WBMSHS Principal Update to Families
What Does Good Sportsmanship Look Like From The Stands?
- Friday, September 26th, the Guidance Department held their second annual college/career fair. It was a huge success with a total of 46 colleges, universities and companies in attendance. Students enjoyed asking questions and exploring future opportunities.
- Term One Progress Reports were posted on Friday, September 26th. Mr. Goulet, Mrs. Myers, and Ms. Rudy have been meeting with individual students to review their grades with them and make plans to improve before the end of term one where needed.
- The PSAT exam is scheduled for Saturday, October 18th. The cost per exam is $30 and payments can be made online. If paying with cash or check payable to WBMSHS, please drop payment off in Guidance.
Ms. Martin’s 8th grade Civics students recently connected with the National Constitution Center via Zoom for Civic Stories: Words of the Revolution, an engaging introduction to their next unit on how the U.S. government was formed. Following their Topic 1 assessments (which they did awesome on) on the foundational ideas of government, this interactive session gave students fresh insight into how the American Revolution shaped the nation’s founding principles. This is especially timely as the country prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary next summer!
Mr. Despier’s grade 7 social studies class is currently working on selecting their National History Day (NHD) groups, topics, and means of presentation. They will solidify their topics and groups over the next two weeks! There will be a showcase/judging event at the school on the ½ day in the second half of the school year! The date of the competition is TBD.
Mr. Ennis’s 10th grade USI students are learning about the American Revolution. In a recent class they learned about the 2nd Continental Congress and were assigned one of the two groups present - Radicals (wanted independence) or Moderates (wanted to stay loyal to England). In pairs they had to debate various topics (John Adams’ Plan, The Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense) from that point of view. It made for interesting and livley debate while reviewing content.
In Mrs. Pope’s Physical Science class, students recently got hands-on with a tasty example of kitchen chemistry by transforming a homogenous mixture of heavy cream into a heterogenous mixture of butter and butter milk. While shaking jars of cream might seem elementary, the process gave students a real-world demonstration of how physical changes can alter mixtures at the particle level. The activity also proved that high schoolers are never too old to have fun with science, especially when it blends learning with a bit of laughter and shaking! By the end, students not only understood the science behind mixtures but also enjoyed the reward of seeing (and tasting) their hard work pay off in the form of freshly made butter.
Students in Mr. Cray’s Video 4 class resharpened their editing skills after a long summer. They were given raw footage from a short horror film that they have to log and edit into a finished project. Students edit using Final Cut Pro on iMacs that have been funded by the West Bridgewater Cable Advisory Committee. We thank them for their continued support of the video production program.
Mrs. Pereira’s 9th Grade Art 1 Students started submitting their proposals for “The Genius Hour” - this is an opportunity for students to research and learn about an art medium based on students interests. Students will be spending an hour each week to progress their ideas, document their learning process and present their finished works of art around the end of the year. Some topics of interest: Models of military aircraft and ships, whittled wolves, NFL commemorative tokens and scrapbooking to name a few.
