WHMS Counselor Newsletter

Career counseling and career activities are conducted with students throughout their middle school years. In previous years, students would store their career projects or “Career Artifacts” in the grade level Google classroom. Beginning this year students throughout the district will be introduced to Smart Futures. Smart Futures is an online career planning and career portfolio platform that will support our students' career exploration and awareness. Parents are highly encouraged to look at their child's progress. As a parent, you will be able to review your child’s career plan, which documents interests in careers, career clusters, and programs. As students move on to high school, you can look at majors, post-secondary schools and colleges that your child may be interested in. Parents can view Smart Futures activities by logging in using their child’s school Google account. Previous career activities prior to this school year can be found in the graduation year career artifacts google classroom. For example, if your child is a current 7th grader, you would ask them to open and show you “2028 Career Artifacts” Google classroom. More information about WHMS career programs can be found on the WHMS School Counselor website under careers

The last week of October WHMS students participated in Red Ribbon Week. On the afternoon of Friday the the 28th, students participated in an Alternatives to Drugs activity. Students picked 2 teacher sponsored activities to participate in that are great alternatives to drugs. Here is a slideshow of some of the students participating in a fun afternoon.