• GMRS office hours will be 7:00 am – 2:50 pm, Monday thru Friday.

General Announcements

Please join us Monday October 21st 5:30-7:00 for Curriculum and Title 1 Night: An evening of sharing to improve student academics and improvement.

PARENTS and STUDENTS: Report Cards will be available for viewing on HAC:  OCTOBER 23rd

SPIRIT WEEK: October 28th-November 1

Picture Retakes
November 4th

Bridge Program Updates:

Time to Celebrate! Woo Hoo! General Ed. Classes for some of our students have begun! We wish them much success! Student Data on individual goals supports student success in the gen. ed setting. All students will track their data and be able to set goals for this quarter!  

Phone Policy: TO BE COLLECTED during breakfast /TURNED OFF AND IN LOCKER/Backpack for the remainder of the day. **If you don’t have a lock or backpack, turn it in! The phones have been an issue, this policy is school wide and will hopefully eliminate further problems with cell phone usage during the school day.

We had a great week with much success! Thank you, parents, for your support with this!  

If you are seen with phone out of locker:

• No warning [THIS IS YOUR WARNING]
• FIRST TIME – give to teacher, no debate, cannot put away at this point, must hand over.
• If you refuse to hand it over, admin/ dean will be called to take it. It will stay in Deans office until the end of the day.
• Home will be contacted
• Repeated issues with phone will result in ISS/Parent having to come and pick up
• Can earn phone time from behavior bucks for lunch time.

Annual IEP meetings will begin at the end of this month. Please take some time and review the current plan with your student. This is a good opportunity to find out from their perspective what they feel is working, what they might need instead. Be on the lookout for an email in regard to meeting. Questions? Please reach out! 

ACADEMICS

• Please check HAC (Home Access Center) grades are updated on Fridays for your child’s classes

As a reminder, Wednesdays are for remediation and enrichment!  Fridays have been designated for summative assessments and for the chance for students to show what they know!

• This week’s summative activities will focus on core content material in the form of practice CSA questions. Showing what they know along with test reinforcing test taking strategies

•  Students have started quarter 2 Portfolios, which will be a Summative Grade at the end of Quarter 2. A table Of Contents has been added to help student stay on track and organized. The TOC will be filled our daily, with the day’s work. Please ask your child how they are keeping up with their folders.  

Social Perspectives

The focus of our program is to teach students alternative behaviors to replace challenging ones, helping students reach their academic and affective learning potential. The goal of the Bridge Program at GRMS is to gradually reintegrate students into the general education setting with minimal support.

Our social perspectives focus this week will be ACCOUNTABILITY! How handling emotions, being kind and communicating needs, making good choices allows us to take accountability for our actions, and what to do when we don’t do our best- how to help ourselves to improve!

Station Rotations

In Learning Strategies, we have implemented Station Rotations. This small group setting allows students to work with peers and adults to ensure they are getting the support they need. Students rotate through an IR station, a Learning Strats. Station, a Novel Study Station and for our Kinesthetic Learners, a Get Up and Move Station. Students will complete a station rotation reflection sheet, daily [formative grade] and turn in on Friday’s [summative grade].