CGS Weekly Message

Happy Sunday!

Thank you to all of our parents, students, and staff who helped us celebrate National School Choice Week last week! We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating with our students and taking time to reflect on the wonderful opportunity that we have in NC as the freedom to choose the education that works the best for our students! Thank you for choosing CGS as your School of Choice! : )

We shared TONS of photos, videos, and snapshots from last week on our school's Facebook page. Please check it out! Thank you to our student council advisors and student council members for their support in leading this event! #GOGRIZZLIES

We are hoping for a great week as we kick off the month of February!

SAVE THE DATES:

• 2/11/2025: BOD Meeting for February- live via YouTube or at the High School Campus
  
• 2/12/2025: HS Dance Ensemble Auditions from 3:30 P.M. until 5:00 P.M.
• 2/13/2025: High School Winter Sports Senior Night
  
• 2/17/2025: CGS CLOSED- Presidents' Day Holiday
• 2/18/2025-2/21/2025: CGS CLOSED- Academic Break
  

Reminder- Check out our CGS Directory for questions regarding anything CGS! You can also reach out to us at info@cgsnc.org for questions.

Don't forget to check out our website at www.cgsnc.org and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cgsgrizzlies for updates!

CGS Parents, if you are in need of assistance with creating or accessing your child's Power School account, please use this form. The Parent Portal through Power School is a great way to get live updates as to how your student is progressing in their classroom studies.

Here is an FAQ that may be helpful as well.

If you have any questions, please contact our registrar Ms. Walther at marissawalther@cgsnc.org.

CGS Parents, beginning next school year (2025-2026), our school and all remaining schools still utilizing PowerSchool as our student information system will all be transitioning to a new student information system called, Infinite Campus. We will be sending out more information as to how to utilize this new system and the benefits this new system will offer. We as a school are in the beginning stages of training and will be training our teachers this semester and over the summer in preparation for this change over. We will be training our students/families as well as we receive more information about the new system.

We are in Phase II and many schools transitioned during Phase I, so we are excited to be on the second phase of this roll out and be able to learn from other school systems that have already changed over and have been actively utilizing the new system.

Stay tuned for more information coming soon.

The first "migration" of information from PowerSchool over to Infinite Campus will begin soon. This will not impact our use of the program, but if you get any emails or notification that your account has been "deleted" please forward that email to Ms. Walther at marissawalther@cgsnc.org.

School Day:

K-8: School starts at 7:45 A.M. and ends at 2:45 P.M.

(students may arrive as early as 7:15 A.M.)

9-12: School starts at 8:00 A.M. and ends at 3:00 P.M.

(students may arrive as early as 7:30 A.M.)

Need some new CGS apparel? Check out our School Spirit Store by clicking on the link below!

https://acceleratedgfx.com/collections/Clover-Garden

Keep working hard Grizzlies! Make sure that you are on time daily and ready to learn as soon as you arrive to campus!

Thanks,

Mrs. Spencer

K-8 Principal

Greetings Grizzly Families,

We had another awesome week at CGS! As we push forward to the academic break in a couple of weeks, please continue to have students present daily, on time, and ready to learn. We appreciate your support in ensuring our students are on the pathway to success.

Current Juniors

You will take the ACT on March 11th, 2025 at CGS. It is required for all 11th graders to complete this test. If you have taken the ACT prior to 3/11/2024, please contact Mrs. Tonya Ginter (tonyaginter@cgsnc.org). We encourage all of our juniors to practice leading up to the assessment. Please see the ACT Prep Guides to prepare for the ACT.

ACC Spring Break

The ACC calendar lists March 4-7 and April 14-18 as spring break. Best practice is for students to check with their instructor and syllabus for clarification on what is expected during the breaks. Some instructors may assign work over ACC breaks. Please have your student clarify with their instructor for their classes.

Senior Parents: (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

If you are interested in purchasing an ad for your senior, the deadline is February 28, 2025. A full page ad is $110.00 and includes up to 12 photos. A 1/2 page ad is $55.00 and includes up to 6 photos. Just go to yearbookforever.com and upload your photos and message. The yearbook staff will be creating the layouts for the pages this year to ensure a cohesive look with the overall yearbook. Questions please contact Sarah Barlekamp (sarahbarlekamp@cgsnc.org).

DRIVER EDUCATION ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATES:

If you are in need of a driver education eligibility certificate, please email Mrs. Simpson (margaretsimpson@cgsnc.org, Dr. Morris (karenmorris@cgsnc.org), and Mrs. Gladden (elizabethgladden@cgsnc.org) to have one drafted and set a time to meet for completion. We need at least 48 hours notice before we can draft this document and have it ready for pick up. This document requires a parent/guardian to come to the school for completion and is good for 30 days.

Thank you,

Dr. Morris

High School Principal

We will be offering a FREE ACT Prep class to our juniors at CGS in preparation for the official assessment on March 11th, 2025. Mr. Cheek has graciously offered to provide this study prep for our students and we think they will benefit greatly from his expertise in this area. Thank you Mr. Cheek! He will be in touch with our juniors. All currently enrolled juniors in Math III will be offered this prep session during their regularly scheduled school day. All juniors who are not currently enrolled in Math III will be given an after school opportunity for this prep session. We are grateful for an opportunity for our students to practice skills that they will be tested on the upcoming ACT.

ACT scores are very important to the college admission process and students need to do their best on this national assessment to be considered strong candidates for college acceptance.

Scheduling for Fall 2025

Information coming soon!

Parents, please pre-order your student's 2025 Yearbook by clicking HERE.

School Tours are now available for students and families looking to enter our 2025-2026 enrollment lottery. Please feel free to share these dates/times with any families that you know may be interested in joining us at CGS as a future Grizzly!

Monday, February 3, 2025:

5:30 MS Boys

Tuesday, February 4, 2025:

4:30, 6:00, 7:30- HS JV, Varsity Girls, Varsity boys vs Chatham

Wednesday, February 5, 2025: -

4:30, 6:00, 7:30- MS Girls, Varsity Girls, Varsity boys vs Bethany

Friday- February 7, 2025:

4:30, 6:00, 7:30- HS JV, Varsity Girls, Varsity boys vs Phoenix Academy

MS Baseball Open Field

Tuesday & Wednesday 3:30-5:00 at McCray Field

Upcoming Important Dates:

February 3, 5, 7th- MS Basketball Conference Tournament

Thursday, February 13th- HS Senior Night

February 17, 19, 21- HS Basketball Conference Tournament

Home Game Information:

Tickets must be purchased on gofan (https://gofan.co/app/school/NC50181) or with a card at the gate. Concessions will be available.

Monthly Newsletter:

https://view.gogipper.com/page/2166233

Stay In The Know: Athletics has a Remind account to send out important updates. Use the link below to join: https://www.remind.com/join/cgsa2024

Athletics Website: For all things athletics, please visit our website at https://sites.google.com/cgsnc.org/grizzly-athletics

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our athletic director, Coach Paschal at taylorpaschal@cgsnc.org.

Volleyball Training:
March 29, April 26
At Clover Garden School Gymnasium

Current 5th- 7th graders Skills Training 8:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Price- $25 per session if you pay for all four in advance $75. Open to anyone.

Register HERE: https://forms.gle/PsHgJQ69gGLLEqwM8

High School Positional Training- Current 8th-11th graders
Hitters/Setters- 10:30-12:00
Defense/serving 12:30-2:00

Price- $25 a session or $40 for both.

Pay for all four in advance $75/Pay for all 8 in advance $120. Open to anyone.

Register HERE: https://forms.gle/PsHgJQ69gGLLEqwM8

Email Mrs. Dollyhigh with any questions at taradollyhigh@cgsnc.org

Students interested in auditioning for the 2025-2026 Dance Ensemble will need to review the information below. Please reach out to Mrs. Ballard for questions at annaballard@cgsnc.org.

Shout out to our Marching Grizzlies for their performance in Raleigh this past week for National School Choice Week! Great job Grizzlies!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Harper, Band Director at justinharper@cgsnc.org.

Volunteer Needs:

We are in need of parents for various committees around our school! Your input, dedication, and passion for our school is very valuable and we'd like to have you join our committees if you're interested. If you are interested in sitting in on a committee at CGS (many of which meet virtually), please reach out to Mrs. Vereyken and we can share available committees currently searching for members.

Thank you!

If you are interested in volunteering at CGS, please reach out to our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteercgs@cgsnc.org.

Please contact our District Testing Coordinator, Ms. Ginter at tonyaginter@cgsnc.org for any questions or concerns.

Parents,

Attached please find a copy of this month’s menu. Please review it carefully as you place your order at myschoolaccount.com. Remember we adhere to a seven day ordering window. This means that all pre-orders must be placed seven days prior to the serving date.

Please see the links below if you are in need of any assistance.

How to create a myschoolaccount- https://youtu.be/0QZDU5Xm7zU

How to login and manage students- https://youtu.be/9vS7n4tnZ8s

How to deposit funds- https://youtu.be/13k29YnYuZw

How to preorder lunches-
https://intercom.help/myschoolaccount_help_center/en/articles/2330998-place-a-pre-order

Please see above for adding funds to your student account. Please make sure your account is no more than $50 in the negative. If your student’s account is more than $50 in the negative he/she will not be allowed to purchase a la carte items and charge them to their account.

Reach out if you have any questions or if you need your students lunch number.

Thanks,

Dana Walker
Cafeteria Coordinator
danawalker@cgsnc.org

Parents,

Click below to access the Mental Health Survey for this school year if you are interested and/or in need of these services for your student.

2024-2025 Mental Health Survey Link

If you know of someone that would be a fantastic fit for our CGS family, please send them to our website to apply at http://cgsnc.org/home/careers/.

Open/Vacant Positions:

*EC Coordinator

*MS Elective Teacher (looking for Technology/Computer Science specialty area)

*MS Social Studies Teacher

*HS EC Teacher

As always, thanks for all that you do,

Mrs. Vereyken

Executive Director

Clover Garden School

*If you need this weekly newsletter translated into a different language, please let our Title 1 Coordinator, Mrs. Simmons know at brandisimmons@cgsnc.org.

*If you have any thoughts, feedback or suggestions for our Title 1 team on ways to improve our practices, please contact Mrs. Simmons at brandisimmons@cgsnc.org.

Email: info@cgsnc.org
Website: cgsnc.org
Locations:

2454 Altamahaw Union Ridge Road, Burlington, NC, USA

5806 Pagetown Road, Burlington, NC 27217
Phone: 3365869440
Facebook: facebook.com/cgsgrizzlies