families, along with all of our VISD staff and their families a very Happy New Year!! We hope 2026 is the best year yet for everyone!!

We would like to wish all of our students, staff and their families a very, very Merry Christmas!!

Girls in our high school athletics program sponsored two Jaycee Star Tree Kids this year and earlier this week the students went shopping for their Star Tree kids. Today the presents were delivered to the bank.

On Thursday, students in Mrs. Julie Terry's 8th grade Honors class created food trucks connected to the novel they are reading, "The Giver." The book is a dystopian novel where everyone is the same and no one can see color. The students chose different characters to staff their food trucks and created menus that only connected back to the book. Some chose their menu by color, others by important symbols from the novel and others from giving the food names that tie to the novel. They created uniforms based on the novel, playlists, and eating utensils. Mrs. Terry said all of the students did very well.

Our Winter Formal was held Thursday evening and during the event a ceremony to crown our Winter Formal King and Queen for each grade was held. Selected as our Winter Formal Kings and Queens were: D'Angelo Galvan & Keely Lehman for 6th Grade; Lux Limon & Torren Adams for 7th Grade; and Bryson Boswell & Brillet Castillo Beltran for 8th Grade. Congratulations to them all!!

Receiving Teacher and Staff Member of the Month honors for December are English teacher Kayla Bennett and Administrative Assistant Catherine Scales. They are outstanding co-workers who go above and beyond for the students and their VHS co-workers to help make VHS the best place it can be!! We appreciate them both!!

Receiving our Student of the Month honors for December are Emmy Ware and Prentice Murray. They are wonderful students both in and out of the classroom. Congratulations!!

We love seeing our teachers celebrated! 💙
Thank you to the VES PTO for treating teachers and staff to a baked potato bar and sodas on Thursday, and for the thoughtful Christmas ornaments.

• Baked potato bar catered by Two Wild Berries
• Sodas donated by Charles McArthur Jr. of Red River Keurig Dr Pepper

Our community support makes a difference and we are thankful!

Thursday morning, McCord’s PTO delivered Teacher Appreciation goodies with coffee donated by Scooter’s Coffee, cookies from L&L Sweets, and Christmas tree cakes from V&M’s. We are thankful for our teachers and staff and for the community partners who support our campus!

Earlier this week students in our VMS Life Skills class worked on their fine motor skills while decorating Gingerbread Houses as they began celebrating the Christmas season. They all did a great job.

Our Vernon Lady Lions will be on the road this afternoon, as they will travel to Wichita Falls to take on the City View Lady Mustangs in a District 7-3A basketball game. There is no sub-varsity games today, so the varsity game will begin at 3:15 P.M. Good Luck!!! We're backing you Lady Lions!!

When the dismissal bell rings today and our students leave our campuses, Vernon ISD will officially be on its Christmas Break. VISD staff will return and normal office hours will resume on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, while we will welcome our students back to the classroom on Wednesday, Jan. 7. We hope all of our VISD students and their families, along with all of our VISD family, has a wonderful Christmas Break.

Today was "Ugly Christmas Sweater" Day at VHS and look who showed up wearing the same sweater -- English teacher Doug Patterson and student Sienna Thomas.

Our 3rd grade students traveled to the Herring Bank Wednesday morning to perform songs from their Christmas program. The students were divided into two groups with both groups giving separate performances. Here a few scenes from their performances, and a few highlights can also be found here https://youtu.be/Qs-J3VNfts4

Wednesday morning our 2nd grade students took a trip to the Waggoner National Bank where they performed songs from their Christmas program. The students were divided into two groups, with both groups giving performances. All the students did a great job. Here are a few pictures and a few highlights at https://youtu.be/4zzZSdgSXpw

We're 5 months away from our Commencement Exercises for our Class of 2026! Graduation has been scheduled for Saturday, May 23, ever since the start of the school year; however, the time has been changed and the ceremony will now begin at 9:30 a.m. Please be sure and note that change for your graduation invitations and any graduation activities.