Louisiana offers a Community Service Diploma Endorsement for students completing 80 service hours by graduation. These service hours are also a graduation requirement for a Willow School diploma. Students perform community service hours according to the following schedule:
Freshman Year-10 hours
Sophomore Year-20 hours
Junior Year-25 hours
Senior Year-25 hours
In general, students arrange for their own community service, however, the counseling office has information regarding approved service opportunities. All service hours must be approved and signed by an adult supervisor through forms available in the counseling office. Students are strongly encouraged to submit documentation of service hours as they complete them. Please stop by the guidance office if you have any questions.
Due to expected inclement/severe weather and out of an abundance of caution, The Willow School (all campuses) will close at 11:30 tomorrow (Monday). Aftercare and all after-school events are cancelled. Varsity girls basketball game TBD.
Come out to the Brees Family Field today at 2pm to see the current Willow soccer team take on the visiting Willow alumni players in this long-standing annual tradition. Go Lions (old and new)!
Willow alumna (Class of 2017) and Harvard University grad Samyra Cambrielle will perform the national anthem at today's home Saints game. Many in our community may recall her memorable performances through her years at our school. Go Samyra! Let's hope that her song will inspire a big Saints victory today against the Falcons!
Reminder: School starts at 8 AM tomorrow (Friday, Dec. 15) at Willow middle and high schools.
AP Research presentations!
Junior League of New Orleans is hosting a Teen Volunteer Shift at their Diaper Bank on Thursday, Dec. 28, 12-3pm. Anyone seeking service hours, or just wanting to help out is welcome! The warehouse is in Elmwood, 1109 Al Davis Pkwy. The Diaper Bank provides diapers, period supplies kits and adult incontinence supplies to those in need. Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/RTnYktQLSvhTMZUy9
Come to the Willow Winter Dance Concert - Friday, Dec. 15 @ 6pm and Saturday, Dec. 16 @ 2pm; Goldring Theater on the Lower School Campus
Tickets are FREE with links to be sent to the Willow School on Wednesday
If you missed their performance at the Block Party, be sure to check out our High School choir at their Winter Choir Concert, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 6-7pm in Room 400 of the High School campus. Free admission.
"Molecules" in Ms. Shelton’s Chemistry I Honors class
On Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 6pm, Louisiana Education Loan Authority will present a virtual program on college financial aid & scholarships specifically prepared for Willow School seniors and families. The Zoom link and registration link was emailed to seniors and their families today.
Congrats to the following Willow High School volleyball players for making the All-District Team: Mia Mahony and Kennedy Miller. Katherine Bilbro and Chloe West also received Honorable Mentions. Way to go!
Join us tomorrow at our High School Parent Coffee tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 16, in the library on the 3rd floor at 8am. The library will also be hosting The High School Fall Book Fair at that time. So come have a cup of coffee and shop for some books!
The Boys Soccer Team takes on local soccer powerhouse Jesuit tonight at home! Come out and support the boys! Varsity kicks off at 6:00pm with JV to follow around 7:30pm! Here is the ticket link: https://gofan.co/app/school/LA69643 Hope to see you out there! GO LIONS!
Purchase tickets at the below link to Willow High's production of Inherit the Wind at Le Petit. The show will run on Thursday, 11/16, at 7:30 pm, Friday, 11/17, at 7:30 pm, and Saturday, 11/18, at 2:30 pm. All tickets are $10 and are available now at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36212/production/1184173
Jerome Robbins and Robert Edwin Lee’s Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Trial, which saw a high school teacher convicted for teaching evolution to his sophomore science class.
The Boys Soccer Team hosts our first regular season game tonight as we take on Riverdale at Brees Family Field at 7pm! Here is the ticket link: https://gofan.co/app/school/LA69643
Hope to see you out there! GO LIONS!
Now in the CAVE Gallery on the 4th floor: Mixing Iroquois sensibilities and traditional craft techniques with contemporary materials and concepts, a dash of 1980/ 1990’s Northeast coast intertribal powwow culture and a heavy dose of 70’s sci-fi, Erin Lee Antorak’s artwork paints a self-portrait of a modern Iroquois woman. Working in this way, she creates a link between herself, and her ancestors, claiming her place in the chain of Iroquois women before and after her. Erin Lee Antonak is a visual artist and curator. She is a Wolf Clan member of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York. A graduate of Bard College(Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) and SUNY New Paltz (New Paltz, NY), Erin has studied at Lacoste School of the Arts (Lacoste, France), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and is a Morse College Fellow at Yale University (New Haven, CT).
Dancers are preparing for the December Dance Concert with Ms. Buckels.
Shakespeare scholars Bonner Cutting and Dr. Earl Showerman recently visited the high school library and spoke to creative writing students. Cutting and Showerman were here as part of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference and discussed the Shakespeare authorship question, engaging students in Q & A.
Cross Country Track will make its final KICK in Natchitoches, La., on Monday. Help FUEL the Cross Country Track Team with Lion Spirit as they put the HAMMER DOWN to bring home the SWAG. The Willow School had 15 students qualify to run in State Championships. Varsity Girls finished 4th overall, with three runners in the Top 25. Varsity Boys finished 3rd overall, with six runners in the Top 25. A special shout-out to Javi!! Javi ran the last mile with only one shoe, placing 4th overall!
