Our GPS faculty and staff have worked hard this week to prepare for our Scouts! We have had full staff professional development, completed our yearly beginning of the year requirements, decorated classrooms and hallways, and collaborated for planning!
We know this year our students are going to make great gains! Focusing on our Leader in Me initiative with goal setting and tracking our data (at the school, team, class, and student level). Our school-wide goals are with reading, writing, and leadership and we can't wait to get our beginning data posted.
This is an exciting time to be a Scout and part of our Gilbert Primary School family! Happy new school-year to all of the teachers, staff members, and educators who will impact lives again in big ways for the next 10 months!
Mrs. Apperson
Gilbert Primary School Principal's Blog
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Only one week until our Scouts begin the 16-17 school year!
Each year, the summers seem to go faster. My mom always said that when I was young, but I just didn't get it! Now, I do!! While summers are full of opportunities to Sharpen the Saw by traveling, visiting extended family, reading a treasured book, and spending at least a couple mornings sleeping in, our teachers and staff have also been hard at work.
During the summer, all of our classrooms and areas of the school are thoroughly cleaned, floors are stripped and waxed, and many rooms are moved from one hallway to another. Information is being moved within our systems for our students to rise up to that next grade level (which takes a lot of behind the scenes work), and teachers are preparing their hearts, classrooms, and lessons for the sweet faces that will join them this fall.
With our Leader in Me initiative, our students are on a Leadership journey while teachers and staff step back and let them lead! As students are learning more about the 7 Habits, they are becoming leaders of themselves, by goal setting, planning how to reach their goals, thinking about others, and how to work collaboratively. They are developing skills to help them be successful with these areas and much more. We are working side-by-side with families to grow our Scouts so they can reach their fullest potential during their few years with us!
The excitement that fills the halls of schools at this time of year is indescribable. I am honored to be doing what I love and love what I am doing!
During the summer, all of our classrooms and areas of the school are thoroughly cleaned, floors are stripped and waxed, and many rooms are moved from one hallway to another. Information is being moved within our systems for our students to rise up to that next grade level (which takes a lot of behind the scenes work), and teachers are preparing their hearts, classrooms, and lessons for the sweet faces that will join them this fall.
With our Leader in Me initiative, our students are on a Leadership journey while teachers and staff step back and let them lead! As students are learning more about the 7 Habits, they are becoming leaders of themselves, by goal setting, planning how to reach their goals, thinking about others, and how to work collaboratively. They are developing skills to help them be successful with these areas and much more. We are working side-by-side with families to grow our Scouts so they can reach their fullest potential during their few years with us!
The excitement that fills the halls of schools at this time of year is indescribable. I am honored to be doing what I love and love what I am doing!
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