SCHOOL NEWS
Meet the Teacher events readied
The new school year is about ready to kick off the first week of August.
Bowie Independent School District opened online registration on July 14. School officials report returning student guardians should have received an email with details on the Ascender Parent Portal. To access the portal visit bowieisd.net, click families in the top right corner and select the portal link.
If any family needs assistance campus registrars will be able to assist, call or visit the specific campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday. New students must pick up a packet at their respective campus in the office.
Meet the Teacher for BISD will be 5-6:30 p.m. for the elementary and intermediate schools on Aug. 4 and 6-7:30 p.m. for the junior and senior high school. Registration must be complete to receive a schedule. Help with online registration will be available.
The first day of school for Bowie will be Aug. 6. The full school calendar with daily start and end times is available at https://bit.ly/4kQPTV8 and on the district webpage at bisd.net.
Gold-Burg ISD student registration runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 22-25. Meet the Teacher will be at 5:30 p.m. on July 31. The first day of school will be Aug. 5.
Forestburg ISD starts the new year on Aug. 4. Meet the Teacher will be 5-7 p.m. on July 31.
Montague School opens the year on Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 4. Students will be able to meet school staff, drop off school supplies, decorate their lockers and tour the school. Schedules for fourth-eighth graders will be in their labeled lockers.
Nocona ISD will have returning student online registration through Aug. 31 whose guardians can register through the Ascender Parent Portal.
New student registration requires a family pick up an enrollment packet from their campus between 8 a.m. and 3:30 through Aug. 31. Transfer papers must be returned and approved before children can be enrolled.
The first day of school for Nocona students is Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher for the elementary will be 4-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 5. At the middle school Meet the Teacher is 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 5.
Prairie Valley ISD starts the new year on Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher Night will be on Aug. 5 when there will be a pep rally and parent meet at 5:30 p.m., followed by classroom visits from 6-7 p.m.
Saint Jo ISD opens the new year on Aug. 12. Meet the Teacher will be at 5 p.m. on Aug. 7.
Bellevue School’s first day is Aug. 14 with the traditional bell ringing ceremony at 8 p.m. Meet the Teacher is at 6 p.m. on Aug. 11.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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