FNL🏈📣
📸: Cori Edelmon Smith

🌮🩺 EAT GOOD. DO GOOD. SUPPORT VHS HOSA! ❤️
Dinner plans for Friday? We’ve got you covered!
This Friday, September 11, stop by Los Jefe’s and help support our Van High School HOSA students! From opening to closing, 10% of each meal purchased will go directly to the VHS HOSA program.
Grab your family, enjoy a great meal, and help support our future health professionals as they learn, lead, serve, and prepare for their futures! 🩺❤️
🌮 HOSA FUNDRAISER
📅 Friday, September 11
📍 Los Jefe’s
⏰ Opening to Closing
❤️ 10% of each meal benefits VHS HOSA!
Special thank you to Luis for supporting our students! 🌮🙌
#WeAreVan #VHSHOSA #FutureHealthProfessionals #VandalProud #VandalAdVANtage

🎨✨ MORE AMAZING ART FROM VAN HIGH SCHOOL! ✨🎨
Our VHS students continue to impress us with their creativity and the different ways they are learning to use art and technology to bring their ideas to life!
🖼️ “My World, My Canvas” ©️ Sarah
#VHSArt
📸 Motion Blur Effects 🌫️
Students are exploring photography and Photoshop to create unique motion blur effects and turn their photos into works of digital art!
#VHSArt #VHSGPX2 #Photoshop #WeAreVan #VandalPride #StudentArt #VandalAdVANtage

Give it up for our Vandals of the Week and Art Award Winners! Keep up the great work! 🎉🎉🎉

🏐🏈 It’s a great week to be a Vandal! ❤️🤍
This Thursday, our Lady Vandals Volleyball team takes on Kemp at home, and our Vandal Football team will battle Lindale at home!
Come out, fill the stands, and cheer on our Vandals! 📣
Let’s go, Vandals! ❤️🤍

🏐🏈 It’s a great week to be a Vandal! ❤️🤍
This Thursday, our Lady Vandals Volleyball team takes on Kemp at home, and our Vandal Football team will battle Lindale at home!
Come out, fill the stands, and cheer on our Vandals! 📣
Let’s go, Vandals! ❤️🤍

🚨🏈 WEEK TWO — VANDALS vs. DALLAS CARTER COWBOYS! 🏈🚨
The Vandals are headed to Dallas tonight with the Cowboys on the agenda! 🔥
📍 Kincaid Stadium
9100 S. Polk St. | Dallas, TX 75232
⏰ Kickoff: 7:30 PM
🎟️ TICKETS:
Purchase online: https://gofan.co/event/6787100?schoolId=TX12691
🎒 CLEAR BAG POLICY:
Kincaid Stadium has a clear bag policy. Please see the comments for details before you make the trip!
📺 CAN’T MAKE IT TO DALLAS?
We’ve got you covered! Watch the Vandals LIVE & FREE on the Van ISD YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/03HnQvXk4lk?feature=share
⚠️ Streaming Note: When streaming from away facilities, technology and connectivity are outside of our control, and interruptions may occur.
#WeAreVan #VandalFootball #BeatCarter
✏️ Graphic Design: Lily Thompson, VHS iTeam

📣 VANDAL CHEER IS HEADED TO KINCAID! ❤️🤍

We’re hitting the road with Vandal Football this Friday as Van takes on Dallas Carter at Kincaid Stadium!

📅 Friday, September 4
🏈 Van vs. Dallas Carter
⏰ Kickoff | 7:30 PM
📍 Kincaid Stadium
❤️🤍 THEME: RED vs. WHITE

Vandal Land, pick your side with our weekly theme— RED or WHITE — and help us fill the stands with Vandal spirit! 📣

We’ll bring the cheers. You bring the NOISE! 🔥

LET’S GO, VANDALS! ❤️🏈🤍

Graphic Design: Makynna Monk, VHS iTeam

#VandalCheer #RedVsWhite #WeAreVan #VandalPride #FridayNightLights

🚌✨ LEARNING IS ON THE MOVE AT VAN MIDDLE SCHOOL! ✨🚌
Who says descriptive writing has to happen at a desk?! Our 5th graders took their learning aboard the STEAM Bus for a hands-on lesson that put their senses — and their adjectives — to work!
Led by Brittany Rose, along with Van High School students Keeley Walker, Bradley White, Annabelle Reed, Jayse Wilson, Tiler Williams, and Brock Bostick, students rotated through three interactive stations, practicing descriptive writing every step of the way.
📦 Station 1: Mystery Boxes
Stick your hand in... if you dare! 😳 Students reached inside without looking and then used adjectives to describe exactly what they felt.
🐉 Station 2: Taste Testing
Lunch meat, dragon fruit, pomegranate, pork rinds, and potato chips were all on the menu! Students tasted their way through some familiar — and not-so-familiar — foods while putting words to the flavors and textures they experienced.
🥽 Station 3: VR Adventures
Students strapped on the headsets and took off on virtual adventures, using their experiences to fuel even more descriptive writing!
What an awesome day of taking concepts from the classroom and bringing them to life through hands-on, engaging experiences aboard the STEAM Bus! ❤️
Sometimes the best learning happens when we get out of our seats, try something new, and experience the lesson for ourselves!
#WeAreVan #HandsOnLearning #STEAM #LearningInAction #VandalPride #VandalAdVANtage

🦺🍉 HANDS-ON LEARNING AT VAN HIGH SCHOOL! 🍉🦺
What do PPE, teamwork, rubber bands, and a watermelon have in common? In Mrs. Caffey’s class, they made for one memorable lesson! 😂
Students used the popular watermelon-and-rubber-band experiment as an opportunity to practice properly putting on their PPE, working together as a team, and completing a project from start to finish.
The goal? Work together to wrap an extraordinary number of rubber bands around a watermelon until... BOOM! 🍉💥
Well... the watermelon needed a little extra “trauma” before it finally gave in. 😂 But the end result was just as sweet!
✅ We suited up.
✅ We worked together.
✅ We practiced important skills.
✅ And we even enjoyed a few bites of watermelon when it was all over! 🍉
Learning doesn't always have to happen from a textbook. Sometimes it looks like safety gear, teamwork, problem-solving, fresh air, a whole lot of rubber bands — and a watermelon that refuses to cooperate! ❤️
Hands-on learning is happening at Van High School, and our students are engaged in the process!
#WeAreVan #HandsOnLearning #VandalPride #LearningByDoing #VandalAdVANtage

Congratulations to our VMS Vandal of The Week Students! ❤️
Keep up the good work! 🏆
#WeAreVan

🐣 THE CHICKEN CHRONICLES | DAY 1 🐣
Are you following our Chicken Chronicles at J.E. Rhodes?! 🐔❤️
Today felt a little like Christmas morning in the first-grade hallway because the countdown has officially begun!
🥚 Day 1 of 21.
Our first graders are beginning an incredible hands-on study of the life cycle of a chicken, which is part of our first-grade TEKS. Today, a representative from each first-grade class carefully placed an egg into our incubator, which is housed in the library so our students can watch, wonder, ask questions, and experience the process together.
And this isn't just a 21-day lesson. Our chickens are staying at J.E. Rhodes! 🐥
That means our first graders won't just study the life cycle in a book—they'll experience it right here at school. They'll watch their chicks hatch, grow, and change throughout the year. By the time these students are getting ready to move on to second grade, the tiny chicks they're waiting on today will be growing up right alongside them—and eventually laying eggs of their own! 🐔🥚
But our favorite part of Day 1 might just be the curiosity and wonder on their faces. ❤️ That spark—the excitement to see what happens next, the questions already being asked, the anticipation of discovering something new—is where some of the very best learning happens.
This is science they can see, touch, experience, and remember.
A special thank you to Brian McCawley for being on hand today to help us get our Chicken Chronicles started!
Now we wait... 20 days to go! 🐣⏳
#ChickenChronicles #Day1 #HandsOnLearning #JERhodesElementary #WeAreVan #VandalProud #VandalAdVANtage

🎾 MATCH DAY! 🎾

Vandal Tennis is headed to Tyler on Thursday to take on Tyler Legacy! ❤️🎾

📅 Thursday, September 3
📍 Tyler Legacy High School
⏰ 4:00 PM

Good luck, Vandals! LET’S GO! 🔥

#VandalTennis #MatchDay #WeAreVan #VandalProud
Graphic Design: Valeria Sanchez, VHS iTeam

🎉 Make Plans to Join the 2026 Vandal Homecoming Festivities! ❤️🤍
Theme: Huntin' for a Vandal Victory!
🏆 HOMECOMING PARADE
📅 Wednesday, September 23rd
🕢 7:00 PM
Have a group that wants to participate? Apply here:
https://tinyurl.com/4rx6z7am
📌 Parade applications due FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.
✅ Once accepted, parade passes and lineup info will be emailed.
🚫 No walkers — floats only.
🎤 COMMUNITY PEP RALLY & 🔥 BONFIRE
📍 Field across from the Van ISD Administration Building (end of parade route)
Questions: grace.moseley@vanisd.org
🏐🏈 HOMECOMING GAMES
📅 Friday, September 25th
Lady Vandal Volleyball vs. Mabank – 4:30 PM
Vandal Football vs. Atlanta – 7:30 PM
There's no place like Vandal Land! ❤️🤍
#WeAreVan #VandalPride #VandalAdVANtage

🏈 HOMECOMING FOOTBALL PROGRAM ADS 🏈
Homecoming is coming, Vandal Land! ❤️
Friday, September 25th vs. Atlanta
If you currently have an ad in the Vandal Football program and would like to change or update your ad for the Homecoming edition, all updated ads must be submitted by:
📅 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Please email updated ads to Jeanette Germany in the VHS Journalism Department at:
📧 jgnuffsaid@yahoo.com

Reminder: Friday, September 4th, will be an early release day. School will be dismissed three hours before regular dismissal time.

Monday, September 7th, is a school holiday.

Classes will resume Tuesday, September 8th.

Happy Labor Day, Vandals!❤️
#WeAreVan

🚨THURSDAY SCHEDULE UPDATE 🚨
Vandal Football fans, Dallas Carter will only have one team competing Thursday, so our JV Vandals will play at HOME in Van at 6:00 PM.
🏈 JV vs. Dallas Carter
📍 HOME | Mal Fowler Stadium
⏰ 6:00 PM
Please note: There will be NO Freshman game this week.