Principal’s Update 8/29/16

Correction! Greenfield Central Junior High and Greenfield-Central High School were approved by the State of Indiana to have two eLearning days. On these days, students will stay home and complete school work.  Teachers will have training for ½ of the day and office hours to answer student questions and offer feedback on student work for the other ½ day.  There will be an opportunity for students to come to school on these days if they do not have internet access.  The eLearning days are scheduled for November 16 and February 8.

You can log in to LifeTouch and order picture packages now with code HM786146Y0.  Packets will be sent home soon. Pictures are September 16.

The Beginning of Year NWEA testing is complete and we are getting a first look at the data. Over 20,000 students participate in the NWEA testing across the country. There is more work to do, but we are very pleased with the tests this fall! Here are some highlights of the results so far:

McKinney-Vento Act – Our school corporation is required to send out the link to the Residency Form to each family twice a year.  The information received from this form will be kept confidential and will be used by the corporation’s McKinney-Vento liaison to assist with outreach to families.  If you feel the information you provide in the form would be beneficial for the school corporation to know, please complete the link by clicking here.

Parent Teacher Organization (PTO): Meets the last Wednesday of each month in the school cafeteria! Please consider joining!

Students can be dropped off to wait outside in the morning.  The doors to the building will be open beginning at 8:20a.m. each day.

8th Grade Trip to Washington DC: Registration is open until September 15, 2016 so if you plan to go, register ASAP! Please see this information sheet for more details on the 8th grade trip to Washington DC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dRJz_85Ey24IhzibB08VaQcumEdSuVxI4A_pjKYTQRU/edit?usp=sharing–

We encourage students to attend our athletic events.  Any GCJHS student who wears school colors will be admitted for free to our junior high home events.

Breakfast is available for $1.75, to students every school day, at 8:20a.m.

Please register your Marsh Fresh Idea cards in the Fresh Ideas for Education program.  Our goal is 200 cards by Labor Day.  Please take a couple minutes to sign up your card.  We use the points from Marsh to buy supplies and materials for the classrooms!   Go to http://www.freshideasforeducation.com and enter our school code: 49955

Textbook Fees can be turned in anytime this month.  7th Grade fees are $150.26    8th Grade fees are $149.47