Young Women's Leadership Academy

Recap of Last Week: Thanks to PTSA and Student Council for honoring our Veteran's with breakfast 💙🇺🇸❤️ Some of our Seniors engaged in the Forum on Entrepreneurship thanks to St. Mary's University and Ernst and Young 😊 Our Theatre 🎭 students departed to participate in the Thespian Festival in Corpus 🎭 Our staff was treated to a DELICIOUS birthday breakfast courtesy of our YWLA athletic booster club 🍳 😋 Our very own Hayden Perret 🏐 officially signed to continue her academic and athletic career playing both court and sand volleyball 🏐 at Loyola of New Orleans 📚 🧠 💪🏽 Our Transportation You students will went on an educational field trip focused on driver safety 🚗 🚙 Our 6th graders engaged in experiential learning with their garden lab 🪴 🪏 Whew 😅 what a week!!!! There isn't a week that isn't busy and isn't also providing our students the BEST experiences both inside and outside the classroom! #top100highschool #nationallyranked #advancedacademics #ourgirlsDOITALL #girlpower

Attendance Incentive Winners ❤️ for the week ending in Halloween 🎃 Mrs. Alfaro was a bit behind but there are new winners to be announced for last week in place! We are still chasing that 98% goal! Let's stay focused on the prize. The number of recipients was small which means we aren't hitting the 98% goal as much as we hoped! Reminder all you have to do is show up. If your grade level gets 98% or better you automatically get 3 drawings. Top grade level (MS AND HS) gets an additional drawing. You could have up to 4 winners per week in your grade level!!!! We are also ordering new prizes...DID SOMEONE SAY TREE HUT?!?! PASTEL WATER BOTTLES? MINDFUL COLORING BOOKS? 🆕 GIFT CARDS?

Part2: Today our Cardinals honored their loved ones who have served our country proudly. I was great to see our girls beaming with pride as they shared breakfast with their service heroes. Thank you to PTSA and Student Council for treating our Veterans to breakfast. Thank you to all our Veterans for serving the 🇺🇸 and being our real life heroes ⭐️

Today our Cardinals honored their loved ones who have served our country proudly. I was great to see our girls beaming with pride as they shared breakfast with their service heroes. Thank you to PTSA and Student Council for treating our Veterans to breakfast. Thank you to all our Veterans for serving the 🇺🇸 and being our real life heroes ⭐️

Veteran's Day Breakfast Tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. If you are planning on attending please fill out the RSVP link: https://forms.office.com/r/22NDMB54sT

Ballet Folklórico de YWLA is selling Día de los Muertos spirit shirts through the end of the week! Each shirt is $25 and features a cardinal alebrije, marigold flowers and papel picado letters. Order forms can be found on the round table in the lobby and all orders must be turned in with payment (cash only) to Ms. Balderas in room 205. I'll be in the main lobby after school tomorrow and Thursday to collect orders from 3:45pm to 4:05pm. Please see the flyer below for additional information!!

The application to apply to YWLA for the 2026–2027 school year is now open! The application window runs from November 3rd to January 30th. We are currently accepting applicants for grades 6th through 9th. To apply, please visit saisdchoice.com.

❄️ YWLA WINTER SALE! ❄️ Get your official YWLA Quarter Zip — an approved winter wear uniform item! 💙❤️ 🧥 Navy sweater with logo • $45 (S–3XL) 💵 Cash orders only 📅 Order by Nov. 12 | 🚚 Arrives first week of Dec Turn in forms to Ms. Kilgore (501A) or Ms. Cash in the College Center.

Core Value: Health and Wellness Mrs. Alfaro surprised the girls by joining them on their mile run 🏃‍♀️ today! She can't wait until next month to get out there again! #stayhealthy #livewell #girlpower

Cardinal Family, Just sending out some friendly reminders about the events that are taking place on campus this week. 10/30: Trunk or Treat 🎃 🍬 and Haunted House 👻 🏚️ 10/31: Halloween shirts 👚 socks 🧦 and accessories. Students must wear uniform bottoms and shoes in dress code. No face painting/masks allowed. 11/1: Saturday School from 9-12 Other events are in the October Cardinal Monthly-Check it out!

We have to give a shout out to Class of 2027 who have been contributing all month long to stuff the fridge❤️ 💙The addition of fresh fruits 🍎 🍇 , cheeses 🧀 baked goods 🍩 🥯 🧁 , and specialty drinks 🥤 have been wonderful for staff! Thank you for all those who have sent in items 🫶🏼 November is Class of 2028's turn and in December we are asking parents to just take care of their individual student's teachers or staff members on campus who they feel go the extra mile! Hard to believe we are already talking about December 🫣 ❄️ 🌲

Here are October's Students and Staff of the Month! This month we asked staff members to nominate students/staff who exhibit the character of Empathy! Mrs. Vogel was recognized for being a supportive and consistent listening ear for her colleagues. Our students P. Vigil and M. Garcia also stood out among their peers when it came to their social emotional intelligence and interactions with others. Being a leader encompasses being able to understand and identify with the feelings of others. Great job! Special thanks to PTSA for their support in supplying the gift bags and $25 gift cards!

Check this out!!!! YWLA has surpassed the $400 mark and it's only October ❤️ If you have not signed up please do! Let's be #GOALCRUSHERS and break our yearly goal. You are already making the purchases, let's get that 🤑 because no one likes leaving money on the table! Even Mrs. Alfaro earned some money today 🤩

Let's send our XC team all the positive vibes and well wishes we can! Tomorrow they will run in the regional meet. Today after safely arriving in Corpus they took some time for some fun and making memories ❤️ Lady Cardinals just know we are already extremely proud of what you all have accomplished!

We are always recognizing our students for ATTENDANCE! The goal is always 98% or better. This week we not only did our usual awards but we decided to throw in an extra special recognition. Any students who had perfect attendance and no tardies received $5 in Fall Carnival tickets to spend. This coming week we will recognize our 1st 9 week perfect attendance with ice cream 🍦on Thursday!

TOMORROW: Monday (Oct. 20) , make dinner plans to join us at Raising Cane’s (106 St. Cloud) to support the Class of 2030. From 4-9 p.m., mention YWLA or the fundraiser when ordering in the restaurant or drive-thru and Cane’s will donate a portion of the proceeds from your order to benefit our 8th grade Cardinals. We hope to see you there!

The campus was closed for a grand total of 11 hours and we are here back at it! Today we hosted our campus beautification, math competition and the Class of 2026 sausage wrap sale! You can get your sausage wraps until 1:00 pm.

Last night we were having too much fun we did not get to post in the moment but rest assure we had a great time! We have to give the most praise to our volunteers who allowed this to be possible for our girls! We also were treated to a special spooky 👻 performance by our YWLA dance teams.