Panther Talk

Congratulations to the Mart ISD students who placed at the McLennan County Jr Livestock Show!

Abbygale Cosper - Reserve Breed Champion Heifer

Keen Swaner - Reserve Supreme Champion Heifer

Mari Blood - Broiler, Grand Champion

Ashlyn Nutt - Meat Rabbit, 3rd place

Ellie Williams - Broiler, 8th place

Coach Skinner's high school physics class is learning how to assemble, control, and soon how to code robots. Thanks to a robotics grant received from Howmet Aerospace Foundation, the campus was able to purchase the Project Lead the Way Curriculum and components to teach high school automation and robotics. This grant has also funded robotic initiatives at the elementary school for the past year. The elementary school has used Edison robots and legos for their projects.

Mrs. Suttle has been with Mart ISD for 15 years serving as elementary and middle school counselor. She counsels students as needed, but her duties go far beyond her office. She teaches guidance lessons to PK-6th grade students teaching character traits. She also organizes special programs such as Cell Phone Sally, VOICE education programs, and Red Ribbon Week initiatives. Mrs. Suttle is loved by her students, both current & former, and Mart ISD appreciates all that she does for our district.

Mart High School's Counselor is Mrs. Robyn Urive. This is Mrs. Urive's first year with Mart ISD, but the campus already considers her family. She has taken great care in meeting with each student one on one and discussing their future academic and career goals. She has grown the dual credit program and is currently creating career pathways in collaboration with MCC and Region 12 for our students to get a jump start on their post secondary readiness. She has been a great advocate for students in college testing, scholarships, and the application process, but also just life in general. Mart ISD appreciates all that she does for our district.

Monday - Valentine's Day, 4th Grade Etiquette Lunch

Tuesday - 4th-6th grade field trip to Innerspace Caverns

Wednesday - School Board Meeting, 7pm

Monday - Lady Panther Bi-District playoff game vs Crawford @ Waco High, 7pm

Tuesday - Panther Basketball @ Bremond, 5pm

Monday, February 14th, 7pm

Lady Panthers vs Crawford @ Waco High School

Panther Playoffs TBA

February 21 - Bad Weather Day, No School

February 22 - Dual Credit Parent Meeting, 5pm & 6:30pm

February 23 - District OAP Contest @ Mart

March 4 - End of the 3rd 9 Weeks, Elementary Assembly, 12:30 Release

March 7 - 11 - Spring Break

March 15 - Elementary Spring Pictures & Class Pictures

March 18 - ES Dairy Farms Assembly

March 21 - 25 - Book Fair

April 5 - English 1 (9th grade)

April 7 - English 2 (10th grade)

May 10 - Algebra 1

May 11 - Biology & 8th grade Science

May 12 - US History & 8th grade Social Studies

May 17 - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th grade Math

May 18 - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th grade Reading

May 19 - 5th grade Science

Important College and Career Readiness Dates:

February 24 - ASVAB Review with Juniors, Gear Up trip to Navarro College

February 28 - Gear Up Trip to TSTC

March 2 - Youth Connections Conference

March 3 - Youth Congress Gear Up Gives Back Day

March 15th - TSI Bootcamp for Sophomores

March 16th - TSI Testing for Sophomores

March 30th - Gear Up Trip to Sam Houston State

April 5th - ACT testing for Juniors

April 13th - Gear Up trip to Texas A&M

April 27th - STAAR Algebra 1 Boot Camp

TSI Testing:

The TSI test will be offered monthly beginning in September

If this is the students first attempt the test is free, if the student is retesting each test will cost $6.

Testing Availability

The district will now be testing using Goodside Health tests. In order to be tested, your child must be registered each time they test at gsh.co/dshs-martisd.

The district does not have the ability to conduct mass testing at this time. Students will only be tested if symptomatic and determined to possibly have COVID-19 by the school nurse, or if they are a household contact wanting to attend school. All others should contact their family doctor for testing.

School COVID-19 tests are rapid tests and have not been found to be as accurate as PCR tests. When in doubt, please contact your family doctor for more thorough testing.

Isolation Periods

If a student tests positive for COVID-19

Stay home and isolate for 10 days.

If you have fever or your symptoms remain severe, continue to stay home until your fever resolves

If a student has a household member test positive for COVID-19, the guardian of that student has 2 options:

Option 1: Quarantine student for 5 days from last exposure.

Classwork will be made available to the student to complete while quarantined. Tutorials may be required when the student returns if there is an academic need.

Option 2: Have student continue to attend school.

Student must be separated from the positive case immediately & rapid test each morning for 5 consecutive days before attending class.

*If day 5 lands on a Saturday or Sunday the student must test on Monday.

Testing will be conducted every morning at the front of the high school from 7:30am-8:00am. Please pull up and stay in your car while testing is conducted.

Athletes that have morning practice will be given special instructions.

All COVID-19 cases among students/staff are now reported on our COVID-19 Dashboard found at the button below.

Email: betsy.burnett@mymartisd.org
Website: www.martisd.org
Location: 1100 JL Davis Ave., Mart, TX, USA
Phone: (254) 876-2523
Facebook: facebook.com/MartISD
Twitter: @MartSchoolDistr