October is National Bullying Prevention Month and is a time to acknowledge that bullying can cause serious harm and that we all need to work together to prevent it!
Westview Hills saxophone and clarinet students had a great clinic last week with Shawn Maxwell from VanDoren reeds. What a great way to grow in their instruments! #d60learns
Holmes is looking great with decorations celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month! #d60learns
If you missed the first parent coffee, you can still get the information by checking out the presentation that was shared at the link. Don’t miss the next Parent Coffee on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at Holmes at 6 p.m. which will be focused on student behavior and attendance! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qQvvf6zPlNJ8jblSDDsqFSAM4zh4po7nsQlUlWCSbZ4/edit#slide=id.gec2964a664_1_6
Westview Hills band students took part at a great step up band event at Hinsdale South High School last week! The Wildcats enjoyed the fabulous marching band halftime show, visited with Westview alums, and had the opportunity to join in a mass band performance of “Handclap” and the Hinsdale South fight song. #d60learns
Students and staff at Maercker celebrated Dot Day by dressing up, completing a cool Dot Day activity on the app Breakout EDU and some classes even designed and colored their own dot with the magic of the app Quiver to see their creation come to life! #d60learns
Maercker D60 is looking for an amazing EL Teacher to join our team at Westview Hills Middle School! Browse the details and apply today! https://www.applitrack.com/maercker/onlineapp/default.aspx?AppliTrackJobID=870&ref=
Everyone is doing great with the early release days this year! Tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 25) is another early release day.
The Maercker PTA September Membership Drive is almost over! Have you joined this month to be eligible for the prize drawings?
https://www.maerckerpta.org/join-d60-pta
Don’t miss the Westmont Fire Department Open house on Saturday, September 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with tons of free and fun activities for the whole family!
Students at Westview Hills really enjoyed having a visit from New York Times best selling and Newbery Honor winning author Jasmine Warga last week! She spoke about her work as an author and her latest book A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall. Such a great visit! #d60learns
The Westview HIlls boys cross country team competed this Saturday in Shorewood, IL at the Troy Invite. There were 47 schools in attendance and a total of three separate races for all three grades. In the 6th grade race, Westview was represented by Nick M., Nick S, Suvan, Adam, F. and Aronas. It’s a big deal for 6th graders to run a race this big and they did a great job of competing in a race of over 270 runners!
In the 7th grade race, our boys took 1st place. Yebby finished in 2nd, Emmett finished in 5th, Isaac in 13th and Theo in 14th. All four boys earned medals for their impressive races and each ran their best times ever! Also running personal best times were Matthew S., Owen M., Shashank, Owen M., Ahmed, and Amatya.
In the 8th grade race, our boys also took first place. Santi finished in 3rd, Mesfin in 9th, Braden in 17th, and Kasper in 22nd. All four boys earned medals and ran their best times ever! Also running personal best times were Jesus, Jack, Anwar, Oscar, and Khelan. Congrats to our team on a great weekend! Way to go Wildcats!
Interested in volunteering with the Maercker PTA? Plan to drop in to meet other PTA volunteers and learn about the different roles and opportunities to help with the PTA on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Indian Prairie Public Library. Light refreshments will be available, kids are welcome to attend if you need to bring them along. Open house style, so come for part or the whole time. Please RSVP so they can plan for refreshments!
https://www.maerckerpta.org/event-details/volunteer-information-session
Last week the staff at Holmes joined together to learn about redirecting language to support students with behaviors. This is part of the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) work centered around the book The Power of Our Words. #d60learns
Maercker D60 has a great mentorship program in place for our new teachers! Our mentors and mentees recently spent time learning together around strategies to build relationships and routines in their classroom. #d60learns
Don’t forget that tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 18 is an early release day for students!
Students at Maercker kicked off the first week in the library with fun activities including a virtual scavenger hunt to familiarize themselves with the different genres in the library, and were able to check out books and get some reading done! #d60learns
Interested in running for school board? Maercker D60 will be hosting a presentation on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 6-6:45 p.m. at Westview Hills for anyone in the D60 community interested in running for school board in the April 1, 2025 election.
National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year. The Maercker D60 Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee kicked things off in a big way last Friday with a potluck picnic. It was a great turnout and a wonderful way to celebrate our community!
Ms. Obrzut's 3rd grade class made the outdoors their classroom for a math lesson on division recently! They used chalk to draw diagrams and learn how to divide in an engaging, creative and memorable way. So cool! #d60learns
