Quarter 3 will be ending on April 5, 2016. It is so hard to believe we will be going into the last quarter of our school year. For planning purposes, Graduation is June 11, 2016 at the Ryan Center on the URI campus at 1:00 PM. There are no tickets and plenty of room. Please mark your calendars to come out and celebrate with the class of 2016.


We are so proud of the WWEWG Hockey Team for making it to the championship tournament for Division III Hockey. They made us so proud this year with their amazing play.

Our outdoor adventure club recently went up north skiing. As you can see by their smiles, they had a great time.

Our EWG Unified Basketball Team won their home opener on Wednesday, 3/23. It was an exciting game filled with great plays and great sportsmanship. Their next home game will be next Wednesday, 3/30 at 3:30 PM. Come out and support the team. Great job by coaches Campbell and Boucher!!

Earlier this year Mr. Walsh, an English teacher at the high school applied for and received a grant from the Lindsay Burke Foundation on running a Clothesline Project in the building.  The purpose of the Clothesline Project is to promote awareness of dating violence among teenagers.  The students in his English 10 class are working on a service learning project on promoting school-wide awareness on this issue.  This project also supports the work our faculty is doing on building a culture of respect in the building.

Some of the related project work is described below:

Respect t-shirts hung on clotheslines in foyer  - 

Pledge banner--  students will pledge to show respect to others, themselves, etc during lunch by signing a large red banner.  The banner will eventually be displayed somewhere in the school.

Sidewalk chalk-- Students will use sidewalk chalk to display facts, quotes, messages, (or even hashtags) that promote respect.

 List of Teen Dating Violence Facts--  Advisers will distribute a packet of dating violence facts to their students.    

 Paper/online newsletters-- One group will be creating an online newsletter that will be mailed to faculty and students.  Another group will be creating a (different) paper newsletter that will be available to the school community.

 Respect Easels in the Foyer--A group of students will be setting up easels in the main foyer.  On the easels will be a posters with an area for each grade level.  Students will write down their name and one way they can promote a culture of kindness in the school.

 AM/PM Announcements--One group will share an interesting fact/story during AM or PM announcements.  

What a great project!! I have been able to observe many of the students working on their specific pieces and it is so impressive. 

Hats off to Mr. Walsh!!

While visiting classrooms this week I came across Mrs. Brennan's Creative Writing class. Seeing and hearing the work the students were doing was so impressive and speaks volumes to the quality education our students receive at EWG. I can certainly understand why our students historically do so well on state assessments. They are well prepared and supported for assessments and their post secondary work as a result of the preparation at EWG. 

This Saturday evening (3/5/16) plan on heading over to the West Warwick Ice Rink at 7:30 PM for Senior Night for our hockey team. They will be heading into the playoffs soon. Stay tuned to @ewghigh on twitter for more information. 

Thursday evening is Parent Conferences. Have your children make appointments if you would like to see their teachers. 

We have a great fundraiser going on at the High School. We have partnered with Airbac to help our students with their HEAVY load of books and supplies and have it benefit everyone. If you will be purchasing a new backpack for your students, consider going to www.airbac.com and check out the amazing backpacks we have had tested. They are amazing and really do work. If you use the code ewg, you will save 10% and they make a donation to us. We would love the support and you will love the results our tester told us are "simply amazing."

We will be showing the following brief video in our advisories in the near future. It is very powerful and sends a very clear message regarding the dangers of drugs that can be purchased on the internet. Please feel free to check it out. It is a great video to discuss with your teen. http://www.nbcnews.com/video/deadly-synthetic-drugs-that-can-kill-with-one-dose-627569219850

FYI - http://s3.amazonaws.com/EWGRSDweb/contentweb/CommunityAnnouncements/EWGLL%20Spring%202016%20Registration%20V2...pdf

Think Spring!!

Since my last post, there have been some exciting news around the high school and it wasn't the snow days. We knew it had to arrive eventually, but extending the year is never fun. Let's hope we have seen the last of the snow.

The Rhode Island Alliance for Arts Education recognized the K-12 Visual Arts Department, led by Mrs. Elizabeth Lind, with the 2016 Gift of Art distinction. As a result, EWG will  have 9 works of art become part of the permanent "Gift of Art" collection at the University of Rhode Island Providence Campus. The recognition ceremony will take place May 19, 2016 at 7PM at the providence campus located at 80 Washington Street.  What a great honor!!

Samantha Lopes won the Outstanding Musician Award at the recent Berklee High School Jazz competition in Boston! Marcus Simonini accepted the 5 year award for EWG. 

Our National Honor Society hosted another very successful blood drive to help those in need. This is just one of the volunteer activities the students do throughout the year to help others. I am sure their next project will be equally successful. Stay tuned!!

Enjoy the winter break!!

 

Happy New Year






Once again our Fine Arts Dept. has great news to share. We had students recognized for their work at the State Scholastic Art Competition. Lea Fabre received a Gold Key (Fashion/Lion Mask) , Lara Sernberger a Silver Key (Printmaking) and Sarah Bresky a Silver Key (Drawing/self portrait).  

•  Our student council ran a very successful food drive in December that helped to re-stock our local food bank. Much thanks to the group.

• The district has recently updated the parent resource page to add information about e-cigarettes.  This is a great parent resource and with the addition of more information on vaping and e-cigarettes, it is worth looking at. https://sites.google.com/a/ewg.k12.ri.us/health-wellness-corner/jr-high-art-1/smoking-tobacco-e-cigarettes

Our winter sports teams are in full swing. The athletes in all sports are so much fun to watch. Their record and next home game is as follows:
Boy's Basketball is 6 - 3 with their next home game this Friday, 1/29 at 7PM.
Girl's Basketball is 2 -10 with their next home game on 2/4 at 7 PM.
Wrestling is 3 - 5 with their next meet on 1/28 at 6:30 PM.
Hockey is 2 - 5 with their next home game 2/5 at the West Warwick Arena at 9 PM.
Gymnastics is 3-2 with their next home meet on 1/31 at Aim High Gym Academy at 7 PM.


Our Police Academy students under the direction of Sgt. Petrarca, SRO are hosting a "Parents Night Out" fundraiser that will be the talk of the town. They will babysit your children while you enjoy a night out for Valentines day. See the attached notice. They are filling up their reservation slots, so give Sgt. Petrarca a call at 397-6893 ext 248 to have your children join the fun. There are a limited number of openings available. It will be a win-win for all. You have a nice night out, the children have a great time at the high school and the Academy raises much needed funds.

                                                       

Congratulations to the students and staff of Exeter-West Greenwich High School for being among the top 3 schools on the Rhode Island leaderboard of this academic year’s Vocabulary Bowl!

Leading Rhode Island in word mastery is no easy feat. It means our students have mastered more words by playing Vocabulary.com (6,510, and counting!) since October 1st than most schools in Rhode Island. It is a testament to the emphasis that has been placed on the importance of academic vocabulary that has been impressive, and -- as you know -- will pay dividends in enriching your students’ reading comprehension and overall literacy. Hats off to Mr. Hamlin for leading the charge!!

Enjoy the nice warm winter weather!

I am going to try really hard to act as if I am really missing the snow, but....I am not. Sorry if you are missing it, but not having to worry about snow days right now has been so nice. I will really try to get a better attitude after the holiday break and cheer on some snow for those of you that want it. As for now, let it be warm, let it be warm, let it be warm!!

This will be my last post until after the new year. It has such a great unofficial first half of the school year. Since my last post, we have been so lucky to have ANOTHER Gatorade Volleyball Player of the year. It is so hard to believe for the second year in a row, EWG has received this honor compliments of Jenna Bridges. Please take a moment to see the recent honor that was seen on our local news:  http://wpri.com/2015/12/15/hometown-hero-jenna-bridges/

The holidays become holidays for everyone when our DECA students, under the organization of student Sydney Anderson (below checking her list and organizing the gifts) and Mr. Krom and Mrs. Kennedy takes care of those less fortunate. Any students in need receive gifts galore that were donated by teachers, community members as well as a $2000.00 donation from Walmart. Thank you to everyone involved.

I wish you and your loved ones all the joy and peace at the Holidays and throughout the New Year. Thank you so much for allowing me the pleasure of sharing times with you and your children. 

Fondly, Mrs. Chandler

For the first time ever, we are exhibiting our district's award winning waterfowl art work from the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Competition. Each year our district is the powerhouse in the state, winning more than half of all awards state-wide. It's really a bit of a phenomenon... Also, our district is second, nationwide to only one other-a district in California. 

Details: Art show SH Library

Reception: Thursday, December 17, 5-7pm

**Followed by the Holiday Chorus Concert in the auditorium (7-8pm)

Please consider supporting our Hockey team fundraiser next Thursday, 12/10 at UNO's in Warwick. Enjoy a good meal and tell them you are with EWG Hockey.  If you want to print out the ad, use this link:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/EWGRSDweb/contentweb/CommunityAnnouncements/WWEWG%20Unos%20Fund%20Raiser.pdf

Congratulations are in order to some of our EWG Musicians.  On November 21, many of our students auditioned for the RI All-State Ensembles.   The following band students were accepted to the 2015-2016 RI All-State Ensembles:

Marcus Simonini (grade 12) – ranked FIRST in the state, and takes the ONLY spot as Sr. Division Jazz Guitarist.  This means Marcus will have the honor of performing at the August 2016 Newport Jazz Festival!

Ben Gurnon (grade 9) – ranked FIRST in the state on TWO separate auditions: Timpani, and Snare Drum.  Since both auditions were for the same group (Jr. Division All-State Band), Ben has chosen to perform on Snare Drum.

We also had a chorus member  accepted to All-State this year:

Molly Kupa  (grade 10) – Accepted as an Alto to the Sr. Division All-State Mixed Chorus.

 

 Our DECA students at the high school have begun their yearly  drive to get gifts for every family in need from our district for the Holiday. If you would like to donate any gift cards in any denomination from any establishment, please feel free to send them in with your children or drop them by yourself and we will be sure to get them to a very thankful family.  I will show in my next post some of the results of the generosity of this district and our faculty and staff. You will be amazed. 

**Special thanks to Walmart of Coventry for their very generous donation of $2000.00 to support the DECA holiday drive!!

Exciting Event:  Our Drama students will be presenting A Christmas Carol

this Thursday 12/10 through Sunday. What a great way to introduce your children to the Arts!! Our students have been working day and night to prepare and are hoping to pack the house. Come get in the holiday spirit with a visit to this production.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Don't forget the EWG PTA Holiday Bazaar tomorrow 12/5 at Metcalf Elementary school. It runs from 9-3 and is sure to have something for everyone!!

One week away from Thanksgiving break and I realize we have so much to be thankful for at EWG. We have such amazing students that never cease to amaze me at every turn. One exciting and amazing event we have had recently was having Senior, Jenna Bridges sign her national letter of intent for University of Hartford on her last night playing Volleyball in our Gym. We are so proud of Jenna and all our senior athletes.

 I am also thankful for the hard work of our teachers. I recently popped into the classroom of one of our English teachers that had her class engrossed in the book, Of Mice and Men.  Mrs. Brennan was so skilled in helping her students master the art of close reading. Close reading requires the student to get deeply involved with the text they are reading. It requires the students to notice features and language used by the author. Mrs. Brennan was modeling for her students and they were responding.

Having students complete high school is a major accomplishment and one that our school community and families are so thankful for. One of our students, Marshal M. recently completed his requirements and received his diploma to the smiles of his Mom, teachers and of course Marshal. Congrats to him and his family. 

Upcoming events:

   WEDNESDAY, November 25, our Football Team will play East Greenwich at East Greenwich in the Thanksgiving Game. It is at 6PM under the lights. Hope to see you all there! The boys always play hard and look forward to the support.

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I wish you all a relaxing and restful Thanksgiving. Enjoy your families and friends.