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Welcome to the NHS Counseling and Guidance
Department Home Page

Fax:  804-580-9203 (Fax)
   
Mrs.  Krista K Hundley-Sisk - khundley@nucps.net        
Counseling and Guidance Director        
Mr. Hutt Williams - hwilliams@nucps.net
Guidance Counselor
 Ms. Mary Thomas - mthomas1@nucps.net
Guidance Administrative Assistance 

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Click here to access or download our Guidance Brochure

 

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Summer School Driver Education (Classroom) 2008 Application & Schedule

 

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Northern Neck Technical Center 2008 Summer School Application 

 

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NHS Dual and AP Classes 08-09 (Tentative)
 

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Northern Neck Technical Center Application 2008-2009

 

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On-line ordering system for Department of Education  Publications

 

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Career Pathways:

 

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NEW SAT and ACT PREP from the VA Dept. of Education NEW

The Virginia Department of Education is pleased to announce statewide availability of a test preparation module through VirginiaMentor at www.virginiamentor.org.  The VirginiaMentor Test Prep feature provides easy-to-use tutorials for each subject area covered by the ACT, the SAT, and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).  This new feature on the VirginiaMentor Web site is funded through the Commonwealth’s National Governors Association (NGA) Honor States grant and is available to all students preparing for these key tests.

Students may establish accounts on the site by pressing the “Create an Account” button under the VirginiaMentor logo at the top of the main page.  Students will then have access to customized test preparation courses.  The Web sites feature a series of tutorials covering all the subject areas and/or question types seen on the various tests.  Each tutorial provides between 30 and 90 minutes of instructional material.  Students are able to refine their academic skills by working through practice questions in each subject or question type.  Practice sessions dynamically adapt to each user's response patterns, providing questions that are tailored to each student’s ability level.  At the end of each practice session students receive a percentile ranking. 

Users will have their own personalized test preparation home page that will record their progress across a number of different categories and include comparative performance ratings.  Students will also be able to select a parent, teacher, or counselor as "coach” who will be able to monitor the student's performance and receive e-mail updates about the student's progress. 
 

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The Virtual Advanced Placement School (at the VA Department of Education) provides a variety of college-level and foreign language courses, using distance learning technologies.

The Virtual Advanced Placement School was designed to provide educational opportunities to schools that may have too few students to justify hiring a full-time teacher, are unable to find qualified teachers, or for students with scheduling conflicts.

Visit the Virtual Advanced Placement School by clicking here.

Use the following link to get the schedule and payment information for the SAT:
ETS--SAT Information
Use the following link to get the schedule and payment information for the ACT:
ACT Information

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                The  School Board affirms that parents are the student's first teachers and that the public schools should serve to strengthen family and parental support. No student will be required to participate in any counseling program to which the student's parents object.   

                 For the purposes of the Northumberland County Public School Board Policy Manual, the following definitions apply:

                     a) Academic counseling (Academic Advising) - Advice which assists students and their parents to acquire knowledge of the curricula choices available to students, to plan a program of studies, to arrange and interpret academic testing, and to seek post-secondary academic opportunities;

                    b) Career counseling (Career Advising) - Advice which helps students to acquire information and plan action about work, jobs, apprenticeships, and post-secondary educational and career opportunities;

                    c) Personal/social counseling - Counseling which assists a student to develop an understanding of themselves, the rights and needs of others, how to resolve conflict and to define individual goals, reflecting their interests, abilities and aptitudes.  Such counseling may be provided either (i) in groups in which generic issues of social development are addressed or (ii) through structured individual or small group multi-session counseling which focuses on the specific concerns of the participant(s).

                 At least annually, parents shall be notified in writing about the academic and career guidance programs, and the personal/social counseling programs which are available to students within the school division. Parents will be advised concerning the purpose, general description of the programs, how parents may review materials to be used in the programs, and procedures by which parents may limit the students’ participation in the program. Information and records of personal/social counseling shall be kept confidential and separate and not disclosed to third parties without prior parental consent or as otherwise provided by law.

                It shall be the policy of the School Board with respect to personal/social counseling that parents will notify the school division in writing if the student is not to participate in the personal/social counseling program,  (Opt - Out)

                Counseling techniques, which are beyond the scope of the professional certification or training of counselors, including hypnosis, or other psychotherapeutic techniques that are normally employed in medical or clinical settings and focus on mental illness or psychopathology are prohibited.

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