Germantown Hills School District #69

Thank you to the Metamora High School Madrigal singers for coming to visit us today! 8th grade chorus students were able to attend the performance.

It's a great day to be a Warrior! We need YOU tonight as the 7th grade Lady Warriors take on Metamora at Washington Central for the regional Championship. See you at 4:30!

Warrior World! Please come and cheer on the 7th grade girls basketball team as they compete in the Regional Championship tomorrow (Wednesday, November 20th). Game time is 4:30pm at Washington Central. We will be playing Metamora. I will be offering students triple house points for attending. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to this week's dude.we.see.you winner, Ryan McCarthy! We all got to witness his kind words in our assembly, but here is what another student wrote about him: "When his grade won the trimester dude.be.nice prize, he gave a really sweet speech about how everyone did well and won his heart." Ryan, we see you!

The Chess Team took home lots of hardware from their tournament over the weekend! Medal winners at Reservoir Gifted were Mason Godinez, Nick Modlin, Andrew Billingsley, James Cardin, and Charles Pilat. Colt Tessier was named Top Unrated Player in K-5. Owen Hall and Evan Liu earned 2nd place trophies while Andrew Wilson earned a 4th place trophy. We earned a 2nd place trophy overall. Great job, Warriors!

U.S. News & World Report has published its school rankings for the year. Germantown Hills Elementary School is ranked #64 out of 1,953 elementary schools in Illinois. Germantown Hills Middle School is ranked #50 out of 1,198 middle schools. I'm so proud of our students, our staff, our parents, and our community. It's a great day to be a Warrior!

Shout out to Mr. Loring and the band for putting on a great show at 8th grade night for our girls basketball team this evening! Way to bring the pep, Warriors!

Congrats to our Star Lunch Room Students. Everyday for 1/2nd grade lunch, students are recognized based on their behavior. The names of all students were then put into a drawing. This month, our lunch room monitors rolled out the red carpet table service. Students were able to celebrate with some ice cream and confetti!!

Congratulations to Mr. Mair, who won the Germantown Hills Chamber of Commerce Servant Leadership Award this year. Thank you for everything you have done for our school district, Mr. Mair!

Congratulations to this week's dude.we.see.you winner, Georgia Bevard! Here is what another student said about her: "She is so kind and funny. One interaction with her always brightens my day." Awesome job, Georgia!

We also had our Trimester 1 dude.be.nice assembly today. Congratulations to our individual prize winners, as well as our overall grade level winners, the 5th grade! The 5th grade got to spend the afternoon in a movie party with drinks and treats.

We were able to honor our Veterans with an assembly this morning. Thank you to everyone who attended and performed, thank you to all of our Veterans for their service, and thank you to Mr. Bruce Thiemann, who was our guest speaker!

Congratulations to Macie Crow, Mackenzie Webb, Lilianna Poole, and Olivia Stoller, who represented Germantown at the ILMEA District #3 Concert Festival on Saturday, November 9th. We also recognize Kensey Monckton, who made the honor group, but was sick for the festival.

Just a reminder with the end of the 1st Trimester, there is no more bikers and walkers for 3rd and 4th grade students. 3/4th grade students will be able to walk again in the 3rd Trimester, which begins Feb 17th.

Some of our 8th grade girls attended the Girls in STEM event at Caterpillar yesterday!

Parents, We have piles of clothing, water bottles and other items in the Lost and Found. It is all located in the foyer of the middle school. We will keep this until Thanksgiving and then donate it. Please feel free to come and look through the items if you are missing something.

GHMS Student Council would like to thank ALL families that donated birthday boxes for the Midwest Food Bank. As a school district, we were able to donate 196 Birthday Boxes. Some of these will be sent with disaster relief packages for the victims of the recent hurricanes with a shout out to our school! It is a GREAT day to be a WARRIOR!

Congratulations to this week's dude.we.see.you winner, Mason Hartter! Here is what another student said about Mason: "He gives me fist bumps every day to cheer me up." Great job, Mason!

Congratulations to Olivia Stoller, Zane Kingham, Mackenzie Webb, and Kensey Monckton who represented GHMS at the ILMEA Jazz Festival on Saturday at Olivet Nazarene University!

Yesterday, 7th grade students in Mr. Vaughan's class worked on literature circles for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."