There will be a few changes for today's lunch menus.
HS Menu for today will be Chicken Sandwich, Corndog, or Chicken Alfredo
ES Menu will be: Hotdog, Carrots, and Blueberry Crisp
MS Menus will remain the same.
The Ford County Attendance Initiative would like to give some tips to help students get to school as much as possible and limit our chronic absenteeism! Lay out clothes and pack backpacks the night before school. Establish a bedtime and morning routine. Plan trips and appointments outside of school hours if possible. Minimize screen time before bedtime to help achieve restful sleep. Ask school staff to help if your child is having anxiety about school. Have a back up plan to get to school if something comes up. Let's work together to help better student attendance at our schools. Be Present, Be Powerful!
GCMS Families,
GCMS will NOT be in session tomorrow, Wednesday, February 12 due to the highly likely accumulation of ice and snow in our District. Students will be sent home today with materials for an E-Learning day. ALL evening activities are also cancelled for Wednesday night. This evenings events will proceed as planned. Be safe and we hope to see everyone back on Thursday.
Sincerely,
Mr. Darnell
GCMS Middle School will be hosting a Family Book Club open to families with a student in 4th-7th grade. The district will purchase 2 books per family for those that participate. Meetings will be 3/25 and 4/8 at 5:15 in the Middle School Library. Families can sign up at https://forms.gle/F7mf25L15QAEvr2eA
Middle School Sports Schedule This Week
Congratulations to 8th grader Bentley Fields on earning his 100th career IESA win this weekend! We are so proud of you!
Today marks the midterm of 3rd Quarter, which is a good time to check Infinite Campus for updated grades . Contact willis.walker@gcmsk12.org if you have any trouble accessing your account https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNprfcRMOM
GCMS will hold Preschool Screenings at the Elementary School on Tuesday, June 3. These are required for any student wanting to enroll in our Preschool program. For the more details view our flyer at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xnMtfyogTQhimqqhiE8nZZ2GhWOaSW4_/view?usp=sharing
Girls Basketball plays Fieldcrest tonight at Home. There will only be a varsity game beginning at 5:30pm. Go Falcons!
Maybe it is... maybe it isn't... we're not taking chances. All HS practices will conclude by 5:30 pm. There will be no baseball open gym and the cheer camp practice has been cancelled for this evening.
We can't let National School Counselors Week go by without a shout to our own! Thank you to Mrs Zook at the MS and Mr Carter at the HS for their efforts with our kids! We're grateful for all you do!
Good morning,
Due to the likelihood of inclement weather, the HOIC Music Festival Concert that was scheduled for this evening (2/5/25) has been cancelled. For those that purchased tickets, the conference is working on refunding your money.
Thank you,
Mr. Bielfeldt
Reminder that any students wanting to participate in spring sports need to have an updated sports physical completed prior to the first day of try-outs/practice. Sports physicals are good for 13 months. If a student does not have an up to date physical, they cannot participate in practices until a sports physical is completed and turned into the office.
Due to delivery issues, the following changes are being made to the High School menus:
Today, Mon 2/3: Hamburgers or Meatball Subs
Thursday, 2/6: BOSCO Sticks or Ham & Cheese Pasta
Friday, 2/7: Hot Chicken Sandwich or Italian Pork Sandwich
We apologize for the late notice.
Congratulations to our Falcons With Character for the month of January!
K/1st
K= Iverson Hall, Nathaly Cortez, Nellie DeYoung, Kyler Dale
1st= Lorelei Able, Emmy Henrichs, Grayson Hall (not pictured), Ben Huber (not pictured)
2nd/3rd
2= Mia Hornstein, Serenity Purcell, Nora Day, Grace McAdam
3= Taylor Cummins, Brynnlee Lage, Hadley Chase, Chase Zanardelli
4th/5th
4= Calvin Brucker, Alexa Santibanez, Adalynn Biefeldt
5= Tyssleigh Heavilin, Alyssa Ward, Bradley Barham, Finn Fairley
Our school calendar for the 2025-2026 school year is now available. You can find it at the link below or on the homepage of our website. This calendar has all of the days listed that we will be off of school. There will be some additional important events added. This link will always contain the most updated version. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BKcq9dfC5x14ZY6TrRLC6ARFvZbkI5pNRPPHLOsS6rk/edit?usp=sharing
News Travels Fast!!!
We want to formally welcome Mr. Michael Schwenk (back) as he was approved to be our new Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at GCMS High School for the 2025-2026 school year.
Mr. Schwenk, and his wife Ashley (GCMS Instructional Coach), reside in Gibson City with their two boys. Mr. Schwenk was previously an elementary p.e. teacher for us so he is no stranger to our system or many of our students.
Mr. Schwenk will start officially on July 1, 2025 and we are very excited to have him!
Middle School Scholastic Bowl Families: We accidentally had the wrong Remind code on some of the communication that went out. If you would like to join the Remind group for Middle School Scholastic Bowl please use this link: https://www.remind.com/join/94hc6e
GCMS High School is looking for a JV Baseball Coach for the Spring 2025 season. Please contact Mr. Allen at allen.mike@gcmsk12.org if interested.
Middle School Sports Schedule This Week
