The Weekly Update #10

Fairfield ISD Supports Breast Cancer Awareness with Pink Out

Friday was Pink Out day for Fairfield ISD. The Fairfield high school beta club sold Pink Out shirts to raise money for the Freestone Cancer Support Group and was able to present a check for $1500 at the Pick Out Pep Rally on Friday morning.

Veterans Day Ceremony on Tuesday, November 11th

Fairfield High School will host a Veterans Day Ceremony that is open to the entire community on Tuesday, November 11th. The event will be held at the Johnson Activity Center and begin at 8:00 am. If you would like to nominate a local veteran to be recognized at the event, we ask that you sign them up using the link below. We ask the veterans to be there at 7:45 am so they can be seated on the floor.

https://forms.gle/Kk8PLiQ5RQZZsp3g6

CX Debate Gets Started with Practice UIL Meets

Our FHS CX Debate teams had a strong showing at their first competition of the year!

Laiken Carlson & Connor Colvert – 2nd Place

Mason Edwards & Gage Wendt – 4th Place

FFA & 4-H Shows Continue

Congratulations to Avery and Arden Strait for their accomplishments at the State Fair of Texas Youth Santa Gertrudis Show. Peyton Higdon placed 2nd with her Beefmaster

Calf Champion - Avery Strait

Reserve Calf Champion - Arden Strait

Eagle Athletics

The Eagle Athletic teams continued their overall outstanding seasons at all levels this week with another outstanding week.

The High School volleyball teams won a big match on Friday after having a BYE on Tuesday. The Lady Eagles traveled to Groesbeck on Friday and defeated the Lady Goats in 3 hard fought sets to remain undefeated in district play with three matches to go. This week the volleyball teams will travel to Elkhart on Tuesday, then to Buffalo on Friday.

Cross Country will travel to Huntsville on Monday morning to compete in the Region 3 Cross Country Meet. The girls will run at 8:15 and the Boys at 8:45 at Kate Barr Ross Memorial Park. Good luck to our varsity girl and varsity boy runners.

Football - The Eagles had another dominating performance on Friday night, defeating Huntington 52-0 to move to 2-0 in district play. The Eagles will travel to Dibol next Friday for a big matchup and try to avenge our loss to Dibol last year in Fairfield. The JV beat Huntington 43-6.

Junior High Athletics - Our Junior High Volleyball teams continued their amazing season by sweeping all of their matches against Canton on Monday.

Junior High Football played at home on Thursday. 8th grade beat Huntington 33-6. 7th grade played Mildred and lost. They will play at Dibol on Thursday.

Elementary

Elementary will have their book fair next week and will have Family Night on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:00. There will also be a Title 1 meeting beforehand.

PreK and Kindergarten students were able to attend the Pink Out Pep Rally on Friday Morning. They had a blast cheering for the Eagles.

Intermediate

The intermediate school had a visit from some of the varsity football players on Friday. They had a great time visiting with some of their Eagle heroes. Mr. Pate took a photo with some of his students from his first year as a Fairfield teacher. How time flies.

Junior High

JH pre-athletics (6th grade) learned body positioning for volleyball using hula hoops. It is this type of training that is instrumental in our JH volleyball teams dominating their opponents year after year and this translates to our HS teams making deep runs in the playoffs.