A big thank you to the entire community, students, staff and parents for providing us with the support needed during this past week. I have had a tremendous amount of conversations with many of you over these past few days, particularly about poor decision making amongst our teenagers. While we can all agree that young people may make poor decisions, I think we can all agree that we can assist with minimizing those decisions, especially decisions surrounding drugs and alcohol. We must start taking as many steps as possible to be completely sure we are doing everything we can to teach, monitor and intervene when it comes to these young people. Please assist us in this process. We have lost too many young people and this must stop immediately.
Please remind each other that we return to school from break on Wednesday January 3rd.
Parents and students, we now have 8 full instructional days left while two of these days may have teacher made final exams being issued. As you can see, we are a blink of an eye away from being complete. Interim reports were distributed this past Monday, December 18th. Please contact your child's teachers if you did not receive them. Please make sure your child's grades are kept up, excessive attendance issues are corrected, time made up, and positive choices maintained. If you need assistance with grade monitoring through the parent assistance program, please contact Kristy Cline through e-mail at clinek2@gcsnc.com. Exam exemptions will be distributed on Tuesday, January 9th in the cafeteria during all lunches. In order to earn an exemption card, the student must be in attendance 97% for the entire semester and without any unexcused absences.
End of semester Final Exam Testing for non state exams will occur on Thursday, January 11th for blocks 1 and 3, and Friday, January 12th for blocks 2 and 4. These two days are regular school days. Exempting the exams on these two days do not excuse any student from school on these days, however, students do not have to attend school the following week in which their class would have been scheduled. The following week, January 16th to Friday, January 20th will test blocks 1-4 for all state exams. These 4 days will end at 1:05 for dismissal. Students should be in dress code for all exams and will not be allowed to take their exam if out of dress code. Please reach out to your child's teachers if you have more questions related to the exams.
Please remind each other that we return to school from break on Wednesday January 3rd.
Parents and students, we now have 8 full instructional days left while two of these days may have teacher made final exams being issued. As you can see, we are a blink of an eye away from being complete. Interim reports were distributed this past Monday, December 18th. Please contact your child's teachers if you did not receive them. Please make sure your child's grades are kept up, excessive attendance issues are corrected, time made up, and positive choices maintained. If you need assistance with grade monitoring through the parent assistance program, please contact Kristy Cline through e-mail at clinek2@gcsnc.com. Exam exemptions will be distributed on Tuesday, January 9th in the cafeteria during all lunches. In order to earn an exemption card, the student must be in attendance 97% for the entire semester and without any unexcused absences.
End of semester Final Exam Testing for non state exams will occur on Thursday, January 11th for blocks 1 and 3, and Friday, January 12th for blocks 2 and 4. These two days are regular school days. Exempting the exams on these two days do not excuse any student from school on these days, however, students do not have to attend school the following week in which their class would have been scheduled. The following week, January 16th to Friday, January 20th will test blocks 1-4 for all state exams. These 4 days will end at 1:05 for dismissal. Students should be in dress code for all exams and will not be allowed to take their exam if out of dress code. Please reach out to your child's teachers if you have more questions related to the exams.
Freshman Focus parents, we are having a "be active" hoops/jump rope for heart day in our freshman focus classes. On January 9th, we are asking all Freshman Focus students to make a $2 dollar donation to participate in the event. All additional donations are certainly welcome and appreciated.
The men’s and women’s varsity basketball teams are sponsoring Hoops for Hunger for the remainder of the basketball season. We ask that you bring non-perishable food items to the remaining home basketball games. Green bins will be available in the gym lobby for
you to deposit your donations. All of the items donated will go to support families in need within the Southwest Schools. Hunger is not just an issue around the holidays. Hunger is an issue every day of the year. These donations are not in lieu of the regular price of admission. We have the Sheetz holiday tournament over break as well as home games following thereafter so come on out and support the basketball program as well as the Hoops for Hunger program!
LET’S DUNK HUNGER TOGETHER!!
As it relates to the weekly athletics, please feel free to navigate to the www.cowboysports.org website for detailed information.
Upcoming Athletic schedule, extracurricular events, and important activities:
Tuesday, January 9
7:00 PM Winter Choral Concert
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.
Tuesday, December 26
9:00 AM Mens Junior Varsity Basketball NW JV Basketball Tournament Away
Wednesday, December 27
TBA Mens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
TBA Mens Junior Varsity Basketball NW JV Basketball Tournament Away
TBA Womens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
Thursday, December 28
TBA Mens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
TBA Mens Junior Varsity Basketball NW JV Basketball Tournament Away
TBA Womens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
Friday, December 29
TBA Mens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
TBA Womens Varsity Basketball Sheetz Holiday Christmas Classic Home
10:00 AM Mens Varsity Wrestling Holy Angels Tournament @ Bojangles Arena in Charlotte Away
Saturday, December 30
9:00 AM Mens Varsity Wrestling Holy Angels Tournament @ Bojangles Arena in Charlotte Away
Wednesday, January 03
4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home
6:00 PM Coed Varsity Swimming OPEN DATE Home
6:00 PM Womens Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home 7:00 PM Mens Varsity Wrestling Parkland High School Match Away
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home
Friday, January 05
4:00 PM Coed Varsity Swimming N. Davidson Invitational @ WSSU Pool Home
4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
5:00 PM Mens Varsity Wrestling Quentin Crosby Invitational @ Dudley HS Away
6:00 PM Womens Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
Saturday, January 6
EOC boot camp - specifics to be communicated by teachers
9:00 AM Mens Varsity Wrestling Quentin Crosby Invitational @ Dudley HS Away
Monday, January 8
6:00 PM PTSA Meeting - C132
Wednesday, January 03
4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home
6:00 PM Coed Varsity Swimming OPEN DATE Home
6:00 PM Womens Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home 7:00 PM Mens Varsity Wrestling Parkland High School Match Away
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Basketball Western Guilford High School Conference game Home
Friday, January 05
4:00 PM Coed Varsity Swimming N. Davidson Invitational @ WSSU Pool Home
4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
5:00 PM Mens Varsity Wrestling Quentin Crosby Invitational @ Dudley HS Away
6:00 PM Womens Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Basketball Parkland High School Conference game Away
Saturday, January 6
EOC boot camp - specifics to be communicated by teachers
9:00 AM Mens Varsity Wrestling Quentin Crosby Invitational @ Dudley HS Away
Monday, January 8
6:00 PM PTSA Meeting - C132
Tuesday, January 9
7:00 PM Winter Choral Concert
Everyone at SWHS wishes you all a very safe and joyous holiday break.
We are... Southwest!
