McHenry Community High School

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The Warrior Weekly covers spring sports, off-campus lunch and inclusion week.

Twenty-five students competed in the Illinois Design Educators Association regional competition this past Friday. Six of them are headed to the state competition in April! Read more about how they placed: https://www.dist156.org/article/2754410

Happy International Women's Day! Today is a day to celebrate the achievements of women. March is also Women's History Month. Check out our page to learn more: https://www.dist156.org/page/womens-history-month

Review the highlights from the 2024-2025 school year by checking out our annual report. Find it on the district's website or at the link below.
https://online.fliphtml5.com/gyqba/Annual-Report-Final/

Don't forget daylight saving time begins this Sunday, March 8!

Families are invited to take a short 5Essentials survey to provide important feedback about our schools. Studies show that schools strong in at least three of these "5Essentials" show student learning gains in math and reading.
Take the survey here:
https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/

Congratulations to Melanie Kadlec and Joun Aubert, our newest AVID Warriors! They completed the twelve-hour AVID strategies training. AVID is a 45-year-old national program that includes an elective class, where the goal is to help students achieve greater success in both the classroom and in their future. This is MCHS' third year as an AVID school.

We closed out inclusion week with a Kind Wall. Students posed as the "I" in kind.

On Friday, staff had the option to order lunches made by our own Warrior Chef students!

Join us 6-8 p.m. April 1 in the Upper Campus Main Gym for Transition Resource Fair. Our goal is to provide resources that support students with disabilities towards independence and success in their futures.

Students are invited to learn more about McHenry County College at Meet MCC night 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 18 at the Liebman Science Center. (Building F) This expo-style open house is a wonderful opportunity to explore MCC’s wide range of academic programs and student services.

Tickets: https://gofan.co/app/school/IL15583?activity=Musical
You don't want to miss “9 to 5: The Musical,” opening tonight, with additional performances this weekend and next weekend! You are in for a good laugh!

This is a friendly reminder the springs sports town hall is tonight (Thursday) 7 p.m. in the Upper Campus Main Gym.

Remember to wear blue tomorrow (Thursday) for inclusion week!

To continue celebrating inclusion week, students stayed after school on Wednesday to make posters for Special Olympics athletes. They hung up the posters in classrooms to welcome the athletes in the morning!

Congratulations to our outstanding PE students of the quarter! The students have been selected based on their efforts in demonstrating a positive attitude, participation in activities, work ethic, respect and integrity.

Special Olympics and Warrior Buddies students passed out candy and prizes during passing periods for Tuesday Takeover. Tuesday Takeover is an opportunity for every student organization to take over aspects of the school day.

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The Warrior Weekly covers softball getting ready for the spring season, Business Professionals of America state competition, a sports update and musical preparations.

We kicked off inclusion week by making an inclusion garden! Students at both campuses wrote on paper flowers on what inclusion means to them during lunches.