Analy High School

Hello, Analy Community—

Dear Analy Families—

Last evening, parents and guardians had a chance to experience (if only briefly) their students' classes and to meet their teachers. Our Back to School Night was a well-attended, high-energy event! The tone was set at the assembly that opened the evening with fantastic performances by our Jazz Ensemble and our Dance Team.

Also at the assembly, our visiting families heard about the amazing support staff at Analy—all of those professionals outside the classroom who support our students in solving problems, imagining their futures, and understanding their next steps. These include our amazing office staff, our Counseling Team, our Future Ready Center staff, and our Wellness Center personnel. Along with our admin team and our Coordinator for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, these staff members are often the first stop for students when they need help, have a question, or need advice.

Visiting families also had an opportunity to learn about our Athletic teams, our clubs and other student activities, and our food services program. In addition, they heard about ways to get involved in the many organizations that help to support the rich student experience at Analy. These include the English Learner Advisory Group, our Athletics and Agricultural Boosters groups, the Analy Bandwagon, the Analy Education Foundation, and Project Grad.

If you are looking for a way to plug in to campus life and make a difference, these groups are a great place to start. Links and contact information for our many support personnel and opportunities to connect are in the slideshow here. We hope you won't hesitate to reach out when you or your student has a question or needs help, and that you will join one of our campus support organizations as you are able. In this way, you can become part of the incredible support network that we have to support Analy students and families.

Chuck

P.S-Project grad is actively seeking new members to help provide a safe and fun graduation night! Please contact wcsdprojectgrad@gmail.com to learn more! They are currently in need of Committee Members for Promotions, Treasurer (shadow) and Volunteer Coordinator (shadow)

Students at Analy exhibiting any of our Portrait of a Graduate traits--curiosity, empathy, resilience, balance, collaboration, or communication--are issued a Paw Award. One copy goes home for the student and the other is entered into our monthly prize drawing. See below for this months recipients and winners.

Barajos, Flor

Contreras, Freddy

Hervey, Zelula

Munson, Milo

Ono, Tyler

Vivian, Olivia

Zapien, Jose

Drawing Winners will be announced next month.

The West Sonoma County Union High School District is expanding our Work Based Learning program, and launching a Work Experience Education course to support internships! Through our internship program, students connect their learning to the working world, allowing them to envision and shape their future pathways. We are seeking individuals and companies who'd be willing and able to host an intern (or two). Interns can help with routine tasks, observe professionals in action, develop soft skills, and tackle a related project for school credit.

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact Stacy Fortin, sfortin@wscuhsd.org to gather more information, or begin the process.

Mrs. Lokka's Viticulture class harvested our 1-acre "El Molino Lions Pride" vineyard of Pinot Noir wine grapes on August 29th. The class is now studying Enology and will get a chance to learn about the production steps as they tour local wineries.

Hello Analy families,

Coming up in the next few weeks, the counseling department will be presenting to 9th and 12th grade classes to review some important information. Please see the list below for presentation topics:

12th graders (Sep 23-25):

College applications
Introduce Willie Lepori, our new Career/College Coordinator
Gearing up for FAFSA applications

9th Graders (Oct 17-18):

High School grad status
Required credit overview
Grades and how they affect eligibility for athletics, graduation and college!

Our appointments will be limited during this time, so please email us with any questions and concerns you may have. We will get back to you as soon as we can!

Advanced Ceramics have completed their paper mache' monsters. Eight of them will be taking over the library this week. Also, some paper toy sized sculptures from beginning ceramics are in the front display case in the library.

Attached is a link that features Rachel Ambrose as a teacher that utilizes vital resources from Generation Global in her classes. Global Goals week is September 20-29 and all Global Studies and Ethnic Studies students will be participating. Students are making posters on a Sustainable Development Goal they support and winning posters will be displayed in the Sebastopol Regional Library. In addition, We will be celebrating action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals during Brunch September 23-27 in the East Wing hallway.

Here are a few pix from our Constant Velocity Buggy lab where physics students measured the speed of two different buggies and then predicted where they would collide.