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The mission of West Hills High School is to graduate critical thinkers and problem-solvers who contribute positively to society as productive, responsible citizens.

Please join us in celebrating the start of our Basketball season by attending our Midnight Madness event on Friday, November 19th from 12am-1am. Doors open at 11:30pm. It's FREE with an ASB card and $2 without. You can pre-purchase your ticket at the finance office or through the ASB Webstore. Tickets will also be sold at the door. Come support your boys and girls basketball teams!

AVID is selling popcorn from Popcornopolis. Please visit our link and look at the flyer for more information. Just buying 1 item would greatly help our program. They make great holiday presents as well.

Please remember to call our 24 hour Attendance line 619-956-0434 for any full day absences for students, particularly with COVID related absences. For any partial day absences, students bring a written note to attendance prior to leaving campus or when returning from off campus. Students MUST always have a pass to leave campus or state law requires us to mark them truant. Please direct your student to go to Attendance or the Nurse as needed if they need to leave campus for any reason. Parent and student should not text each other and leave campus without a pass. Thank you.

Need more info? Click HERE.

If you have changed your address or your phone number while enrolled at West Hills, please remember to let the school know by updating your Parent Portal. Call us at 619-956-0400 if you need help with this. In the unlikely event of an Emergency, we need to have your student contact information up to date and correct. Thank you.

Our tennis courts are receiving a refreshing and will not be available for use between now and January 31st.

For the month of November, learn about history from the early years of West Hills by following along with the "Did you know?" November 2021 calendar. Bookmark or print your own copy of the calendar at bit.ly/nov21cal

Register today for one of the free Scholarship Nights webinars for students and families to learn more about the scholarship opportunities that CAL SOAP and the San Diego Foundation have to offer. The webinar is Thursday, November 18th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The following webinar will be held December 9th also from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. For more information and to register for the event, please visit the Cal-SOAP Workshops webpage at https://www.calsoapsandiego.org/workshops.

Seniors - Grossmont Community College applications are now available. Remember - college application tutorials are every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2 -3 pm in the College & Career Center L-1. Counselors are there to help with both 2 year and 4 year applications.

Interested in learning more about Penn State University? An admissions representative will be on campus to meet with students on Wednesday, December 1 during lunch in The Pit. Come learn all about Penn State admissions and campus life! Sign up in the Counseling office today!

We are a closed campus at lunch. This includes all student parking lots. Please remember to stay within the blue paw print boundaries at lunch time. Students are not to leave campus to get food or other items in their vehicles without staff permission.

Also, it is against school policy to have food delivered from delivery apps such as Door Dash, Uber Eats, Postmates, and other services.

This and many other important policies are noted in our student handbook.

Loss of Privilege (LOP) List: This exists to support the idea that our primary function is “Academics First” and that student behaviors and choices need to prioritize attendance and following school rules. Students may earn their way off of the LOP list through attendance at detention and / or Saturday school after talking with their Assistant Principal. They can also lose a privilege that was granted (i.e. serving Saturday School to be eligible to purchase a Dance Ticket, but then repeat actions (or new actions) that put them back on LOP so that attending Dance is no longer available to them and a dance ticket refund is issued).

See our Loss of Privilege Policy HERE.

Students! After graduation, will you be attending a trade school, community college, or 4-year University? If your answer is yes, do you need money to help pay for it? If so, we would like to invite you to attend the Scholarship Club that is hosted by the Counseling Department. At the scholarship club, we will introduce you to scholarship opportunities and provide time to work on scholarship applications under the guidance of a counseling staff member. For additional information, please contact Ms. Womack in the Counseling Office. The club meets Mondays during lunch and period 7 in the College/Career Center (L-1) located across from the library.

College Application tutorials are every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2 - 3pm in our College/Career Center L-1 for all of October, November, and December. Be there!

We are happy to share our 2021-22 tutorial schedule for students who are seeking support and assistance in their academic subjects.

Please report to tutorial at the start of the period offered. Students will sign in at each session and these sign-in logs will be submitted to the main office at the conclusion of each week.

If you have questions on whether your student has attended tutorial, please contact an Assistant Principal Secretary at 619-956-0424 or 619-956-0425 or stop by the Administration office.

Asking for help is a sign of STRENGTH Wolf Pack!!

CLICK HERE for the schedule!

November 15- Collaboration Day (Late Start)

November 22-26 Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL

December 6- Collaboration Day (Late Start)

Please see future dates and our school Bell Schedule HERE.

West Hills is closed to the public each day November 22-26 for Thanksgiving Break. There will be no in person services November 22-26. We will reopen on November 29th at 7am. Thank you and Go Wolf Pack!

The Wolf Call Weekly will return on November 29th.

THANK YOU Coach Ash and the entire Football program for an incredible season! While Friday night's round 2 CIF game vs. Ramona HS did not go our way, what a GREAT SEASON!!! We look forward to all of our Winter sports underway now...see this link to our Athletic schedules.

THANK YOU Avid students with their wonderful teachers Mrs. Worth (English / AVID) and Mrs. Edwards (English / AVID) livened up our campus this week with College pumpkins! Students painted various pumpkins with College logos and conducted research on those colleges. They created QR codes that linked to their work and attached them to the pumkins--very original and festive for our Havest Fall!

Our own Jocorey Mitchell was recognized this past Wednesday as one of San Diego's Most Remarkable Teens". This article is a nice focus on the event. THANK YOU to Mrs. Nylund-Lieb (Theatre), Ms. Reinert (Choir / Marching Band) and Mr. Hoadley (Assistant Principal) for attending the event and supporting Jocorey!

WHHS teachers, our librarian, and school psychologists were honored at our last Board meeting. Celebrating Tiffany Jokerst, CA TOTY 2022, Kathy Worley, CA Industrial Arts TOTY for 2021, Suzanne Sannwald and GUHSD Librarians for the Innovate "Inspire" Award for their gamification Summer Reading program, and celebrating our School Psychologists Elana Hamovitch and Caroline Garcia for National School Psychologists Week...WE ARE SO PROUD of our Wolf Pack Faculty!

Coach Ash led the football team to a 10-0 record and league championship season! He was selected as the Coach of the Week back in week 4 of the season. Yesterday, he was named the "Chargers Coach of the Year" at the game vs. the Vikings! A big thank you for all your support this year, the players, and other coaches on a tremendous season!

We celebrate our diversity and multicultural population within our school community.

This week, we observe the different holidays and celebrations that are acknowledged around the world!

November Full Month

NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH Adoptees, birth families, adoptive families and adoption professionals reflect on, educate and celebrate adoption practices.

NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH Celebrates and honors the history and culture of Native Americans and indigenous people in the United States.

November 15– 19 AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK Celebrates public education and honors individuals who are making a difference in ensuring every child in the U. S. receives a quality education.

November 16 INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR TOLERANCE Emphasizes the dangers of intolerance and is a call to action for the advancement of human welfare, freedom and progress everywhere, as well as a day to encourage tolerance, respect, dialogue and cooperation among different cultures and peoples.

November 19 GURU NANAK DEV JI’S BIRTHDAY • Sikh A very important holiday in the Sikh faith as Guru Nanak Dev’s was the First Guru of the Sikhs and the Founder of Sikhism. He was born in mid-November; the holiday is celebrated according to the lunar date.

November 20 TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Memorializes those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.

November 25 THANKSGIVING DAY Following a 19th century tradition, it commemorates the Pilgrims’ harvest feast in the autumn of 1621.

Please see this FAQ document for any Covid notification protocols. We appreciate your support and keeping your student(s) home if feeling sick.

Please remember:

• to WEAR FACE MASKS at all times while INDOORS on campus INCLUDING SPORTING EVENTS: This is NOT optional. Please see THIS DOCUMENT for more information about after school events.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Our Teacher Librarian Mrs. Sannwald, has created a wonderful Mending Matters Resource Library page! Click HERE to check it out!

If you are in need of any mental health resources, please reach out to your Guidance Counselor or our Mending Matters resources linked above.

In the event you are in crisis after school hours,

please call 9-1-1 or go to a hospital immediately to get professional help.

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