Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Update: CONGRATULATIONS SPEECH AND DEBATE!
This past weekend at the CyCreek/Westfield Swing (2 tournaments rolled into one weekend) 51 schools attended and over 1100 students competed, Spring Woods Speech/Debate took 1st place Sweepstakes at CyCreek, 2nd place Sweepstakes at Westfield, & 1st place Sweepstakes Overall! Another student qualified for state and now we have 21 state qualifications which is the most in Spring Branch ISD!! Here is who made this happen:
At CyCreek-
In Novice Prose:
Dania Reames placed 2nd
Naomi Gutierrez placed 3rd
Jonathan Batagnan placed 5th
Valery Reyna placed 6th
Gabriel Vasquez placed 7th
Caroline Klussman placed 8th
In Prose Interpretation:
Bram Sebio-Brundage placed 8th
In Duo Interp:
Courtney Thompson/Josselyn Gomez placed 6th
Nicole Jackson/Karesha Bell placed 8th
In Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking:
Gilbert Fernandez placed 5th
In Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking:
Christine Vo placed 5th
In Original Oratory:
Avery Reinhart placed 3rd
Angel Ramirez placed 4th
Christine Vo placed 7th
In Congressional Debate:
Travis Boyd placed 7th
Avery Reinhart placed 9th
Duo Interp:
Courtney Thompson/Josselyn Gomez placed 5th
Karesha Bell/Nicole Jackson placed 6th
At Westfield:
In Original Oratory:
Avery Reinhart placed 5th
In Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking:
Avery Reinhart placed 1st
In Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking:
Travis Boyd placed 4th
In Novice Extemporaneous Speaking:
Jeremiah Menslage placed 1st
In Impromptu Speaking:
Avery Reinhart placed 2nd
In Congressional Debate:
Avery Reinhart placed 4th
Travis Boyd placed 5th
In Poetry:
Karesha Bell placed 4th
Bram Sebio-Brundage placed 6th
In Dramatic Interp:
Nicole Jackskon placed 3rd
In Duo Interp:
Nicole Jackson/Karesha Bell placed 6th
In Novice Prose:
Valery Reyna placed 4th
Julia Allison placed 6th
Caroline Klussmann placed 7th
Tigerette Weekend Wrap Up
Below are a
couple of photos of the Tigerettes at the UofH & Texans games this weekend.
The Tigerettes with the University of Houston Cougar Dolls
You might recognize Cougar Doll Gia Martinez, Tigerette Officer 2012
& 2013
The Tigerettes on the 45 yard line & our Cheer Squad on the 40 yard line.
The Tigerettes in the bright pink on the Texans Field
Group photo after a very long week of events
& performances J
Congratulations SWHS Thespians!!
Congratulations
SWHS Thespians!!
Terry Hibbert was inducted into the Thespians Hall of Fame for 2013! Congratulations Terry Hibbert!
Spring Woods was very successful at the Texas State Thespian Festival last weekend in Dallas Texas. The following students qualified for Nationals that will be held in June at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Celestina Macareno in Costume Design with her Designs for The Phantom of the Opera. Tony Mendez and Natalie Moran in Duet Acting with their scene from The Boor by Anton Chekhov. Jonathan Rochow and Annabelle Bellow in Duet Musical with All Er Nuthin from Oklahoma. Please congratulate these students when you see them.
Terry Hibbert was inducted into the Thespians Hall of Fame for 2013! Congratulations Terry Hibbert!
Spring Woods was very successful at the Texas State Thespian Festival last weekend in Dallas Texas. The following students qualified for Nationals that will be held in June at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Celestina Macareno in Costume Design with her Designs for The Phantom of the Opera. Tony Mendez and Natalie Moran in Duet Acting with their scene from The Boor by Anton Chekhov. Jonathan Rochow and Annabelle Bellow in Duet Musical with All Er Nuthin from Oklahoma. Please congratulate these students when you see them.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Congrats Tiger Girls Basketball!
Congratulations to the Lady
Tigers. They defeated Northbrook Saturday to win the Bronze division of the
SBISD Annual Tournament. Congratulations Brittney Lopez for being
named to the ALL Tournament Team. Good job ladies!
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
SWHS FFA Winners!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to the SWHS FFA winners at 2 different
shows. At the Harris County Fair Katie Edgely was the Harris County Fair
Sweetheart, Makenzie Matecki won Reserve Grand Champion Broiler, and Jimmy
Martinez won 3rd place in broilers.
At the Youth Expo Show Jimmy Martinez won 4th in
broilers, Katie Edgely won 10th in her swine class, and Marybel Gomez won 10th
in her swine class. Way to go SWHS FFA
students!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists named from across SBISD
Eighteen seniors from three separate
Spring Branch ISD high schools were recently named as Semifinalists in the
annual National Merit Scholarship program.
In addition to 18 National Merit
Semifinalists, SBISD is home this year to 15 National Hispanic Scholars, 1
National Achievement Scholar and 48 National Merit Commended Scholars.
All National Merit Scholarship
Program Semifinalists may qualify for more than 8,000 National Merit
Scholarships based on their performance last year on the Preliminary
SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The national
scholarships are valued at more than $35 million. More than 1.5 million U.S.
students in 22,000 high schools took the PSAT/NMSQT qualifying test last year.
About 16,000 Semifinalists were
named nationwide. These students reflect the highest scoring test takers across
Texas and other states. Final winners of the 2013 National Merit Scholarship
will be announced next spring.
To qualify for these business and
corporate scholarships, semifinalists must have an outstanding academic high
school record, write an essay, be endorsed and recommended by school officials,
and earn qualifying high SAT scores.
In other recognition areas, National
Hispanic Scholars are identified for their high test scores and self-reported
Hispanic heritage. There are about 1,600 of these scholars nationwide this
year.
National Achievement Scholars have
been identified and named for their high test scores and for their African-American
heritage.
National Commended Scholars
represent the group of highest scoring students after the National Merit
Semifinalists. This year, about 34,000 students nationwide qualified for this
recognition.
National Merit Semifinalists:
Memorial High – Kendra Andersen, Brenna Black, George Chen, Yae Jee Hong, Grant Kirchhofer, Nam Hoon Lee, Rajat Mehndiratta, Matthew Nguyen, Mary Margaret Rotan, Stephen Snow, Jonnathan Sullins, Wan Seo Park
Spring Woods High – Nicolas Turnbough
Stratford High – Nathaniel
Barbour, John Ryan Hormell, Katherine Kennedy, Hannah Lindsey, Reason Russell
National
Hispanic Scholars:
Memorial High –
Briana Burns, Benjamin de Alvarez, Marcus De Ayala, Anna Economos, David
Hartmann, Romelia Herrera Vale, Vitoria Moreno-Costa
Spring Woods High – Christian
Rice
Stratford High – Abril
Brugo, Leila Wahab, Axel Gracia, Hernan Cepeda, Abigail Brown, Diana Ruiz,
Emily Crawford
National
Achievement Scholars:
Stratford High – Nathaniel
Barbour
National
Merit Commended Scholars:
Memorial High – Jessica
Anderson, Callie Beard, Holden Brown, Madison Chambers, Christopher Chou,
Jonathan Chung, Ryan Cowell, David Cremins, Daniel Gawerc, Joseph Guerrant,
Carroll Herring, Neik Khansari, Yae Eun Kim, Nikhil Kumar, Haley Kurisky, Anna
Lai, Justin Lee, James Livingston, Yoseph Maguire, Vitoria Moreno-Costa, John
Pruitt, Erin Roberts, Byoung Ryu, Alison Strealy, Sophie Wilczynski, Tiffany
Wu, Winnie Wu, Xiayu Xu, Stephen Young
Spring Woods High – Marissa
Clark
Stratford High – Abigail
Brown, Ahmed Butt, Weijie Cheng, Sarah Davis, Alexis Frederick, Mary K. Goss,
Leah Hunt, Caroline Kelly, Stephen Krueger, Katherine Leggett, Eila Motley,
Elaine Parizot, Benjamin Riedel, Anye Ye, Christy Zhang
Westchester Academy for
International Studies – Keeli Armitage, Connor June, Adam
Kassir, David Pham
Debate Team Update!
This past weekend, 13 students
from all over the country were invited to compete at the Florida Blue Key Round
Robin in congressional debate.
Chris Rice was one of the 13 and
placed 4th. He was one of 2 Texas students and the only one from
Houston to compete.
Go Tiger Debate!
Friday, October 18, 2013
Educator in the Spotlight: Paul Ramsay, Flipped & Blended Learning
Spring Wood High School educator Paul Ramsay talks about how he's using a flipped and blended model for instruction in his classroom. How is this approaching shaping the classroom experience, the effectiveness of instruction and what do his students think about it? Thank you Mr. Ramsay for sharing sharing your story!
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
New school year heralds 50-year celebrations in Spring Branch ISD
Fiftieth
anniversaries will be celebrated at three Spring Branch ISD campuses in the
months ahead. Now marking 50 years are Spring Woods High School, Memorial
Middle School and Westwood Elementary.
Students,
staff and alumni at Spring Woods High School began preparing early for a great
50th year with a student poster contest and calendar planning that
includes at least one theme event every nine weeks. Proceeds from ticketed
events and activities will fund scholarships for Class of 2014 Tiger graduates.
Senior
Lorelei Shannon credits her winning 50th anniversary poster
submission on a failed effort years ago to sign up for volleyball. Instead, she
enrolled in a digital graphics class, and from that moment her budding interest
in art as a career has buoyed her on and carried her forward.
“I
was definitely surprised to hear that I had won,” Lorelei said. “It’s exciting,
and something I’m proud to be a part of. I did not know before this contest
that the school was as old as it is.” Lorelei received a $75 Amazon gift card
for her winning poster idea.
In
her poster, a green-eyed tiger pops through an orange numeral 50. Below it
states, “Spring Woods High School: Celebrating 50 Years of Tiger Pride.”
The
poster’s top headline, “R.O.A.R. to Excellence,” reflects the school’s four
main points of Tiger pride – Respectful/Responsible; On-Time/On-Task;
Accountable; and Ready for Post-Secondary Success. The high school’s new
principal this year is Jennifer Parker.
A
cartoonist like her older brother for the school newspaper, The Regit,
Lorelei hopes to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. Her interests run
from “art painting to graphic designs to comics.” She hand paints white canvas
shoes through an online hobby site, charging up to $90 per shoe order. She
fills worldwide orders for her painted shoes.
Spring
Woods High’s 50th anniversary plan will include at least one major
event every grading period. Momentum will build this fall with pre-game
tailgating activities at Tully Stadium. The parade’s floats will reflect each
decade. Alumni and Tiger supporters are encouraged to join in.
Other
50th activities include a ticketed Performing Arts Alumni Cabaret
Show in December, an alumni “Golden Apple” Luncheon in February 2014 with U.S.
Congressman Ted Poe, a Spring Woods High graduate, and a school-wide 50th
Birthday Party and Picnic next May.
Organizers
hope to set a new Guinness World Record during the end-of-year party and picnic
by collecting in one spot the most stuffed tigers ever. All the stuffed animals
will be donated to Texas Children’s Hospital, says organizer and school theater
department chair Anne Yancey.
“We
hope to set a world record. We are asking people to bring us their stuffed tigers.
We’ll find a place to store them between now and then,” she said.
Event
planners worked hard last spring to develop a plan that includes open and
ticketed events, highlights separate groups in the Spring Woods High family
with each event, and directs dollars donated and ticket funds raised to a
scholarship fund for the Class of 2014.
At
Memorial Middle, meanwhile, organizers are still finalizing plans for the
school anniversary. At this time, a special event or activity may highlight
past principals and staff members. A time capsule from a previous class buried
on the school grounds might be located and dug up, too.
Memorial
Middle’s PTA plans to present the school with a bronze eagle for permanent
display. A separate assembly may be conducted. Memorial Middle’s principal is
Lisa Weir.
At
Westwood Elementary, staff proudly wears t-shirts that proclaim: “Celebrating
50 Years of Learning.”
Westwood’s
anniversary t-shirts and posters also state the following: “The past 50 years
has taught us that our WWE family is built on the foundation that every minute
is an excellent opportunity to learn about, with, and from each other.” School
principal is Kay Kennard.
-- Read more top stories from SBISD in The School Zone
-- Read more top stories from SBISD in The School Zone
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
SWHS Debate Team Makes History at National Competition
At the National Debate Tournament of the National Forensic League held in Birmingham, Alabama, June 17th-21st, 2013. Spring Woods High School’s Debate team made history. Senior Waaris Mohammad placed 5th in Congressional Debate out of 270 in the nation. Spring Woods also qualified to be one of the top 20 schools in debate receiving School of Excellence Award. (source: www.nflonline.org)
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
A New Blog for Spring Woods High
Spring Woods High School is excited to launch a new blog featuring news and information for SWHS families.
We believe it's critical for you to be informed and up-to-date on important policies, upcoming events, campus information, and drivers of change within our district. Because of this belief, we're launching this news blog.
Our goal is to present you with the information you need to make informed decisions that benefit your student(s), and ensure he/she receives the best possible educational experience in Spring Branch.
We value your support and participation!
Our contributors are:
We believe it's critical for you to be informed and up-to-date on important policies, upcoming events, campus information, and drivers of change within our district. Because of this belief, we're launching this news blog.
Our goal is to present you with the information you need to make informed decisions that benefit your student(s), and ensure he/she receives the best possible educational experience in Spring Branch.
We value your support and participation!
Our contributors are:
SWHS Webmaster, Candice Graham
SWHS Principal, Jennifer Parker
Reminder: Make sure to visit the SBISD Back to School website for information on the 2013-14 Academic Year. The first day of class in SBISD is Monday, Aug. 26.
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