Girls' Athletics includes instruction in the rules, knowledge and skills basic to beginning or intermediate participation in individual, dual and team sports. Seventh grade band is a continuation of sixth grade band with an added emphasis on public performance. Students will learn advanced fundamentals of music plus perform at pep rallies, football games, local concerts and a variety of U.I.L. sponsored contests. Students are offered the opportunity to develop higher levels of responsibility and self-discipline through large group participation. This course is designed to help students develop good study and learning habits.
Students learn how to listen, take notes, keep a notebook, and study for maximum learning.
Test taking skills are also taught. Placement in this class requires a recommendation from the Principal. Each course is one semester in length and offered only to seventh grade students. Life Management Skills is a study of personal growth and development, successful living with family, peers, and authority figures, problem solving, parenting skills, and general life skills. Family Living is a lab course designed to help students learn to cope with family life.