We, at GVMS, do our very best to ensure that our students are safe at all times. We practice fire drills, intruder drills, review safety protocols and more. Please talk with your students about where the exit routes are from their classrooms and where to evacuate if necessary. Should we need to evacuate campus completely, GVMS offsite meeting and pick-up locations are #1: Cordelia Community Park and #2: Ridgeview Park (next to Oakbrook Elementary).
We are currently in the process of increasing our video camera coverage and installing an additional gate in front that requires being buzzed in and increasing our volunteers through our Watch DOGS program. We can always use more eyes and ears! We have our amazing campus monitors (and all adults) constantly patrolling our huge site and communicating to all Admin and office when anything goes on.
We know that many of our students are talking about the national school walk out on March 14. We are currently meeting with student council and student leadership to discuss ideas on how students can get involved in ways that do not violate school rules and board policy. The specific board policy on student disturbances can be found here.
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We continue to be very concerned about the amount of students that are dropped off at school in the morning (sometimes before 7 AM!!) and then choosing to WALK to Tower Mart. This is extremely unsafe and we cannot chase after them to have them return to school. Please remind your student NOT to do this!
Did you know that colleges and employers make the time to search tweens and teens to see what their "digital footprint" looks like? Take a look at the video to help you, as a parent, monitor your students social media presence every week/month in less than 5 minutes!
Additionally, we review our school rules. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Including keeping our hands to ourselves and no play fighting/slap boxing. PLEASE encourage your student to follow our school rules!!
The SPRING FLING IS COMING!! We are gearing up for our 4th Annual Spring Fling at GV Cellars on Saturday, April 28 from 4-8 PM and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Do you have connections for tickets to sporting events, time shares, winery tours, limo tours, etc? Tickets will be on sale FEBRUARY 1st for $25.00 and the Sign Up Genius has gone out! Click HERE to see if you can donate! Please reach out to your connections and help us make this year's event even more fun and successful than last year's (that may be hard as last year was a TON of fun!). More details, donation letters, and Sign Up Genius links will be sent at the beginning of February! You DON'T want to miss this!
HAVE YOU HEARD? We are SO excited that our own Green Valley Parent-Teacher Club is signed up for Amazon Smile, where a portion of purchases comes back DIRECTLY to GVMS! As you are doing your shopping on Amazon, remember to log into Amazon Smile and click Green Valley Parent-Teacher Club to help support GVMS! Thank you!!
*CHECK OUT OUR PROJECTS!!* THERE ARE MANY NEW ONES TOO!!
We are ALWAYS thinking outside the box to create effective ways to reach all of our students! Want to be a part of this?? All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE!!! Check out THIS LINK to see ALL OF the different ideas that our VERY OWN GVMS teachers have come up with! NEW PROJECTS HAVE BEEN ADDED!!
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