Warwick Junior High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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These pictures illustrate the efforts that are made in many different ways to assure students an oppor- tunity for the best possible education. Mr. Knox, our guidance counselor, talks things over with students; Miss Haverty, our librarian, is ready to help individuals or groups in a thousand different ways; Mr. Williams, as a representative classroom teacher, is ready, willing and competent to guide, direct, and instruct each student in a particular subject field.

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The students, all 1600 of them, individually and collectively, are the chief concern at Warwick Junior High. Program Enrollment this year averages about 420 eighth grade girls, 450 eighth grade boys, 370 ninth grade girls, and 350 ninth grade boys. There are 63 teachers on the instructional staff. Courses include English, social studies, world geography, general mathematics, algebra, general science, biology, art, Latin, French, Spanish, band and choral music, drama and speech, homemaking, industrial arts and physical education. Adjustments to the program are made when the need is indicated, and refinements are made annually, in order to offer the best possible education for the students. Algebra and the foreign languages are now offered in the eighth grade. The program is expanded as needs arise. Perhaps the most important characteristic of the program at Junior High is that every effort is made to tailor the program to the needs of the students. The aim is to fit the program to the students who come to this school. In other words, the chief concern at Junior High is the student himself. To show the various phases of our program in operation, the annual staff has grouped the courses into six periods”, plus a lunch period, to conform to the normal six-period school day, followed by the activities that usually take place in the afternoon or evening. Followingthe before school and homeroom activities, all 1600 students report to a first period class. And first period might mean science, or any one of the other course offerings. 72

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The Science Teachers Seated, left to right: Miss Evans, Mrs. Somerville, Miss vonPippin, and Mrs. Pleasants. Standing: Mr. Drudge, Mrs. Marohn, Mrs. Croke, Miss McFadden, Miss Gilliam, and Mr. Harmon. 3irst Period: Sc i erice This is the age of science. Who knows but that some of Junior High ' s current crop of budding young scientists may one day explore the moon, or pilot a space ship? There is a great deal of learning to be done between eighth grade science and those trips to outer space, but we have to begin somewhere. Our students begin with a course in general science in the eighth grade, followed by a similar course in the ninth, or they may elect a special science course in the eighth grade which prepares them for biology in the ninth. Our science department offers these four courses at the present time. Of course not all science is devoted to plans for advanced study of the universe. All of us need to know about our environment, to understand such things as weather, for example, in order to make the most of living right here on our own planet. 6 CO 2 + 6 H 2 0 ■ C 6 H f2 0 6 +6 0; 74