CGS Weekly Message

Happy Sunday!

Teacher Appreciation Week is THIS WEEK: May 5th- May 9th. Attached below is a list of our "Staff Favorites" in case you want to show your appreciation and gratitude to our AMAZING CGS Teachers and Staff! #CGShastheBESTFacultyandStaff!! 💚💙

Thank you to all of you that brought your new kindergarten students to CGS last week for Kindergarten Assessments! We got to meet many of our new kindergartners and can't wait until school starts for these new Grizzlies next school year! Welcome!!

Please note: Wednesday, May 21st will still be an early release day- HOWEVER- we will release at 1:15 P.M. at our K-8 Campus and at 1:30 P.M. at our High School Campus. Lunch WILL be served on this half day only as we are not dismissing at 12 PM like our normal half days and buses will run as per normal half day schedules. Please note - that buses will arrive at slightly later times than typical half day schedules due to the later dismissal time. See updated times for 5/21 below:

• Bus Times for 5/21 day

• Bus 700 @ 1:50 pm

• Bus 710 @ 1:50 pm

• Bus 730 @ 1:50 pm

• Bus 740 @ 1:55 pm

• Bus 750

• Cherry Grove Ruritan @ 1:55

• Kerr’s Chapel Church @ 1:45

• Bus 760

• Union Chapel @ 2:00 pm

• Lakeview Church @ 1:50 pm

• New Hope Baptist Church @ 1:45 pm

CGS Before and After School Families:

May 21st will be the LAST DAY for After School care. After School will be CLOSED on 5/22 and 5/23. We look forward to seeing some of our families this summer for CGS Summer Camp! Please reach out to Mrs. Walker at danawalker@cgsnc.org for questions!

SAVE THE DATES:

• 5/5/2025-5/9/2025: Teacher Appreciation Week!
• 5/5/2025: Band Concert in the Gym at the K-8 Campus @ 7:00 P.M.
• 5/6/2025: Guitar Concert at 7:00 P.M. at the Gym at the K-8 Campus
  
• 5/13/2025: May Board of Directors' Meeting at 6:30 P.M. at the HS Campus or via YouTube
• 5/19/2025: K-5 End of Year Awards Ceremony @ 1:15 P.M. in the Gym at the K-8 Campus
• 5/19/2025: HS Growl Awards
  
• 5/20/2025: MS End of Year Awards Ceremony @ 8:30 A.M. in the Gym at the K-8 Campus
  
• 5/20/2025: Middle School Field Day following the Awards Day Ceremony
• 5/21/2025: Senior PEP Rally @ 9:00 A.M. in the Gym at the K-8 Campus
• 5/21/2025: Half Day Dismissal
• 5/22/2025: Elementary K-5 Field Day!
• 5/22/2025: Career Speakers Series (7th/8th Graders)
• 5/22/2025: Graduation for our Class of 2025 at 6:00 P.M. in the Gym at the K-8 Campus
• 5/23/2025: 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony at 8:30 A.M. in our Gym at the K-8 Campus
• 5/23/2025: High School Awards for all A and A-B Honor Roll for the year and Perfect Attendance @ 11:30 A.M. at the HS Campus (courtyard)
• 5/23/2025: LAST DAY of the 2024-2025 School Year! Half Day Dismissal

Looking ahead:

• 7/24/2025: New Students to CGS ONLY Orientation (Kindergarten: 9:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M.) (1st through 8th grade: 3:30 P.M. until 4:30 P.M.) (New 9th Graders: 4:30 P.M. until 5:30 P.M.) **A date for Freshman Orientation is coming soon!
• 7/28/2025: 1st Day of School/Open House for ALL 1st-12th grade students

Reminder- Check out our CGS Directory for questions regarding anything CGS! You can also reach out to us at info@cgsnc.org for questions.

Don't forget to check out our website at www.cgsnc.org and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cgsgrizzlies for updates!

CGS Parents, if you are in need of assistance with creating or accessing your child's Power School account, please use this form. The Parent Portal through Power School is a great way to get live updates as to how your student is progressing in their classroom studies.

Here is an FAQ that may be helpful as well.

If you have any questions, please contact our registrar Ms. Walther at marissawalther@cgsnc.org.

Attention Parents/Guardians,

Please complete the following form at your earliest convenience Student & Parent/Guardian Demographics

In preparation of our upcoming transition to Infinite Campus, we must assure the current information listed in PowerSchool is accurate and complete. All addresses, custody, and lives with information must be complete and accurate for every Student and Parent/Guardian listed prior to the end of the school year in order to assure a smooth data migration. As always, thank you for your continued support! If you have any questions please reach out to marissawalther@cgsnc.org.

School Day:

K-8: School starts at 7:45 A.M. and ends at 2:45 P.M.

(students may arrive as early as 7:15 A.M.)

9-12: School starts at 8:00 A.M. and ends at 3:00 P.M.

(students may arrive as early as 7:30 A.M.)

Need some new CGS apparel? Check out our School Spirit Store by clicking on the link below!

https://acceleratedgfx.com/collections/Clover-Garden

Greetings Grizzly Families,

Please join us as we celebrate and honor our AWESOME & AMAZING TEACHERS & STAFF! If you can, if you will, please take a moment to recognize their efforts! We have the BEST TEACHERS, STAFF & NURSE ON THE PLANET! LET’S BE SURE TO LET THEM KNOW THIS WEEK. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and participation.

End of Year Testing begins for our Grizzlies very soon! Please make sure that all students have all work completed and turned in by 5/16/2025.

We will be collecting laptops from our middle school students on 5/9/2025 to get our computers ready for end of grade testing.

Elementary Specials will end this Friday, 5/9/2025.

Also, please remind your students that blankets should not be brought to school. If they are cold, a sweater or light jacket would be examples of acceptable outer garments.

As always, thank you for your time, attention and continued support.

Have a restful evening!

Mrs. Spencer

K-8 Principal

We are asking each 8th grade parent to send in 2-3 pics of their 8th grader. (baby, Kindergarten, and current) Please send these to 8thgradepromotionpics2025@gmail.com Please put your first and last name in the subject line. These pictures will need to be submitted by no later than May 19th, 2025.

Greetings Grizzly Families,

Thank you for the kind words and wishes on Principal Appreciation Day. It is an honor to serve in my role as we work together to educate our scholars. The next three weeks will be busy. Continue to encourage your student to stay the course and finish strong.

Take time this week to show some love to the teachers. CGS is the BEST because of them.

Have a wonderful week!

Dr. Morris

*The last week of school is an early release schedule. Students who do not have an End of Course test will work with teachers on a review of concepts. To ensure our students have ample time to review, we will have (3) 75-minute periods on 5/19, 5/20, and 5/22. Those not testing will be working on concept reviews. Attendance will be taken, and students will be marked with an unexcused absence if they do not attend (please refer to the attendance policy on page 7 in the Student/Parent Handbook).

*On Wednesday, May 21st we will celebrate our seniors. Seniors will begin their day with Senior Breakfast at 7am in the courtyard, then depart for the Senior pep rally by 8:15. Seniors are allowed to drive to the K8 campus after Senior Breakfast. 9th-11th graders will ride buses to the K8 for the Senior Pep Rally. Student drivers in 9th- 11th grade are not allowed to drive to the Senior Pep Rally and will not be allowed to attend if they are not here to ride the bus.

DRIVERS EDUCATION CLASSES:

The following summer classes will be held at Alamance Community College from 4:30pm to 7:30pm. Acceptance emails will go out towards the end of April. Payment info will be sent out in the beginning of July.

Option 1- Monday, June 31st to Friday, June 11th

https://forms.gle/rmChhFvAE9kNbzp1A

Option 2- Monday, July 14th to Friday, July 25th

https://forms.gle/yqcTfcY1MPFe9LJP7

Option 3- Monday, July 28th to Friday, August 8th

https://forms.gle/JkH7G5cNyeWSgJMB7

Due Dates for Assignments and Technology Collection:

End of Year Testing begins for our Grizzlies very soon! Please make sure that all students have all work completed and turned in by this Friday, 5/9/2025.

We will be collecting laptops from our high school students on 5/16/2025 to get our computers ready for end of course testing.

Thank you for those of you that attended our High School Awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 30th. It was a wonderful afternoon of celebrating our 9th-11th grade students!! Our seniors will be recognized for their awards during the Senior PEP Rally on 5/21/25.

If you were unable to watch the awards, you can click on the link HERE to watch the recording.

Seniors, thank you to those of you that met with Mrs. Vereyken and Mrs. Simmons on Wednesday, April 30th to review the expectations for our senior graduation event and all things related to our seniors for the last week of school! For those of you that were unable to attend, please review the letter attached that was sent out in March of this year. This is the letter we reviewed in detail with our seniors this past week. Only 14 school days left until graduation!

A special shout out and CONGRATULATIONS to our Junior Marshals that were recognized at our high school awards day last week! Our marshals will be helping us with graduation ceremony events and recognized in our graduation program!! These students have the HIGHEST GPA averages of their class!! Congrats and we are so proud of each and every one of you!!

Stanfield, Julianna Dean

Welch, Chloe Lynn

Kastner, Noah Lucas

Benitez, Bryna Izabel

Russell, Halle Elyssa

Smith, Alyssa Nicole

Saunders, Ethan Thomas

Weed, Mari Nikole

Bristow, Clint James

Thacker, Dean Morgan

Attached is a copy of the junior marshal requirements and expectations for those that missed the awards ceremony.

Attention CCP Students

As mentioned previously, revisions to the CCP Guidelines will be forthcoming upon completion of scheduling at ACC. Scheduling challenges at ACC is opening opportunities for students to take online 8-week courses if an in-person/hybrid option is not available. Students are required to take in-person/hybrid classes on ACC's campus when the courses are available and work with their CGS schedule. We continue to work with students on an individual basis. In the event that in-person/hybrid courses are not available and students are placed in an online course at ACC, the student needs to communicate with a member of the advising team (Mrs. Walther, Mrs. Gladden, or Dr. Morris).

Please take a look at the Early Release Schedule attached as it pertains to our high school students ONLY taking EOC exams.

**Reminder: Please note change that 5/21 is a dismissal of 1:30 P.M. for our High School Students

Please reach out to Mrs. Ginter, our district testing coordinator with any questions at tonyaginter@cgsnc.org.

Thank you!

Dear Clover Garden Families,

Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated or signed up to volunteer for Teacher Appreciation Week (May 5–9)! Your generosity is already helping us create something truly special for our amazing educators.

That said, we still need more support—especially with food donations for the high school campus. If you haven’t had a chance to sign up yet, there’s still time to get involved! Below are all the ways you can help:

1. Food Donation Opportunities

We’re hosting themed food bars throughout the week and would love your help in stocking each one! Each signup has donations specific to each campus. Please click the links below to view what’s needed and sign up:

• Pasta Bar Donations

• Donation drop-off is Monday, May 5th no later than 9am at your respective campus
  
  

• Baked Potato Bar Donations

• Donation drop-off is Wednesday, May 7th no later than 9am at your respective campus
  
  

• Dessert Bar Donations

• Donation drop-off is Thursday, May 8th no later than 9am at your respective campus
  
  

• Breakfast Bar Donations

• Donation drop-off is Thursday, May 8th no later than 4pm at your respective campus

2. Volunteer Opportunities

Want to roll up your sleeves and help bring the magic to life? We’re looking for volunteers to help with duty free lunch on Monday, May 5th and set up meals each day throughout the week. Tasks include arranging food, setting up tables, and making the teacher lounge feel extra festive.

Sign up to help with duty free lunch

Sign up to help with setting up meals

Thank you for helping us make this a memorable and meaningful week for the amazing teachers at Clover Garden. Your generosity and time are truly appreciated!

Warm regards,

Franchesca Jones
fcjones1125@gmail.com

Shout out to Mrs. Bellamy for her field trip on campus for her middle school career exploration classes. Click on the link HERE to see some pictures from the day!

Our Elementary Field Day is COMING SOON! Our elementary students are really excited and looking forward to this fun event!! Coach Somers is AWESOME at planning this event and we can't wait to see what activities he has in store for our students this year! See flyer below for more details!

Parents, we have decided to CANCEL the class photos for this school year. Unfortunately, due to timing, our class photos wouldn't be delivered before school is out for this school year. We will look at scheduling these earlier next school year! Thank you for your understanding.

Shout out to our CGS High School Student Council members, Mrs. Dollyhigh (Student Council HS Advisor) and Mrs. McGregor's 2nd grade students for their participation in Friday's SRO Appreciation Luncheon. A few of our Student Council Students went along with Mrs. Dollyhigh and delivered lunches to our local School Resource Officers. We are greatly appreciative of our amazing school resource, Deputy Bellingham and all that he does to keep our campuses and students safe!! Thank you Mr. Bellingham for all that you do! We greatly appreciate our Alamance County Sheriff's Department and their partnership with our school to help keep our Grizzlies safe!! Thank you to Lt. Brad Hall with the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, Mrs. Simmons, and Danny's Cafe for working together with us to make this appreciation luncheon happen! 💙 👮🚓

CGS Families,

We are in need of Community Members for some upcoming vacant board seats on our Clover Garden School Board of Directors. Serving on our school board benefits our amazing population of students, staff, teachers, and parents. If you know of anyone (no CGS affiliation) that would be interested in potentially serving on our school board, please email Mrs. Vereyken for next steps.

(**We currently do not have any vacant parent elected seats for the 25-26 school year)

Our Yearbook has arrived and it is AMAZING!! Please place your order by clicking HERE.

On Tuesday, April 29th Mrs. Bellamy's Career Exploration classes will be participating in an Automotive In-School Field Trip. These students will walk through basic car maintenance such as changing a tire, checking your oil, and jumping a battery. They will also learn from local firemen about car exit strategies if ever in a wreck and safety when operating motor vehicles. If you would like to volunteer to help with this event, please email Mrs. Bellamy at alyssabellamy@cgsnc.org for details.

All parents interested in our CGS Summer Camp, please fill out the registration form below (Summer Camp Letter_2025) to register your Grizzly for Summer Camp.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Walker at danawalker@cgsnc.org.

Congrats to our FANTASTIC Grizzly Athletes on a successful Spring Season! See pictures below of our CONFERENCE CHAMPS!!! GO Grizzlies!!

Schedule:

May 5th- Golf Regionals in Goldsboro

May 6th- 1st Round State for Baseball and Softball (Seeding May 5)

May 12th- 1st Round State for Soccer (Seeding May 11)

Home Game Information:

Tickets must be purchased on gofan (https://gofan.co/app/school/NC50181) or with a card at the gate. Concessions will be available.

Monthly Newsletter:

https://view.gogipper.com/page/2166233

Stay In The Know: Athletics has a Remind account to send out important updates. Use the link below to join: https://www.remind.com/join/cgsa2024

Athletics Website: For all things athletics, please visit our website at https://sites.google.com/cgsnc.org/grizzly-athletics

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our athletic director, Coach Paschal at taylorpaschal@cgsnc.org.

Our Band is getting ready for their end of year Spring concert which will be held on May 5th @ 7 PM in our CGS Gym.

Our Band is also preparing for graduation commencement activities which take place on May 22nd at 6:00 PM.

Volunteer Needs:

• Teacher Appreciation Week- volunteers and donations needed. See "Teacher Appreciation Week 2025" section in the newsletter.
• End of Year Testing Proctors- see testing section for details!

If you are interested in volunteering or able to assist with any of the needs listed, please reach out to our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteercgs@cgsnc.org.

The Testing Schedule for May is listed below.

**LOOKING AHEAD: Please note that the month of May is VERY BUSY with testing requirements. We have to test all of our students in grades 3rd-12th that are enrolled in EOGs or EOC classes per state requirements. This means, that all students need to be in attendance for their scheduled EOG/EOC exams on the date of the exam or they will be required to make them up upon their return to school. We are required to test all enrolled students in EOGs and EOCs per state standards/regulations - so please make sure that your student is ready to test for those standardized state tests as they are scheduled the last 2 weeks of school. Thank you for your support with this!

Please contact our District Testing Coordinator, Ms. Ginter at tonyaginter@cgsnc.org for any questions or concerns.

Parents,

Attached please find a copy of this month’s menu. Please review it carefully as you place your order at myschoolaccount.com. Remember we adhere to a seven day ordering window. This means that all pre-orders must be placed seven days prior to the serving date.

Please see the links below if you are in need of any assistance.

How to create a myschoolaccount- https://youtu.be/0QZDU5Xm7zU

How to login and manage students- https://youtu.be/9vS7n4tnZ8s

How to deposit funds- https://youtu.be/13k29YnYuZw

How to preorder lunches-
https://intercom.help/myschoolaccount_help_center/en/articles/2330998-place-a-pre-order

Please see above for adding funds to your student account. Please make sure your account is no more than $50 in the negative. If your student’s account is more than $50 in the negative he/she will not be allowed to purchase a la carte items and charge them to their account.

Reach out if you have any questions or if you need your students lunch number.

Thanks,

Dana Walker
Cafeteria Coordinator
danawalker@cgsnc.org

Parents,

Click below to access the Mental Health Survey for this school year if you are interested and/or in need of these services for your student.

2024-2025 Mental Health Survey Link

We have started filling and posting available positions for next school year!

If you know of someone that would be a fantastic fit for our CGS family, please send them to our website to apply at http://cgsnc.org/home/careers/.

As always, thanks for all that you do,

Mrs. Vereyken

Executive Director

Clover Garden School

*If you need this weekly newsletter translated into a different language, please let our Title 1 Coordinator, Mrs. Simmons know at brandisimmons@cgsnc.org.

*If you have any thoughts, feedback or suggestions for our Title 1 team on ways to improve our practices, please contact Mrs. Simmons at brandisimmons@cgsnc.org.

Email: info@cgsnc.org
Website: cgsnc.org
Locations:

2454 Altamahaw Union Ridge Road, Burlington, NC, USA

5806 Pagetown Road, Burlington, NC 27217
Phone: 3365869440
Facebook: facebook.com/cgsgrizzlies