With Union City High School students returning to class on September 10th, the school held an orientation session for incoming freshmen and their parents on Wednesday.
Some 700 freshmen, as well as incoming 10th graders who graduated from the Esther Salas Academy, toured the high school, with many current senior class students conducting the tours. The students got to see the media center, the cafeteria, the guidance department and the gym.
It was all intended to give them a level of comfort as they enter a new school building for the next four or three years respectively.
Principal Ryan Lewis, who has led the high school for eleven years, told the students everyone in the building matters. He encouraged the students to take advantage of their time on the tour, witnessing everything adorning the walls in the hallways; the past achievements of current and former students. He added that the incoming class of 2030 should get themselves involved with clubs, sports and all of the activities available to the student body.
Teachers will report for work on September 8th prior to the students’ first day of classes.