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October 5th

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Principal's Update - October 21, 2026

Good afternoon, Tiger Families! Welcome to this week's edition of Tiger Tales. As we power through another fantastic week, I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for your incredible partnership. Your ongoing engagement, support, and dedication to our students are what truly make the WTA community so special. We couldn’t do this without you! Below, you will find important reminders, key highlights from around the school, and an exciting look at what’s on the horizon for our students. Please take a few moments to review the updates below to stay connected with everything happening at WTA. Thank you again for all that you do to support our school and our students. GO TIGERS!

Warm regards,

Mr. Paquette

Open House

Open House will be on October 22nd from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. At Open House, families will have the opportunity to explore all of the CTE shops that WTA has to offer as well as the academic classrooms. Open House is open to the public and it is a great experience for prospective students to see what WTA has to offer. Hope to see you there.

Tiger's Pride Restaurant

Tiger's Pride will be open to the public on Thursday, October 22nd from 10:45 to 12:15. Please check out the delicious menu by clicking the link below.

Tiger's Pride Menu

Athletics

Our athletic teams are fighting hard to make the playoffs. Thank you for all for supporting our student athletes an coaches. For more information about athletics please click on the links below.

Fall Sports Schedule

Athletics

WTA Parent Volunteer Organization

The WTA Parent Volunteer Organization (PVO) is a great way for families to get involved to help support our students. For more information please click on the link below.

PVO Information

Important Upcoming Dates

October 22nd - Open House from 6:00 - 7:30

October 29th - College Visit w/ Western New England University

November 3rd - Staff Development Day (No School for Students)

November 6th - Quarter 1 Ends

November 11th - Veterans Day - No School

November 29th - Annual Arts and Crafts Fair

Full Year Calendar - For the 2026-27 School Year

Help Support the WTA Community Closet!

We are restocking our shelves to support students and families who need a little extra help. If you are able to donate, please drop off items at the Main Office. We greatly appreciate your generosity!

Current Needs:

  • Personal Care: Deodorant, body wash, lotion, razors, hairbrushes, makeup, perfume/cologne, loofahs.

  • Clothing: Socks, jackets, gloves.

  • Food & Snacks: Canned goods/soups, mac & cheese, ramen, cereal, granola/protein bars, peanut butter, jam, and individually packaged snacks (Twinkies, Hostess, etc.).

Thank you for your continued support in making a meaningful difference for our WTA community!

A Week and B Week Calendar

This week will be a B Week. For those of you that are new to WTA, a B Week will place our 9th and 12th grades students in shop and our 10th and 11th grade students in academics. 9th grade students will be continuing their one-day rotations of each shop.

A/B Week Calendar

Breakfast and Lunch Menus

Westfield EATS is excited to announce that we are now partnered with My School Menus! My School Menus is an amazing program we will be using to help parents, students and staff navigate our menus for the school year. Click the link below to check it out!!!! When families or staff go to any dining web page they will be sent directly to this link where they can put in which school they would like to see and which menus they need. This program will show all of the allergen and nutritional information of our menu items and will now truly list ALL options that are available for that day.

Menus

School Counselors

Our school counselors have been working hard to get every student scheduled for the upcoming school year. Schedules will be available starting August 26th.

School Counselor Assignments

Mrs. Groom - Grade 9

Mrs. Keefe - Grade 10 & Grade 11 (A-F)

Ms. Arvanites - Grade 11 (G-Z) & Grade 12

Questions

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at daniel.paquette@schoolsofwestfield.org

Thank you for all that you do.

Dan Paquette

Principal

Westfield Technical Academy

Daniel Paquette
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