Club West and KIDZONE teaming up for Relay for Life Fundraiser!!

The Club West and KIDZONE after school programs are gearing up for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on June 23rd!  They want to reach their goal by having a school wide coin drive.   The coin drive will begin on Monday, May 7th!!  Any interested classrooms can join the coin drive.  Teachers interested can fill out the information on the flyer.  The flyer is located in the locker on the homepage.  Thanks for your interest and participation.  The class that collects the most money will earn a pizza or popsicle party. 

Special Volleyball Clinics held at Westmore Oaks on Fridays at 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the gym!  This clinic is for current 5th, 6th and 7th grade girls interested in trying out for volleyball at Westmore next year.  We have Junior Coach Amanda from River City High School here to help the girls.  The next clinics are scheduled for Friday, May 4th, Friday, May 11th and Friday, May 18th!!  The flyer is located on the Sports webpage! 

Sixth Grade Orientation Night is coming!  It is on Tuesday, May 22nd in the Library from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.  You will learn a lot about 6th grade, electives, class schedules and school activities!  The flyer for this event is in the locker on the homepage. 

Spring Carnival and Health Fair will be on Saturday, May 19th from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in the school QUAD area!  There will be lots of food, music and carnival games for the children.  This is sponsored by the PTSA and all proceeds go directly to the school!  Come out and enjoy the Family Fun! 

Dragon Basketball Club!!

Every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. we are offering a Dragon Basketball Clinic for boys and girls in grades 4th, 5th, 6th 7th and 8th!!  It is free!!  You have to provide your own transportation to and from the clinic please.  The clinic is supervised by our Coach Ron and our physical education teacher, Ms. Daykin. 

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Wednesday nights 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

2011-12 Map of Classroom

The Westmore Robotics Team is headed off to UC Davis for the C-STEM competition on Saturday, May 5th.  Last Saturday, April 28th, a team of four students went to a preliminary competition in computer programming and this Saturday is the Robotics competition.  The team is led by Ms. DeFazio, math teacher and by Club West supervisor, Vincent Marquez.  Look for more pictures coming this week-end! 

Mrs. Rhinehart, seventh and eight grade science teacher got to take a few students out for an event this evening with a special dinner with a scientist.  They got to listen to a real scientist talk about what it is like to be a scientist and our school even got a special prize for attending. 

HIV-Aids education is the law in California   (California Education Code Section 51933 & 51934) to provide HIV/AIDS/STD curriculum and instruction to students at least once in middle school/junior high and once in high school.  Curriculum Council, Health Education, and Principal meetings confirmed board policy directives that the instruction take place in 7^th grade Science classes, as well as 9^th grade PE classes.  This instruction will take place this school year (we will discuss options at the high school level, since some students already took PE).  We would expect that the instruction take place after STAR testing  The only materials that the state recommends comes from the Red Cross, and is called “Positive Prevention.”  There is curriculum for Middle School/Junior High, High School, and Special Populations. These are the materials that have been reviewed, and continue to be reviewed in consideration of an adoption.  These materials are open for review here in Ed Services.  The 6-8 Science teachers had an opportunity to review earlier this month. Anyone is welcome to come and view them.  Here is a link to the Red Cross’ website with information about the Positive Prevention curriculum, and there is also information in the attached packet in the locker below.