GCMS Families: A number of SPAM emails were delivered to high school students over the weekend soliciting for money. These are fake, do not click on any links contained in the emails and do not reply to these messages in any way. We are examining our email filters today to prevent this moving forward.
GCMS Families,
Please keep our neighbors, the Ridgeview Mustangs, in your thoughts as they navigate the tragic loss of one of their students as the result of a car accident. Our deepest sympathy goes out to all of the students, staff, and community members in this difficult time.
As a show of support we encourage student and staff to wear navy, silver, gray, and white in honor of the Mustang family.
We encourage GCMS students to reach out to our SEL (social emotional team) should the need arise.
Sincerely,
Mr. Darnell
Good afternoon! The elementary school will be allowing students to wear their Halloween costumes next Tuesday (Oct. 31st). Please keep scary masks and weapons at home. We are excited to see the kids dressed up!!!
Mr. Kean
As part of Red Ribbon Week, our Middle School student's learned about the dangers of vaping and drug use. Special thanks to Trooper Jones, from the Illinois State Police for leading a very engaging lesson.
GCMS Elementary School is hosting a coin drive! Learn more at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0OglV1wtrjPx35CTIxL13DgLTsSPiuL6zLnhy85mO0/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for your support of our middle school book fair! We were able to add 85 new books to the middle school library!
GCMS will be hosting their annual Veterans Day Assembly on Friday, November 10 at 9 AM in the high school gymnasium. All members of the community are welcome to attend the assembly.
We will be providing a coffee and pastry breakfast in the high school commons beginning at 8:15 AM for all veterans in attendance. We invite any veteran to attend and enjoy the assembly. There will be a parade of veterans at the beginning of the assembly to honor those who have served our country.
Anyone that would like to add a veteran's photo to our video slide of veterans can do so by emailing the photo and information to Walker Willis at willis.walker@gcmsk12.org. You can find the existing slideshow at https://bit.ly/GCMSVet2022
We look forward to this wonderful event and hope to see you there.
GCMS High School is proud to present our 2023 Variety Show, Friday Nov 3 at 7:00PM! Join us for a night of music and comedy featuring GCMS High School students!
Red Ribbon Week starts tomorrow! We have dress up days all week starting with Pajama day.
It's all set! The GCMS Falcons will play Aurora Christian at 7pm Friday night, Oct 27th in Aurora. #LetsDoThisFalcons!
A reminder to MS Girls basketball families that the bus time for today's games at PBL is 4:10.
We are excited to see parents tonight or tomorrow for your scheduled P/T Conferences. A reminder that tomorrow is again a 2:30 dismissal and we do not have school on Friday. Thanks!
Mr. Kean
High School Parents,
We will be making up the PSAT and NMSQT tests tomorrow morning. All 9-11 grade students will need to be at the school in the morning. Please be sure to have your students charge their Chromebooks tonight.
Thank you,
Mr. Bielfeldt
Senior Parents,
We are planning on rescheduling our testing of 9-11 grade students for Thursday morning. We are allowing seniors to come in late since all of our teachers will be proctoring the tests. Senior students should report to school at 10:40 AM.
If you student is an ECCA or co-op student, he/she will need to follow their regular schedule.
If your student rides the bus and does not have transportation for this late start, he/she can come to the school at the regular time and stay in the library until testing is over.
Please reach out to the office with any questions,
Mr. Bielfeldt
Our Middle School Book Fair will be open Oct 18-19 from 3:30pm-7:00pm!
GCMS has compiled the following list of local resources available to families during the 2023 holiday season https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lp51F1BQPpbI_KNeTLgWG0VL_CV3eq-1NurRGvVsLpo/edit?usp=sharing
GCMS High School will host a Financial Aid Parent Night on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 5:45pm in the library. A member of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission will be presenting information to help simplify the financial aid process and answer any questions.
This presentation covers college costs, types of financial aid, how to apply for financial aid, financial aid award packages, and other important information. With changes to the FAFSA this year there will likely be helpful information even for those who have gone through this process before.
This event is open to both junior and senior parents. For more information or to sign up for this event please contact Mr. Carter at carter.josh@gcmsk12.org
October 23-27 is Red Ribbon Week at GCMS where we celebrate being drug free! There will be dress up days at all 3 buildings, check out the fliers for the schedules!
Middle School students earned Fantastic Falcons awards today for going above and beyond in displaying our schoolwide expectations. We are Falcon Proud!
High School Parents,
Please click the link below for information regarding honor roll at the high school.
https://bit.ly/3PWa9Op
Please reach out to the school if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Mr. Bielfeldt