August 6th, 2020

Hello Weston Ranch High School students and parents!

This is Mr. Fast here, your Principal. As we conclude our first official day of distance learning, we want to encourage you all for this school year. Even though this is not what we may have anticipated, we are committed to making this the best year possible for Weston Ranch students. 

We will be tasked with working out the kinks as they arise and setting up each student for success. We can all choose to get better throughout this process and support one another. We wish you all the best of luck and please know that we are here to support you. Together, we got this! We wish you all the best for the 2020-2021 school year.

July 23, 2020

Students and Parents of Weston Ranch High School

WRHS Students, Parents, and Staff

This is Mr. Fast, Principal of Weston Ranch High school. There have been so many changes regarding the opening of schools around the world, country, state, and our local school District. There have been continual changes that have impacted us all. As a parent myself, we are continually thinking about how to adjust with our own children with ongoing changes and uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Change, change, and more change! Yet, through all the inconsistencies there has been one thing that has remained steadfast and the same, and that is our heart for our students! We truly miss our student body and staff and the normalcy of the daily routines that we once had. Let us all continue to send positive thoughts and prayers to eventually get back to where we all want to be – together. Below are a few important items as we begin to prepare for the first official day of school.

• August 6^th will be the first day of 100% Distance Learning. 100 % Distance Learning is within MUSD’s Phase 1. We do not know when Phase 2 or 3 will begin (which includes having students back on our campus). We will cross that bridge when we are able to do so. We are, however, planning for those future scenarios. For more information regarding the District’s Phases, please reference the MUSD website.  
• In the next few days you will receive a Welcome Back letter along with the new 2020-2021 bell schedule. The new bell schedule with a later start time is a State mandate which will be mandated for the 2022 school year. Our District is being pro-active in beginning this school year with the later start time, and a later start time during COVID was thought to be more effective in the Distance Learning model. This bell schedule serves as both the Distance Learning model (Phase 1) and IF we have students back on campus in the future (Phase 2 & 3). This is fluid, for now.
• WRHS students will be able to access their school schedules on Wednesday July 29^th after 3:00 pm.
• Receiving up to date communication is more important now than ever. At the minimum, we try to provide weekly updates to our WRHS Website, our WRHS Facebook, our WRHS Journalism, along with delivery of e-mails to students and parents. If you are not receiving the e-mails and voice messages, please contact WRHS to update your information.

I know that for some of us, COVID has created some HUGE hurdles to get over. We must continue to make choices to come together as a school and community to try our best to focus on the opportunities that are often birthed in difficult situations.

Thank you

Troy M. Fast

Principal