COAL TOWNSHIP - Shamokin Area Middle/Senior High School announced the seventh grade orientation will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, in the school auditorium.
The program will begin with Chris Venna, principal, welcoming the parents. Bill Callahan, assistant principal, will provide information for both students and parents/guardians about their school day.
The students will be sent to their homerooms to receive their locker number and combination. Students will have time to practice opening their lockers and listen to their homeroom teachers discuss homeroom procedures.
Meanwhile, parents/guardians will remain in the auditorium to hear Callahan speak about attendance and truancy, James Dressler about the anti-bullying club, Matt Weller, guidance counselor, about guidance services and the STOP Team, Mindy Lagerman, food service director, in reference to the Café-Trac system, and Sandra Zurick, school nurse, with an overview of medical responsibilities.
Students can bring money to put in their Café-Trac account. Later, parents/guardians will meet with students in their homerooms to get important back-to-school information and forms. These forms must be returned on the first day of school.
Also, students will receive their schedules and be able to walk around the school to locate their classes. The middle school and high school National Honor Society members will be there to help students find their classes.
The school district urges all seventh-graders and their parents/guardians to attend the orientation.