Sixty Years at Pine Shadows

The Pine Shadows Elementary School community will celebrate 60 years of local education with a children’s carnival and public anniversary ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 21, on the campus grounds.

Pine Shadows Elementary School is located at 9900 Neuens, one block south of Hammerly Boulevard between Gessner and Blalock.

The carnival will be held from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. Dance performances are planned during carnival hours by different grade levels to reflect the “Dancing Through the Decades” theme.

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A special 60th Anniversary program will begin at noon Saturday in the library. The public is invited. A memorabilia display will be open for viewing. The anniversary program highlights include the following:

• Welcome by Pine Shadows Principal Chris Winstead
• Pledge to Flags by Pine Shadows Elementary Girl Scouts
• America sung by Pine Shadow Elementary Choir students
• Greetings and Remarks by SBISD Associate Superintendent of School Performance Tyler Ream
• Recognition of past school principals, teachers, staff and students
• Dedication of 2015 Time Capsule with student homeroom messages
• Happy Birthday! Sing-a-long with Choir and 60 Candles special event
• Special remarks by former Principal Joyce Olson
• Pine Shadows Proud presentation led by David Duran and Cheryl Glasser and Pine Shadows Elementary students

Pine Shadows Elementary opened in 1955. The new school was rebuilt under the 2007 SBISD Bond plan. It reopened in August 2012 as a two-story, 109,000 square feet, building with tall glass-curtain walls and a building plan that includes four areas identified by colors and “habitats” – an ocean, a rain forest, a mountain and blue sky. New classroom and support spaces are all identified by animals that inhabit a specific habitat.