Message from Mr. Graff, Principal Message from Mr. Graff, Principal Show Transcript good afternoon my name is Tim Graf on the principal Gary McDowell Middle School hoping you're having a great summer were filming this on August 10th Thursday August 10th which is a week away from Skins coming back to good day tours gout and again say that we hope you're having a good summer but we are excited about what we got coming up this year teachers are back they're working they're getting squared away and we're really ready and kind of chomping at the bit to just get out for this the work cited Haskins back in a week I wanted to let you know though we usually reserved for just the incoming 6th grade students but this year we were invite students incoming 6th 7th and 8th grade students and their parents to join us again that's Monday August 14th and we're going to start that at 3:30 and stay open all the way through 6 so we invite you to come on I joined the campus anytime in that time frame that you're available and what we want to do there's a couple things never to say hello say hello and hope you can walk the campus maybe meet the teachers if there are not doing something else we have going on but just kind of the campus in order to get if you're a student in Cummington pretty soon you need your shot records do you need done the nurse has been calling so if you get Mike all you need is your shot records done if you show up and you don't have your shot records and we will talk about that and we'll figure something out but your student cannot come to school on that first day they thought if they don't have those done so make sure you get that take care of your online forms taken care of and those are alive right now if you go to the Honda website or or campus website you should be able to get those taken care of we will have the computer lab available and support for you if you need to come that Monday and get help getting those taken care of will be able to support you with that but obviously if they're done they're done and you're that much further ahead so we encourage you to take care of your online forms the final thing we want to do is get you some information make sure we're doing a better job of being transparent and helpful to you so what we will have is in a science lab several videos playing and you'll have a passport or calling and I can't take it that you have to kind of get checked off that you have seen videos of videos about vaping which is kind of a national problem and we're dealing with it we're taking steps here but we want to make sure you understand what we're doing to take care of that problem we will have something about the Vapes cell phones we'll have something about absences and truancy stuff like that so we want to make sure we're getting you the information that you need to so that you can better support your student so once all that's completed then you can get your your child's schedule and you know I enjoy the rest your time with us we will have three informational setting sessions gives me three informational sessions for five and six now the ones at 4 and 5 we invite parents of incoming 7th great students either of those you can make we'd love to just talk with you make sure that it's again we're giving you information let you know some of the things we have planned for the year so we'll do that in the gym and then 61 we're reserving especially for those incoming 6th grade parents so if your parents have a sixth grade student this year please join us in the gym at 6 so we give you some specific information relative to you and your students that's what we're doing so again we really are excited about this we got a lot of good things planned and we want to get going please join us on Monday so we can say hello get you some information get you squared away and let's have a great year thank you
