Activities for the week:
Monday: Collaboration Day; Illuminate Workshop in E-8, 7:45-8:45 bring laptop
Tuesday: Regular Day;
Wednesday: Regular Day: Middle Schoolers coming to see "The Crucible" @ 9:00;
PACK Preview period 6 for teachers who signed up to bring classes.
PACK Preview period 6 for teachers who signed up to bring classes.
Thursday: Regular Day: SISC Health Screenings, Staff Lounge 10-4 pm. (see below)
Friday: Regular Day:
SAVE the DATES
Monday, 3/27, 7:45-8:45: Illuminate Workshop in E-8: Learn how to access the CAASPP-aligned formative assessment questions in the item bank for all disciplines, check out advanced features and get your questions answered. Bring your laptop--all are welcome.
Thursday, 3/30, 10:00-4:00 p.m.: SISC Health Screenings in the Staff Lounge-- free of charge for you and your dependents if you use GUHSD health plans. See Ginny's emails regarding registering in Advance for a $30 Amazon card or you can be a walk-in for a $15 gift card.
April 10-24 Spring Break: Please turn all small appliances off including computers. The District will be testing electrical in preparation for all the construction coming up and we don't want to "fry" anything as breakers go on and off.
April 24-May 26: CAASPP and AP Testing Schedule; Posters are in the Mail Room--please post one in your classroom; Period 3 teachers will get class sets of 81/2" X 11" handouts for students to put in their binders the week before Spring Break. Please note carefully the block schedule days start and end times are a bit different due to the need to have extra time for the English CAASPP exam. New this year--Seniors are tested for the Federal Science test. We hope EVERYONE will have a POSITIVE approach to doing our best on all of the tests. We must have 95% of our students tested in order to continue to "meet" accountability requirements as well as have them perform their best.
Tuesday, June 6, 12:30: End of Year Luncheon in the Foyer--please join us as we celebrate the year and send off our new retirees and welcome back our alumni faculty and staff who are not out traveling the world.
Wednesday, June 7, 7:30-12:00: Senior Breakfast and Graduation Rehearsal in the Gym; All teachers of Seniors during these periods (according to finals schedule) please join us in the Gym to supervise and support our work with the Seniors to get them ready for the ceremony the next day.
Thursday, June 1 Senior Awards Night in Theater: More information TBD
Thursday, June 8, GRADUATION: More specifics to come--ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m on our field however, faculty and staff participating have earlier call times. This is a contractual work day.
Ardy Riego and ASB for our OUTSTANDING ASSEMBLY Friday! Bringing our students together to foster WOLF PACK PRIDE and celebrate our students was terrific! Thank you too to all TEACHERS and STAFF members who attended! We appreciate you and your supervision of our students as well as your good cheer!
To MARK LANG for 27 years of service to the GUHSD, the last 25 at WHHS! Mark is retiring and his last day is March 31. He has been a solid rock of support for our campus, faithfully arriving daily at 5:45 a.m. to start our day with gates and doors unlocked, flags raised in our flag circle, and being first on the spot with any issues that have happened on campus over night. Cleaning our campus daily, setting up for special events and taking down the same, Mark has been a terrific PACK member and we will miss him!! THANK YOU MARK for all you have done for WHHS! Retirement is lucky to get you....
YOU are invited with your families to attend with free tickets! We hope you plan to join us at one of these fine performances...the March 25th at 2:00 p.m. the performance is a "Pay as you can" for those under 18 for neighbors and friends and there will be a round table Q and A with the cast at the end of the show! Looking forward to another quality DramaKids production....
From the world of Positive Behavior and Instructional Supports....
Thank you to our wonderful Wolf Pack PBIS Committee and TEAM for putting together a positive shout out board at our sign in area in the main admin building! When you sign in for the day (as everyone needs to do please), feel free to add a shout out sticky note to a staffer! At the end of the week they get put in mailboxes to keep so YOU know someone is thinking of you! Add as many as you like--there is no end to celebrating our terrific teachers and staff members!
Check out the Wolf Call for Parents and Students...lots of good news to share!
Thank you all who gave us content and photos!
Next edition will be May so please save photos and stories to share!
CAASPP Testing Calendar
Please see this link to our website for the testing calendar. Every period 3 teacher will be given 3-hold punched copies in color to give to students to carry with them the week before spring break.
Note the addition of our Football and Track closure April 3-29....
Coming soon....WHHS will have Five MAJOR construction projects!
Project #1: Football and Track Field and Stadium Closed: April 3-29, 2017: Our entire football field will be replaced under warranty. Due to the extensive nature of this work, there will be NO ACCESS to any part of the track and field of any kind for anyone other than the installation crew.
Project #2: Beginning during Spring Break, our HOME ECONOMICS building will be CLOSED and remodeling begins to build an ADA compliant student restroom and additional specific facilities for students with moderate to severe disabilities. The entire facility will be fenced and the DG lot at the back of the school will be the construction staging areas (fair warning if you park back there). Both Mr. Knopp and Ms. Boehme will move to temporary classrooms elsewhere on campus and no access to any part of that building will remain until it re-opens FALL 2017. The building will also be re-named "PACK DEN" and new signage will be installed.
Project #2: Beginning during Spring Break, our HOME ECONOMICS building will be CLOSED and remodeling begins to build an ADA compliant student restroom and additional specific facilities for students with moderate to severe disabilities. The entire facility will be fenced and the DG lot at the back of the school will be the construction staging areas (fair warning if you park back there). Both Mr. Knopp and Ms. Boehme will move to temporary classrooms elsewhere on campus and no access to any part of that building will remain until it re-opens FALL 2017. The building will also be re-named "PACK DEN" and new signage will be installed.
Project #3: Solar power installation / covered parking in the faculty and East Senior Parking Lot beginning at 1:00 June 8 (yes...the day of graduation): Both entrances and exits to these lots will be closed and no access will be available throughout the summer. This is expected to be ready for the start of school August 15.
Project #4: Summer School will be centralized in the Social Science building and Admin offices will move to the Library so every building can get heating and air conditioning units replaced under Prop U and Measure BB. ALL parking and access to these two building will be in the West Lot and the access road will be CLOSED with no faculty or staff parking for summer school on the interior of campus due to construction.
Project #5: The GYM will be CLOSED July 3-28, 2017 so the entire gym floor can be sanded down to bare wood and resurfaced. This is done once every 10 years to maintain the playing surface. Chris Quarders, Don Rutledge and Josh Reiderer are communicating specifics to the ENS Department and coaches. If you have any questions, please see one of these gentlemen.
Thank you all who supported over 800 students on Friday at our Pride of the Pack event! ASB and Mr. Riego were OUTSTANDING in their efforts as students enjoyed lunch in the Pit and a KUDOS for having Perfect Attendance, Alpha Plus and / or being on Honor Roll with a 3.5 GPA. We are lucky to have so many of our students work so hard and do great things for their future!