Rockwall students explore career paths

ROCKWALL (February 11, 2014) Sixth graders from around the Rockwall Independent School District participated in a field trip to the RISD Administration Office where 14 different speakers from various careers were invited to share their career path and inspire students. Pictured are Reinhardt students Lauren Ross and Lydia Harper who learned about careers in aviation and […]

Dobbs congratulates its spelling bee champ

Dobbs congratulates its spelling bee champ

ROCKWALL (February 10, 2014) Howard Dobbs Elementary hosted their annual Spelling Bee on January 17, hosted by Library Media Specialist Mindy Davenport. Grades 4, 5, and 6 each submitted three students to participate. Congratulations to Dobbs Spelling Bee Champ Noah Holland! The fourth grader represented Dobbs in the recent County Spelling Bee. Cain Middle School […]

Rockwall students win regional FUTURE CITY prize

Rockwall home-schoolers head to Washington D.C. for Nationals ROCKWALL (February 10, 2014) Each January thousands of middle school students across the nation build physical models, write detailed essays, hone live presentations and program digital prototypes that represent how they imagine innovations changing the cities we call home.  Three Rockwall seventh-graders (Kyle Fletcher, Faith Mitchell and […]

Tom Collins Memorial Scholarship for Fine Art open for entries

ROCKWALL (February 10, 2014) The 2014 Rockwall Art League Tom Collins Memorial Scholarship for Fine Art in the amount of $1,000 is available to a Rockwall graduating senior planning a career in the visual arts including 2-D, 3-D, and graphic arts or an art-related field requiring higher education. It is not available for the performance […]

Rockwall-Heath Youth & Gov’t students garner medals at State Conference

Rockwall-Heath Youth & Gov’t students garner medals at State Conference

ROCKWALL (February 6, 2014) The Rockwall-Heath High School Youth and Government Mock Legislature team had a very successful trip to Austin. The students start in August by writing bills, they debate their bills on a district level, and then they have the opportunity to present their bills at the YMCA Youth and Government State Conference. […]

Nebbie students make special delivery to Summer Ridge residents

Nebbie students make special delivery to Summer Ridge residents

ROCKWALL (February 6, 2014) Nebbie Williams Elementary is proud of its 3rd graders who are focusing on giving back to their community!  They collected donations of travel size lotions, kleenex, lip balm, socks, hot chocolate, and candy for the senior residents of Summer Ridge Assisted Living Community. The students wrote notes and made 88 treat […]

Reinhardt students use skits to teach math lesson

ROCKWALL (February 5, 2014) Students in Mrs. Worden’s 5th grade math class at Reinhardt Elementary had the opportunity to choose a topic and become the teachers. Their goal was to design a fun lesson that would actually be used to teach the class about median, mode and range of numbers. The students had the ability […]