This week's Thankful Thursday video honored our amazing teachers. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week. Click on the following link for the Thankful Thursday video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EnaG1j_4SCWrJtsdjVyZgCmD-4XEz4f_/view?usp=drivesdk
We love our Willow School teachers and they are grateful for Teacher Appreciation Week!
Willow took home first place in the Louisiana Scholastic Chess Championship, K-6, in Baton Rouge. The top three finishers are all Willow 5th graders in K-6:
Isaiah Felix, 1st
Quintin Moore, 2nd
Luca Culotta, 3rd
This is the highest level of scholastic competition in the state. They played 5 rounds over the span of a day. We are very grateful to Coach Nick and all he has done to further chess for these students. We also hope more students will join the team next year!
Congrats to all of the performers in last night's first ever Willow Middle School piano recital!
6th-grade theater presented their Antigone Greek Chorus Projects this week after making paper plate masks with Mr. Martin. All the groups did a fantastic job!
7th grade band class concert tonight at 6pm, Marsalis auditorium. Hope you can make it!
7th grade Strings class concert tonight, 5pm, Marsalis Auditorium. Join us!
Congratulations to our Prides of the Week and our Leaders of the Pack- Mr. Ary, Mr. Kannankeril, and Ms. Aleman.
Our 5/6 Boys Track and Field
team are this year's NOAL champions!! We are so proud of our athletes! Go Lions!!!
Middle School Piano Recital this evening, 4:30 in our auditorium. Join us!
Middle School starts at 8am tomorrow, May 5, with dismissal at 12:30. Students should bring their Chromebooks to school fully charged. Thanks!
GiveNOLA Day is here! Please consider a donation to The Willow School today! Thank you! The link to give is here: https://www.givenola.org/Willow
LEAP starts tomorrow (May 1). We will have LEAP testing from May 1-5.
Please make sure you bring your Chromebook FULLY CHARGED each day for LEAP testing. Testing starts at 8 AM. Please make sure you are on time. School starts at 8 AM on Friday, May 5 (no late arrival for Middle School)
Use the above QR code or go here: https://collectcheckout.com/collect-checkout/fields?cartId=98578797-2463-4a08-898a-3aeac56231e1 to donate to help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. Proceeds will help to rebuild some of the more than 600 schools damaged/destroyed in the earthquake. Mert Saygin, The Willow School's I.T. coordinator since 2009, is originally from Turkey and coordinated this effort. Please give if you can. Thank you.
Willow School senior, William Xi, has been selected by 826 New Orleans as a "Pizza Poet Laureate." William's contest entry, "Beginning," was selected and will be featured on pizza boxes throughout New Orleans today, on Pizza Poetry Day. We would love for as many families and staff as possible to go out and purchase pizza at a participating pizzeria and support our Willow School poet on this day. G’s Pizza (Mid-City), Midway Pizza, Pizza Delicious, Reginelli’s (all locations) and Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza (Mid-City and Uptown).
Remember to sign up for the Ochsner Blood Drive next Thursday! Donors receive their choice of a light blue t-shirt or a koozie with these cool, Jazz Fest-inspired designs! Sign up here: https://obbportal.team448.com/donorportal/donate-blood/?mobile_code=491347
All week we have collected items for Tornado Relief Drive benefiting the residents in Mississippi. Students donated canned good or other needed items.
7th-grade students in Ms. Disman's Creative Writing class are working on podcasts this week. We can't wait to hear their podcasts!
The 6th-grade students in Ms. Bagneris' class are completing an amazing visual arts project. They will demonstrate an understanding of “sculpture in the round” by creating a 3D face sculpture inspired by the artwork of cubist artist Pablo Picasso. Bravo to these incredible artists!
Middle School theater classes are so much fun! The students worked collaboratively in groups on their scenes.
