Yearbooks will be available on Thursday! Stop in from 8AM - 4PM to pick yours up from last year!
WHS 12th Graders, please click on the link below and sign up for your session on August 24th. You will receive your laptop (if all back to school paperwork was returned) and visit with your Advisory teacher.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A4AABAE2DA31-12th1
WHS 11th Graders, please click on the link below and sign up for your session on August 24th. You will receive your laptop (if all back to school paperwork was returned) and visit with your Advisory teacher.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A4AABAE2DA31-11th1
WHS 10th Graders, please click on the link below and sign up for your session on August 24th. You will receive your laptop (if all back to school paperwork was returned) and visit with your Advisory teacher.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A4AABAE2DA31-10th1
WHS 9th Graders / WHS NEW Students to the District / Parents: Please click on below link to sign up for a session on August 23rd. You will receive your schedule and visit with your Advisory Teacher during this session. Parents, you are required to attend if you have not had a student at WHS in the past 4 years.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A4AABAE2DA31-9thgrade1
WHS Students: You should have received your "Back To School" paperwork in the mail this week. Please complete and return by August 13th. If you haven't received your packet yet, please call the high school to request a new packet.
The electricity and phone lines in the High School, Business Office & Superintendent's Office will be off from 3:00 pm Friday, July 16 thru 12:00 pm Monday, July 19. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you!
To all of our Watertown School District families: Thank you so much for helping us get through this unusual year. We appreciate your patience and flexibility, as we dealt with the COVID situation. We know it took work on your part, but we feel it was all worth it to continue educating the students in Watertown. Thank you for helping us keep our students and staff safe to finish the year! Best wishes on your summer.
Attention High School parents: By 12:30 on Wednesday, May 26th, a parent/guardian must pick up any unused medications from the Nurse's Office. Any unclaimed medications will be disposed of at the end of this day, May 26th.
Attention: Great News, the graduation ceremony this year will be live streamed!
WHS 2021 Graduation Stream
https://youtu.be/AJEOz_rkeWg
Live - May 30, 2021, 1:50 PM
Class of 2021 Graduation Announcement!
WHS will be issuing 7 tickets instead of 4 for each senior household. Seven tickets for each household will fill our guest seating sections in the upper level, but it will reserve a place for you. If you do not intend to use all of your tickets, please return the remainder of your tickets to the high school principal’s office. We will redistribute those tickets to families who request additional ones. Please send the extra tickets back with your senior or feel welcome to visit our school to drop them off at the attendance window just inside our new entrance on the west side. Thank you!
Graduation information letters containing your tickets will be mailed next week. Please remind your graduate to attend our graduation practice next Wednesday afternoon at 11:36 AM. Thank you. We will be broadcasting the graduation on our local Gov-TV and streaming it to YouTube. The link to watch the ceremony will be posted on our high school webpage.
Friday Bell Schedule. WHS ONLY dismisses at 2PM.
WHS invites you to our Spring Orchestra Concert on May 10th at 7:30 PM in the Watertown Civic Arena. Guest are required to wear masks for this event. Thank you.
The WHS Prom Grand March will take place Saturday, April 17th, at 8pm in the Civic Arena. The main concourse doors will open for parents and spectators at 7pm, cost is $1 to watch the Grand March. Parents will be directed to go immediately to the balcony to find your seats. Parents will not be allowed on the arena floor. Photographers will be on site to take pictures during the event. At the conclusion of the grand march, we are asking spectators to exit through the concourse or the balcony stairs that lead to the parking lot. Thank you very much for your cooperation in our efforts to keep you and our students safe. Masks are required for guests at the Prom Grand March.
WHS Musical! Wizard of Oz!
An update from the world of Student Driver Education. We have some great news, unfortunately, we have some not so good news, too. First off, the great news! Driver Education will take place like normal this summer, with a few changes we made including making it more flexible and easier for families. We adjusted our age limit to allow summer birthday students turning “14” to be eligible for driver education which we are very excited for. Registration has been in full swing since March 1, 2021 and the number of families and the interest has been outstanding! Because of this high level of interest and number of registered students, this brings up the bad news. We originally had planned to close registration on April 30, 2021. However, we have reached our cap on the number of enrolled students, so we will now be closing registration for Driver Education. If you would like to be put on the waiting list in case anyone decides to drop the class, you need to reach out directly to Mr. Chad Rohde (chad.rohde@k12.sd.us). You will then be put on the list, first come, first served basis.
WHS 2 hour late start schedule:
Block 1 - 10:30 - 11:33
Block 3 - 11:38 - 1:15
Block 2 - 1:20 - 2:23
Block 4 - 2:28 - 3:30
(A lunch 11:33 - 12:03 / B lunch 12:06 -12:41 / C lunch 12:45 - 1:15)
The Watertown School District will have no school on Thursday, March 11. Due to the fact that we already had a planned 12:30 dismissal, a late start wasn't an option for today. All activities for Thursday, will either be postponed or canceled.
WHS Chorus concert will be held Tuesday, March 9th at 7:30pm. Masks are required.
Drivers Ed information and applications are now available on either the middle school or high school websites (click on Explore and then Documents - from there you will see an informational letter and the application). Any further questions can be directed to Mr Rhode at chad.rohde@k12.sd.us.