September 12,  2025

Week at a Glance:

• Saturday - Hot Sauce Festival in Oxford! Come see us! GCMS will be hosting the GCPS tent from 12-2!

• Monday – Home Opener Volleyball and Boys Soccer! 4:30pm $7 , no bags

• Tuesday – Home Opener Football! 5:00pm, $7,  no bags

• Wednesday – Happy Constitution Day!

• Thursday –  Home Volleyball & Soccer v Cross Creek

• Friday – No School! Teacher Workday!

Information:

• Happy Hispanic Heritage Month - We will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage month with a few fun activities, starting with our Spirit week this week.

• Picture Day is Coming - September 23rd will be Fall Picture day at GCMS. These are pictures for our yearbook and ALL students will be taking pictures (unless they do not have permission to publish which means your student will NOT be in the yearbook). Paper copies of the handout will be sent home with students on Monday.

  • LINKED HERE – This link will allow parents to sign up to receive email updates about their child's school portraits after picture day. 

  • Picture Order Form / Picture Order Link

• Beginning Monday, 9/15 – Any student who has not paid their $5 required fee for their agenda will not be able to attend extracurricular events, including athletic events and dance/socials. 

• Notes for Absences – Please remember to send in a doctor’s note or a sick note if your student is out sick. Make sure the note includes the student's full name and homeroom teacher on the letter. We also need the dates the student was absent.  

• Locks & Lockers –Lockers will be in full implementation on Monday, 9/15.

  • NOTE: We are waiting on additional locks as we are still short quite a few. There will be a few homerooms who will not yet have lockers. We will communicate directly with those homerooms next week. 

• SWAG Store: LINKED HERE – Order your Granville Central Middle School Swag! The Panther Pack PTO will receive a percentage from the sales. The store will be open each month from the 1st of the month to the 15th of the month. The store will close and orders will take about 4 weeks to be completed from the time the store closes. Orders will be delivered to GCMS and given to the student when they arrive! 

• FFA Fundraiser – Our FFA is kicking off a fundraiser for their club! They will be selling mums from 9/18-9/25! Checks should be made out to Granville Central Middle School with the memo being “Mum Sale”.

• Athletics kick off this week with 3 days of home sporting events. We hope to see you all there! Just a reminder that we have a no bag policy for all events and admission is $7.00 CASH ONLY to attend.

  • If students would like to stay after school to attend, they are allowed to do so. Students will remain in the cafeteria, purchase admission tickets in the cafeteria and then they will report to the sporting event at a designated time.

  • All students should be picked up within 15 minutes of the game ending. Any student not picked up within that 15 minute window will not be allowed to stay after school for future events.

• Important Links:

  • Link to Parent Square-Our new school communication platform.

  • Volunteer Sign Up 

  • Granville Central Middle Student/Parent Handbook

  • GCPS Student Code of Conduct

  • GCPS Student/Parent Handbook

  • Panther Academy Admin Presentation 

Athletics: Athletic questions should be directed to the athletic director, Ms. Strickland – stricklandm@gcs.k12.nc.us. 

• Physical Form ENGLISH // Physical Form SPANISH

• Concussion Form ENGLISH // Concussion Form SPANISH

• Home Volleyball and Boys Soccer Games Monday 4:30pm

• Home Football Game Tuesday 5:00pm

• Home Volleyball and Boys Soccer Thursday 4:30pm

Transportation: Transportation questions should be directed to Ms. Smith – smithk1@gcs.k12.nc.us

Here Comes The Bus App Link-School code 82346

• No Bus Updates This Week

• Bus Safety Reminder: For everyone’s safety, instruments must fit under the seat to keep aisles clear. Instruments cannot sit in the aisle or slide back and forth, as this creates a safety hazard. If an instrument cannot fit safely under the seat, families will need to make other arrangements for transportation of instruments.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. 

Sincerely,

Principal Shore  //  ShoreJ@gcs.k12.nc.us

PHONE MESSAGE SCRIPT:

Good afternoon Panthers! This is Principal Shore calling with your weekly update. Weekly messages will now be sent on Friday afternoons.

• Happy Hispanic Heritage Month - We will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage month with a few fun activities, starting with our Spirit week this week. Information for each day can be found in the Newsletter.

• Picture Day will be on September 23rd. These are pictures for our yearbook and ALL students will be taking pictures (unless a student does not have permission to publish which means that student will NOT be in the yearbook). Paper copies of the picture handout will be sent home with students on Monday.

• Beginning Monday, 9/15, any student who has not paid their $5 required fee for their agenda will not be able to attend extracurricular events, including athletic events, dances or socials.

• Please remember to send in a doctor’s note or a sick note if your student is out sick. Make sure the note includes the student's full name and homeroom teacher on the letter. We also need the dates the student was absent.  

• Lockers will be in full implementation on Monday 

  • NOTE: We are waiting on additional locks as we are still short quite a few. There will be a few homerooms who will not yet have lockers. We will communicate directly with those homerooms next week. .

• FFA Fundraiser – Our FFA is kicking off a fundraiser for their club! They will be selling mums from 9/18-9/25! Checks should be made out to Granville Central Middle School with the memo being “Mum Sale”.

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• Athletics kick off this week with 3 days of home sporting events. We hope to see you all there! Just a reminder that we have a no bag policy for all events and admission is $7.00 CASH ONLY to attend.

  • If students would like to stay after school to attend, they are allowed to do so. Students will remain in the cafeteria, purchase admission tickets in the cafeteria and then they will report to the sporting event at a designated time.

  • All students should be picked up within 15 minutes of the game ending. Any student not picked up within that 15 minute window will not be allowed to stay after school for future events. 

• This week in athletics : 

  • Home Volleyball and Boys Soccer Games Monday 4:30pm

  • Home Football Game Tuesday 5:00pm

  • Home Volleyball and Boys Soccer Thursday 4:30pm

• There are no transportation changes for this week – Please note, for everyone’s safety, instruments must fit under the seat to keep aisles clear. Instruments cannot sit in the aisle or slide back and forth, as this creates a safety hazard. If an instrument cannot fit safely under the seat, families will need to make other arrangements for transportation of instruments.

I hope everyone has a great week.