It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

This Week at GCMS:

The hustle and bustle of the holiday season has arrived at GCMS!  You can see Santa hats and reindeer antlers bobbing up and down through the halls, and lots of Christmas cheer is in the air.  We appreciate the Grayson County Board of Education providing our staff with a Christmas breakfast at GCMS this morning.  Everyone enjoyed it, though it made a principal’s diet a little less successful this week.  We also had a great crowd at our GCMS Christmas Dinner earlier this week.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this a success.  I have a few notes to share as this week starts to wind down.

Good News from KDE:

We received some good news this past week.  GCMS has been "re-designated" by KDE and is no longer listed as a "focus school".  I appreciate everyone's hard work in completing the extra tasks that came with being considered a focus school.  As always, I appreciate what you do for the children of our community and for the success of our school. 

Good Luck at KYA!

The GCMS KYA delegation will be in Louisville and Frankfort on Thursday through Saturday of this week.  Over fifty GCMS students will represent our school in this annual student run mock legislative assembly.  The students will actually “take over the Capitol” in Frankfort on Friday in presenting and debating bills that they have prepared.  Mrs. Blain, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Manion, and Mrs. Blaylock, along with several GCMS parents will be with the students, and I know that they have worked very hard in preparation for this event.  This also means that Mr. Blain will be having quality “daddy/daughter Mr. Mom time” for the next three days!  Wish me luck as well!

Good Luck Girls!

We would like to wish good luck to our 7^th Grade GCMS Lady Cougar basketball team as they play in the final game of the conference tournament tonight at Butler County.  I know that Coach Morris and Coach Oller are very proud of the girls, and everyone at GCMS is as well.

Faculty Meeting on Monday:

Our December faculty meeting will be held as planned on Monday after school.  Our agenda will include training on the PLC process.  Becky and Becki will lead this training.  We have many teachers who have joined our staff in the years since our initial training and have never had PLC training.  Those who were here for the initial training can certainly use the refresher.  We will also devote part of our January 16 PLC Day to reviewing and revising our PLC norms.  Mr. Whitmore will lead a brief discussion of how to approach documenting Domains 1 and 4 for PGES.

Quote of the Day: 

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” ~William James

Coming Attractions:

Dec. 11-13…GCMS Students at KYA

Dec. 11...GCMS Lady Cougar 7^th Grade Basketball Team in Conference Finals at Butler County

Dec. 12…Teachers should complete roster verification in CIITS

Dec. 15…faculty meeting after school

Dec. 15…Santa Hat Day

Dec. 15...GCHS Chorus performs at GCMS, 10:00-10:30

Dec. 16…Reindeer Day

Dec. 16…Staff Potluck in the GCMS Library

Dec. 16…Drama Club Play for the public, 6:30

Dec. 17…Elf Day

Dec. 17…Drama Club Christmas Play (7th grade at 8:15, 8th grade at 9:45, 6th grade at 1:00)

Dec. 17…GCMS SBDMC meeting, 3:15

Dec. 18…Ugly Christmas Sweater Day

Dec. 19…Cougar Bucks Award (see school calendar for details)

Dec. 20-Jan. 4…Christmas Break

Jan. 16…PLC Day (no school for students)

Jan. 30…Students grades 3-12 should have tested their IC user IDs and passwords by logging into IC.

Jan. 30…Teachers will review their PGP and record reflections in CIITS.

Jan. 30…Deadline to have all Peer Observations completed

Jan. 30…Deadline to have all 2nd Mini-Observations completed (non-tenured teachers)

Feb. 16…PLC Day (no school for students)