BW Junior Receives Harvard Book Award

Junior Lydia Taylor was awarded the 2015-2016 Harvard Prize Book for Belleville West High School.  The Harvard Prize Book program was established by Harvard alumni in 1910.  The Prize Book is awarded to an outstanding student in the junior class who displays excellence in scholarship and high character, combined with achievement in other fields.

BW Readers End Year with More Than 4.75 Million Pages

CONGRATULATIONS, BELLEVILLE WEST READERS!  As the 2015-2016 school year draws to a close, each class has read more than one million pages of pleasure reading!  Combined, the students at Belleville West read a grand total of 4,765,384 PAGES OF PLEASURE READING over the past nine months.

What does that mean?

If those pages were laid end-to-end, they would stretch almost 650 MILES—that’s all the way from Belleville West to Dallas, Texas!

If one person wanted to read that many pages, he or she would need to read one page every minute for MORE THAN NINE YEARS!  Without ever stopping to eat or sleep!

If you had one penny for every page read by a Belleville West student this year, you would have $47,654!

How did the classes stack up against each other?  The CLASS OF 2019 (the FRESHMAN class) read the greatest number of pages this year, but the CLASS OF 2018 (the SOPHOMORE class) read the greatest number of pages per student.

The CLASS OF 2019 (the freshman class) read 1,288,005 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,496 pages per freshman.

The freshman classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mrs. Hunter’s second hour – 26,652 pages

Ms. Thurnau’s first hour — 17,688 pages

Ms. Thurnau’s third hour – 15,443 pages

Mr. Schobert’s sixth hour – 15,296 pages

Mrs. Short’s second hour – 13,222 pages

Ms. Thurnau’s fifth hour – 12,288 pages

Ms. Loesche’s first hour – 11,423 pages

Ms. Loesche’s third hour – 10,801 pages

Ms. Thurnau’s sixth hour – 10,075 pages

The CLASS OF 2018 (the sophomore class) read 1,245,831 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,516 pages per sophomore.

The sophomore classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mr. Johnson’s first hour – 22,137 pages

Ms. Schloesser’s second hour – 13,155 pages

Mr. Johnson’s fourth hour – 12,903 pages

Mrs. Lewis’s fifth hour – 12,859 pages

Mrs. Lewis’s first hour – 12,631 pages

Mr. Reidelberger’s fourth hour – 10,599 pages

Mr. Reidelberger’s third hour – 10,220 pages

The CLASS OF 2017 (the junior class) read 1,162,563 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,284 pages per junior.

The junior classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mr. Brunner’s first hour – 24,638 pages

Ms. Hoelscher’s seventh hour – 15,213 pages

Mr. Schobert’s third hour – 14,806 pages

Mr. Spriggs’s first hour – 12,500 pages

Mr. Brunner’s second hour – 12,373 pages

Mr. Spriggs’s third hour – 11,997 pages

Mr. Schobert’s fifth hour – 11,555 pages

The CLASS OF 2016 (the senior class) read 1,068,985 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,344 pages per senior.

The senior classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mr. Lodle’s sixth hour – 32,186 pages

Mr. Garland’s third hour – 20,791 pages

Mr. Schobert’s second hour – 13,415 pages

Mr. Reidelberger’s sixth hour – 12,683 pages

Ms. Thurnau’s seventh hour – 10,988 pages

Mr. Lodle’s fifth hour – 9,436 pages

Mrs. Story’s third hour – 9,623 pages

The ENGLISH TEACHERS read 14,557 pages in the sixth triad, for a total of 78,463 pages this year.  (That’s 3,923 pages per English teacher.)

Congratulations to all four classes!  Keep reading this summer!

BW Library Announces Summer Reading Program

Belleville West Celebrates Another Year of Reading

Belleville West held its annual Reading Celebration Day on Friday, May 6. Students attended a Skype session with author Natalie Haney Tilghman, shared their favorite books, and participated in book swaps. Drawings were held throughout the day for books, gift cards, and e-readers.