Principal's Corner

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Welcome Back to School!

Dear Westport Heights Parents, Guardians, and Stakeholders;

As principal, it is truly my pleasure to extend a warm and heartfelt welcome to you as we begin the 2015-2016 school year at Westport Heights Elementary School.

We have built a community within our school where students, teachers, staff, parents, and administration work together to provide an educational setting that is conducive to good learning and understanding. I am excited to share with you upcoming programs at Westport Heights this year like our new partnership with Playa Vista Elementary and LMU to begin incorporating Next Generation Science Standards in the classroom instructional program. Also, our dedicated staff has formed Professional Learning Communities to offer focused specialties such as Robotics, Coding, and Arts to our students!

In addition to all of the good teaching and learning that takes place in our school, we also have a Positive Behavior Plan to foster positive relationships with a focus on our three School Rules (Be Respectful, Be Responsible, & Be Safe), “Character Counts!” expectations, and Bucket-filling socio-emotional activities.

We believe in keeping families informed. On the first day of school, students will bring home relevant information such as the Year-At-A-Glance Calendar and the Parent Student Handbook. Any updates and additional information will be sent to you through the weekly "Wednesday Folder", and will appear on our school web page or blog (Principal’s Corner). Also, I am looking forward to starting a monthly “Chat with the Principal” to strengthen the community voice at WHES.

On the WEBSITE, you will find our new general school schedule. Please note the changes in schedule for early dismissal Wednesdays, the start, and end of the day.

To those students, parents, guardians, and staff who are new to Westport, we hope that you will quickly feel at home and become involved in the activities of our school through the Booster Parent Committee, Leadership Committee, School Parent Center and your child’s classroom program.

I can’t wait to start our wonderful school year together and see you August 18,2015

Best regards,

Jacqueline hughes

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Check out our wonderful playground painting!

Our wonderful volunteers from LMU, painted new numbers on the playground!

The smiling painters!

14 is a lucky number.

Our new hopscotch grid is made of geometric shapes. Can you name them all?

Numbers and volunteers everywhere!

Happy Hopscotch!

What a wonderful, wonderful, group of painters!

Its fun to paint!

Fresh numbers as far as the camera can see on the playground!

Thank you so much LMU Volunteers!

Thank you for making our playground such a bright and happy place!

Monday, April 27, 2015

Westport Heights Represents well a the 8th annual Race for Success!

I want to thank the Westport Heights teachers, staff and parents for coming out, volunteering and participating in the 8th Annual Race for Success at Loyola Marymount University this weekend.

Now our school has the opportunity to be recipients of the funding provided by the The Race for Success Educational Foundation which is a nonprofit entity set up to help the public, private, and charter schools come together and raise funds for education. The proceeds from the Race for Success 5k benefit the local elementary, middle, and high schools in Westchester, Playa Vista, and Playa del Rey. This event has raised funds each year to save programs that would otherwise have been cut due to declining budgets. Each year our schools face financial hardships and must find ways to raise more funds just to maintain existing programs and staffing levels. Specific allocation of funds is at the discretion of each school’s Parent Teachers Organization.

It was great fun so be sure to join us next year!

Monday, March 2, 2015

Dr. Seuss Day

The Author, Alva Sachs, read this book today in the Auditorium to us!

Thing 2 is at the Bookfair this week, March 2--7!

Clifford and Thing 1 having some fun!

What did you say Clifford?

Partner reading around the tree garden! Oh all the fun we had!

For this activity the 4th Graders in Mr. Fortier's class read to the 1st and 2nd graders in Ms. Mangos and Mr. Penate's classes. We had such a great time, the boys and girls really enjoyed partner-reading with a 4th grader.