March 8th Weekly Blog (Tuesday Edition)

 Purpose Corner -  This week I have updates regarding Prom, Graduation, and Project Graduation. Here is a link to the transcript of this video.

Prom Letter 2021 - I recently sent the letter below to all families and students regarding prom for this school year:

Academic Decathlon - Congratulations to our Academic Decathlon team who performed well at the state competition last week. The team took 3rd overall in the State of Wisconsin and 1st place in their division. They just missed qualifying for nationals and had 5 of 9 competitors qualify for individual medals. Great work this year!!!

Ryan Meier: Regional Top Scholar - Economics; Essay - 1st; Math - 3rd; Art - 2nd

Alana Crisostomo: Team Top Scholar (highest score on the West team); Literature - 3rd; Economics - 3rd; Music - 3rd; 5/5 in Super Quiz

Dominick Weston: Top Scholar, Scholastic division; Economics - 3rd; Science - 3rd 

Danny Schmidtke: Speech - 2nd

Cassie Kowalski: Essay - 3rd; Literature - 2nd 

State Cheer Champions - Congrats to the Waukesha West Cheer team as they were recently crowned State Champions!!! The Varsity team also placed 4th out of 10 teams in the Cheer-Dance division. Thank you to Seniors: Abby Standarski, Maddie Ricker, and Hannah Dobner for your years of dedication to West Cheer and finishing strong!! Please enjoy the video of the State Championship routine linked below:

Please click here to access this video:

Boys Basketball - Congratulations to our Varsity boys basketball program as they won the Classic 8 Conference title outright this season! Congrats to Cam Palesse on becoming West High School's All-time leading scorer and earning a place on the Division 2 WBCA 1st Team All-State team along with 10 other players state-wide! Below is the write up on Cam from Wissports.net:

Cameron Palesse of Waukesha West helped the Wolverines to the Classic Eight Conference title after finishing third in the state in scoring at 30.7 points per game. The senior Valparaiso commit became more efficient as a scorer and shooter, connecting on 45.1% of his three-point attempts. He added 6.2 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game as well. 

Lunch - Below is information that was sent to all families regarding school lunch for the remainder of the year:

Student & Family Support - This year is so very different from the effects of COVID on students and families in multiple ways. Please see the information below if you or anyone you know are in need of support:

COVID Process - Now that we are having to deal with isolation and quarantine processes that come along with living in the COVID era, I wanted to share a district  FAQ document that may help families understand that all the processes that West High School follow, come from our district and are not individually created by West. My role is to consistently follow these processes along with every other school in our district. 

School District COVID Dashboard - Our school district does have a COVID dashboard that is public for anyone to follow.

 

Please click here to access this link

Principal Advisory Committee - The Principal Advisory Council for 2020-2021 did not meet with me in February. We will be meeting again on March 17th, 2021. Please contact any one of the representatives (below) with feedback and/or questions about anything West-related. Please access the meeting minutes linked here:

Angela Schaaf	angelamschaaf@gmail.com
Cheryl Jeffers	cherylmjeffers@gmail.com
David Clark	superdavefive@gmail.com
Deshondria Baggett	deshondriabaggett@gmail.com
Karen Anderson	kammom@att.net
Kathleen Phelan	Talldoc@wi.rr.com
Michelle Kuokkanen	mkuokkanen@yahoo.com
Carri Marlow	carrimarlow@yahoo.com
Mercedes Rawson	Rawson96@wi.rr.com
Patti Bloom	pbloom27@wi.rr.com
Rebecca Flaherty	Becflaherty@gmail.com
Susan Fogelstrom	beezerpup@gmail.com

Archived Announcements (Link) Please access this link to find all of the information in our daily announcements from previous weeks. 

GO WOLVERINES...WHOOP!!