Band 12/12 at 7 pm @ Jordan High School Auditorium
Chorus 12/14 at 7 pm @ Githens Gym
Drama 12/15 at 6:15 pm @ Githens Theater
Orchestra 12/19 at 7 pm @ Jordan High School Auditorium
Student artwork will be displayed throughout the various performances and venues. Give to Githens We only have about one week left in our annual Give to Githens fund raising campaign and have raised approximately 75% of our $12,000 goal. If you haven’t already, please consider donating today. No amount is too small, EVERY donation helps. For more information, please see the links in the email that accompanies this phone message.
Encore- After School A reminder that The Encore! afterschool program still has space to serve students. The program operates Monday through Thursday from 3:30-5:30 pm at Githens. The program is open to all scholars for a small fee or you may choose to take advantage of a “free” scholarship. This semester, scholars can get assistance with their homework from teachers, have access to robotics & STEM programming in addition to participating in fun, recreational activities. The program provides a daily snack and bus transportation is available if you live in the school’s transportation zone. For more information, go to www.dpsnc.net/afterschool or call the Community Education office at (919) 560-9488.
Bathroom Passes To help reduce the amount of instructional time lost due to being out of class Githens has changed the bathroom pass procedure. Students have received a quarterly bathroom pass page (with 3 passes per class and 2 emergency passes. Students can use these passess as needed throughout the quarter.
Counselors will not make any elective changes until the 3rd day of school.
Lunch Prices
A reminder that breakfast will continue to be free for all scholars this year. However, school lunch prices have increased just a bit. Full-price lunch for students is now $3.75 and reduced-price lunch is $0.40. You can apply for free or reduced lunch using the link www.lunchapplication.com
HW Policy:
Across the board, HW will be counted as 10% of a student’s grade.
HW will be assigned at least 3 nights/week.
Late Work Policy:
Late work for the first half of each quarter will be accepted up until Progress Report time.
Late work for the last half of each quarter will be accepted up until Report Card time.
Work from the first half of the quarter WILL NOT be accepted after Progress Reports
Work from the last half of the quarter WILL NOT be accepted after Report Cards.
For each week that work is turned in late teachers should deduct 10% from the grade. So, if a student turns in work 4 weeks late then it is 40% off of the grade they earned.
Grades are updated weekly by the end of day each Thursday.