Tiger Pride Assembly Information & Tiger T-shirts

This Friday is a big day at Willard East! We host our FIRST Tiger Pride Assembly of the year AND the students will receive their Tiger T-shirts!

Tiger T-shirts:

• Teachers will give these to students on Friday morning and give them time to change in the restroom.
• Mrs. Uckele will take class pictures of each class in their new Tiger T-shirt.
• Students are encouraged to wear their Tiger T-shirt every Friday.

Tiger Pride Assembly:

• Starts at 2:30 and parents are welcome to attend!
• You can take your student with you after the assembly and they will not get charged for an absence. (Kids love to leave early on Tiger Pride day.)
• All Tiger Pride dates are listed on the school calendar to the right of this post.
• Coach J is the "Master of Ceremonies" with Principal Miller serving as his assistant.

Things we celebrate at Tiger Pride:

• Terrific Tigers - Teachers can select up to 2 Terrific Tigers to be recognized at the assembly. This replaces Student of the Month and Student of the week.

• Special Class: Each special class teacher(Art, Music,PE,Library,Computer) may choose a class to recognized based on criteria set within the classroom.

• Academic Achievement: Teachers choose various students they would like to recognize for academic achievement or improvement

• Go Green: Teacher set the criteria for good behavior in their classrooms and will notify students who will be recognized for good behavior.

• Bucket Fillers: Students who have modeled examples of our monthly character education words are recognized.

• Tiger Token Tallies: Students and classrooms can earn Tiger Tokens for good behavior. We keep a running total throughout the year of classrooms who collect the most Tiger Tokens.

• Box Top Tallies: Every year we have a Box Tops Challenge. We will announce the classrooms in the lead collecting Box Tops.

• Perfect Attendance: This is defined by being present at school. Your body has to be at school for perfect attendance. We sometimes have questions about excused absences. There are times a student must be absent from school. If their body is not here they are not considered “in attendance.” The only think that does not count against them is leaving early after the Tiger Pride so you do not have to wait for your student.

• Ice Cream Cake/Lunchroom Conduct: Students with good behavior at lunch are recognized with purple Tiger Tokens. Once a month we draw 40 purple Tiger Tokens and those students receive Dairy Queen ice cream cake at lunch time the following week.

*Celebrations and recognitions may change throughout the year.


We strive to shine a positive light on student achievement and student character while keeping the event light-hearted and upbeat. Tiger Pride Events are for the students of Willard East and we appreciate you keeping the best interests and well being of our student body at the forefront. We look forward to seeing you at our Tiger Pride Events throughout the school year.