The Howl

October 20th- Wolf Study Lounge Begins (Previously 5th hour tutoring)

October 22nd- PSAT Testing

October 23rd-24th- Fall Conferences

October 24th- No School

October 28th- Combined Choir Concert, 7:30pm, SP East PAC

November 7th-9th & 14th-16th- SP West presents Guys and Dolls

November 14th- Senior Grad Ads due for the Yearbook jostensadservice.com/student

November 15th- Senior Pictures due for the Yearbook (Extended deadline). Upload here: https://photos.jostens.com/CC2FPK

November 26th-28th- No School

Tickets are now LIVE for Guys and Dolls. Come support the students and staff in this classic story!

It is hard to believe that we are already at Parent/Teacher conference week! This week we set aside specific time to ensure we are connecting with our parents/caregivers. However, ANY time is a good time for a conference. Please don't hesitate to reach out to a teacher if you have a question or concern at any time. Do know that teachers will be reaching out to schedule a conference with you! Unfortunately there are simply not enough hours in the day for teachers to meet with every parent/caregiver during this time. We prioritize the families who have encountered the most barriers to communication or success starting with our families that use interpretation to communicate and then focusing on our students that have not yet experienced success in the classroom. If there are no openings with your student's teacher during these set aside times we are more than happy to communicate via email for an update or find another time to connect.

Conferences will take place on the following dates:

🗓️Thursday, October 23 from 4:15 - 8:00PM

🗓️Friday, October 24 from 7:30 - 11:45AM

The Wolf Study Lounge begins on October 20th. This allows students to get support in multiple subjects both before and after school.

If you were at Picture Retake Day and did not get your Student ID, stop in the Front Office to pick it up. 📸

The Lost & Found is already filling up with water bottles. If you are missing one, stop by the Front Office to see if it’s there.

The annual girls’ flag football game brought energy, teamwork, and plenty of school spirit to the field!

The streets were full of smiles and school pride during this year’s Homecoming Parade! It was great to see students, families, and community members come together to celebrate.

PJ Day was a cozy success!

From leather jackets and bandanas to Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses!

Students showed their creativity on Anything But a Backpack Day, finding clever and funny ways to carry their school supplies!

Pep Assembly: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4kD7abk7WrEHeiBs5

More photos from the week here! https://photos.app.goo.gl/vr21mLHizZqKYiKX9

Stop in for an info session on the college planning process on Thursday, October 23 (6 p.m.) and Friday, October 24 (10:30 a.m.)!

Parents & Caregivers, Thank you for supporting your scholar during the fall PreACT assessment. We are grateful for the way our students showed effort and focus during testing. Student Reports have been mailed home.

Results are also available online. To view your scholar’s report:

1. Go to https://nextpath.app/login.

2. Select “log in with email” under the Guardian option.

3. The first time you sign in, you will be asked to confirm some information for your child(ren).

4. Once logged in, select PreACT Local.

The Student Report includes:

• Subject and Composite Scores

• Readiness Benchmarks

• National Percentile Rank

• Predicted ACT Score

• STEM score (Science and Math)

• Progress Toward Career Readiness

You can learn more about these scores here: Using Your PreACT Results.

Because the PreACT is similar to the ACT, these resources can help students plan and prepare for spring testing: Test Prep, Kaplan Test Prep, & ACT practice test. Students also have free access to ACT and SAT prep through Methodize, which can be found under the Resources tab on Xello (available on school-issued devices).

The score report is only one piece of your scholar’s learning story. Their growth also shows up in the classroom—through teacher observations, daily work, and other assessments collected across the school year. We look forward to supporting and celebrating their growth throughout the year.

Students interested in learning more about the Marine Corps Scholarship can attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, October 28 during WIN Time. Students should sign up in FlexiSched with Ms. Griffin.

To purchase a yearbook, go to www.jostens.com. Type in “Sun Prairie West” and make sure you click Sun Prairie West High School. You may also visit the following link directly: https://tinyurl.com/SPWHSYRBK26

Yearbooks must be pre-ordered by February, 20th 2026 to be guaranteed a copy of the 2026 Yearbook.

• All senior portraits will need to be uploaded directly to Jostens.com using the following link: https://photos.jostens.com/CC2FPK
• Be sure to include the student’s first name, last name, and grade (12) in the file name. Ensure that you spell the name correctly, as this is how it will be printed in the yearbook.
• All senior portraits are due by Saturday, November 15th 2025 (new extended deadline).

• All senior grad ads will be 1/8 of a page and completed directly through Jostens using the following link: jostensadservice.com/student
• You will need to create a Jostens account to create and submit your senior’s grad ad.
• All grad ads are due by Friday, November 14th 2025.

We continue to run together as a PACK. Our universal expectations are that we approach everything we do in our community with Pride, Accountability, Collaboration and Kindness.

Grounding ourselves in the concept of One West and PACK is the foundation of all that we do. It takes each and every one of us doing our part to make this community the incredible place that it is and it is growing into being. Everything that we do as individuals and a community is to bring our West Equity Vision to life:

Please review the SPASD event guidelines. Our athletes are ready to take the field, stage, pool, court, pitch, course and so much more this school year. Together we will continue to make these fantastic, safe and enjoyable events for all.

All West students will need their student ID or if they have not yet received their 25/26 student ID, they will need to look up their Infinite Campus profile. This can be done in advance and screenshotted for quick access.

• Building opens at 8:05: Students may enter the building at 8:05 and will remain in the commons 8:20. Between 8:05-8:20 students may eat breakfast and socialize in the commons. At 8:20 students may begin to move to their classes.
• If your transportation situation makes it impossible to drop off your students later than 8:05 they will be allowed to stand in the vestibule (between the glass doors) until 8:05, particularly on inclement weather days

• Building Closes at 4:00: At 4:00pm the building closes daily. All students must be with an adult (coach, club/activity, 5th hour tutoring, etc) or leave the building for safety as we do not have supervision available after 4:00pm.

Please plan rides, drop off/pick up accordingly.

In the 25-26 school year we are continuing of our focus on disrupting inequities, creating a culture of care and rigorous and coherent teaching. This year we will also start to layer on the next three components of the Instructional Framework: multiple means to demonstrate understanding, learning partnerships and culturally and linguistically responsive teaching. Over the last year we had a hyper focus on attendance and our data shows that we have a strong foundation in addition to build on to now focus specifically on literacy and numeracy (reading and math outcomes).

In SPASD we break our year long school improvement plans to bring our Theory of Action to life and make progress to our Scorecard into 3, 100-day plans. Our 3 adult practice areas (gaols) this yeaer are:

• Adult Practice Focus #1 - Use knowledge of students and knowledge of standards to collaboratively design rigorous and responsive instruction for all students
• Adult Practice Focus #2 - Facilitate healing the harm to relationships and restoring community
• Adult Practice Focus #3 - Use data to challenge and dismantle oppressive systemic, personal, and instructional policies and practices

Our A/B Day Schedule and our Regular Bell Schedule. The A/B Day schedule is set for the year and will not change even if we have snow/cold days. Please note that Semester 1 starts and ends on an A Day and Semester 2 starts and ends on a B Day.

STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION

No student may be unlawfully discriminated against in any school programs, activities or in facilities usage because of the student’s sex (gender identity, gender expressions, and non-conformity to gender role stereotypes), color, religion, profession, or demonstration of belief or non-belief, race, national origin (including limited English proficiency), ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, homelessness status, sexual orientation, age, or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability. Harassment is a form of discrimination and shall not be tolerated in the District. It is the responsibility of administrators, staff members and all students to ensure that student discrimination or harassment does not occur.

(SPASD District Policy JB)

If a student or parent/caregiver would prefer to have this information translated into Spanish, please contact us at 608-834-6620. Si un estudiante, padre ó guardian prefiere tener esta información traducida en Español, por favor contactenos en el 608-834-6620.

If a student or parent/caregiver would prefer to have this information translated into Hmong, please contact us at 608-834-6630. Yog tus me nyuam lub xiv los yog niam thiab txiv/tus neeg muaj cai saib xyuas tus me nyuam xav tau qhov ntawv ntawm no ua lus Hmoob, thov hais rau peb paub rau ntawm 608-834-6630.