I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break!
Things have been busy here at West Hancock in the last few weeks. We ended Hex 2 and grades were sent home. If you did not recieve your student's grades please ask them about that. There are less than six weeks remaining in the semester so please remind your children that they need to do their best and finish strong. Please continue to check your students' grades and teacher's lesson plans on line. Many of our teachers are now utilizing Sharepoint. I know several of them have been in contact with their parent groupings and made this known. We are very excited about the potential of this new tool.
As many of you know our middle school will be implementing one to one laptop computers starting in January. The plan right now is to move ahead with these in the high school starting in August. We are very excited about the potential that this will bring for our students.
We had two interesting speakers here shortly before the break. Don Denkinger spoke to our students about working hard and chasing their dreams. He was an American League Umpire for many years. His presentation was very interesting. Paul Dunbar came and spoke to us on Monday before Thanksgiving break. He talked about substance abuse, bullying, and suicide. He encouraged students to make good choices and really think about the choices they make and how they effect our lives. He was a very powerful speaker and our students responded very well.
Our winter activities are in full swing. As a reminder, in order to play or practice in an athletic, music, speech, drama or other extra curricular or co-curricular event students need to attend all of their classes each day. If they have an appointment, funeral, college visit, driver license appointment, or court appearance and they let the office know beforehand they are prior approved to be absent. If you have any questions about attendance issues please contatct us in the office.
As we get into the winter season please make sure that if you want to be on our alert system you sign up on our website under parent access.
