[BHS etree] ADMIN: Information for incoming 9th grade families

[bhs at idiom.com]

Contact: Janet Huseby jhuseby at pacbell.net

 

Below is a number of items of interest to incoming 9th grade families.
If you have an 8th grader or know of one, please pass the information
on. 

 

Berkeley High Tours and More

1. Berkeley High School's Fall Information Night for Prospective
Families is  scheduled for Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 7 pm in the
Berkeley Community Theater. This evening is an introduction to our
school and is primarily intended for students who are  not currently
enrolled in the BUSD, although families currently enrolled in the
district  are most welcome to attend. 

2. Curriculum Night for incoming ninth graders (class of 2012) and
their parents or guardians will be held on Thursday, January 10 at 7
p.m. in the Berkeley Community Theater.  This is an important meeting
to go over program options. Following this general meeting BHS
counselors will meet BUSD students during the day at King, Willard and
Longfellow and at night with their parents. Students and their parents
coming from non BUSD middle schools will meet with a counselor on the
Berkeley campus. In all, we are discussing eight meetings. As soon as
these dates are set, we will announce them on the etree.

3. The "touring season" for prospective students runs from October to
March. The small group tours leave the Front Desk at 9:30 a.m. most
mornings and are by reservation only. They last about an hour.  The
tours walk by classrooms--many of which have open  doors --but they do
not go into rooms for observation.  The tours are not "orientation
tours." (There are wonderful student-led tours for our incoming
students in August.) The fall and early spring tours are directed
towards parents who are deciding  if Berkeley  High  is the
appropriate school for their child. Prospective students are welcome
but ONLY if accompanied by their parent or guardian. 

To make a reservation, please contact Janet Huseby, BHS Volunteer
Coordinator at jhuseby at pacbell.net. Let her know how many people in
your party and what days you are available. 

4. Many people have asked if they could visit Berkeley High on their
own or if their student could "shadow" a current student. This is not
possible. The school is focused on the education and security of our
currently enrolled students. We are simply too large a school to
accommodate unsupervised visitors. 

5. An invaluable source of information for our school  is the Berkeley
High etree. This list-serve passes on the Student Daily Bulletin, the
College Advisors Bulletin, and much more. To subscribe send an email
to  <mailto:BHS-request at idiom.com> BHS-request at idiom.com with one word
only in the subject line.  If you are a prospective parent the etree
can be overwhelming. Safi Kariv, a current BHS parent of a senior, has
taken it upon himself to put together a etree for prospective parents
which features posts he culls from the regular etree as well as
information on registering and other items of interest. He calls this
list serve the 08/12 Prospective Freshmen etree.  If you are
interested in signing on, send an email to Safi at
<mailto:zkariv at yahoo.com> zkariv at yahoo.com with subscribe in the
subject line. 

 

6. Last year The Berkeley High School Development Fund published a
collection of Berkeley High college essays called True Admissions. All
the essays were written by Berkeley High seniors.  True Admissions
raised over  $8,000 for the College and Career Center-it also
attracted the attention of Cody's Books and Stone Bridge Press who
together have brought out a second edition under a new name: The
Berkeley Book of College Essays.   The book is appealing both to
students who are contemplating writing their own college essays and to
adults  who are interested in the stories behind a large urban high
school.

 

There are still a few copies of True Admissions for sale in the
Berkeley High College and Career Center at the BHS Front Desk.  The
new book, The Berkeley Book of College Essays which includes 12 new
BHS essays is available at Cody's and on line at Amazon.com.   

 

Janet Huseby

BHS Volunteer Coordinator

jhuseby at pacbell.net

(510) 527-1130

 

 

 

 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/attachments/20071106/e81ac63e/attachment.html>