Gary Independent School District

Our latest Habit Heroes are Kasen, Lane and Benton! Kasen was proactive and helped clean a messy area so others wouldn't get hurt. Lane was thinking win-win by finding solutions to help clean an area with an older student, and Benton has consistently put first things first by completing his classwork before playing and has been the classroom leader in assignments for the last two weeks!

8th grade parents, our 8th graders have been invited to participate in the Panola College Preview Day on Monday, October 20th, where they will visit the programs that Panola College has to offer! Permission forms have been sent home with students today, and we need them back by Friday, October 10th. If your student loses theirs, or was not present to receive one, extra forms are in the front office!

Yesterday, Gary FFA members were hard at work sorting through orders for our fundraiser pickup. We cannot thank these students enough for the work they put in yesterday to make pickup run smoothly. We are over joyed and so thankful for the support of the community. Thank you so much to everyone who supported this year's Fresh Country Fundraiser. We can't wait for next year!

This year, Mrs. Coligan's culinary classes are using the skills they've learned to create specialty drinks for our teachers (not to sound too biased but they taste really good)!

Festival of Lights is one of our special community events each year, and registration is now open for anyone that would like to have a booth! If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Daniels for more details!

We'd like to celebrate our latest habit heroes, Beaux and Clara! Beaux was thinking win-win by helping friends so they could participate in our Pink Out celebration last week and Clara focused on her goal of being a great leader by making sure a precious lost item was returned to their owner!

Congratulations to our September Students of the Month!

We can't wait to see everyone for our Elementary Open House on Thursday from 5PM-6PM! Come check out all the awesome things our students are doing at Gary Elementary!

Parents and students,

A friendly reminder that today our Fresh Country Meat and Dessert order will be delivered. All Students who sold items must come and get the products they sold or arrange for them to be picked up between 11AM and 6PM TODAY. We do not have a place to store these frozen items so the sooner they can be picked up the better, but it has to be today. If you have a questions please get with Mrs. Creech or Mr. Shadix.

Class of 2030 parents,
We will have one final meeting to go over all the final details about the Haunted Trail on Thursday at 5PM in the media center! Look forward to seeing everyone there!

At their recent East Texas Historical Association event, our very own Mrs. Coligan was given the Joe Atkins Public School Educator Award! This is an annual award that ETHA gives to educators who demonstrate excellence in instruction and mentorship. Congratulations, Mrs. Coligan!

Fall Picture day is tomorrow for all students, with team pictures for JH and HS fall sports and Cheer! If you'd like to order your photos now, just follow the instructions on the Lifetouch flyer!

We just wanted to give a huge thank you to all of our students and community for the support they gave to Ethan and his family for the Change for Ethan drive. Our students were able to raise $5,752.99 to help Ethan's family with his cancer treatments!

After the final tally, our 3rd grade class gave the most, followed by 2nd grade and then 5th. Thank you so much for everyone that helped with this drive!

Our students participating in the GAP program have all been working hard on their courses! One of our first GAP completers for the year, Thomas Pugh, also went above and beyond and earned his certification in General Management!

We had so many students today rock out their Pink Out looks! We hope to see everyone at 4:30 for the Pink Out volleyball game!

Our eSports teams are now fully into their Fall seasons, check out this week's results!

Time really flies when everyone is working hard, but we still want to honor the kids that have gone above and beyond in their classes each month! Congratulations to our August students of the month at Gary Elementary!

We are very thankful for the ladies that help keep our campus looking great! Our students appreciate their hard work they do for all of us!

We have had a lot of great kids doing great things to be leaders at Gary Elementary this week, here are just a few of the good things they have done so far;
Kyler was thinking win-win by seeking solutions so everyone around her wins. She even gave up something so a friend could feel supported when they were down!
Cruz was proactive and volunteered his free time to help a teacher clean their class after a busy day in science!
Jonah was proactive and modeled to his peers how to put up their Chromebooks so they would be fully charged every time they are used!
Before leaving to go to their next task, Jensen put first things first by making sure their table was cleaned in the library!
Brantley and Gracie spent the weekend thinking win-win and synergizing by raising funds for Ethan, where they worked together to establish a creative methods to raise those funds and were able to donate $1,200 to support their classmate!

This is by no means the only good things our students have done this week, and we are proud of everyone as they practice their skills to become great leaders in our community!