This Week: We're throwing it all together! We'll combine our most recent lessons (systems of equations, midpoint/endpoint, and parallel/perpendicular lines) to find the shortest distance from a given line to a given point. We'll use this to find useful information like the shortest distance from a village to a nearby, winding river.

 

Due from last week: Midpoint/Endpoint practice, Parallel/Perpendicular Line practice

This Week: We will begin our unit on Degrees, Lines, and Angles. We will start with complementary and supplementary angles (throwing in some algebra, of course) before moving swiftly onwards to transversals and all the fun angles they create. By the end of next week, we will also begin simple proofs using the parallel line theorem.

 

Due From Last Week: Irregular Polygon Areas

Welcome back, Wonderful Westgate Families! I hope you are excited for the year to begin! 

We have quite a few beginning-of-year updates and reminders. Please take a moment to read through the email and reach out if you have questions. Take a close look at the schedule near the end to make sure your student is ready for the first two weeks. 

 

Back to School Night: This will take place this Friday, August 4^th (tomorrow) between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. The High School presentation will be down in the high school commons at 5:30. We will go over HS policies and procedures at that time. 

 

New Assistant Principal: I have the great honor of announcing our new assistant principal, Alexia Vasilopoulos! She has already done amazing things for the high school, and we are excited to work with her this upcoming school year. Come say hello at back to school night! 

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! We will be running mock interviews for Freshmen on Thursday, August 10th from roughly 9 to 11 AM and could use a hand! We need some community members willing to interview kids as if they were applying for a job. We will provide the questions (though feel free to add more), and volunteers will write notes or feedback to help the students in their future career hunts. Please reach out to myself or Alexia Vasilopoulos ([email protected]) if you would like to help. 

 

Front Range Community College (FRCC): FRCC will begin on Monday, August 21^st. Students will have an adjusted Westgate schedule for the first two weeks of school (see below). 

 

Schedule (first two weeks): 

 

• August 7^th – August 11^th: Freshmen (9^th grade) Orientation. Freshmen attend all five days. 10^th – 12^th grades may stay home. 

 

 

• August 14^th – 18^th: 9^th through 11^th grade students with FRCC classes will attend Westgate following their normal FRCC schedule (if they would leave Westgate at lunch for FRCC classes, they are done at Westgate for the day even though FRCC has not begun). The exception to this is a trip to the Art Museum on Thursday, August 17^th, when all HS students should attend the full day. 12^th grade students with FRCC classes will be here a few students at a time to take new CPR classes. All non-FRCC students will be here all week. Freshmen will also have a field trip to FRCC the morning of Wednesday, August 16th. A future email will have more details on both this and the art museum trip.

 

*Seniors: Watch for an email from Amy Schneider with your CPR training day. You only need to attend Monday, Thursday, and the day of your CPR training. Non-FRCC seniors will be here every day, though will miss normal classes the day of their training. 

 

School and High School Handbook: Please take a look at these with your student. The first link is for the whole-school handbook, and the second is for high school-specific information. We will go over policies at Back to School Night in more detail.

Whole School Handbook

HS Handbook