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Monday, February 6

Varsity Baseball vs. Granbury HS @ NGC 4:30

9/JV Baseball @ Granbury HS (scrimmage) 4:30/7:00

JV/V/9A Girls Basketball @ Keller HS 4:30/6:00/7:30

Tuesday, February 7

9A/JV/V Boys Basketball @ Keller HS 6:00/4:30/7:30

JV2/JV1/V Boys Soccer vs. Kelller HS @ Roo Stadium 4:30/6:00/7:30

JV/V Girls Soccer @ Keller HS 6:00/7:30

V/JV Softball @ Northwest HS 4:30/4:30

Thursday, February 9

Boys and Girls Power Lifting in Saginaw Invitational @ Saginaw HS TBD

Friday, February 10

9A/9B/JV/V Boys Basketball vs. Haltom @ WHS 4:30/4:30/6:00/7:30

Varsity and Girls Wrestling "Districts" @ Amarillo Tascosa 8:00 am

JV2/JV1/V Boys Soccer vs. Haltom HS @ Old Birdville Stadium 4:30/6:00/7:30

JV/V Girls Soccer vs. Haltom HS @ Roo Stadium 6:00/7:30

NTHS Rodeo Assoc. competes in Weatherford hosted by Weatherford HS Rodeo Team

Saturday, February 11

Varsity and Girls Wrestling "Districts" @ Amarillo Tascosa 8:00 am

V/JV Softball Intersquad @ Hall MS TBA

Varsity Baseball (scrimmage) @ Richland HS 12:00

9/JV Baseball vs. Richland HS (scrimmage) @ NGC 12:00/2:00

9B Boys Basketball vs. Keller High @ Fossil Ridge HS 10:00 am

There will be an AP Calculus practice exam on Monday after school beginning at 4:00 in F105. Please talk to Mr. Roemer with any questions.

This week we will experience some Tex-Mex culture while we vote on club t-shirts, make a decision about a possible field trip, and get started on our spring service project to provide an alpaca to a family in South America.

We welcome anyone who has completed 1 semester of Spanish

Meetings every other Tuesday during A Block of Mega

February 21, March 7, March 21, April 4, April 18, May 2, May 16

Officers meet February 14

See Miss Briggs in K108 for meetings or questions.

We have a silent lunch club in Deaf Ed that is open to all students and staff on Thursdays during B lunch. Silent lunch is for everyone to practice using sign language. We play games and socialize during this time using ASL only.

Attention Seniors! Herff Jones will be back on campus for cap and gown, announcement, and all graduation orders Friday, February 10th during mega lunch. If you have not ordered your cap and gown, please be sure to turn it in then. Extra packets are available in the front office.

The latest featured article is "Protesting in Today’s America: Why are the People Marching?" by staff writer Jade Hebbert and Co-editor Madalyn Harris.

There will be a Hawaiian themed pep rally for Spring Sports including Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Baseball, and Softball. Everyone wear your dress-code appropriate tropical clothing! Special announcements will include the Senior Standouts, Who's Who, and Mr. and Miss WHS!

You are NOT going to want to miss this, so HULA on down!

Marcus Buckley and Zach McKinney signed letters of intent to play college football. Marcus signed with New Mexico State and Zach signed with Oklahoma.

Chloe Peacock and Kinzey Boyer signed letters of intent to play college soccer. Chloe signed with the University of the Ozarks and Kinzey signed with Howard-Payne.

Congratulations on your outstanding accomplishment!

Congratulations to Grace Ferguson, Preston Edison, Jasmine Delgado, and Jacob Huffman! These students were chosen to represent WHS as Optimist of the Month for January and February. If you see them, please congratulate them.

Check out this quick view of our competing CATE and Art Photographers here at WHS! Click here.

This past week in Advertising we took our skills and put them to the test. Mr. Nicewonger’s class paired up with Advanced Engineering students from Mr. Herring’s class to promote MOUSE TRAP CARS!!!!!! The task was to brand it and then sell it by creating a presentation that would WOW the customer. Once the presentations were finished, the racing began. We had one last chance to promote them before showing what the cars could do. It was a fun and inventive way to show what we have learned and put it to use. We all had a great time and definitely went all out to make sure everyone knew about our products.

**story by Thomas Ethington

Grace Ferguson was nominated for a second week by the Star-Telegram for Basketball player of the week. Way to go, Grace! You've got our vote!

Photo credit: Jeffery Washington

The Class of 2019 has a new spirit shirt for sale, you can make your purchase online at

http://stores.inksoft.com/classof2019 thanks for supporting the Sophomores, Class of 2019! Go Roos!

Students placed in the following individual events:

Accounting I: 1st Place Chad Wicker, 4th Tin Nguyen

Advanced Accounting II: 1st Emily Geyer, 2nd Danielle Plocar, 3rd Ezme Manzano, 5th Imer Torres

Computer Problem Solving: 1st Kyra Bradshaw

Business Law: Akita Patel: 2nd, Alex Riva 5th

Advertising: Wesley Rust: 2nd

Securities and Investments: 2nd Waylon Widler:

Economics: Thomas Wise: 1st

Agribusiness TJ Wittrock: 2nd, 4th Karina Marin:

Business Ethics: 2nd Nicole Sanders

Personal Finance: 4th Bryan Hall

The following students competed in Team events:

Global Business: 1st Cole Keller, Jose Martinez, Connor McSwain

Entrepreneur: 1st Jaish Bhojwani, Jace Pando

Publication Design: 1st Brenda Hernandez, Estrella Gomez

Sports Marketing Management: 2nd Aubrey Garnett, Austin Bruno, Winston Griffith

Chapter Event Community Service Project 1st Thomas Wise, Aubrey Garnett, TJ Wittrock

The 36th Line of the WHS Blue Belles will be competing at the Danceline Competition on Saturday, February 11th at Celina HS. Wish them luck!

Cheerleading try-outs are coming up on March 10th!

If you are interested in trying out for cheerleader, mascot, cheer manager, or cheer guard , then see either Ms. Shedlock in room H211 or Ms. Briggs in room K108. There will also be some try-out packets in the front office!

Sophia Pasternak will represent WHS in the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals scholarship competition. Sophia will now submit an essay which will be judged by high school and middle school principals. Best of luck, Sophie!

Congratulations, Mason Christiansen, Shannon Elliott, Gregory Smith, or Lauren White! WHS placed 2nd in the pre-cal division as a team for the 15th Annual Weatherford College Coyote Area Math Championship. Mason Christiansen placed 3rd and Gregory Smith placed 9th individually!

Pre-Cal:

Mason Christiansen

Shannon Elliott

Gregory Smith

Lauren White

Calculus:

Aaron Campbell

Bethany Hardesty

Verenise Rodriguez

Michael Sallaz

Bryson Urquidez

Students and faculty at Weatherford High School will join others across the nation during the month of February to celebrate National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month®. This year’s tagline is

Celebrate Today, Own Tomorrow!

CTE Month provides CTE programs across the country an opportunity to demonstrate how CTE makes students college- and career- ready and prepares them for high-wage, high-demand career fields.

Among the special activities scheduled at WHS are:

1. TSA Advisor Appreciation Week,

2. A CTE awareness campaign conducted with the Career Center and the Printing & Imaging Class with student created Destinations CTE Course Catalogs, posters and slogans distributed to elementary, middle school, and high schoolers

3. The Celebration continues with Digital Learning Day (observed across the nation) on Feb 23rd and

4. Concludes with TSA contests in Photography, Animation, Multimedia, Video Production, Graphic Design, Desktop Publishing, Webmastery, Computer Skills, Architecture, or Engineering, to qualify student’s Career and Technical projects so that winners will advance to Regionals where they compete with other districts to qualify for state competition.

“The activities planned over the next month will illustrate the rigor and relevance CTE courses offer our students,” said Mrs. Bobbye Moreno, A TSA coach and Destinations Catalog advisor.

Mrs. Donna Schoonover, Career and Technical Education Coordinator at WHS said “Providing a career focused education is one of our top priorities in the WISD Career and Technical Education Department as we believe connecting education to workforce needs and post-secondary education is important to student success. Preparing our students for the global community is our mission. When students can see the relevance of their education and how it can be utilized in the real world, they see “why" school matters. Our community partners help us ensure we are teaching the most up-to-date skills and offering the most current licensures and certifications as possible.”

CTE encompasses 94 percent of high school students and 13 million postsecondary students in the United States and includes high schools, career centers, community and technical colleges, four-year universities and more. CTE is a major part of the solution to myriad national economic and workforce problems, such as high school dropout rates, a weakened economy, global competitiveness and massive layoffs. At a time when opportunity for employment is so critical, CTE programs in every community are ensuring students are equipped with the skills to successfully enter the workforce.

During the month of January the Outreach Club collected hygiene items for the Center of Hope. Our school was able to collect 135 items. Congratulations on a job well done.

StuCo Red, White, & Roo want to recognize YOU. As soon as you get accepted to a college, take a selfie with your acceptance letter and tag #RoosGoTo and then hashtag your college/technical school/military branch.

This week we congratulate Grayson Pleasant!

We'll be on the lookout for you and your amazing achievement!

Located at the top of the K Hall Stairs outside of the Career Center

Need a part time job? Check out the Jobs Board for the latest information on who’s hiring!

Seniors: Be sure to check out the new scholarship website – E-Scholarships USA. Go to www.collegeguidanceconsultants.com User name: weatherford, Password: weatherford

Available Scholarships

Attention Seniors – Scholarship season is here! Did you know that last year’s senior class was awarded over $3.5 million dollars in scholarships? Let’s make this year the best year ever for scholarship awards. Many scholarships have deadlines coming up right away. Scholarships are available for all students who have a desire to attend college. Go to the Counseling Office often to get the latest information on scholarships and pick up applications.

For more scholarships available go to WHS Scholarship Newsletter.

Click here to find our WHS GrassBurr Facebook page.

For up-to-date news including class relocations, sports updates, weather information, and more, follow:

@WHSgrassburr

Some other specific sports teams and organizations you might be interested in are:

@RooPride Roo Football Coaches

@WHSRooFootball WHS Football

@WHSLadyRooVB WHS Volleyball

@WHSBlueBelles Blue Belles

@WHSRooCheer WHS Cheerleaders

@WHSRooBand The Mighty Roo Band

@WHSRooTheatre WHS Theatre

@RooBasketball Men's & Women's Basketball

@WHSRooBaseball WHS Baseball

@WHSRoosSoftball WHS Softball

@WfordRodeoTeam WHS Rodeo Team

@RooWrestling WHS Wrestling

@RooStuCo WHS Student Council

@WHSJWAC WHS Junior World Affairs Council

@WHS_CTE WHS Career & Technological Education

@Roos_AV WHS AV Department

@WHSMelonVine WHS MelonVine Yearbook news and announcements

@RooPrincipal Mrs. Dowd

Last and certainly not least, check out #RooPride and #WhyWISD to see all the reasons why we bleed blue!

Newsletter created by Journalism 1 students.

This edition Edited/Designed by Mrs. Gilley.

Email: sgilley@weatherfordisd.com
Website: http://whs-hs.weatherfordisd.edlioschool.com/
Location: 2121 Bethel Rd, Weatherford, TX, United States
Phone: (817) 598-2858
Twitter: @WHSGrassBurr