Support Services

AT (acceleration, advising, academics)Math labWriters workshopHomework ClubIndividual teacher help after schoolParent Portal

What is available?

What is available?

Dual EnrollmentOnline CoursesOutside of the traditional school day

Educational Support Team

Guidance

3 Domains:Academic planningCareer planningSocial and Emotional

Electives at CHSElectives at CHS

Colchester High SchoolColchester High SchoolElectivesElectives

Art Art BusinessBusiness HealthHealth MusicMusic PEPE World LanguagesWorld Languages

CHS Art Department

CHS Art Teachers

Vito Cannizzaro

Anne Cummings

Art Department Requirements

• All CHS students are required to take 1 credit (2 semesters) of Fine Art - Visual Art or Music.

• Learn, Think, Act, Create!/ Art 1 is a prerequisite for all other art courses.

• All Art classes, except AP Studio Art, are one semester classes, earning ½ credit per class.

• After LTAC/ Art 1, Freshmen may take Mad Mark-Making(Drawing), Clay Arts, The Laker Brush-off(Painting), and Exploring the 3rd Dimension(Sculpture).

Art Course Sequence Learn, Think, Act, Create!

Clay Arts

Exploring the 3rd Dimension

Pixography(11th or 12th grade, and ONE other Art course after LTAC) Clay Arts 2

CHS Art Warrior: A. P. Studio Art(11th or 12th grade, LTAC, and TWO other Art courses.)

Mad Mark Making

The Laker Brushoff

Dynamic Design(Mad Mark Making, or The Laker Brushoff

The 3rd Dimension and Beyond

CHSBusiness & Technology Department

Business Offerings

Business & Technology Skills

• Keyboarding• Basic Operations of Microsoft Office Suite

– Word– Excel– Access– PowerPoint– Publisher

• Business Communications/Entrepreneurship

Accounting (1 credit)

• Basic Accounting Concepts• Manual Accounting Practice• Automated Accounting• Job Shadow

Personal Finance (.5 credit)

Major Themes:

Setting Financial Goals

Managing Your Money

Earnings

Savings & Investing

Spending: Identity Theft, Credit Cards

CHS Health DepartmentCHS Health Department

Health RequirementsHealth Requirements

One semester class is required. Students may elect to take Food! From Soil to Stomach as an elective.

Student can choose either Human Ecology or Life 101 Both of these courses meet the graduation requirement.

Human Ecology is designed for grades 9 & 10.

Life 101 is designed for grades 11 & 12.

Food! From Soil to Stomach is designed for grades 9-12 and is an elective credit.

Human EcologyHuman Ecology

Topics to be covered: Personal Health; Prevention/Healthy

Lifestyles, Stress Management Communication, Goal Setting, Decision

Making and Refusal Skills Nutrition Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Human Sexuality

Food! From Soil to StomachFood! From Soil to Stomach

Topics to be covered:

Sustainability

Food systems: global, local, organic, conventional

Explores the many facets of food: growing, cooking and eating.

Gardening

CHS Music DepartmentCHS Music Department

Evan Peltier– Melissa TowleEvan Peltier– Melissa Towle

These courses fit into the Fine These courses fit into the Fine Arts requirement.Arts requirement.

InstrumentalInstrumental

Colchester Concert Band Colchester Concert Band • year long course / 1.0 credityear long course / 1.0 credit

Colchester Jazz OrchestraColchester Jazz Orchestra• year long course / 1.0 credityear long course / 1.0 credit

Basic GuitarBasic GuitarSemester course / 0.5 creditsSemester course / 0.5 creditsFor the beginning guitaristFor the beginning guitarist

Beginning PianoBeginning PianoSemester course / 0.5 creditsSemester course / 0.5 credits

For the beginning pianistFor the beginning pianist

Intermediate PianoIntermediate PianoSemester course/0.5 creditsSemester course/0.5 credits

Designed to build on beginner pianoDesigned to build on beginner piano

Music TechnologyMusic TechnologySemester course / 0.5 creditsSemester course / 0.5 credits

Compose, create, and record music Compose, create, and record music

ChoirChoirChorus Chorus

• year longyear long• 1.0 credit1.0 credit• open to all students and abilitiesopen to all students and abilities

Concert Choir Concert Choir • year longyear long• 1.0 credit1.0 credit• teacher recommendation requiredteacher recommendation required

Chamber SingersChamber Singers• year long year long • 1.0 credit1.0 credit• by auditionby audition

Physical Education

Physical Education

Tom Perry, Morgan Samler & Courtney Goetz

All students are required to complete 1.5 credits of PE for graduation.

PE is offered each semester.

CHS offers 25 different units.

PE Units

Racquetball Badminton Fencing Mountain Biking Orienteering Climbing wall Ropes Course Canoeing

Skiing/Snowshoeing Table Tennis (ping-pong) In-line skating Archery Dance Crossfit Team Sports Personal Fitness

World Languages at CHS

French and Spanish

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World Language Requirements

• There is NO language graduation requirement at CHS.

• All students are encouraged to enroll in a language.

• College bound students should plan to take a minimum of two years of a language.

• Competitive colleges are looking for three to four consecutive years.

World Language Offerings

• French I through French IV

• Spanish I through Spanish IV

• Level V is not offered annually in either language. It will be offered as enrollment and staffing allow.

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