Hatchet Happenings

The light show, which lasts approximately one hour, is designed, built, and coded by Washington High School students in Mr. Johnston’s Construction classes and Mr. Riney’s AP Computer Science and Cybersecurity classes. The light display is located on the north side of the Hatchet House opposite the city pool.

The show will run every night from 6:00-10:00 until classes resume on January 3, 2024. The show will be broadcast on FM station 90.7.

A special thank you goes out to Washington Light and Power, Davis Electric, and Sodexo for helping to set up the light display!

Juntos 4-H, an after-school program through Purdue Extension and funded by the United Way of Daviess County, helps Latino families at Washington Jr. High bridge the gap between high school and post-secondary education.

School staff and other community leaders greeted families and introduced themselves, as one of the goals of the program is to get families familiar with school staff and community members. Other goals were family-oriented, such as trying to have dinner together as a family as often as possible and reducing screen time.

Program Director Luis Santiago, Purdue Extension-Daviess County, feels very passionate about this program. “I want to see not only the kids but I want to see the parents succeed. We want students to feel a sense of pride and belonging so that one day they can come back to teach kids and help our community.”

4th graders at Washington Veale Elementary used their newly learned knowledge of circuits to create an interactive bulletin board for the whole school to enjoy!

Students at Upper Elementary have been collecting donations for Generations Network over the past few weeks. Students in Ms. Butcher’s class put these baskets together for them to be shared with homebound residents in our community as a part of our Kids at Hope Community and Service Destination.

This fall, Washington Community Schools launched a Dual Language Immersion program at Washington Primary. Dual immersion education integrates and equal number of native English speaking and native Spanish speaking students in the same classroom.

At Family Night, students were able to show their parents what they are learning in class. Families participated in activities to learn more about different cultures. Mrs. Quinteros and her husband shared a special dance that is traditionally performed at the Inti Raymi festival in her home country of Ecuador.

The 3rd-grade classes at Washington Intermediate have been learning about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They made their own balloons and held a parade of their own!

Washington Community Schools Elementary schools and Washington Jr. High School have been recognized as 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Schools!

Congratulations to our incredible students, staff, and community! You make us proud.

https://www.usnews.com/education/rankings

Washington High School has joined the Notre Dame Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program (AP-TIP) cohort with the University of Notre Dame to provide advanced teacher training to strengthen the rigor and improve the success of our Advanced Placement program. AP-TIP is a state-wide math, science, and English initiative dedicated to improving Indiana’s students’ college and career readiness.

Washington High School currently offers 12 total AP courses to our students. Through AP-TIP, students receive $100 for each passing score on the AP Exam of any AP English, Mathematics, or Science course. This year, 44 WHS students earned qualifying scores and received checks of $100 or more for AP Exams taken during the Spring of 2023. These students earned a total of $6,500.00. Checks were mailed to graduates who earned qualifying scores.

AP-TIP has a philosophy of inclusiveness and high expectations for each student to prepare successfully for academically rigorous coursework.

Congratulations to the following students for achieving academic excellence!

Pictured

Back Row: Peyton Hamdan, Alex Hill, Xavier Frank, Owen Reinking, Carl Shultz, Dean Stuffel, Elijah Parsons

Middle Row: Larissa Armes, Molly Jones, Madelyn Kempf, Eliana Sellers, Sylvester Maang, Hallie Hill

Front Row: Ashlyn Kane, Alexandra Gomez-Moreno, Gwendolyn Jones

Reserve your Seat Today!

Reservations & Prepayment required, click the date below you would like to attend.

DECEMBER 15th @ 6:30 PM

DECEMBER 16th @ 6:30 PM

The Madrigal Dinner is held at Washington High School Cafe & Auditorium. Seating begins @ 6:10 PM for each performance

November 29 - Scheduled 2-Hour Delay

December 6 - WHS Holiday Concert - 7:00 pm

December 12 - Kindergarten Holiday Concert 6:00 & 7:00 pm

December 13 - WJHS & WHS Choir Concert, 7:00 pm

December 15-16 - Madrigal Dinner

December 21-January 2 - Winter Break, No School

December 30 - WHS Snow Ball

January 3 - School Resumes