http://www.gckschools.com Garden City Public Schools News Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:29:52 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1603 Garden City Public Schools will observe Spring Break March 15th - 19th. School will not be in session during the break. The Educational Support Center (ESC) will be closed on Friday, March 19th. The Teacher Resource Center, at the ESC, will be closed during the week. Classes will be back in session on Monday, March 22, 2010. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1602 A number of music concerts are scheduled for Thursday, March 11, at Garden City Public Schools. The free concerts are open to the public. Alta Brown Elementary School will present a first grade music program called “Born to Make Music” at 7:00 p.m. The program will be held in the west school gymnasium. There will be a dress rehearsal for the school at 2:00 p.m. Jennie Wilson Elementary School will present a kindergarten music program at 7:00 p.m. in the school gymnasium. There w... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1600 MINUTES - USD #457 District Budget Committee Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Kathleen Whitley, Financial Officer, welcomed everyone present and thanked them for agreeing to serve on the committee. Members unable to attend the meeting include the following: Dru Saddler, Jessica Harman, Marjie Clarke, and Alex Wallace. Mrs. Whitley stated that our district, like all other districts in the State of Kansas, is possibly looking at pretty severe budget cuts. She stated that the purpose of this comm... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1601 Florence Wilson Elementary School will hold a Family Fitness night for students and parents on Thursday, March 11, from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. There will be a number of organizations from the community providing activities and information about fitness for the entire family. There will also be free blood pressure and blood sugar checks, games, alternative fitness ideas, moon walk, and lots of prizes. Cherlyn Suderman, senior at Garden City High School, is helping to organize this event for h... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1599 The Garden City High School Astronomy Club has planned a number of observation sessions for the rest of the school year. The observation sessions will be staged at the recreation area on Sagebrush Road, one mile west of the US83 intersection. GCHS has several telescopes that will be set up during the sessions, but interested members of the public are welcome to bring their own equipment, especially binoculars. If the weather is bad, or if the sky is over 50% overcast, the session will a... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1598 Band students from Abe Hubert and Kenneth Henderson Middle Schools will present a concert on Saturday, March 6, at 3:30 p.m. in the Abe Hubert Middle School gymnasium. The concert will follow a clinic that students will participate in from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the school. The concert is free and open to the public. The guest conductor is Dr. Brian Silvey from The University of Missouri. Students will also get to learn from other band teachers from the school district. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1596 Jennie Barker Elementary School will hold a Family Literacy Night and Book Fair Friday, March 5, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The theme for the evening is "Relive The 50’s”. Some of the activities include: 50’s jeopardy, scrabble, making root beer floats, and a hula-hoop contest. The school’s Parent Teacher Organization will be selling pizza for supper from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. A slice of pizza will be $1 and a drink will be $.50. Family Literacy Night provides students, and their parents, a... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1595 Orchestra students from Abe Hubert and Kenneth Henderson Middle Schools will present an orchestra concert on Friday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m. in the Kenneth Henderson Middle School gymnasium. The concert will be the result of a daylong clinic that students will participate in at the school. The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will feature a number of selections that the students will perform that include: Night Shift, The Charming Snake, Swingin' Strings and Dragon Dan... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1594 The Garden City High School Applied Music Class will be performing “H.M.S. Pinafore” on Friday, March 5, and Saturday, March 6, 2010. The performances start at 7:30 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium on the Garden City High School campus. Tickets will be available at the door, and will be $5 for adults and $3 for students. The musical by Gilbert and Sullivan takes place aboard the British ship H.M.S. Pinafore. The captain’s daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ra... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1593 Garden City Public Schools held its annual Budget Work Group meeting on Monday, March 1, in the Garden City High School Courtyard. Committees presented budget proposals for each of the 15 program areas in the district. The committees presented budget proposals that will be 98 percent of the current program budgets. The district is looking at cutting $1.1 million from next year’s budget through program budgeting. The district has already lost $4.5 million in state aid, which is about 9.5%... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1592 A number of music concerts are scheduled for Tuesday, March 2, at Garden City Public Schools. The free concerts are open to the public. Florence Wilson Elementary School will present a second grade music program at 6:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the school gymnasium. Charles O. Stones Intermediate Center and Plymell Elementary 5th and 6th grade choirs will present a concert at 7:00 p.m. in the Charles O. Stones Intermediate Center cafeteria. Each choir will perform a numbe... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1589 Garden City Public Schools will hold a free clinic for children 3 to 5 years of age that are Garden City residents on Friday, February 26, 2010. The clinic will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1010 Fleming. The screening will take approximately one hour. Trained professionals will check each child's hearing, vision, large and small muscle development, communication and thinking skills. Appointments for the preschool screening clinic can be made by calling the Early Childhood Departme... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1588 The first meeting between the negotiating teams of the Garden City Educators’ Association and the Board of Education of Garden City Public Schools U.S.D. 457 will be held on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Board Room of the Educational Support Center Building, 1205 Fleming Street, Garden City, Kansas. The topics to be discussed at the meeting are: establishing ground rules, the exchange of letters between the two groups and list of issues. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1587 Garden City Public Schools will hold its annual Budget Work Group meeting on Monday, March 1, in the Garden City High School Courtyard. The budget presentations will be from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. with the meeting open to the public. The group will work to help determine the 2010-2011 budget for the school district. Committees have been established to develop budget proposals for each of the 15 program areas in the district. The committees have developed budget proposals that will be 98 pe... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1585 Garden City High School will host College Goal Sunday on February 21 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the GCHS Courtyard. College Goal Sunday, a nationwide event, offers advice and assistance for students seeking financial assistance to attend college or vocational-technical school. The free come-and-go event is for high school students and their parents, plus anyone else interested in receiving advice and assistance in completing federal application paperwork, as well as other aspects of attainin... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1584 There will be no school for students at Garden City Public Schools on Thursday, February 18, and Friday, February 19, for Parent Teacher Conferences. School will be back in session on Monday, February 22, 2010. Parents will learn how their children are doing in their classes and if changes are needed to improve achievement. Parents are encouraged to bring any questions or concerns to discuss with the teacher. Conference times include: Abe Hubert Middle School 11:10 a.m. - 8:00 ... Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1582 There will be no school for Garden City Public Schools Friday, February 12, 2010. Friday morning is a scheduled workday for teachers in the district. There will be an inservice for new teachers during the afternoon. The district offices and facilities will be open with regular business hours on Friday. Classes will be back in session on Monday, February 15, 2010. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1580 Buffalo Jones Elementary School will hold a Family Math Night, Thursday, February 11, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Parents will be working with students at different math centers during the evening. The math centers are what students do at school. This will give parents an experience of what the students work on at school during the day. There will also be drawings for door prizes during the evening. The prizes will be math games that families can work on at home. Family Math Night prov... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1579 Victor Ornelas Elementary School will hold a Family Literacy Night, Thursday, February 11, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Some of the activities that will take place at the event include: bingo, jeopardy, alphabet walk, read alouds, fishing pond and educational web site exploration. There will be cookies, free books and door prizes given away during the evening. Family Literacy Night provides students, and their parents, an opportunity to obtain materials that would help them work together on lit... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.gckschools.com/new.cfm?id=1577 Garden City residents can show their affection for friends and loved ones with a singing valentine from the Garden City High School Modern Show Choir. For $25.00, community members can have the choir serenade their beloved with a song. The choir will perform the singing valentines from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 12, 2010. The choir will also offer its singing services to high school students and staff on Thursday, February 11, from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. The serenades at the ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT