Jacket football teams up with Helping Hands

(ROCKWALL ISD-May 6, 2013) Head Coach Rodney Webb and the Rockwall High School football teams are excited to announce a food drive to benefit Helping Hands of Rockwall County. The boys will be going door-to-door collecting canned and boxed food donations on Wednesday, May 15 in the Rockwall High School attendance zone. In addition, players will be […]

‘We don’t just teach music, we make musicians’

‘We don’t just teach music, we make musicians’

(ROCKWALL-May 5, 2013) When you walk into the Rockwall School of Music for the first time, you may be surprised at what you see. And hear. And don’t hear. The 3,000 sq. ft. facility comprises 12 teaching studios – each a distraction-free zone with soundproof walls and solid doors with windows. On any given week, […]

Orchestra for homeschool string players

Orchestra for homeschool string players

If you play violin, viola, cello or bass, this orchestra is for you (May 5, 2013) The Rockwall School of Music is making the necessary arrangements to offer a homeschool orchestra for the 2013-14 school year. The orchestra will be open to all homeschool students in the greater Rockwall area. Instrumentalists with one or more […]

Test drive a Ford to help Rockwall band students

Community fundraising event to benefit Orange Wave Band (ROCKWALL-May 4, 2013) Across the U.S., vital music programs are affected annually due to growing budgetary constraints and lack of funding. Without fundraisers, youth miss out on valuable opportunities to expand their knowledge and diversify their interests. Rockwall Ford and Ford Motor Company are keeping these opportunities […]

Heath/Rockwall Consolidated Team wins water polo championship

Heath/Rockwall Consolidated Team wins water polo championship

(ROCKWALL ISD-May 3, 2013) For the Rockwall ISD Water Polo programs, it seems they saved the best for last. A team comprised of predominately Heath High School players teamed with a few Rockwall High School athletes to compete in the 2013 North Texas Consolidated High School Championships on April 27 in Denton. “This was the Super Bowl […]

Cullins Lake-Pointe students create award-winning posters

(ROCKWALL ISD-May 2, 2013) Fifth grade students at Doris Cullins Lake Pointe Elementary School recently participated in the Sons of the American Revolution poster contest. This year’s theme was the Declaration of Independence. Amerika Embers won first place for the Dallas chapter of SAR for her art work. Muthoni Kamau placed second. Katherine Mok placed first in the […]

Rockwall High’s ACDEC team finishes third in nation, again!

Rockwall High’s ACDEC team finishes third in nation, again!

(ROCKWALL ISD-April 27, 2013) Rockwall High School’s Academic Decathlon team competed at the United States Academic Decathlon National Competition in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 25-27.  They finished third in the nation for the second year in a row.   The team  was led by coaches Michael Oldham and Nicole Redmond.   First and second place wins […]

Student filmmaker creates documentary about fictitious Rockwall resident

Bruce Hayward Lived Here includes cast of local principals, mayor, doctor (ROCKWALL-May 15, 2013) “From an early age, I always wanted to tell stories, and movies are the most personal medium for doing so,” Alexander Pyle says enthusiastically.  “A lot of young people say that they want to make movies, but what they really want […]

Rockwall water polo teams place 5th at Regionals

(ROCKWALL-April 24, 2013) This year seemed to be the breakout year that could send one, if not both boys and girl’s high school teams to the state tournament. All that was needed was for the teams to play up to their seeding. The Rockwall High School girls entered the tournament with a #4 seed and […]