The countdown is ON! We are so excited to welcome students back for another great school year! Staff have been busily preparing their classrooms, brushing up on instructional skills, and revisiting the always-important-topic of customer service! See you soon!
Eagle Launch Today! 1-8 pm at GMMS!
Our new WEB leaders are IN DA HOUSE prepping to help students on the first day!!
Welcome, to the new members of the GMMS teaching staff! We are excited to have this outstanding group of educators join our team! 🦅
A new app for parents of bus-eligible students is coming soon! The FREE Stopfinder app allows parents/guardians/daycare providers to see pick-up and drop-off times, the location of the bus, and other features in a secure app. More information will be coming soon, including an invitation to set up your child's account in Stopfinder. If you are the primary household of a bus-eligible student, please check your email for more information.
We're getting face-lift! Thanks to Jim Jones and SFSD Operational Services for the new beautiful landscaping to welcome our Eagles back! 🌻🦅
What better way to start August than some "inspired" learning? SFSD staff members are sharpening their skills to help your student(s) achieve!
Keep your students fueled to learn! SFSD is no longer able to offer free meals to all students. Now is a great time to add money to their My School Bucks account. Or, for families with qualifying income, it is important to fill out the Free/Reduced Meal application!
Log on to the Parent Portal in Infinite Campus to apply! If you have questions or need help filling out the application please call 605-367-6180. We are happy to help!
Please note: if your student does not have a free/reduced lunch application on file, you will be charged full price for breakfast and lunch starting the first day of school. Thank you!
Students/Families who need assistance with purchasing the necessary school supplies for a successful school year may consider attending Project SOS. The first day of classes for SFSD is Thursday, August 25, 2022.
The very hungry Monarch caterpillars are back this summer and love feasting on dill in the GMMS garden! 🐛
The first ever GMMS summer camp wrapped up last week with two small groups of students. Students tie dyed shirts, made their own pizza and brownies, put up tents, hiked, swam, started fires for outdoor cooking, saw a science demonstration, watched a CineDome film, and even participated in a theater workshop where they learned stage makeup and stage combat. They were warmly welcomed and represented George McGovern well at the Washington Pavilion, Old Courthouse Museum, Big Sioux Rec Park, Falls Park, Levitt Sioux Falls, and the Terrace Park Pool.
We would like to thank all the places we went, as well as Amanda Berg, the Boys and Girls Club, School Bus Inc, Breadsmith, Walmart, Costco, Sunshine Foods Downtown, General Kills, Pizza Ranch, Chick-Fil-A, and Promising Futures for their generous contributions to help make these two weeks possible.
These Eagles are having a blast at GMMS Summer Camp! From field trips to STEM lessons and outdoor games to family-style lunches, they are learning and growing together and it is awesome to see! Hope all of our Eagles are having a great summer ☀️
We recognized our final Students of the Quarter this year with awards and a pizza party! These students display our core values every day and are outstanding examples of what it means to be a GMMS Eagle! Congrats, to each of them!
We celebrate hard! Today at GMMS we recognized 461 students for one of the following reasons: earning a 3 or 4, growing within their level, or moving up an entire level on the South Dakota State Assessment! Of those, 80 students moved up a level in Math and 91 in ELA. Woohoo! This news is worth celebrating and we sure did! Eagles, you should be proud!
We had so much fun welcoming the next group of Eagles to the nest! We showed off all the great things GMMS has to offer and can't wait to have the class of 2029 join in the fun!
The GMMS library, led by teacher-librarian Mrs. Wolles, was awarded the 21st Century School Library Award and recognized as Exemplary Status. The South Dakota State Library, a division of the SD Department of Education, formally and annually recognizes schools with libraries that meet the characteristics of a 21st century school library through its place, professional, and program. Congrats, to Mrs. Wolles! What an honor!
As Lions they roared, as Eagles they soared! And now they're ready to fly off onto new adventures! George McGovern retirees Tina, Steve, Jeff, and Terry leave big shoes to fill. We will miss their faces in the halls, but are excited to see where the their new journeys take them!
Look at the Eagles who were recognized during 8th Grade Honors Night! It was an awesome celebration of students' accomplishments, including academic, music, and athletic awards and the presentation of the Elite 8! Watch out world - these students are going to change you!
Thanks, to everyone who worked to make this night a success!
Goodbyes are hard, but we are so proud of our 8th grade RISE students! We held a graduation ceremony and celebration for these soon to be high schoolers last Friday and it was a wonderful time! Thanks, to all the staff and families who made this special event a huge success! These Eagles are ready to soar!
We are so proud of our 8th grade students who participated in the district-wide Poetry Slam at the Washington Pavilion! They were strong representatives of GMMS and our core values of courage and resilience! We were also so impressed by our 8th grade student body, who displayed honor and kindness while they listened to and supported the poets. We couldn't be more proud, Eagles!!
