Western Local School District

Important sports information please read. The Winter Sports banquet for high school basketball, high school cheerleading, and high school wrestling will be March 14th at 6:00 PM in the high school cafeteria. The awards day and pizza party for junior high winter sports will be March 1st during the school day. Parents are welcome to attend the Awards part of this at 2:15PM in the High school gym. Spring sports mandatory parent/coach/player meeting for high school and junior high will be on March 12th at 5:00PM in room 101 of the high school. Spring sports pictures will take place on March 11th starting at 9:30AM with high school sports followed by junior high sports. Coaches will get the players their pictures forms soon. If you have any questions please call the high school.

Seniors, Herff Jones will be coming to Western High School on Friday, March 1 around 12:30 pm to pass out graduation items. They will then head to the CTC and pass out items there. The balance is due before you can receive your items. If you do not have the balance, they will stay at the school until you are able to pay for them. If you have any questions, please call or see Mrs. Schuler.

Sorry for the late notice, but we're going to have a two hour late this morning until we can assess the damage from the storm. I know we have a tree on Grassy Fork in an electric line. I'm sure there will be plenty of others and we need to run the buses in the daylight for safety.

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The junior high/high school library will host a Scholastic Book Fair next week, March 5-8. Parents, guardians, and students may set up an eWallet for cashless shopping. Friends and family can even contribute funds! Set one up here: bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/westernhighschool Cash is also an acceptable method of payment.

Congrats to Western Junior Landon Marhoover for taking 1st place in the the South central Skills USA Commercial/Residential electrical regional competition today and advancing to state.

Staff may wear Western Indian spirit shirts tomorrow Friday, February 23rd to celebrate the boys basketball team's tournament game this Saturday. If you have enough incentive points, tomorrow is a day you may use them to wear jeans if you would like. Otherwise, No Jeans.

March 1, 2024 will be the 7th & 8th grade basketball and 7th & 8th grade cheerleaders end of the season pizza party and awards day starting at their lunch time. Parents are welcome to attend the awards part only of the day at 2:15 PM in the high school gym.

High school staff may wear spirit shirts Tuesday, February 20th in support of the boys basketball team and their tournament game tomorrow night. (No Jeans)

No school for students on Thursday, Friday, or Monday! Thursday is a teacher PD day/PT conference. Parent teacher conferences are from 1-8 tomorrow. Everyone is off on Friday for P/T conference makeup day (as scheduled in the district calendar) and Monday is Presidents' Day. I hope everyone has a great extra long weekend. We hope to see all parents on Thursday evening.

Board of Education approved minutes from January 2024

Western Local Board of Education meeting 2/13 in the Richard Walls Boardroom at 5pm.

REMINDER: Tonight's High School Boys Basketball games are AWAY at South Gallia. There was a schedule change early in the season and we wanted to make sure everyone was aware and remembered. Games will start at 6:00 PM at South Gallia High School. Thank you!

Mr. Roush is going to be placed in "jail" at the boys home game on Tuesday, Feb. 13th. To be released he has to raise bail money for the high school prom. This Friday, Feb. 9th, will be hat day for $1.00 for students to go towards his bail fee! Please help out your principal!

Student who ride Penny's bus number seven will be arriving home about five minutes earlier than normal today

This message is for students who ride Steve Reno's bus. We had a call off late this afternoon so we are going to have to double route. Penny is going to run her route and then take Steve's kids. Students should arrive home approximately 25 minutes later than normal.

Jr. High Spelling Bee is Tomorrow February 8th at 9:00 AM in the High School Gym. Parents are permitted to come. Please enter through and check in at the high school office. Only 7th and 8th grade students who signed up will be participating.

Board meeting agenda for February 13, 2024