The $100 deposit for the 8th grade trip to DC is due this Friday, November 3rd. Students who have been selling McDonalds cards for their deposit need to return their money to Mrs. Barr this week. Also, do not forget to create your Group Connect account for yourself and your student if you plan on chaperoning. We will be updating your student's balance through the Group Connect site as we fundraise.
Attention Parents and Students:
Since tomorrow is Halloween, students will be allowed to wear costumes during the school day. In order to ensure that this event is fun yet does not interrupt instruction, we have established a few guidelines:
• Please dress up at home. We cannot accommodate all the people who would like to change in our bathrooms. Hair coloring, make-up, gel, etc. should be applied at home prior to arriving to school as well. Do not bring spray, gel, make-up, paint, glitter, etc.to school to be applied. It will be confiscated by a staff member. Classes will take place as normal, and you won't have time.
• The school dress code still applies. Hats may be worn only as part of an identifiable costume. Costumes that are inappropriate will not be allowed. The following is NOT allowed under any circumstances:
o Clothing with distasteful, bloody, or mutilation themes
o Clothing with vulgarity or inappropriate language
o Two-person costumes
o Masks and full-face paint
o Pogo sticks, skateboards, roller blades, stilts
o Live animals
o Costumes that contain any sort of weapon (guns, knives, scythes)
Let's have a happy Halloween!
GSU Student Inspires Future Space Innovators in NASA Payload Challenge 🚀🌟
Ms. Natalie Fout, student at GSU, came to Mrs. Barker's engineering and flight and space classes Friday to teach about her work with NASA and get students involved in a NASA competition to build a payload.
This payload design is centered around NASAs work with stratospheric balloons and getting information about eclipses. We thank our partner in education Glenville State University and Ms. Fout.
Mrs. Barr's 7th-grade math students undertook an exciting escape room challenge to review proportional relationships. They worked together to solve a series of problems and puzzles with the goal of escaping from a cruise ship. Here are some of our escapees! #gomath #gogilmer
Updated Titan Connect! Thanks to all for the corrections. Let's have a great week!
Join us tonight for SENIOR NIGHT as we honor the contributions of our football, cheerleading, and marching band seniors for the last home game of the season. Festivities will commence at 6:30 PM with kickoff at 7:00 PM The varsity football team will take on the #6 Wahama Eagles. Let's go, Titans!
https://youtube.com/live/etPruJJ8L9I?feature=share
🔬 Science meets art! 📸
Mr. Hill's chemistry students recently used their skills and knowledge of chemistry to produce pictures using a historical photographic printing technique known as Silver Salt Printing.
Solutions of sodium chloride and silver nitrate were painted onto a card which produced silver chloride, a photosensitive compound. Students also used photo editing software to produce a negative image and printed them onto plastic film. When the photosensitive paper is exposed to light through the negative, a positive image is printed onto the paper due to the decomposition of the silver chloride in the transparent areas of the negative. Students then used sodium thiosulfate to "fix" the image and make it permanent.
👏👩🔬👨🔬 A brilliant blend of science and artistry in the hands of our young chemists! #gogilmer #science
🌟Our next employee spotlight is for Mr. Nathan Haynes, Assistant Principal of Gilmer County High School! 🌟
Mr. Haynes is a constant source of positivity and works to inspire students and staff alike to be their very best. His hard work and enthusiasm does not go unnoticed!
Parents of students that are planning on attending the 8th grade trip to DC, please be sure to create your child's Group Collect account.
Information on how to create this was given out at the parent meeting and given to students that have already seen Mrs. Barr. If your student is still interested in attending the trip, please stop by Mrs. Barr's classroom for all of the trip information.
Don't forget: picture day is TOMORROW! Please return the paper form that was sent home with your student OR go to https://my.lifetouch.com/ and use picture day ID: EVTNDKHRH .
Be sure to dress your best!
Don't forget: Mrs. Haley's nutrition and foods classes are selling caramel apples all this week! The price per apple is $3.00 for caramel only and $3.50 for a caramel apple with nuts.
🧟♂️🎭 Join us for a Spine-Chilling Night of Laughter and Survival! 🎭🧟♀️
On Thursday, October 26th, the Mrs. Yoder and the GCHS Drama Club will present their fall production: 10 Ways to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse!
The production for students will take place at 2:20 PM with an encore presentation for the community at 7:00 PM that night. Don't miss out on this unforgettable night of entertainment!
Flyer credit: Alena Gray
It's your week-at-a-glance!
Attention students and staff:
Mrs. Haley's nutrition and foods classes are selling caramel apples during lunch time all this week! The price per apple is $3.00 and $3.50 for a caramel apple with nuts.
Congratulations to Mrs. Duelley's 7th period class for receiving the superintendent's GOAT award for their exceptional higher-order thinking skills in math. 🎉🏆🐐 These students are truly the GOAT when it comes to tackling challenging Mathematical Thinking Tasks!
The GOAT award celebrates the outstanding achievements, work ethic, responsibility, and exceptional citizenship displayed by students and staff in Gilmer County Schools.
To all the students out there, keep striving for excellence! Your dedication and hard work might just lead you to earn the prestigious Golden GOAT trophy in the future. 🐐🏆 #gogilmer #mathmasters #GoldenGOAT
Join us tonight for your Gilmer County Titans vs. the Wirt County High School Tigers! Kickoff is at 7:00 PM, so the stream will start at approximately 6:45 PM. Let's go, Titans!
https://youtu.be/b-z4Sn0KHC8
The 8th grade is raising funds for their trip to Washington, DC this May. Their first fundraiser is a McDonald's McSavings Cards. Each card is $5 and has over $140 in savings. Please see any 8th grader that might be selling them or contact Mrs. Barr for more information.
Additionally, for any parent who was unable to attend the parent meeting and has a student interested in attending the trip, students can see Mrs. Barr for all the information that was handed out at the meeting.
Join us
Join us live tonight at 6:00PM for our varsity volleyball tri-match vs. Buckhannon-Upshur and Ritchie! Let's go, Titans!
https://youtube.com/live/0nW3pH88Kdk?feature=share
Gilmer County Schools are seeking substitute teachers! Apply at: http://tinyurl.com/GCSSubTeacherApply
Are you a student who is interested in a job in healthcare? Do you wonder what types of jobs might be available in the health care field? If so, Juniors and Seniors who are interested in learning more about possible jobs in health care are invited to attend a Health Occupations Expo on Thursday, November 9th in Roanoke, WV.
If you want to attend, you must have an endorsement by a teacher who can attest to your interest for working in a health care field, and you must be passing and caught up in all your classes.
Sign up/permission slips are available in the office. Permission forms must be returned to Mr. Reed by no later than November 1st, 2023. Because we must have an accurate count of the number of students who will be attending the Expo for the organizers of the event, no permission forms will be accepted after November 1st.
We will be stopping at a fast-food restaurant following the Expo for lunch. Please be sure to bring enough money for your lunch and any snacks that you might purchase.
More details about the trip will be available as we get closer to the date.
