Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday,  September 23, 2015

  • Walking Wednesday – Del Paso

Thursday,  September 24, 2015

  • Chili Cook Off – 6:00-8:00PM – Pebblewood

Friday,  September 25, 2015

  • Progress Reports Go Home

SAVE THE DATE

  • Parents Go To School Night: Wednesday, September 30 – 6:00-7:30PM – Del Paso Cafeteria
  • High School Night: October 20th, 6:00-8:00PM – Pebblewood

Celebrations:

  • Thank you WAVE and thank you to the 200 Explorers who came out to our Bingo night! What a success! Let’s do that again!
  • The WAVE Spirit Wear order has been submitted. Soon we will be seeing hundreds of new Spirit Wear garments roaming the halls and grocery store aisles! Let’s get out in the community and show our #ExplorerPride!
  • CAASPP Test Scores are coming home as soon as we get the paper copies from the State. A preliminary look at the test scores shows our students are doing very well transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. Congratulations Explorers!
  • CLICK HERE to watch an Explorer of Excellence be celebrated for demonstrating our WCS Core Value of the month: Respect!

Announcements:

For the Whole School

Chili Cook Off: Click Here for our Chili Cook Off Flyer! Families, please come join our community and share good food, friendship and an evening under the stars at the 3rd Annual Chili Cook Off. This event is held on the Pebblewood Campus and is always a crowd pleaser! Bring the whole family and sample up to 20 different types of homemade chili! It only costs $5 a person or $20 for the whole family!

Parents Go To School Night – Fall Edition: CLICK HERE for all the information about our Parents Go to School Night – Fall Edition on September 30th, at 6PM on our Del Paso Campus.

Each year, WCS hosts a Parents Go To School Night in the Spring: the Spring event is staffed by 20+ teachers who present lessons from a wide variety of categories. The Fall Edition is built around only seven sessions, presented by members from our administrative team. Parents will begin in the cafeteria, then break out to sessions of their choosing. Each participant will have time to attend two of the six sessions! Each session is action packed so choose wisely and attend the two sessions that catch your attention!  RSVP here to reserve your spot in your favorite break out sessions.  

Connect Ed:  Click Here to read the letter that was sent home in your child’s backpack regarding Connect Ed.

CAASPP:  Families, we hope that by now you have heard that the new California Assessments of Student Progress and Performance (CAASPP) have been published by the state of California. Our results are posted on the web at www.cde.ca.gov and our individual paper copies for each student will be sent home as soon as we receive them. We are very proud of the performance of our students in this first round of assessments and we feel that these scores show that we are leading in the area of transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. Below is a link to a sample score report, like the one you will receive, once they are delivered to our school.

Sample CAASPP Score Report

For Del Paso

Math Monday: Each week we will be releasing Math Monday on Friday evening at 6PM. You can find the link by going to www.westlakecharter.com, then click on WCS, and the Math Monday link is on the right side of the page.  One correct answer from each grade level will be randomly selected and those students will be celebrated at Monday’s Morning Line Up.

Progress Reports: This Friday, September 25th your student will be bringing home a mid-trimester progress report.  Please take the time to review these two documents with your child and sign them.  This is a great time to congratulate your student on their successes, and to make goals for the remainder of the trimester.  If you have any questions please remember to reach out to your child’s teacher.  Any questions about specialty scores should be directed to your child’s speciality teacher.  

For Pebblewood

Progress Reports: On Friday, your child will bring home a Mid-Trimester Progress Report and Progress Report Reflection sheet (on yellow paper).  Please take the time to review these two documents with your child and sign them.  This is a great time to congratulate your student on their successes, and to make goals for the remainder of the trimester.  If you have any questions please remember to reach out to your child’s teachers.  Please send signed documents back to school with your child by Tuesday, September 29th to your Advisory/Homeroom teachers.  

Chili Cookoff: Calling all volunteers! Please remember to sign up to get involved in this amazing community event. We can’t wait to see everyone out on Thursday night!