November 25- Middle School Celebration (Southwest School Road closed between 11am and 1pm)

November 25- Make-Up Picture Day

November 26- Interim Reports

November 26- PTSA Pie Day

November 27-29- Thanksgiving Holiday (no school for students or staff)

No Learning Hub This Week

NOVEMBER is NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

• Make-up picture day will be Nov. 25th
• Deadline to buy a senior ad is December 15th. These can be purchased on yearbookforever.com

9th graders enjoyed a great incentive trip to Kersey Valley! Be on the lookout for criteria for the next trip!

Students from Southwest joined dancers from other schools for All County Dance this week. Way to go, dancers!

Basketball season is here! SWGHS Varsity Girls Basketball team starts the season winning 2/2 games. Let's Go Cowgirls!

Make sure you have a Dragon Fly account with uploaded physical, health forms, and your NCHSAA Gfeller/Waller Concussion Form. All forms must be signed by your parents. Go to www.dragonflymax.com to set up your account.

Tickets- $8 cash or pre-sold online at www.gofan.co

Debit/Credit Card/Apple/Google at the gate

Parking for Events

Spectator Parking is in the Barrow Rd. lot behind the school for all HOME events. This is the student lot behind the school. Entry to the SW Stadium is on the home side of the field.

The date for Prom has changed. Prom will be April 26.

Is your student in need of additional academic support? Contact Mrs. Curvelo-Valez (curveln@gcsnc.com ) for more information about our SWGHS Learning Hub:

Days: Every Tuesday and Thursday

Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Location: Southwest Guilford High School, D Building

*Transportation will be provided if needed.*

Seniors and Parents: If you missed the in person order dates to order your cap and gown, you can still order it at the website highschool.herffjones.com. You will need to place the order by Dec 15 to avoid price increases. A cap and gown is REQUIRED to participate in the June 12 Graduation ceremony.

25+ Private College/Universities in NC are participating in a new Direct Admission program for students who have a weighted GPA of 2.8 or higher. The application is intended to take less than 5 minutes to complete, there is NO application fee, and students are conditionally accepted just by submitting the form! Click here for more information: https://ncicu.org/direct-admission/Links to an external site.

• Students and parents must first set up FSA IDsLinks to an external site. to apply. You can do this NOW at studentaid.govLinks to an external site..
  (Allow 2-3 days between FSA creation and FAFSA access)
• The FAFSA will open December 2024 for the 2025-2026 tuition cycle. There have been changes to make the process less complex and easier to navigate.
• Everyone must click the permission box to allow their financial info to be transferred - including those who do not file taxes. This information will not be made visible on any portion of the FAFSA - it will only be housed within the FAFSA system and seen by the institution(s) to which the student is applying. This will cut down significantly on the amount of information that has to be entered manually.
• FSA ID Links to an external site.- you will fill out your FAFSA form in December but can create your account username and password now!
• Financial Aid FAQLinks to an external site.

Documents to Have On-Hand:

Shift_Ed Scholarships for Guilford County Residents

Registration is open from October 1 through June 1 for Guilford County Schools’ (GCS) seniors and graduates. Shift_ed Scholarships provide last-dollar tuition assistance to qualifying GCS graduates.

Our school environment promotes positive, respectful interactions, which means avoiding the use of profanity.

We have seen a rise in student use of profanity. Please remind your student to use school-appropriate language with friends and adults in the building. See below for our Code of Conduct expectations regarding profanity:

See the SWGHS Parent and Community Handbook link below for more information.

No students should remain on campus without direct supervision of a teacher or coach. Please remind students that they may not wait in the building for after-school events.

As a reminder, our doors are locked during the school day as an additional safety measure for the school community. If you need to enter the campus to pick up your child, you will be required to buzz in, have identification ready and state your purpose for entering the building. All visitors must check in with our front desk Office Support and she will identify your need and assist you.

Check-outs will need to be done by 4pm. This will allow our staff to call your student out in a timely fashion and get them to you safely while understanding surrounding movement and traffic in the parking lot as we prepare for buses and dismissal. For pick up, please see our Front desk office support

Cell Phones: We have a no-cell phones policy in class so that instruction is happening for the duration of the class. If a teacher uses it for instruction then it is upon their discretion. Otherwise, phones need to be put away. They are able to use them during transition and during lunch. Please assist us with ensuring that instruction is the most important part of your child's day. Our teachers don't want to stop their delivery of instruction to ask your child to put their phones away. Please see this Cell Phone Policy below in this blog.

No Outside Food Allowed

Food deliveries to SWGHS will be turned away. Students are not allowed to order food at school. There is no outside delivery from Door Dash, Uber Eats, or any other type of service. It remains a safety concern to have strangers come to our campus to drop off food and/or for your child to exit the building to go outside to pick up food. Additionally, students are not able to receive outside food, i.e. McDonalds, Chic-Fil-A, from parents, siblings, or family members. Students are welcome to bring their lunch to school, but their lunch should arrive when they arrive at school. Should your child need lunch, we are now a CEP school and all students can eat breakfast and lunch at no cost.

Ryan Schnaith-Ivan – 9th Grade (*Counseling Department Chair)

Brenadette Bruce – 10th-12th Grades A-D

Denesha Horton – 10th-12th Grades E-L

Syreeta Williamson – 10th-12th Grades M-R

Nakesha Varner – 10th-12th Grades S-Z

Dragonfly (Athletics)

GCS Family Technology Toolkit

GCS School Calendar

K12 Payment Center

PowerSchool Parent Portal

School Mint

Transportation Information