A CLOSER LOOK PUBLIC TOUR SET FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - The last time Jacque Snyder led parents and future students on a tour of the new Golden Valley High school, the campus was little more than a tangle of metal frames. Now two-thirds complete, Santa Clarita's first new high school in more than 10 years is ready to welcome another tour group. On Monday, Snyder, Golden Valley's principal-in-waiting, will lead the public around the quickly emerging campus, scheduled to open in August. ``Now we have trees and finished buildings,'' Snyder said Friday. Students from La Mesa La Mesa (lə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 52,931), San Diego co., S Calif., a suburb of San Diego; inc. 1912. It is a retail center and a popular residence for upper- and middle-income professionals in the San Diego area. Junior High will attend the 53-acre, $78.7 million campus in the rolling hills Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a "hill chain" of hills that roll on and on continually. You will often find them in between plains and mountains, near major rivers, or randomly anywhere. The only places without rolling hills are deserts and flood plains. between Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. Road, a fast-developing area near the heart of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . Golden Valley staffers will visit La Mesa next month for an orientation. The public tour will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday on the Golden Valley campus. From Soledad Canyon Road, head south on Ruether Drive, turn right on Centre Pointe Parkway and left on Golden Valley Road to the first left turn. Or, from Sierra Highway, head northwest on Golden Valley Road and turn at the first available right turn. Nearly 1,100 ninth- and 10th-graders will attend Golden Valley in its inaugural year. The new campus, built for 2,600 students, will help ease overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at Canyon, Valencia and Hart high schools Hart High School may refer to:
Snyder is in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of interviews to fill 44 teaching slots and 10 to 15 positions for nonteaching personnel ranging from clerks to custodians. Two assistant principals have been appointed. Construction crews are certain the building will be ready on time. In fact, Snyder is preparing to order furniture next week. While physical work is nearing completion, Snyder and her staff are planning the education side. They are considering a block-style schedule under which core classes meet for longer periods every other day. That, she said, gives more time for students to absorb concepts being taught. ``It gives the kids time to think,'' she said. ``It helps them understand, wrap things up. Just having extra time in class to be able to dialogue with peers makes things bright and clear.'' Another plan is to interview incoming freshmen about their career goals and place them on academic teams that focus on appropriate concepts. Students with similar interests would share teachers for core classes, like the current junior high system in the district. ``Anything I can do to make a big campus smaller for kids, I'll try it,'' Snyder said. Golden Valley is one of three new high schools the William S. Hart Union High School District plans to open by 2007, when the current 19,400 enrollment is expected to surpass 24,000. West Ranch High in Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. will open in August to ninth- graders only on the grounds of neighboring Pico Canyon Junior High. The West Ranch campus will be complete in 2005. The proposed Castaic High School is set to open by 2007. Patricia Farrell Aidem, (661) 257-5251 pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) The new Golden Valley High School is on schedule to open this August. A public tour is planned for Monday at 4:30 p.m. (2) Construction workers walk through shadows near the quad of Golden Valley High School, opening in August. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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