Quarter 4 begins this week! We are almost to the “finish line” for this school year. Please encourage your student to stay on task and on top of any missing work so that this quarter is the BEST yet for your student. Thank you for your continued support and flexibility during this unprecedented time. Our Grizzly Family is the strongest and most successful when we continue working together! Thank you for your help!

Shout out to our Class of 2021 Seniors:

Please help us recognize our Clover Garden School Senior Class of 2021! Graduation is right around the corner for these Grizzlies!! 20 of our Senior Grizzlies have been with us at CGS since Kindergarten!! Congrats and we can’t wait to celebrate with all of you on June 3rd! Go Grizzlies! Keep working hard!

Maddrie Allen, Gabriel Anemaet, Autumn Boggs-Cook, Caleb Bradley, Jalia Brown, Erica Burgess, Joshua Caceres, Dante Chavez, Caleb Cobb, Avery Coleman, Caitlyn Denson, Jocelyn Edge, Samuel Fenton, Andrew Fowler, Danyel Frederick, Hunter French, Makayla Harrelson, Aaron Hicks, Ethan Jones, Allison Kelley, Macy Lamm, Savannah Lashley, Jordan Lowder, Mykala Martin, Madeline McDowell, Brooke McNeilly, Rachel Miller, Jocelyn Nunn, Michael Paylor, Brendan Petty, Lawson Pope, Catherine Richmond, Blake Simmons, Claire Smith, Mackenzie Smith, Julia Stanfield, Courtney Troxler, Daniel Uhl, Hannah Williams, and Heath Worsham.

NCHSAA Scholar Athletes Award:

Please read the following Blog on our school’s website in regards to our Varsity Girls’ Basketball Team and Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team members!! Way to go Scholar-Athletes! Congratulations, we are proud of you!

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2020-21 Winter NCHSAA Scholar-Athletes!

NCHSAA Award Winners: 

Check out this Blog post from our school’s website in regards to our student athletes that have received awards from our Varsity Basketball Conference! Way to go Grizzly student-athletes!

Varsity Basketball All-Conference and All-District Award Winners!

Report Cards:

Report Cards go out on Monday, March 22, 2021 from 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. Any students that are on campus for “in-person” learning will get their report card delivered to them to take home. Any others not picked up during the distribution time will be mailed home.

Registration:

Emails went out to each group of students/parents last week (Grades 5th-11th) in regards to Course Registration for the 21-22 school year. Please make sure to read those emails carefully and read our instructions on how to register your student for courses next year in PowerSchool. Mrs. Nina and Mrs. Reagan are available for assistance if you need it. They will be reviewing all course registrations and making sure your student is signed up for their appropriate courses. Please fill out the Google Form that you found in that email if you have any questions regarding your student’s courses and they will be happy to help! 

  • Registration is Open for all Monday, March 15th – Friday, March 19th 
  • Closes for all Friday, March 19th

Important information about the registration process can be found on the CGS Course Catalog located on the CGS website by visiting here.

Items you will need:

  • Rapididentity User Number and Password 
  • Plan of Course – Reference your Course Catalog pg 7
  • CGS Course Catalog 

Senate Bill 220

Senate Bill 220 which is a new School Reopening Bill that was signed into law last Thursday, March 11, 2021 by Governor Cooper replaces Senate Bill 37, and it does not include charter schools. Clover Garden School will continue moving forward with plans to improve daily student instruction safely at CGS. We are excited to bring more students on campus for Blended Enrichment beginning this week. We will continue to keep you updated of any changes/updates to our current academic plans at CGS if they occur.

Blended Enrichment:

A reminder that Blended Enrichment starts tomorrow, March 15th! Please see the reminders below to make this week a successful transition for your student.

Reminders:

Arrival time for B.E.E will begin no earlier than 12:45 pm

Students/Parents:

  • Arrival:
    • Drop off will begin at 12:45 P.M. 
    • Please use the 3-12 Car Line (Left hand lane when entering from the Burch Bridge Road entrance) for temperature checks and COVID-19 Screening questionnaire. Please have this form pulled up and ready to enter your child’s temperature on a smart phone if accessible. Form can not be submitted until your child’s temperature has been taken. The form must be completed prior to your child exiting their vehicle. This form will be filled out each time your child attends campus for B.E.E. The form can be found here.
    • High School students will be screened at the entrance of Building 2 glass doors and will enter through Building 1’s main entrance (front porch)
    • Middle School students will be screened at the entrance of Building 2 glass doors and will enter through Building 2’s entrance.
    • If you are a student driver, you will need to park in the right hand side parking spots when you enter from the Burch Bridge Road entrance (next to outdoor classroom/playground) in the K-2 arrival/dismissal car rider lane. You will exit your vehicle and walk up the hill to the side walk next to the fire escape and enter through Gym Entrance glass doors. (If you are bringing a sibling for B.E.E. and you are also in B.E.E., you will need to drive through the car line and drop off your sibling and then go back around the building and park and follow your instructions as a student driver. 
  • Dismissal:
    • Dismissal will be at 3:00 P.M. 
    • Enter from the Burch Bridge Road entrance. Please use the 3-12 car rider line which is to the left hand side when you enter the driveway. A car line will begin at the bottom of the concrete ramp/sidewalk entrance leading to Building 3.
    • If you are an athlete coming for practice and are not involved with B.E.E., please enter from Burch Bridge Road and use the K-2 car rider line to pick up/drop off.
    • For 8th grade students only, your dismissal time will be 4:00 P.M. Parents, please park in the front circle visitors’ parking lot to pick up your student.

Please be patient with us as we work to implement this arrival/dismissal process for our Blended Enrichment Experience program. Thank you!

Social Zooms:

  • Beginning on March 15th, we will be adding an additional 100+ students on campus in Middle/High School that signed up for Blended Enrichment. We are excited to see our students face-to-face for the time that they are on campus! Based on this information, we are reorganizing our “social Zoom” times to reflect a time when students that aren’t on campus can participate in social learning activities while they are still currently remote. Please see the updated schedule below for Social Zoom Conferences:
    • Middle School
      • Grades 6-8 Social Zoom Schedule:
        • Every other Thursday beginning March 25th at 8:15 A.M. 
    • High School
      • Grades 9-11 Social Zoom Schedule:
        • Every other Friday beginning March 26th at 8:30 A.M. 
    • Seniors:
      • Every other Friday beginning March 19th at 2:00 P.M. 

Attention High School Student Drivers:

 Student Drivers that are participating in our CGS Blended Enrichment Experience (B.E.E.) beginning on Monday, March 15th, 2021, please fill out the form below PRIOR to driving on campus. You must have the form below completed and turned in so that we can assign you a parking space upon your arrival on Monday. We will have your parking tag available upon your arrival.

 If you have any questions regarding parking, please email Mrs. Cox at jennifercox@cgsnc.org.

Book Fair:

Yearbook Photos:

  • LAST CALL for yearbook photos! If your student was unable to attend on campus for yearbook photos this year, they have the opportunity to submit a photo to ensure their photos make it into this year’s yearbook. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT A PHOTO is TOMORROW, 3/15! Please see details below:
    • If your child did not receive a yearbook photo but you would still like your child to be represented in the yearbook OR if you have candid photos of your child participating in distance learning that you would like to be a part of the yearbook, please see the following form listed  below.
      • Pictures must be a school appropriate portrait which is a picture of a child in dress code from the waist up with a smiling face on a neutral background.
      • A school appropriate candid photo is a picture of a child following school dress code while participating in distance learning.
    • If you have any questions, feel free to email Ms. Peel at abigailpeel@cgsnc.org.  You can find the link here to the form here.

Feedback Opportunities:

Here’s a reminder of the documents available to provide questions, concerns, or comments during remote learning.

 Questions about Canvas?

Email canvasassistance@cgsnc.org

 Questions about Technology?

Email techsupport@cgsnc.org

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