GMS FAMILY NEWSLETTER
October 13, 2024- October 20, 2024
GMS Information and Announcements
From the Principal's Desk
We want to express how much we’ve missed each and every one of you during this unprecedented time in our community. As we look forward to welcoming back our students and returning to a sense of normalcy, please know that we are fully committed to following all health guidelines to ensure the safety and well-being of everyone on campus.
To support our students, we will have bottled water available, and our dedicated school nutrition team is working tirelessly to provide safe meals for our students during the ongoing boil advisory. Their efforts, alongside our staff's, reflect our commitment to keeping your children safe and cared for.
We understand that many families may still be dealing with challenges, and we want you to know that we are here to help. Please do not hesitate to reach out to any member of the GMS administrative team if you have ongoing needs or concerns. Your well-being is our top priority, and we are ready to support you in any way we can.
Thank you for your trust and patience as we navigate these times together. We are grateful to have such a strong and resilient community. Go Greene Devils!
Sincerely,
GMS Admin Team
#RiseAsOne
STUDENTS RETURN ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 15TH
No School Monday for students.
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Reminder students are dismissed to their classrooms by 7:34. All students must be in their classrooms prior to the tardy bell at 7:40 to be counted present for the day.
BODY SPRAYS, COLOGNE, AND PERFUMES
Due to many allergies and the abundance of pressing the spray button lately, we are asking you to make sure your student DOES NOT bring sprays to school in their backpack. Any being seen or used will be taken to the main office. Thank you!
WINTER SPORTS INFORMATION
Wrestling
Girls' Basketball
R.I.S.E SIGN UP
In order to provide all students with the opportunity to obtain extra help with homework, research time, and/or remediation, our school will provide an afterschool program. This program takes place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays after school from 2:40pm to 4:40pm. The following link will provide you with the days we are open: https://tinyurl.com/2024-25RISECalendar The After-School Program is open to students by application only. If you choose to sign up for this program, you are required to attend. Teachers with experience in all subjects are available.
Students residing within the city limits of Greeneville will be provided bus transportation to their homes following the program. The buses will load at approximately 4:30 pm. Car riders should be signed out by a parent or guardian between 4:25 and 4:30 at the back door of the commons area of the building.
If your child is to participate in this program, fill in the appropriate information completely. If your child does not have permission on file, he/she will not be allowed to stay after school for the program. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Andrea Tolley at tolleya@gcschools.net.
GMS Staff Shout Outs
Check out how GMS staff make GMS a great place for students!
Teresa Gibson
Putting First Things First
Teresa puts her students first and her presence truly makes a huge difference in the classroom! Thank you for all you do, Teresa!
Nicolle Moore
Serving Others
Nicolle helped deliver food and supplies to students and their families during the closure. Nicolle and her family are always helping and caring for others. GMS is lucky to have her as part of our family!
Christine Vissichelli
Serving Others
Christine went above and beyond to collect supplies and raise money for our students and their families to support them through the devastation of the flooding and water shortage. Additionally, she helped deliver supplies and food to families. Christine is a rockstar volunteer and true asset to GMS!
Danielle Stephens
Volunteering
Danielle volunteered to call students and their families to check on them during the closure. Additionally, she volunteered to deliver and distribute food. Thank you, Danielle!
Melissa Woolsey
Serving Others
Melissa spent time during the closure serving others in many ways including calling students and their families to check on them, volunteering to distribute and/or deliver food, and helping facilitate repairs to damaged homes. I am sure there are many other ways Melissa served others that I am not aware of. Thank you, Melissa, for always putting others first!
Nicole Myers
Serving Others
Nicole is a true servant! Nicole called students and their families to check on them during the closure, she and her husband delivered food and supplies to students and their families, Nicole helped get access to water and showers for staff members that had extended water outages, and Nicole helped families establish homes that lost homes due to flooding. Thank you, Nicole, for all you do for others!
Melanie Williams
Volunteering
Melanie helped call students and their families to check on them during the closure. She also helped deliver food and supplies to families to ensure their needs were met during the closure. Thank you, Melanie!
Candice Gefellers
Volunteering
Candice helped deliver food and supplies to students during the closure to ensure all their needs were met. Additionally, she helped sort supplies at GHS! Thank you, Candice!
Angela Collins
Volunteering
Angela helped call and check on students and their families during the closure to make sure they were okay! Thank you, Angela!
Kimberly Foulks
Volunteering
Kimberly volunteered to helped distribute food bags during the closure to families! Thank you, Kimberly!
Beth Stevenson
Volunteering
Beth volunteered to call students and their families to check on them to make sure they were okay during the closure. Thank you, Beth!
Brenda Paradise
Volunteering & Helping Others
Brenda volunteered to help in several ways during the closure. She called students and their families to check on them and make sure they were okay. She helped distribute food and organize supplies at GHS. She also found resources for our staff and for families to support students when dealing with a disaster. Thank you, Brenda!
Morgan Dillon
Serving Others
Morgan called and checked on her families and made sure they were okay during the closure. Thank you, Morgan!
Lauren Bond
Serving Others
Lauren helped gather and collect supplies and donations to support our students and their families that suffered losses due to the flooding and water shortages. Thank you, Lauren, for supporting our Greene Devils!
Rachel Thomas
Volunteering
Rachel called students and their families to check on them to make sure they were okay during the closure. Thank you, Rachel!
Jennifer Schroeck
Volunteering
Jennifer helped organize and distribute supplies for students and their families at GHS during the closure! Thank you, Jennifer!
Abbey Townsend
Synergizing
Abbey called her students and their families to check on them during the closure. Additionally, she arranged for her choral students to come in and sing an inspirational song to share with our community. What a wonderful opportunity for our students and such an uplifting message shared from our school! Thank you, Abbey!
Alex Standridge
Volunteering
Alex volunteered to call and check on students and their families to make sure they were okay during the closure! Thank you, Alex!
Kelly Lamons
Volunteering & Being a Great Coach
Kelly helped deliver food and supplies to students and their families during the closure. Additionally, Kelly quickly facilitated a BIG state send off with a few people for Maggie Moore for the cross country state championship that was very special.
Caren Davis
Volunteering
Caren helped call students and their families to check on them during the closure, and she helped distribute food and supplies at GHS! Thank you, Caren!
Shelley Anderson
Volunteering
Shelley helped deliver food and supplies to students during the closure and has been organizing getting donations to hard hit areas in surrounding communities! Thank you, Shelley, for all you are doing!
Trevor Mannis
Volunteering
Trevor helped deliver food and supplies to students and their families during the closure. Thank you, Trevor!
Marty Seaton
Volunteering
Marty called and checked on students and their families during the closure. Additionally, Marty made sure her colleagues were taken care of during this time. Marty is always thinking of others! :)
Sarah Chapman
Volunteering
Sarah helped organize and distribute food and supplies at GHS. Additionally, she helped deliver food and supplies to our students and their families during the closure. Sarah is always thinking of others!
Christy Watkins
Volunteering
Christy helped deliver food and supplies to students and their families during the closure! Thank you, Christy!
Jerry Graham
Volunteering
Mr. Graham volunteered throughout the community helping multiple families recover from their flooded homes and helped at community water and supply distributions. Not only did Mr. Graham volunteer his time but he also organized high school students to serve as well. Thank you, Mr. Graham, for leading by example!
Wendy Hansard
Volunteering
Wendy helped organize and distribute food and supplies at GHS during the closure. Additionally, Wendy helped deliver food and supplies to our students. Thank you, Wendy!
Kelly Kerr
Volunteering
Kelly helped deliver food and supplies to our students and families during the closure then helped distribute food and supplies at GHS. Thank you, Kelly!
Jessica McKay
Volunteer
Jessica helped with food distribution each day to make sure our GCS students had yummy food during the closure! Thank you, Jessica!
Kim Bowers
Putting First Things First
Kim came into the office to work (without running water) and finished all of the bookkeeping tasks that needed to be completed including sorting through a TON of BEP orders! Thank you, Kim, for going above and beyond during the closure!
Beth Ricker
Synergizing
Beth came in to work in the office (without in running water) to finish up her tasks then helped Kim sort through a TON of BEP orders that were in the office. Thank you, Beth!!!
Jill Farmer
Volunteer
Jill volunteered to help distribute and deliver food to students and their families during the closure! Thank you, Jill!
Jeremy Simerly
Synergizing
Jeremy worked with Kelly to get the state send off for Maggie scheduled in less than a day! It turned out to be a huge event with a lot of people showing up to celebrate Maggie going to state! Thank you, Jeremy!
Nancy Philbeck
Volunteered & Being an Excel Wizard
As always, Nancy is a wizard at spreadsheets, and she made our needs survey quick and easy to read, so it could be easily navigated to call students by staff. She was helping do all of this without power or water at home herself! Nancy also came and helped organize supplies and get food distributed and delivered!
Andy McCall
Volunteering
Andy and his book club hiked to Robin's house to help clean out the damaged sheet rock in her basement from the flooding! This act of kindness was something not many people could do or would do. Thank you, Andy!
Rachel Adams
Putting First Things First, Leading by Example
Immediately after the flooding and throughout the entire time away from school, Dr. Adams took time to check-in on every GMS staff member to ensure they were okay and see if she could help them in any way. She also worked tirelessly volunteering at various shelters throughout our community. Thank you, Dr. Adams, for having a servant's heart and leading by example.
Do You Have A GMS Shout-Out to Share?
GMS is full of amazing people and we would love to hear your stories of how a GMS staff member is making a difference for your student! Did your student talk about a cool lesson or activity? Does your student come home talking about a favorite coach or teacher? If so, click the link below to share some love and fill out the GMS Staff Shout-Out Form.
SUPPORT YOUR GMS BOOSTERS- PASSES, YARD SIGNS, and DECALS
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STUDENT HANDBOOK: https://tinyurl.com/2s6jtty3
GMS DISCIPLINE POLICY
CLICK HERE FOR THE GMS DISCIPLINE POLICY: https://tinyurl.com/3t7fvzzu
GMS 60th ANNIVERSARY
This year we will be celebrating Greeneville Middle School's 60th anniversary! Be on the lookout this year for announcements on how we plan to celebrate our Proud Past and Bright Future. If you have anything to help us add to our celebration please email Mr. McCall mccalla@gcschools.net
GMS ATHLETICS
ATHLETES NEEDING TO DROP OFF EQUIPMENT IN THE LOCKEROOM, IMPORTANT!
Any student-athlete needing to drop off items in the locker room during arrival will be allowed to do so during the last 5 minutes of morning bus duty. The doors will open at 7:30 and close at 7:35. This will be the only time student athletes are allowed in the locker room areas in the mornings.
Dropping off equipment is not an excuse for a tardy to Devil Time.
GMS Nursing News
If your student requires any daily medications, As-Needed Meds, or a diagnosis that requires any medical needs please reach out to Nurse Megan as soon as possible.
Any further questions please call GMS or email Nurse Megan at venerablem@gcschools.net
Families please remember that students should not carry medication with them in their backpack. This includes prescriptions and OTC medications. Everything should go through our nurse. If you have not filled out the medication release form with our nurse and need your student to have access to those during school hours, please email the GMS nurse
GCS APP: Do you have it?
We are loving our new app! Access documents, news updates, and even emergency notifications right from your pocket.
Download for Android https://bit.ly/4bnsixk�
Download for iPhone https://apple.co/49k1WdO
GMS Counseling Office
Food City School Bucks
The Food City School Bucks Challenge is open! Here is the link to register https://www.foodcity.com/schoolbucks/
Once you have an account you just need to select GMS as your school, please see below. (You have to sign up and select your school each year, it doesn’t roll over!
Cell Phones
We appreciate everyone's efforts in our new cell phone policy to not only create a SAFE environment for all our students, but protect our instructional time from distractions as well.
-If your student does not follow the GMS Cell Phone policy and has their phone taken to the office, Parents and Guardians may pick those up that afternoon directly after school or the next morning during school hours.
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS
Free and Reduced Program- IMPORTANT!
MY PAYMENTS PLUS
Scan here to set up your MPP account today!
WORK HARD PLAY HARD
No Outside Food
No outside food is allowed any time at GMS. We understand stopping for breakfast, but please have them finish any food or drinks before they come into the building. Our cafeteria is open at 6:55am every morning and also helps us with any food allergies at the tables.
Other Resources, Links, & Reminders
REMINDER- No Office Check Outs Between 2:00-3:00
- Arrive before 2:00 for all early dismissals.
Connect With Us
Email: Adamsr2@gcschools.net
Website: Gms.gcschools.net
Location: Greeneville Middle School, East Vann Road, Greeneville, TN, USA
Phone: (423)-639-7841
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Greeneville-Middle-School-339450069428950
Twitter: @GMS_TN