January 14, 2021

Dear RHHS Wildcat Parents,

I am writing to share with you that RHHS will soon begin the course registration process for next year.  This is a comprehensive process, and I am hoping this letter will help you better understand the timeline, available resources, and process students will follow to make course selections.

Timeline

• Monday, January 25 - Look for postings on the Richmond Hill High School website with specific information about high school course offerings and information
• Thursday, January 28-- Extended Advisement--Students receive course registration form with core content recommendations from advisors
• Thursday, January 28 through Thursday, February 4 -- students and parents work together to determine elective courses and complete registration form
• Thursday, February 4--Extended Advisement--Students submit completed registration forms to advisement teacher
• Friday, February 5--deadline for students to submit course request forms to advisor---after this time course selections will be made for them by advisor, admin, or counselor

Available resources

We have compiled several resources in an effort to help students and parents complete the registration process.

• First, each student will receive a REGISTRATION FORM. This form will have your child’s name pre-printed as well as his/her core academic course recommendations for next year.

This is the form that you and your child will use to request courses for next year, and this form must be returned to your child’s advisement teacher on February 4th.

• Each student should also receive 

• a COURSE AVAILABILITY sheet.  This sheet lists all of the courses available for your child’s specific grade level next year.

• 9th Grade Course Availability
• 10th Grade Course Availability
• 11th Grade Course Availability
• 12th Grade Course Availability

• a PATHWAYS sheet.  This sheet lists each of the pathways offered at RHHS, and the titles of the courses that makeup each pathway.
• a HOPE Rigor Course sheet.  This sheet lists all of the courses that are identified as HOPE Rigor courses.  Students wanting to be eligible for HOPE must have a minimum of 4 HOPE Rigor courses.

• Information about Work-based Learning and Dual Enrollment is available on the RHHS website, or your child (or you) can email the appropriate person for information.

• Work-based Learning (WBL) - Jennifer Sack, jsack@bryan.k12.ga.us
• Dual Enrollment (DE) - Deanna Appleton, dappleton@bryan.k12.ga.us 

• Students requesting an Advanced Placement (AP) course will need to complete the AP Contract.

How can students get help with registration?

Students will have access to counselors during all lunches starting on Thursday, January 28th. We will have two counselors in each cafeteria, each lunch from Thursday, January 28th thru Wednesday, February 3rd. I

strongly encourage students to take advantage of this resource and ask counselors any questions they (or you) may have.

Our Work-based Learning Coordinator (Jennifer Sack) and Dual Enrollment Counselor (Deanna Appleton) will also be in the cafeterias during these dates. If your child is interested in pursuing WBL or DE, he/she must initiate the process by seeing either Ms. Sack or Ms. Appleton.

The registration process

Your child’s advisement teacher will use historical achievement information and course grades to determine course selections in English, math, science, and social studies.  These recommendations will be printed on a Course Registration Sheet for your child.  This sheet will be distributed to your child on Thursday, January 28th. Your child will then have until Thursday, February 4th to identify and choose the remaining course selections for next school year. Your child will need a total of 8 courses PLUS 2 alternate courses (in the event a course is full, doesn’t work in the schedule, or not enough request it and we are unable to offer it).  Once your child returns this form to his/her advisor, your work with course registration is complete!  Now, our work begins - we will spend the next couple of weeks transferring this information from registration forms to PowerSchool, our student information system.  This information is then the baseline information used as we work to build the master schedule.  Our goal is to have a schedule for each student before we leave for Summer.

Still have questions?

If you find yourself with questions, please let us know.  I suggest first asking your child’s advisor.  He/she should be able to answer the question or find the answer for you.  If you still need assistance, please contact your child’s counselor.  They are here to help, and they will do their very best to answer questions about registration. Counselors are assigned by student’s last name as indicated below:

• Ms. Bunyan:          A-Dau                                rbunyan@bryan.k12.ga.us        
• Ms. Neff:         Dav-Hic                        eneff@bryan.k12.ga.us 
• Mrs. Daniels:         Hig-McG                        tdaniels@bryan.k12.ga.us 
• Mrs. Kilpatrick: McH-R                        dkilpatrick@bryan.k12.ga.us 
• Mr. Wozniak:         S-Z                                nwozniak@bryan.k12.ga.us
• Mrs. Appleton: DE/College & Career                dappleton@bryan.k12.ga.us

Thank you in advance for your support of and involvement in the registration process this year.

Very sincerely,

Bivins Miller

Principal