High School

 
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WUHS offers an opportunity-rich, challenging, and engaging curriculum to ensure students achieve deep learning, interdisciplinary understanding, and transferable skills in core academic subjects and learning programs.

Woodstock's academic program offers a strong and broad foundation in the arts, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences and through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. Our extensive and rigorous curriculum, along with its varied approach to teaching, prepares students superbly for intellectual inquiry in college and beyond.

School is made up of many things, but primarily it is a series of learning opportunities. Choosing those opportunities is an act of self-determination on the part of each student regarding his or her own learning. It is a rich landscape, filled with promise and challenge.

Learn about our high school students’ latest explorations and discoveries within recent news.

 
 

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Departments

WUHS offers an opportunity-rich, challenging, and engaging curriculum to ensure students achieve deep learning, interdisciplinary understanding, and transferable skills in core academic subjects and learning programs. Students can access various grouped courses and 16 Advanced Placement courses. In addition to course offerings in English, Social Studies, Math, Science, Modern and Classical Languages, and Wellness, WUHS offers a selection of courses in the Arts, Agriculture, and Computer Science, as well as support for student-designed independent studies.

To explore individual course offerings by department, review the most recent course guide.

  • Courses in computer science are designed to foster knowledge and skills in the following Anchor Standards: Digital Citizenship, Recognizing & Defining Computational Problems, Developing & Using Abstractions, Creating Computational Artifacts, Testing & Refining, and Communicating.

  • The C.R.A.F.T. department is an expanded vision for our previously known Agriculture Department. There are four core classes: Gardens and Greenhouses (MS), Foundations of Agriculture (HS), Food and Forest Systems (HS), and Stewardship Action Projects (HS). 

    The CRAFT department also facilitates an interdisciplinary pathway in which students earn a  CRAFT credential, which is a distinguished achievement identified on their transcript and honored at graduation.

  • In English classes, students explore a variety of genres, including the literature of America and around the world.  They also engage with a variety of voices, from both the canon and the contemporary world.  English students gain knowledge and skills through the following Anchor Standards: Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Language.

  • The mathematics department strives to provide rich mathematical learning experiences for all students and is dedicated to the proposition that all students can learn mathematics.  Courses are designed both to lead students to a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts and to promote problem solving through the application of key math practices.

    Courses

    Algebra I
    Geometry
    Precalculus/AP Precalculus
    AP Calculus AB
    AP Calculus BC
    AP Statistics
    CAD (Computer-Aided Design)
    Data Science I
    Data Science II
    Personal Finance

  • The Modern and Classical Languages Department offers four languages to WUHS students: French, Spanish, Latin and Ancient Greek. 

    All four are taught in accordance with the national standards developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 

    Language students have the opportunity to earn the Seal of Biliteracy, an award given to students who have achieved a high level of proficiency in one or more non-native languages. 

    The primary objective of language learning is for WUHS students to communicate effectively and to comprehend the products, practices and perspectives of native speakers.  Language teachers encourage language learning as a lifelong endeavor, bringing a global competence to students’ future careers and experiences. 

  • WUHS offers the opportunity to develop and apply knowledge and skills based on the National Core Arts Standards.

    High School and Middle School Band are full year courses designed to explore and perform engaging and challenging music of a variety of styles. These large ensembles are the core of the instrumental music program and a central part of the school culture.

  • The science department offers courses spanning a breadth of content areas to foster knowledge and skills in science and engineering practices.  The three-year science requirement is designed to expose students to Engineering, Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science subjects. Anchor Standards build knowledge and skills in the following areas: Modeling, Investigating, Analyzing, Computational Thinking, Explaining, Arguing, Communicating, and Designing.

  • Social Studies offerings are designed to provide a breadth of content that provides the opportunity for meaningful inquiry and analysis.  The courses are aligned to the College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards and Common Core State Standards and make abundant use of primary and secondary source material. 

    Knowledge and skills are built in Social Studies courses through the following Anchor Standards: Sourcing, Taking Action, Arguing & Explaining, and Speaking & Listening.

  • The Fine Arts Department is dedicated to excellence in music, theatre, and visual art. The program is designed to find the creative spirit in each individual. Students are encouraged to try a variety of fine arts while at school to enrich their understanding of the elements, principles, and expressive qualities of the arts.

  • Health and physical education are combined to create an integrated wellness program that provides high school students with the tools they need to achieve a healthy balance in their busy lives.  The wellness progression emphasizes the six dimensions of wellness and incorporates activities such as team sports, lifelong activities, individual sports, and hobbies.

Counseling and course selection

Each student graduating from Woodstock Union High School will complete a 4-year graduation plan. Starting at the end of their 8th grade year each student will connect with their counselor and outline the required classes needed to complete the graduation requirements.

Annually students will meet with their counselor to review their graduation plan, review their completed courses and identify ones that should be taken in the coming years to suit their intended college and career path.

Counselors also support students as they explore their post-secondary plans, including college and career planning.

 
 
 
 
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