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
Tuesday: Regular Day
Wednesday: Regular Day: PIE DAY in the Lounge...periods 1-5
Thursday: Regular Day
Friday: Regular Day:
To our College Signing Day Athletes!
Colleen Kennedy, Volleyball, Cal Poly Pomona
Dylan Shubert, Cross Country, Cal State East Bay
Innovation in Collaboration Teaching Award
West Hills High School's Pete Mergens, Santana High School's Ramey Rahib and ECVHS's Matt Kershaw worked many hours to make the new Integrated Math II curriculum roll out go easier on students and staff. They created additional student and staff resources for all to use. Working together, in a way that will also benefit staff and students at every GUHSD campus earned them this prestigious award! There is this great video posted on the East County Schools Federal Credit Union - ECSFCU Facebook page. Check it out!
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| Pete Mergens with the School Board accepting this award on behalf of himself and fellow teachers. |
To our Blue and Black Brigade and Music Teacher and Director Elise Reinert!
While competing on Saturday in the California State Championship
CSBC Division 2A Semi Final Field Tournament, they placed 6 out of 16 teams
and moved on to the FINALS next weekend! Our hardworking Color Guard
placed 4th overall! We are so proud of all of you!
Guidance Takes Students to SDSU Thank you to our terrific Guidance Team for coordinating another field trip to SDSU on Friday, Nov. 15. Outreach via parents and student Infinite Campus messaging, bulletin notices, fliers posted around campus and many individual discussions encouraging students to attend allowed interested Seniors, Juniors and at-promise students to spend the day at SDSU. Funded through District College and Career outreach, GIS Victoria Catlett and Guidance Chair and Counselor Rodd Moses spent the day answering questions, taking students to meet SDSU staff, and helping students understand college and university life. We are fortunate to have trips like these to SDSU, UCSD, Grossmont, Cuyamaca, and Mira Mar Colleges each year for our students.
Wednesday, November 20:
PTSA sponsored Pie and Hot Coco in the Faculty Lounge almost all day..drop in and have a slice!
Saturday, November 23: West Hills Sports Medicine Competition
November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break, no school 
Monday December 2 and 9: Literacy Groups meeting to score Interim CAASPP: All teaching Faculty arrive at 7:45 to your assigned groups (see group list) Bring laptops to assigned rooms.
December 17, 18, 19: FINAL EXAMS (see bell schedule)
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West Hills Adopt a Family
Positive Acts of Collective Kindness
West Hills staff is once again collecting donations for West Hills Families in need. Our goal is to give each family the freedom to purchase whatever makes their holidays the most rewarding, so we'd prefer to collect donations of gift cards or cash. Our suggested gift cards would be: Famous Footwear, Walmart, Target, (inexpensive) restaurants (including fast food), Kohl's, gas cards, grocery store, entertainment (movies, miniature golf, etc.), and Costco are all appreciated, just to name a few.
If you would like to make a donation, please drop off gift cards or cash (no checks please) to our front receptionist, Shelley LaFata or to Ginny Bell. Last year we were able to help 7 West Hills students giving each one $450 in donations!
We can provide a tax receipt if requested.
The deadline for collection is Thursday, December 12th. Our plan is to get the gifts to the families before we leave on winter break. We thank you in advance for supporting students and families in need.
We are One, We are the Pack!
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FALL Interim CAASPP Assessment (ICA) CAASPP - Concludes this week!
Please be aware of our plan to administer and score the Practice CAASPP (ICA). A solid test
administration and scoring session will provide valuable data for us. All Grade 11 students are
taking the ICA CAASPP practice Exam in their English courses.
administration and scoring session will provide valuable data for us. All Grade 11 students are
taking the ICA CAASPP practice Exam in their English courses.
We have less than 3 school days until our juniors take this test. If you have juniors,
please encourage them to put forth their best effort.
please encourage them to put forth their best effort.
ICA CAASPP Q & A
FALL PRACTICE CAASPP 2019-20
Below are a few important questions and answers regarding the upcoming practice
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Q. Why is this exam important?
A. This is the state measure of how well our students are performing
academically according to state standards in ALL subjects. Content
is tested across many curricular areas, not only English literature,
but mathematics, history, science and electives.
Q. Who takes the practice CAASPP (ICA)?
A. All of our juniors will take the practice CAASPP.
Q. When will the practice CAASPP (ICA) be given?
A. Our juniors will begin taking the exam November 13th.
Q. Will the bell schedule be changed for the exam?
A. NO. In an effort to practice the exam as if it were the "real deal", we will be
mimicking that of the spring administration.
All Grade 11 students will take it in their English courses.
mimicking that of the spring administration.
All Grade 11 students will take it in their English courses.
Q. Who is going to score the practice CAASPP (ICA)?
A. All certificated staff are asked to score the exams per our discussions the last few years
in Department Chair and Leadership Team to broaden all teachers' understanding of this
important exam and to further our literacy efforts across campus. This is also part of our
self-identified WASC Goal regarding cross-curricular awareness and work.
in Department Chair and Leadership Team to broaden all teachers' understanding of this
important exam and to further our literacy efforts across campus. This is also part of our
self-identified WASC Goal regarding cross-curricular awareness and work.
Q. When will the scoring take place?
A. We will score the exams on December 2nd and 9th
during PLC time in our Literacy Groups
during PLC time in our Literacy Groups
Q. Will we be trained?
A. We will be trained on December 2nd. The Junior English Team will
train us in our 19-20 Literacy Team groups.
See John Hoadley in Admin if you have questions or concerns about scoring
train us in our 19-20 Literacy Team groups.
See John Hoadley in Admin if you have questions or concerns about scoring
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“Get to Know Us” November 2019” Calendar (bit.ly/nov2019cal) - Here are links to this week’s reveals:
Also, as pictured below, this week’s Resource Snack time on the AASL & NGSS Crosswalk is inspired by Suzanne Sannwald currently participating in the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National Conference.
