Freshmen

 

Naviance

Dear Parent,

We are pleased to introduce Family Connection from Naviance, a Web-based service designed especially for students and parents. Family Connection is a comprehensive website that you and your child can use to help in making decisions about courses, colleges, and careers. Family Connection is linked with 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 Connection 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 sessions.

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, use your Web browser to connect to:

http:connection.naviance.com/josephaforan

or use our link at "College and Career web resources" on our web site.

Graduation with Distinction for Community Service

In the fall of 2003, The Milford Board of Education approved a program to recognize students who do community service.

Community service is a voluntary time (without compensation) spent on selfless acts which benefit the school, community and/or the wider community.

Not included are the following:

·        Community service for academic credit or course requirement
(including CERTO, helping in the school during a free period
for credit)

·        Mandated community service

·        Anything one is paid to do or which is done for a family member

·        Activities during the high school day, except long-term tutoring
or long-term peer counseling or a special school-sponsored service project.

Criteria:

Upon graduation, students who have completed 200 hours or more of community service in at least 3 of 4 high school years, with at least 40 hours in each of the 3 years over grades 9-12, will be awarded a Diploma with Distinction for Community Service.