Vernon Elementary School

We are excited to welcome our students back tomorrow as we start the Spring Semester of the 2025-26 school year. Here is the cafeteria menu for January. Please remember all VISD students receive a FREE breakfast and lunch every school day in our cafeterias.

This morning, the Vernon Police Department and Vernon ISD welcomed Autumn Thames to their staffs. Autumn will hold the rank of lieutenant with the Vernon PD and will serve as VISD's Director of School Safety and Security, as well as be the School Resource Officer at McCord Elementary. Interim Supt. Dr. Blaise Boswell explained this is a newly-established position and reflects VISD's and Vernon PD's collaborative commitment to maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all students, staff, and visitors.

The nomination window for our Vernon ISD Gifted and Talented Program is now open. The deadline to nominate a student is Monday, Jan. 19. Parents, teachers and others in the community can nominate students. Nominations will only be accepted via a Google Form you can access by scanning the QR code below, or by following this link: https://bit.ly/VISD-GTProgram
Parents/guardians will have two opportunities to attend an informational meeting on our GT program. Both meetings will be held Tuesday, Jan. 13, the first will be held at 1 p.m., at the VISD Boardroom, and the second will be held at 6 p.m., at the VHS Media Center.

Our VES Spring Art Project involves using old CD and DVD discs. If you happen to have any you would like to donate to the project, please contact the VES Office or drop them by the school office. We just need the discs only.

We would like to wish all of our students and their families, along with all of our VISD staff and their families a very Happy New Year!! We hope 2026 is the best year yet for everyone!!

We love seeing our teachers celebrated! 💙
Thank you to the VES PTO for treating teachers and staff to a baked potato bar and sodas on Thursday, and for the thoughtful Christmas ornaments.

• Baked potato bar catered by Two Wild Berries
• Sodas donated by Charles McArthur Jr. of Red River Keurig Dr Pepper

Our community support makes a difference and we are thankful!

When the dismissal bell rings today and our students leave our campuses, Vernon ISD will officially be on its Christmas Break. VISD staff will return and normal office hours will resume on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, while we will welcome our students back to the classroom on Wednesday, Jan. 7. We hope all of our VISD students and their families, along with all of our VISD family, has a wonderful Christmas Break.

Our 3rd grade students traveled to the Herring Bank Wednesday morning to perform songs from their Christmas program. The students were divided into two groups with both groups giving separate performances. Here a few scenes from their performances, and a few highlights can also be found here https://youtu.be/Qs-J3VNfts4

Wednesday morning our 2nd grade students took a trip to the Waggoner National Bank where they performed songs from their Christmas program. The students were divided into two groups, with both groups giving performances. All the students did a great job. Here are a few pictures and a few highlights at https://youtu.be/4zzZSdgSXpw

Tomorrow is an Early Release Friday for Vernon ISD, as we start our Christmas Break. We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

Tuesday morning our VES 5th grade students gave a performance in the lobby of the Herring Bank. The students performed their Christmas program, which they presented at the auditorium last week. The students were divided by homeroom teacher into two groups, with both groups giving a performance. They all did a great job. Here are a few highlights. https://youtu.be/xlItvjM4GlY

Tuesday morning our 4th grade students performed their Christmas program in the lobby of the Waggoner National Bank. The students were divided by homeroom teacher into two groups, with each group giving a performance. They all did a great job. Here are a few highlights. https://youtu.be/cxWQWy2FWNE

VES PARENTS!!
We have an abundance of coats/jackets/hoodies in our Lost and Found. Please stop by the school before Noon Friday and see if any of these items belong to your student. ALL items that go unclaimed will be donated to a local charity.

After the 3rd graders completed their performance, our 2nd grade students joined them on the stage to close out the VES 2nd & 3rd Grade Christmas Program by singing three songs together. The students sounded wonderful.

Our 3rd grade students presented their Christmas Program Tuesday night at the Wilbarger Auditorium. The students did an outstanding job. Here are some scenes from their program.

Here are some scenes from our VES 2nd Grade Christmas Program that was presented Tuesday evening at the Wilbarger Auditorium. Our 2nd grade students stepped up and did a great job.

Our 4th & 5th grade students closed out their Christmas Program by coming together on stage and performing three songs. Their first song is our theme song for the school year, while the second song honors our military veterans. Not only did our students sing that song, they also performed the song in sign language. https://youtu.be/2k6cjz3vpgI

Here are some highlights of our 5th Grade Christmas Program that our students presented last night at the Wilbarger Auditorium. https://youtu.be/SJda2_tkAiI

Here are some highlights from our 4th Grade Christmas Program which was performed last night at Wilbarger Auditorium. https://youtu.be/cckh1seIJ5A

Our 4th and 5th grade students were all on the stage last night to close out their Christmas program with three songs they sang together.