Godley High School students prepare for move into the WILD

Students and teachers around Godley High School are preparing for a massive move into the school’s new CTE building, The WILD, as the building has finally opened to the student body.

The Wild is a four-story building incorporated into the high school’s new homeside seating on the football field. The learning spaces include medical classes, film, photography, entrepreneurship, sciences, welding and more.

Currently, most of these classes are located in the high school’s main building, which resides on the opposite side of the football field. This makes moving supplies into the building a difficult task.

There is currently only one path of entry from the main school building to the Wild, which is an outdoor concrete walkway level with the first floor of each building. This means transportation to the top of the building currently requires a long walk up four flights of stairs.

The path into the Wild will remain this way until the construction on the second floor catwalk is complete. This makes it especially difficult for classes that are moving large objects.

Luckily, the high school is full of students who are willing to help move into the new building, facilitating the moving process. In return, students in CTE classes are excused from their typical classwork.

It has been confirmed by GHS Principal Kurtis Flood that students in these classes will receive grades based on their participation in moving rather than classwork during the moving period.

Many students are stoked to hear this, as it provides a break from the stress of coursework.

“It’s basically a free 100,” senior Anson Fender said.

Regarding the moving process in general, Fender predicts it will run very smoothly.

“Moving should be pretty easy, we’ve already moved most of the stuff for Mrs. Trawick [Video and Photography teacher],” he said.

Trawick’s classes finished their move in just one day, even including the large amount of computers and tech that had to be carefully arranged and moved.

However, some classes such as Gonzalez’s Scientific Research and Design class are anticipating days of moving.

“[The SRD class] will not be in the Wild until [the 17th],” he said.

Ultimately however, students and staff are very optimistic about the new building. Most of Monday was spent touring and admiring the space itself, and many were impressed.

“[The building] makes me feel like I’m on a college campus,” Fender said.

Although the moving process is slightly rigorous, the reward will be a brand new learning space and a hint towards what’s to come for the future of Godley High School.