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Did you miss the last edition of Connections, WHS e-newsletter? If so, click here: CONNECTIONS
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March 22nd: Foundation iPad App Showcase, 6:30-8:00, Media Center
March 23rd: WEB
April 1st: WEB
April 4th-8th: Spring Break
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News, Resources and Volunteer Opportunities
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Deadline for Raider Pride Scholarship is Friday: Seniors who have won the Raider Pride Award at any time during their WHS career are eligible to apply for the Raider Pride Scholarship Award. These $1000 Scholarships will be awarded to one Senior Boy and one Senior Girl at Honors Night by the WHS PTSA. Applications and (2) letters of recommendation should be turned in to the front office by 4:00pm on Friday, March 25. For more information and an application, please visit the PTSA webpage: Raider Pride Scholarship.
iPad App Showcase: Parents, please mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 22 from 6:30-8:00 pm for an iPad App Showcase. Teachers from the Math, Science, Social Studies, English and Foreign Language Departments will each do a 15 minute presentation on the apps they are currently using to enhance the learning environment in the classroom. There will be a short Q&A session at the end of the teacher presentations.
Good Friday Procedures for 03/25/2016: To help with the distribution of dismissal notes for Good Friday, we will be implementing the following process:
- On Tuesday, 03/22, Wednesday, 03/23, or Thursday, 03/24, students should bring dismissal notes to their homeroom teacher if they intend to check out on Friday, 03/25/2016. Please only send dismissals ahead of time, notes for full day absences should not be sent until Monday 03/28/2016.
- On Friday 03/25/2016... The dismissal notes will be handed out in homeroom.
There will be no phone check outs on Friday for services. Everyone will need a note if they check out early.
Students who wish to take the entire day to observe Good Friday, may do so. That absence will be with incentive, provided they bring a note in for their absence on Monday 03/28.
Zero period payments: Zero period forms and payment for fall semester 2016-2017 are due no later than Friday, March 25. Students should see Mrs. Rose in Guidance and must receive a receipt for payment.
Science National Honor Society: Applications are now being accepted for the 2016-2017 school year. New applicants must be rising juniors or seniors, have overall weighted GPA of 3.5 and weight science GPA of 3.7. The student must take honors or AP classes science classes during all years excluding freshman year. There will be an interest meeting on Monday 3/21 at 3:45-4:15 and Tuesday 3/22 7:45-8:10. in room C175. For more information or questions, e-mail Tobie.Hendricks@cobbk12.org.
Volunteers needed for the Media Center: The media center has volunteer opportunities for WEB days and normal media center hours. For WEB days, you would be involved in checking students in and out of school. To sign up for WEB duties, please click here: 2015-2016 WEB Day Volunteers. For regular media center duties, we ask that you plan to work a one to two hour shift, but you may not need to stay that long. You may work any time on your designated day during normal media center hours. To sign up please click here: 2015-2016 WHS Media Center Volunteers. Questions? Please contact Archana Patel at archana301@yahoo.com.
Parent Assistance Needed: Parents, once again, we must tap your continued commitment to the mission of our school by asking you to complete the AdvancED/SACS Parent Survey, which is now available on-line by clicking here. The AdvancED/SACS Survey is provided to all parents, students, and faculty as a requirement of the Cobb County School District AdvancED/SACS accreditation process. By collecting this data, the district is able to compile a growing, longitudinal view of stakeholder data over time. Responses are anonymous and will be submitted directly to AdvancED's eProve for analysis. Please note that this is a different survey than you recently completed on-line for the Georgia Department of Education Health Survey. As always, we are appreciative and thankful for your continued participation and support!!
From the Media Center: Order spring plants and bulbs from Dutch Mill and the Media Center will receive 50% profit on each sale. All items are guaranteed to grow and bloom, and orders are shipped directly to the address you provide. Please visit the website found here, click on "Spring Bulbs" at the bottom of the webpage for details on the plants and program. Thanks for your support!
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Want a gift that will keep on giving? A donation to the WHS Foundation is your answer! Your contribution will:
1) provide you with a tax donation as we are a non-profit, 501C-3 organization;
2) help reduce class sizes in core curriculum classes in the 2016-17 school year;
3) promote better student/teacher relationships, permit more hands-on learning and allow for more interactive labs and oral assignments;
4) provide long-term positive results as the benefits of smaller class sizes can have a cumulative impact on students over their high school experience and beyond; and,
5) maintain your home value as the Walton High School cluster currently enjoys higher prices and faster sales than other school clusters within Cobb County.
You can "Make A Difference" by donating to the WHS Foundation before March 31, 2016. Please click here to learn more about the Foundation. Please click here to donate.
Dine for a Difference: To raise additional funds for the Make a Difference campaign to reduce class sizes, the Walton Foundation has partnered with a different local restaurant each week in March. Restaurant patrons can either show a hard or soft copy of the attached flyer or simply tell their server they are a Walton family, and that's enough to get us credit for the sale. Dine for a Difference on March 21st & 22nd at Marlow's Tavern in Merchant's Walk and receive 15% off your check. For more information, click here:
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| Graduation: The Graduation Packet which includes all information about tickets is now posted to the senior page of the Walton website. Requests for additional tickets will be due Friday, March 25th.
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FOLLOW THE RAIDERS and Support our Teams! For information on schedules and game results of fall/winter sports at Walton, click WHS Basketball, WHS Wrestling, WHS Boys Lax, WHS Girls Lax, WHS Cheer , WHS Soccer, WHS Track & Field, WHS Community Ice Hockey, WHS Women's Tennis, WHS Men's Tennis
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