Vernon ISD

In case you missed it, this is Homecoming Week for VISD and here are the dress up themes, as each day of the week is Lion Spirit Day!!

Last Friday, "Decades Day" was the theme for our Lion Spirit Pep Rally, and several of our teachers and staff enjoyed wearing some groovy threads. Check out these pics from VES and VHS.

A few of our students enjoyed dressing as if they were living in another decade last Friday. "Decades Day" was the theme for Lion Spirit Friday.

GOOD LUCK!!
Our cross country team is competing this morning in the District 7-3A Cross-Country Meet in Burkburnett and we hope they have their best times of the season!!

🦁❤️ HEY VERNON LIONS! ❤️🦁
Join us for Homecoming 2025 at the 3rd Annual Lions Roar Tailgate!

📅 Friday, Oct. 10 | 🕓 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 Vernon Elementary Parking Lot

🍴 Food Trucks: Taqueria La Guera · Redbone Indian Taco · Bradford’s · The Snack Spot · Los Amigos Paleteria
🎪 Booths & Games: FREE activities from VHS FFA, VES PTO, Vernon College, City of Vernon, VHS Student Council, Red River Valley Museum, McCord PTO, Texas Farm Bureau, Boys & Girls Club, and VHS Drill Team!

Let’s fill the parking lot with Lion Pride—eat, play, and enjoy fellowship before cheering the Lions vs. Boyd Yellowjackets! 🏈🦁

Go Lions! 🦁🔥

The Boys & Girls Club is hosting a Pickleball Tournament tomorrow at the Lion's Den Teen Center.

Here are some sights and sounds from this morning's Spirit Pep Rally as the Lions hit the road to take on another pride of Lions in Ponder tonight. Good luck Lions!!
https://youtu.be/icR6fYrFrAI

This morning, Amanda Lehman and Tiffany Rosalez with Texas Farm Bureau Insurance in Vernon presented Ty Scott, Bowie Eakin and Jamari Chance with game balls for their performances in last week's game against No. 4-ranked Paradise. Ty was named Offensive MVP, Bowie was named Defensive MVP, and Jamari was named Special Teams MVP.

Today's Lions Spirit Dress Up Theme was "Decades" and from the 1950s to the 2010s there was decades represented in our hallways.

Our Lady Lions on the road this afternoon, traveling to Wichita Falls to face City View in a District 7-3A battle. The sub-varsity matches will start at 2 p.m., with the varsity match set to get underway at 3 p.m. Good luck Lady Lions!!

Our 2025 Homecoming is next week and members of our homecoming court have been elected. Our homecoming queen nominees are: Jeana Martinez, Zayley Horn, Brooklyn Harjo, Klancy Sherrill, Olivia Carr, Breigh Halford, Mariana Ortega, and Soula Johnson. Our homecoming king nominees are: Tru Gipson, Mason Ballard, Jamari Chance, Ty Scott, Kadyn Whiteside, Ben Armstrong, and Prentice Murray. Not pictured is Carlos Moreno. Both the queen and king will be selected by popular vote. The king will be announced during the Homecoming Pep Rally, while the queen will be announced during halftime of next Friday's game against Boyd.

Here is VISD Social Worker Nicole Cameron's newsletter for October.

A parent meeting for all VHS juniors will be held at 6 p.m., Monday, in the VHS Cafeteria. Items on the agenda include discussing a place to hold the prom, deciding the date for the prom, and creating a list of prom themes for students to vote on. If you have a child in the junior class, please make plans to attend the meeting.

Today we celebrated National Custodian Day by giving a gift and card to each of our VES custodians. Our PTO also gave the custodians a little gift and a card. We just wanted them to know how much we appreciate them and all the hard work they do at VES.

Our Book Fair has been going on this week and today we held a hamburger feed for our students and parents. During lunch students and parents were able to shop and purchase books at the Book Fair.

We surprised our VHS custodians with pizza for lunch today, which is National Custodian Day. Our custodians to a great job keeping our campus clean and they are greatly appreciated.

Today, Oct. 2, is National Custodian Day and we want to give a big shout out to all the members of our Vernon ISD custodial staff!! They are some of the behind-the-scene, unsung heroes who keep our district running!! We couldn't do it without them!! Thank you to each and everyone of custodians for all you do! You are greatly appreciated!!

Last Friday night our Lions gave it their all in a battle against No. 4-ranked Paradise in the district opener for both teams. Here are a few highlights from that battle to help keep the intensity and Lion spirit up as the team gets set to tangle with the Ponder Lions this Friday night. Video courtesy of Iban Lira, and audio courtesy of Vernon radio station KVWC. https://youtu.be/h6bwt4LWIZg

Our Vernon homecoming is next Friday, Oct. 10, and we start pumping up that Lion spirit Monday and continue to build it all week with "Dress Up" themes for each day. Get your costumes ready for each day and show that Lion spirit!!!