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District Track Results: JV Boys 400 meter Dash 🥈Jimmy Ernst

District Track Results: JV Girls 4x100 meter relay 3rd place🥉

District Track Results: JV Boys 4x100 meter relay 2nd place🥈

District Track Results: AREA QUALIFIER Varsity Girls 4x100 meter relay 4th Place

April 2 is Paraprofessional Appreciation Day and Palmer ISD would like to say thank you to all of our dedicated paraprofessionals. We are grateful for all of your hard work for our district!

The UIL Academics Speaking Team competed yesterday in Grandview, delivering impressive performances. In Prose, Ava Daniels earned 5th place, and Blair Nash secured 6th place. In Poetry, Kaitlyn Matthews excelled with a 2nd place finish and will be advancing to regionals in April. Congratulations to all who dedicated their time and effort to train and compete this year!

What an awesome day for our Palmer FFA Build Off team. There were 10 teams that competed in the Ellis County Youth Expo Build Off Competition. These teams have 8 hours to build designated project on site. Their task today was to build two racks that were designed to hold panels used for the livestock show. Our team worked extremely hard completing their project. They ended the day as the Reserve Champions of the competition. Please congratulate these individuals on amazing awesome accomplishment.

Fellowship of Christian Students went to Dallas this past weekend to do outreach and pass out sandwiches, water, snacks, and supply bags. They also prepared for future service projects and had a campfire fellowship.

Yearbooks for the elementary are available to purchase March 31-April 17! You can purchase online or an order form is coming home with your student today.

Palmer FFA was well represented at the Ellis County Stock Show this morning. The morning started with breeding gilts and ended with breeding heifers. Congrats to the following members for their accomplishments: Emma Spurlock- 🥇 1st Place Berkshire Gilt 🏆Reserve Champion Berkshire Gilt 🥈 2nd Place Cross Gilt Aubri Aduddell- 🏅4th Place Duroc Gilt Jenna Rhodes- 🥇 1st Place Santa Gertrudis Heifer Sydney Stewart- 🥇 1st Place Simbrah Heifer 🏆Champion Simbrqh Heifer

Palmer FFA/ Jr. FFA had 3 students in the Wether Doe show this morning at the Ellis County Stock Show. All of our does were in the same class which was a good one to watch! Claire placed 6th and 7th Rosa placed 4th Presley placed 3rd Congrats!

The Palmer Middle School Varsity and Non-Varsity Bands attended the UIL Region 3 Concert and Sightreading Contest on Thursday. Both bands gave great performances. The Non-Varsity received an EXCELLENT rating on stage and a SUPERIOR rating in sightreading. There was only 1 other 1C NV band at this contest. The Varsity band also received an EXCELLENT rating on stage and a SUPERIOR rating in sightreading. Superior is the highest rating a band can get and an excellent is the second highest. We are very proud of both of these groups.

Palmer FFA kicked off the Ellis County Youth Expo Tuesday with the Ag Mechanics Project Show and Ag mech marketplace show. Our exhibitors worked very hard this year on their projects. Palmer FFA Ag Mechanics Exhibitors did an outstanding job presenting their projects. We had a total of 17 projects this year .Please congratulate them on a successful show. In the Ag Mechanics show we had: Livestock Equipment Division Livestock handling and housing Cole and Emma Blue ribbon,1st place in class and division champion🏆🥇 Chicken Coop Amethyst Blue ribbon and 4th place Saddle rack Livestock Show Equipment Jenna Blue Ribbon and 3rd place 🥉 Lamb and Goat Show racks Cooking Equipment Division Misc. cooking Equipment Ebin Blue ribbon and 2nd place 🥈 Forged Campfire Cooking Set Stationary smokers Daniel , Grady and Peyton Blue Ribbon and 8th place Offset smoker Home and yard convenience division Small indoor furniture Karleigh , Rosa and Isiah Blue Ribbon and 2nd place 🥈 Coffee table Outdoor metal furniture Daniel and Eric Blue Ribbon and 2nd place 🥈 Bench Firepits Ollie , Grady , Parker, and Rowdy Blue ribbon and 1st place 🥇 Firepit

In the Marketplace show with a chance to make the sale of champions we had the following projects. Cooking Equipment Rocket stove Parker Blue ribbon and 3rd place 🥉 Wildlife Fishing Equipment storage Rowdy and Ollie Blue ribbon and reserve division champion.🏆🥈 and qualifying for the sale of champions Shooting bench Lainey and Lola Blue ribbon and 5th place Home Recreation and Convenience Bench Harlee and Kayli Blue ribbon and 4th place Adirondack Chair and table set Harper and Ford Blue Ribbon and 7th place Arbor with swing Katilyn Red ribbon and 11th place Livestock Equipment Spurs Grady Blue ribbon and 5th place Hay Ring Wyatt, Cannon, Loki and Gabe Blue ribbon and 6th place Gate John Red ribbon and 8th place

⛳️ District Golf Results after Day 2 ⛳️

⚾️ Baseball Schedule Change ⚾️ The game scheduled against Mildred on Saturday has been canceled.

Freshman orientation Information! Scan the QR code for more information.

Congratulations to our PHS UIL Teams! They did a fantastic job at district! Emma Odle - 1st place - Copy Editing and 4th place Editorial Writing James Miller - 5th place - Spelling Penelope Morgan - 3rd place - News Writing Genesis Guidry - 3rd place - Editorial Writing, 5th place - News Writing Ryker Gorrell - 3rd place - Lit Crit and 6th place - Headline Writing Lit Crit team won 1st place - Ryker, Genesis, Emma & Brandon Junkin

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⚾️ Games postponed 🥎 Due to the proximity of lightning and safety concerns through the evening the baseball and softball games will now be played Wednesday in Palmer at 6 PM.