Field Day Permission Slips

Turquoise permission slips were sent home last week with your students for Field Day. We must have a signed permission slip specifically for our students to swim at the Grapevine Pool right behind campus during their grade level designated time. Please sign and return the Permission Slip to your homeroom teacher by Friday, May 10th. More details about Field Day on May 17th will be coming next week in the Monday Message! 

Field Day Fast Passes

If you would like to avoid the long lines at the kiosk on Friday, May 17th, you can reserve your Fast Pass now by clicking HERE! Fast Passes will be available for pick-up in the vestibule starting Thursday, May 16th at arrival from 7:20-7:40am and dismissal 2:45-3:15pm. You can also pick them up on Friday, May 17th from 7:20-7:40am and then again starting at 8:30am in the vestibule throughout the day Friday. Field Day begins at 8:45am in the Hall Johnson Circle Drive. Please provide both your FIRST and LAST name and your birthday the way it appears on your Driver's License. Fast Passes can be reserved until the end of the day on Tuesday,  May 14th. 

Lunches for Field Day

PTA is providing cheese pizza from Nizza Pizza for all students for field day! Additionally PTA is purchasing Hip Pop popsicles for each student for Field Day snack. 

However, if your child would also like to purchase a bag lunch for field day from the cafeteria, please complete this FORM. Students will eat in their classrooms on field day according to their field day schedule. Please complete the form by Tuesday, May 14th.

Congratulations Mrs. Couch, 

GCISD Elementary Teacher of the Year

We are thrilled to share that at a recent luncheon put on by the Chambers of Commerce for both Grapevine and Colleyville, Mrs. Couch was announced as the GCISD Elementary Teacher of the Year! She will now represent GCISD in the Region 11 Teacher of the Year contest. Please join us in congratulating her and wishing her well at the next level! 

May Zootique Volunteers Needed

We have 1 more opportunity this school year for students to spend their Zoo Bucks in the Zootique! We will open the Zootique on Tuesday, May 14th for kinder, 2nd, and 5th grade. We will open it on Wednesday, May 15th for 1st, 3rd, and 4th grade. In order to effectively run the Zootique, we rely on parent volunteers to help students count their money and make their purchases. If you have completed a background check and are available to help for an hour, we would love your assistance! You can sign-up HERE. 

Class Pictures Available

If you would like to order a class picture from your child's year, you can go to the Glamourcraft website using our school code below. All orders will be shipped to your home. 

Must be ordered online at our website HERE. 

ALL ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED TO THE HOME.

Click the link above & enter the following code.

SCHOOL CODE IS :

gvine24grps

Walk a Mile with Coach Basil

Come out Tuesday, May 7th and Walk a Mile with GCISD! Coach Basil invites you to join her for an evening of exercise and community building. She would love to see all the GES students and families there! Stop by Mustang Panter Stadium anytime from 6:00-7:30pm and bring the whole family! 

Wildly Amazing Student Wednesdays

Each Wednesday in May, to wrap up our WILD year, we will be celebrating our WILD Wednesdays by catching students who are exhibiting our GES Family Values! Through a generous donation from Kids Heart Challenge, we were able to obtain lanyards for each students and many different animal key chains. Students will be working each Wednesday to earn a different animal based on their safe, kind, helpful, and respectful choices. Students can choose to keep and wear their lanyards all month long, just on Wednesdays, or attach the keychains to their backpack. We hope this is a little extra motivation and engagement with our GES Guidelines for Success as we wrap up a wonderfully WILD year! 

• • May 8 - Don't Make a Zebra Blue - Use kind words, be helpful and respectful

Spend Your Summer With EDP! 

Enroll now to give your child a summer they will never forget!  Weekly registrations available.  Registration link is here.

Mystery Student Mondays

Each Monday beginning today through the end of May, we will have a mystery behavior. This concept comes from our Positive Behavior Intervention System. The teachers know each Monday morning what the mystery behavior will be and they are looking all day for a student in their classroom that exemplifies that behavior trait. At the end of the day, all staff members can choose a student to be recognized as their mystery student and they get to visit our toy machine in the foyer. 

No Cell Phone Use in School Zone

Did you know it's against the law to be on your cell phone while driving in a school zone? Not only can you incur a $200 fine, but it puts the safety of our students and staff at risk. We kindly ask that you remain hands free while in our school zone and our car lines. Please help us spread the word to anyone that may drop-off or pick-up your child, as well. We know we have many grandparents, babysitters, families and friends that pick up students and we want to be sure that everyone is working together for student safety. Thank you! 

GES Summer Withdrawal Form

We are asking any families who know they are NOT returning to GES for the 2024-2025 school year to please complete the following GES Summer Withdrawal FORM. This does not include students moving on to middle school. 

Registration for 2024-2025

Returning student registration is open! While parents are able to register up until the first day of school, parents are encouraged to register by Friday, May 17 to help the district gather enrollment numbers as early as possible for planning purposes. 

To register a returning student click here. Prior to completing online registration, students enrolling in pre-kindergarten must have completed a separate online application, which may be found here. 

Families who are awaiting a transfer request should register for the campus they are currently zoned for. Transfer requests will be processed at a later date. To view attendance zones, visit our School Maps Online. 

New student registration is also open and can be completed here. Students new to the district (including those entering kindergarten) must provide proof of residency, birth certificate, social security number, immunization record, emergency contact numbers and a report card from the previous school unless enrolling in kindergarten.

Families needing assistance with registration for the 2024-2025 school year should contact our campus registrar, Candice Patton, candice.patton@gcisd.net. Families who need additional assistance or have specific questions or concerns may also call the front office at 817-251-5735. 

For more information, visit GCISD’s 2024-2025 registration page.

Lunch Visitors

Lunch guests will sign-in through our secure vestibule with a valid ID, stop by the front office to check-in and receive a visitor badge, and then meet their GES star at the entrance to the cafeteria. Families will have the option to sit outside in the picnic table area for lunch or in our cafeteria at an empty table near the windows. Parents are welcome to bring in outside food when having their lunch with their child. We ask that you please be courteous to the rest of the community and limit lunch visits with your child to no more than one per month so that all families have the opportunity to visit. We appreciate your cooperation. 

Each family needs only 1 slot reserved. For example, Mom, Dad, and sister may all come eat lunch with Nancy. Only Mom needs to be registered as 1 visitor to reserve 1 picnic table together. When it asks for quantity of visitors, please select just 1. Lunch visitors may only eat with their child or student. You may not invite friends to sit with you when coming for lunch. 

You can sign-up for May 1-23 HERE. 

Volunteering

We LOVE our volunteers at GES! This year we are encouraging all families who plan to come to campus and interact with students to go ahead and complete the background check. Volunteers must complete this EACH YEAR beginning in August! It can take 1-2 weeks for your background check to clear. If you plan to be a guest reader, volunteer at a class party, chaperone a field trip, volunteer with PTA, open car doors with our Dad's Club, etc. you will need a completed Background Check!  

The following link takes you to the online Volunteer Handbook and background check: https://www.gcisd.net/o/gcisd/page/volunteer-background-check 

In order to volunteer at GES, or around GCISD, all volunteers must:

1. read the Volunteer Handbook (this replaces the previous face to face volunteer trainings held on campus)

2. watch the appropriate video included in the handbook

3. electronically sign the verification Google form for each campus you plan to volunteer

4. complete the volunteer background check. A link is included in the handbook.

When you are ready to volunteer at GES, feel free to call the front office at 817-251-5735 to verify that both of the required steps have been recorded as completed. We appreciate your support as you complete these steps and volunteer to work with our GES students.