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State Testing Dates - Mark Your Calendars!

The State Testing Dates have been scheduled. Please mark your calendars! We encourage students to be on time, as testing will start at 8:30 AM. Students should make sure their Chromebooks are fully-charged for testing and students should be well-rested and do their best!

Students may not be in possession of any electronic device(s) during the test administration that can be used for communicating, recording, timing, creating images, or storing images with the exception of necessary medical devices. If a student has an electronic device during testing, the devices will be collected by the teacher and returned after each test session is completed. A copy of our student handbook is linked HERE.

SC READY & EOC Parent Information & Resources    SC READY Parent Letter 

EOC Algebra I Parent Letter

Principal Update: Week of April 22

Please mark your calendar with the dates for state testing of the SC READY Assessments. Please ensure your child is present on testing days and that they arrive on time. Information, including dates and test resources, can be found on our website.

Come out and support the Rams and Lady Rams soccer teams as they advance in the playoffs. Boys team will place at League at 6:30 PM and the Girls team will play at GMA. Games will be held on Monday. 

Join us for our Orchestra Concert on Tuesday, April 23 at 6:30 PM in the auditorium of Greenville High. All are welcome!

Progress Reports will be printed and sent home with any student who has a D or F in a class on Wednesday. Parents may also access student grades from Parent Back.

Congratulations to our ACE Award recipients, Caleb Brown & Alana Maldonado, who will be recognized at the ACE Awards ceremony on Wednesday!

Best wishes to our performing arts students who will travel to Tennessee this week for their concert festival performances!

On Friday, the SC Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics will be at GMA to share about their programs. Any 7th and 8th grader may attend this meeting at 8:45 AM in the media Center.

We look forward to celebrating students who LEVELED UP on the benchmarks on Friday at RAM Day!

The PTA Nominating Committee is looking for candidates to serve on the 2024-2025 GMA PTA board. The board meets for one hour on the first Friday of every month and helps guide PTA activities such as fundraising, teacher incentives, student incentives, Reflections, 8th grade day and dance, Frosty Friday, Tasty Tuesday, Spirit Wear, and more. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else to next year’s board, please fill out this form. The committee will meet at the end of April to review the nominations. https://forms.gle/uM3jWEgVNoJBtp8a7 

6th Grade Parents: South Carolina law states that ALL students are required to have the Tdap vaccine BEFORE they enter 7th grade. The Tdap vaccine can be obtained at your primary health care provider or various walk-in clinics. Please ensure this requirement is fulfilled before the end of the school year. Contact Nurse Kaila with any questions. Tdap in English / Tdap in Spanish

Time to get more involved with GMA! Our PTA is looking for volunteers to assist each week with Tasty Tuesdays and Frosty Fridays. Click the link to sign up to volunteer for one or more shifts!

REMINDERS FOR THE WEEK:

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Don't forget to connect with us on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).

As always, thank you for your support of Greenville Middle Academy! Let's have a great week!

School Bulletin - Week of April 22

GMA Athletic Banquet

The GMA Rams Athletic Banquet will be Monday, May 23 in the cafeteria.  Athletes who played this year should fill out and return the form no later than Wednesday, May 8. Printed copies are also available in the media center.

PTA Nominations Now Open

The PTA Nominating Committee is looking for candidates to serve on the 2024-2025 GMA PTA board. The board meets for one hour on the first Friday of every month and helps guide PTA activities such as fundraising, teacher incentives, student incentives, Reflections, 8th grade day and dance, Frosty Friday, Tasty Tuesday, Spirit Wear, and more. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else to next year’s board, please fill out this form. The committee will meet at the end of April to review the nominations. 

Nominate Yourself or Someone Else

Greenville Drive Reading All-Stars

The Greenville Drive Reading All-Stars incentive vouchers have been distributed through the ELA classrooms. Students who completed reading 500 pages in five weeks and turned in their reading log received a voucher to redeem for a free game ticket. Students may select Tuesday, April 24, or Wednesday, April 25 for a game ticket. In addition, when students attend the game, they will get a free ball cap and select a book from the Book Fair hosted at the stadium. Visit the Greenville Drive Reading All-Stars website and follow the directions on the voucher to redeem for a ticket.         

                                                            Greenville Drive Reading All Stars                                                                                 
      

6th Grade Parents: Tdap Requirement for School

7th Grade Parents: South Carolina law states that ALL students are required to have the Tdap vaccine BEFORE they enter 7th grade. The Tdap vaccine can be obtained at your primary health care provider or various walk-in clinics. Please ensure this requirement is fulfilled before the end of this school year. Contact Nurse Emma with any questions.

Tdap in English / Tdap in Spanish

Magnet Application Process

Magnet applications will be available via GCS Parent Backpack during specified windows of time stated in the Application Round Schedule. Please visit the Magnet Academy FAQs for information about how applications are scored and processed.

Parent Backpack Directions: To access the online magnet application, parents should login into their Parent Backpack account. Parents of students outside of Greenville County Schools can create a new user account. Once logged into Parent Backpack, select "Programs" from the column on the left. Then select "Apply to a Program." Available programs will show on the screen. Select "Apply" beside Magnet Academies to begin the application process.

**Parents will be able to apply for multiple magnet academies within the same online application, but they will only be able to submit the magnet application once. Parents should make sure to select all schools for which their student desires to apply and complete all sections of the application before selecting submit.**

Admission into magnet academies is open to all eligible students, but spaces are limited. Students may apply to more than one magnet academy. Applications are scored based on four criteria: attendance, discipline, academic performance, and a student statement indicating why the student would like to attend the magnet academy. Students who apply and qualify during the first application round have a greater chance of being offered a slot than those students who apply and qualify in later rounds.

Siblings of magnet students who will return the following school year to the school have priority of acceptance in Round 1. If magnet slots are available after all siblings who have qualified are placed, non-siblings will be accepted beginning with the highest to the lowest qualifying scores until the school’s assigned magnet slots have been filled. A lottery system is used when there are more qualifying students than available slots. Qualifying students not selected for a magnet academy are placed on a waiting list.

Purchase a Back-up Student ID

Every student is issued one Student ID and lanyard, at no charge, at the beginning of the school year. BUT life happens, and ID's are often lost or left at home! Save yourself any last minute panic by purchasing your student a backup ID (or two or three). Encourage your student to hang backups in their locker or zip them into a special pocket on their bookbag.

Use MySchoolBucks to order additional IDs for your student. If purchased through MySchoolBucks, student IDs will be provided the following school day. Students who bring cash on the day of will be given a student ID by their lunch period (same day).

MySchoolBucks

High School Announcements

Wade Hampton High School

Michele Smith, the theatre director at Wade Hampton High School with the chorus and theatre department will be hosting a musical theatre camp THIS SUMMER! When: June 24-27, 2024 / Where: WHHS Auditorium / Who: Rising 3rd-9th: 9am-3pm  / Cost: $175 (child 1) / $120 (siblings) Check here for more information and WH theatre registration.