Academic UIL season is approaching, and we need our amazing **2nd–5th grade Tigers** to participate and represent **Smithville Elementary!** 🧡🖤
UIL is a great opportunity for students to discover new talents, challenge themselves, and represent SES!
⭐ **INTERESTED IN UIL?**
Parents, please complete the **UIL Interest Form** for your student:
👉 Complete the UIL Interest Form at https://forms.gle/Hrt3DF7PaVRuXA2C9
📍 **This year’s UIL competition will be held in Columbus, and transportation to Columbus will be provided.** Specific information will be sent home once final teams are selected.
🏆 **UIL EVENTS & COMPETITION DATES**
📅 **Week of November 9–11, 2026 | Smithville Elementary**
✏️ Ready Writing — Grades 3, 4 & 5
✏️ Creative Writing — Grade 2
📅 **November 16, 2026 | Smithville Elementary**
🎤 Oral Reading Finals — Grades 4 & 5
📖 Storytelling Finals — Grades 2 & 3
📅 **November 18, 2026 | Columbus Elementary**
🎨 Art — Grades 4 & 5
🗺️ Maps, Graphs & Charts — Grade 5
👂 Listening Skills — Grade 5
🎵 Music Memory — Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5
📝 Spelling — Grades 3, 4 & 5
➕ Number Sense — Grades 4 & 5
📚 Dictionary Skills — Grade 5
⭐ Social Studies — Grade 5
♟️ Chess Puzzle Solving — Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5
⏰ **PRACTICE INFORMATION**
Practices will take place either before school at 7:15 AM or after school at 3:45 PM. Parents/guardians will be responsible for transportation to or from UIL practices.
Each UIL coach will send home a letter during the **first week of October** confirming specific practice days and times.
🐯 Think your Tiger might be interested? Complete the interest form and let us know! We would LOVE to have them join us and represent Smithville Elementary! 🧡🖤🏆
👉 UIL INTEREST FORM at https://forms.gle/Hrt3DF7PaVRuXA2C9
#SmithvilleElementary #TigerPride #AcademicUIL #BecauseWereTigers
We will have the crowning of our Homecoming King and Queen during our HALFTIME SHOW. Come out and show your support for our students and stick around to watch our Tiger Band take the field!
Smithville ISD honors the victims, heroes, and families of September 11, 2001.
Homecoming is Friday. Let's show our Tiger Spirit! Go Tigers!
Smithville ISD welcomes our Tiger Community to volunteer on our campuses!
If you are interested in helping us in SISD, please take the time to fill out the application.
What does volunteering in SISD look like?
📙 Reading to BP and SES students
📙Assisting with special events on campuses
📙Sitting with kids during special lunches
📙Other things that come up throughout the year!
You can read about our volunteer vetting procedures on our website and submit the required paperwork: https://www.smithvilleisd.org/page/volunteers
Thank you for supporting SISD!
September 14, 2026
7:15-7:45
Gates open at 7:15
SES Main Cafeteria
Please RSVP by September 11, 2026 by noon.
https://bit.ly/26grands
Don't forget that Monday, September 7th, is a staff and student holiday in observance of Labor Day.
Have a great 3-day weekend!!
Be sure to check out Smithville Elementary's September Newsletter.
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Smithville Elementary has partnered with Keep Smithville Beautiful for the Plastic Collection Challenge!
🥤 Collect #1 & #2 plastic bottles
💧 Rinse them & leave the caps on
♻️ Take them to the Smithville Recycling Center during scheduled drop-off times
📣 Be sure to give them your teacher’s name so your class gets credit!
🏆 Classes can win a Pizza Party, Popsicle Party, or Snack Party!
The challenge runs through September 26, so ask your family, friends, and neighbors to help you collect!
🌎 Help keep the Colorado River clean — EVERY BOTTLE COUNTS!
Let’s go, Tigers! 🐯♻️
Just a quick reminder about our morning arrival procedures:
⏰ Students are considered tardy at 7:45 AM.
If your student arrives at school at or after 7:45 AM, a parent or guardian must come into the office and sign the student in.
Students should not be dropped off to walk into the building on their own after 7:45 AM.
📍 Please come to the office to complete the sign-in process, and don’t forget your photo ID!
Thank you for helping us keep our students safe and ensure attendance is recorded correctly! 🧡🖤
Because We’re Tigers! 🐯
We are excited to announce our first-ever Smithville ISD Tiger Ambassador Academy! SISD wants to bring our families and community into the district to get a "behind the scenes" look with four visits to the district throughout the 26-27 year. The application is open now!
We look forward to getting this program up-and-running and hope you will join us!
https://smithvilleisd.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3fuWvKO7abu7s3Q
We had an AMAZING first day at Smithville Elementary! It was so wonderful to see our hallways and classrooms filled with smiling faces again. We love having our Tigers back! We are looking forward to a fantastic year of learning, growing, and getting 1% better every day!
As we head into Day 2, here are a few important reminders for our families:
📚 Beginning tomorrow, parents will not be able to walk students to their classrooms.
Don’t worry—we will have plenty of SES staff stationed throughout campus to greet students, help them find their classrooms, and make sure everyone gets where they need to go safely.
⏰ Morning Reminders
* Gates open at 7:15 AM
* Breakfast is served from 7:15–7:45 AM
* No breakfast will be served after 7:45 AM
* Students are considered tardy at 7:45 AM
* If your child is tardy, a parent/guardian will need to come inside and sign the student in
*Please remember to bring your photo ID
Dimissal Information:
*Car tags, please have student's first and last name along with the teacher name.
* Please pull into a parking spot or pull to the tennis courts to buckle your student.
Thank you, Tiger families, for helping us have such a smooth and successful start to the school year! We appreciate your patience as everyone learns our routines and procedures.
**Day 1 is in the books! Now let’s keep getting 1% better each day…because we’re Tigers! 🐯🧡🖤**
⏰ 4:30–6:00 PM | Come & Go
If you weren’t able to make it to our Teacher Reveal, no worries! We will have your student’s Teacher Reveal scratch-off available in each building so they can find out who their teacher is! 🎉
🎒 Feel free to bring school supplies and leave them in your child’s classroom.
⚠️ IMPORTANT: ALL returning students must have online registration completed. If you have not completed registration, please report to the Main Cafeteria when you arrive to get registered.
We can’t wait to welcome our Tigers back and kick off a GREAT year together!
🏈 Put Me In Teach, I’m Ready to Learn!
🐯 Because We’re Tigers!
Dear Smithville Elementary Families,
As we prepare for an exciting new school year, we want to share our updated arrival and dismissal procedures. Our goal is to make dismissal as safe, organized, and efficient as possible for all students and families.
Please review the attached maps carefully, as there have been some changes to our afternoon dismissal locations.
Afternoon Dismissal
**Inside Lane (Closest to the Curb)**
* **1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students** (without siblings) will be picked up in the inside lane closest to the curb.
**Outside Lane (crosses over to Building 3 gate)**
* **All students with siblings**, regardless of grade level, will be picked up in the outside lane near **Building 3 gate**. This allows families with multiple children to make one convenient stop.
**Old Gym Pickup (Wilkes Street Side)**
* **4th and 5th grade students** (without siblings) will be picked up at the **Old Gym on the Wilkes Street side**.
* **Daycare pickups** will also take place at the Old Gym.
Morning Arrival
Morning arrival procedures will remain the same. Please use the attached map as a reminder of traffic flow and designated drop-off locations.
These adjustments will help improve traffic flow and reduce wait times while ensuring all students are dismissed safely. We appreciate your patience during the first few days of school as everyone learns the new procedures.
Thank you for partnering with us to make arrival and dismissal safe and successful. We can't wait to welcome our Tigers back for another amazing year!
**Because We're Tigers!**
