HEB ISD School & Family Magazine Spring 2018 | Page 33

Bell Helicopter (an Adopt-A-School partner of Central
Junior High) hosted middle school teams from six
school districts in a day that focused on STEM.
Central sent two teams of five students to the event
at Alliance Airport, at the Tarrant County College
(TCC) Aviation campus.
River Trails honored those who serve our country at the school’s first
Veterans Day Assembly. Students participated by making posters,
singing the National Anthem, and bringing photos of veterans in their
families, and the 5th grade even performed America the Beautiful with
American Sign Language.
Representatives from Bell Helicopter visited
Shady Oaks Elementary to introduce and support
a major Hour of Code activity. Students learned
to enter specific instructions so the computer
would know how to play a variety of games.
Meadow Creek hosted its annual Grandparents and Friends Day on
Friday, November 17. More than 500 grandparents and friends ate lunch
and visited classrooms with the help of teachers, staff, and PTA. This was
a great opportunity to display to the community all the wonderful things
happening at Meadow Creek.
This year’s Pulling For Hope event raised more than $117,000 for local families! This friendly competition supports 6 Stones’ Night of Hope
program which brings food, gifts, and joy to over 4,000 deserving children and their families in the community. Teams from Hurst, Euless,
Bedford, HEB ISD, and Redi-Mix Concrete pulled five school buses in a race across the Pennington Field parking lot.
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