Washington County High School

Hope INSPIRED Encouragement today! TUM-AINI 💙 As we build our culture, we’re spreading a little COLOR LOVE! 💙 Check out Mrs. Barber from our BLUE team sharing a special blue treat with one of our elementary babies! 🥰💙 It’s the little moments that help build ONE school, ONE family, and a culture of belonging! 🏠💙 #ColorLove #BuildingOurCulture #SixHousesOneFamily #PantherPride

Adult Stakeholders, We Need YOU! 💙🖤 Help us make Teen Court a success! Your involvement, support, and voice matter. See the attached information to learn how you can get involved.

🏠✨ INTRODUCING THE WCHS HOUSE SYSTEM! ✨🏠 6 Houses • 1 School • 1 Family Washington County High School is excited to introduce a new initiative designed to strengthen belonging, relationships, leadership, school spirit, and community—our new WCHS House System! 💙 Every student and staff member will belong to one of six Houses, each with its own name, color, symbol, meaning, and values: 🧡 AMARI • Elephant • Strength & Courage ❤️ NIA • Eagle • Purpose 💜 HEKIMA • Owl • Wisdom 💚 ZURI • Butterfly • Beauty & Growth 💙 TUMAINI • Phoenix • Hope 💛 IMANI • Lion • Faith & Belief But this initiative is about much more than colors and friendly competition. Our goal is to create smaller communities within our school where every student has a place to belong, people who know them, and opportunities to lead, serve, grow, and succeed. Throughout the year, Houses will participate in activities, celebrations, service projects, academic challenges, competitions, attendance initiatives, and opportunities to earn House points—all while building relationships across grade levels. And we don’t want our Houses to stop at the school doors! 🏠🤝🏾 We welcome our families, alumni, businesses, organizations, churches, and community stakeholders to become part of the excitement. There will be opportunities throughout the year to support our Houses, participate in activities, mentor our students, celebrate their accomplishments, and help us strengthen the connection between our school and community. Whether you are Orange, Red, Purple, Green, Blue, or Yellow, at the end of the day, we are all PANTHERS. 🐾💙 We can’t wait for our community to see this initiative grow! SIX HOUSES. ONE SCHOOL. ONE FAMILY. 🏠🧡❤️💜💚💙💛 #WCHSHouseSystem #SixHousesOneFamily #CrazyAndConsistent #PantherPride #CommunityStrong #WCHS

We need volunteers for Teen Court

Today was a GREAT day at Washington County Schools! We were honored to welcome U.S. Congressman Don Davis to our campus today! Congressman Davis represents North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, which includes Washington County. We appreciate Congressman Davis for spending time with us and showing his continued support for the students, families, and communities of Eastern North Carolina. It was a great day to be a Panther!

🎉 CELEBRATING OUR SUMMER CTE WORK-BASED LEARNING FIELD STUDENTS! 🎉 This was a busy and productive summer for several of our CTE students! 💙🐾 We are incredibly grateful for the community partners who opened their doors to our students, providing them with opportunities to gain valuable real-world experience, strengthen employability skills, and EARN as they LEARN! 👏 Help us celebrate our Summer Work-Based Learning participants and thank the partners who helped make these experiences possible! 🚑 EMR ⭐ Barbara Sanchez — Successfully completed the EMR Program 🧸 Early Childhood Education ⭐ Priyah Phelps — Guardian Angels Academy ⭐ Lanni Segar — Guardian Angels Academy 💊 Health Science ⭐ Thanh Pham — O’Neal’s Pharmacy These experiences go far beyond the classroom. Our students had the opportunity to show up, work alongside professionals, build confidence, develop career-ready skills, and experience their career pathways firsthand. A special THANK YOU to our community partners for investing your time, knowledge, and resources into our students. Partnerships like these are what make meaningful Work-Based Learning possible! We are proud of our students! Learning. Working. Growing. Earning. 🎓💼 #WorkBasedLearning #CTE

What a GREAT first day! 💙🐾 We started our morning with prayer, purpose, and a warm welcome back, setting the tone for an incredible year ahead. There was excitement in the halls, smiles everywhere, and great energy across campus! Day 1 is in the books! Now it’s time to stay focused, stay consistent, and keep building. This is our banner year, and we’re just getting started! Crazy Enough to Dream. Consistent Enough to Achieve. Committed Enough to Transform. 🔥

📣 WCHSTUDENTS… TOMORROW IS YOUR DAY! 📚🔥🐾

We’re ready to welcome ALL of our students back on campus tomorrow! A brand-new school year is here, and we’re coming in CRAZY & CONSISTENT!

🔥 Crazy Enough to Dream.
🔥 Consistent Enough to Achieve.
🔥 Committed Enough to Transform.

This is our BANNER YEAR, and we’re setting the tone from DAY ONE! Read the flyer

A few NON-NEGOTIABLES as we start the year:

🎯 Come ready to LEARN.
⏰ Be ON TIME and IN CLASS.
💙 Respect yourself, your classmates, and your school.
📵 Follow expectations and stay focused.
💪 Give your BEST—even when it gets hard.
🔥 Bring the ENERGY and keep it ALL YEAR!

Students, we’ve been preparing for YOU. Tomorrow, we start strong—and we’re going to KEEP THE HEAT 🔥 ALL YEAR LONG!

It’s our BANNER YEAR! LET’S GO, WCHS! 🐾💙

#CrazyAndConsistent #BannerYear #WCS #BackToSchool #LetsGo

Attention Seniors

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS MAKING A DIFFERENCE! The launch of our CTE Marketplace would not have been possible without the incredible organizations that believed in our vision and invested in our students. From major equipment such as DTF printers, 3D printers, laser cutters, POS systems, sublimation equipment, poster and sticker printers, hydroponic systems, and other production technology—to startup inventory, supplies, and so much more, your financial support and commitments have helped transform an idea into a real-world, student-led work-based learning environment. Our CTE Department sincerely thanks: ❤️ Domtar 🌲 Weyerhaeuser 💚 MTW District Health Department 💡 Innovative Grant Because of community partners like you, our students have a place where they can LEARN, CREATE, PRODUCE, SERVE, and EARN while gaining authentic workplace experience. Thank you for helping us bring the CTE Marketplace to life!

🎉 TODAY, WE MADE HISTORY IN CTE! 🎉 Today, we celebrated a milestone that has been a dream in the making. We had our official CTE Marketplace Ribbon Cutting Ceremony! 💙✂️ What makes this moment even more special is knowing that this Marketplace was created to give our students a real-world space to learn, create, lead, work, and EARN while they learn. Seeing our students at the center of today’s celebration made every long day, every challenge, and every step toward this vision worth it. And then came an incredible blessing! Domtar presented our CTE Department with a $15,000 grant to support the CTE Marketplace! Their investment in our students and their futures means more than we can express. We are grateful! This is more than a store. It’s a student-led work-based learning environment, an entrepreneurship lab, a training ground, and a place where classroom skills become real-world experiences. Today we cut a ribbon, but we also opened the door to opportunity, innovation, and a new level of CTE in Washington County Schools.

It's time for Open House

STUDENT-MADE. STAFF-WORN. CTE PROUD! The CTE Marketplace students customized our 2026 WCS Convocation shirts, and today our staff proudly showed them off! There’s something special about seeing student talent, creativity, and real-world skills represented across our entire district. Check out the WCS staff rocking their student-made shirts! 👕🐾

Our Crazy & Consistent theme for this year was SOLIDIFIED today! Our staff experienced a powerful full-circle moment with Michael Bonner—an award-winning educator, author, speaker, and nationally recognized advocate for creating classrooms rooted in relationships, high expectations, innovation, and a genuine belief in what students can become. But today was more than a keynote. Michael’s understanding of our community, our culture, and our students made his message hit differently. Even more special was hearing about the impact he has already had on one of our very own Class of 2027 students. That connection brought everything full circle and reminded us that the work we do reaches far beyond a classroom, a school year, or even a school building. His message challenged us to dream bigger, remain consistent, build meaningful relationships, and never underestimate the power we have to TRANSFORM LIVES. We are energized. We are inspired. We are ready! The 2026–2027 school year is here, and we are CRAZY enough to dream, CONSISTENT enough to achieve, and COMMITTED enough to transform! LET’S GO, WCHS! #CrazyAndConsistent #WCSConvocation #WCSStrong #CommittedToTransform

🚚🍴 FOOD TRUCKS ARE HERE! 🍴🚚 Our food trucks are outside and getting set up for the day! Community members, you’re welcome to stop by and support our local food truck vendors! 💙 ⏰ They’ll be here until 3:00 PM today. 💳 All purchases are at your own expense. Come grab lunch, a sweet treat, or something refreshing! 😋

📣 WCHS FAMILIES — OPEN HOUSE IS TOMORROW! 🐾💙 We’re ready to kick off an EXCITING NEW SCHOOL YEAR! It will be CRAZY & CONSISTENT.

Parents/Guardians: Welcome back to a new year! Please take a moment to read this important notice from Superintendent Dr. David O. White. We look forward to welcoming you and your students with open arms. Click this link to read the letter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JG1qFCg4T-07VAeCkFVOF_y1it_zWQBi/view?usp=sharing

TODAY IS BIG FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL! We are beyond excited that our staff is spending the day learning from Dr. Junior Bernadin of the world-renowned Ron Clark Academy! And when we say we are learning from one of the BEST—we mean it! Dr. Bernadin serves as Dean of Students, Director of IT, and a House System expert at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. He has helped train thousands of educators in strategies designed to increase student engagement, strengthen relationships, raise expectations, and create powerful school cultures. He is also a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, one of the nation’s highest honors for STEM mentoring. (AJC) Today, he is pouring that knowledge, experience, passion, and ENERGY into OUR STAFF! This is so much bigger than learning how to operate a House System. We are learning how to create a school where students BELONG. Where relationships matter. Where positive behavior is celebrated. Where leadership is developed. Where school spirit is contagious. Where students and adults become FAMILY. And where every student has a place to call HOME. The Ron Clark Academy House System is built around creating belonging, pride, character, relationships, healthy competition, leadership, and a positive culture for students and staff. That is the work we are beginning at WCHS. Because when you change the CULTURE, you change the EXPERIENCE. When you change the experience, you change the OUTCOME.And when you change the outcome, you can TRANSFORM A LIFE! 🙌🏾 We are dreaming BIG about what WCHS!

🚨 FOOD TRUCKS ARE HERE! 🍧🍦🍭 We’ve got a little something on campus to help keep our teachers refreshed and satisfy those sweet-tooth cravings over the next two days! 😋 Feel free to stop by and treat yourself at your convenience and at your own expense. You’ve been working hard—go grab yourself a little treat!

Welcome back staff!