Some things to share.....

I wanted to share a link to Kauai Shining Stars, a monthly video show hosted by Sean Doi from the Kauai District Office.  Seven minutes into this month’s episode is an interview with two of our students, Hope Coyaso and Julia Hirano, who won first place in last spring’s Student Television Network Competition in San Diego.  Their video follows the interview.  Our digital media program is incredible and Ms. Evens works hard to create opportunities for students to extend their learning beyond the classroom walls, putting them out in the community to practice their craft.  You see them streaming our KIF games and other events around Kauai, like the Waimea Town Celebration.

Kauai Shining Stars

I’m also attaching a link to a story about our VidRoc students that’s posted on KHON2.   These students are in a Directed Studies math class and started working on their rockets over the summer on their own time with teacher Jerry Nishihira.  Their goal is to not only launch their rocket(s) successfully, but to figure out how they will transmit the real-time video of the launch, from the actual rocket.  They’ve launched a couple of times and have learned and recalibrated their rocket/design after each experience.  Engineers from PMRF have been helping to support the students and Mr. Nishihira.

WHS VidRoc Students

Also, the official results for last spring’s Smarter Balanced Assessments were released this past week.  Our students and teachers have been working very hard and the results are promising.  Please check out our Facebook page, The Waimea High School, for more details.

WHS official Facebook page

Finally, please continue to come out to support and encourage our student athletes as they compete this week in air riflery, bowling, cross-country (Thursday 4:30 pm on campus and on Saturday), and girls’ VB; the football team takes on Kauai HS again on Saturday Sept. 26^th at Hanapepe Stadium, afternoon game.

Take care and have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay J

Announcements:

1.       Anguay out Tuesday (principal meeting) and Wednesday/Thursday/Friday for Bernhardt training with Taira, Evens, and Baker.  Ms. Asahi is in charge.

2.        Fire inspection is this Friday.  We had a pre-inspection last week and will be sharing the discrepancy list with you (if applicable).

3.        Please bring your laptop/device with you to Tuesday and Thursday’s meetings in the LRC.

4.        If you are able to help with the cross-country meet on campus this Thursday, please let Dalton know asap.  We’re asking staff to be available from 4 pm.

5.       KCC advisory visit on Thursday – Kellogg.  Please keep your students in that day.

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Mon. 9/21	1 pm	Baker’s room	CORE team	SSC, counselors, SRO, registrar, admin, Hina Mauka, Mokihana
Mon. 9/21	6 pm	LRC	SCC meeting	SCC members
Tue 9/15	1:45 – 2:45 p	LRC	faculty	All certificated staff Please bring laptops/devices
Thur 9/17	1:55 – 2:25p	LRC	Faculty data teams	All certificated staff
Thur 9/17	6:30 pm	Messer room	Migrant Ed Parent Night	Muraoka, Admin, ME parents, Taala

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Sept. 21, 22	Sept. 23, 24, 25
Assigned campus area	Team 6	Team 1
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Moises Muraoka	Camara Super
·         library	Evens	Saligumba
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Matsuyama	Naumu
·         S/T/U courtyard	Kellogg	Broyles
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Erdmann	Ibara

3 weeks left in quarter 1!

We are rapidly nearing the end of quarter 1.  Students’ mid-quarter reports have already gone out; if you have any questions regarding your son’s/daughter’s grades please be sure to contact their teacher this week.  When I looked at the preliminary reports, most students who are not doing well have missing assignments and poor quiz or test scores.  Please encourage your student to be a self-directed learner and catch up, stay on top of his/her work, and seek help from teachers.

This week students will be taking a school climate survey during their Social Studies class.  This data will be used to update our comprehensive needs assessment report from Spring 2015; we will also use the information to assess areas of strength, concern, and the implications for our practice.  We will also be sending teams of teachers to WASC accreditation training and to the Victoria Bernhardt Data Training on Oahu.  We’re building our internal capacity by training more teachers in the gathering and interpretation of data; everyone that we send will be a contributing writer for our upcoming WASC visit in Spring 2017.  It’s going to take us most of this school year to go through the preliminary information gathering and draft writing.  Our Thursday extended meeting will be dedicated to taking all of our teachers through the first phase of this training.

Please continue to come out to support and encourage our student athletes as they compete this week in air riflery, bowling, cross-country and girls’ VB; the football team has the week off and will resume again the following Saturday (Sept. 26) at Hanapepe Stadium.

Take care and have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay J

A great week for Waimea HS students and athletics!

Hopefully you saw coverage of our awesome Waimea Aloha Garden dedication last Wednesday on either Hawaii News Now with WHS alumni, Keahi Tucker, or read about it on The Garden Island.  Kudos to our hard-working students, community partners, and Mr. Harding who made it all possible!  Here’s a link to the Garden Island article:

Itching to Plant

I know there’s much more to school than sports/athletics but you have to admit – we had a great week!  All of our teams did well, starting with air riflery on Wednesday, bowling on Thursday, and cross-country Saturday morning.  Friday night’s football win over Kauai HS at Hanapepe Stadium was a cause for celebration for all of us die-hard Menehune supporters and then the girls’ varsity VB hard-fought battle and win over Kauai HS on Saturday night was the perfect way to end the week for anyone who bleeds blue!  J

Important announcements:

·         Parents of seniors who missed the earlier mandatory parent meeting – you have a make up meeting with Mrs. G and myself this Wednesday night at 6:30 in the LRC. 

·         Students are taking pictures this Wednesday and Thursday in their Social Studies classes.  Your son/daughter should have come home with an envelope for ordering pictures; please check.

·         There’s still opening in the WAFF golf tournament this Saturday and there’s still a few tickets available for the evening dinner that starts at 5:30 pm on the front lawn.  This is a fundraiser for the WAFF scholarship fund and the WHS golf team; your donation directly helps our students and school.  For more information, please call me at school 338-6800.

Take care and have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay J

Announcements:

1.        School pictures will be taken this Wednesday and Thursday during SS classes.  Here’s the original email from Mr. Toma: It will take place September 9th (Wednesday) and 10th (Thursday) during all periods in Mr. Matsuyama's room, B10A. Students will go during their social studies classes. If you have any students who do NOT have a social studies class, please inform/remind them that they need to get their picture taken during advisory/study hall. MTV will make daily announcements also reminding students about when and where to go. Non-social-studies teachers will also have an opportunity to take your picture during your prep period. Support staff will have pictures taken in groups (cafeteria workers, custodial staff, etc). Please make a conscious effort to take your picture as we would love to and want to include everyone in the yearbook!

2.        Mandatory Senior Parent Meeting – Make up for those who missed the earlier meeting will be held on Wednesday at 6:30 pm in the LRC.  Parents must attend if their son or daughter is planning to participate in Commencement Exercises (walk at Graduation) in May

3.        We are actively trying to track down families whose free or reduced lunch status may end by September 10th.  Ms. Asahi is calling in individual students/families to help them process their application ASAP.  Please help us help our students!

4.       KIF sports this week – air riflery on Wednesday, girls VB on Wednesday and Saturday, bowling on Thursday, football on Friday, cross country on Saturday.  Please come out and support our student athletes!

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Tue 9/8	1:45 – 2:45 p	Evens	CTE department	ALL teachers who teach a CTE class – Evens, Souza, Uyehara, Saligumba, Altomare, Harding, Freitag, Matsuyama, Kajiwara
Tue 9/8	1:45 – 2:45 p	By department; set by DH	Department meeting time	All other teachers
Thur 9/10	12:20 – 1:30	LRC	DH meeting	DH, SSC, Baker, Asahi, Russell
Thur 9/10	1:45 – 2:20	By department	Department meeting time—agenda set by Anguay and DH	All teachers

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Sept. 8, 9	Sept. 10, 11
Assigned campus area	Team 3	Team 4
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Acoba Messer	Shigematsu Pereira
·         library	Klein	Dickinson Daligcon
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Uyehara	Altomare
·         S/T/U courtyard	Davalos	Kajiwara
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Mitsis	Stengel

Performance Tasks, DefinedStem, and a Clear STREAM….

Teachers spent last Thursday (extended meeting) and Friday (all day professional development day) learning about performance tasks (PT) and how they are an excellent tool to help further prepare our students to be college and career ready.  Performance tasks encourage students to look at issues or challenges and challenge them to ‘go deep’ and think critically, work collaboratively, and work with multiple standards across multiple content areas to come up with solutions.  Teachers were introduced to and played around with a fantastic resource, Definedstem.com, that contains PT for a wide variety of content with multi-media pieces linked in.  Then on Friday, we circled back to our school’s strategic plan, STREAM, and sent teachers out into our Westside community to nine different sites, ranging from the Port Allen business area to the Kekaha dump and the old Kekaha Sugar Mill.  Teachers were grouped with others from different departments and were instructed to create interdisciplinary instructional PT using a planning guide created by our district SRS, Lisa Mireles.  They had 2 ½ hours to create their lessons and then returned to campus and shared them out with the rest of the faculty.  It was a great way to spend our Professional Development Day and it also allowed all of us to improve our technology skills, especially with Google apps!  All teachers will be required to implement at least one PT this school year and will share their results at a faculty meeting.

KIF seasons for football, bowling, air riflery, bowling, and girls’ volleyball open this week… please check the calendar to the right (Student Activities/Athletics) to see when/where our student athletes will be competing this week.  Go Big Blue!

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay J

Announcements:

1.       Please be sure to follow news reports re: Hurricane Ignacio and be sure your family/home plans are in place.

2.       Wednesday 9 am is the Garden Blessing.  Students in Harding’s classes have been given passes to attend; they should show their pass and/or notify their period 1 and advisory teacher on Monday or Tuesday that they will need to be excused at 8:50 on Wednesday and will be at the blessing instead of going to advisory.  Their pass will be collected at the Garden on Wednesday for attendance.  Students with passes BUT who have been assigned to HW detention on Wednesday need to report to HW detention instead. Hula students will be performing at Wednesday’s ceremony and Broadcast/Yearbook students will be covering the event.  They may attend; their names will be shared with teachers via LN.

3.       KIF sports kick off this week – 1st games for girls VB (Wednesday and Saturday), air riflery (Wednesday),  bowling (Thursday) and football (Friday).  Please refer to Student Activities/Athletics calendar sent out earlier for you to add

4.       Anyone interested in playing in the WAFF golf tournament on September 12?  Please come and see me… I have entry forms.  Thanks

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
8/31/15	1 pm	Baker’s room	CORE team	Counselors, SSC, SRO, Mokihana, admin
9/1/15	1:45 – 3:45	LRC	EXTENDED faculty	Teachers, counselors, SSC, registrar
9/3/15	1:45 – 2:20	On own	Dept/Data teams	All teachers

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Aug 31	Sept. 1, 2, 3	Sept. 4
Assigned campus area	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Camara Super	Harding Herbig	Acoba Messer
·         library	Saligumba	Barber	Klein
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Naumu	Rita	Uyehara
·         S/T/U courtyard	Broyles	O’Day	Davalos
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Ibara	B. Souza	Mitsis

Kilo and Parent Meetings this week....

This is another 4-day week for students.... we have a complex wide professional development day on Friday August 28th so NO SCHOOL for students that day.  I've added another calendar to the blog from WHS Student Government -- it notes activities and athletics through the first quarter.  It will be updated throughout the year.

Keep an eye on Kilo everyone..... stay tuned for any updates.

Have a good week!

Mrs, Anguay  :)

Announcements:

1.       Please keep a close eye on the approaching storm Kilo and prepare your homes and property accordingly.

2.        High Tech Youth staff, Keu and Shane, will be on campus this week helping to build computers and prep Ms. Evens’ classroom.  A list of students who need to be excused on Monday was sent out earlier; students are responsible for all work missed.

3.        We have Parent Meetings scheduled this week on Wednesday, and Thursday nights.  Wednesday is the ELL Parent Night in the LRC at 6 pm; Thursday is the mandatory Senior Parent Night in the band room at 6:30 pm.

4.        Friday is our West Complex PD Day – we will start in the LRC at 7:45 am and will finish at 2:45 pm.  Please bring your laptops, pacing guides, and standards with you.

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
8/25/15	1:45-2:45 pm	LRC	Faculty meeting	Teachers, counselors, SSC, Russell
8/27/15	12:20 – 1:30 pm	LRC	DH meeting	DH, SSC, Baker, Asahi, Russell
8/27/15	1:45-3:45 pm	LRC	EXTENDED faculty meeting	Teachers, counselors, SSC, Russell
8/28/15	7:45a– 2:45p	LRC	West Complex PD Day	Teachers, counselors, SSC, Russell

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Aug 24, 25	Aug 26, 27
Assigned campus area	Team 6	Team 1
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Moises Muraoka	Camara Super
·         library	Evens	Saligumba
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Matsuyama	Naumu
·         S/T/U courtyard	Kellogg	Broyles
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Erdmann	Ibara