20082009 October Highlights

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2008-2009 October Highlights
Grapevine Colleyville ISD
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2008-2009District Highlights
GCISD celebrates 11 National Merit Semifinalists

• Eleven GCISD high school students have been
  named semifinalists in the 2009 National Merit
  Scholarship Program.
• The six semifinalists from CHHS are John Cody,
  Mallory Flowers, Lyndon Lee, Andrew Murray,
  Alexander Nasr and Joseph Yu.
• The five semifinalists from GHS are Anjali
  Datta (three-year graduate), Alyssa Mannen,
  Christopher Newkirk, Emma Paynter and Jennifer
  Shi.

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2008-2009District Highlights
National Hispanic and National Achievement
students recognized

• Steven Monacelli and Alejandro Oropeza, both
  Colleyville Heritage High School seniors, have
  been named National Hispanic Scholars.
• Cameron Sow, senior at Grapevine High School,
  and Aaron Belcher and Daniel Dixon, both seniors
  at Colleyville Heritage High, have been named
  National Achievement Commended students.

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2008-2009District Highlights
2008 ACT, SAT scores surpass state and national
totals

• GCISD students continue to exceed state and
  national averages on both the ACT and SAT. On the
  ACT, GCISD students earned the highest composite
  score in the District in 11 years. On the SAT,
  students earned the highest score in math in 11
  years, and increased in writing over last year.
  In reading, the district average increased over
  last year and is the third highest score in 11
  years.

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2008-2009District Highlights
CHHS student creates state PTA theme, logo

• Artwork created by Candace Gabel, a freshman at
  CHHS, has been selected as the Texas PTA
  Membership theme and logo for 2008-2009. Gabels
  visual arts piece is titled Be a hero! Join
  PTA! illustrates the idea that I believe I can
  make a difference by being a volunteer. This
  piece placed first in the campus, district and
  area Reflections Art Contest for 2008, and second
  in the state competition. Gabel created the
  artwork as an eighth-grade student at Heritage
  Middle.

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2008-2009District Highlights
Student-teacher calendar survey being conducted

• Student/teacher calendar options A and B for
  the 2009-2010 school year have been
  developed, both with a start date of Monday,
  August 24, 2009. An online survey is being
  conducted September 26-October 12, 2008, (1159
  p.m.) to determine community preference for
  calendar option A or B. Log on to
  www.gcisd-k12.org and click on the calendar
  survey to provide your input!
• Results and a calendar recommendation are
  expected to be presented at the Oct. 27 Board of
  Trustees meeting.

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2008-2009District Highlights
Monday, Oct. 13, is a student/teacher holiday

Monday, October 13, is a student/teacher holiday
to provide for a well-deserved break. Its back
to school on Tuesday!
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2008-2009District Highlights

Save the date Graduation for Class of 2009 set

• Graduation for the Class of 2009 will be on
• Sunday, June 7, 2009, at the Forth Worth
  Convention Center.
• Colleyville-Heritage High School 10 a.m.
• Grapevine High School 2 p.m.