Principals Message

Principal’s Message

1/12/2012

One of Wolcott High School’s advisory groups put up a big stocking and posters around the school, asking if anyone would like to write a letter to the troops for the holidays. I received approximately 23 letters in the stocking. They have been mailed off and hopefully will make some of our soldiers happy! Ellie, Special Ed Department.

The Wolcott High School Senior class collected and donated almost $200 to give to the needy family over the holidays. Great Job

Our Community Service Club worked at the Bristol Soup Kitchen on Sunday. We cook, serve, and clean for a few hundred needy (hungry) people.

In our Civics classes Congressman Chris Murphy (He is one of our Congressmen in DC) coming in to speak to some students on Monday January 9th.

Health & Wellness Fair will be held on Thursday, January 19th at Wolcott High School for all employees and family members from 2:00 to 6:00 in the gymnasium.

Dr. Matt Cucolo will begin his presentations to the wellness classes on Jan. 12th. He will continue to come in every other Thursday until he has presented to all 865 students!

The guidance department met with all 9th, 10th & 11th grade students this month. The dept. went over all testing results with the students so they understand their results. For the 9th graders it was the EXPLORE results & for the 10th & 11th it was their PSAT results. In addition, we are hosting a parent night on Jan. 17th to go over results with parents. We will have two sessions for each group. We will start at 6pm & end at 8pm. Lastly the guidance dept, along with our career center coordinator will be hosting a career day on April 26th. This will be for all grades 9-12 & will run for the first four sessions of the day.

Athletics:

Girls Basketball

Our girl’s basketball team has already qualified for the State Tourney with an 8-1 record

We also lead the NVL Brass Division

Boys Basketball

The boy’s basketball team started well with a current record of 2-5 with some very close games to Derby, St. Paul and Ansonia. The boys are working hard together both in the classroom and on the basketball court. We appreciate the support of the Board of Education members, faculty and staff and community. Our upcoming home games include Friday January 13th against Sacred Heart and Wednesday January 18th against Kennedy.

Indoor Track

Has had 9 student Athletes qualify for CIAC State meet.

12/2/11

On December 2nd, forty-seven (47) members of Wolcott High’s DECA Chapter attended the 2011 DECA Leadership Conference. Only one other Connecticut high school chapter had more of its members in attendance. All students attended three workshops that proved to be both mentally and physically engaging. The presentations centered on a variety of topics including professional conduct, collaboration, self-esteem and body language.

While at the conference, which was held at the Aqua Turf, each Connecticut chapter was challenged to raise $500 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. DECA is a national association of 185,000 marketing students whose goal is to improve education and career opportunities for students interested in marketing, management and entrepreneurship.

Wolcott High School Student Theater presented its first annual Fall Play “Arsenic and Old Lace” on Dec. 3rd and 4th with huge success. I’d like to thank everyone that attended and helped make our first production a success!

Three Chorus Members were accepted into the CMEA Southern Region Honors Chorus: Brittnee Maia, Emma Casagrande, and Simone Dube. They will be performing with all the top singers of our region in January.

The Wolcott HS Show Choir has been actively performing around town spreading Holiday Cheer. They performed at the Friends of the Wolcott Public Library Luncheon, The Wolcott Town Christmas Tree Lighting, The Junior Women’s Club Holiday Party, the Mayor’s Holiday Party, The Knights of Columbus Holiday Party, Alcott Elementary School Santa Breakfast, and caroled for the residents of Wolcott View Manor with Mr. Mike Haddad and his guitar students.

Finally, the annual Music Department Holiday Concert will be this Thursday, December 15th at 7pm. Please contact me if you are interested in attending and I will set aside tickets for anyone interested.

On December 6th our parent Action Council had a Wendy’s fundraiser. It was a huge success and they would like to thank everyone.

Also on December 9th 20 AP US History students attended a series of workshops at UConn in Torrington as part of the Preserving our Histories program. Students met veterans and practiced interview techniques. Additionally, they attended workshops on the technical aspects of filming and lighting, which they will use to prepare a broadcast-ready documentary which will be entered in the CT. Student Film Festival in May.

2011 CAPT Scholars:

Ashley Beeman

Domenic Bozzuto

Emily Cantor

Emma Casagrande

Taylor Couture

Corey Covell

David Givens

Matthew Hecker

Kelsey Lesnikoski

Kyle Margison

Kaitlyn McCarthy

James Nelson

Zachary Pattek

Victoria Russo

Justin Susarchick

In athletics:

We had 263 student athletes who participated in athletics this fall. 2 All-Stater, 9 First Team All-NVL, 9 athletes to the All-NVL Brass Division. 41 students to the NVL- All Academic Team.

We won 2 NVL Championships: Girls Cross County and Volleyball.

Boys football made the CIAC playoffs for the first time in school history and won a playoff game.