WBHS Tuesday Touchpoint
4/9/2024
Here is this week’s WBHS Tuesday Touchpoint to catch you up on what’s been happening and what’s ahead. Have a great week!
Important Dates
April 11 (7:00 p.m.): Chamber Orchestra Concert at The Bend (see flyer for details)
April 16 (6:00 p.m.): Community Conversation on Facilities #2 (see below for details)
April 20 (6:00-10:00 p.m.): Chasin’ the Chill (see flyer for details)
April 25 (6:00 p.m.): Community Conversation on Facilities #2 (see below for details)
April 29 (4:00-6:00 p.m.): 6th Annual Autism Awareness Soup Night (see flyer for details)
*Click on the upper right corner of photos to enlarge.
Reminders & Updates
English Guest Speaker
Students in grades 10 through 12 are invited to a special presentation from New York Times bestselling author, Michael Patrick MacDonald. He is the author of All Souls, a current English 3 book club choice. He has been a guest speaker at over 300 campuses about the power of voice, agency, writing, leadership, and resiliency. This presentation will take place on Thursday, May 9th at 8:45 a.m. in the Silver Linings Auditorium. Please complete this form to give parent/guardian permission for your student(s) to attend this presentation. If you DO NOT wish for your student(s) to attend this presentation, you do not need to complete this form. Forms are due back by Friday, May 3rd. Only students with parental/guardian consent will be excused from periods 2 and 3 to attend this presentation. Students not participating will attend their regularly scheduled classes as normal. Please Note: If you have more than one student that you will be giving permission for, please complete a separate form for each student.
Principal’s Advisory Committee - Exam Exemptions
A special thank you to our Principal Advisory Committee (pictured below) for helping with some very positive changes this school year! These students have helped build our exam schedule, and are now onto working with the future reinstatement of exam exemptions. The team below, along with our staff Building Leadership Team, helped identify the criteria for exam exemptions. We will be piloting this exemption form for quarter 4, and we are hoping to fully embrace it for semester finals beginning next year.
Please see the pilot form that will be shared out this upcoming quarter 4: Exam Exemption
WBHS Staff Appreciation Week
May 6-10 is WBHS Staff Appreciation Week. We are asking students and families to please take a moment to fill out this google form to share a message of appreciation for special staff members at WBHS. If you’d prefer to write out your own special note, here is a template you can download and print. Blank copies of these cards are also available in the main office. Paper copies of the staff appreciation messages should be turned into the office no later than 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 3. The Google Form will also close at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 3.
Community Conversations on Facilities
The West Bend School District is conducting long-range facility planning, which includes assessing its buildings and grounds to better understand the needs and opportunities. Community members are invited to give feedback on priorities for the future of the WBSD school buildings, grounds, and other facilities.
Please consider attending a Community Conversation so you can share your thoughts regarding our long-range facility planning and discuss priorities.
2nd Community Conversation: Potential solutions with costs to address facility needs and priorities identified from community and staff input.
Tuesday, April 16 at 6 p.m. in the West Bend West Cafeteria OR
Thursday, April 25 at 6 p.m. in the West Bend West Cafeteria
RSVP using this link. Or, email wbsd@wbsd-schools.org or call 262-306-4800 with your name and the conversation(s) you wish to attend.
WBHS Highlights & Celebrations
The WBHS Drumline performed for Jackson Elementary duiring an assembly before Spring Break.
Some Green Tree 3rd grade students visited the manufacturing class at the high school to see how these students helped make the Story Walk at Green Tree.
Congrats to our girls and boys that competed at the indoor state track and field meet this weekend at UW-Whitewater. A special shout out to Jenna Pierre, Annabelle Gonnering, Josie Mesa and Rylee Faehling for finishing in 6th place and earning a spot on the podium in the 4x4 relay. Way to go Spartans!
Students of the Week
Congratulations to our Students of the Week for the week of April 8-12, Olivia Daute & Rafi Palacios Enriquez! Check out the slides below to see why each of these great students were nominated!
Department Spotlight
Top Row, left to right: Mrs. Abts, Mrs. Fischer, Mrs. Henschel
Bottom Row, left to right: Mrs. Krueger, Mr. Rieger Mrs. Simmer
Staff Shout Outs
Please help us recognize staff members who are doing great things at WBHS. You can fill out this staff shout out form as many times as you wish!