SWHS Principal's weekly updates for September 3rd

Welcome back!  

What a great first week!  I am one happy Principal! Our students were amazing, the staff were in full gear taking care of students, and parents were so patient with the first week of the magnetic door system. On top of that, finding out that the efforts of our staff, students, and community were recognized at the State of the Community for Greensboro as the Hubert Humphrey Improvement Funds Award winner for the first time ever is something we all should be proud of. Multiple links can be found embedded in this blog for your viewing pleasure. 

WFMY News video and article
GCS Press Release
YouTube

A reminder that tomorrow, Monday, is Labor Day. No School for staff and students.

Parents and guardians, I need your assistance on two specific items.

First, we are in dire need of a couple PTSA board members. I can assure you the work is minimal but very much needed. Please reach out to me if you have any interest or know you of anyone that can help out. The second item I need help with is for each parent to have a conversation with their children in regards to visiting other school campuses and defacing school property. Most recently, we had students from another school visit our campus and deface our school property. Myself nor that visiting school's principal condones this behavior. I am seeking assistance from our parents to communicate with our our students that it is not wise to take a chance for any reason by visiting any opposing school property for these purposes, even if it is meant to be harmless. Additionally, if we are ever vandalized by another school moving forward, I ask our community and our students to refrain from any form of retaliation, whether it be through social media, verbally, physically, etc.I appreciate ahead of time the conversations you can have with your children in order to keep them from dealing with unnecessary consequences. 

Dress code is now in full effect starting tomorrow. Please take a moment to review the expectations for dress attire.

As a reminder, student pick up and drop off should always be in the front of the school. For safety reasons, the back lot by the gym should be kept to teacher and student movement and parking during the day. Please understand that our students are still considered novice drivers and we need to provide a safer parking lot for our students to drive in and out of. Athlete pick up and drop off can resume in the athletics parking lot. 

Parent assist attendance and grade monitoring will be up and running on 9/11 the 11^th day of school. The reason for this delay, is to ensure we have all schedule changes in the system.Please reach out to your child's teachers if you have any inquiries about their grades.

To register for an account go to Powerschool under the Parent tab on SWHS website site.

If you had an account, try your old password first,  if it doesn’t work click on “forgot my password”. If all fails and you need assistance, email clinek2@gcsnc.com

To add to our great start, the students have been wonderful by respecting our needs for increasing safety protocols at SWHS.  As a reminder, any students arriving before 8:10 should either report to the freshmen gym if they are 9th graders or wait in the front atrium if they are upperclassmen. Obviously there are exceptions to this such as being in Jazz Band zero block, meeting with teachers for tutorials, clubs, etc. Please understand that our staff do not start their day until 8:15. 

In regards to Safety and security, we are waiting on our 2nd magentic door lock to be installed. I am anticipating this install to occur soon.  We are also expecting the pilot program for the student identification card system, a visitor monitoring system as well as a student locator on buses system coming our way. We will keep everyone updated with the progress of these programs. Thank you for working with these changes and understanding that these measures are being put in place to increase the level of safety and security at SWHS.

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page at www.cowboysports.org.

Monday, September 3
NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY

Tuesday, September 4
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Cancelled- Conference Meet @ Maple Chase Away 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Dudley Senior High School Home 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Northern Guilford High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Dudley Senior High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Northern Guilford High School Home 

Wednesday, September 5
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Ragsdale High School Away 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Home

Thursday, September 6 
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf East Forsyth High School Away 
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Western Guilford High School Home 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Western Guilford High School Away 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Western Guilford High School Away 
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football Ragsdale High School Home 
7:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Cheerleading Ragsdale High School Home 

Friday, September 7 
7:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Friday Night Lights XC Festival @ Ivey Redmon Park Home 
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football Ragsdale High School Away 
7:30 PM Womens Varsity Cheerleading Ragsdale High School Away

Saturday, September 8
11:00 AM High School Theater Dramatic Reading - High Point Public Library 901 N Main Street

COMING UP...

Monday, September 11
Time TBD Underclassmen Picture Day

Wednesday, September 13
7:45-8:30 Leadership team Meeting -Media Center

Friday, September 15
ALL DAY PTSA Chic Fil A day - just mention SWHS so a portion of the proceeds goes back to the school

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