Wolf Pack Weekly: January 25-29, 2021

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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.

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Upcoming events: 

Monday:        Teachers and students working from home

Tuesday: Group A on campus

Wednesday: Group B on campus

Thursday: Group C on campus

Friday: Group D on campus

January 25-29: Great Kindness Week led by WH ASB

February 2-6: Students voting on Golden Apple Teacher in Advisory

February 8: No School; President's Day observation

February 15: No school; President's Day observation

March 1-2: Virtual WASC visit;

March 12: End of Q3 (District and GEA neg. to see if we move Group D only to Monday or if all groups move).

March 15-25: Spring Break

Friday, March 26: First day of Q4 (treated like a Monday; Classified and Admin on campus; Campus open to the public; Certificated may be on campus or off working from home; students not on campus).

Thank you to all front office staff for our successful transition BACK into our main Admin building! We are almost all back except for our nurse, Lori, and as soon as we get the movers back out, she will be back with us! Cleaning out 34 years of accumulated "stuff", packing up, and moving into the B Building was a BIG job and we THANK everyone who contributed with patience, grace, and understanding! Take a look at some of the new offices and YES! we have mailboxes again!

Attendance

Our "new" Mailboxes

Ginny in her new desk and space

Front Reception

Principal's Office

Asst. Principal Secretary space

Honor Roll: Congratulations to our wonderful students who have earned Honor Roll with a 3.5 GPA or higher for Q1 and Q2!

Tutorial Schedule for Q3: Please refer / post this schedule for students and parents in addition to any support you might offer.

Q3 Attendance information to Staff (particularly teachers), parents and students:

Please see this document to better understand the Attendance taking for Q3 and some important Q & A for this change.

Meet inaugural poet Amanda Gorman (excerpt from CalMatters.org)

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. Photo by Patrick Semansky, AP Photo/Pool — Amanda Gorman reads her poem at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. Photo by Patrick Semansky, AP Photo/Pool

Hours after Kamala Harris was inaugurated Wednesday as vice president of the United States, she swore in Alex Padilla as her replacement in the U.S. Senate. But they weren’t the only Californians to make history. Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old from Los Angeles, stole the show as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Gorman, who recently graduated from Harvard, was named Los Angeles’ youth poet laureate in 2014 and the first national youth poet laureate in 2017. She was chosen to perform at the inauguration after First Lady Jill Biden heard Gorman give a reading at the Library of Congress. Like President Joe Biden, Gorman struggles with a speech impediment. “It’s made me the performer that I am,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds … it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.”

Here’s an excerpt from her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” which you can watch her perform here:

And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us

And from our Library Instagram account...we just had to share.....