November 14, 2023
Upcoming college visits are as follows:
Friday, University of Connecticut
Please stop by guidance for a pass.
WMHS Students, raffle tickets are on sale at lunch for your chance to pie a teacher in the face at the pep-rally! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to the junior class officers, or Ms. Keough and Ms. Steere!
Indoor track and field sign-ups for both boys and girls will be this Thursday in the field house after school. If you cannot make it, please see Coach Reinoso in room 2201.
The Investment Club will be meeting on Thursday, November 16 at 2:15 in the library.
Attention Students: If you are interested in doing a little cooking or baking after school, please come for an informational meeting for the Culinary Club after school on Wednesday November 15th in room 1305.
Attention Recycling Warriors: Today is the day we save our planet one Tuesday at a time. Please remember to put out your bins.
November 14, 2023 is Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. Wakefield Elementary students and staff will celebrate this day through educational school-wide assemblies to learn about the day.
Who is Ruby Bridges: In 1960, a federal court ordered Louisiana schools to desegregate. Ruby and five other students passed the school entrance exam to see if they can handle being in an all-white school. Ruby was the only student who showed for the first day of school on November 14, 1960. Ruby braved Frantz Elementary School on her own that day. At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
How Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day Began
In May 2018, A group of 5th graders from Martin Elementary School in California learned about Ruby Bridges' story and asked their school board the question…Why isn’t there a day named after Ruby Bridges? The students wanted to do something to help make a difference.
November 14th has been recognized as the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day and this year METCO has collaborated with all the elementary schools of WPS to participate in the first annual walk to school.
Today, we honor the bravery of Ruby Bridges.