Waldwick High School Principal's Blog

As we begin the spring season, we are reaching out to ask that if your child has seasonal allergies, please provide documentation of these allergies from either an allergist or pediatrician. This documentation should include the doctor's diagnosis, allergy symptoms, and any medication they will be taking. This spring will be a challenge as we are in the middle of a global pandemic trying to control the spread of a virus that has very similar and overlapping symptoms with allergy symptoms (see Venn diagram below). There may be times a student exhibits symptoms in school that overlap with Covid symptoms. Even with a diagnosis of allergies, if a student presents with two or more symptoms, we may need to send them home and require a Covid test before returning to school. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/infographic-overlap-symptoms.html We do not want to have to exclude a student from school because they are suffering from allergy symptoms. Windows in t...

Some great shots from around town last week during the Shamrock Shenanigans for the Senior class.  Celebrating the class of 21 on the 21st of each month! See link for more pictures ...  21 Celebration (March)    Thanks Mrs. Bamrick for the pics

AP Students and Parents/Guardians of AP Students: The Advanced Placement (AP) testing process through The College Board has changed for this current school year. I would like to update you on the procedure. The College Board announced three testing windows for districts to choose from this year. They also gave options on how and where tests will be taken. In person and on paper at Waldwick High School In person, digital format at Waldwick High School At home in a digital format. This is with Administrative approval only. *One Note: Spanish is not offered as a virtual option. Over the past few weeks, AP teachers have had conversations and discussions with their students on the different options. Based on those conversations and my conversations with the AP teachers, we have created a testing schedule for the AP Exams. For the full-time remote students, Mrs. Gastman will be reaching out to you about our plans for taking the exam.  An email with more details will go out to the full-t...

 WHS Grad Ball Bracelet Fundraiser The Waldwick HS Grad Ball Committee will be holding their last bracelet fundraiser this year.  There are two options are available and pictures are listed below. Navy blue Warrior silicone bracelet:  "Once A Warrior Always A Warrior"     In honor of mental health awareness month in May, a puravida suicide awareness bracelet. Bracelets are $5.00 each and payment must be made with your order by cash (payable to Susan Stallard) or by Venmo (Whs-gradball).  Orders will be accepted through March 22, 2021.   As always, thank you for your support of the Class of 2021! 

Dear Parents/Guardians: What a year! It has certainly been an interesting school year up to this point and I want to thank you for your continued patience, flexibility, understanding and support as we have all tried to navigate this very different school year. Thank you! I would like to inform you that Waldwick High School will be implementing Phase II of our Return to School Plan starting on Monday, March 29, 2021. In developing this plan, we have adhered to our goal of safely providing more in-person learning to our students. This new plan achieves that goal. The details of the plan are the following: We are transitioning from virtual Wednesdays to adding another in-school day for students in both the Pride and Spirit cohorts. This would be done on a rotational basis each week. This change would not impact our full-time virtual students, as we will continue with our Concurrent Teaching program. The cohort days have been adjusted to allow for three consecutive in-school instructional ...