Pine Tree UIL Academics

PTMS students enjoyed yet another wonderful performance of Alice in Wonderland. You can, too, tonight halfway between 6 and 7. 🙊😉 Come out and show your support for the PTHS theatre students and join them in Wonderland. 6:30 pm. PTHS Theater.

Congratulations to the Pine Tree HS UIL Academic team and especially to our 🥇first place🥇winners! The team opened their competition season at Mount Pleasant HS, competing against other strong programs, Mount Pleasant, Hallsville, Sulphur Springs, and Chapel Hill. The PTHS Speech and Debate team competed in the Lindale tournament October 25. We are particularly proud of our freshmen competitors for taking the lead. Our season is off to a great start! The team competes next Saturday on November 1 when they host 25 schools for their annual Walk the Plank Invitational.

What fun! Parkway and Birch students were treated to Alice in Wonderland by PTHS Theatre students today. 🎭⭐️ If you are "curiouser and curiouser" like Alice about this fun and joyful production , then don't be late for the opening show! ⏱️🐰 Thursday, Oct. 23, 6:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:30 pm & 6:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 28, 6:30 pm PTISD staff and students are free 🎟️

We are still enjoying the memories of the Sow a Seed event on Sunday, October 12. Thank you, Keep Longview Beautiful, for hosting! We are proud to be a part of the Longview community. Enjoy these snapshots of our own Jolly Roger Jam Band, Birch Beatles, and the beautiful sunshine. It was a 10/10 day!

Congratulations to the 2025 Junior High Region Choir members! They will perform on November 8 at Mt. Pleasant HS. Soprano 1 Clara Walker, 2nd chair Audrey Handorf Aryanna Pereira Sarah Marsh Soprano 2 Chloe Martell, 2nd chair Paislee Hagen Alyssa Gonzales Alto Sammy Mbeh, 1st chair Kimber Costa, 2nd chair Hannah Prusinski Skyler Lane Aubrey Rodgers Emily Abbott Tenor Levi Yandell, 1st chair David Davis Bass Jet Pickard, 1st chair Kaycyn Williamson, 3rd chair Aiden Smith Jaiden Betts Abran Garcia

The Fall Fest is cancelled because of the weather predictions. We are as sad as you are.

Congratulations to these 2025 Pine Tree graduates and UIL Academics state qualifiers for being selected as UIL TILF Scholarship recipients! More information about the scholarships will be shared Monday, Sept. 8 at the UIL Academics parent meeting in the library.

Hello, parents. There will be a meeting for all parents whose students participate in UIL Academics at Pine Tree High School. We will share information about the program and answer all questions. Please make plans to be there. Thank you!

Safe travels and the very best of luck to our PTHS Speech and Debate Team as they travel to the national NSDA tournament in Des Moines Iowa. We are proud of you! Go Pirates!!!

Safe travels to our journalism team and their new coach, Charlie Bates, as they participate in the ILCP Journalism Camp at Texas State. Learn a lot and have tons of fun!

Congratulations to UIL debater Jy'Mon Hatcher who was crowned the Longview Mr. Juneteenth 2025! Longview's Juneteenth celebrations kick off Saturday, June 14 at 10 am with the annual parade. The parade will move down Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd from Pittman Street to Broughton Recreation Center. The parade will be followed by the Festival in the Park from noon - 7 pm at Broughton Park and will include food, music, and children's activities. Photo Credit: Mia Blaylock

The year is winding down. Be sure to put this celebration on your calendar. This is a FAMILY event for PTHS UILPirates.

Congratulations to the PTMS and PTJH Math Science Team! They showed off their Pirate Pride and are the 🏆TMSCA state runner-up!🏆 The team earned a total of 49 trophies and 35 medals. Additionally, the teams ranked 2nd in Number Sense 1st in Calculator 2nd in Math 2nd in Science We are proud of these academic Pirates! 🏴‍☠️

Your PTHS UIL Academics Pirates are DISTRICT CHAMPIONS!! 🏴‍☠️ 2022 -- 4th place 2023-- 3rd place 2024 -- 2nd place 2025 -- 52 regional qualifiers 16 District Champions 10 District Champion Teams To all the Pirates who charted the course and to the current UIL Pirates who decided it was time to weigh anchor, congratulations and keep looking for treasure! 🏴‍☠️💙💛

Congrats to PT Journalism and Speech/Debate! 1st place district champions! Journalism is coached by Melissa Wright. Speech/Debate is coached by Melissa Witt and Chris Dickson. Pine Tree hosted day one of our district tournament Wednesday, March 26. Out of 11 events, Pirates were champions in 10, and we had the Top Speaker of the day. PTHS is currently 1st place in the district by 115 points. The rest of the events will take place this Saturday, again at Pine Tree HS. Wish us luck! Go Pirates! 🏴‍☠️ 🥇DISTRICT CHAMPIONS🥇 Jennifer Chen -- Copy Editing Jennifer Chen -- Feature Writing Jennifer Chen -- Editorial Writing Stanford O'Quinn -- Headline Rachel Malloy -- News Writing Alexis Klein -- Ready Writing Claire Rutledge -- Poetry Parker Dalton -- Prose Aiden McQueary -- Persuasive Extemp Liv Brannon -- Informative Extemp 🥈2nd Place Winners🥈 Mitchell Eggerman -- Copy Editing Mitchell Eggerman -- Editorial Writing Liv Brannon -- LD Debate Top Speaker 🥉3rd Place Winners🥉 Jennifer Chen -- News Writing Rachel Malloy -- Editorial Writing Emma Willis -- Prose Emma Willis -- Persuasive Extemp 4th Place Winners Lucia McCree -- News Writing 5th Place Winners Lucia McCree -- Feature Writing Rachel Malloy -- Headline Melyssa Juarez -- Poetry Jy'Mon Hatcher -- Informative Extemp 6th Place Winner Jy'Mon Hatcher -- LD Debate

Break out the 🏴‍☠️Pirate banner🏴‍☠️ and let’s celebrate! Results are in… ... and the PTHS Math Science Team is🥈2nd in the state overall in 4A!!🥈 More good news! All 4 teams—Number Sense, Mathematics, Calculator, and Science—placed in the top 4, and multiple students placed in the top 6. Stay tuned for individual awards...Let's go Pirates!

Congratulations to the Pine Tree Middle and Junior High Math Science Team on their winning season! The team placed 🥇1st🥇overall at the regional TMSCA meet in Queen City on March 8. Their next meet will be the state Texas Math Science Coaches' Association (TMSCA) meet on March 29 in San Antonio. Good luck! 🏴‍☠️

Good luck to Aiden McQueary who has advanced to the final round of Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking at the Texas Forensics Association (TFA) state contest. Aiden competed against 86 speakers from public, private, and charter schools from all over Texas and is one of six left in the final round. 🙌

Congratulations to the cast and crew of the Pine Tree One-Act Play and to the following individual awards: Best Performer Claire Rutledge All Star Cast Haylie Gresham Honorable Mention Cast Emma Willis Outstanding Crew Member Emmaline Edge

Congratulations to the following Pine Tree Middle School 5th graders who swept the Texas History Day contest hosted at Texas A&M--Commerce today. The contest is sponsored by the National History Day organization. The theme this year is Rights and Responsibilities in History. INDIVIDUAL POSTERS 1st place- Chloe Clark 2nd place- Tori Smith 3rd place- (Tied) Jude Holder and Leo Aguilar GROUP PROJECTS 1st- Kate Darden and Allie Melton 2nd- Palmer Prince and Karendeep Kaur 3rd- Cross Warren, Sage Moyer, and Gracie Neale The top two in each category will advance to state. The students were led by 5th grade CEER teacher Brandina Ednie.