Today is National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day! We want to say THANK YOU to all of our bus drivers who safely transport our students every day!
We are looking for bus drivers to join our team! We have openings for route drivers (paying $135/day for a full route) and activity drivers (paying $37.50/hour drive time and $20/hour wait time).
If interested, check out our careers page: https://www.willistonschools.org/page/careers-with-wbsd7
Reminder: There is no school on Friday, 2/18 (Teacher In-Service) and Monday, 2/21 (President's Day). Enjoy your long weekend!
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS: The date for the Sub Academy has changed to May 27, 2022. All subs, regardless of licensure, need to attend.
Please see the flyer for more information. For any questions, please contact Dr. Arneson at (701)572-1580 ext. 01103 or Mrs. Brenner at (701)572-1580 ext. 01105.
The 2022-2023 School Calendar is now available!
You can view it by visiting our website:
https://www.willistonschools.org/browse/220574
February 15th is National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day. We want to say thank you to our SRO's who serve our students and staff every day!
Coyote Baseball Parent Meeting
Our phone lines are all operating as normal. Thank you for your patience during the outage.
Our Athletic Director Robert Conley was featured in the newest edition of the NDIAAA Quarterly newsletter. Check out page 14 of their newsletter below!
https://indd.adobe.com/view/2dfa1f86-c436-4f35-ac9c-83b96580eff4
Sgt. Tom Rich will be here on Thursday, February 10th, at Williston High School at 7pm for a Workshop on Cyber Safety and Security. At this high energy, fast paced presentation you will learn about every app, how to monitor your child’s activity and see real time how to navigate the most popular social media apps. Sgt. Rich has spoken to over 1 million people worldwide and has been featured on NBC, FOX, CNN and Good Morning America! For more info, check out www.AlwaysConnected.org
On Friday, February 4, 2022, all of our phone lines will be down intermittently beginning at 10:00 a.m. At this time, we do not have an estimate of how long the phone lines will be down. We appreciate your patience during this. If you need to reach someone during this time, please email your school secretary. You can find a list of staff members and their email addresses by clicking on the “Staff” link on your school’s website.
The MS Boys Basketball games that were postponed on 2/1/22 have been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 14th.
Feb. 14th -
7th Grade in the WMS Gym
8th Grade in Phil Jackson Field House
4:30pm - C Team Games
5:30pm - B Team Games
6:30pm - A Team Games
The MS Boys Basketball Games today have been Postponed. We do not have a makeup date scheduled yet.
7th A & B Teams vs. Minot - POSTPONED
8th A & B Teams vs. Minot - POSTPONED
7th C & 8th C Teams @ Minot - POSTPONED
7th & 8th Boys Basketball will practice today.
MS Cheer, Jan 31 @ Bakken Cafeteria 4pm
Due to icy road conditions, all WBSD7 schools will start 2 hours later than normal on Monday, January 24, 2022. Schools will begin 2 hours after their normal start time, and buses will run 2 hours later than normal for pick up in the morning. School will dismiss at its normal time.
Thank you,
WBSD7
After reassessing the road conditions, we have decided we will not be running our school buses today for morning or afternoon routes.
Coyote Country!
Update!
The Boys Basketball game that was scheduled for today at Minot High School has been rescheduled to tomorrow at Minot.
1:00 9A Boys v Minot @ Central Campus
2:30 9B Boys v Minot @ Central Campus
1:00 10 Boys v Minot @ Magic City Campus
2:45 JV Boys v Minot @ Magic City Campus
4:30 V Boys v Minot @ Magic City Campus
We would like to remind families of the policies we are following per our Return to In-Person Learning Plan related to COVID-19 positive individuals:
Positive COVID-19 Diagnosis
ISOLATE: Stay home and away from others for at least 10 days after symptom onset and be fever free for 24 hours (without the use of medications) and have improvements in symptoms. If asymptomatic (without symptoms) isolate for 10 days beginning on test date.
If you have COVID-19, you must self-isolate regardless of vaccination status, previous infection, or lack of symptoms.
Recently the CDC updated their COVID guidelines for isolation time for positive individuals, however, at our recent school board meeting, it was decided we would continue with our current plan.
For more information and to read the plan, please visit our District Website https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1413803/1.7.22_Amended_Return_to_In_Person_Plan.pdf
A message from our Athletic Department:
Effective immediately, we are going to pause all high school wrestling practices and duals until January 18. We will not be participating in the Miles City Tournament or Sidney Tournament. We are taking this time to try and mitigate the continuing spread of illness that we are currently facing. We do not like doing this, but we feel this in our best interest to keep our wrestlers healthy and allow us to participate in the Fargo Metro Duals next weekend. We have opened a testing window for your student athlete to be tested, if you would like that opportunity. The testing window is today, January 12, from 2-4 pm. To utilize this, you must have a parent/guardian register the athlete using this link: https://testreg.nd.gov/
If you have any further questions regarding testing, please email Lynn Douglas at lynn.douglas@willistonschools.org.
With the unfortunate increase in violence, threats, cyberbullying, and disruptive social media “challenges” in schools throughout the country, the Williston Basin School District #7 would like to take a moment to remind families and students that our District takes a zero-tolerance approach to any misconduct of this nature. Please see the attached notice from the Interim Superintendent, Lori Olson, and the Director of Student Services, Wyndy McGinley.
