Archives for January 2017

Attention Parents: Drew Bergman, a Minding Your Mind speaker, will share his life story of living with a mental health disorder on Wednesday, January 25th from 7-8:30pm.  Drew has received numerous awards for his advocacy in the area of mental health.  He speaks to thousands of students and parents each year.  Locally, he has spoken at Midlothian High and Trinity.  Other Minding Your Mind speakers have spoken at Deep Run High, Monacan High, Open High, Maggie Walker Governor’s School.  Speakers will be in numerous other schools in 2017 and at GHS on February 7th!

This is a great opportunity for GHS parents to hear what teens are hearing through the Cameron K. Gallagher sponsored “Minding Your Mind” program offered in partnership with the Minding Your Mind Foundation.  CKG staff will be available to your answer questions.

The program is free and at their our office, but they ask that you register at:  http://www.ckgfoundation.org/parentchatnight/.  Feel free to share with your friends or others that may find this of interest.

We hope that everyone enjoyed the snow days and had the opportunity to make good use of the time off. Due to the altered schedule this week, we have decided to postpone many of the activities scheduled. Here are the updates:

• The “Minding Your Mind” assembly has been postponed until February. We will follow up with the new date and time once we have one confirmed with the Cameron K. Gallagher Foundation.
• The basketball games against Amelia scheduled for tonight have been postponed to tomorrow night. The boys will play at Amelia and the girls will play at home.
• The wrestling match versus Varina has been postponed. We will follow up with the rescheduled date once it has been confirmed.
• Musical auditions for the spring musical have been postponed to next week. On Tuesday, January 17^th, we will hold Dancing/Day 1 Acting and Singing Auditions from 3:30 to 5:30pm. On Wednesday, January 18^th, we will hold Day 2 Acting and Singing Auditions from 3:30 to 5:30pm. On Thursday, January 19th we will hold callback auditions from 3:30 to 5:30pm. NOTE: ALL AUDITION TIMES WILL STAY THE SAME.
• The Fall Athletic Awards Assembly scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed with a date and time to be determined.
• We plan to distribute report cards on Friday morning through Day 2 Block 1 classes.
• As a reminder, we will operate on a half-day schedule on Friday, January 13^th. I have attached the GHS half-day schedule for reference. Additionally, all GCPS schools will remain closed on Monday, January 16^th in observation of the federal holiday.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the main office at (804) 556-5322.

Thanks, and GO BULLDOGS!