SWHS Principal's weekly updates for March 12

Good evening, this is Mike Hettenbach, Principal of Southwest Guilford High School with your weekly updates and reminders...

Please be sure that your cell phones have automatically adjusted to daylight savings, and that you have advanced all other clocks in your house and cars as daylight savings was this past weekend. 

 As I mentioned in my last connect ed, we have a parent who is willing to make a large donation matching dollar for dollar up to $30,000 for every donation made by the community. I invite you and your friends to attend a very brief overview regarding safety and security at SWHS on Tuesday, at 6PM in the auditorium as well as touch base with you regarding this donation and how you can help if you choose to do so.. Please know we will use these donations to add to what GCS is already planning on assisting us with. These donations will assist us with going above and beyond. I look forward to seeing you at the meeting this Tuesday evening at 6pm in our auditorium!

This past week, I met with the staff and informed them how we will be reviewing our safety procedures weekly, with the expectation that these procedures will be reviewed with each of their classes. This past week, we conducted both our monthly fire drill as well as as our tornado drill. All students were wonderful as they took this drill serious and paid attention to all of the directions given to them by those who monitored the drills. We will continue to inform you of the various drills that have been practiced in our school.

A big thank you to those of you have heave heard my plea to stop dropping off or picking up your child on the main road outside our school. This not only impedes the flow of traffic, but it is a very unsafe situation that can lead to a very unfortunate incident.  

If you have been reading the news about GCS students walking out on Wednesday, please know I am extremely proud that many students have approached me inquiring about various dates over the next month with walking out. We decided to move forward with this Wednesday, showing our solidarity with the students and the community in honoring the 17 lives lost in Florida by holding this walk-out at 10:00 am that will last 17 minutes. While there were many dates floating around for these walk-outs, we wanted to use this date as a non political platform to honor the lives lost in the Florida event.   

Registration for the 2018-19 school year is underway.  Students have been meeting with their counselors to discuss class offerings for the upcoming school year.  Guilford County Schools requests students to register for classes through PowerSchool.

Parents and students should sign into  the student’s PowerSchool account and click on Class Registration. Once students login into the registration system they will be able to see each teachers recommendation.  Students are encouraged to follow the teachers recommendation.  If parents and students disagree with the recommendation please reach out to the teacher for clarification.  We have added several new course selections for the upcoming school year and we are excited about the variety of course offerings.  If your student needs assistance with the online registration system, counselors will be available in the cafeteria during lunch on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  The registration system will be open Monday, March 12-Sunday, March 18.  The courses that students select help us to determine which classes will be offered next year as well as how many sections of each course will be offered. This is extremely important to understand as many individuals think it is an easy switch come Fall, but again, please understand what students choose now drives the number of teachers and courses for each class.

Rising 11th and 12th grade students who are interested in dual enrollment via Career & College Promise have an opportunity to find out more about this program by attending an informational session at GTCC Jamestown on March 20, at 6PM in the Sears Applied Building.

We have a little less than 3 weeks left until the 3rd quarter ends. I hope all of you have received your child's interim report from last Thursday. Please make sure you are in contact with your child's teacher for academic help or to make sure any excessive time is made up. 

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:

Monday, March 12

4:00 PM Mens Varsity Golf Conference Match hosted by SWGHS @ Jamestown Park Home 

4:30 PM Mens Varsity Tennis Western Guilford High School Home 
4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Baseball Western Alamance High School Away 
5:30 PM Womens Varsity Lacrosse Glenn Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Baseball Western Alamance High School Away 

7:15 PM Mens Varsity Lacrosse Glenn Home 

Tuesday, March 13

6:00 - 7:00 PM Safety/Security meeting - Auditorium

4:00 PM Mens Varsity Golf Tri-Match vs. Grimsley/Ragsdale Home 

4:30 PM Mens Varsity Tennis Ronald Reagan High School Home 

4:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Softball East Forsyth High School Away 

4:30 PM Coed Varsity Track Conference Meet vs. Dudley/W. Guilford/Smith Home 

5:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Away 

6:00 PM Womens Varsity Lacrosse Atkins High School Away 

6:30 PM Womens Varsity Softball East Forsyth High School Away 

7:00 PM Womens Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Away

Wednesday, March 14

7:45 AM Leadership Meeting - Barnum's office
10:00 AM school wide walkout

4:30 PM Mens Varsity Tennis Parkland High School Away 

5:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Baseball East Forsyth High School Home 

5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Softball West Forsyth High School Home 

5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Lacrosse R J Reynolds High School Home 

7:00 PM Mens Varsity Baseball East Forsyth High School Away 

7:00 PM Womens Varsity Softball West Forsyth High School Home  
7:15 PM Mens Varsity Lacrosse High Point Central High School Home 

Thursday, March 15

4:00 PM Mens Varsity Golf Quad-Match vs. Glenn/Ragsdale/Grimsley at Winding Creek Away 

5:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Soccer Summit School Home 

7:00 PM Womens Varsity Soccer High Point Central High School Home 

6:00 PM Mens Varsity Lacrosse High Point Central High School Away

Friday, March 16

4:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Baseball Western Guilford High School Home 

5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Softball North Davidson High School Home 

5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Lacrosse West Forsyth High School Away 

5:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Soccer Western Guilford High School Home 

7:00 PM Mens Varsity Baseball Western Guilford High School Home 

7:00 PM Womens Varsity Soccer Western Guilford High School Home 

7:00 PM Womens Varsity Softball Western Guilford High School Home 

7:30 PM Mens Varsity Lacrosse West Forsyth High School Away 

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