In preparation for the new wave of freshmen, Kaiser High School hosted an orientation day to help these future Kaiser students! Niu Valley Orientation day took place on November 17th, and featured a similar schedule to what Kaiser students do on their first day of school. Organized and led by our leadership class, Niu Valley eighth graders had the chance to go on a tour of not just the Kaiser campus, but the classes and available electives.
The day was broken up into chunks, where different groups of Niu Valley students would rotate between walking around the campus and wandering in the cafeteria. Though the campus section was led by the Kaiser’s leadership students, the cafeteria rotation was a sort of elective fair: Students walked around, looking at booths set up by different electives to advertise their course.
“High school is a lot different than middle school,” says Jacob Major, an upcoming freshman from Niu Valley. In comparison to his current school, Kaiser offers “- a lot more classes [] and electives, um- There is a lot more work and criteria to meet [] as opposed to middle school, where classes seem a lot easier.”
Though it made him apprehensive of “the amount of work I’m going to get and the difficulty of classes”, he stated that he enjoyed the orientation overall. For him, it helped to put into perspective “how much of a jump” high school is from middle school, both on campus and in curriculum.
Along with electives like leadership, JROTC, ceramics and more, newswriting hosted its own booth during the Orientation! It provided future Kaiser students a chance to learn about it, and more reason to sign up for it next year.
More orientation events have been implemented in the last few years as life returns to its pre-Covid policies. This event is part of that; this student event was a collaboration in the district’s schools, as a way to ease the transition. The jump for students can be difficult, so it’s a kind way to introduce them to life at Kaiser.
