GHS Weekly Newsletter

GHS Families,

I hope you have a safe and restful long weekend. The counselors have now met with all high school grades to present scheduling information. If your child has yet to receive their transcript and materials please reach out to your child's counselor. A great deal of information and announcements will be shared with students on Schoology and email. Please encourage your child to frequently check for updates.

I want to remind all 11th grade students that they will be taking the ACT on Tuesday, February 27th. Juniors are excused from attendance for the remainder of the day after the test.

As winter sports enter tournament play I want to wish all players and coaches the very best of luck! Go Blue Aces!

Sincerely,

Mr. Hinton

GHS Principal

Spanish Club - Invitation to All Students

Come one, come all, GHS! Join us this Monday, February 19th @11:30 at the Lou & Gib Reese Ice Arena for Pizza & Patinaje (that’s Ice Skating, en español! J) Special group price of $6.00 and Spanish Club will provide Pizza and drinks.

High School Technology Internships

Summer Writing Workshop at Denison University

For nearly three decades, talented high school juniors and seniors to-be have been welcomed to Denison University for the Reynolds Young Writers Workshop. The workshop is an eight-day residential program in June that incorporates small creative writing workshops, group sessions with Denison creative writing faculty and notable visiting writers, and much more. That means students experience small, intimate writing workshops and one-on-one interactions with people who have made writing their career. It's a great way to connect with a close-knit community of writing teachers, mentors, and peers from around the world. Learn more and apply here by March 1, 2024.

Camp Med- Class of 2025

Licking Memorial Health Systems provides a 2-day intensive camp for rising seniors interested in careers in the healthcare industry. If accepted, students participate in mock laboratories, mock clinical procedures and physician presentations. Camp Med takes place July 9-10, 2024, and all applications are due by March 1, 2024. Students can pick up the current application in the counseling office or they can be found online here.

?Scheduling 2024-2025

Beginning next week, students will learn about course selections and options for the next school year. The school counselors will spend an ACE period in the theatre with each grade level, and then will spend the following day in their social studies classes to review transcripts, scheduling sheet, and 4-year graduation plans for all students and answer questions. Students will have several weeks to consult with their teachers and make scheduling choices prior to submitting them in PowerSchool. See below for the dates that counselors will talk to each grade level:

2/21: 8th grade social studies

College Credit Plus

On Wednesday, the high school counselors held a College Credit Plus Information Night, with panelists from COTC, OSU-Newark, and Shawnee State University. Here is a link to the video, which includes information about dual enrollment options at local college campuses and new classes being taught at GHS next year. The courses at GHS will be taught by our own teachers and will be available to 11th and 12th grade students who qualify. More scheduling information will be coming soon. Additionally, there will be a Parent Information Night with Mr. Hinton for current grades 9-11 at 6:30PM on February 15 during Parent-Teacher conference night. If your student is interested in this opportunity, the first step is to complete the Intent to Participate form by April 1. After that, the student must complete the CCP application to the corresponding college and communicate with the school counselor.

Counselor Check-In: Start with Hello

As part of the Start with Hello program, the school counselors showed this video earlier this week as a reminder to take care of each other and check on one another. We want GHS to be a caring, welcoming, and empathetic place where students feel seen, heard, and cared for. We challenged student to think about the type of legacy they want to leave and how they can be a part of this welcoming community.

MVNU Summer Camps

I am excited to inform you that Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) will host Academic Summer Camps for high school students this summer! These will be week-long, overnight camps that will give students a chance to explore a future major and gain real world, hands-on experiences within different fields of study. We will offer nine different camps that include: art & design, education, engineering, film production, nursing, pre-med, psychology, science exploration, and worship arts. The camps will be held on MVNU’s campus from June 17-21, 2024.

Research has shown these types of camps assist students in discerning their future major, build students’ self-confidence, and increase the likelihood that students will attend college.

?We are offering these camps at cost (not profit-bearing) for $495.

I have attached an electronic flyer with the specific Academic Summer Camp information on it. Please feel free to distribute it to any students who might be interested in this opportunity. To get more information or to register, students can go to https://mvnu.edu/academics/on-campus/undergraduate/summer-camp/.

Class of 2024 Information

We still have a large number of seniors who have not ordered their cap and gowns yet. Please see this flyer for information on how to order: GHS Grad Flyer. Also, I wanted to share the date for Senior Awards night with you. The annual Senior Awards Night will take place Tuesday, May 21st at 7 pm.

Holding an average of an A for the 3rd and 4th quarters
Have 7 or fewer absences from that class period (medical, school/field trip, college visit excluded)
Attend Senior Service Day on May 20th

Graduation rehearsal will take place on Thursday, May 23rd at GHS. Friday, May 24th will be graduation for CTEC students and senior exam makeup for GHS attending students. Graduation will take place on Sunday, May 26th at 10 am in Walter J. Hodges Stadium. More detailed information will be shared in the spring concerning all of these dates but I wanted to share them early for your planning purposes.

Upcoming Bell Schedules

Week of 2/19

Monday - No School

Tuesday - Ace Period

Wednesday - Late Arrival

Thursday - Ace Period

Friday - Ace Period

Week of 2/26

Monday - Ace Period

Tuesday - Ace Period (ACT Testing for 11th Grade)

Wednesday - Late Arrival

Thursday - Ace Period