Published: April 17, 2007 01:05 pm      

Oakwood ISD School Happenings for 4-15-07

• Academic Meet — Oakwood High School students recently competed in the UIL Academic District Meet at Navarro College. Oakwood earned 189 points and took 3rd place in the overall competition out of the 13 schools that were participating. Oakwood received many individual awards as well.

Individual winners were as follows:

Calculator Applications: Joshua Zganjar — 5th place

Editorial Writing: Paige Eldrigde — 2nd place

Feature Writing: Le’Darrion Allen — 3rd place, Jocelyn Williams — 5th place, Paige Eldridge — 6th place

Informative Speaking: J.P. Hicks — 5th place, Estefani Castro — 6th place

Mathematics: Joshua Zganjar — 5th place, Jake Stevens — 6th place

Number Sense: Brian Zganjar — 6th place

News Writing: Jocelyn Williams — 3rd place, Crystal Soria — 4th place

Persuasive Speaking: Kyle Bushey — 3rd place, Tamara Miller — 4th place

Poetry Interpretation: Tamara Miller — 5th place, J.P. Hicks — 6th place

Prose Interpretation: Paige Eldridge — 2nd place

Spelling and Vocabulary: Paige Eldridge — 6th place

Cross-Ex Debate: Oakwood Team 1— 3rd place, Oakwood Team 3 — 4th place

Number Sense: Oakwood Team 1 — 2nd place

One Act Play: Oakwood — 1st place

Speech: Oakwood — 2nd place

Congratulations to all these outstanding students!

• One-Act Play — Oakwood High School participated in the UIL One Act Play Zone competition on March 24th at Panola Junior College in Carthage. Oakwood performed the play “Antic Spring.” Those receiving individual awards were as follows: All Start Cast – Chelsie Duck, Paige Eldridge and Tamara Miller; Honorable Mention All Star Cast — Jake Stevens. In addition to individual awards, Oakwood also was selected as an advancing play to the District competition.

Oakwood participated in the UIL District One Act Play competition on March 27 at Fairfield High School. Students receiving individual awards were: All Star Cast – Chelsie Duck; Honorable Mention All Star Cast — Jake Stevens and Tamara Miller. Oakwood’s play was also selected as the advancing play to the Area competition.

Area competition was held on April 4 at TVCC in Athens. Oakwood did not advance to the regional competition but received several individual awards. Those awards were: All Star Cast — Jake Stevens and Brian Zganjar; Honorable Mention All Star Cast — Chelsie Duck and Tamara Miller.

Congratulations to all the students in involved in UIL One Act Play for a job well done!

• Field Trip — Ms. Larkin’s first-grade class and Mrs. Henson’s second-grade class enjoyed themselves recently at CiCi’s Pizza. The students were able to take cool tour of the facility and see the process in which the pizza is made. Afterwards, the students were allowed to feast on a large amount of pizza, brownies, and were able to enjoy the excitement of games and washable tattoos in the game room.

Students were rewarded with this trip by meeting their accelerated reader goals for the fourth six weeks. Thanks to CiCi’s for treating our children so well and congratulations to these students for meeting their AR goals!