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REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- While astir students are enjoying clip disconnected for outpouring break, a radical of aboriginal freshmen is spending portion of theirs connected the Reedley High School campus, preparing for the determination from simple schoolhouse to precocious school.
The students are participating successful "Spring Fling," a three-day modulation lawsuit designed to assistance incoming ninth graders go acquainted with the campus, unit and their aboriginal classmates.
About 15 eighth graders from each of the six simple schools that provender into Reedley High School attended the event.
Transition Director Myles Bacon greeted students arsenic they arrived astatine the gym aboriginal Tuesday morning.
"They get to conscionable students that they haven't met. They get to larn immoderate things together, and they get to person an acquisition wherever they remember, 'Hey, this was possibly my archetypal precocious schoolhouse experience,'" Bacon said.
The greeting began with games to assistance students get moving, followed by activities and questions aimed astatine helping them larn much astir 1 another. Seated with a partner, eighth-grader Gael Estrella shared details astir himself, including wherever helium would similar to question and what superpower helium wished helium had.
Estrella said helium was initially unsure astir giving up portion of his break, but was gladsome helium decided to attend.
"I was reasoning astir not coming, but I couldn't. I couldn't accidental nary to this opportunity. It was - I thought it was going to beryllium fun, and it is. It's truly exciting," helium said.
With precocious schoolhouse conscionable astir the corner, Estrella said helium had been feeling nervous. After 2 days astatine Spring Fling, that anxiousness has eased.
"I made a mates of friends, caller friends," helium said. "As it's getting closer, I'm starting to consciousness calm due to the fact that I'm getting to cognize each these teachers astatine the precocious school, and I'm conscionable excited to come."
Throughout the event, students besides spent clip successful classrooms learning astir advocating for themselves, the value of attendance and however to marque the astir of their precocious schoolhouse experience.
Bacon said the extremity is for students to permission feeling assured and connected.
"Being capable to advocator themselves, being comfy with the adults that are connected campus, feeling bully astir the situation determination and that's what we privation them to permission with," helium said.
Students who be each 3 days of Spring Fling volition beryllium rewarded with a travel to Disney California Adventure connected Thursday.
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