Goleta Valley Junior High
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Goleta Valley Junior High School is a junior high school in Goleta, California
, just northwest of Santa Barbara, California
. Located in the Goleta Valley foothills. With a student body of about 820 students in grades 7th and 8th, Goleta Valley J.H. employs about thirty five teachers as part of the Santa Barbara School Districts
. GVJH or simply GV is a National Blue Ribbon School.
): Sea Monkeys, Golden Vikings, Pirates, and Buccaneers. The houses compete for House Points in events such as balloon stomp. At the end of the year the house with the most points wins the "Mariner Cup."
. In Industrial Tech
students learn how to make a small wood nutcracker
, a short video news cast, and to repair a small engine. The IPC class teaches students how to make a website
, improve their Power Point and word skills. In health class students learn how to live a healthy life.
Goleta, California
Goleta is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It was incorporated as a city in 2002, after a long period as the largest unincorporated, populated area in the county. As of the 2000 census, the Census-designated place had a total population of 55,204, however, a significant...
, just northwest of Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
. Located in the Goleta Valley foothills. With a student body of about 820 students in grades 7th and 8th, Goleta Valley J.H. employs about thirty five teachers as part of the Santa Barbara School Districts
Santa Barbara School Districts
The Santa Barbara School Districts is the main public school district that serves Santa Barbara, California. Its high school system serves Goleta as well. The district consists of one administrative system and school board wrapped around two different elementary and secondary "districts" which...
. GVJH or simply GV is a National Blue Ribbon School.
Students
The students are known as Mariners. They are further divided into four houses (as is done in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
): Sea Monkeys, Golden Vikings, Pirates, and Buccaneers. The houses compete for House Points in events such as balloon stomp. At the end of the year the house with the most points wins the "Mariner Cup."
Seventh Graders
For 7th graders the school only offers 2 choices. Students must take ether the tech wheel or art wheel. Each wheel has three classes, and the students rotate classes every trimester. This program has been cut, and as of the end of the 2011 school year there is just one elective rotation - health, industrial technology, and either art or theatre art.Tech wheel
The tech wheel includes the following classes: Health, Intro to personal computer (IPC), and Industrial TechnologyIndustrial technology
Industrial technology is the field concerned with the application of basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of industrial engineers and managers...
. In Industrial Tech
Industrial technology
Industrial technology is the field concerned with the application of basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of industrial engineers and managers...
students learn how to make a small wood nutcracker
Nutcracker
A nutcracker is a mechanical device for cracking nuts. Usually they work on the principle of moments as described in Archimedes' analysis of the lever...
, a short video news cast, and to repair a small engine. The IPC class teaches students how to make a website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
, improve their Power Point and word skills. In health class students learn how to live a healthy life.
Art wheel
The art wheel has theater arts, art class and also health. The health class is the same class as the one in the tech wheel. The theater arts class develops student's acting skills. Students learn to express themselves on paper in art class.Eighth Graders
For eighth graders GVJH offers more choices including:- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- Industrial TechnologyIndustrial technologyIndustrial technology is the field concerned with the application of basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of industrial engineers and managers...
- AVIDAdvancement Via Individual DeterminationAdvancement Via Individual Determination is an American college-readiness system designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges, focusing on students in the academic middle. The formula is to raise expectations of students...
- Art
- Office Aid
- Leadership
- Performing ArtsPerforming artsThe performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
- Beginning Band
- Advanced Band
- Orchestra
- Library Aid