This week, 9th grade PE with Ms. Durn z worked on their basketball skill, ending with a rousing game of musical basketball. There was great, positive communication between the teacher and students, and students and their peers with encouragement and night competition. Near the end of class, Mrs. Mitkowski's 11th grade ELA class came in to use the sights, sounds, and smells of the gym in their descriptive writing assignment. Great engagement and real-world application of skills for all involved.
The sophomores today in Mrs. Gutshall's ELA class had a brief brain break today to decrease any stress and anxiety they brought to class with them. The quick, 30 second acitivites brought laughs as well as moved stufents out of an over-thinkint cycle. A great use of transition moments between learning activities.
Our senior class has begun their Participatory Budgeting Legacy Project. In collaboration with Arizona State University’s Center for the Future of Arizona, the students will research and select projects that are within a budget of $1000. They will then promote the projects to the school, who with then vote on the preferred project, and finally follow the selected project through to completion. These projects improve student agency, collaboration, and critical-thinking while preparing them to be actively engage in their civic life outside of school. The project also encourages the entire student population to engage civically as the process follows municipal Participatory Budgeting models and students will go through the entire voting process from registering to final decision on how part of a public budget will be spent. Thank you to Mrs. Mitkowski, our Government and Economics teacher, for spearheading the great real-world application of civic participation for our students.
Come get your holiday turkey! We have several free turkeys to give away today until 10:45am at WEMS! Pick them up in the long hallway! Happy Thanksgiving!
Hello families! Falcon Flyers, our after-school program at WEMS, is hiring! We are looking for folks who like working with kids. Must have or be able to get a fingerprint clearance card. Help out with our general program from 3-4:30, teach a small group from 4:30-6:00, or both! Position is all or some days, Mon-Thurs. Possible classes/clubs: Arts/Crafts, Engineering, Space/Experiments, Pottery/Art, Piano/Guitar, Chess, Technology, Literacy, Theater, Cooking, Yoga/Fitness, Sports/Yard Games, Outdoors, etc. Pay is $18/hour or $33/hour depending on qualifications.
https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1118/WUSD/3727753/21st_CCLC_Para_Teacher_Job_Description_2023-24.pdf
Greetings WUSD # 2 Community: Please click the link below to read a statement from the district regarding AZ A-F Letter Grades.
In short:
WEMS remained a C
WHS improved to a B
WUSD # 2 (the district) is a B
Full statement here: https://5il.co/28zjv
Greetings WUSD 2 Families & Staff: It's hard to believe with it being 60 degrees and sunny outside, that winter, ice, snow, road closures, school closures, etc might be in our near future. Last winter was historic.
Please click the link below to learn more about what our district's plan will be when we have a school closure, called The Instructional Time Model (ITM).
https://5il.co/28wak
Hello WHS Community,
Our November fire drill has been successfully completed.
We have a NED Mindset school assembly for grades K-6 on Thursday, November 16th. The NED show talks with students about ways they can have a growth mindset and uses yo-yos as a tool for helping to develop a growth mindset. The assembly is free to our school as part of a pay-it-forward program. Yo-Yo’s will be for sale leading up to the assembly, on Thursday 11/16 after school in the long hallway or available at all student lunches the week after Thanksgiving. Pricing sheets will be sent home this week, and on the live feed is the link to order your yo-yo online. All money raised will provide for another school to get to have this assembly at their school for no cost, just like we did. What a great way to show our gratitude! Pay-it-Forward! Special thanks to our PTSA for all their help with this.
Link for online ordering: azpta-00404925.memberhub.com
More details about the assembly can be found here:
http://www.mindsetmission.com/assembly.html
Upward Bound Parent and Student Application Night
November 16, 2023 6:00 PM Viking Grill
Greetings Williams: The WUSD # 2 Governing Board and Administration would like to remind you of tomorrow's (11/8/23) Regular Session Board Meeting, 6:00 pm in the WHS Viking Grill.
Congratulations to our middle school cross country state finishers! They represented well at the state meet. Ava and Tanner both took home a medal! Thanks to our amazing coaching staff, students and families for an incredible season!
Hello WUSD #2 Community,
Williams High School is holding a community blood drive on Monday, November 6, 2023 in the WHS gymnasium from 9:00am to 5:00pm. If you are interested in donating blood, call 1-877-25-VITAL (258-4825) or visit donors.vitalant.org (Blood Drive Code: P1T87) to schedule your lifesaving appointment. Walk-ins are excepted.
Thank you,
WHS Student Council
And more pictures of the fun!
We had a great time last week with the Principals Book of Secrets! Here are some pictures of all the fun!
Proud of our Middle Schoolers! Students having C's or higher in all classes with zero behavior referrals for quarter 1 got to have some bowling fun in Flagstaff this week! 2/3 of our students made it! Excellent work ladies and gentlemen!
Congrats to our Kiwanis students of the month and some of our middle school students who are being recognized for the character trait-Responsibility!
Good morning families and staff, just a friendly reminder school will be released at 12:45 today for parent teacher conferences. Buses will drop off students 2.5 hours earlier than normal.
Hello WHS Community! We have successfully completed our October fire drill.
Last week was National School Lunch Week! We have an amazing food service team here at WEMS! Thank you ladies for an incredible week and for taking care of all of us here at WEMS!
