September 30th Weekly Blog

Purpose Corner - With the halfway point of first-quarter upon us, grades are starting to flow into the grade book. This video describes our grading philosophy and seeks to provide information on how we grade our students.

Please click here for this 3:09 video

Peers 4 Peers #BETHEMAJORITY - This past Thursday, September 26th brought Waukesha North and West together with a community organization to send a strong message that people who vape, do drugs, or consume alcohol are not in the majority of what most youths do today. This is a powerful message that positive choices win out when these other choices so often have a negative life impact. A great message along with resources for anyone looking, thanks to all of the time and effort for the volunteers that made it happen! Let's keep our kids safe within our community and never forget the positive choices the majority make as an example for the rest to follow.

Freshman Tailgate - Our "Ignition" program under the direction of Mrs. Sue Purpi does so much to engage our incoming Freshmen! It starts with All-Freshmen Day before school, continues with Welcome Week, every morning during the first week of school, and leads up to the Freshmen tailgate. What a beautiful day for games and fun between our Freshmen students, Ignition mentors, and West teachers. Nothing complicated, just building positive relationships over some hot dogs!! Enjoy the pictures.... and we had a couple of rock walls! Thanks to Mrs. Sue Purpi, Mrs. LeeAnn Dominick and our mentors for putting on an outstanding event.

Please click here for this 0:16 video

School Safety - As part of our safety procedures we met with each grade level of students over two weeks during our Advisory period to discuss safety protocols. I encourage all parents to engage students in dialogue around this presentation for a better understanding of their perspective, specifically if they can remember "Run, Hide, Fight". We then recently had a "lockdown" drill with the aide of the Waukesha Police Department. We continue to have positive feedback regarding our protocols and have seen students and staff advance with their decision making process during these moments of potential stress. We are always available for questions regarding school safety.

Homecoming 2019 - I want to give a shout out to Student Council, their advisor Mrs. Emily Ortega and all other staff and student volunteers for a great homecoming week! It was early, but the weather was amazing for our Powder Puff competition and game! It is a ton of work to coordinate and pull it off, culminating with the dance where once again students represented themselves well and had a great time dancing respectfully in our very warm fieldhouse.


College & Career Fair - Please come and engage at your leisure in this outstanding event...flyer below:

Principal Advisory Committee - Below are the names of the individuals on the Principal Advisory Council for 2019-2020. We met most recently on Wednesday, September 25th and will continue to meet monthly throughout the school year. Please access the minutes for more information about our discussions for this school year. The meeting minutes are linked here:

Nate Houlton	Nvhcoach@yahoo.com (Gr. 10)
Cortney Youngblood	cortneyyoungblood@gmail.com (Gr. 10)
Jackie Papageorge	jackie@gpg3.com (Gr.10)
Michelle Cameron	tiki424ma@gmail.com (Gr. 10)
Jennifer Schmeichel	jschmeichel@bethany.org (Gr. 11)
Wendy Dahl	wdahl@gswise.org (Gr. 12)
Michelle Kuokkanen	mkuokkanen@yahoo.com (Gr. 12)
Jana Manning	jmanning@waukesha.k12.wi.us (Gr. 9)
Carri Marlow	carrimarlow@yahoo.com (Gr. 9)
Clifton Hoffman	Clif.hoffman@att.net (Gr. 9)
Katie Pantzlaff	pantzkat@gmail.com (Gr. 9)
Kristi Fischer	kristifischer17@gmail.com (Gr. 9)
Wendy Hamilton	wendyhamilton4@gmail.com (Gr. 11)

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 here: West Main Page Calendar (Link)