Activities for the week:
Class Officer Campaign Week; ASB Office Applications Due
Monday: Collaboration Day;
Tuesday: Regular Day;
Wednesday: Regular Day:
Thursday: Regular Day:
Friday: Minimum Day: Tough sub day--please be here. Progress Report
Grades due--please see I.C. notice for details
Staff Transitions: Farewell Mark Lang....welcome Kevin Darby. Kevin starts Monday as our new Groundskeeper. If you see him on campus, please WELCOME him to the Wolf Pack.
Staff Transitions: Farewell Mark Lang....welcome Kevin Darby. Kevin starts Monday as our new Groundskeeper. If you see him on campus, please WELCOME him to the Wolf Pack.
April 3-28: Football Field and Track is CLOSED due to Construction. Rumson pedestrian west gate near West Hills Park is CLOSED; East Rumson near HOC remains open. All students and parents were sent two I.C. notices plus bulletin notices.
April 10-24 Spring Break: Please turn off all small appliances 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 this week. 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.
WHHS does it again!! Congratulations KATHY WORLEY--GUHSD "Teacher of the Year" 2018!
We are SO FORTUNATE to have SO MANY wonderful teachers and staff on campus!
Kathy will go on to represent WHHS and the GUHSD in the San Diego County Teacher of the Year event in October. Way to go Kathy!!
Checkout the new poster coming to campus courtesy of Suzanne Sannwald. Please look for them the week we return from Spring Break. Thank you everyone for your collaboration on developing our SLOs.
Barb Ruggles recently worked with her ELD students in an "EGG HUNT" where they had to work in teams to match vocabulary words with the definitions. They were given a word bank of the vocabulary words and the eggs were hidden (with definitions) around her classroom. It was great fun for all. They were able to get out of their seats and move around the room, work collaboratively with another person, practice their speaking, and learn new vocabulary words.
Prior to the egg hunt, the class did the following:
- The vocabulary words preselected from the text students were about to read.
- Then each student was responsible for sharing and presenting their 4 vocab words with the class.
- Students took notes on the presentations and participated in a classroom discussion about the words using them in sentences and coming up with examples and characteristics for each word.
Barb is happy to share the eggs and work with any teacher in doing this with your students if you like. (You have this week and then she is out on maternity leave.)
On Saturday, 3/25 Penny McDowell and CTE Curriculum Health Pathway Teacher Heather Petersen (Formerly of WHHS!) taught Health Pathway students CPR so they could get certified. A wonderful life skill and a great certification to earn within our program. And..they earned WHHS Saturday School credit too!
Check out our wonderful Performing Arts promotional flier--feel free to refer folks to our website and our Performing Arts teachers if they have a student interested in our programs.
World's Scholars Cup--Check out this idea. We are holding an informational meeting in SS-2 Wednesday at lunch for any students interested. They compete in teams of 3 and can go on their own to the local competition or with a school adviser. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Our wonderful Academic League students might be interested or our District Champion J.V. squad might want to check it out fresh from their Santee City Council Honors two weeks ago...
The Willweber Family has completed the process for establishing a scholarship in Ryan's name. A bulletin notice will be running next week that says the following:
Seniors: If you are planning on attending a community college in the fall and have a 3.0 GPA or higher, please consider applying for the Ryan Willweber Memorial Scholarship. Application and information is at http://ryanwillweberscholar
If anyone would like to donate to the fund, they may do so by submitting checks to the "Ryan Willweber Memorial Scholarship" c/o West Hills High School Foundation. Checks would be made out to the Foundation with "Ryan Willweber Scholarship" on the memo line. Your cashed check is your receipt and the Foundation is a non-profit organization for charitable donations for tax purposes. Thank you.
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.
