Greetings Advocacy Families!

October Advocacy Focus: Using Your Voice & Bully Prevention

This month, our focus is on using your voice and bully prevention. Everyone can share their voice to prevent bullying. Whether you’re a student, educator, parent, or community member. Some key things to think about. 

• A focus on preventing bullying is important, as is promoting positive actions such as kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
• Bullying affects witnesses as well as targets. Those who witness bullying often report feeling unsafe, helpless, and afraid that they will be the next target.
• Students who bully others can also be negatively affected by the behavior with higher rates of physical and emotional health issues.
• Bullying is not only devastating while it’s happening; research shows that the negative effects can last a lifetime.
• Students can be especially effective in bullying intervention. It’s important for adults to encourage youth to be supportive of anyone experiencing bullying and to educate youth on how to advocate for themselves and for others.
• Everyone’s actions matter; we all have a role to play in bullying prevention. Our message to others is stronger when we are united by the common principle that bullying is never acceptable.

Checking Grades

As we begin Quarter 2, I would like to invite you all to regularly check Infinite Campus to check on your student's grades and identify any incomplete or missing assignments that may need to be finished. Click on the following link to create your Infinite Campus account if you do not already have one. https://4.files.edl.io/8b72/09/15/22/164611-24e1a24a-402c-49de-9a50-97e1e60c66bd.pdf

The following link will help you set up the Infinite Campus App, which is nice to have as you can set it to notify you whenever a grade is entered for your student. https://1.cdn.edl.io/X3X3DBQ7iIoHx1h6P5aI99A0RyC52XnQd9k5SnwDVIODKHgl.pdf

Important Dates

Friday, October 18: Rockin’ Run Fundraising Event.

Tuesday, October 22: 7^th Grade Field Trip to Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Look for a permission form to sign sent to your email.

Thursday, October 24: High School Info Night for current 7/8 families (virtual).

Friday, October 25: Trunk or Treat.

Monday, October 28: Individual picture retake day.

Thursday, October 31: Classroom Haloween Party. Look for a signup genius link for food and drink donations.

Here is a link to the October Newsletter: https://www.westgateschool.org/apps/pages/westgatewire_oct2024-2

Email with and questions or concerns.

Greetings Advocacy Families,

Welcome to the second week of September! This month our Advocacy theme is Self-Awareness. For this theme we have two learning goals that we want students to work towards.

Goal 1: Students will practice identifying their emotions and leveraging their strengths to overcome challenges.

Goal 2: Students will be able to name the things that make them unique, and how those character traits help them succeed in their personal and academic endeavors.

As we are over halfway through the first quarter, I would like to invite you all to regularly check Infinite Campus to check on your student's grades and identify any incomplete or missing assignments that may need to be finished. Click on the following link to create your Infinite Campus account if you do not already have one. https://4.files.edl.io/8b72/09/15/22/164611-24e1a24a-402c-49de-9a50-97e1e60c66bd.pdf

The following link will help you set up the Infinite Campus App, which is nice to have as you can set it to notify you whenever a grade is entered for your student. https://1.cdn.edl.io/X3X3DBQ7iIoHx1h6P5aI99A0RyC52XnQd9k5SnwDVIODKHgl.pdf

Important Dates

• Sept. 6^th is Picture Day!  
• Sept. 10^th is Skate City Spirit Night (Skate City Westminster 200 W. 121st Ave. Westminster, CO 80234) 
• Sept. 18^th is Student Count Day- make sure your student is present that day! & Spirit night at Qdoba (1005 W 120th Ave., Westminster, CO) 
• Sept 23-27^th is the Scholastic Book Fair 
• Sept. 26 & 27^th are Conferences Sept. 26^th is a Half Day- dismissal is at 11:30 am. 
• Sept. 30- Oct. 13: Fall Break! 

Dear Parents, 

I can’t express my excitement to dive into this school year, to develop relationships with each of you, and to help foster your student’s learning and love of math throughout the year. While I’m certain this isn’t new information to you, the parent-teacher relationship is key in ensuring the quality of your students’ education. For this reason, I am making it my goal to keep consistent communication with all of you throughout this year. Along with this letter I will be giving each of you some helpful instructions on how you can access your student’s Microsoft teams dashboard and Big Ideas Math account to keep up to date with assignments, grades, and assessments throughout this year. You will be able to access online textbooks, view assignments, monitor homework, access my notes and the slides I use in class, and make use of a wide library of extra practice resources from these two platforms. In addition, I would recommend downloading both our Westgate school app and the Infinite campus app (available on apple and android). These will allow you to get updates about community events from the school and notifications for grades as they are uploaded, missing or late work, and for field trips and events. I will be regularly updating my Edlio page (found on the school website) and I am available via email at: [email protected] or by phone; Call the school at: (303) 452-0967 and ask for me. 

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions or if you ever need anything.  

-Hunter Kahn