Mr. Renchen's 6th grade Music Appreciation class had the opportunity to video chat with GCMS alum Sophie Hafer (Class of 2017) regarding music composition. The students are working on creating their own music compositions and gathered insight from Sophie on how to go about creating melodies from scratch and how to refine their creations. The students enjoyed meeting a fellow GCMS student who was in the very same classroom not too long ago!
After graduating from GCMS, Sophie moved to Chicago and attended Columbia College to study music composition & piano performance. In 2018, she began working in the music licensing industry with “Pink Shark Music”. There, she is responsible for managing the Pink Shark Music catalog, writing custom music for shows, and pitching music to a variety of shows each day. The company services an average of 300 TV shows each year. Sophie has done personal work on shows like Dancing with the Stars, MTV’s Behind the Music, the iCarly reboot, Nickelodeon’s Young Dylan, Anderson Cooper 360, AFV, and many more.
Off the clock, Sophie performs in a variety of bands around Chicago, singing & playing keyboard. Some of her notable performances include playing with Jefferson Starship and opening for Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy. Sophie also travels each Spring with the Chicago Cubs as part of their house band for their late night talk show “Off the Mound". Around Chicagoland, Sophie has gained local recognition for playing Christine McVie in "The Chain" Fleetwood Mac tribute band, of which she has been a member since 2017. More information about Sophie Hafer can be found on Facebook.
Tonight's 7/8 Girls Basketball games at LeRoy will be played at LeRoy Elem. School (805 N. Barnett). The 7th Grade game begins at 5:30 with the 8th Grade game to follow. GO FALCONS!
High School Parents,
Please click the link below for information regarding our upcoming Parent/Teacher Conferences and the Financial Aid Night for Junior and Senior Parents. We hope to see you there!
https://bit.ly/3rlYKhz
If you have questions, please reach out to the office.
Thank you,
Mr. Bielfeldt
Our 2023 Homecoming royalty has been announced... King Alex Ward and Queen Rylie Huls. Congratulations to all members of this year's Homecoming court! They will preside over the Homecoming Dance tomorrow night at 7:30 with coronation at 8pm. Coronation is open to the public.
Ryan Carley took 3rd overall at the Boys Golf Regionals today! The full team will advance on to Sectionals. Great job boys!
Update! Today's pep assembly begins at 2:20pm!
Our Thursday pep assembly for Homecoming week will feature a Powderpuff Volleyball Game! You can view it for free on our NFHS channel at https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/gibson-citymelvinsibley-high-school-gibson-city-il/evt66a5c4162b The assembly will begin shortly after 2:20pm.
Parents of NHS eligible students,
The National Honor Society applications for all students eligible are due on Monday, October 2 at 12 PM. All eligible students received information via email about the application process. Any student that is eligible should contact Mrs. Funk (NHS Sponsor) with any questions.
5th grade visited the High School this afternoon for our day 1 homecoming activity "Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader?"
Congratulations to our middle school students who received their Fantastic Falcons awards today for going above and beyond in following our school-wide expectations!
Attention Middle School Families: If you would like to receive regular updates of Middle School announcements you can join our Remind group at https://www.remind.com/join/gcmsmidd
Middle school families, we are so excited for Parent Teacher Conferences next month! Conferences will be held on October 18th and 19th. For more information on how to sign up for a conference please see the letter that went home with students today. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11WXwdmX-tDyMhb1TB9ApLtRUgyvbgsLZ_Tqx1mdGq1A/edit?usp=sharing
Elementary school yearbooks can be ordered anytime online! They are $15 through December. $17 January through March.
https://www.jostens.com/yearbooks/students-and-parents/about-yearbooks#
Today's (9j/21) Tennis match has been cancelled and moved to October 5.
Homecoming is next week! Check out the full schedule of acitivities and dress up days at https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SsplCSwiyu6Kzliltu06yHJe8yiLqdt/view?usp=sharing
I apologize for sending an incorrect code for the High School Daily Annoucements. The Remind code is ak896
If attempted to use the old code, you are signed up to the wrong classroom.
GCMS Families: It may be hard to believe but we are halfway through the 1st quarter! If you are not already doing so we encourge you to check in on student grades through Infinite Campus. You can log in to your parent account at https://ilcloud1.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/gcms.jsp or check your app store for the Campus Parent app. If you have any trouble connecting please reach out to Mr. Willis at willis.walker@gcmsk12.org.
You can also keep your student lunch accounts updated through Infinite Campus. Everyone is organized into family accounts so money you add to your account will be available to all students you have in our district. Thank you all for a great start to this new year!
High School Parents,
If you would like to keep up with what is going on daily at our high school, you can sign up four our daily announcements through the Remind app or at remind.com.
The access code is aka896
Please reach out to the high school office with any questions.
Important traffic update for elementary school! Please read.
Starting Tuesday, September 19th we will be starting the solar project at the elementary school. The parallel parking spaces on Lott Blvd to the south of the handicap spaces will be blocked off. Construction activity will not take place during arrival or dismissal but we will have trucks parking in this area.
If this has been your meeting point for elementary students please make other arrangements until the project completes. We anticipate 4-6 weeks at this school.
Apologies for the late notice and please be safe!
-Mr. Darnell
High School Parents,
The high school has a reteach/retake policy that allows students to retake tests and/or quizzes. Policies are different in each department but each one has this policy. We encourage our students that want or need to retake a quiz or test to do so by arranging a time with their teacher.
We want all of our students to be successful and this is an opportunity for all of our students to show growth in their academic classes.
If you have any questions regarding these policies, I encourage you to reach out to your student's teachers.
Yours in education, Mr. Bielfeldt
Friday's football game vs Fisher will be WCIA's Game of the Week! We are partnering with Eastern Illinois Foodbank for their Tackle Hunger program. We will be collecting donations at Friday's game, or you can donate online ahead of time at https://www.eifoodbank.org/action/donate/tackle-hunger.html. Make sure to select GCMS on the donation page!
