Yearbook – a message from Mr. Greg Schoen

Seniors!

The remaining senior portrait dates are the following: October 5th and 6thfrom 2pm-8pm in Room 4251; November 4th and 5thfrom 2pm-8pm / 9am-3pm in Room 4251; December 8th and 9th from 12am-7pm in Room 4251.

In order for your child to have a senior picture in the yearbook it MUST be through Life touch.The basic package is $25. Once you return the proofs you will be reimbursed the $25.

Please send Mr. Schoen any baby, car or sibling photos (one of each). If the photo is digital, please send it to or provide a hard copy photograph to room 4212. Photographs will be returned once they are scanned into the computer.

GradAds are available to purchase and create at Appointments can also be made with Mr. Schoen to create and purchase a grad ad.

All other grades!

I am looking for photographs that occurred over the summer. Your child needs to be in the photograph.If the photo is digital, please send it to or hard copy photograph to room 4212. Photographs will be returned once scanned into the computer.

If you ever have any yearbook questions please email Mr. Schoen at k you.

Shakespeare’s First Folio at UConn field trip– a message from Mrs. Laureen Anthony

We will be travelling to the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut on Thursday, September 22, to see Shakespeare’s First Folio. This important document (only 230 exist in the whole world!) is a “first edition” of Shakespeare’s plays. Without the First Folio there would not be Macbeth, Twelfth Night, or Julius Caesar! This is the document’s only visit to Connecticut.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, is a national traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and produced in association with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Museum Center.First Folio!has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

We will leave school around 9:00 am by school bus. We will arrive at UConn at 10:30 for a tour of the exhibit at Benton Museum, guided by a UConn faculty member. Following our visit to the Benton Museum, we’ll tour the UConn campus with a guide from the UConn visitor’s center. Our trip concludes with lunch at the food court at the Student Union. We will arrive back at GHS in time for bus dismissal.

Cost: $15.00 per student, plus the cost of lunch at the food court.

Permission slips (which will be available soon) are due to Mrs. Anthony in room 4201 by Friday, September 16th along with $15 to cover travel costs. The field trip requires a minimum of 20 students and is limited to the first 32 students to turn in their money and permission slips.

Students are responsible for any work that they miss while on this field trip.

Art – Ms. Cordelia Baker and Mrs. Paula Pauley

In pottery we are working on creating pinch pots and collaboratively designing a mosaic for the office hallway. The art department is also working on observational drawing to begin the semester. We are in need of colorful magazines, appropriate for school, for a variety of lessons. They can be dropped off at room 4111 or the main office.

School Nurse – a message from Mrs. Denise Tedeschi

From now on, students taking Tylenol during school need an order from their doctor.

World Language – Mr. Nathan Moore (SeñorMás)

Spanish teacher Mrs. Holly Adriano attended a one-week AP training in Spanish Language and Culture. The training took place at the Taft School in Watertown Connecticut and is critical to expanding the language program at Griswold High School. The World Language department hopes to be able to develop and offer an AP Spanish course in the near future.

Business Department – Mr. Bhupal Babajiyavar

The GHS Business Department is happy to announce they are able to offer multiple elective courses for the 2016-17 school year thanks to the flexibility of the business education staff, and the creativity of the counseling department to ensure proper class sizes and schedules. Courses available for this school year are Marketing, Accounting I, Introduction to Business and Entrepreneurship.

Financial and Professional Management (FPM) has started off running with the Job Shadow experience. This is a great opportunity for students to shadow a career in a field they are interested in. Students will write a research paper on the career, complete a six to eight- hour job shadow, and present their job shadow findings to the class. Students are told to network with teachers, friends, and family to create business contacts to obtain a job shadow. The business department thanks all of those businesses and individuals who take the time to allow our students to participate in such a great experience.