More than 180 first grade students brought their very own Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to Wylie East Elementary School on Friday, Nov. 3. Across campus, parade balloons proudly “flew” in honor of “Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade”, a book librarian Shyrl Martinez reads each year as part of […]
Baby Giraffe at Wylie East Elementary Needs a Name
The students of Wylie East Elementary had a baby giraffe take-up residence in their library this past week thanks to the creative mind and hands of their librarian, Shryl Martinez. Martinez said she was inspired by the packaging that came out of a moving box she had opened to create the life-sized, paper mâché animal. […]
Campus Connections December 22: Wylie East Elementary
ACTS OF KINDNESS CLUB Wylie East Elementary has implemented an Acts of Kindness Club on our campus. Students are nominated by teachers and staff when they are spotted going above and beyond regular campus expectations and being especially kind to other bulldogs on campus. By the end of October this year, we already had 153 […]
Bus Driver’s Quick Thinking Saves Student
A Wylie bus driver’s quick action may have saved the life of a Wylie kindergarten student during the final weeks of school. Six-year-old Grant Loup has a severe peanut allergy, and when he unknowingly ate a single peanut butter M&M, he went to bus driver Jessie Bernal for help. Jessie immediately took him off the […]
Wylie Students Win Annual Poster Contest
Wylie was well represented at the 2021 Middle Clear Fork Soil & Water Conservation District’s annual Awards Program at Wylie High School in March. Eleven Wylie students placed in the annual Poster Contest with three of those winning their age groups. Just to be entered into the contest is an honor, as Wylie students have […]