Honoring our Heroes, Growing our Future

GLPS Families,

It is hard to believe, but today marks the end of the first trimester. That means the school year is one third of the way over already! We appreciate all of our families who attended conferences this week, and we look forward to starting the second tri on Monday. As we head into the weekend, I have a couple of updates that I want to share with you today.

To begin, Wednesday was Veterans Day, and I want to take this opportunity to thank all the veterans and active-duty service members who are part of our school community. At Monday’s board meeting, we recognized five veterans who were nominated by community members through our veterans recognition process established by the Board of Education. Since 2023, we have been highlighting veterans in our community at the November board meeting, and this year, we added a page on our website for nominations and to celebrate those who were nominated. I invite you to take a moment to view that page here, and when you see our nominees, or any of our veterans or active duty service members, out in the community, please thank them for their service.

Finally, as I mentioned that the second trimester starts Monday, I am excited to share that we will welcome students into the Dave and Betty Morris School for Agriculture and Natural Sciences for the first time. We will have a middle school and high school elective session, as well as our first elementary classroom visits. Throughout the rest of the year, all BK-6 kids will have an opportunity to spend a day at the school. We are also planning for the next phase of programming out there, as we look to build a greenhouse, an outdoor collaboration space, and maybe even a sugar shack for maple syrup! I invite you to check out the Morris page on our district website for updated information about our program at the school.

That is all I have for this week. As always, we appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your children every day. Thank you for your support as we work to serve all of Comet Country. As always, I am #proudtobeacomet!