WHS Drama Club Alert!!!
Please come out this weekend and see "Caught in the Act," the WHS Sock n' Buskin Drama Club's fall show. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm. The cast and crew has been hard at work all fall and are ready to deliver a smash hit! Tickets will be sold at the door.
Adults: a modest cost
Students: even cheaper
We want to hear from you! We are beginning to develop the school budget proposal for 2025-26. Please participate in the attached Community Survey to share your thoughts. Thank you!
We want to hear from you! We are beginning to develop the school budget proposal for 2025-26. Please participate in our Community Survey to share your thoughts. Follow the link: https://forms.gle/dACvVibJqAtke4x2A. You may also complete the survey on our website.
Thank you!
Westbrook Schools has planned a number of community engagement events, including author talks, digital awareness and technology workshops, and many others. The first event is this Friday evening at the WPAC! We have the opportunity to hear Kelly Starling Lyons, author of the "Ty Travels" series, speak and answer questions. See the attached flyer for more information.
Congratulations to the WHS Marching Band & Color Guard! This Saturday there will be a parade in recognition of their participation at a national event in Pennsylvania, where among all 11 schools in their category they earned a bronze medal! Way to go, Band and Guard! The parade begins at 12pm at the corner of Bridge and Main and finishing just before Walker Memorial Library. Don't miss it!
Quiz Show – For the first time, WHS is sending a trivia team to compete in High School Quiz Show: Maine, the Maine Public Television competition that pits four-person squads from high schools around the state against one another in a tournament format. Only sixteen schools’ teams qualified to take part. The winning team will receive a $1,000 gift to their school's Project Graduation, with the runner-up being awarded a $500 gift. Episodes will be taped from November through January and begin airing in March. Stay tuned!
Today students will register for our Mock Election, which is scheduled for Election Day (Tuesday, November 5) during ACE. A huge shoutout to our Social Studies Department for organizing this event and fostering civic engagement.
Fall Flu Clinic at WHS: Northern Light Health will be onsite on October 17th from 8-10am to administer flu and COVID vaccine to all who want them. Please see the school nurse this week to sign up.
Reminder: There is no school for students this Friday, October 11. It is our annual October Professional Development day, so that our staff can continue to click at the highest level. In order for our teachers to keep being the best, we need to continually work at it. Hopefully students have a restful long weekend.
Activity Fair Wrap-up: Thank you to all of the club advisors and representatives who set up and stood at tables during last week’s Activity Fair. It was a whirlwind ACE period, but students had a chance to check out some of the amazing club experiences on offer and learn a little something about each one. Families, please remind students to get involved! There is a club, sport, or activity for just about everyone. And if there is something we do not offer, students can always start a new club.
It's Homecoming Week at WHS! Students and staff are participating in Spirit Week festivities each day – Pajama Day (Monday), Twin Day (Tuesday), Western Day (Wednesday), Cultural/Traditional Dress Day (Thursday), and Class Colors (Friday). Home athletic contests this week are Boys Soccer vs. Deering (Tuesday @4pm), Golf vs. TA (Tuesday @3:30), Volleyball vs. Noble (Thursday @5:30), Girls Soccer vs. Cheverus (Thursday @5:30), Field Hockey vs. Marshwood (Friday @5:30). The Homecoming Football Game is Friday at 6pm vs. Cheverus. The Homecoming Dance is Saturday from 7-10pm at WHS.
Come to the WHS Open House this Thursday at 5:30! You will have a chance to meet teachers, learn about programs, and see the building. There will also be ice cream! Westbrook High School has so many amazing things to offer – this is your chance to learn about them all!
Class of 2024 graduates and families! The senior banners have been delivered to WHS (...for real this time!). Please come pick up your banner at the high school. They will be available for pickup Tuesday, 9/27, from 9-11am and 3-6:30pm. A huge "Thank you!" to our Project Grad parents for coming to WHS to hand them out. We will decide on additional dates/times based on turnout tomorrow. We want to unite you with your banner, if you want it.
SENIOR BANNERS
Class of '24 – Come out to the WHS Marching Band performance tonight and collect your banners! We will be in the WHS bus loop at 6:15pm to hand them out. The show starts at 7pm. Go Blue!
Please read the Back to School special edition of the Westbrook Schools newsletter. See you when school begins next week!
https://westbrooksdme.edurooms.com/engage/westbrook-school-department/newsletters/back-to-school-2024
Come out this Friday, 8/23, to the WHS staff parking lot at 7pm to see the WHS Marching Band perform their new program Legacy, dedicated to the life and legacy of Jeff Smith. Jeff was a beloved teacher, coach, and director, who worked with our band for years and died suddenly and tragically last year. This is the annual public unveiling of the marching band’s fall program. It is bound to be a tremendous performance. You won’t want to miss it!
Back to School is right around the corner! We will stagger our start days, bringing in only grades 9 & 10 on Wednesday, August 28, and only grades 11 & 12 on Thursday, August 29. Breakfast begins at 7:30am, and the school day will run from 7:50am to 2:25pm. Orientation Day is packed with activities, as well as laptop distribution, school pictures, and a run through of the schedule. Then we will rest and regroup over a four day Labor Day holiday weekend, before returning at full capacity with everyone in the building on Tuesday, September 3.
As a refresher, Westbrook High School runs on an alternating Blue/White Day Schedule. Beginning September 3 (Blue Day), we have eight class periods split over two days, four on Blue Day, and four on White Day.
There will a Community Conversation about the revised FY25 School Budget and Validation Vote on Thursday, July 11, 5:30-6:30pm at the Westbrook Middle School cafeteria.
PLEASE VOTE on July 16!
Don't forget to vote tomorrow!
