Watertown Unified School District -

This has been a busy and exciting week welcoming our teachers back to school. On Tuesday, a district-wide in-service was held at Watertown High School. As part of this event, our staff enjoyed lunch and attended a Benefits & Wellness Fair. The local vendors at the fair shared information regarding health & wellness, financial literacy, care for aging parents, public safety, and more.

Watertown High School welcomed incoming 9th graders last week during the annual Freshman Experience. During this special event, freshmen are led on a tour of the school building by junior and senior mentors. The upperclassmen introduced the freshmen to staff and talked about the many academic, extracurricular, and athletic programs available to them.

Watertown High School extends its thanks to the Bank of Lake Mills for providing funding to purchase t-shirts for mentors and freshmen featuring The Gaggle logo. The Gaggle is the official name for the student section at home sporting events.

Riverside Middle School hosted the RMS Experience for incoming 6th graders last Tuesday. The RMS Experience is a great way for our youngest Panthers to meet staff and teachers, and to become more familiar with the school building. The 6th graders were escorted in groups throughout the morning by friendly 7th & 8th graders who did a great job welcoming the students to RMS.

The Watertown Unified School District Board of Education will meet twice this week. The regular monthly meeting will take place tonight at 6 p.m. and a special Board meeting will be held on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. To view the meeting agenda, please click here: https://go.boarddocs.com/wi/watertown/Board.nsf/vpublic?open#.

We are pleased to introduce our new Watertown Unified School District teachers for the 2025-26 school year. Let's give them a warm Watertown welcome! ✨

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📣 The 2024-25 Watertown High School Yearbooks are now available for pickup!

Please note - Yearbooks may be picked up from WHS between the hours of 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Yearbooks will only be released to a WHS student (or Class of 2025 graduate), a student's parent or guardian, or a student's sibling.

🌟 Congratulations to Mr. Pawl!

Watertown High School Art Teacher David Pawl was selected by the Association of Wisconsin Artists (AWA) for the 2025 AWA Youth Service Award. This award was established in 2007 for meritorious service to support youth-oriented programs, and recipients are chosen by the AWA Board of Directors. The award was presented at the Center for Visual Arts in Wausau as part of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program Teen Exhibit awards reception. Pictured with Mr. Pawl is is AWA President Jeanne Ferreira.

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🎨🖌 Two Watertown High School Art students were selected by jury for special honors at the State Conference of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) Teen show this summer. The State exhibit featured 51 works advanced by jury from 6 different WRAP Teen Regionals. Chosen works were displayed at the Center for Visual Arts in Wausau and will be featured in the Association of Wisconsin Artists Annual Color Catalog.

Lily Sisulak (left) was awarded the Duck Lake Award for "You Are Not Like Me." Nico Ulm (pictured at right) received Honorable mention for "A Dreamer's Dream." Also included in the State Exhibit but unable to attend the reception was WHS artist Erin Peterson.

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Tradition. Innovation. Transformation.
#WatertownWay!

The Watertown Unified School District will hold two committee meetings this week. The Educational Services Committee will meet Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7:30 a.m. and the Policy Review Committee will meet on Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 5:30 p.m. To view the meeting agendas, please click here: https://go.boarddocs.com/wi/watertown/Board.nsf/vpublic?open.

This great team of Douglas Elementary School staffers volunteered at Watertown Riverfest Thursday evening in the food and beverage ticket tent. Thank you for donating time to support our community. ❤

The Watertown Unified School District hosted non-violent crisis intervention (NVCI) training earlier this week for local public and parochial school teachers, focusing on de-escalation and safety strategies for students and staff. The training provided a great opportunity for teachers from across the community to collaborate and develop relationships.

Attention parents and guardians of incoming Watertown High School freshmen:

The WHS Freshman Experience will take place Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. All incoming 9th grade students are encouraged to attend - please register now through Skyward Family Access: https://skyward.iscorp.com/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wseduwatertownwi/seplog01.w.

One month until school is in session - enjoy these last weeks of summer break! 🌞

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Watertown High School Swimming is taking over the Brat Haus this Friday! Stop out for lunch between 10 a.m.-3 p.m. to enjoy a delicious brat or hamburger. As an added bonus, swim team members are also running a car wash onsite.

Watertown High School will be closed to the public Tuesday, July 29 and Wednesday, July 30 for Watertown Police Department Training. If you need immediate assistance, please call (920) 262-1460.

The Watertown Unified School District Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting tonight (Monday, July 28) at 6 p.m. at the Educational Service Center, 111 Dodge St.

If you plan to attend virtually and wish to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting, please attend via the Google Web Link - https://meet.google.com/zqt-powp-nzj

If you plan to view the meeting and not speak, we recommend you view the meeting via YouTube Live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvWgwTbL3Cy4r36XFvHUnw

To join by phone - Dial: 1(475) 328-0974
PIN: 901 848 757

Our technical difficulties from last week have been resolved. To view the meeting agenda, please click here - https://go.boarddocs.com/wi/watertown/Board.nsf/vpublic?open

Although classes are not in session, our school buildings still buzz with activity. Last week, full-time and summer staff members from both Schurz and Douglas elementary schools were busy deep cleaning and waxing floors at our Douglas campus. Our maintenance and custodial teams spend hours during the summer district-wide cleaning desks, tables and chairs; making repairs; washing windows; shampooing carpets; deep cleaning all restroom facilities; and making classroom, cafeteria and hallways floors shine.

Also taking place at Douglas this summer is the resurfacing of the parking lot and upper playground. It all looks great - thank you!

We're sharing some more photos of Summer School fun - thank you to Mr. Olszewski for snapping these pictures of our Watertown High School volleyball players taking time to play dodgeball with our summer school students. The high schoolers were attending volleyball camp. 🏐