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Attendance
Attendance matters! Here’s why:
- Our campus funding is dependent on scholars attending school. This is the number one way WH receives funding from the state.
- The amount we receive from the state is based on our average daily attendance. Every day your scholar attends school our campus receives over $45 in state funding.
How you can help us:
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If your scholar is out sick, please send an email or doctor's note to our attendance mailbox at attendance@greatheartswesternhills.org for each day(s) your scholar is out sick.
- Please be sure to have your scholar in their classes when attendance is taken each day at 9:50 AM.
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ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES FOR ILLNESS
A student should not come to school if any of these symptoms are present in the previous 24 hours:
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Elevated temperature of 100.0 degrees or greater. The child shall remain fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications before returning to school.
- Quick onset of cold, sore throat, or persistent cough. Persistent cough interrupts the child’s ability to concentrate and is disruptive to the classroom learning environment.
- Vomiting, nausea, or severe abdominal pain.
- Repeated diarrhea the day or night before school
- Pus-like discharge from the nose or eyes -contagious conditions.
- Red or inflamed eyes or discharge from the eyes (conjunctivitis).
- Suspected scabies, impetigo, acute skin rashes or skin lesion or draining wound not contained with use of a band aid.
- Lethargic behavior.
In the event that your child becomes ill while at school, we respectfully ask that you or your designee pick your child up as soon as possible and within one hour of being notified.
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Weight Room Donations Welcomed | | |
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Spartans, we have been working hard to get our weight room for our scholars to use! We hope to have a Grand Opening in the second semester, but we need your help! We have the racks, and we have the benches, but now we need the supplies. If you have any of the following which you would be interested in donating to our gym, please reach out to Coach Disney:
- Barbells (35 lb or 45 lb, 2 inch diameter)
- Weights ( 4 sets of 45 lbs plates, 4 sets of 25 lb plates, 8 sets of 10 lb plates, 4 sets of 5 lb plates, and 4 sets of 2.5 lb plates with 2 inch diameter).
- Trap Bars (also known as Hex Bars)
- Dumbbells or Kettlebells in the following weights: 8 lbs, 10 lbs, 15 lbs, 20 lbs, 25 lbs.
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Saturday, December 3, 2022
4:30-7:30 PM
(Check-in will open at 4:15 PM so we can start promptly at 4:30 PM.)
Location: Government Canyon State Park
$10.00 per person
RSVP and submit payment on Configio
by Monday, November 28
Click here to RSVP
Food, Games, Festivities, and Fun! Bring your copy of Beowulf and come dressed as a Viking … play swords, spears, and shields are welcome.
NOTE: This is an 8th-grade ONLY event. Parents are welcome, but younger siblings may NOT attend.
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College Counselor's Corner | |
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What is Naviance? Good question!
Naviance is a place for your scholar to explore colleges, jobs, or careers and then take a variety of assessments that can help guide them to learn more about their personality type, skills, strengths, and weaknesses. Scholars will be using Naviance throughout their high school years.
If your scholar hasn't already shown it to you, be sure and ask them about it.
If they haven't logged in before telling them to make an appointment with me and I will get them on.
Angela Masters
College Counselor GHWH
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These blogs will be a way for parents to know of upcoming tests, projects, events, or grade printouts. This will also be a way for us to inform parents of grade-specific events including field trips, house events, or other similar events. We will not be posting specific homework assignments or actual pdfs of assignments. | |
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Used Unifrom Sale -- Nov 12th
The PSO will host a used uniform sale on Saturday, November 12th from 10:00 AM to 12 Noon in the MPR. This is a great opportunity to purchase an extra set of uniforms. Uniform pants and shorts will be just $1!
Next Snack Cart on Monday, November 28
Let's give thanks to our GHWH staff, and welcome them back from Thanksgiving break with a Fall Snack Cart! Our first one was successful because of all of you!
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Returning Emergency Uniforms
Parents, we kindly ask you to wash and return borrowed uniforms from the nurse's office. These uniforms are used for students who have accidents or become ill and require a clean set of clothing. Thank you!
Beowulfathon Volunteers are Needed!
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! 8th Grade Parents and Scholars, join us for a WH celebration fit for a Viking! Beowulfathon, is around the corner! Be prepared for food, fun, and festivities around the firepit at Government Canyon State Park. This is an 8th Grade honored tradition that requires planning and preparation…and we need YOU! Please kindly consider volunteering for the planning committee and let’s keep this WH tradition going strong. ⚔️
Beowulfathon GroupMe
Volunteer Sign-Up Page
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Lady Spartan Basketball
12/1 vs IDEA Mays @ 5:30 pm
Lady Agoge Basketball
11/14 @ GHFH @ 5 pm
MS Boys Basketball
First Game: 11/16/22 vs FEAST @ 5:30 pm
HS Boys Basketball
First Game: 11/16/22 vs FEAST @ 6:30 pm
You may find the full schedule on our athletics website at: www.greatheartswesternhillsathletics.org.
There will be $2 admission charge to middle and high school athletics games. Great Hearts Western Hills students will not be charged admission.
Game Day Reminders:
- Great Heart Students are reminded they are school thus the cellphone policy remains in place. Should a student need to use their cell phone to contact a parent after a contest, they may do so in the cellphone zones placed outside the gym
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The courtyard, gaga ball pit, playground, and any recess equipment are off-limits during game time.
- Children should remain with their parents and be accompanied to the restroom if needed.
- We thank you for your attention to this to help keep our campus safe and enjoyable!
Intramurals Update
Intramural Soccer registration is officially closed.
When are practices and games?!
The practice schedule for Winter Intramural Soccer is as follows:
M / W – Narnia (Houses Reepicheep & Pevensies)
T / Th – Middle Earth (Houses Baggins & Oakenshield)
Tentative Game Schedule:
Co-Ed Soccer
Game 1: Middle Earth vs Narnia – 10 am
Nov 12th
Game 2: Middle Earth vs Narnia – 10 am
Dec 3rd
Game 3: Middle Earth vs. Narnia – 10 am
Dec 10th
Game 4: Middle Earth vs Invictus – Dec 13th @ 4:45 pm
Game 4: Narnia vs Invictus – Dec 14th @ 4:45 pm
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Congratulations to our Great Hearts parent advocates – Laura Martinez (GH Western Hills parent) and America Gies (GH Northern Oaks and GH Online parent)!
Along with GH Family Advocacy Manager Bridie Chaudoir, these parent advocates were recognized for participating in the national charter school “Back Off Rally” held in Washington, D.C. in May. The Policy Innovators in Educators Network (or PIE Network) named Texas’ team’s effort as “one of the best defensive advocacy strategies in the country” for raising awareness about the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rules that would choke off charter school funding.
Thank you, Laura and America, for your willingness to travel to our nation’s capital and share your voices in support of charter schools!
Our GH scholars are making tremendous achievements. Every child deserves to thrive — and with strong parent support, we ensure they can.
The Texas Legislature is preparing to convene at the start of 2023. Our elected leaders make big decisions about public education, so they need to hear directly from parents about the positive difference that charter schools like ours are making.
Please join in participating in Capitol Connections Week. In early December, you’ll have the opportunity to meet virtually with a state lawmaker who represents you — alongside a small group of fellow charter school parents, educators, and other supporters.
The Texas Public Charter Schools Association is hosting this event and will handle all the logistics, including sending you all the necessary information. In just one 30-minute meeting, you can make a huge difference for students by simply telling your story.
We encourage you to sign up here. You deserve to be heard!
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Campus Photos on SmugMug
As the academic year progresses, photographers from Upper and Lower will continue to share photo memories from our campus on our new SmugMug site. Just use the password "plato" to enter and view.
Click here to view photos
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