SHOS is an after school program where sophomores, and upperclassmen help freshmen get used to the transition from middle school to high School. It is held every Tuesday for the first four weeks of school.

“It has helped me alot with finding my classes,” freshman Andrew Zugmier said. “It also helps to know what we should and shouldn’t do when we are at football games.”

The administration team SHOS started in 2010 and has been going on for eight years now currently LSW is the only school in the LPS district that does it. It started so freshmen could learn how things at Southwest were done.

Lisa Bales took over in 2013. Today, Lisa Bales and fellow teacher Alisha Stopp are the supervisors. SHOS is led by sophomores and upperclassmen to help give freshmen the opportunity to build relationships with the upperclassmen.

On Freshmen day the freshmen went and found their SHOS leaders who helped them with their first part of the day.

“Making sure the kids are off their phones and stay off their phones can be hard at times but overall I like it,” sophomore Camryn Beckman said. “I like teaching other people about this school because I’ve been here, I’ve experienced it and why not use my time to help others?”

SHOS was originally eight weeks and then in 2017 was shortened to six weeks and it was shortened again in 2018 to four weeks.

“We are finding that eight weeks was a little too long,” Bales said. “We are experimenting with trying to find just the right amount of time.”