Friday, September 20, 2019

Sept. 23-27, 2019


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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: Start with Hello Week: Check out our Dress Up Days and join in!

Monday:         Collaboration Day: Be a Hero 

Tuesday:        Regular Day:   Tied together with Kindness (Tie Dye Day)

Wednesday:  Regular Day:  Be a Ray of Sunshine (Wear Yellow Day)

Thursday:     Regular Day:  Be a Buddy, Not a Bully (Twin Day) 
                                      
Friday:           Regular Day:  Start with Hello (Wear Green Day) 

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A Huge THANK YOU to ALL the FACULTY and STAFF who made Unity Days possible! Each year it takes a small army from our wonderful Cafeteria Staff catering pizza and special menus for students, to the VP office for organizing and providing all of the logistics, to teachers and staff for joining kids in the gym through the powerful experience led by Phillip Lumula--we are a BETTER WEST HILLS because of YOU ALL! Thank you to our excellent Custodial team for your set up and support as well! Hopefully you are hearing good things from Sophomores about their experiences and from the wonderful UNITY DAY LEADERS too! A shout out to Matt Nelson for climbing on top of the Gym to take our epic Peace Picture!






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Important dates from our Bell Schedule coming up....

Added: a second Assembly Day, Oct. 2 for Homecoming Carnival from Period 5B-Lunch.
All students got to class 5A and teachers teach 5A. Then everyone is released to Black Circle / Pit for extended lunch and Homecoming Carnival. (optional for teachers and staff). 


September 23-27: "Start with Hello" week: ASB sponsors various activities all week at lunch; Part of our Sandy Hook Promise work; Please join us in working to open up more positive school culture. Check out the calendar here and the all faculty and staff memo here. 

September 30-October 4: Homecoming Week (Spirit Days, Class Competitions, Football Game etc)

Wednesday, October 2: Homecoming Festival: Assembly schedule--Everyone teaches 5A; Extended lunch and festival all faculty, staff, students Period 5B through student lunch (optional for teaching faculty but we hope you join us for part or all of this!

Friday, October 4: Homecoming Assembly: traditional Assembly schedule. Admin will send out memo of which buildings come to first assembly, which come to second.

Saturday, October 5: Homecoming Dance in our Gym--all are welcome! 7-10 p.m.



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Meet your EL students! These students practiced writing a script for their videos, rehearsed the speaking, and recorded themselves sharing their background information. Take a look! 






Hello.
In your mailbox is a “Start with Hello” button made by our wonderful
Library aides. We hope you wear it  or display it each day next week
and beyond. If you have two (one from last year), maybe you can
give one away to a student! 


ASB has created dress up days next week to help us reach out and
make conversations: 


Monday: Superhero Day
Tuesday: Tie Dye Day
Wednesday:Wear Yellow Day
Thursday: Twin Day
Friday:  Wear Green Day (Start with Hello color!)

Interested in learning more about “Start with Hello” and the Sandy Hook Promise? Check out their website


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News items are needed for our next parent and student "Wolf Call" newsletter online. Please submit any articles with a photo or two by Friday, September 27. Check out the Wolf Call for examples and email your submission to Robin please. Thank you.


Student Learning Outcomes Poster -text with representative images of students

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As always, check out our website for lots of information. Go Wolf Pack!