Dear Community Members and Supporters of Greene County Schools, During this week of Homecoming, the actions of very few of our high school students are leaving a negative impression of our high school as a whole. It is our desire to attempt to make this up to you by offering a community-wide clean up. GCHS students who would like to participate in this act of community service will be led in yard clean up tomorrow evening at 5:45 p.m. If you would like your yard cleaned up of debris left by GCHS students this week, please call the High School office at 515-386-2188 or email Mrs. Shannon at shannonk@greenecountycsd.net . We realize your frustration. We hope this act of community service will show our appreciation to all who support Greene County Schools. Thank you, Mrs. Shannon
Career academy healthcare instructor Lori DeMoss invited Deonne Robey into her classroom this week. Deonne is a PTA with 21st Century Rehab. She talked to the nurse aide students about body mechanics, transferring, ambulating, and positioning residents.
Dr. Leah Renwanz's Anatomy and Physiology I students in the career academy healthcare strand learned about the anatomy of a pig by dissecting them.
Chef D and her career academy culinary students put their knife skills to practice by making homemade ham and potato soup. It was so good!
Esports streaming is BACK! The Greene County HS SMITE match today against New London will be live streamed. The match begins at 4:00 this afternoon and will be streamed on the GCCSD Esports YouTube Channel (link below). The Rams back-to-back state champions and are looking to take home another state title, so tune in and cheer them on all season long.
GCCSD HS Esports Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/MLLFEmBZ7g8
We still have a few spots available for today's class.
There is a large-scale cell phone carrier issue that is preventing cellular numbers from calling local numbers. As a result, most incoming cellular calls to the school are currently failing. If you need to contact someone in the building, please reach out to the building secretaries using the email addresses below:
High School:
fergusontr@greenecountycsd.net
Middle School:
hadleyh@greenecountycsd.net
townslyn@greenecountycsd.net
Elementary:
hoskinsk@greenecountycsd.net
spauldingja@greenecountycsd.net
Admin Office:
lamoureuxj@greenecountycsd.net
The deadline to order the 2024-2025 yearbook at the lowest price of the year is Friday, September 13. After this date, the price will go up. Order online at jostensyearbooks.com or call 1-877-767-5217.
GCHS Families, Please check out the September Newsletter! https://secure.smore.com/n/ubw2ey
This is a great way to stay informed!
Good afternoon Ram Families,
The 24-25 school year is off and running and we have had a great first few days of school and we are looking to continue those moving forward.
Fall MAP Testing Next Week
Next week will mark the beginning of our Fall MAP Testing. All students in Kindergarten through 11th will complete these assessments and give us our baseline of where are students are at, what direction we need to go with their learning, and set growth and achievement targets to ensure their success for the rest of the school year. We are excited to see all of the great progress that our students are going to make!
As for Homecoming Week
On Friday, September 20th, Greene County Schools will have a 2-hour early dismissal at ALL schools. This will provide our families the time to get their students to the parade and events that happen prior to our homecoming football game without the need to miss additional instruction or schoolwork.
Two Hour Early Dismissal times for all buildings are as follows:
Elementary - 1:25pm
Middle School - 1:30pm
High School - 1:23pm
Thank you for your partnership with our schools and we are looking forward to a successful 24-25 school year! Go Rams!
GCHS students and staff are excited to have Nick "Sunshine " Tokman visiting GCHS next week! From the boats of "Deadliest Catch" to inspiring people across the nation, we are grateful for the support of Home State Bank and BOOST to make this possible!
Athletic Practice Adjustments for 8/26
Friendly reminder that bus pick up and drop off times are approximate. It may take a week or two for drivers and riders to learn each other's routines.
A couple things to note:
Our Westwood bus stop location has been moved to Westwood & Rushridge (west loop). Since this is a late change, the town route bus driver will be mindful of students who may be waiting at the old Hickory stop for the first couple of days.
On "Monday-early-out" days your bus rider will be dropped off at their normal bus stop approximately 2 hours earlier. For example - if the normal bus drop off time is 4:23pm, the "early-out" drop off time will be approximately 2:23pm (two hours earlier).
Thank you in advance for your patience!
The GCHS Senior Class of 2025 is ready to lead the way this school year! Many of them spending their last morning of summer break, together, at a beautiful sunrise on school grounds. It's going to be a great year!!
GCHS teachers had the pleasure of a great training by Mary Clancy from Iowa State Extension. We learned so much about ourselves and others. This training will benefit relationships and communication among teachers and students, teachers and families, and among collogues.
GCHS Open House was a huge success! It was great to have the halls of GCHS filled with our students and families. Thank you to all who attended!
Good Morning Ram Families!
With the first day of school only a few days away, we wanted to share some very exciting news ahead of the 24-25 school year.
Greene County Community Schools will be offering FREE breakfast for ALL students in ALL schools EVERY single school day! Our schools were awarded this option through an application from the Department of Education and the Child Nutrition Program in the state of Iowa.
A huge thank you to our kitchen teams, student support personnel, and our business office for working through this application and ensuring that our students will have at least one free meal, every single day they are in school.
Have an awesome Tuesday and we cannot wait to see our students on Friday!
GCHS Back to School Newsletter! Check it out! https://secure.smore.com/n/vy6zh
Greene County Community School will be holding the monthly board meeting at the admin building (101 Ram Drive, Jefferson, IA) this evening beginning at 5:15 PM. The public is welcome to attend in-person or view the livestream on the district's YouTube channel. See below for the link.
The meeting agenda can be viewed on the GCCSD Board of Education page under the Links header.
GCCSD Board Meeting YouTube Livestream Link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/VUrBIMh02WM
Board Meeting Agenda:
https://www.gccsd.k12.ia.us/page/board-home
If your student has signed up to be in the Greene County Career Academy for the upcoming school year, this is a friendly reminder that we have orientation today at 3 p.m. or 5 p.m. for your student and a parent. Please park in the north parking lot and come in the N5 door in the Career Academy.
