Elementary students from our Williams campus visited the Brees Family Field on Wednesday, February 8th for their Fun Run. The Fun Run is an annual fundraiser at the elementary campus in which the students run the track of the Brees Family Field. Many of our middle school students cheered for the elementary students during this special visit. GO LIONS!
Thank you to all of the grownups who helped to pull off today's successful Willow Lower School Fun Run on the Brees Family Field. Special thanks to Coach D and our Fun Run Committee, and to all of the middle and high school staff and students who came out to cheer on our runners!
We continued our Black History Month Spirit Days today. Today, we wore shirts to celebrate Black history.
For one of our Black History Month celebrations, our middle school students are creating a mural of Ellis Marsalis. Stay tuned for more photos and details as the project progresses!
One of the best views from our campus is the windows to the Brees Family Field. Our students use the field each day during PE. Go Lions!
Thank you to The Pelicans for donating 500 tickets to last Sunday's game for our students, staff and families! Player Larry Nance even donned a Willow School shirt and took photos with our students and families! What a great night (capped by a WIN over Sacramento!)
Our middle school and high school collected 179 pairs of socks for men, women and children at The Ozanam Inn following last week's Happy Feet drive. Julia Davies and Marbella Maristany represented The Willow School. Together with 11 other area schools, Happy Feet provided more than 5,000 pairs of socks.
During the month of February, we will celebrate Black History Month with special Spirit Days. On Mondays, we will wear our HBCU gear!
We were thrilled to join 12 area schools last week in the Happy Feet Sock Drive.
Our middle school and high school delivered 179 pairs of socks to homeless men, women, and children at The Ozanam Inn. Together with the other 11 area schools, Happy Feet provided over 5,000 pairs of warm feet.
Congratulations to our Prides of the Week and our Leader of the Pack - Ms. Svoboda!
February is Black History Month. To celebrate this special month, we will have multiple Spirit Days in the middle school!
On Wednesdays during the month of February, students are encouraged to wear shirts or other gear celebrating Black history. This could mean wearing a T-shirt representing an important African American figure in history or wearing a shirt celebrating Black History Month.
On Mondays during the month of February, we will celebrate HBCUs. HBCUs are Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Show your pride in HBCUs by wearing HBCU T-shirts or other gear on Mondays!
Students may dress in the colors black, red or yellow on Mondays and Wednesdays to celebrate Black History Month.
Click on the following links for this week's news:
Lower School Newsletter: https://express.adobe.com/page/kyJTeLTydjFjm/
Middle School Newsletter: https://express.adobe.com/page/xNT0uEiTWTb9S/
High School Newsletter: https://express.adobe.com/page/EI1I0pStOxvF2/
On Thursday, our No Place for Hate Student Committee met to discuss our Black History Month celebrations. They identified historical figures for our school to highlight during Black History Month. We sincerely appreciate all of our No Place for Hate Student Committee's help throughout the school year.
Congratulations to our 5/ 6 Boys Soccer team. They were the runner-up in the New Orleans Athletic League's 5/6 boys division. GO LIONS!
You heard it here first! We had so many wonderful submissions for this year's Crawfish Boil art contest! It was truly hard for the committee to choose. Below is the list of winners. Art that was not chosen may be used on the Crawfish Boil website!
Banner - Stefan Reginelli- 12th Grade
Stadium Cup - Jalen LeBeouf - 12th Grade
Wine Cup - Evelyn Moore- 11th Grade
T-Shirt - Gianna Celestine- 6th Grade
Tote - Samantha McEvoy- 4th Grade
Crawfish Tray - Sophia Womax- 11th Grade
Balloon Pop Poster Art Design 1 - Issabella Lenton- 11th Grade
Balloon Pop Poster Art Design 2 - Simon Siekkinen- 4th Grade
We are collecting new and gently used socks all week. These socks will be donated to a local homeless shelter.
Progress conferences are tonight- Feb. 1st- from 5 - 7 PM. We hope to see you there!
Students in Ms. Thierry's class decoded messages in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Go Lions!
Ms. Svoboda’s students created CER posters in their science class today. CER stands for Claim- Evidence- Reasoning.
The PTSA is organizing dinner for our teachers and staff for progress conferences this afternoon, Feb. 1. Please sign up to bring a dish here: https://signup.com/go/RcWqpxp