Hello,
Just a reminder that order forms for “Live Like Ava” t-shirts are due one week from today, November 26th. Paper forms can be turned into school offices or online orders through Infinite Campus. Raffle tickets can be purchased until the boys basketball game on December 17th.
Ms. Lindelof
GCMS High School is proud to announce that seven seniors from the graduating class of 2025 have been designated as Illinois State Scholars.
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission presents this recognition of academic achievement to exceptional Illinois high school students annually. Students receiving this recognition scored in the 95th percentile or above on the SAT.
This year’s GCMS High School Illinois State Scholars are Addison Kerchenfaut, Austin Kasper, Cohen Kean, Elizabeth Giroux, Spencer Kleist, Ryker Grauer, and Ester Zook.
Congratulations!!!
WRESTLING SCHEDULE CHANGE:
Due to an error, the IESA has made a change to the start and end dates for the Middle School Wrestling Season. Practice will now begin on Monday, November 25th. Regionals will be February 22nd, Sectionals will be March 1st, and the State Finals will be March 8th and 9th. Additional schedule changes will occur, so please be on the lookout for those as we adjust to the new season calendar.
Thank you.
Middle School Sports Schedule This Week
GCMS Hosted our Post Secondary Education Day for students in grades 8-12. The morning featured a variety of presenters and representative from various career fields, colleges, trades, and branches of the military. We wish to extend a sincere thank you to all of the visitors who made this a valuable day for our students!
Thank you to everyone that donated to make our Elementary School Coin Drive a success! We collected a total of $3,645.99 to benefit the Gibson Area Food Pantry. Our grade level winner was 4th grade who collected $917.13 and our top classroom was 4C who collected $383.00. 4C will be featured in the Gibson City Lighted Parade on Saturday November 23. Congratulations!
Reminder to high schoolers that drive to school - please do not park in front of the high school along Church Street. We want to leave these spots open for our Post-Secondary Exploration presenters.
Thank you,
Mr. Bielfeldt
Today marks the midterm of 2nd Quarter, which is a good time to check Infinite Campus for updated grades . Contact willis.walker@gcmsk12.org if you have any trouble accessing your account https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNprfcRMOM
GCMS Senior Mallory Rosendahl signed her letter of intent to play softball at Spoon River next year where she will begin studying Criminal Justice. Congratulations Mallory!
Coach Augspurger shared that senior Ryker Grauer (#19 in uniform) has been named to the 1A All State team by the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association as a linebacker and tight end. Congratulations, Ryker; let's keep that FalconTrain rolling!
Parents of 8th-12th graders, on Friday, November 15th we will be having our GCMS Postsecondary Exploration Day, which will include a college/career fair and various breakout sessions for students to interact with over 40 college, military, business, and trade representatives as they plan for opportunities after graduation. If you have any questions please reach out to Mr. Carter.
Here's the info for this Saturday's game at Lena-Winslow:
Tickets are $8 each online, buy them at https://gofan.co/app/school/IL22496
Cash tickets at the gate are $9
For more details on parking and seating go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IWpad_4mNEjqhs_KTlEW6omDEgersrB5/view?usp=sharing
One more reminder that a livestream of our Veterans Day ceremony begins at 9:00am! Watch it live or view the recording afterward at https://youtube.com/live/Iu9k3P-VZzA?feature=share
GCMS will induct new member into the National Honor Society at our ceremony on Tuesday, Nov 12 at 8:30am. A livestream and VOD of the event will be available at https://youtube.com/live/CEXumBsE9HY?feature=share
Good morning,
We will be taking a fan bus for our high school students to the quarterfinal football game against Lena-Winslow. Information about sign ups will be sent to the students' email addresses.
Departure time will be 9 AM on Saturday.
Go Falcons!
Tomorrow, Monday Nov 11 will feature our observance of Veterans Day in the High School Gymnasium. The ceremony begins at 9:00am. Students and staff from each building are invited to wear the following colors : Elementary - Blue; Middle School - Red; High School - White; This event is open to the community. It will also be an 11:30 student dismissal.
Middle School Sports Schedule This Week
The Falcons will hit the road next Saturday as they take on Lena-Winslow. Kickoff is at 2:00pm. More details coming soon! #GoFalcons!
Congratulations to middle school students Wyatt Blackwell, Carson Brown, Chance Hewitt, Levi Johnson, Gabbie, Tarter, and Ashlan Allhands, and high school students Lucas Clinton, Esther Zook, Bradley Fields, Kaleb Lockhart, Evan Killian, and Calvin Rachiell on being selected into ILMEA's all district choir. These students were selected through a very competitive audition process, and will spend all day tomorrow rehearsing with top music students in central Illinois. They will perform tomorrow at 2:00 (junior choir) and 4:30 (senior choir) at Olivet Nazarene University.
We are down to the last few days for our coin drive benefiting our local food pantry (Nov. 13th is the last day to donate). Right now all grade levels are within $100 of each other in the grade level competition and 2C, 4B, 1A, and K3 are our top 4 classrooms. It isn't about the competition, but a little bit of healthy competition for a good cause is not a bad thing!!!
You can send donations to school. (Checks can be made out to "GAFP" which is a 501c3 organization) or you can donate online at https://donate.gibsonhospital.org/campaigns/35255-gcms-elementary-school-coin-drive-for-the-food-pantry
Mr. Kean