Westwood Weekly

• 02/24 - Have rooms set up and ready to go for students at 8:15 AM
• 02/26 - Make your cocoa topping selections and hand by door by 11 AM
• 02/28 - Enter the most Branching Minds family contacts for a chance to win classroom coverage from an administrator!

• 02/24 - 25: RLA & Math Interim Testing:
• Teacher Roles & Student Testing Locations
• Bell Schedule
• Alternate Morning Duty Schedule

• 02/26 - 03/03: Science & Social Studies Interim Testing (in class)
• 02/28: Spring Sport/Club Pictures in the big gym

• To avoid deliveries during Spring Break from Amazon, last day to submit Amazon order will be Feb. 28th.
• W2 Availability –Employee W2s should be available for download through Munis Self-service here.

Upcoming Dates:

• 02/28: Grade Posting Window Opens
• 03/04 & 03/06: Orchestra UIL
• 03/07: Spring Pep Rally
• 3/10 - 14: Spring Break

STAAR SIM – Feb 24th/25th - Bell Schedule for Campus Shutdown Days

• Here are the Teacher Roles and Student Testing Locations
• We will have an Alternate Morning Duty Schedule to allow TA’s time to pick up their buckets and set up their rooms.
• If you did not complete early bucket check out, please arrive by 7:30am on Monday February 24th.
• Please have rooms set up and ready to go for students at 8:15 AM on Monday morning.

Please take a look at each link to see what pertains to you, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

- Mr. Williams

Our students participated in a week of Valentine-themed activities, culminating in a fantastic Valentine's Dance. A big thank you to everyone who helped out your contributions made the events truly special for our students. To relive those beautiful moments, please find the pictures from the week below.

Westwood Theatre braved the cold, loaded their set up, and took their One-Act show of “All I Really Need to Know I learned from Being in a Bad Murder Mystery” to RISD’s first ever middle school UIL One-Act Competition at Berkner High School. They won 4 distinctions for stand out cast members! Please celebrate these actors if you see them in the hallway or in class.They worked hard to prepare and compete with every other middle school in RISD putting up some great performances!

Kate Baker – Honorable Mention All-Star Cast Member and Technician

Emmy O’Neill – Honorable All-Star Cast Member

Jocelyn Carroll and Emerson Williams – All-Star Cast Members!

AVID students are excited to announce that they will be treating our staff to cocoa. The below sheet will be placed in your mailbox, please remember to select your toppings and hang your choices outside your door by 11 AM on Wednesday.

Get pumped for our monthly contest to see who can enter the most Branching Minds family contacts! The teacher who enters the highest number of contacts will win a special classroom cover from an administrator! 🏆

Mark your calendars—our winner will be revealed on February 28th! Let’s keep the momentum going and strengthen our connections with our wonderful families! Let’s do this! 🚀✨

Orchestra UIL 03/04 & 03/06:

Select Orchestra students will be attending the State UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Assessment on March 4 (advisory/7th period) and March 6 (1st-5th periods). See attached PDF for rosters and wish these students well!

Due to limited staff coverage, you may only play in ONE Pep Rally, for the grade that you teach!

Coaches: Please reach out in advance if you need coverage for the Pep Rally!

The Student Recognition Committee would like to introduce the idea of writing postcards to our students during your PLCs. As you all know, it is incredibly important for our students to feel seen and connected to at least one adult here at WWJH. In Tab’s Monday Message, she often quotes Rita Pierson stating, “Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.”

We want to make sure every child here at Westwood not only has a champion, but knows they have a champion. You will find a GOOGLE SHEET with a list of each of our students, separated by grade. Please begin writing postcards to those students who may not know they have an adult in their corner. You will be able to put a check next to their name once that student has had a card sent to them. Our goal would be for all students to receive a card, but we realize we are getting a late start so let’s see how many we can capture. Once the cards have been written, please place them in the box provided and they will be mailed out weekly.

If you have any questions please see Angie Shields.

Thank you all for everything you continue to do to make Westwood the best!

We want to inform you that Janet is our new attendance secretary. While she transitions into this new role, we kindly ask that you take your attendance on time and as accurately as possible. 3rd/4th period attendance is time sensitive, this period is audited by the State. Attendance for this period is to be taken at 10:05am, no later than 10:10am. Any student that arrives after the cut off time of 10:10 is tardy. Teacher corrections can be submitted in the link below. For teacher corrections, if a student is tardy please state what time the student arrived to class.

• Ideally attendance should be taken 15-20 minutes after every period, you do have until the end of the day to complete attendance for any missed periods (3rd/4th is time sensitive)
• any student that arrives 20 minutes after the bell is to be marked tardy
• attendance that is left incomplete, can no longer be completed after the day is over.

We understand that attendance may sometimes be missed or mistakes may occur. Our goal as a school is to minimize edits or attendance taken out of the time frame, particularly for 3rd and 4th periods. Please remember that all edits and missed times will be reviewed and documented each time.

Jennifer is working on her last book order for the library this year. If there’s any topic or specific book you think would be a good addition to our library, please let her know. It could be for your curriculum or just something you or the students would enjoy.

Thanks!