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March 1, 2012 / Youth

Classroom surprise

Mayer is finalist for Excellence in Education award

Port Aransas High School teacher Melanie Mayer was surprised on Tuesday, Feb. 28, when H-E-B representatives, followed by the media, entered her classroom with balloons, cake and flowers. More...

Pirate party is fundraiser for D.C. trip

Drag out that three-cornered hat and sharpen your cutlass. Here’s your chance to dress like a pirate and win some treasure, even though it’s not buried. More...

Credentials earned

Teacher Randell Buttler’s Port Aransas High School shop class students recently received the NCCER certificates they earned last year. More...

Sign of the times

Contractor Gilbert Garcia of Corpus Christi puts up a plastic marlin as part of a new sign on the front of the Port Aransas High School building on Thursday, Feb. 23. More...

Three H.G. Olsen Elementary School students are winners in the Corpus Christi Symphony’s 2012 Patricia Furley Education Concert Contests. Fourth grade art winners are Hailey Clark and Phoebe Shelton. More...

PTO Book Fair starts Monday Free Access

Family Night is Tuesday

The H.G. Olsen Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization and Scholastic, Inc. are teaming up again next week to present the annual Book Fair. More...

Quite a quartet

Going to school to practice their instruments at 7:30 a.m. two mornings a week for the past few months has paid off for four Port Aransas High School band members. On Saturday, Feb. More...

Testing schedule set

While schools are moving to the new State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness ( STAAR) tests, that doesn’t mean students are getting out of testing altogether. More...

There’s a fourth R

EDUCATION NOTES

JERI FRANCO

Feeling connected to school has been identified as very important to students’ overall health and well-being. Sometimes all that is needed is for a student to feel that at least one person cares about whether she came to school today. More...

Sewing fair is set for Monday

Eight Port Aransas High School students will present a sewing fair in the high school library Monday, March 5, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. They are making pillows, pillowcases, headbands, sunglass cases, blankets, and more. More...

SCHOOL MENUS

PORT ARANSAS ISD MARCH 5 - MARCH 9 Breakfast (Includes juice & milk) More...