GTA7 Eternal Gandhi Museum REVIEW
Field Experience on Tues 11/10 + Wed 11/11
Eternal Gandhi Museum
Tuesday 11/10 + Wednesday 11/11
On Tuesday, November 10th and Wednesday, November 11th, our 7th grade students will visit the Eternal Gandhi Museum (EGM) to learn about the life and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi in preparation for the annual Be the Change Expo hosted by GTA7 students in the second semester.
While at the museum, students will experience interactive exhibits that showcase Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence, peace, truth, and self-discipline, and they will learn and think about the historic impact Gandhi’s philosophy has had for generations thereafter.
Afterwards, students will eat lunch at Buffalo Run Park before returning to campus at approximately 2:00 pm. Upon returning to campus, under the guidance of their teachers, students will discuss, process, and use their experience at the museum as a catalyst to thinking about how they themselves can “be the change.”
They will then form and choose groups with whom, over the next few months in ELA, they will read and annotate literature, conduct research on an emergent real world problem or issue of social justice, and plan, develop, and create an exhibit for the Be the Change Expo.
How Do I Know Which Day My Child Will Go to the Museum?
SEE THE LIST ATTACHED BELOW TO KNOW WHICH DAY YOUR CHILD WILL LEAVE CAMPUS.
A FEW More Parent Chaperones Are Needed for Both Days...Please Volunteer.
Please consult the list above and volunteer for the day your child is going to the museum.
THANK YOU!
What Do I Need to Know for the Day My Child Leaves Campus to Go to the EGM?
THE DAY MY STUDENT IS OFF CAMPUS, HE/SHE SHOULD:
- Wear the GTA7 t-shirt and meet all FBISD dress code standards.
- Bring a sack lunch and a refillable water bottle or more than one disposable water bottle.
- Bring a string bag for on the field experience.
- Bring his/her laptop. Laptops will be used when students return to campus. They will be locked in a secure location in the morning and retrieved when needed upon our return to campus. This means students may bring their regular backpacks to hold their computers if needed.
For the day students are on campus, they will follow their regular schedules.
Permission Slips for This Field Experience Will Be Passed Out Next Week!
GTABC Membership Challenge!
EVERYONE LOVES PIZZA!
Join the GTA Booster Club now, and you can help your child and his/her advisory class win a PIZZA PARTY! Each new membership during the drive will help your child's advisory class have a chance to win. The grade level advisory with the most new memberships will win, and there will be a separate pizza party for EACH grade level.
Challenge Leadership Board (see below)
JOIN NOW!
Final Push! Hygiene Basket Drive for Refugees Arriving In Houston
GTA Families Have Done Themselves Proud! Just a Few Items Are Still Needed.
The Drive Ends This Week...Might You Be the One to Donate One of These Items?
THE REMAINING ITEMS BELOW ARE STILL NEEDED
5 2-packs of liter size shampoo
5 2-packs of liter size conditioner
2deodorant (1 man, 1 woman)
13 laundry baskets
1 2-packs of paper towels
QVMS Career Day: A Great Career Day Takes Us All!
Volunteer, Pass the Word to a Possible Presenter, or Both!
The Annual QVMS Career Day is for eighth grade students, and this year it's on Thursday, December 10th. Even though it's for 8th graders, EVERYONE is needed EACH YEAR to make Career Day a success; the same will be true when YOUR child is in 8th grade. Please consider the following.
There are a few ways for you to participate:
1. Join our classroom team of professionals and inspire students through a 15-minute presentation about your career that you will deliver to six rotating groups throughout the day. These sessions will occur from 9am to 1:30pm.
2. You and/or your company could set up a display table in our gymnasium at our Career Day Expo to showcase your business or educational opportunity from 9am-1:30pm.
3. You could tell someone you know who might be willing to share about his/her career or his/her company.
The Career Day Committee and Hospitality Team will take good care of you this day, and we truly hope you'll consider supporting our annual career day. You will find all the details you need in the letter attached below. Thank you!
Writing & Art Contest Open to ALL! We Want Some QVMS Winners!
Sponsored by The Bryan Museum, Which is Visited by the GTA7 Every Year.
The 2027 I Am Texas contest is being rebranded for one year only as “I Am America” to celebrate America 250. We’ve partnered with the National Medal of Honor Museum, iWRITE, and the creators of the Ordinary People Change the World book series to honor Americans who have displayed the Medal of Honor Vaues of Courage, Sacrifice, Commitment, Integrity, Citizenship, and Patriotism. There are extra ways to enter the contest this year and extra prizes for including a Texas connection in your entry. Go to www.iamamericacontest.org for all the details. The deadline for entry is February 15, 2027.
Questions?
Joseph Bernhart
Academy Coordinator
Gifted and Talented Academy
Quail Valley Middle School
joseph.bernhart@fortbendisd.gov
(281) 634-6687