Westbrook Intermediate School
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Westbrook Intermediate School (WIS) is a part of Clear Creek Independent School District
that is located at 302 West El Dorado Boulevard in Friendswood
, Texas
, United States
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magnet at Webster Intermediate School, known as Webster Academy of Visions in Education (WAVE). This program was moved to Westbrook in 2005. The name however did not change and the names is still associated with Webster intermediate. The Webster campus is now under the name Clear View Educational Center, which is a charter school for alternative education school. Westbrook is an exemplary campus for grades 6 - 8 according to TAKS scores for the 2009-2010 school year.
This GT magnet academy brings together gifted and talented students from across the District for the opportunity to interact with their intellectual peers and to participate in a learning environment designed to facilitate and expand their opportunities and experiences. There are approximately 200 students per grade level in the WAVE program, and all are identified as gifted and talented. Every four and a half to nine weeks, these students select mini-courses that are offered by their teachers. Mini-courses reach through a wide range of genres, from SCUBA diving to fencing, ballroom dancing, board game design to teaching, roller coaster design, future cities competitions, robotics, music composition, foreign languages or countries, etc. There is even a mini-course that teaches students how to use Photoshop CS1, as well as one that gives a HAM radio license. Mini-courses also include such options as Stained Glass Workshop, Slump it Fuse it, and Website Design. Mini-courses are attended for an hour and a half on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, this time is dedicated to Study Hall, where students can catch up on their work.
Students who attend the WAVE program may come from all over Clear Creek Independent School District. Their school day (08:00 -15:10) begins and ends one hour earlier than regular intermediate school students (09:00-16:00), excluding Science Magnet students. They also take only one language arts period, a compacted class of reading and writing, instead of the usual one period of reading and one period of writing. This is what allows the changes in schedule that provide time for the mini-courses.
Residents zoned to Westbrook Intermediate are also zoned to Clear Brook High School
in unincorporated Harris County.
Clear Creek Independent School District
Clear Creek Independent School District is a school district based in League City, Texas . The district serves most of the Clear Lake Area and some other neighboring parts of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metro area....
that is located at 302 West El Dorado Boulevard in Friendswood
Friendswood, Texas
Friendswood is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city lies in Galveston and Harris counties. As of the 2000 U.S...
, Texas
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, United States
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Overview
The principal is Dr. Lori Broughton, who joined the campus for the 2007–2008 school year. The school was opened August 2005 and is, as of 2008, the newest intermediate school in CCISD. Westbrook's building layout was modeled after Victory Lakes Intermediate, for energy conservation reasons. The WAVE program, or Webster Academy Visions in Education program, is housed at the Westbrook campus especially for identified G/T students living within the district. The school is currently a Texas exemplary school based on test scores, academic achievement, and the TAKS test from the 2009-2010 school year.Notable programs
- Choir — at Westbrook Intermediate the choirs are 6th Grade, Girls A Capella - 8th, Girls Concert - 7th, Mixed and the Boys Choir. In the region choir auditions the Westbrook students rank between 1-15 each year. At the UIL Concert and Sight Reading Contest the Westbrook Mixed, Girls, and Boys Choirs have received Sweepstakes trophies in 05-06, 06-07, 07-08, 08-09, and 09-10. Each year a musical is presented; performances have included Aladdin Jr, High School Musical, Beauty and the Beast Jr., Into The Woods and The Music Man Jr. In the spring, students perform at festivals and present a Pop Show. Carolyn Barksdale is the choir director at Westbrook.
- Orchestra — Tom Dinardis has been the director of the Westbrook (formerly Webster) Orchestras since 1998. There are four levels of orchestra at Westbrook Intermediate: Beginners, Philharmonic, Symphony, and Chamber respectively from beginner to highly advanced. The program has grown to over 200 students, and were ranked fourth runner-up in the state of Texas for Honor Orchestra in both 2008 and 2009. Westbrook's string players are heavily represented in the region XVII orchestra, with over 40 students performing in the region orchestra both in 2009 and 2010. The Chamber orchestra consistently receives superior ratings at the annual UIL Concert and Sight Reading competition, and frequently attends the South Coast Music Festival in the spring which performs in the 1894 Opera House in Galveston, TX. In 2010, Westbrook Intermediate's Chamber Orchestra placed 1st in the State Honor Orchestra competition, granting them the unique opportunity to play at the TMEA convention in San Antonio in February 2011.
- Art — Jamie Presley and Terri McCrory: In art, there are four different classes: Beginner, Art 2-D, Art 3-D, and Art Advanced. Art 2-D teaches the students how to use different types of elemental techniques on drawing and painting. Art 3-D teaches the third dimension of art to the students and includes work with clay to make masks, pottery, and houses and papermache to make piñatas. After taking Art 2-D and Art 3-D, students are permitted to take Art Advanced if they choose. Students learn more about art and the elemental aspects of art. During the school year, students turn in a number of art selections to be submitted into art contests.
- Band — Rick Brockway, Maria Robichaud (Hernandez), Keith Raney: Westbrook Band is one of the premier Middle School Bands in Region XVII. There are four levels, Beginner, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2 and Advanced. Beginner is only for people who are just learning how to play an instrument. Beginners can generally join a performing band a year later. Recently, the Advanced Band has made first in state for Honor band. The Advanced and Intermediate band levels both received a "Sweepstakes" (highest rating of I in Sight Reading and Concert Performance) at the annual UIL Competition in the 2005-2006 School year, as well as in '06-'07 and '07-'08. Under the direction of Mr. Brockway, Mr. Raney, and Mrs. Robichaud, the Westbrook Intermediate band scored as a three-time state finalist in the TMEA Honor Competition. In the 2008 year Westbrook received 8 out of the 14 first chairs in region 17, one of the most successful regions in Texas. http://starsandstripesbandcamp.com/Staff.html
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team; Won the Bay Area district, Greater Houston Chapter MathCountsMathCountsMathcounts is a middle school mathematics competition held in the United States. Its founding sponsors include the CNA Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The competition is designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth...
competition for several years. Westbrook, in 2006, was top 4th team of the MathCounts competition for Greater Houston Chapter. In 2010, the school placed 5th in the Texas State Mathcounts Competition, with Patrick Pan placing first in Texas, and the rest of the team all placing in the top 25% of students in the competition. The 2011 Westbrook MathCounts Team placed 19th in state. Both Michael Tian and Anne Zhou won individual awards.
- Theater arts — Jessica Megginson: There are three different levels of the Theater department: Beginner, Intermediate, and Production. Beginner learns the basic theater concepts while trying out a few of the more fun concepts on their own as well as in a group. The Intermediate Theater classes go more in depth with the concepts learned in the beginner class, they even put on a play of their own. Production, the highest level of theater, practices and performs the UIL one-act play as well as a play for the school towards the end of the year. The students also go to various Theater Competitions.
- Journalism — Ruth Baxter is the sponsor for Westbrook's journalism class. This class works on the yearbook all year, learning about how to take photos, how to write an article, and techniques that could be used in later journalism occupations.
- Robotics; WIRED (Westbrook Intermediate Robotics Engineering Division): This team first competed in the Texas BEST state competition in 2006 to return every year since. WIRED competed in the Space City BEST hub since its founding in 1999 as Webster Intermediate.http://www.scbest.org/html/schools.html During 2006 and 2007, WIRED received 2nd in the BEST award at the Space City Best competition.
- Chess Club; — 2008-2009, the Westbrook Chess Club earned 3 Team 1sts, and 2 individual first places. Also, there were many places for honorable mentions and many other awards. 2009-2010 chess club had 54 registered members. Westbrook chess is led by Matthew Allen Bartley, who also teaches Algebra.
- Reading Rumble — Kristy Christiansen has been the librarian at Westbrook Intermediate ever since it opened and was also librarian at Webster Intermediate. In Spring 2009, she coached the first ever Reading Rumble Team. In 2011, the team (Sophie Baker, Ryan Brooker, Rama Imad, Addie Molique, Ted Shi, and Sydney Walsh) competed at District and won first place! Angelle Roger and Rahul Yesantharao were 6th Grade alternates who challenged team members during practice and also played an integral role in the success of the team. Go Timberwolves!
Magnet program
In 1996, Clear Creek Independent School District established an intermediate gifted and talentedIntellectual giftedness
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is different from a skill, in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors...
magnet at Webster Intermediate School, known as Webster Academy of Visions in Education (WAVE). This program was moved to Westbrook in 2005. The name however did not change and the names is still associated with Webster intermediate. The Webster campus is now under the name Clear View Educational Center, which is a charter school for alternative education school. Westbrook is an exemplary campus for grades 6 - 8 according to TAKS scores for the 2009-2010 school year.
This GT magnet academy brings together gifted and talented students from across the District for the opportunity to interact with their intellectual peers and to participate in a learning environment designed to facilitate and expand their opportunities and experiences. There are approximately 200 students per grade level in the WAVE program, and all are identified as gifted and talented. Every four and a half to nine weeks, these students select mini-courses that are offered by their teachers. Mini-courses reach through a wide range of genres, from SCUBA diving to fencing, ballroom dancing, board game design to teaching, roller coaster design, future cities competitions, robotics, music composition, foreign languages or countries, etc. There is even a mini-course that teaches students how to use Photoshop CS1, as well as one that gives a HAM radio license. Mini-courses also include such options as Stained Glass Workshop, Slump it Fuse it, and Website Design. Mini-courses are attended for an hour and a half on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, this time is dedicated to Study Hall, where students can catch up on their work.
Students who attend the WAVE program may come from all over Clear Creek Independent School District. Their school day (08:00 -15:10) begins and ends one hour earlier than regular intermediate school students (09:00-16:00), excluding Science Magnet students. They also take only one language arts period, a compacted class of reading and writing, instead of the usual one period of reading and one period of writing. This is what allows the changes in schedule that provide time for the mini-courses.
Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Westbrook include:- Weber(partial)
- Landolt
- Ward
- North Pointe(partial)
Residents zoned to Westbrook Intermediate are also zoned to Clear Brook High School
Clear Brook High School
Clear Brook High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States, adjacent to the city of Friendswood....
in unincorporated Harris County.