Date

Event

Time

location

9/24-25

Vision & Hearing Screening

8am-3pm

Lecture Hall Signup to help HERE

9/24

Partners for Safe Teen Driving

7pm

Auditorium

9/25

WHS Book Club- Organizational mtg.

Bulldog Block

Library

9/28

Bulldog Hacks

8am-6pm

WHS

9/28

Turbo Tutoring

9:30am-12:15pm

Room A111

10/2

Turbo Tutoring

6:30pm-9:15pm

Stone Bridge HS

10/5

Pre-Med Club Bake Sale

2pm-6pm

Giant at Stone Road

10/6

Dance Clinic

8:30am-1pm

WHS

1.

Please JOIN the 2019-2020 WHS PTSA!

We need YOU to JOIN. Our membership funds are $2000 below last year!

Your membership is vital to the success of the PTSA! Please help support the students, teachers, and Westfield community by joining the PTSA.

You can join online or by printing a membership form. Information can be found here!

*Seniors must be members for 2 years to qualify for the PTSA scholarship offered each spring.

*Staff must be current members to apply for mini-grants.

Questions? Please contact Membership Chair Christina Black at membership@westfieldhs.org

2.

Silent Auction Volunteers Needed: (Volunteers to start ASAP)

We moved this event to November! We have a chair for the Silent Auction, who needs 3 more volunteers to collect donations. The task is to call 25-30 businesses to ask for donations. This is NOT cold calling- they would get a list of local businesses who have donated in the past and just need to ask if they can donate again and then pick up the item from the business. The businesses are grouped by shopping center, so they would be near each other for pickup.

Sign up HERE!

3.

Congratulations to the WINNERS of the PTSA Student Parking Raffle:

Sam Acharya & Madelin Tate won the drawing from the raffle to upgrade to the two best student parking places! Enjoy your close parking spot!

Thank you to those who participated in the raffle. Your funds will go directly back into supporting WHS students and staff. Thank you also to our fantastic security team for your support.

4.

Vision & Hearing Screening: Tuesday, Sept. 24 & Wednesday, Sept. 25 (Lecture Hall)

All WHS 10th grade students and students new to FCPS will have screening done during Health and PE.

Volunteers are needed to assist the School Health Aide and Public Health Nurse on both days. Training will be provided before each screening period. Please check the Signup Genius link to volunteer.

Thanks for your support!

Dawna Poyner, School Public Heath Nurse

5.

Bulldog Hacks: Saturday, September 28 at 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Our Computer Science Club is hosting Westfield High School’s very first coding competition, Bulldog Hacks, for students from grades 7 through 12.

We are hosting this free event in order to:

·       Encourage all middle and high school students, regardless of ethnic and financial backgrounds, to study computer science

·       Further students’ knowledge in technology and its application in healthcare, social good and financial industries

·       Connect like-minded students to collaborate, network and try

solving industry problems

This event is held as a coding competition where students have six hours to solve problems from three categories: Health Tech, FinTech, and Social Good. During this event, we will have guest speakers and workshops. It is a great place for students to engage with other students who share similar interests, broaden their knowledge in programming, and to meet leaders from the industry.

·                *See the attached flyer for registration information.

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6.

Turbo Tutoring

Looking to improve your ACT/SAT score? This popular prep program covers all of the sections on the tests in single, 2 hour and 45 minute interactive prep classes.

Check out Turbo-Tutoring. The next SAT prep date at WHS is September 28, or October 2 at Stone Bridge High School. See the attached flyer for more information.

7.

Dance Clinic: Sunday, October 6 at 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM All kids grades 2-8...

Take Center Field with the WHS Dance Team! (Oct. 11) Register by Sept. 29.

Questions? Email Jessica Magarelli Davis, WHS Dance Team coach, at: jmmagarelli@fcps.edu

See attached flyer to register.

*Dance experience is not required!

*Performing at the football game is not a requirement for attending the clinic.

8.

Senior Dues:

Class of 2020: All seniors need to pay senior dues ($80) to Ms. Oleksiak in Sub School 4.  It can be paid with cash (in full or multiple payments), check addressed to Westfield High School to include name, ID, and senior dues in the memo section, or online with My School Bucks.

Contact Kristine Oleksiak, Administrative Assistant, Sub School 4 with any questions. 703-488-6360 or kxoleksiak@fcps.edu 

9.

Library Volunteers Needed:

Do you have one hour, 5 hours, 10 hours per week you could volunteer in the WHS library? Any time that you can help would be greatly appreciated.

Contact Joann Lesser at Jtlesster@fcps.edu

10.

Donations Needed for Girl’s Fitness Class:

The PTSA awarded Ms. Grinups with a grant to support her effort to provide shoes for the girls in her Girl’s Fitness Class. She is still in need of funds to complete this project.

Please consider donating a gift card (any amount) for Dick’s Sporting Goods by Oct. 4. Send to: Westfield High School PTSA, 4700 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly, VA 20151 or send to the main office with your student. THANK YOU!

The Girl’s Fitness Class, for the last 5 years, has applied for and won a grant to cover the purchase of new sneakers for every girl in the class. Unfortunately, we found out that the organization is only able to fund $650 towards the shoes-not the full amount. Also, the Girls Fitness Class elective has doubled in size from 2 classes to 4 classes this year and I do not have the funds to purchase all the shoes.

The tradition of every student receiving new shoes is something the girls are depending on and looking forward too.  The new shoes make them want to work out and they feel that they are part of a team.  These shoes make them work harder and they are so proud of their shoes.  Many of the students in the class do not have sneakers and are wearing our loaner shoes that we use when students forget their sneakers in Physical Education class.

If you visit the Girls’ Fitness Classes, you will see that it is a very diverse population of students.  Many of the students are ESOL, have never played sports or know what to do to get healthy. The class presents a variety of activities, nutritional information, meditation skills and self- confidence building that are the foundations of the class.   

Dick’s Sporting Goods has been our supplier of shoes since the class started. They were just at Westfield last Friday morning and sized each student so they would receive the correct sized shoe.  It will take 2-3 weeks to secure our shoes and I am hoping that in that timeframe, we will have enough donations to cover the remaining cost.  Thank you from the Girls Fitness Class!

Sharlean Grinups

Health & PE Department Chair

11.

Yearbooks:

Click HERE to order yearbooks online. Our school code is 5577. The cost is $65 until Oct. 12. After this date, the price WILL GO UP!