SWGHS Principal's weekly message for September 3rd

Hello Southwest High School! 

What a GREAT week!  While transportation continues to improve, I can not ask for a better first week that what we have experienced . Thank you to all who have been involved in making week 1 so amazing. 

This weekend is Labor Day weekend. Therefore, we do not have school on Monday. Please take this extended weekend to enjoy company with those you love. Please be prepared to return to school on Tuesday morning. 

As a gentle reminder, parents should never be dropping off their students in the student lot in the morning. With buses and novice teenager drivers using this lot, parents should drop off their students in the front of the school. Additionally, stopping in the middle of Barrow road to drop off a student is extremely unsafe practices. 

All students who are using our parking lot should have filled out an application and brought the correct information and money in to Mrs. Barnum for a permit. We have given the students up until Tuesday afternoon to take care of this responsibility. 

GTCC students' transportation - Bus 92 is the bus that transports Tuesday and Thursday. 1124 transports MWF. Request for transportation should have been communicated to the counselling office. If transportation is no longer needed, it must be communicated to the counselor as well. 

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. 

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. 

Seniors should start to work on college applications.

FAFSA opens up Oct. 1 so start to begin the application with parents (https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa), go to www.cfnc.org for one stop shop for scholarships searches, apply for college, study for tests, send transcripts, and much more.

Look at counseling website for more information on SW site.

Seniors need to complete the NC Residency which is required by all NC Schools. That is also located on cfnc.org.

Students, especially juniors and seniors, begin to tour schools. Register on the college site.

Juniors and sophomores begin to study for PSAT held on October 16th. Go to www.collegeboard.org for study skills.

  

Check remind and emails weekly for information from the counseling department

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

Ms. Graves' codes:

10th-12th graders with last names A-D

Seniors: @graves2020 

Juniors: @graves2021

Sophomores: @graves2022

Mrs. Hudgens' codes:

10^th – 12^th graders with last names S - Z 

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 codes:

 10th-12th graders with last names M-R

Seniors: @graham2020

Juniors: @graham2021

Sophomores: @graham2022

Mrs. Campbell's codes:

10th - 12th graders with last names E-L

Seniors: Campbell2020 @cowgirl20

Juniors: Campbell2021 @cowgirl21

Sophomores: Campbell2022@cowgirl22

Ms. Compton 's codes:

9th grade - @7467_f4

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

at 

www.cowboysports.org

Sports passes available!!!

Upcoming Sports Schedule

Tuesday, September 03
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Golf Conference Match @ Jamestown Park Home
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Cornerstone Charter Academy Home
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Ronald Reagan High School Home
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Ronald Reagan High School Home

Wednesday, September 04
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Match vs. EF/Ragdale @ Jamestown Park Home
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis East Forsyth High School Away
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Northwest Senior High School Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Northwest Senior High School Home

Thursday, September 05
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Ben L. Smith High School Away
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Away
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Ragsdale High School Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Away
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Ragsdale High School Home

Friday, September 06
7:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Friday Night Lights XC Festival @ Ivey Redmon Park Away
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football High Point Central High School Home

Saturday, September 07
8:00 PM SW Jets in the Stadium (School) Home

More dates...

Thursday, September 12
1st interim report for the first quarter

Friday, September 27
12th grade and underclass picture retakes

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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