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Archives for January 2017

Administration News, School News

Cancer Awareness Week (1/30-2/3) and “Ballin’ for a Cure” Benefit Basketball Game (2/3)

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Every senior at GHS must complete a senior project to walk across the stage at graduation. Projects come in all various shapes and sizes, but A.J. Austin and Jack Twombly’s project has taken the form of a Cancer Awareness week, capped off by Goochland’s second annual “Ballin for a Cure” benefit basketball game on Friday, February 3rd at 7:00pm at Goochland High School. Proceeds from ticket, raffle and T-shirt sales will be donated to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

In addition to the game, throughout the week staff and students are encouraged to wear colors that represent awareness to find cures for the different forms of cancer. Here are the color themes for the week:

Monday: Wear Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Tuesday: Wear White for Lung Cancer Awareness

Wednesday: Wear Light Blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness

Thursday: Wear Royal Blue for Colon Cancer Awareness

Friday: Wear Purple for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Administration News

Minding Your Mind Parent Chat Night: January 25th

CKG Parent Chat Night Flyer

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.

Administration News, School News

GHS Students Selected for SPARK!Hackathon

Spark Hackathon

Congratulations to Austin Payne, Jack Williamson and James Deloach who were selected to represent Goochland High School at the 2nd Annual SPARK! Hackathon held on January 28th & 29th, 2017. This is a fantastic opportunity for Austin and James to demonstrate the coding skills that they have learned at Goochland High School, as well as a wonderful opportunity for them network and further their coding and engineering education with tech mentors from around the country.

Administration News

GHS Activity Postponements Update 1-11-17

Postponements

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 17th, we will hold Dancing/Day 1 Acting and Singing Auditions from 3:30 to 5:30pm. On Wednesday, January 18th, 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 13th. I have attached the GHS half-day schedule for reference. Additionally, all GCPS schools will remain closed on Monday, January 16th 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!

 

School News

5th Annual Conundrum Day

Rollercoaster Engineering Challenge

Did you miss STEM Camp? Did you attend STEM Camp and can’t wait to go back? Here is your chance to dive into fun activities once again.

The 5th Annual Conundrum Day will be held on Saturday, February 4th from 9:00a.m. to 11:30a.m. at Goochland Middle School. Transportation will be available on abbreviated school bus routes. This event is free. If you are interested, you must pre-register by completing the online form before the January 20 deadline.

Photo courtesy of Anne Moore.

 

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