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Dear Families,
Happy October, Griffins! 🍁 Fall is in full swing, and with it comes excitement and lots of learning. Our students are settling into routines, building strong classroom communities, and tackling new challenges every day. Thank you for partnering with us to make sure your child is here on time and ready to learn—attendance makes a huge difference! This month, we’re continuing to focus on both academic growth 📚 and positive behavior ⭐ while celebrating students who are showing respect, responsibility, and kindness throughout the school. As the weather cools down, please remember that students will continue to have outside recess, so be sure to send them with a coat each day. 🧥 I’m so proud of the hard work I see from our students and staff daily, and I’m grateful for your support in helping us make West Hills a place where every child can thrive. 💙
Warmly,
Principal Powell
💜Fly Dragons Fly!💜
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Altruismo scored the most points for September! Help us celebrate the House of Givers!
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Exciting News!
We’ve partnered with Unique Experience to bring you the official West Hills store — now live online!
You can now purchase house shirts and West Hills attire anytime, from anywhere. Show your school spirit in style!
🛍️ Shop Now: Shop the West Hills store!
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We L💙V E our Community Partners! |
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Thank you Unique Experience for creating our West Hills website! |
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Phonics: The alphabet (letter recognition).
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ELA: Parts of a book/caring for books, ways to read.
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Writing: How to draw pictures with scribbles and lines.
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Math: Count number of objects to 5 and identify/write 0-5.
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SEL: Following listening rules, schoolwide expectations/routines build classroom community and get to know our new friends.
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Phonics/Foundational Skills: short vowels. ELA: sight words, letter names and sounds Writing: sentences and handwriting Math: counting to 20, comparison & adding to 10 using strategies, writing numbers SEL: kindness and respect, skills for learning. |
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Phonics: Review and assess phonic skills.
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ELA: Dinosaurs.
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Writing: Writing sentences.
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Math: Place value.
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SEL: School expectations.
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Phonics: Focusing on long vowels.
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ELA: Ask and answer questions to build deeper connections to text.
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Vocabulary: Prefixes and suffixes- to discover how small parts can change a word's meaning.
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Math: Relating multiplication to arrays.
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SEL: Responsibility.
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Writing: Working with graphic organizers to organize our thoughts.
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Phonics: Decoding Surveys, 4th grade morphology affixes and Greek/Latin roots (im-/non-, de-, scope, vis/vid, photo).
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ELA: Identifying story elements in order to answer questions about the text.
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Writing: RACE strategy to answer questions about texts; narrative writing.
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Math: Place value, comparing numbers within 1 million; unit, word, standard, and expanded forms, RDW Strategy for word problems.
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SEL: Classroom expectations and Goal Setting & Growth Mindset from SecondStep; house traits.
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Phonics: Review foundational skills and focus on strategies to build confident readers.
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ELA: Find the main idea and key details in nonfiction text.
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Writing: Summarizing a nonfiction text.
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Math: Multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers.
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SEL: Discussion and practice around being assertive and communicating effectively.
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Phonics: Review letter sounds for individual letters.
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ELA: Reading literary texts and identifying key ideas and details.
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Writing: Review of sentences and paragraphs.
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Math: Place value.
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SEL: Respect.
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We are excited to share that our school has updated our Mission and Vision statements! 🌟 These updates reflect the voices of our staff, students, and families and capture what we believe is most important for our community. Our Mission guides our daily work with students, while our Vision helps us look ahead to the kind of school we are striving to become. Thank you to everyone who contributed their ideas and input—we are stronger because we built this together! 💙
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G.R.O.W.T.H. We Ensure It…Every Student, Every Standard, Every Day
Guarantee achievement
Realize mastery
Obtain independence
Welcome connections
Tenaciously uphold expectations
Honor progress
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West Hills STEM Academy empowers students to thrive through innovative learning, resilience, and self-advocacy. By building strong connections in a safe and equitable environment, we prepare ALL students to achieve at high levels and face future challenges with confidence.
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Hello my name is Gary Lewis (Nurse Gary). I am from the midwest. I live in Saint Joseph, MO (home of the Pony Express). It is located just North of Kansas City. I am a Kansas City Chiefs fan. I have worked in healthcare my whole life. Started as an athletic trainer in college. I then joined the USAF and became an Air Force trained Flight Medic. After that, I received my Paramedic License and did that job for almost 12 years. I graduated from college with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and worked in the Emergency Room and Interventional Radiology. I hold a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration for the University of Missouri. After several nursing jobs I now am working as a Travel Nurse for the Bremerton School District. I love the PNW and I am very happy to be working with all of the students and faculty here at BSD.
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October: National Principals Month, Disabilities Awareness Month, Filipino American History Month
10/13 Indigenous Peoples Day (no school)
10/16 School Board Meeting 5:00-7:00
10/29 Trunk or Treat
10/31 Non Student Day/No School
11/7 Student-Led Conferences (no school)
11/10 Student-Led Conferences (no school)
11/11 Veterans Day holiday (no school)
11/13 School Board Meeting 5:00-7:00
11/27 - Fri 11/28 Thanksgiving Break (no school - District office closed)
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West Hills STEM Academy
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The Bremerton School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee(s) has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Carol Bailie at 360.473.1026, or the Section 504 Coordinator, Mark Mayfield at 360.473.4702. Mailing address: 134 Marion Avenue North, Bremerton, WA 98312.
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Bremertonschools.org Website Update
We now have a button on the footer of EVERY web page that allows people to translate the entire website into multiple languages - with one “toggle.”
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Kimberly Powell
Kimberly is using Smore to create beautiful newsletters
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Griffin Gazette
Additional settings for Safari Browser.
