Good evening, this is Mike Hettenbach, Principal of Southwest Guilford High School.
Tomorrow is your child's first day of the year at Southwest Guilford High School. The staff at Southwest is very excited to see and welcome your child. Please make sure you guide your child to locate their homeroom tomorrow morning. Homerooms will be posted on the main hallway for grades 10-12. Freshmen homerooms will be posted inside the freshmen gym as well as in the hallway of the freshmen gym. Students will receive their schedules in their homeroom tomorrow morning. Homeroom will occur the first 3 days of school to assist with basic managerial tasks. Thursday will start with 1st block. Students who believe their schedule is wrong when they receive their schedule should fill out a schedule change form which will be available outside the main office as well as outside Ms. Compton's office after school on Monday. The only time a student should report to a counselor on the first 3 days of school is if he/she does not have a location to report to based on their schedule. The window for schedule change request is the first 10 days of school. Any students who have Weaver classes the first day of school will report to Weaver as expected. Students who are enrolled in GTCC classes as their first location should report to GTCC and report to SWHS thereafter. He/she can pick up their schedule on the first day from the main office once they arrive to school.
At this time, all students should have finished their summer reading. The summer reading expectations have been posted on the SWHS website. Please remember, if you end up getting English scheduled in the 2nd semester, you can reach out to your assigned spring teacher and set up a time to take your summer reading test right after school starts.
Dress code has been modified this year, allowing SWHS spirit shirts any day during the week. Please check the school's website for the updated version of our Student Dress Code that includes some other modifications as well. This was approved by the school's leadership team. If you have already been shopping based on the previous year's dress codes, your child will still be within the parameters of the code, however, you and your child will find that we have eased up on some of the expectations while also providing clarity. The first week of school, students are allowed to wear homemade CLASS shirts showing their pride of their graduating year. Additionally, feel free to navigate the school's athletic website to purchase spirit wear directly form the athletic department! www.cowboysports.org. Freshmen shirts have been created as well and can be purchased through the 9th grade Assistant Principal, Mr. Miller.
Go ahead and mark your calendar for the 1st semester, PTSA Walk The Schedule night, or as some of you may see it as Open House. This event will be Septemberstart at 6:00 in the auditorium, will then be led into classrooms according to your child's schedule and then end at 7:30.
You can always access the weekly athletic schedule on the athletics website as well as on the school's weekly Principal's message located on the school's website.
Upcoming Athletic schedule:
Monday 4:30 Women's Tennis at home vs. Mt Tabor
Tuesday 5:00 and 6:30 Women's JV and Varsity Volleyball at home vs. Parkland
5:00 Coed Cross Country at home
Wednesday 4:00 Women's golf at home vs. Grimsley and Page
Thursday 4:00 Women's JV Tennis at home vs. HP Christian
4:30 Women's Varsity Golf at home
5:00 and 6:30 Women's JV and V Volleyball at home vs. Mt Tabor
5:30 and 7:00 Men's JV and Varsity Soccer at home vs. Ragsdale
Friday 7:30 Men's Varsity Football at home vs. High Point Central
As it relates to athletics, any questions should be addressed directly to the coaches related to the sport in question. Additional questions can be directed to our Athletic Director Coach Brindon Christman. The athletics department has a wonderful web site for you to navigate. Please feel free to access it at www.cowboysports.org
Our athletic season has already started and it's been a pleasure to see so many of you out supporting our student athletes. Please help us in representing Southwest in the most respectful manner when attending our events. Sharing this with your child is extremely important as well as we want to be models around the county in demonstrating positive character. Last, please make sure your child is communicating to you in order for he/she to be picked up in a timely manner directly after the ending of the athletic contest.
Remember, you are always able to access this message on our school website under School News and titled Principal's Weekly Updates or on Facebook and Twitter. Please follow Southwest High School at SouthwestGHS for both Twitter and Facebook. This is a great way for us to communicate and stay connected.
I hope you continue to have a great summer and I look forward to seeing all of our students on the first day of school, Monday, August 28th!
We are... Southwest!
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