From the Principal's Desk

School Pictures --

• School pictures are ready!
• To order, log in to your account on mylifetouch.com or create an account using your student's student ID number.
• All families can also log on and order a FREE Digital SmileSafe card.
• More about the Smilesafe program here.
• FYI - our picture 'make-up day' is October 24.

Career Tech Students -- (from the Career Tech Administration)

• Please be mindful that Wayne-Westland students should park ONLY at their respective home high school. Transportation has been arranged for Wayne Memorial students. Due to the limited parking spaces of over 1100 students and the restaurant, we urge strict adherence to this policy. Exceptions are granted for students with higher-level work-based learning experiences, provided they obtain approval from both schools' administrative teams. Students who drive without permission may face disciplinary consequences.

Class Bells / Tardy to Class / Hall Sweeps --

• We have a bell that rings to release students to go to their next class.
• We have a warning bell that rings, to alert our students that their next class will be starting in 60 seconds.
• We then have a bell that rings to start the next class. All students should be inside their classroom when the start of class bell rings.
• Any student(s) that is not inside their class when the start of class bell rings, is tardy and subject to being picked up in a hall sweep by our leadership team.
• After the hall sweeps: if a student is picked up *3 times, they will be issued an ISS (in school suspension). After the *4th time, the student will be given an OSS (out of school suspension). The OSS will be progressive (*5th time is 1 day of OSS, *6th time is 2 days of OSS, *7th time is 3 days of OSS, *8th time is 5 days of OSS, and *9th time is 10 days of OSS).
• We will reset the Hall Sweep Tardies each month.
• Students are expected to get to class on time and to stay in class.

Bathrooms -

• Bathrooms are open in the cafeteria and the main halls to start our day.
• The primary bathrooms that we use during the day in the main halls are: South End on the 1st Floor, North End on the 2nd and 3rd Floors.
• Bathrooms are open during all transitions (passing times), they are closed for the first 10 minutes of class, opened back again after the first 10 minutes of class, closed during the last 10 minutes of class, and opened back up again during our transitions (passing times).
• Bathrooms are open in the cafeteria during the lunches.
• Bathrooms are open in the cafeteria and the main halls at the end of our day.
• We also have bathrooms that we let our students use in the main office area and the counseling area if they need to use one of those, while they are in that area.

• The goal at WMHS is to get our students to class on time and to stay in class. Students should use the bathroom around times when they are not in class, or if need be, they can always get a pass to leave class if they have an "emergency".

• As a Staff, we will always provide a pass, open the bathrooms for any student, at any time, if they have an "emergency" and need to get in there.

Have a great week!!

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Cory J. Gildersleeve

Principal