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:
Monday: Collaboration Day; New partnership with SDSU School of Nursing meeting on
campus starting at 7:00 a.m in B-1; See below for more information
Period 3 Teachers please show our "We Are West Hills" video after the bulletin
today.
Tuesday: Regular Day
Wednesday: Regular Day: FRESHMAN SHOWCASE, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Thursday: Regular Day
Friday: Regular Day
Please join us this Wednesday night for our FRESHMAN SHOWCASE! From 5:30-7:30 pm we are welcoming all of our incoming freshman Class of 2022 and that includes lots of families who are deciding whether they want to "choose" West Hills instead of their home school option. Linked above is the informational flier and we hope as many faculty and staff will join us as possible so we can show them our Wolf Pack Pride! We want to attract as many students as we can because 2018-19 is the lowest enrollment projected for East County in the last 10 years! Thank you in advance to all Department Chairs and Leadership Team members who coordinate programs and teach specialty courses for attending! We welcome EVERYONE to attend so we can engage our community!
Wednesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.-- FACULTY AIRBAND: Here is the information for our 2018 production. Thank you to Deborah Heeb and Danny Tricarico for making this happen! For folks already signed up--please record the dialogue in the script for your song and get it to Deborah Heeb--this is how she knows your performance is happening for sure. Look in your email coming soon for rehearsal information!
Saturday, March 3, 2018: West Hills 30th Year Gala and Hall of Fame Dinner;tickets on sale NOW via our special Faculty and Staff google form. Celebrating at The Handlery Hotel, we hope you will join us for this West Hills Foundation sponsored fund raiser and celebration! Our Hall of Fame is honoring:
Bryan Halsey (1996)
Andy Wharton (1998)
Amber Martin (1999)
Ben Aragon (2001)
Matt Gilson (2005)
The Handlery Hotel is offering discount room rates with parking...tell them you are with West Hills High School and make a night of it!
Amber Martin (1999)
Ben Aragon (2001)
Matt Gilson (2005)
The Handlery Hotel is offering discount room rates with parking...tell them you are with West Hills High School and make a night of it!
Thank you to those who have DONATED a silent auction item or service! We welcome and need more.Please let our two wonderful Foundation Gala Coordinators, Melissa Smith cow_girlmelly@yahoo.com or Lisa Hurst lisa.hurst@gmail.com know if you have any service, items or "freebies" you can donate for our auction. We have Disney Passes, Sea World tickets, one private Chef dinner for 6, one private photography session for an individual or family, and we need much more! No item is too small or too large to offer for auction. We can take your item or service and make a theme basket so please donate! In addition, if you have any community members or philanthropic folks who might be interested in sponsoring our event, please feel free to share this document...we are actively looking for sponsors! All proceeds benefit West Hills High School students, faculty and staff.
Please help us publicize this event via social media and any who might want a night of fun!
Monday, March 5, 2018, 7:45 a.m. in S-8: Admin Lead Staff Meeting: Mandatory for all Faculty and Staff; Wonderful AVID Students will be leading us in a short activity applying Costa's Levels of Rigor; Final whole staff meeting before our WASC visit; See this link for our visitation schedule; We have sent out calendar invites for the various meetings and will be asking selected teachers for sub needs;
Sunday, March 18- Wednesday, 21, 2018: WASC Visiting Team on campus. Please look at your email for the calendar invite(s) that pertain to you. Department Chair and Leadership along with WASC Focus Group Leaders have a few more invites than others. Link to the schedule for the visit is here.
We are excited to announce a new community partnership with SDSU Graduate School of Nursing. Each Monday, a co-hort of Graduate Nurses with their professor, Renee Bertken, will be working collaboratively with Guidance and other departments to compliment our services with students. This will include restorative justice conversations, mental and emotional health support, availability to be guest speakers for a variety of topics and another way to add critical support services to our students without cost to West Hills. Still in the visioning and discussion stages involving many folks on campus, we wanted to let you know to please welcome them on Mondays if you see them on campus. We will be sending additional information via email as we work out the details.
Check out how you could fund a special project for your classroom!
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News from the Classroom....
Ardy Riego and his CTE Sports Medicine students had a great time demonstrating their understanding of human anatomy using colored clay. Ardy attended a conference where this was just one of the many ideas for powerful teaching and learning for all students.
A staff member sent this to Admin and I say "Heck ya...let's see who's up for the challenge!" Maybe we have a talented student who wants to design our logo? Feel free to sign up and let me know if you are interested....this is a great way to celebrate the start of Spring Break! Go Wolf Pack!! Forward on to students and our community in any way you like! Bring the family!
HEY Pack
Let’s keep the great kindness challenge going and participate in something as a school. Clubs, Teams, Departments
Register at https://www.raceforautism.org/ and the join our team
WHHS Wolf Pack
We can be "Super Wolves"
And do something fun as a group
OK honestly here is where I fall short since waking up early on a Saturday morning is not really my idea of fun, but hanging out with a bunch of friends from work does, and doing something to promote how awesome our school is- even more awesome!
Someone design a "Super Wolf" logo
...submit to Ginny Bell by Wednesday, March 5. All submissions will be voted on by google survey.
These grant awards recognize innovative classroom programs that are getting students excited about learning and resulting in higher student achievement. CFF selects four programs for the awards, and each receives a financial grant of $5,000 for the winning district to scale the program ($10,000 for our best-in-show Impact award).
In addition, awardees will be honored at the 15th Anniversary Innovation in Education Awards on May 23, 2018 from 4:00pm-9:00pm at SeaWorld San Diego.
The deadline to submit a nomination application is Friday, February 9th.
Feel free to submit multiple applications from your site or the GUHSD. You can apply here.
As always, please read your emails for important information and check out our website at wolfpack.guhsd.net
GO WOLF PACK!
