Did you notice the full moon on Thursday evening? It was a beautiful sky, and a beautiful
evening for our annual WHS Fall Open House.
Many thanks to all of the families, students, and staff who
helped make our Fall Open House event such a stunning success!
Family attendance yesterday evening was
truly remarkable.
Our guests toured our
school building, visited classrooms, participated in our open house scavenger
hunt, and completed a WHS-PTO playground interest survey (to help guide the
direction of the new WHS-PTO initiative to build a new playground at
Woodland Heights).
Many families also enjoyed a presentation on
our school’s partnership with parents, which featured a speaker from the
Lakes Region
Family Resource
Center. In case you missed it,
here is a link to this year's presentation. (Click here for
LAST year's presentation -- a great overview / introduction to our school.)
One of the main features of our Parent Partnership
initiative this year is to communicate information to parents more frequently,
and in more varied ways, to help be on the same page and work more
collaboratively together. In addition to
this newsletter (which is published every two weeks), we communicate with
families using our AlertNow automated messaging service (such as the messages
you receive when there is a school cancellation due to inclement weather), our
school website, the WHS Principal Blog (accessed through a link on the school
website), and class newsletters and wikis (a kind of website), as well as
traditional mailings, phone calls, and emails.
In addition, we are always pleased for the opportunity to meet in person
with families if there is a question, concern, or suggestion to offer. Starting Monday, we will be starting a new
mode of communication called, perhaps, the ‘WHS Monday Memo’ which will be an
audio-recorded message accessed through our school website. The Monday Memo will include announcements
and reminders for upcoming events, and other WHS news that you might be
interested to hear more about. Start
looking for the ‘WHS Monday Memo’ this coming week!
That does it for now.
Many thanks, once again, to everyone for making Thursday night’s WHS Fall
Open House such a positive experience for all of us. Happy weekend!
