Heim Middle School Rising 9 th Grade Scheduling

Heim Middle School Rising 9 th Grade Scheduling Information Session

This year the High School Program of Studies is only available online on the Stafford County website. We do have some paper copies that we are able to give to students in the building if needed. There is an English and a Spanish version online that is available. In order to access the program of studies follow these steps: 1) Go to Stafford County Public School’s Website 2) Click on Academics at the top 3) Click on Program of Studies 4) To the left, click on High School Program

Diploma Types and Programs Standard Diploma Advanced Studies Diploma S. T. A. T. (Stafford Academy for Technology) C. G. S. (Commonwealth Governor’s School) I. B. (International Baccalaureate) AP Capstone-only offered to North Stafford students (The APPX Program is

Standard Diploma pg. 6 � 4 English � 3 Math � 3 Science � 3 Social Studies � 2 Health/PE � 2 World Language, Fine Arts, or Career and Technical Ed. � 1 Economic & Personal Finance � 4 Electives, including 2 sequential electives � 22 Credits

Advanced Diploma pg. 7 � 4 English � 4 Math � 4 Science � 4 Social Studies � 2 Health/PE � 3 (or 4) years of one World Language or two years of two different World Languages � 1 Economics & Personal Finance � 1 Fine Arts or Career & Technical Education � 3 (or 2) Electives of your choice � 26 Credits

Standard VS Advanced Standard Diploma 22 Required Credits Subject Area English Required Credits 4 Subject Area Health/PE Required Credits 2 Math 3 World Language, Fine Arts, OR Career and Technical Education 2 Science 3 Economics & Personal Finance 1 Electives, including 2 sequential electives 4 Social Studies 3 Advanced Diploma 26 Required Credits Subject Area English Required Credits 4 Math 4 World Language Either 3 credits of one language, OR 4 (two credits of two different languages). Science 4 1 Social Studies 4 Economics & Personal Finance Fine Arts OR Career & Technical Education Electives 3 (or 2) Health/PE Required Credits 2 1

Verified Credit A verified credit is a credit you earn through passing the SOL of a particular class. Your number of verified credits is not the same as your required credits. If you are currently in a high school credited course and pass the SOL, this will not count toward your verified credits. The course and SOL has to be taken while in high school. For a standard and advanced diploma you need 2 verified credits in English, 1 verified credit in Math, 1 verified credit in a Lab Science, and 1 verified credit in a Social Studies. This is the first year that this requirement has changed. You only need 5 total verified credits now no matter what diploma type you are striving for.

Advanced Academic Programs Program Nickname Location AP Capstone Program AP Capstone Pg. 12 Colonial Forge HS, North Stafford HS, & Stafford HS Commonwealth Governor’s School CGS pg. 16 (Travel Provided) Colonial Forge HS, North Stafford HS, & Stafford HS International Baccalaureate Program IB pgs. 13 -15 Mountain View HS & Brooke Point HS Stafford Academy for Technology STAT pgs. 18 -21 (Travel Provided) Brooke Point (Information Technology) and North Stafford HS (Engineering and Biomedical Sciences) Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps JROTC pgs. 24 -25 (No transfer to another school for a specific branch JROTC) Brooke Point HS and Stafford HS-Navy North Stafford HS-Air Force Colonial Forge HS-Army Mountain View HS-Marine Corps

Course Descriptions �Each core and elective class is described in detail in the catalog. �Honors classes are offered in certain subjects. �Honors placement depends on grades. �It is important to start thinking about your high school four year plan. On page 28 there is a sample of a four year plan for you to view. On page

ENGLISH Courses (Core) Choose appropriate core English class _____English 9 Honors 1130 H page 30

HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES Courses (Core) Choose appropriate core History & Social Studies class ____World History I Honors for AP or IB ) 2215 H (In preparation For any potential IB students: If a student should decide not to pursue the full IB Diploma in their junior year, he or she may then be required to go back and take World History I Page 33

MATHEMATICS Courses (Core) Choose appropriate core Mathematics class ____Algebra I ____Honors Algebra I ____Algebra Part I & Algebra Part II (2 courses) Only offered at North Stafford High School ____Geometry Part I / Part II Only offered at North Stafford High School ____Honors Geometry requirements) ____Algebra II ____Honors Algebra II requirements) pg. 37 3130 H 3131, 3132 3143 3144 /3145 3143 H (Must meet 3135 H (Must meet

SCIENCE Courses (Core) ____Earth Science ____Honors Earth Science 4210 H page 41 At Brooke Point, students may not choose Biology or Honors Biology as an elective choice this year.

HEALTH and P. E. ___ Health & PE 9 (Required) pg. 56

WORLD LANGUAGE Courses (Required for Advanced Studies Diploma) ____Spanish II ____Spanish for Fluent Speakers I ____Latin II ____French I ____German I 5510 5520 5511 5310 5320 5110 5210 At Brooke Point, students are not able to double up on world language classes due to them having year long courses next year. At North Stafford you can put down to double up on a language or to take two different level 1 languages, but due to the way their schedule is laid out and that upperclassman get priority, it may not be a possibility. pg. 46

ELECTIVE Courses Select and number, in order of preference, 10 elective classes (#1 = first choice and #10 = last choice) Select at least 10 electives in case you do not get your first choices World Language counts as an elective. PE is required your freshman year and counts as an elective. • Please review all course descriptions and prerequisites before making your selections. • In Student. Vue, electives are listed under the same subject area as they • •

GOOGLE FORM for 9 th Grade CLASS REGISTRATION This year students will be signing up for their courses through a google form document. Every parent/guardian will be emailed a google form for Brooke Point High School and North Stafford High School the afternoon of Friday, January 22 nd. You are only to fill out the google form for the school you will be attending, which means you are only filling out ONE google form, ONE time. Once you hit submit button, the form will be sent to us. If your parent/guardian wishes to speak to a counselor, there will be a place at the end of the google form to request this. If your parent/guardian is fine with the choices made and do not need to speak to a counselor, there will be a place at the end of the google form to request this as well. This form must be filled out and submitted by Friday, January 29 th.

th 9 RISING Grade SCHEDULING TIMELINE What is next? 1. 2. The online google form must be completed and submitted by January 29 th. Counselors will meet with students and parents to finalize course requests during all of February. Students and parents should complete course selections online through Student. Vue as they are completing the online google form. Student. Vue access will be closed on Friday, February 19 th at 11: 59 p. m. Only your counselor will be able to lock in your courses online, so don’t worry about this part. We will do this when we meet with students independently. * Once your counselor meets with you in person to go over your classes it is submitted to the high school, which means we no longer have access to it. Really think about the classes you want to take because you will not be able to come back later and change them. *

How will you know when your counselor is going to meet with you? Counselors will be meeting with students starting the beginning of February through Geography/Science classes. You will be called out of your class into a breakout room to meet with your counselor on any given day. That is why it is important that you complete the google form online by January 29 th because if we pull you from class to meet with you and you have not yet filled this out, we will be completing the google form with you the day you are called. No matter what, we only have 15 minutes to meet with each student. With this in mind, please take the time to fill out the google form so that our time can be spent talking to you about the classes you wish to take and any questions you may have versus filling out a form.

Log in to your Student. VUE account

Hit the Course Request button in the left column. Then click on “Click here to change course requests”

Search for the course you wish to add by typing in the “Course ID” column. When you type in the Course ID from your high school program of studies, your choices will come up that match that ID. You DO NOT need to press enter for the choices to come up.

Once you find the course that you are looking for, to the left press “Add Request”. This will bring your choice above, under the heading “Selected Course Requests”

This is what it will look like once you have selected a course. If you no longer wish to select that course or made a mistake, you can click the Remove button and the course will be removed from your selection.

You should have 8 course selections on the top no matter what. Your CORE classes, PE, and World Language (if you selected one) MUST go up top. After this, you begin adding your elective classes in order of preference at the top until you reach a total of 8 classes.

Once you have selected 8 choices on the top, then you can begin selecting your alternate requests. You MUST have alternates-it is not a choice. In order to add an alternate click the Add Alternate button. Your alternates should only be ELECTIVE class choices. Make sure that you enter your courses in order of preference.

You need to continue to add course requests until you have 8 at the top and AT LEAST 7 at the bottom. Remember that the order you have your alternates matters. Your first alternate listed is your top alternative choice and the last one listed is your last choice. The order you have your courses under Selected Course Requests does not matter though.

Rising Freshman Parent Night will be held on Thursday, January 28 th from 6: 00 -7: 30 pm. This event will be held virtually this school year. Please make sure you attend with your parents to learn more about all programs and classes available to you in high school.