Don’t forget our Scholastic Book Fair is happening this week!
Students can shop each day- please be sure to send a little extra money to cover taxes. Each purchase earns a student a ticket in the daily prize drawing!
Help us reach our goal of selling 1,100 items!
You can also shop online- https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=gallman
📚Save the Date for our Spring Scholastic Book Fair
Next Week- March 28-April 1
For each item purchased, student's names will be entered in a daily drawing (by grade level) to win a prize from the Book Fair!
Our goal is to sell 1,100 items!
Just a reminder that there will be No School on Monday, March 14th.
All schools and offices will be closed.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Gator 1 is running a few minutes behind because they have a substitute bus driver this afternoon.
📢Attention Families with Young Children📢
Please SHARE!
Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration for the 2022-2023 school year will be open from February 28-March 11. Parents can register online at https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx... for English or https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx... for Spanish. Full posters can be viewed at https://5il.co/14ss6 for English or https://5il.co/14ss7 for Spanish.
Register your child if:
🎒Your child will be turning 4 or 5 years old by September 1, 2022 and will be entering school for the first time.
🎒Your child will be turning 3 years old by September 1, 2022 and your are interested in our Montessori Program.
For more information, call the school at 321-2655.
Next week is Read Across America Week and we have lots of fun dress-up days planned to help us celebrate reading!
🧢Monday is Hats on for Reading- Wear your favorite hat to school.
👩🍳Tuesday we show that Readers are Great Leaders and dress up for your dream job.
🇺🇸 On Wednesday we'll Read Across America and wear our red, white, and blue!
🌈On Thursday we'll wear a GES shirt or our favorite colors because Gators are Readers.
💤 On Friday we will remember that Reading is Relaxing by coming to school in our pajamas!
We hope all our students have a great LONG weekend!
Remember, no school for students on Friday (2/18) or Monday (2/21).
We'll be celebrating the Ultimate Twos-day when we return!
Join us by wearing tutus, ties, tennis shoes, tiaras, or twinning with someone!
Check out the information below!
Registration for Baseball/Softball and an Instructional Soccer Clinic is open until February 23rd.
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Students are allowed to bring cards and small prepackaged treats to school. Please send these to school with your child to reduce classroom interruptions.
🐊Students will walk a mile during Related Arts on Thursday as part of our observance of Heart Month.
🐊 In celebrating Black History Month, we are asking students and staff to wear African colors such as black, yellow, green, and (or) red or African attire on Thursday.
🐊Friday, there will be no school due to it being a professional day for teachers.
🐊There will be no school on next Monday due to observing Presidents’ Day.
🐊Please be sure to provide a mask for your child if you choose for them to wear a mask. One mask a day will be provided to students who request one. Masks must be worn on the school bus.
🐊Please be sure to your child brings their device to school charged daily.
🐊Remember, if your child is absent, a written excuse or a doctor’s excuse needs to be turned in to avoid receiving truancy letters.
🐊If your child has been out due to quarantine or isolation, they have 5 days to complete assignments to avoid being marked absent.
🐊Thank you for all that you do on a daily basis to support your children and our school. We cannot do this alone and you are appreciated as our Gallman Gator Family continue to learn and grow together.
We hope you have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
Gator 4 is running 20-30 behind this morning (Thursday, February 10).
📢Attention Families with Young Children📢
Please SHARE!
Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration for the 2022-2023 school year will be open from February 28-March 11. Parents can register online at https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx... for English or
https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx... for Spanish.
Full posters can be viewed at https://5il.co/14ss6 for English or https://5il.co/14ss7 for Spanish.
Register your child if:
🎒Your child will be turning 4 or 5 years old by September 1, 2022 and will be entering school for the first time.
🎒Your child will be turning 3 years old by September 1, 2022 and your are interested in our Montessori Program.
For more information, call the school at 321-2655.
Come teach with us! We'd love to have you join us at the @SchoolDistrictofNewberryCounty and at the Gallman Gator Swamp! The district-wide Recruitment Fair will be on Saturday, February 12 from 9-11am at Newberry High School.
Our American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge event will begins TODAY! Your student will learn about heart, brain and vascular health, and meet kids with special hearts!
Here’s how you can help:
• Register: http://www2.heart.org/goto/gallman – the website is NOW LIVE so you can get a jumpstart and go ahead and register today!
• Take the challenge: Be Active or Be Kind
• Share with friends and family through social media, text and/or email
You can help your child's class win the classroom challenge! Our goal is to have 100% of our students register online and take the challenge. The class in each grade level with the most students registered will earn a $25 Amazon gift card!
PARENTS, STUDENTS, & TEACHERS: Please review & send feedback on the 2022-2023 Draft Calendars to Kelly Ringer (📧kringer@newberry.k12.sc.us) by February 25, 2022!
📅Draft 1: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1816653/Calendar_2022-2023_Draft_1.pdf
📅Draft 2: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1816654/Calendar_2022-2023_Modified_Draft_2.pdf
Reminder- Tomorrow, January 26 is an Early Release Day!
Dismissal is at 12:15 and lunch will be served.
Please make any transportation changes in writing.
Today, Monday, January 24, 2022, Gator 3 will be late dropping students off. The bus left GES at 3:15 pm due to having to run double routes. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 First, thank you to all parents, grandparents, and guardians who made sure students were logged on with their teachers doing Google Meets and not missing a beat.
🐊If your child was unable to participate in live instruction last week, they will have 5 days to make up work provided in the packet. Their work will be due Friday, January 28. Completed work will deem your child present. No work turned in will deem your child absent for the week. So to avoid truancy letters being sent, please make sure your child completes and turns in their work.
🐊Wednesday is an Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:15. Please be sure that if your child is a car rider that someone is here to pick them up by 12:30. Also, make sure someone is home to get your child off the bus.
🐊Please continue to report any Covid-related issues in the Covid Report Link by going to gallmangators.org, click menu, click Health Information-School Nurse, and click Covid Reporting Form.
🐊Please be sure to send in parent or doctor’s excuses if your child is absent.
🐊If you would like your child to wear a mask, please send one with them to school.
🐊Please be sure that your child brings their device to school daily fully charged.
🐊Thank you for all that you do to support your children and our school. Last week was very different for you and for us. We love having our Gators at school, but we want everyone to be safe. Our Gallman Gator family continues to learn and grow together. We hope you all have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
Due to the threat of inclement weather on Friday, January 21, the School District of Newberry County will move instruction to an asynchronous (not live) instruction day. Teachers will post assignments for students to complete, but there will be no live Google Meets on this day. Students will have a five-school-day window of time to turn in eLearning assignments. If assignments are not returned within that five-school-day window, the student may be counted absent for the day.
It is expected that we will return to normal schedule on Monday, January 24. If your child has experienced symptoms, been identified as a close or household contact, or tested positive, please remember to report that to the school nurse through the use of the Covid Reporting Link found on the school and district websites. We appreciate your patience and understanding during our eLearning time and look forward to seeing our students on Monday morning.
👋Hey Parents and Families👋
Even though we are eLearning this week and aren't in-person, we still need your help by making sure you complete our COVID-19 Reporting Form if your child:
➡️Has symptoms of COVID-19 (or is waiting on test results)
➡️Has received a positive COVID-19 test result
➡️Is a close-contact to someone who has COVID-19
➡️Is a household contact to someone with COVID-19
Report any of these at https://bit.ly/COVID19_GES
If you have questions, please contact Nurse Fran at 803-321-2655.
Thank you for helping us keep our students and staff healthy!
📢🍽Important Announcement from the Cafeteria🍽📢
Due to the potential for bad weather on Friday, Thursday's meal pick-up will include both Thursday and Friday's meals at Newberry Middle School from 10:30-1:00.