Week of May 30-June 3, 2016

Activities and Schedule of the Week:

We return to our regular bell schedule: Thank you to all teachers, classified staff, and interim VPs (April Baker and Kim Bellaart) who tested and supported our Juniors! A particular "Thank you" to Tanya Morrison for the "Stepping up when you thought you would never have to see CAASPP Testing again" award. We could NOT have done it without YOU!

Monday: MEMORIAL DAY: Thank you to all who have served and sacrificed for our nation.
Tuesday:Infinite Campus messages to students with FINES; Reminder to Seniors Chromebooks due June 8; Underclassmen keep Chromebooks through summer.
Wednesday: Remember to announce plan to collect any textbooks and check them in to students.
Thursday: One week to Senior Awards night: Thursday, June 9 at 6:30 in our Theater
Friday: Pride of the Pack: Students with Perfect Attendance, 3.5 GPA from semester 1 and Alpha Plus are invited to attend a special Period 5 lunch in the PIT. Please see email from Courtney Pate.
Saturday, June 4: Senior Prom: Manchester Hyatt Hotel Downtown...Join us to celebrate our Seniors! Starts at 7:00 p.m.

Hold the Date: Faculty and Staff Luncheon and Celebration with Alumni Staff: Tuesday, June 14, Foyer

Planning for Next Year: Teacher leaders interested in Technology, literacy, and anything else: Please let me know if you will continue to be part of our Professional Growth and Development team. We NEED YOU to assist with our "Back to School Days" as well as planning out activities and offerings for the year. Now that we have Title I funds, we have more options. Please let me know via phone message at ext. 6-0411 if you are interested and willing. This is compensated time at the Professional Activities Rate of $35 per hour. 

SENIOR TEXTBOOK / CHROMEBOOK RETURNS:

As a reminder, seniors are currently being notified regarding all outstanding fines, as well as current checkouts that are on their Destiny records.

All senior textbooks, Chromebooks, and extracurricular equipment should be checked in by Wednesday, June 8th.

• It is essential that you promptly check in all textbooks using Destiny. See instructions for help.
  
• If you would like to clear a fine that you previously submitted to be added to a student record (e.g., missing athletics uniform, sports gear, instrument, etc.), simply notify Finance via email jmalueg@guhsd.net that the fine should be removed. Please include the student's ID number, name, and fine you are clearing.

The Senior Handout for Graduation and deadlines of note is on our website.

A couple of links from the library:

• Learn about Free eBooks for Students and the WHHS Summer Reading Challenge!
• Check Out the 2015-16 Inkwell, our West Hills Student Literary-Art Magazine

Please complete these two surveys from our --All Faculty and Staff Meeting:

We are so fortunate to have the Arts Programs at our site that we have. Here are the WHHS entree's for the District show. Thank you to our students and teachers for sharing your talents!

Health Career Pathways: Students leaders from all six GUHSD Health Career Pathways gathered at El Cajon Valley High School on May 17th to prepare for the upcoming First Annual GUHSD Health Career Pathways Awards and Student Expo at Grossmont College's Griffin Gate on June 1st. This is the first event of its kind, bringing together leaders from all our health career pathways from across the district. These leaders learned about other Health Career Pathways in their district, interacted with leaders from other schools, practiced their presentation skills, refined their leadership and had fun! Every student did an impressive job representing their site's health pathway and I am confident they are going to do a fine job being the "face" of their health pathways on June 1st. Huge thanks also to site coordinators Lyn Smith and Corrie Biggerstaff, and ECREC's MSF Sylvia Sposato for helping facilitate the training!

More photos can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/GUHSDHealthPathways/photos/?tab=album&album_id=282439262091591

As always, please check out more information on our website wolfpack.guhsd.net

Go Wolf Pack!

Week of May 23-27, 2016

Activities and Bell Schedule for the week:

Monday: Collaboration Day schedule; All Faculty and Staff meeting, 7:45 a.m. in S-8 (agenda)
"Most Likely to Succeed" Film screening; 7:00 p.m. Theatre
Tuesday: ODD Block
Wednesday: EVEN Block
Thursday: ODD Block: Choir Concert; 7:00 p.m. Theatre
Friday: EVEN Block

BEST BUDDIES CLUB VIDEO: "Spread the Word"   
Please consider sharing this video with your students and continuing our efforts in our PBIS work with this wonderful video produced by club president, Madie Masek and the wonderful students within the club! Being "responsible, respectful and honorable" includes the West Hills Way and treating others as we would like to be treated. Thank you to Club Advisors Ron Knopp and Sarah Latoski for working with the club on this terrific message!

Parent / Community blog "Wolf Call" launched: This monthly blog will go out to parents and students via Infinite Campus and will be linked on our website. Since West Hills opened in 1987, the Principal published the "Wolf Call" to communicate school-wide items of note. All Faculty and Staff are welcome to submit items by the first of each month for publication in the blog. If you prepare your short article, with photo or visual, and post it to this Google doc, it will be included. Please follow the general tone, information,and length of current articles. The blog will be published by the 15th of the month so "looking ahead" is important, both for the timeliness of your content and the submission to the google doc for inclusion in the next month's edition.

Athletics Update: Our teams are doing well and Gymnastics just won CIF in our own GYM on FRIDAY! If you have any student athletes in these sports they have been busy this Spring!

Baseball

Golf, Boys
Softball
Swimming & Diving
Tennis, Boys
Track & Field
Volleyball, Boys

Gymnastics
Check out all of our news on our website.

Go Wolf Pack! Have a great week!