SWGHS Principal's weekly updates and reminders for August 26th

Good evening Southwest High School!  Let the games begin! 

I hope this communication finds you ready to go for Monday morning with the new start time of 8:10.  We start at 8:10 and end at 3:15. Homerooms will be posted on the walls in the freshman gym for 9th graders and in the main halls for upperclassmen. Students must attend those locations to receive their most updated schedules. These schedules could have changed for a variety of reasons. Now, in homeroom, your student will receive multiple items and a lot of information during the first 3 days. Starting tomorrow, 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 7:55 the latest. Students will then be allowed to move to the main hallway at 7:40. Thank you for understanding this additional measure we put in place for the safety of all individuals who arrive to our campus. Additionally, please remember that all doors are locked throughout the day. If you are needing to enter the campus, you will be required to buzz in, have identification ready and state your purpose for entering our building. All visitors must still check in with either attendance or the main office. Thank you again for understanding the importance of this process.  

 New bell schedule (first three days, homeroom runs from 8:10-8:30)

Students arriving before 7:40 should wait in the:

Freshmen – Freshmen gym

Upper classmen – front atrium

(Note: this is a safety reason)

At 7:40, a bell will ring and allow students to swipe in to the one card pass system

Students are released to 1^st block class  8:05

             1^st Block           8:10 to 9:50

             2^nd Block         9:55 to 11:25

             3^rd Block         11:30 to 1:35

             1^st lunch          11:30 to 11:55

                           12:00 sweep bell for 9^th graders

             2^nd lunch          12:03 to 12:28

             3^rd lunch          12:36 to 1:01

             4^th lunch          1:10 to 1:35

              4^th Block         1:40 to 3:15

3:30 – Halls should be clear of ALL students

4:30 – dismissal from tutorials to get on after school buses on Tuesdays and Thursdays (once tutorials needing transportation starts).

Weaver students will begin on Day 2.  AM Weaver students should report to homeroom followed by the media center, PM Weaver students should report to the media center for 3rd block. On Tuesday, Weaver students will not be required to go to homeroom and will go to the front foyer to await Weaver transportation where they will be picked up around 8:25. They will return to campus around 12:15. PM Weaver students will be picked up from SW between 11:30-11:45 in front of the school.  Any Weaver students on campus day 1 are NOT allowed to roam the halls or hangout anywhere other than the Media Center. They should remain at SWHS in the media center on Day 1 for attendance purposes. 

GTCC CCP students will start on Monday and if needing transportation should have been communicated to by their counselor and will be picked up in front of the school at the designated time from bus 1124. GTCC students will start on Monday!

In regards to traditional transportation and the Exceptional Children Department transportation (except 2), they will be dropping off in the student parking lot. wit that being said, it is vital that all parents drop off their students in the front of the school. You will not be allowed to enter the student parking lot to drop off your student. Additionally, there have been some very unsafe practices over the years specifically watching parents stop in the middle of Barrow Road to drop off their student. Please do not do this. Drive to the front of the school and drop off your student so we can assure best safe practices. Students will get on their respective buses in the front of the school after the day ends.  

If you are needing transportation AM or PM stops, please visit the GCS transportation website and look up the bus stop locator. This will guide you to the morning and afternoon stops and times. Please be patient in the first week as delays are common in the beginning of the school year. 

Counseling Info and  Assignments

Anna Compton - Freshmen - comptoa@gcsnc.com

Galissia Graves - A-D - gravesg3@gcsnc.com

Shelli Campbell - E-L - campbes2@gcsnc.com

Kendra Graham - M-R - grahamk2@gcsnc.com

Janet Hudgens - S-Z - hudgenj@gcsnc.com

If there are schedule change requests, a scheduling change request form must be filled out and turned in. The first two days of the school year are dedicated to scheduling new enrollees and working with students who have a repeated class on their 1st semester schedule, a class out of order (level 2 before taking level 1), or a hole in the schedule. Days 3-5 will be focusing on all other scheduling changes that have meet the communicated criteria for schedule changes. 
Mrs. Hudgens' Remind codes:

10^th – 12^th graders with last names S - Z (Mrs. Hudgens' case load)

Seniors:  Tell people to text @hudgsw20 to the number 81010 

Juniors: Tell people to text @hudgsw21 to the number 81010

Sophomores: Tell people to text @hudgens22 to the number 81010

Ms. Graham's Remind Codes:
 (grades 10-12 last names M-R): Remind codes are @graham2020, @graham2021, & @graham2022

Ms. Graves' Remind Codes are: (grades 10-12 last names A-D): @graves2020 12^th graders, @graves2021 11^th graders, @graves2022 10^th graders

Mrs. Campbell's (E-Lcodes will be communicated as soon as GCS activates her GCS e-mail account.

Ms. Compton (All of Grade 9) - @7467_f4

Dress code for the first week – Please share with your student

All grade levels except for the senior class must be in complete dress code starting Monday. The dress code is found on the website if you need clarification. Seniors have spirit week. Seniors will be allowed to follow these themes (with dress code remaining for bottoms)...

Monday, Hawaiian/Tie Dye

Tuesday, Senior Queen

Wednesday - Neon Pink shirt/Jersey with "20" on the back

Thursday, Swat/Camouflage

Friday, SW Spirit shirt or class shirt (these can be homemade this week).

9th, 10th and 11th graders can wear homemade class shirts on Friday as well. Typically, homemade shirts are not allowed within the dress code expectations, however, we are making an exception this Friday.

Starting Tuesday, September 3rd, all grade levels will be back in dress code.
Dress code (you can click on this link to the left) - please check the dress code on the Southwest Guilford High School website for very minor adjustments. 

Parent assist attendance and grade monitoring will be up and running on 9/10 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

As a reminder, all students should have already started their summer reading. Students will be tested in the first couple weeks of school. If a student has English in their 2nd semester, they can still get their test out of the way during the beginning of the first semester. All he/she needs to do is to reach out to their 2nd semester teacher. Summer reading lists for all grade levels can be found under the students tab on the SWHS website. https://www.gcsnc.com/southwest_guilford_high

     

A heads up for AP students, it is never too early to start accessing the materials to be better prepared for your AP classes. AP students need to ask their AP teachers to share a join code to access AP classroom resources.

Parents and students have asked about the OneCard processs. We will not be starting this process until I feel we have the pieces in pace to run this more effectively. We will keep you abreast of this process. 

Parking Permits can be obtained by filling out the appropriate form (found outside the front office), having license ready along with the $40 fee and providing this to Mrs. Barnum before school in the cafeteria.

With the sad state of funding from our county commissioners, I embarrassingly ask for the community to assist our teachers with any basic supplies such as dry erase markers, dry erases, dry erase board cleaners, tissues, hand sanitizer, sticky notes, pens, pencils, etc. Feel free to send these supplies in with your student any day during the year. This will help us dramatically.  

Please review the student handbook with your student. This can be found on the SWGHS website and we also distributed the hard copy to each student on this coming Monday.  Please pay extra attention to items such as no lunches being delivered by vendors, the process for lunches being dropped off by adults only, the electronics policy, dress code, and more. 

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page  

at 

www.cowboysports.org

Special Announcement: We are looking for 2 to 3 girls to join our women’s golf team.  Currently, practice is at 6 PM at Jamestown Park.  Please contact Coach Christman at christb2@gcsnc.com 

Sports passes available!!!

Upcoming Sports Schedule

Monday, August 26
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Conference match @ Maple Chase Away
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis East Forsyth High School Home

Tuesday, August 27
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Golf Page High School Away
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Northwest Senior High School Home
5:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country 2019 Guilford County Cross Country Championship Away
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball East Forsyth High School Home
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Glenn Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball East Forsyth High School Home
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Glenn Home

Wednesday, August 28
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis High Point Central High School Home
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity
Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home

Thursday, August 29
4:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Tennis High Point Christian Academy Home
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity
Volleyball Bishop Mc Guinness Memorial H S Home
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football East Forsyth High School Home

Friday, August 30
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football East Forsyth High School Away

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, Twitter and Instagram. Please follow Southwest High School at SouthwestGHS for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! This is a great way for us to communicate and stay connected. 

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SWGHS Principal's weekly announcements for August 19th

Good evening Southwest High School!  I hope this blog finds you doing well, rested up for the start of school, and motivated to do your best!

First and foremost, as you have heard by now, our bell schedule has been changed due to the awful traffic congestion on Barrow and Southwest School Roads. We shared the new bell schedule as soon as GCS confirmed these changes. If you believe this may interfere with your child's schedule, please reach out to your counselor. If your child's counselor happens to be one of our new counselors; Ms. Shelli Campbell (E-L), or Ms. Kendra Graham (M-R), please e-mail Ms. Galissia Graves at gravesg3@gcsnc.com. 

 New bell schedule

Students arriving before 7:40 should wait in the:

Freshmen – Freshmen gym

Upper classmen – front atrium

(Note: this is a safety reason)

At 7:40, a bell will ring and allow students to swipe in to the one card pass system

Students are released to 1^st block class  8:05

             1^st Block           8:10 to 9:50

             2^nd Block         9:55 to 11:25

             3^rd Block         11:30 to 1:35

             1^st lunch          11:30 to 11:55

                           12:00 sweep bell for 9^th graders

             2^nd lunch          12:03 to 12:28

             3^rd lunch          12:36 to 1:01

             4^th lunch          1:10 to 1:35

              4^th Block         1:40 to 3:15

3:30 – Halls should be clear of ALL students

4:30 – dismissal from tutorials to get on after school buses on Tuesdays and Thursdays (once tutorials needing transportation starts).

Counseling Info and  Assignments

Anna Compton - Freshmen - comptoa@gcsnc.com

Galissia Graves - A-D - gravesg3@gcsnc.com

Shelli Campbell - E-L - e-mail forthcoming

Kendra Graham - M-R - e-mail forthcoming

Janet Hudgens - S-Z - hudgenj@gcsnc.com

If there are schedule change requests, a scheduling change request form must be filled out and turned in. The first two days of the school year are dedicated to scheduling new enrollees and working with students who have a repeated class on their 1st semester schedule, a class out of order (level 2 before taking level 1), or a hole in the schedule. Days 3-5 will be focusing on all other scheduling changes. 

10^th – 12^th graders with last names S - Z (Mrs. Hudgens' case load)

Seniors:  Tell people to text @hudgsw20 to the number 81010 

Juniors: Tell people to text @hudgsw21 to the number 81010

Sophomores: Tell people to text @hudgens22 to the number 81010

Ms. Graham (grades 10-12 last names M-R): Remind codes are @graham2020, @graham2021, & @graham2022

Ms. Graves (grades 10-12 last names A-D): @graves2020 12^th graders, @graves2021 11^th graders, @graves2022 10^th graders

Ms. Compton (All of Grade 9) - @7467_f4

Order transcripts on https://guilfordnc.scriborder.com/

If you need recommendation letters, please submit a resume in order to complete them.

Start to complete college applications and pay attention to deadlines.

Links to register for test.

www.act.org

www.sat.collegeboard.org

Dress code (you can click on this link to the left) - please check the dress code on the Southwest Guilford High School website for very minor adjustments. 

Open House - Monday, August 19th - 5PM to 7PM.  Come meet your teachers, walk the halls to get an idea on how to best navigate. Visit the Italian ice truck or Wings food truck while on campus that evening. A portion of the proceeds will go right back to the PTSA. If you need the most updated schedule, we will have it ready for you.  Please remember that schedule changes will not be responded to that evening. Schedule change forms however will be available. Also, transportation will be on site and there will be spirit wear for sale.

                                         
A heads up for AP students, it is never too early to start accessing the materials to be better prepared for your AP classes. AP students need to ask their AP teachers to share a join code to access AP classroom resources.

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page  

at 

www.cowboysports.org

Special Announcement: We are looking for 2 to 3 girls to join our women’s golf team.  Currently, practice is at 6 PM at Jamestown Park.  Please contact Coach Christman at christb2@gcsnc.com 

Sports passes available!!!

Upcoming Sports Schedule

Monday, August 19

6:00 PM Womens Varsity Tennis High Point Christian Academy Home

7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer OPEN DATE Forsyth Cup @ East Forsyth or Bishop Away

Tuesday, August 20

4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Trinity High School Away

5:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Mc Michael High School Home

5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer OPEN DATE Forsyth Cup @ Glenn HS Away

6:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Rumble at the Ranch Home

6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Mc Michael High School Home

7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer OPEN DATE Forsyth Cup @ East Forsyth or Bishop Away

Wednesday, August 21

3:30 PM Womens Varsity Golf Wesleyan Christian Academy Away

4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis High Point Central High School Away

5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Northern Guilford High School Away

6:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Bishop Mc Guinness Memorial H S Home

6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Northern Guilford High School Away

Thursday, August 22

4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Asheboro High School Home

5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Wheatmore High School Away

5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer OPEN DATE Forysth Co. @ East Forsyth or Bishop Away

6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Wheatmore High School Away

7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer OPEN DATE Forysth Co. @ East Forsyth or Bishop Away

Friday, August 23

7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football R J Reynolds High School Home

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, Twitter and Instagram. Please follow Southwest High School at SouthwestGHS for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! This is a great way for us to communicate and stay connected. 

We are... Southwest!