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Congratulations to the Granada High School debate team on their 3rd place finish at the regional tournament held in Salinas.

CAASPP testing starts Thursday, March 20 through Friday March 28 for ALL JUNIORS. Students will receive up to 5 points each day of testing and the points will accumulate on the 5-star app. These points can be traded in April for off campus pass, merchandise, and raffles for prizes such as Senior year prom tickets and parking pass.

To prepare for the CAASPP testing, students should do the following:
1) Ensure that you can open the "Secure test browser" located on the bottom of your Chromebook.

2) If you want to use your own headphones/airpod, make sure that you set this up prior to testing.

3) Do a practice testing by going to the website: https://login5.cambiumtds.com/student_core/V147/Pages/LoginShell.aspx?c=California_PT&a=Student

4) Do a diagnostic to ensure that your chromebook is correctly configured for testing. This is located in the practice test.

If you have questions, please contact Mrs. Vu

avu@lvjusd.org

California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) will take place March 20 through March 28, 2025. The bell schedule will NOT be affected by testing. All Juniors will take the Summative Assessments in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science during their Social Science and English classes. Please encourage your students to do their best and ‘Show what they know” as CAASPP is important for the following:

1. The CAASPP is a prerequisite for individual honors including the State Seal of Biliteracy and Golden State Seal Merit Diploma.

2. It is a College Readiness Indicator -students who achieve a certain score are considered to be college ready. Click here for information on how CSU utilizes the CAASPP results. For Community college, CAASPP results could be used as evidence of meeting class prerequisites.

3. CAASPP provides an opportunity to measure the skills of all students against the academic standards. The results will NOT be used for any evaluative grade purposes. Instead, this information helps plan out curriculum supports, instruction, and resource allocation to support student learning.

4. Student participation and performance on the state tests directly contribute to school’s academic performance accountability measures on the California Dashboard.

5. Most importantly, taking the CAASPP state test provides valuable information to our school about how our students are performing in the tested areas. This data helps us identify strengths and areas that need improvement, allowing us to better focus our efforts to support student success.

Click here to see our district’s website for more information.

If you would like to speak to me regarding how taking the CAASPP benefits students, please feel free to contact me. See Video link

Our Granada High School staff is doing great work. We have Granada High School staff members that deserve some recognition. Please take a few minutes to give some recognition to some of our amazing Granada HS staff. Click here to complete the form.

The GHS Counseling & Career Center is excited to host College Planning Night on Wednesday, April 9 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. This event is for freshmen, sophomores, juniors and their families and will offer sessions on UC & CSU admissions, California Community Colleges, Private Universities, Out-of-State Universities, NCAA and CaliforniaColleges.edu. Sessions will be hosted by admissions representatives from various universities (see attached) as well as our Counseling & Career Center team.

More information regarding the breakout sessions and schedule will be provided prior to the event.

GHS Web Link to 2024-2025 Semester Bell Schedule

GHS Web Link to 2024-24 Calender

See the Granada Music Parents website at www.granadamusic.net for more information.

For more athletic pictures click on the photos below. Pictures courtesy of the Livermore Granada Boosters.

We are looking for parent volunteers to help us proctor our International Baccalaureate (IB) exams at Granada High this May. If you would be interested in helping us proctor our IB Exams, please see the link below to access the SignUp Genius form with dates and times of available proctoring slots.

No training session is necessary to proctor IB Exams because the IB coordinator will be present for all exams to give instructions. We just need to have extra adults in the room for exams, and you would help with passing out materials and collecting exams.

Please note, if your child is taking any IB exam, you may not proctor that exam subject, but you may proctor other subjects.

If you have not volunteered in our district previously, you would need to complete the Livermore Valley Joint Unified Volunteer Application prior to volunteering. You can find the application at

https://apps.raptortech.com/Apply/NjgzMzplbi1VUw==

If you have any questions, please contact GHS IB Coordinator Jon Cariveau at jcariveau@lvjusd.org.

We would really appreciate any volunteers to help us with IB exam proctoring if any of you are available. Thanks in advance!

Here is the link to sign up to help proctor:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F4DA5A82CA3FA7-55433696-volunteer

Looking for any information related to Safe and Sober Grad Night?

Check out www.granadassgn.com or connect with us at granadassgn@gmail.com.

If you are on Facebook, please join our Group for parents at GHS SSGN25

Calling all Cornhole players (and those that just like to throw bags at holes in wood). https://granada.futurefund.com/store/campaigns/45969-ssgn25-cornhole-tournament?c=1

The 2nd annual SSGN Cornhole Tournament will be held at Homegrown Hops on 4/26 at 12:00. Register your team of two today! We even have a student registration for those 16-19 years old.

There will be a food truck (Marty's Joint) and a live band in addition to a raffle and prizes for the winners of both divisions.

Don't love Cornhole or just want to watch your favorite team compete? Please sign up as a volunteer. We have several places where we could use help.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48A9A62CA2FACF8-55402895-cornhole#/

Mark your calendars for the next Family Fun Bingo!!

We will be playing for family friendly baskets and your $10 per person fee not only includes a bingo pack, dauber, dinner, a drink and dessert, but $5 of every ticket is donated to SSGN!

The school with the most people in attendance will also win $500 for their PTA/PTO/Supporters!

• Adam J Clark Portrait Session Fundraiser

  Do you need family photos?

• $275 for a Portrait Package and $55 of every package goes to SSGN25!

• Package Includes:

• An outside photo session in Livermore with Adam J Clark

• 2 High Resolution Digital Images

• You will have the opportunity to purchase additional pictures after seeing previews

• You may be able to use an alternative location with a travel fee

Please consider supporting a senior to attend SSGN that would otherwise be unable to afford to attend. $65 supports one student’s ticket but we appreciate donations of any size to help our fund grow!! Use this link!!