Picture Days August 30 & 31, 2011

Picture Day  - - -  2011-2011 School Year


Many thanks for the wonderful parent and family volunteers that helped during the two all day School Picture days. Many of our volunteers stayed for much longer than the 2 hour blocks that were scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some stayed all day on Wednesday and helped immensely. 


The Life Touch workers were impressed by the number of volunteers who skillfully took over various areas of the pre-photo preparation process allowing the photographers to quickly and quite efficiently move our students through the photography process. 


Nearly 2000 school pictures, including special Senior Photos for the yearbook were processed during the 2 days, consisting of seven hours each. Many of our Seniors had previously had their yearbook photos processed during the summer and they only needed to pick up their Student ID Cards. 


It was amazing to see the excitement of our students when then had their photo taken and a few minutes later they received their Photo School ID Cards! The ID card printers did have problems during periods 1 and 2 of the first day and those students had to pick up their cards at later during the day. All of the cards that were left will be distributed in the affected 1st and 2nd B-day English classes on Thursday Sept 1st. 


The students that came through the auditorium for their photo's were a joy to work with. Most every student was courteous, friendly, obedient and helpful, needless to say the students made the volunteer hours fun and exciting. We have a wonderful student body this year, full of fun and interesting kids. 


We so appreciate the English Teachers for preparing the students in the classrooms prior to entering the auditorium. Their handling of the 'tickets' allowed the volunteers to render service in other areas to the photography people. Thank you so much teachers. It was fun to meet you and see you interact with your students and the volunteers. You are a great asset to our community, our teens and our school.


Kudoo's again to all of our awesome volunteers. It was a pleasure to work with you and share in your talents. Thanks for making the dreaded school picture day fun and efficient. We look forward to sharing more volunteer opportunities with you and others of the community that will join us in future events. We appreciate the time sacrifices you made so that you were able to assist your children and their friends during the last two days.

First Day of School, August 23rd, 2011

The first day of school started out with wonderful volunteers serving the student body at Westlake High! 

As the students entered Westlake High before 7:45 am, Tues August 23rd, 2011, they were greeted by a half dozen tables backed with smiling volunteers. Some students had not received their schedules before the first day and others were just happy to have another copy. 

With schedule in hand the students were prepared to navigate the schools halls and find their assigned classrooms. The commons area became a bustling, buzzing hive full of teen energy as the moments ticked closer to the first bell. The noise level continued to grow until the volunteers found themselves resorting to lip reading to learn the student's name who was requesting a class schedule. 

Needless to say, the morning was exciting with lots of high fives, squealing, hugs and plenty of smiles. Even if your student left the house in a non-excited state, the excitement was so abundant that every student must have felt excited for the new year. It was fun to observe friends seeing friends that they hadn't seen since school let out in the spring.

Thanks to the multiple volunteers that spent an hour or so in the commons area helping the students and staff kick off the new year. Our volunteers are such wonderful selfless people and our community is grateful for your service.

Westlake High is off to a wonderful start. We have a school full of awesome students, teachers, staff and administration. Westlake High is a great educational resource for the teen students in our community.  Goooooooooo Thunder!!!!