Today and every day, we are thankful for our custodial staff for keeping our buildings clean and well-maintained. Schools that look nice, help our students and educators feel proud about their surroundings, which leads to a sense of pride about themselves. Happy National Custodian Appreciation Day!
Joanne Chaparro maintains the main high school building and agriculture shop!
Kristin Arizpe is responsible for both sides of the annex/math building!
Retirees Pat Needham and Renee Mathis work part time to keep the band hall, commons, gymnasium and field house looking their best.
We appreciate all four of you! 🚀
Join us at the home football game on Friday, October 20th for State Championship Night as we honor the 2013 Skyrocket State Championship Football Team. 🚀🏈🚀
The first full week of October will be a busy one for Wellington athletics 🚀🧨🏃♀️🏈
The 2023 Miss Wellington Scholarship Pageant was held today at the Wellington Ritz Theatre. WHS junior, Mallory O'Rear, is our new Miss Wellington winning a $1200 scholarship. She was escorted by Gatlin Guy. Other scholarship winners included Madeleine Kane as 1st runner up escorted by Conner Kane, Audrey Jones as 2nd runner up escorted by Fabian Pina, Harlee Gomez as 3rd runner up escorted by Braylon Tarver and Summer Neufeld as 4th runner up escorted by Nixon Folk. Others in the top ten included Blaire Forrester, Presley Kane, Alyssa Lewis, Addy Mock and Lisette Vela. All 21 girls did amazing today. Congratulations to Mallory and her court! 🚀👑
The 70th Annual Miss Wellington Scholarship Pageant is today at 3:30pm at the Wellington Ritz Theatre. Miss Wellington 2022, Summer Owens, will be on hand to crown her successor beginning at 3:30pm. Cost of admission is $10 and the Ritz concession stand will be open. Best of luck to all our high school girls competing!
The Lady Rocket Cross Country team was the 1st place team champion today in Elk City, Oklahoma. Our individual medalists included Addy Mock in 6th, Harlee Gomez in 10th, Sabrina Segovia in 12th and Presley Kane in 17th. They are coached by Cade Brown. Congratulations Lady Rockets! 🚀🏃♀️🏆🥇🚀
Jr High cross country team placed 2nd as a team in the Elk City invitational. Leading the group was Taytum Kane placing 3rd.
Good job ladies!!!
Lady Firecracker Cross Country ran in Elk City this morning finishing 2nd as a team. The team was led by Taytum Kane's 3rd place finish individually. They are coached by Karen Fisher. Great job Lady Firecrackers!
8th grade Firecrackers seal a 22-16 victory over Lubbock Roosevelt with an interception with seconds left in the game. Good job guys.
7th grade Firecrackers continue to dominate rolling over Lubbock Roosevelt 28-0. Great job guys.
SrA Lorena Granados and SrA De’Andre Stewart with the United States Air Force visited with WHS juniors and seniors this morning interested in enlisting in the United States Military. Their presentation was engaging and informative as the students had several questions for SrA Lorena and SrA De'Andre. Lorena is a 2017 graduate of Wellington High School. Lorena and De'Andre are currently stationed in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are so proud of you Lorena! Thanks for serving our country. 🚀🇺🇸
The Jr High Pep Rally will be at 1:18 Thursday 28th in the gym. 7th grade football game starts at 5:00 followed by the 8th grade.
It’s almost October and that means Pink Out! The Skyrocket PINK out game will be 10/13/23 against Memphis. Shirts will be delivered prior to the game. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this shirt will go to HUGS, a local organization in Wellington that helps cancer patients with food, travel, and lodging cost to get treatment. Orders close TONIGHT, 9/26/23 @ midnight. No extras will be ordered. Real ROCKETS wear PINK - United For A Cure!! 🚀💗
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Wellington FFA members showed steers at the Tri State Fair Saturday, September 23rd in Amarillo.
Bailey Page placed 3rd in class 6 with her middle weight Hereford.
Bailey Page placed 8th in class 8 with her heavy weight Hereford.
Briley Waters placed 7th in class 13 with her lightweight cross.
Briley Waters placed 10th in class 18 with her lightweight cross.
Here is this week in athletics 🚀🧨🏈🏃♀️
We hope everyone is enjoying Fall Break today! Our Fall Open House and Title 1 meeting is this upcoming Wednesday, September 27th from 5 to 6pm. Report cards will be handed out through 2nd period teachers. Refreshments will be served in the food lab.
Lady Rocket Cross Country ran in the Lubbock Invitational today finishing 7th in the team standings out of 21 teams. Senior Addy Mock was our lone medalist today placing 19th. These ladies continue to put in the work week in and week out. Keep it up Lady Rockets! 🚀🏃♀️🚀
Rockets fall in overtime to the Panthers by a final score of 32 to 38 heading into the bye week with a 3-2 record. Rockets will take next week off before starting district play October 6th in Shamrock.
Our Skyrockets look to take down the undefeated Panthers in a top ten matchup on the road tonight. Ticket sales are online ONLY so cash will not be accepted at the gate. Click on the link below to get your tickets. Let's get loud tonight Skyrocket fans!
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https://panhandleisd.ticketleap.com/september-22-23-varsity-panthers-vs-wellington/dates/Sep-22-2023_at_0700PM
We love football Fridays! We are on the pep rally schedule today with lunch from 12:20 to 1pm and the send off scheduled for 2:45 in front of the commons. Also as a reminder, we are on Fall Break on Monday, September 25th so enjoy the three day weekend.
