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TTTTTThhhhhheeeeee LLLLLLiiiiiioooooonnnnnn''''''ssssss RRRRRRooooooaaaaaarrrrrr GLOUCESTER HIGH SCHOOL - NEWSLETTER - MAY 22ND, 2020 partnership. performance. pride. Hello Parents, We couldn't be more excited for our Seniors to return to campus individually with family members this week. Seniors families should make sure to review the additional details below. I'd like to extend congratulations and thanks to all of our AP teachers and students. AP testing will conclude early next week with the nal portfolio uploads in AP Studio Art and AP Computer Science Principles. An indescribable amount of hard work by students, staff, and families takes place throughout the entire year to achieve the success levels that we have in recent years. I endlessly admire and appreciate the collective commitment to leading our students to excel in one of the greatest "college & career readiness" preparatory environments that high school students throughout the world have available to them. Make sure to thoroughly read all updates within this week's newsletter and watch Dr. Vespe's video public announcement below updating our school community comprehensively on how week 9 has gone and what to expect in the weeks ahead. Gloucester City School District continues to maintain a COVID 19 web page to centralize all information during this time for parents and the community. Wishing you and your family a Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Let us always remember and celebrate the courageous men and women who have served as well as those who continue to serve our great country every day of the year. Stay Well...In Partnership, Sean Gorman dr. vespe - week 10 covid psa - may 22nd, 2020 G.C.S.D. Covid P.S.A. Friday May 22nd, 2020 college & career readiness Here's our 8th virtual campus tour...Check out New Jersey's beautiful Montclair State University Virtual Campus Tours. 2020 academic awards night If you haven't seen it yet, our 2020 Academic Awards night turned out excellent in the virtual format. We are endlessly fortunate to have so much to celebrate and be proud of. Enjoy the ceremony below. Thanks to Dolson Catering for helping us preserve the tradition of providing desserts to families for the ceremony! G.H.S. Academic Awards Ceremony May 20th, 2020 amazing spring concert performance Last night, we released an incredible joint performance of the Beatles classic "Hey Jude" by our Choir and Concert Band. All student members and directors did this from their own homes! G.H.S. Virtual Spring Concert - May 21st, 2020 graduation update Senior caps & gowns arrived at GHS on Wednesday and were distributed yesterday. If your child has not received their cap & gown yet, please reach out to our Senior class adviser, Mr. Pat Hagan, at [email protected]. We have close to 100 Senior families registered for a 10-minute appointment slots via Sign-Up Genius. Appointments close at 5 p.m. today. We prepared this week to complete this process next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Appointments on any dates impacted by inclement weather would be moved to the same appointment time on Monday, June 1st. Families can expect to: Enter the school parking lot and be directed to proceed to the eldhouse by our staff. They will pull their car behind the eldhouse, let their child exit the vehicle and enter the football stadium, and proceed to pull their car around the back of the building and park behind the ticket booth/stadium entrance. The Senior should already be dressed in their cap & gown. The cap & gown can not be altered in any way. Sweatpants, jeans, t-shirts, tank-tops, sneakers and slides/ip- ops are prohibited. The expectation is that all graduation participants will wear either dress pants or a skirt/dress, a collared shirt, socks and shoes. As always, any graduate that does not have any of these articles of clothing can email our Senior counselor, Mrs. Bobo, at [email protected] with a brief description of what articles of clothing you do not have and what size you would need. The plan that we have had approved by multiple local, county, and State entities over the last two weeks includes students being permitted to have up to four family members with them. Friends are not permitted to attend. Including GHS staff members, only 10 people are permitted in the stadium at once. Maintenance will set up hand sanitizing stations as well as gloves and masks at both the graduate and family entrances. After parking their car behind the ticket booth/stadium entrance, families will be permitted to stand on the track and watch their child do the following: Stand & walk to the diploma table Receive their diploma case Walk & turn their tassel Each family will be permitted to stand with their graduate on the eld for a photo. Once this process is completed, the family will have to leave the stadium, enter their vehicle, and exit campus. We will not permit the subsequently scheduled graduate to leave their vehicle and enter the stadium until the previous family has exited the stadium. We will lm this activity for all Seniors and create a video of all members of our outstanding Class of 2020 that will be released on our original graduation date, June 11th. Again, we fully plan on having a group Commencement ceremony any time that we are permitted to prior to September. This lmed activity would be in addition to that ceremony. student belonging pick-up A Sign-Up Genius will soon be created and shared with all GHS families to make appointments to pick up any belongings their child left at school and drop off any school-issued materials. We are hoping that this will take place later in the week of June 1st. Once we are certain that potential inclement weather next week will not push the hybrid graduation ceremony into the week of June 1st, we will create the Student Belonging/Drop-Off Sign-Up Genius and share it with you. We will schedule no more than 5 families every 20 minutes. Student belongings will have already been labeled and organized in a central location in our building. Staff members will greet families as they enter the parking lot and direct them to pull up into the horse shoe that leads to the front doors of the school. The greeter will utilize a walkie-talkie to inform staff members inside of the building of when a family arrives. Those staff members will bring the student materials out to the family vehicle similar to meal distribution. We will have labeled bins present outside for families to drop off/return school-issued: Books Calculators Athletic Uniforms Miscellaneous Materials There will be a table set up for Seniors to drop-off their Chromebook, charger, and bag. Underclassmen will keep their Chromebooks & accessories throughout the summer. athletic awards night - wednesday Over 100 student athletes will be honored on Wednesday at our annual Athletic Awards Night which will be shared virtually at 7 p.m.: Team Conference Champions Individual Conference All-Stars Individual All-South Jersey Honorees Team Most Valuable Player, Coaches Award, Board of Education Award, and other assorted team honors Lion's Pride Award Winners - Seniors who achieve 6 or more career varsity letters Varsity team with highest academic average Marshall Halphen Award: presented to the Senior Boy and Girl who are most dedicated and unselsh to their sport. Carmen Palmiero Award: presented to the Senior Boy and Girl who exhibit the qualities of unselshness, neness of character, loyalty to school, humility to all and outstanding all-around athletic ability. We will introduce a new “Lions Citizen of the Year” Award for a community member who “goes above and beyond” for the GHS community. GHS graduates, Alisha Fox and Stefano Okoro, will be our honored speakers that evening. They will speak to student-athletes about the impact athletics have made in shaping the person that they have become. senior signing day We will celebrate our 3rd annual “Senior Signing Day” via a video that will be released tonight at 7. This activity highlights all Senior college and military commitments for the upcoming fall. The national movement has been supported by former rst lady, Michelle Obama. We look forward to sharing all of the accomplishments of this amazing class with you throughout the next couple of months. They may be remembered as the most accomplished class in our school's proud history! class of 2021 updates class of 2021 - post-graduation planning Our Guidance Department staff will soon create and release a video for Junior families during reviewing all of the tasks that they need to complete throughout June, July, and August as they proceed deeper into the post-secondary planning process. It is extremely important for all members of the Class of 2021 to return to our campus in September with a clear, evolving plan for the colleges, universities, and technical schools that they will apply to or military branches that they will meet with a representative of. This process will include unique challenges for our Junior families created by COVID-19 but we will be here to support you throughout the summer. All high school parents should check out these Parent Action Plans that the College Board has created for every high school grade level. They break down important summer activities that parents should aim to do with their child every summer of high school. class of 2021 senior trip We will be sharing a video next week for Juniors and their parents regarding their Senior trip. We are currently scheduled to depart on Monday, April 12th and return on Friday, April 16th.