Mrs. Sommerville & Mr. O'Connor's Biology class completed an inquiry-based experiment where students created their own procedures to determine the conditions that optimize the function of catalase!
The December 11 presentation, "Coping with the United States of Anxiety - Coping Tools for Parents and Kids" is cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. Details regarding the new date will be forthcoming.
Westwood Jr./Sr. High School is so proud of the debate team for competing against some of the league’s top teams! Marta Bystrowska and Olivia Larsen earned the second overall slot for best overall team score. Go Cards!!
Mr. DeBlasio and Ms. Murray's Design Thinking students getting input from Mr. Thomas, Ms. Ondroff, and Mr. Baumgartner regarding their upcoming presentation to Mars Wrigley solving a specific problem for the company! Great experience for our students!
NHS students volunteered to wrap gifts at Paramus Park for the Center for Hope and Safety. This organization offers support for women and children who are victims of domestic violence.Thank you to Julie Abaci and Katie Murphy for volunteering their time!
Mrs. Duffus' Painting II students work on developing large landscape paintings!
The 8th grade National Junior Honor Society held its annual charity book fair. Purchased new books will be donated to the Pajama and Books Foundation to help with reading programs throughout the state!
Students in Mr. Patel's Principles of Engineering class safely and effectively using tools and materials during the prototyping phase of the CO2 car project. The 21st century skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication in practice!
Ms. Menken's Physics class are developing the idea of Newton’s third law: When objects A and B interact, the force that A exerts on B is always the same in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force that B exerts on A. These forces are exerted on different objects and cannot be added to find a total force.
Pancakes, crowns, and baby yoda oh my! Mrs. Mckaba's Honors Chemistry not only made amazing aluminum sculptures but also found out how many atoms were in them!
Using balls of different masses and velocity, students in Mrs. Meindl's 8th grade Science classes explored the Law of Conservation of Momentum.
Maxi Tripodi auditioned for the Bergen County Band with 11 other multi-percussionists and received the top score!
The concert will be held at Paramus High School on Sunday, January 12 at 3 pm. Congrats Max!
Abigail Johnston is a senior in our Structured Learning Experience program and is interning at Oradell Animal Hospital . Today she got to help prep this sweet boxer for surgery! Great experience!
Carmel Alexander is interning (through our Structured Learning Experience) at St. Joseph's Health Hospital alongside Cardiologist Dr. Anthony Losardo!
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the day!
Peer pals are once again Participating in the Holiday Angel Tree gift giving program with the local Salvation Army! Go to the cafeteria to pick your tree!
Ms. Nagle's English II class working collaboratively to find descriptions of various pieces of the setting and select quotations to describe the locations of the classic, The Great Gatsby!
Social Studies Instructors Mr. DeBlasio, Mr. Collis and members of the Social Studies Honor Society organizing and packing care packages (Collected for Veteran's Day) to be sent to active duty military members that are serving overseas.
Over the weekend, Ms. Farrell, Mrs. Kauffman, & Ms. Ondrof attended the National Convention for English Teachers in Baltimore, MD. They attended over seven workshops led by authors and professionals in the field. They are excited to share this information with their department!
The debate team is so proud of their captains, Marta Bystrowska and Olivia Larsen for leading Westwood to a win during Friday’s tournament at Fair Lawn high school. Congrats to our entire Debate Team as well as coaches Ms. Vallorano and Mr. Welfel! Go Cards!
