WHS Open House
‼ UPDATE ‼
We gave away ALL the Backpacks we had today!
BACKPACK GIVEAWAY 🎒🖍
Free Backpacks with Supplies
Available at the District Office
1201 9th Ave NW
*Limited Supplies Available
WHS Welcome Back!
📢Don't forget Kindergarten Registration is TODAY!
Thursday, August 3rd
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
District Office
1201 9th Ave NW
Upper Missouri District Health Unit will be available on these dates to provide immunizations to students.
Student must be 5 years old by July 31, 2023
Must have:
▪Student's birth certificate
▪Student's immunization record
▪Parent/Guardian's photo identification
▪Proof of residency
2023-2024 Bell Schedule
Hello Parents and Guardians,
I hope you and your family have had a wonderful summer and are ready to get back to school. Our custodians and other staff have been working hard this summer to get our building and schedules prepared!
As the school year draws closer, we would like to give you a preview of some changes happening at Williston High School for the 2023-2024 school year that will be a benefit to our students.
The first change will be in our bell schedule and the addition of flex time. This will be a 40-minute period at the end of the day that will allow students to get help from their teachers if needed or to work on enrichment activities. There will also be some structured study hall time. Flex time will be mandatory for all freshmen and sophomores. Juniors and seniors may be required to attend during flex time if they are struggling with concepts in their classes. I will be posting the bell schedule on our Facebook page, so please check that out.
The second change is what we are calling the Freshman House. This will effectively put the Freshman students in one part of the building for their core classes. Each freshman will be assigned a team and that team will share core teachers. This is similar to how teams worked in middle school. This will allow the teachers to concentrate more on the struggling students. The Freshman will take elective classes in other parts of WHS just like the other students.
We will be continuing our closed campus for all Freshman and Sophomores. Juniors and Seniors in good standing will be allowed to leave campus for lunch. We will also continue with everyone on campus being required to wear an ID badge. This year we are coming in with just under 1400 students, and we need to see who is supposed to be here and who isn’t.
Some important dates and times:
August 7, 2023: Schedules are available to view on PowerSchool.
August 9,10,11. Sign up online with your counselor if you see something that needs to be changed with your schedule. Please see our Facebook page for the link.
August 17, 2023: Freshman and New Student Orientation and Open House.
There will be a short presentation at 6:00 pm with an Open House to follow. There will be no schedule changes during this time.
August 22, 2023: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!
We will gather in the Jon Cole Gym at 8:00 am with an all-school welcome. Students in grades 10-12 will have a shortened schedule and will finish the day at 11:45 am. Grade 9 students will stay all day with orientation activities. A full schedule is below.
I am looking forward to this upcoming school year. We have put a lot of work in this Spring and Summer preparing Williston High School to be the best it can be. My goal is to make Williston High School a better and safer place for our students to do their best in the classroom.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Professionally,
Dr. Jason Germundson
1st Day Schedule August 22, 2023
8:00 – 8:15 PEP RALLY in the Jon Cole Gym, all students grade 9-12.
Period 1 8:20 – 8:45
Period 2 8:50 – 9:15
Period 3 9:20 – 9:45
Period 4 9:50 – 10:15
Period 5 10:20 – 10:45
Period 6 10:50 – 11:15
Period 7 11:20 - 11:45 (At 11:45, Grades 10/11/12 may leave)
Grade 9 Lunch 11:45 – 12:20
Grade 9 Orientation 12:25 – 2:45 Jon Cole GYM
Commitment to Graduate Ceremony 2:50 – 3:20 WHS theater
All schedule change meetings must be scheduled online.
2023-2024 Senior Parking Spots are NOW available~~~~
Student Immunizations
Parent Teacher Conferences
We need parent feedback!
We are looking into changing our Parent/Teacher conference schedules to be more aligned with both teacher and parent needs. Please take a moment to fill out the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdti8yRt0r8G3_ml-AOI1ZnlRQ1N-D4r6iDtIwkyNr8bpeRFQ/viewform
WHS 2023 Summer P.E.
Don't forget WHS Summer School starts Tuesday May 30th
7:30AM in the Theater
Art Show Winners! Congratulations!
Best in Show - Kenadee Kempton (Senior)
1st Place - Syndr Bagley (Junior)
Honorable Mention - Sierra Abbott (Senior)
Peoples Choice - Daniel Nunez (Junior)
Ms. Klindworth (Art Teacher) painted personalized gifts for her seniors!
Ms. Klindworth (Art Teacher) painted her senior students a personalized grad gift!
2023 Grad Walk
2023 Grad Walk!!
2023 Grad Walk!!!!
Mrs. Veitz's Spring 2023 Graphic Design students got the opportunity to experience a real world design job - Susie Q's new ice cream truck rolling out this Summer 2023!
Students who submitted their designs by the deadline received a free ice cream treat, and the two winning designers (Moss Newson and Nydia Gonzalez) received cash prizes from Susie Q herself! The two winners' designs were combined into different aspects of the truck design, business cards, and other printed materials for Susie's business.
Susan Elsbernd came to Mrs. Veitz last fall with the idea and the pair worked together to determine what that would look like - a full truck wrap, banner, and redesigned logo. Students were given a template to work with in Adobe Illustrator and could use what they learned in both Photoshop and Illustrator to complete their designs.
Susan was very impressed by all the designs and complemented all on their creativity! While she wasn't able to incorporate all the chosen design aspects this year, she hopes to add a waffle cone style wrap across the bottom of the truck in the future.
Congrats to our students!
Seniors Who Serve
