GHS ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2019

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The City of Goshen’s Community Relations Commission and GCS are hosting another Community Conversation on Thursday night, and we hope students, teachers, and staff members will be able to attend! These conversations are meant to empower all members of our community, and to help us all grow in community with each other. This particular conversation will address leadership and power in the Goshen community: Participants will have the opportunity to speak about successful balances of power and how that is created, as well as look at challenges to equalized power. We will also look at how one accesses power, and how the community can grow capacity and leadership to provide opportunities for shared power? The conversation will be held in the Schrock Pavilion at Shanklin Park on Thursday evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m., and there will be refreshments. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the Crimson Marching Band for advancing to Semi-State this past weekend!  The group was given distinction in general effect and will perform at Ben Davis on Saturday, November 2^nd in Indianapolis.

There will be a drama club meeting after school in the auditorium on Wednesday, October 23 until approximately 5:00. If you’re interested in drama, musical, acting, or anything having to do with the stage, come out and join us! We’ll play games, give audition tips, and get to know each other!

It’s time to register for your IB exams!  Please turn in your completed form to Mrs. Haney in the main office TODAY.  Also, you don’t need to pay in full when you turn in the form.  Please take care of this TODAY!

Congrats to Lizzy Kirkton and Bryant Grewe for being selected for the Edward Jones Student Athlete for the month of September!

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is available for filing from now until April 15, 2020.  To give yourself the best chance to secure financial assistance complete the FAFSA as soon as possible.  If you’ve started the application but are stuck, if you have specific questions about it, or if you’re just unsure about completing it on your own –  you’re in luck!  GHS is hosting a FAFSA Completion Night on Monday, October 28th in the cafeteria.  A financial expert from InvestEd as well as the GHS School Counselors will be on hand to provide assistance to students and families.  If you’re interested in attending stop in the School Counseling Office to pick up a handout of what you need to being with you on the 28th.

E-Sports Club will be in room 1070 and on Tuesday and Wednesday in Room 2040. We will be opening up to games other than League of Legends this year.  Please bring your school laptop for game installing. Hope to see you there!

Any student interested in wrestling please remember to sign up in the main office THIS week and pick up an information sheet.  If you have already signed up, please stop by and pick up the correct information paper.

Junior students, it is never too early to think about possibly pursuing a career in science. If you are interested in the sciences and are thinking about going to college then please sign-up now in the guidance office for the Valparaiso University College Visit on Thursday, October 31^st from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Only 28 slots are available so it is first come, first serve!

Attention Students:  Jostens will be here Tuesday, November 12^th during SRT for Senior Order Day.  This is the LAST time you will be able to order graduation materials without paying a late fee.  Everyone planning to graduate should have at least a cap, gown, and tassel.  Information on how to order will be sent to your SRT teacher and posted in your SRT room.  Your SRT will be assigned a time to go to the commons and place your orders.  Extra packets are available in the main office.

The Ceres Solutions Scholarship is available.  You can apply at www.ceres.coop or pick up a paper copy in the School Counseling office.  You must be a four year 4-H member or have two years in your local FFA program.  The deadline is March 1^st, 2020

Please stop by the commons area (either by the cafeteria or outside the main office) during lunch if you are interested is speaking to the following:

The RedHawks Ambassadors program is looking for bilingual students willing to help out in the resource rooms during SRT.  The RedHawks Ambassadors will be assigned to resource rooms to help resource teachers and EL collaborators working with EL students.  If you are interested please contact Mr. Porter at wporter@goshenschools.org for more information.

The 2018-2019 yearbooks have arrived and are being delivered to SRT classes!  If you didn’t order a yearbook but would like one, you can email Ms. Pobocik at ppobocik@staff.goshenschools.org.  We have a very limited number of yearbooks available for purchase which will go on a first come, first serve basis.  If you know a 2019 graduate who ordered a yearbook, please have them email Ms. Pobocik to set up a time to pick it up.

Key Club and Environmental Club are collecting caps for benches.  We are trying to get enough for two benches.  Please deliver CLEAN #2, 4 or 5 caps or lids to your SRT before October 31^st.  The SRT with the most caps/lids collected will receive pizza.  The SRT that comes in 2^nd will receive cookies.  Please help our school have comfortable places to sit.

Homework help is available every Tuesday and Thursday in room 1190 from 3:45-4:50 p.m.  You must be in room 1190 by 3:50 p.m. in order to stay for this.  You are expected to exit the building through door M where a bus will be available at 5:00 p.m. if you need a ride home.  This bus is for students who stay for after-hours help ONLY.  This is a great opportunity if you just need a little extra time or even just a quiet place to do your homework at the end of the day.

YOU MUST BE STAYING AFTER SCHOOL FOR SOMETHING TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS – The GHS cafeteria is offering free after school snacks every day after school.  This program is for any student who is staying after school.  All student-athletes, club members, music participants, drama participants, after school homework help kids, etc. are strongly encouraged to stop by the cafeteria after school and take advantage of this generous opportunity.  Students just need to show their ID and they can grab a healthy snack to go that will hold them over during their after school activities until dinner.  The cafeteria will stay open until 3:50 p.m. to hand out the snacks.  All students picking up the healthy snack after school will need to eat their snack in the cafeteria.  We appreciate your cooperation with this adjustment that is mandated by the state of Indiana in order to continue this program.  Student athletes are expected to get their snack immediately after school.  They should change clothes for practice AFTER they get their snack.

REMINDER:  Any student driving needs to have a parking tag.  You can get this through Mrs. Haney in the Bookkeeper’s office.  You need to have a valid license, valid registration, valid proof of insurance (this means that none of these can be expired), and $5.  You don’t want to be the proud new owner of a big orange sticker.

You are under no circumstances allowed to lock your bike up to any fence or gate on school property.  There has been a problem with students specifically doing this along the fence/gate to the soccer fields.  If you continue to do this, your lock will be cut, and your bike will be removed.  There are bike racks available, and they should be used.  Thank you for your cooperation with this!

After school, it is expected that all students exit the building by 3:50 p.m.  If you have an after school activity, you should report to the sponsor’s room responsible for that activity by 3:50 p.m.  You are not to remain in the hallways or commons after 3:50 p.m.  Thank you for your cooperation with this request.

Free/reduced lunch forms are available in the bookkeeper’s office, in the cafeteria and in guidance.  Please pick one up if you need it!

WORK PERMITS:  When you get a work permit EVERY box needs to be filled out on the Intent to Employ form before we will issue you the work permit.  Please bring completed forms to the main office in the morning and they will be completed by the end of the school day.

If you are a student that leaves the building at any time during normal school hours then you must have a sticker on your ID if it’s for a class (PACT, Building Trades, EACC, Merit, shortened schedules, Red Zone, internship, yearbook, etc.) that indicates that or a blue pass from the office indicating that you have permission to leave.  GTV and Red Zone students are also required to sign out at the Welcome Center before leaving.  You can get this sticker in the main office from Mrs. Wolfe or Mrs. Kuiper.

Just a reminder that if you are coming to see Ms. Tovar you need to check in with the staff in the main office and fill out a request to see her.  She will send a white pass for you as she has time.  Please do not cut through the nurse’s office to get to her.  You need to enter through the main office.