House System

Westover Hills Elementary School implements a house system at the start of the 2022-23 school year.  We rally around our new theme: 4 Houses, 1 Family.  Staff and students in grades 1-5 are randomly sorted into houses.  Kindergarten students are in the same house as their teacher.  Each house team embodies a core value that we believe is essential to our staff and students’ leadership development and also represents a heritage that has a connection to our school community (land, people and/or culture).

 

 

 

 

Ath-Thruas

Core value: Empathy

Heritage:  Celtic

Language: Scottish-Gaelic

Element: Water

Animal:  River otter

Kaliwohi

Core Value: Integrity 

Heritage:  Native American

Langauge:  Cherokee

Element: Air

Animal: Bald eagle

Resiliencia

Core Value:  Resilience

Heritage:  Latin American

Language:  Spanish

Element:  Earth

Animal: Bobcat

Werevu

Core value:  Ingenuity

Heritage: African

Langauge: Swahili

Element: Fire

Animal: Red Fox