Finals Week Expectations - The email below that was sent to students and families provides information for all 9, 10 and 11 grade students regarding for our finals week expectations:
The finals schedule has been sent out to all students, posted on the principals blog and is available on our schools website. It is the same schedule we ran during our first semester final exams and is simple to follow. Finals begin on Monday June 5th and end on Wednesday June 7th. I changed the schedule this year as compared to previous year for Seniors so they could enjoy their last day of school at West. What that means is that the schedule on our last day of school, Thursday June 8th is a Monday schedule where students in grade 9,10 &11 will attend all eight classes. I want to be clear that we have 180 school days, and our last day of school is equally as important as the first day and all days in between. As is the case during finals week, all students are expected to be present for every class hour of each day including study halls. Their are no special releases granted because it is the last week. The last day of school is no different. Students are expected to be at all classes and receive feedback from their teachers around their work for the year, prior to a long summer break. I thank you for supporting our expectations as we maximize learning everyday of school. Please see me with any questions. Thank you
Finals Schedule - Below is our exam schedule for the final week of the school year:
Purpose Corner - Please enjoy the video which discusses "Pineapple Charts" and our final gallery walk showcase to culminate our PLC work for this school year!
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Purpose Corner....cont. - If you did not listen to the "Purpose Corner" video then please note the pictures below are form a recent gallery walk West teachers participated in where they had choice to form into groups around a topic of their choosing and this was the result of the work they did to showcase their findings for the purpose to share strategies with their peers.
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Graduation 2017 Dates & Times: Graduation day for the all three Waukesha legacy high schools will be June 10th, 2017. Waukesha West High School will be holding graduation ceremonies in the West Fieldhouse on this date beginning at 2:00 P.M. As we are one community divided into three high schools, this year graduation times among all three high schools are staggered to enable friends and family to attend multiple ceremonies if they so choose. South High School ceremonies will begin at 10:00 A.M. and North High School ceremonies will begin at 12:00 P.M. on this date. Please begin informing friends and family who will be attending.
WLA "Wolverine Leadership Academy" what is it?? - We are excited to launch this potential game changing idea for West. The video below describes our starting place with this for next year. Please take a look and get involved if it is a fit for you.
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Congratulations Mrs. Patty Corrao! - Interact ...Over the 2016-2017 school year, you and your board grew the club to well over 100 members and filled a very busy schedule with either a board meeting or a club meeting each and every week. The club’s activities this past year have included the following:
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- In a “Random acts of kindness” day, over 30 random acts of kindness were logged around Waukesha by members wearing Interact tee-shirts.
- In an ongoing project, your members assembled over 500 introductory packets for Wheaton Franciscan Hospice.
- Your club generated approximately 5,000 Letters to Santa for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, resulting in donations of $5,000 dollars to that charity.
- Your members donated over 225 Holiday ornaments to Interfaith Senior Programs in Waukesha.
- Your members held a Rummage sale for Retzer nature center that raised over $1,200 dollars.
- You finished out the year with a Dodgeball tournament that raised almost $380 for West Woods, a nature preserve on the grounds of Waukesha West and built 4 duck houses for that preserve.
- The club was admitted to the Adopt-a-Highway program, being granted stewardship of two miles on HWY I from Oakdale to 164.
Your club members also volunteered at numerous community events including Operation Honor for Veterans, the Christmas Clearing House, the Waukesha Christmas Parade, Summit View Elementary’s Students with Special Needs meet Santa event, Waukesha Janboree, Special Olympics basketball and swim, Rotary Pancake Breakfast, Rose Glen Chicken Barbeque, and the Prairie Puma Palooza. I asked some of your students to share what they appreciated about you, and got a list of dozens and dozens of examples of you gladly giving your time, your resources and your personal engagement, in support of them and their development in Interact and beyond. It is simply too long to read in this address, but serves as a rock-solid indication that you are a fitting recipient of this award.
As our club’s liaison to yours, it has been a joy to work with you. It has been a relief to see the revival of a club that means so much to us. It has been exciting to see the kids so involved with such successful community service projects. And it has been inspiring to see you lead them in a way that we are sure will shape their lives far beyond their time at Waukesha West High School. We all, therefore, wish to humbly recognize you for the amazing work that you do, with the 2017 Waukesha Rotary Club Community Service Award, which reads as follows:
In expression of our appreciation to Patty Corrao for her exemplary representation of the founding Rotary principle of “Service Above Self” to the community at Waukesha West High School, and in lasting effect through them, to the world beyond.
Thank you, Patty Corrao and all students for your service above self.
Principal Advisory Council - Here is the link for the minutes of the Principal Advisory Council meetings. We had our last meeting on Wednesday, May 17th. I want to thank all of the members for their time, ideas, feedback and dedication to making Waukesha West the best it can be!! Over the summer I will be opening it up to new members for next year. Your representatives information is below. Please connect with them for questions about what it may be like to be part of this committee. Look for information in August if you are an interested parent!
| Carrie Schuett | carriejschuett@gmail.com |
| Dean Chyla | dean@chyla.com |
| Gretchen Scott | gecscott@yahoo.com |
| Jana Manning | jmanning@waukesha.k12.wi.us |
| Kari Cerny | kcerny@mcw.edu |
| Karie Ruekert-Kobiske | karierknp@yahoo.com |
| Kelly Glesner | kaglesner@wi.rr.com |
| Kim Dutelle | gemini6667@aol.com |
| Laura Witek | gottwins@hotmail.com |
| Leslie Erickson | thatlesliechick@gmail.com |
| Maria Zagorski | me_zagorski@sbcglobal.net |
| Maureen DuPont | maudupont@att.net |
Archived Announcements Link: Please access this link to find all of the information in our daily announcements from previous weeks.
Preview of this week: Please check the calendars by downloading the West App or clicking on these two links to preview what is happening at West High School this week:
