For the 2025-2026 school year, the Program of Studies at WHS received a change, adding new classes aligned with teacher interests and due to new faculty positions filled, and changing current ones to give students more choice. New classes that were added are: Robotics, Woodworking for Wildlife, Global Street Foods, Enterprise Baking and Pastry Arts, The Law and You, and Current Events and Media Literacy, Environmental Science ECE, Publishing ECE, U.S. History ECE, and Civics ECE. Furthermore, Photography received a change, being divided into Art 1: Photography and Art 2: Photography.
By adding these classes, teachers at Watertown High School hope to give students more variety of what classes they take. New electives give students the opportunity to learn new interests or build on already existing ones, and ECE classes allow students to earn college credit in high school. New foods classes, Global Street Foods and Enterprise Baking and Pastry Arts, are more specific topics that you can’t learn in Foods 1 and Baking 1. Likewise, Environmental Science ECE is a completely new topic introduced to the Science Department.
With these new courses, teachers and students alike will benefit from these additions by being able to teach or learn something that they enjoy. More students can be serviced in taking electives, instead of being shut out by full classes. Moreover, students get more options for credits for graduation.
