Campus News 12-18-06

What’s Happening This Week
• GCISD closed for winter break
GCISD campuses and administrative offices will be closed from Dec. 21-Jan. 1 for winter break. Teachers and employees return Jan. 2; students return Jan. 4.

Upcoming Calendar Items

• GHS offers parenting workshop
The GHS counseling department is offering a complimentary workshop at Grapevine Elementary School to help parents raise teenagers in the 21st century. In order to register, please complete a registration form in the GHS Counseling Office and return it to the GHS Counseling Office by Jan. 8, 2007.

Workshop – Becoming a Love and Logic Parent
Dates – Thursday evenings: Jan. 11, 18, Feb. 1, 8, 22 and March 1st.
Time – 6:15-8:15 p.m.
Location – Grapevine Elementary, 1801 Hall-Johnson Rd.
No cost to participants

• Registration begins for next TARGET session
Registration begins Jan. 12 for session 3 of GCISD’s TARGET evening classes for high school credit. Basic courses are offered to allow students to catch up on credits, advance in order to graduate early or open a section of their normal schedule to take another course of their choice. The session runs from Jan. 29-March 8 and classes are held at Bridges Accelerated Learning Center, 736 E. Northwest Highway in Grapevine. Cost for the one-semester class is $200 for GCISD students and $250 for students from other districts. A $10 non-refundable registration fee will be charged per student. Checks, money orders and cash are accepted in person; MasterCard, Visa and Discover are accepted by fax at 817-251-5477. The next session will be April 2-May 10, with registration beginning March 19. Information: 817-251-5525.

• PTA/PTSA meetings
Grapevine High – General meeting, noon Jan. 22 in the GHS Library.
Grapevine High – Officer elections, 6 p.m. March 5 in the GHS Student Activities Center. GHS Open House event will follow at 6:30 p.m.
Grapevine High – Honors and awards presented, 7 p.m. May 14.

Awards and Announcements
• GMS students wins spelling bee for second consecutive year
Raamis Khwaja won the Grapevine Middle School Geography Bee. Raamis is an 8th grade student who has won the Grapevine Middle Geography Bee for the second year in a row, and also placed 11th in the state in last year's competition.

• CHHS AP art students work selected for exhibit
Four AP art students from CHHS will have their artwork exibited at the Young Masters Exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. Every year our CHHS A.P. Ten high schools were invited to enter this competion and hundreds of slides of artwork are sent to be juried for this show. Only 36 are chosen to be included in the show and the four CHHS students are among those. The students Emily Bass, Tim Gwartney, Kittie Peters and Davis Rutkauskas.

Emily Bass	Tim Gwartney	Kittie Peters
		Davis Rutkauskas