Husky Link Helps New Students

Feature

By  Chelsea Gates

Husky Herald Reporter

  Starting high school is a big and possibly scary thing for some students. You’re back at the bottom of the chain.

  Compared to your middle school or elementary school it’s also a lot bigger building, it doesn’t have your classes right next to each other or even just staying in the same class like how it was in earlier grades and having someone lead you to every class. It’s easy to get lost at first.

  Thanks to one of Port Huron Northern’s counselors Mrs. French we have upperclassmen to help out the new incoming freshmen at orientation, the program is called Husky Link.

  Husky Link comes with tours and the upperclassmen giving some helpful advice, trying to make the new students of Northern High School more comfortable. “I heard about a high school in Grand Rapids having a program like this at a conference in 2007 and thought it was something we really needed and should try out here at Port Huron Northern,” says Mrs. French.

  Husky Link I can say has helped a lot of incoming freshmen, even me!  “I’m really glad that husky link was around when I was a freshmen. I would have been complete lost for my first day of school. Knowing how much I benefited from it, I was more than happy to volunteer for it this year,” says Hannah Stephens (‘15).

  Every year more and more students are more than happy to sign up and help the new students.There are even some positives for the upperclassmen that help out.

  “I really like Husky Link because it helped me become a leader even helped open myself up to run for class president this year,” says Lexus Moutoux (‘15).

  Want to sign up for Husky Link for next year? Talk to Mrs. French in the counseling wing, she would be totally happy to help you get started and give you the information you need.