September - Geneseo CUSD 228

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Geneseo Middle School
Welcome to Geneseo Middle School
and an exciting start to 2015-16!
Geneseo Middle School grounds approximately 1900..…
September 2015
Upcoming Events
Geneseo Schools
Tip Line
Sept 7 – Labor Day, No school
You can Call or
Text 24 Hours a
Day
Sept 10 – Harvest Music Festival Talent Show Auditions @ 3:30 pm in HS Choir Room
219-232-8568
This is a 24-hour hotline
available for students, staff
and parents/guardians who
are aware of anything that
may impact the safety of
students and staff on campus.
Sept 9 – School Picture Day; Order forms will be sent home on Friday, Sept. 4
Sept 17 – Half Day Teacher In-Service with 11:40 pm dismissal
Sept 18 – 7th & 8th Grade Dance in the GMS Gym from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Please access and review the dance rules with your student at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S0PrbkqM0UXEUjooPZEmPI_TCoF43yZTe1e-XRV_JlI/edit
Sept 19 – Maple Leaf Classic Marching Band Competition @ High School Field
Sept 20 – Harvest Music Festival Choir Performance @ City Park
Sept 25 – 1 Hour Early Dismissal @ 2:10 pm
GMS Speech Announcements:
- Thursday, September 10th: the Speech medical form and permission slip must be
turned in by this date to be a part of this year's team!
- Monday, September 28th is when the first week of Speech practice begins!
2015 Volleyball National Anthem singers:
- Caroline Burmahl, Taelor Davis, Emilee Forst, Halle Houston, Emma Kass,
Eden McAvoy, Sydney McDaniel, Jade Parr, Olivia Schilling, Mackenzie
Steinert, Audrey Toone, Maiah Ullrick, Hannah Wiyrick, and Emma Yerkey
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Principal’s Message
Service, Humility, Respect… These words are the focus, and inspiration, for students and staff at
Geneseo Middle School. As almost 700 students, teachers, custodians, secretaries, and support
staff enter GMS each day, we do so with a shared understanding that through serving each other,
having humility, and respecting those that may think differently then you, leads to a deeply
Caring learning environment. Believe it or not, we are moving from the hot and steamy days of
summer into a season of beautiful colors, cool breezes, and a waning sun. I always find it
refreshing to get into the full swing of school, and September embodies that like no other month.
We are already fully into sports and activities like football, volleyball, cross country and speech.
We will soon be attending Friday night Green Machine football games, watching a Homecoming
parade, and listening to the incredible music of our young people in the Harvest Music Festival. I
look forward to a fall season of filling our classrooms, fields and gym with athletes, performers,
parents and fans that demonstrate every day, Service, Humility and Respect.
Nathan O’Dell
Principal
Middle School Student Spotlight
Every student at Geneseo Middle School has demonstrated
outstanding Respect, Service and Humility in these first few weeks
of 2015-16. We have had almost a dozen Preferrals, “caught
doing something good,” multiple top performers in our first football,
volleyball and cross country competitions, and an incredible
awareness of safety by all students from bus loading and
unloading to fire and tornado drills.
Students in 6th grade math are
completing an “Order of Op Hop”
activity to demonstrate understanding
of Order of Operations… and to do a
little Hopscotch on a beautiful day!
Look here in coming months for some individual & team spotlights!
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Just so you know…
For more information on the District 228 Food Allergy Management Plan,
including the Safe Snack List, please click here (specifically pgs. 9-11):
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http://www.dist228.org/parent_student/health/food_allergy_plan.pdf
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