Freshmen:
ON YOUR AGENDA:
Meet your counselor Academy visits (by Counselor)
Getting involved Start your portfolio Career Interest Inventory
Freshman Career Day Requesting classes for sophomore year
Complete/correct your sophomore schedule
Introduce
yourself to your counselor... and to the Counseling Office
whenever you have time. That way you will get to know your counselor AND
you'll know how to find the office when you need scheduling or other
assistance. If you need to see your counselor, there is always a sign-up
sheet on Mrs. King's desk in the Counseling Office. When available,
your counselor will send a pass for you.
Help your counselor learn your name and something that makes you unique.
Things you can expect this year:
- Each of the counselors will visit your Freshman Academy once
this year to give you information about what's coming up, what you need
to know, and will be available for questions. This occurs on Mondays
during 'closed' academy time.
- Start your 'portfolio', activity sheet, resumé. You'll hear about that in your academy if you haven't already. Ask a counselor or your academy teacher to explain more.
- In
November expect a nice 5-day break for Thanksgiving weekend, followed
by another long break in December as you finish the first semester of
your high school experience.
- If you need a schedule
change for 2nd semester (spring semester), let your counselor know about
mid-December. And remember, if you need to change your schedule, you
only have a few days once a semester begins to sign up to get your
scheduled changed. You sign up in the counselors' office.
- Then, early in the new year (late January or early February), a counselor will guide all the freshmen through a career interest inventory to help you get ideas about what type of careers would fit with your personality and interests.
- This is followed by a Freshman Career Day, usually in February, when you get to meet professionals in your career interest area from throughout our community.
- Very soon after that, you'll be asked to put your sophomore schedule requests into
Power School for classes you'd like to take your sophomore year. It
will take most of the rest of the school year before your actual
schedule gets printed and to you... which you will receive at then end
of the school year only IF you have turned in your updated enrollment
packet. Then, when you get your sophomore schedule, you'll need to make
sure it has all the classes you want and need.
- If
your sophomore schedule is not what you want/need, SEE YOUR
COUNSELOR for revisions AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! WHS Counselors are here
until early June and are available to work on your schedule. That is the
best time to work with your counselor on your schedule for the next
year.
Keep up the good work, do your best, enjoy the journey and have a great year.
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