I hope you all are doing well and getting ready for a fabulous February! I have a few opportunities to share with you and a calendar of dates for school-wide events and testing dates for you to put down in your calendar.
The weather is starting to heat up a little and we are seeing some longer legs than we did in the fall due to our growing kiddos. 🙂 Now would be a good time to check for appropriate length of shorts or skirts. As we all know the weather is inconsistent this time of year so please know that we will continue to go outside, weather permitting, so please have all students dress according to the temperature and know that the dress code appropriate for school is still in effect.
Upcoming Dates: Below is a list of upcoming dates that we know so far. I try to get this to you well in advance so plans can be made accordingly. GCSD voted to remove final exams for middle school general education classes but this does not include Algebra 1 EOC, English 1 HN and Fundamentals of Computing. More details will be available at a later time regarding these final exams. I cannot express to you how IMPORTANT it is for ALL students to be in attendance for the SC Ready State Assessment! This is a test to show the knowledge and growth of our students and it will impact our state report card either in a positive way or a negative way. Please don’t try and schedule trips on these dates. Please know that events and dates may be added but again I wanted to get out what we know now so plans can be made. More details to follow as time gets closer to each event.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 5… ½ Day for students
Feb. 11…Q3 Interims Go Home
Feb. 12… Financial Literacy Day (Activity schedule)- 8th Grade
Feb. 14… Job Shadowing Day (Forms went home on February 3rd)
Feb. 17-21… Mid-Winter Break
Feb. 25… GCSD Junior Academic Bowl at 4:30pm at Beck Administration Building
Feb. 26 & 27… Black History Month Student Activity (Activity schedule)
MARCH
March 4… 6PM - College Funding Coach
March 6… Q3 TDW (Testing Schedule)
March 7… Spring Pep Rally (Activity Schedule)
March 17… Q3 iReady Growth Monitoring- Reading (Activity Schedule)
March 18… Q3 iReady Growth Monitoring- Reading (Activity Schedule) and END OF Q3
March 20… Q3 You Are Awesome Party
March 21… Staff Development Day
March 25… Report Cards Go Home
APRIL
April 1… ELA Mastery Connect Predictive Assessment (Testing Schedule)
April 2… Math Mastery Connect Predictive Assessment (Testing Schedule)
April 3… Science/SS Predictive Assessments (Normal Schedule)
April 4… 8th grade dance - PTO Dance from 7-9pm
April 9… GCSD Tech Fair (Select students)
April 11… “Mean Girls” School-Wide Field Trip
April 18… Staff Development
April 21-25… Spring Break
April 29…Q4 Interims Go Home
MAY
May 2… SC Ready Pep Rally (activity schedule)
May 5… SC Ready- TDW
May 6… SC Ready- Math
May 7… SC Ready- ELA 1
May 8… SC Ready- ELA 2
May 13… English 1-Written Exam
May 14… iReady- Reading (Testing Schedule)
May 15… iReady- Math Testing Schedule)
May 21… Algebra 1 EOC
May 22… English 1- Multiple Choice Exam
May 23… WHS Senior Walkthrough and Field Day
May 26… NO SCHOOL (MEMORIAL DAY)
May 27… 8th Grade Promotion PRACTICE
May 28… 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony (11:15AM)
… 7th Grade Awards Ceremony (2:00PM)
May 29… ½ Day
May 30… ½ Day/Last Day of School
As always, please let us know if you have any questions and if we can help you in any way and remember, We Just Can’t Hide That Warrior Pride!
