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Mission Statement The Branford High School Guidance Department is dedicated to fostering the successful academic, personal, and vocational growth of every student. Through the developmental guidance process, each student is given individual attention and encouragement to achieve his or her unique potential, toward a becoming life-long learner and a contributing member of society. Guidance Office 315-6730 Fax 315-6740 CEEB/School Code 070040 Program of Studies and The Guide (Student Handbook) can be found under Publication & Forms Counselors
Students Take Interest and Learning Style Assessments All students, grades 9 - 12, in their freshman year, utilized the school's internet program Naviance to assess their learning styles and their personality types. This was done by answering a series of questions. The results of these assessments are available in Naviance under the link "About Me," and then under the heading "Learning Styles" and "Personality Types". Parents and students should find the interpretive reports insightful and useful regarding future educational and career planning. Link to Family Connections: https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=branford
Career Center News Looking for Community Service hours or even possibly a job??? Stop by the Career Center and peruse the Community Service and Job Posting Board.
BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL REGISTRATION INFORMATION For families wishing to register their child at Branford High School for the school year 2010-2011 and are currently attending schools other than Branford Public Schools, please contact the Registrar at (203) 315-6723 during school hours. Families need to provide academic records from previous schools, two proofs of residency, proof of immunizations, student birth certificate, and guardianship/divorce decree paperwork if applicable. See complete list under Files.
Click on Files to view items (1-13). Advisory BHS College Application Process BHS School Profile 2009-2010 College Planning for Juniors - trifold brochure Financial Aid Parent Questionnaire for counselor recommendation writing - Registration Information & Requirements
SAT/ACT information Scholarship List Scholarship Search Sites Senior Newsletter Senior Questionnaire for counselor recommendation writing Spring Guidance News for Junior & Seniors Summer Opportunities Junior Timeline Senior Timeline
Click on Forms to view items 1-3. SAM Referral Form Community Service Forms Transcript Request Form (graduate/former student)
Useful websites, click on Links. Quick Links: SAT dates and information: http://www.collegeboard.com/ ACT dates and information www.actstudent.org All student-athletes intending to participate in Division I or II college sports must register with the NCAA Eligibility Center Clearinghouse in the spring of Junior year. Visit this website for rules, regulations and general information. NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse
NAVIANCE-FAMILY CONNECTIONS NEWS AND INFORMATION Have you heard about Naviance-Family Connections, it's a Web-based service designed especially for students and parents. Family Connections is a comprehensive website that you and your child can use to help in making decisions about courses, colleges, and careers. Family Connections is linked with you Counselor's Office, a service that we use in our office to track and analyze data about college and career plans, so it provides up-to-date information that's specific to our school. Family Connections will allow you and your child to: Get involved in the planning and advising process - Build a resume, complete on-line surveys, and manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and careers Research colleges - Compare GPA, standardized test scores, and other statistics to actual historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past Sign up for college visits - Find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign up to attend those sess Family Connection also lets us share information with you and your child about up-coming meetings and events, local scholarship opportunities, and other Web resources for college and career information. In addition, the site includes a link that your child can use to send us an e-mail message. To visit our school's Family Connection site, go to the Branford Public Schools home page. Click the Student Resources links and then scroll down and click on Naviance-Family Connection. Or you may use this direct link https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=branford When you visit the site for the first time, please enter your personal registration code in the New User box and follow the on-screen instructions to create your own account. If you do not know your registration code, please contact the Guidance office at 315-6730. Note that you and your child may each receive different registration codes, and that each code may be used only once. Once you have your own account, you will sign in using the user name and password you chose during the registration process. We hope that you will find this resource helpful.
Digging for Scholarships Finding scholarship money is similar to gold-digging. It takes time, research into several resources, timeliness, persistence of effort. Whether seeking money in the form of public or private, local or national scholarships, need-based or merit-based, talent-based or special-interest awards, or competitions, contests or internships, those who search with the most rigor will reap the most reward. Scholarship Search Sites is a listing of useful websites. Use this listing to help aid in your scholarship search. Start your search early. Keep digging and applying continuously throughout the academic year. Also check out the Naviance- Family connections website, https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=branford scroll down to about college and click on scholarship list. This is a listing of local and national scholarships. It is update regularly.
SAT & ACT DATES Branford High School is a testing center for the SAT in October, November, December, January, March, May and June and the ACT in October, December, Febuary and April. 2010- 2011 Test Dates The SAT: Oct. 9, Nov. 6, Dec. 4, Jan 22, March 12, May 7, June 4 The ACT: Sept. 11, Oct. 23, Dec. 11, Feb. 12, April 9, June 11 PSAT Test- Oct 16, 2010 given at BHS. Sign-ups for the PSAT: Registration for the PSAT is "in house", in the BHS Commons, during lunch waves, starting October 4th through Oct 14th. The cost is $25.00. Please make check out to BHS. The PSAT is a 2 hour and ten minute practice test for the SAT, most appropriately taken in the junior year. Sophomores can opt to take this test, and their scores are scaled together with other sophomores nationally. The PSAT serves as a practice exam for the ACT, as well. Register for the SAT or ACT: Online registration for the SAT is http://www.collegeboard.com/ and for the ACT http://www.actstudent.org/. Plan ahead. Register for appropriate test at least a month in advance of registration deadlines. Junior should take these exams from March to June. Seniors from September through January. **Test given at Branford High School
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