The mission of West Hills High School is to graduate critical thinkers and problem-solvers who contribute positively to society as productive, responsible citizens.
Activities for the week:
Regular bell schedule with week 2 of AP testing of select students. No bulletin will be read aloud over the loud speaker--please do so within your own Period 3 class.
Monday: Collaboration Day
Tuesday: Regular Day; Silver W Selection Committee in Lounge at 2 p.m--all
are welcome; Please let Ginny know so we can have the
right number of handouts.
WHHS Presentation to the Board, 6 pm.
ECREC Facility, 924 E Main St, El Cajon
Wednesday: Regular Day;
Thursday: Regular Day: Department Chair and Leadership Meeting, 2 p.m. E-8
Spring Beginning / Intermediate Guitar Concert: 7 p.m.
Theater
Friday: Regular Day:
Saturday, May 13: Spring Advanced Guitar / String Orchestra Concert,
7 p.m, Theater
Tuesday, May 9: WHHS Presentation to the Board at 6 p.m.;
ECREC
924 E Main St,
El Cajon, CA 92021
(north-east corner of Mollison and E. Main St. in El Cajon across from Greek Chicken)
The Class of 2017 invites you and a friend to join them as they dance the night away! Students LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see you outside of class and we look forward to a wonderful evening. THANK YOU Ms. Aguilar, Class of 2017 Adviser--you have been a wonderful support and leader with this group of students!!
Wednesday, May 24, Multi-Cultural Fair in the Gym: Social Science will take classes to the event during the normal bell schedule day. Lists of students excused for the day as participants will be forthcoming. This is a very exciting and fun day for all--please come visit us on your Prep period and we THANK Jodi Kohler and Dan Sutton for supporting and leading this effort with our student groups SO MUCH!! We also THANK the ENTIRE SOCIAL SCIENCE Department for your continuous support and facilitation each year.
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.
Thank you to all who contributed to our Valedictorian Selection Committee process this week. We are very proud to announce our Valedictorians and Salutatorians for the class of 2017 (in alphabetical order)
Valedictorians
Jacobo Fuentes
Tatiana Garcia
Amanda Hinh
Salutatorians
Garret Moore
Miranda Summers
We look forward to our Silver W selection meeting on Tuesday, May 9 at 2:00 p.m. in the Lounge. This is the most prestigious honor we can bestow on any student next to Valedictorian and Salutatorian.
Checkout the new poster coming to campus courtesy of Suzanne Sannwald. Please look for them this week in your mail box to replace the ESLRS posters. Thank you everyone for your collaboration on developing our SLOs. Please point them out to your Period 3 class and discuss each area, emphasizing this is part of our continuous school improvement cycle with student and parent input from our WASC survey.
West Hills Yearbook is pleased to announce distribution is coming up. Juniors and seniors who have cleared all fines can pick up their books near the black circle early on Friday, 26 May. Underclassmen can pick up near the black circle beginning Tuesday, 30 May 2017 during lunch for students who have cleared fines. Students must have a photo ID and will need to sign for their books. (School- or State-issued IDs are both accepted.) Some books are still available for purchase at yearbookforever.com.
Inspired by George Couros author of Innovator's Mindset, I am trying out a new feature to share all the great teaching and learning happening in our classrooms to support cross-content awareness and sharing of cool ideas and practices all over campus. Take a look at this class competition courtesy of Chanda Giles in Spanish. Students were demonstrating their understanding and mastery of the conjugation of select verbs in a very spirited and active game. If interested in learning how Chanda organized and uses this, feel free to talk with her. Thanks Chanda for your allowing me to video and post you with your students! I've never seen any student this excited about conjugation!!
All are welcome to celebrate our Science students and this new award hosted by Science:
Please join us for our Spring Performing Arts programs...all are welcome and all events begin at 7:00 in our Bob Guess Theater for the Performing Arts:
May 3
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Senior Concert
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May 11
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Spring Beginning / Intermediate Guitar Concert
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May 13
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Spring Advanced Guitar / String Orchestra Concert
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May 18
| Band Pops Concert |
May 25
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Spring Choir Concert
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May 30
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Advanced One Acts
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June 2
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Theater Production One Acts
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Coming soon....WHHS will have Five MAJOR construction projects!
Project #1: Football and Track Field and Stadium was Closed: April 3-29, 2017: Our entire football field was replaced under warranty.
UPDATE STATUS: COMPLETE: Check out the new field....
Project #2: UPDATE: IN PROGRESS....
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 is fenced and the DG lot at the back of the school will be the construction staging areas (fair warning if you park back there).
Mr. Knopp has moved to SS-8 and Ms. Boehme has moved to B-3-- no access to any part of that building is available 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 on the Health Occupations campus next door and Admin offices will move to the Library / Guidance so every building can get heating and air conditioning units replaced under Prop U and Measure BB. ALL parking and access to these offices over summer will be in the West Lot and the access road will be CLOSED with no faculty or staff parking on the interior of campus due to construction. Athletic Fields and the Pool are accessible, but no one will be able to drive and park near the fields 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.
As always, our website has a wealth of information and links wolfpack.guhsd.net
