PRHS Ridge News Issue 11

January 26, 2023-2024

Issue #11

February 2: Digital Learning Day

February 6: Quarter 3 Mid-Point

February 7: Parent Information Night

GCPS Calendar

The Curriculum Office is currently inputting all the student choices and teacher recommendations for 2024-2025 schedules. Once this is complete, students will need to check their recommended schedule for request errors. These are still course requests and not a guaranteed schedule for 2024-2025. This is the last chance for your input on your schedule for next year. The student change form will be open from 2/7-2/9. The form and directions will be found on the Curriculum and Instruction eCLASS page.

Grayson Technical is hosting an open house Tuesday, February 6th from 5:30-7:30 PM. See the Grayson Tech Flyer for more information.

The GCPS District website has a new look! The new and improved website has a cleaner design, and prioritizes the most frequently used content from the old site. We know that the new website will take some time to get used to, so we put together "GCPS: Get to Know Our New Site". This will give you pointers on how to navigate the new site, and point you in the direction of our most viewed pages.

Parents, please be ready for our Spring Semester Parent Information Night on February 7th! Specific topics will include Dual Enrollment, NCAA Eligibility, Gifted/AP Information, and Parent Portal Assistance. The Spring Meet the Teacher will be on a digital format. You will find all pertinent information on each teacher's eCLASS page in January.

The City of Suwanee is accepting applications for the Suwanee Youth Leaders Leadership program for current freshman and sophomores.. Applications open February 15 and close March 31 at Suwanee Youth Leadership

ONLINE summer course taught by PRHS instructors.

Space is limited!

Cost: $500

Dates: June 3-26

No class on June 19

SIGN UP NOW on MyPaymentsPlus

Summer Health and PE Flyer

Prom will be held at the Georgia Aquarium

Saturday, April 13 from 8-11pm

A ticket is required for entry to Prom

Prom Tickets are available on GoFan

From now until April 1, tickets can be purchased on GoFan for $90. Student must use ID number as the code. A maximum of two tickets can be purchased under one ID number. Guests must be 14-20 years old AND have their own ticket. Identification is required for entry into Prom. There will be no tickets sold the week of Prom (April 8-12), please plan accordingly!
If you have any questions, please email elaine.vernon@gcpsk12.org

You should keep your child at home if he/she might spread an illness to other children. Children

who are sick have a difficult time participating in class and learning. Please use the document below to learn more.

www.scholasticimages.com as the website for your custom Class Rings, Letter Jackets, Senior Packages, and Personalized Announcement orders!

Scholastic Images will be on campus during all lunches on the dates below. The next date is Thursday, Nov. 9th.

Be sure to check out the PRHS Counseling Office eCLASS page. It is students' 24/7/365 resource for all things academic, career, and social/emotional related!

Peachtree Ridge HS is excited to host the upcoming "Chinese Parents Breakfast" on Thursday, February 1st , 2024, at 8:30am in The HUB - E110. (Flyer below).

For information, contact 770-495-5417/Martha.I.Kuhn@gcpsk12.org

피치츄리 리지 고등학교에서 2024년 2월 13일, 화요일, 오전 8시 30분에 학교의 The HUB – E110호에서 한국어권 부모님들을 위한 설명회(Korean Breakfast)를 갖습니다. 많은 참석 바랍니다.

설명회 관련 질문은 770-495-5417로 Ms. Kuhn께 전화하시거나 Martha.I.Kuhn@gcpsk12.org로 이메일(한국어가 편하시면 한국어로)을 보내주시기 바랍니다.

Sports tickets can only be purchased via GoFan with a credit or debit card to home sporting events. To purchase a home ticket for games please click on PRHS GOFAN. Many other schools are also going touch-less for tickets as well. If they are using GoFan, those tickets will also be available under Peachtree Ridge.

November Lions of the Month
Jewelian Lunceford- Wrestling

Connor Teasley- Basketball

Coach Moore- Basketball

Gwinnett County Meet Results

Girls - Overall 8th

Boys - Overall 9th

• Boys 200 Medley Relay -9th - David Jimenez, Matt Townsend, Kaden Somphone, Ethan Manurung
• Girls 200 Medley Relay -11th - Mckenna Butera, Olivia Mitchell, Danielle Fairchild, Dawson Ladd
• Girls 200 Free - Hannah Sakaris 10th
• Boys 200 Free - Matt Townsend -13th
• Boys 200 Free - David Jimenez - 27th
• 200 IM - Rakel Becraft - 4th
• 50 Free - McKenna Butera - 29th
• 50 Free - Lizzie Overcash -30th
• 100 Fly - Kaden Somphone - 28th
• 100 Fly - Dawson Ladd- 27
• 100 Free - Matt Townsend - 12
• 100 Free - David Jimenez -28
• 100 Free - Lizzie Overcash -28
  
• 500 Free- Kelly Baker -25
• 500 Free- Hannah Sakaris -4
  
• Boys 200 Free Relay - Matt Townsend, Ethan Manurung, Ethan Vergurlekar,Nick Brooks 7th
  
• Girls 200 free Relay -Dawson Ladd, Lily Okeson, Mckenna Butera, Rakel Becraft- 10th
  
• 100 Breast - Rakel Becraft 6th
  
• 100 Breast - Kaden Somphone -19th
  
• 100 backstroke - Danielle Fairchild -29th
  
• Boys 400 Free Relay - Nick Brooks, Michael Davis, David Jimenez, Jason Tan -10th
  
• Girls 400 Free Relay - Hannah Sakaris, Rakel Becraft, Lizzie Overcash , Erika Wilson - 9th

• Hayden Shelton - 1st (another school record!)
• Riley Lindenmayer - 11th
• Tania Saputera- 17th

The following athletes have qualified for the State Swimming and Diving Meet February 6-10th.

Matt Adams

David Jimenez

Ethan Manurung

Hayden Shelton

Kaden Somphone

Matthew Townsend

Ethan Vengurlekar

Joshua Dong

Natalia Amescua

Rakel Becraft

McKenna Butera

Riley Lindenmayer

Lily Okeson

Lizzie Overcash

Hannah Sakaris

Dawson Ladd

The following students have earned a spot in the Georgia Music Educators Association All-State Chorus.

Chorus

Chelsy Do

Sienna Ehlers

Joyce Lee

Hailey Park

Eleven PRHS Orchestra students earned a place in one of the Georgia Music Educators Association All-State Orchestras.

9th & 10th Grade Full Orchestra

• Eric Shu, violin

• Gabriella Kim, violin

• Katie E. Yu, violin

• Samuel Ross, viola

• Aidan Wang, cello

9th & 10th Grade String Orchestra

• Yue (Jenny) Jin, violin

• Jiyu Kim, viola

• Kailyn Soh, viola

• Claire Hwang, cello

11th & 12th Grade Full Orchestra

• Rebekah Kim, violin

• Jocelyne Andronache-Opris, violin

Band Spirit Day February 2nd at 2 PLUS 2 12:00 PM to 9:00PM 3890 Lawrenceville- Suwanee Rd. 30024

Would you like to volunteer at Readers Rally? Do you know someone who would? We are looking for 100 friendly volunteers to help run this event. Each school that registers for the Readers Rally event is required to send an adult volunteer. Many different volunteer positions need to be filled to make such a huge event a success. It is a lot of fun! If you are interested or would like more information, please contact your school’s Readers Rally coach OR fill out this form: http://tinyurl.com/RR24Interest.

Date: Saturday, February 24th
Time: Varying Shifts Available from 7:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Peachtree Ridge High School
Perks: Free Chick-fil-a breakfast and the satisfaction of knowing you supported an event that puts readers in the spotlight!

We hope you'll join us!

The Peachtree Ridge Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony will be Thursday, May 23 at 8:30 AM at Gas South Arena.

Senior dues will be collected through Scholastic Images. they can be paid online or when Scholastic is on campus (see dates in general announcements section).They accept cash, credit cards and checks/money orders. We ask every student to purchase Package A.

Senior Yard Signs are not part of senior dues and can be purchased on MyPaymentsPlus for $25.

Definition: Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. All GCPS students have access to a MS365 account with One Drive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook (internal email only).Students can access their MS365 account through the student portal.

Students MS365 Account are first.last####@gcpsk12students.org with the numbers being the last 4 digits of the student number. Here is some help documents for PowerPoint and Word Basics to help students get started. Students need to be logged into eCLASS to access the help documents.

Follow the GCPS Student Tech Tips Playlist for Tech Tips for more information about student Chromebooks. We will highlighted different videos below.

The video below is about using the @mentions Feature in Google Docs.

Go to PTSA Store to purchase a membership for $10. This is a new PTSA webstore.

Driver's Education?

SAT/ACT Prep Classes?

Defensive Driving?

ESOL?

Summer PE/Health?

Credit Recovery?

End Zone after-school tutoring?

Facility Rental?

Contact the Community School

The End Zone offers after school study space and peer tutoring. You can learn more about the End Zone on the PRHS website.

Need tutoring? Use this link to sign up for tutoring in the End Zone.

Check out the homepage of the Peachtree Ridge Website for more information from the front office at www.PeachtreeRidge.org about certificates of enrollment, drivers license documents, and transcript requests.