The White Oak Education Foundation demonstrated their support for our faculty and students by awarding over $30,000 in grants on November 22nd. Teachers on all campuses were encouraged to write grants and submit to the WOEF. The WOEF then evaluated the applications and grants were awarded at each campus.

PRIMARY TEACHERS: $4,209

INTERMEDIATE TEACHERS: $7,355

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS: $4,889

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS: $1,656

SCHOOL SITE GRANTS: $12,152

Congratulations to all teachers who wrote and received grants, and thank you to our community and the White Oak Education Foundation.

The White Oak Roughnecks will play the Cameron Yeoman in the Semi-final Round of the 2A Division 1 State Football play-offs next Friday, December 13th, at 7:30 PM at Eagle Stadium in Allen. The Roughnecks will be the visitors. Pre-sale ticket prices are $5.00 for students, $7.00 for adults. All tickets sold at the game will be $8.00. District 9 AA and 13 AA (Football) District Passes and Senior Citizen Passes will be honored at the gate as well as Texas High School Coaches Association and Texas High School Girls Coaches Association Membership cards.

WE BELIEVE!

A Public Hearing has been scheduled by the Board of Trustees for next Monday night, November 25th, at 6:00 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to seek input from interested citizens on the possible location of a new High School.  The agenda will be posted in the paper and has also been sent out via School Messenger.

• WHAT – Public Hearing
• WHEN – Monday, November 25th, at 6:00 p.m.
• WHERE – White Oak ISD Board Room

The Board of Trustees seek input as to the selection of a site to build a new High School for White Oak ISD. There are two options currently being considered:

1. Building the new school on a site directly behind the current High School
2. Building the new school on a site directly across the street from the High School Baseball Field at the City Park

Anyone interested in sharing their opinion is welcome and encouraged to arrive before 6 p.m. There will be a place to sign up and be recognized to speak. All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

An Early Release is scheduled for Tuesday, November 26th. Primary students will dismiss at 11:00 and Intermediate students will dismiss at 11:30. We hope that each of you will have t the opportunity to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with the people you love. We will see you on Monday.

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School Picture Retakes

Thursday, November 21st

If you failed to get your picture made in the first round or you are a new student at White Oak, please make sure that you come prepared to SMILE for the camera on Thursday.

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A Challenge has been issued! Today Coach Underwood and Coach Cloud went to the White Oak Brookshire’s to borrow three shopping carts to hold the canned goods that intermediate students were bringing to donate to the Temporary Assistance Program. Manager Gene Walker has issued a challenge to all third, fourth, and fifth grade classes. The Grade Level (3rd, 4th, or 5th) that brings in the most canned goods will not only win extra recess time as promised by Mrs. Parker, but they will also receive $50 toward a Grade Level Celebration courtesy of White Oak Brookshire’s.

The canned food drives ends ON FRIDAY! This only gives you TWO MORE DAYS to bring those items in and place them in your grade level’s shopping cart.

Much needed food items are canned meats, canned fruit and vegetables, canned soup with meat, dried spaghetti and sauce, ravioli, boxed dinners, oatmeal and cereal. We would like to encourage students to bring at least one food item.  If every student brings just one, we will have more than 600 food items to donate! We will have representatives from the White Oak Temporary Assistance Program (TAP) here on November 22nd to accept our donation.

Let’s fill those baskets until they overflow.