NEW HOPE TUTORIALS

NEW HOPE TUTORIALS New Family/New Child Enrollment Form

This form is for new families (*or a new child in your family*) seriously considering New Hope Tutorials. If you've reached this stage in your discernment process, then you've already spent some time reading the website (www.newhopetutorials.org) and/or visiting a Discover New Hope event (held once per year each spring).

*Please fill out a separate enrollment form for each child you wish to enroll at New Hope. If you are completing this form for an additional child in your family, and you've already completed one full form, just indicate "see full form for other child." That enables you to skip redundant questions and speed through this form.

After completing this form, the next step in the process involves scheduling an informal interview for the student and both parents, with New Hope Headmaster Chris Westrate (please email martha.geraghty or call 978-965-8601). After we meet together to determine if New Hope is a good fit for your child, then you will proceed to fill out the online registration form -- including parent information, medical details and course sign-up. You will be sent a registration form link in an email following the interview.

This enrollment form provides the first step in the process. It applies to all families, whether interested in our yearlong tutorials or Minis and workshops.

As we begin our second decade at New Hope, we remain committed to partnering with families to enable them to continue their home-based education through the upper grades. Our small-group tutorials provide both full-year core courses, eliminating the expense of extra curriculum for home study, and enrichment courses to supplement what you study at home. Students attend New Hope one (6th & 7th graders) or two days a week (8th-12th), with assignments for core courses paced out over the week, so students can incorporate their New Hope tutorial assignments smoothly within your weekly homeschool structure.

At all times, parents remain primary educators of their children. New Hope tutors and courses complement and supplement what you do at home, and we will remain in close contact to partner with you to help your child achieve his personal best in his learning journey. The more you can tell us about your child, the better we can serve his needs.

How much a student works independently or with your help at home on his New Hope assignments is a family decision, but New Hope tutors welcome parent support at home to assist students as needed. Tutors will suggest ways you can support your child in his New Hope courses at the Parent Orientation in the early fall. Follow-up meetings will be arranged if tutors have concerns about your child. You will also receive formal teacher comments on your child's progress in courses at regular intervals during the year. New Hope can also provide transcripts to help your record-keeping needs for college or high school applications too.

* At what New Hope Tutorial Location will your student take courses?

Boxford MA

* Name of Parents

* Name of Student

* Mailing Address

* Home Phone Number

Cell Phone Numbers

* Parents' Email Addresses

* I give permission to New Hope Tutorials to use this email address for group email

notifications. New Hope uses email and the internet for all major communications; if

you do have an email address please let us know.

(We do not publish our email lists to outside organizations.)

yes

NO EMAIL/please use phone

alternative email:

* Current Schooling Arrangement

Homeschooling

Attends Public School

Attends Private or Parochial School

Other

* Student's Date of Birth

* Age/approx. grade level of student as of September in current year :

Where does your family worship? (Church name and town)

* How long have you homeschooled this child? (If you haven't begun homeschooling yet, just indicate "not yet" and then share your expectations/concerns about homeschooling in the following list of questions.)

* How would you describe your homeschooling experience thus far? (Please know that we understand both the joys and strains of homeschooling, so please feel free to share positives and negatives.)

* Please share how your role as parent-teacher has worked with this student.

* Why have you chosen to homeschool this child?

* How do you envision your role as a parent-teacher for this child?

* Do you have any family members or friends who homeschool?

Family members

Friends

* How do you envision New Hope supporting your homeschooling experience and your child's needs? What is your "hope" as far as needs that New Hope Tutorials may be able to meet?

* What particular concerns do you have for your child or for your homeschooling experience in general?

* Has your child been diagnosed with a learning disability, or do you have concerns he/she might have a significant learning challenge?

Please note: New Hope wants your child to have academic success. While New Hope has been able to work successfully with those who have mild learning challenges, our tutors do not have training or expertise for more serious needs. If you have concerns about your child's learning challenges or documented disabilities, please contact Headmaster Chris Westrate prior to the family interview. Please bring along/share any testing and documents available.

No learning challenge/disabilities

Yes, documented learning disabilities

I have concerns, would like to speak with the Headmaster.

* Do you have any concerns about your child's mental health? At times children may have needs that require the counsel of a trained professionals. We trust that parents will let us know when these needs are or have been serious in nature. We consider a serious mental health concern one that has required significant professional intervention over an extended period of time. We need to know if your child's mental health challenges may be evident while he is at the New Hope facility.

If you'd prefer to talk with the Headmaster about these concerns directly, rather than specify them here, please contact the Headmaster.

No, no serious mental health issues.

Yes, but I'd rather talk to the Headmaster.

Yes, the mental health concern is:

While New Hope welcomes all to consider joining our homeschool community, we want families to understand that New Hope is a decidedly ecumenical Christian community. Please read the statement of faith principles and Nicene Creed detailed below. If you cannot feel comfortable with this broad Christian framework, please do not continue with the Enrollment form. If you can support these principles, please indicate this below.

New Hope Statement of Faith

Recognizing the diversity of Christian expression and traditions, New Hope Tutorials, Inc. is intentionally ecumenical, and strives to recognize and promote areas of agreement for all Christians. To ensure that the Christ revealed in Scripture is the foundation of our educational philosophy, that His Kingdom remains the ground of our proclamation and our faith, and to affirm the common heritage of all Christian traditions, New Hope has adopted the Nicene Creed (see below) as our Statement of Faith.

Distinctive doctrines beyond the scope of this Creed fall within the realm of parental and pastoral guidance, and will not be promoted by New Hope or its tutors. New Hope requires that all its tutors, administrators and board members affirm their belief in this statement of biblical faith, and see Christ as the foundation for all teaching and the single criterion for Truth.

New Hope does not require registering families to adhere to the statement of faith embodied in this creed, but to respect it and understand that tutors will teach from a decidedly Christian perspective and are encouraged to share their faith with their students.

Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages. Light of Light; true God of true God; begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man. And He was cruciified under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried. And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead; whose Kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. In one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

New Hope as a Christ-Centered Organization

The Nicene Creed was chosen as New Hope's Statement of Faith because it sets forth the core beliefs of the Christian faith, and it is that faith that defines the fundamental character, or ethos, of New Hope. Precisely how the faith expressed in the Nicene Creed is worked out in the tutorials of New Hope is at the discretion of the tutors.

These core beliefs provide the foundation upon which responses to contemporary issues are formed. The sacredness of human life, the stewardship of creation, and the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman are examples of convictions held by tutors, adminstrators and leadership at New Hope, which flow from the foundational beliefs in the Nicene Creed.

The tutors can be expected to share their faith convictions when such issues arise, and will do so within the context of respectful and gracious dialogue. The conversation and behavior of students should also be consistent with this ethos at New Hope, being charitable toward others and respectful of the beliefs set forth in this Creed.

Yes, I support this statement of faith

I'd like to discuss this with New Hope's Headmaster

No, I will withdraw my enrollment

* Please list the tutorials or subjects you wish to consider for your student at New Hope Tutorials. These will be discussed further during the Family Interview.

THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS ENROLLMENT FORM. Please contact New Hope Tutorials to schedule your Family or New Student Interview. Contact Martha Geraghty at New Hope by email: martha.geraghty@newhopetutorials.orgor call 978-965-8601.

If you have another child you wish to enroll, please fill out another form.

Ready for Family Interview

* Indicates Response Required

New Hope Tutorials www.newhopetutorials.org PO Box 96 Boxford MA 01921 978-965-8601