Car Signs

Campus issued car signs must be present when you pick your child up in either car line after school. If you do not have a car sign, we will ask you to park and check-in with the front office so they can check your ID and ensure you are able to pick-up the student. IF you need to add an emergency contact for pick-up purposes please email candice.patton@gcisd.net with the first name, last name, email and phone number of the individual. 

IF you need additional car signs, please email regina.sharp@gcisd.net. 

Progress Reports post Wednesday

The first 6-weeks Progress Reports will post to Skyward on Wednesday, Sept. 27th. You will receive an email from Skyward when the progress reports are available. Thank you for taking the time to look through your child's progress. 

Book Vending Machine

We have many students who completed their Summer Reading Challenge! Any returning GES star students who maintained their reading level from the end of last year into August of this year get to pick a book from our book machine! Last week we started with Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 3rd grade students who met their Summer Challenge! We had the following percentage of students who maintained their reading level over the summer:

• Kinder: 16/33 (39%) maintained their letter sounds from PreK to Kinder

• 1st Grade: 42/61 (69%) maintained reading level from end of kinder to 1st

• 3rd Grade: 48/72 (67%) maintained reading level from 2nd to 3rd

Our staff is still finishing individual reading assessments for all our students and we look forward to celebrating our 2nd, 4th, and 5th grade students soon! 

Thank You from Nurse Lindsey

Thank you to the wonderful parents of GES for ALL the donations for the clinic! I truly appreciate everything and it certainly makes my job a little bit easier!

~Nurse Lindsey

Zootique Volunteers Needed

The Zootique is ready for it's September opening! We made some adjustments to the schedule based on timing last month. We have split up the grade levels into the last 2 Fridays of the month. We would love to have Volunteers help us run the Zootique so we can effectively get through each grade level in 45-60 minutes. Last month several members of our PTA board supported the Leadership Team as we rolled around the building. It was great fun to work with the students and teach some financial literacy as they decided to save or spend their Zoo Bucks! IF you have completed your background check and would like to volunteer to help at one or more grade levels this month, we would love to have you! You can sign-up HERE! 

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thank you to all the families who have signed up for Parent/Teacher Conferences. Our hope is to meet with 100% of our families before the end of September. Your partnership in your child's education is very important to us. We appreciate you taking time to come meet with us about your child's beginning of the year scores and how we can support them this school year. 

Clubs After School

Please help us by reminding your student if they have an after school club. You might choose to write them a reminder in their behavior calendar on the days they have a club. This would help the teacher have an awareness and your student to remember at the end of the day. We also make announcements on KGES each morning. We have many students going to a variety of clubs each day and this is one way to help them remember. 

Wild Wednesdays

To go along with our school theme this year, we invite our students to join the staff in participating in Wild Wednesdays this year. They may choose to wear something with animal print or an animal on it. This is purely optional and just something fun for students and staff as we remember the importance of our school theme throughout the year: Wild about Engagement! 

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 lunch from August 28-September 29 HERE. 

You can sign-up for lunch from October 2-31 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.