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Secondary Gifted Program Radford City Schools Please visit our Web page at: Lisa Swope, coordinator 540 731-3649, ext. 6619 Students may see Mrs. Swope at Dalton first period (104) and sixth period (108). She is at Radford High School periods 2-5, and after school. Beginning this fall, the Gifted Newsletter will be published online only. It can be accessed through the secondary gifted program Web page : Summer Residential Governor's School and Foreign Language Academy information is posted online at: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Govschools/SRGS . Mrs. Swope has shared information with music, drama, art, and foreign language teachers. She will contact each gifted student (sophomores/juniors) Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 9 and 10) about the academic academies (students who are absent should ask their English teachers for the handout I will leave for them). The academic academies require students to be in the gifted program (as does the art program). For other Visual and Performing Arts academies and for complete information, applications, and parents' guides to each of these programs, please visit the Web site above. VPA completed applications (with letters of recommendation) are due to Mrs. Swope by November 17. Academic academy and Foreign Language applications are due by December 11. See Mrs. Swope if you have questions. Foreign language academy information also is available on this Web site (and from your foreign language teacher). Interested sophomores can tour the SWVGS campus with Mrs. Swope on the afternoon of December 3. Please get a permission slip from Mrs. Swope and return it to her before Thanksgiving break. Applications to SWVGS are available after December 3 and are due to Mrs. Swope by February 1. DIS students who attended the enrichment session, turned in their permission slips, and turned in their money ($3), will go to the Science Museum on December 9 to extract DNA from strawberries!!! Go to http://www.artandwriting.org/enter.htm after October 1 for information about the 2010 Scholastic Magazine art and writing awards Stanford Ten testing (for students currently being screened) is scheduled for December 8 in the Dalton computer lab. The local gifted advisory committee will meet at the School Board Office on Wadsworth Street at 4:00 p.m. on February 10 and April 14. The meetings are open to the public. Are you a high school student who plans to earn an Advanced Diploma (with Governor's Seal)? Are you committed to earning fifteen hours of college credit while in high school? Will you keep a GPA of 3.0 or higher? See guidance to sign up as an Early College Scholar. Virtual Virginia AP class tuition and exam fees are waived for Early College Scholars! Please visit our Web page at: http://www.rcps.org/dis/gifted/gifted.htm for information about referring students for gifted services.
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