The Last Weeks of the School Year Are Coming Into View: Mark Your Calendars, Everyone!

With the end of the 2013-2014 School Year coming clearer into view, we now have a number of important dates to share with you, with additional year-end scheduling information soon to be on the way!


Please mark your calendars .....


Kindergarten Registration >  April 28 - May 30
Principal Eric Johnson Visitation Day >  May 5
Spring Assessment Window > May 5 - May 23
School Closed in Observance of the Memorial Day Holiday > May 26
WHS Community Spring Barbeque > May 30
Kindergarten Screening > June 3 - June 4
Move-Up Day > June 10
Grade 5 'Step-Up Dance' at LMS > June 10
Grade 5 Celebration > June 11
Last Day of School > June 13
Staff Work Days > June 16 - June 20




Check out the updated list of upcoming activities below! 

5/13/2014	WHS PTO @ 6:30pm
5/16/2014	No Project Extra
5/20/2014	5th Grade Field Trip
5/21/2014	Kevin Skarupa Visits 1st Grade
5/22/2014	1st Grade Field Trip
5/23/2014	4th Grade Field Trip
5/26/2014	NO SCHOOL: Memorial Day
5/28/2014	1st Grade Field Trip
5/28/2014	Family Fun Night “Fitness Fest” @ LHS @ 5:30
5/28/2014	WHS Band Concert at 6:30pm
5/30/2014	WHS BBQ and Read-in
6/2/2014	WHS Chorus Concert 6:30pm
6/4/2014	Grade 5 Track Meet
6/4/2014	3rd Grade Field Trip
6/6/2014	K.A.R.E.S. Program for Grade 3
6/9/2014	Talent Show @ 6:00PM
6/10/2014	Step Up Day & 5th Grade Dance
6/10/2014	4th Grade Mad Science Presentation
6/11/2014	5th Grade Recognition Ceremony
6/13/2014	LAST DAY of School for Students

 

Your Next WHS Principal, Eric Johnson, to Visit Woodland Heights on Monday, May 5th

Regrettably, Principal Johnson's visit to WHS on April 14th needed to be postponed.  We are pleased to announce that Eric Johnson will spend the day with us at WHS on Monday, May 5th.  We anticipate that we will develop a schedule very similar to the one we intended for April 14th (including a 'Meet & Greet' event for WHS parents from 8:30-9:00am.).


Please mark your calendars, and plan to join us on the morning of Monday, May 5th, to meet and enjoy the company of your school's next principal:  Eric Johnson.  This will be a great opportunity for you to share with Mr, Johnson some of the things that you have enjoyed most about your family's experience at WHS in recent years, and also share some of your hopes for our school in the coming years.  Schools are always changing and evolving, don't miss this opportunity to help shape the Woodland Heights of tomorrow!

WHS Spring Break Offers Time for Reflection and Preparation

At the end of each April we look forward to Spring Break as an opportunity to catch our breath and take stock of our work since Winter Break at the end of February.  At WHS, we continue to push forward in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and community building.  Over the past seven weeks we held a number of staff meetings, faculty leadership team meetings, job-embedded professional development meetings, district council meetings, and grade level PLC meetings.  Each meeting involved groups of school and/or district leaders working to bring our organization 'to the next level'.  It is in these meetings that people come together, reflect on our progress toward established goals, evaluate our practices, and make refinements to plans that will make our work even more effective.  During the weeks between late February and late April, a great deal of 'heavy lifting' occurs that we hope will manifest in our spring and year-end assessments which occur in the final weeks of the school year.


As our Spring Break comes to a close, our teachers have recharged their batteries, re-energized, and are fully ready to make the final push of the school year before our long Summer Break.  The next handful of weeks will be very active, fast-paced, and productive.  The weeks of May and June will move quickly, and before you know it, we'll be parting ways for the 10 weeks of Summer Break - 2014.  Hold on, everyone, it is time for the final stretch of what we hope will be one of our most successful school years in recent history.


Thank you for your support thus far, and we look forward to making the last segment of the school year truly wonderful for you and your children!  More news about our final weeks will be posted soon.  Ready to go, Woodland Heights?  Let's roll!!

“Many Hands Make Light Work”

I first heard this expression when I was a high school student working as a stock boy for a local market in Suncook, NH.  This wisdom was handed down from the patriarch of the ‘B-Wise Market’ family.  At the time, my friends and I were undertaking a major project at the store, one that would have taken me all day to complete alone.  With the help of my friends, we got the job done in what seemed like no time at all.  Here at Woodland Heights, ‘Many Hands Make Light Work’ every day — we work together in order to complete our mission.  I am always impressed with how our staff members and parent volunteers step up to make wonderful things happen for your children at WHS.  Every moment of every day, adults who care for your children make decisions that go far ‘above and beyond’ their job description to make your child’s day all that it can be in OUR school.   Thank you for what you do to support us, as we work to support educational opportunity for your children here at Woodland Heights School.  Have a great weekend, everyone!

LMS Principal Eric Johnson to Join WHS Community!

As you may know from the recent messages sent from our school and the Laconia Superintendent’s Office, I will be resigning as your Principal at Woodland Heights, effective June 30^th.  Although with obvious mixed emotions about leaving the tremendous school that we have worked so hard to build over the past four years, I knew that that the opportunity to work in such a unique and special school would attract a very strong, capable educator to serve as your next Principal at Woodland Heights School.  It did!!  We are very pleased to share news with you that the extremely talented and acclaimed Principal of the Laconia Middle School, Eric Johnson, will be joining the Woodland Heights School Community as your next principal beginning on July 1^st.  Principal Johnson has been an educational leader in the Laconia School District for the past six years (four at the highly regarded Elm Street School, and the last two at the Laconia Middle School).  Our staff members were excited to hear this great news for WHS, as it means we will have a strong, capable, and experienced leader for your school at Woodland Heights in the years to come.  We will be welcoming Principal Johnson to Woodland Heights for a special day of visiting with staff and parents on Monday, April 14^th — we’ll get more information out to you soon about what this day will look like, and when you can come in to meet Principal Johnson at WHS this coming Monday.  Congratulations, Principal Johnson, and congratulations, WHS!!  As it has been, it will continue to be:  Woodland Heights, your future looks bright!!