GPPSS Update

At Destination Imagination Globals, Dueling Dogs tied for 4th and took the high score in the instant challenge in the middle school level engineering category. Their challenge was to make a roller coaster for a golf ball.

Team managers are Courtney Dykstra and Courtney Vassel who submitted this Pointe of Pride to info@gpschools. All are welcome to submit story ideas!

Congratulations! But we don't want to lose touch! When our student information system rolls over this summer, you will stop receiving communications from GPPSS unless you subscribe. Just send an email to info@gpschools.org with subscribe in the subject line and we'll keep you on our distribution list.

One of the recommendations from this year’s Middle School Study is to continue to provide all 5th grade students the opportunity to attend camp. The camp experience helps to support a team atmosphere among students and staff and helps students to build skills that extend beyond the classroom. To make sure we are utilizing a camp and creating an experience that best supports all students, the district is putting together a committee of parents, teachers, and administrators to identify a camp and plan camp activities. The committee will begin meeting in the fall. We do not anticipate more than three meetings. If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please contact Dr. Dan Hartley, Director of Secondary Instruction, at hartled@gpschools.org.

GPPSS conducts surveys of athletes and their parents/guardians each sports season. If you or your student participated in a spring sport, please take your version of the Spring Sports Survey by June 16th (before summer break). Summary results are shared publicly. If you wish to remain anonymous, please do not put personally identifiable information in the open-ended comment sections. Thank you for sharing your input as we seek to continuously improve our athletic programs!

• Parent/Guardian Spring Sports Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SpringSports23ParentGuardian
  
• Student Athlete Version (new shorter student version this year per student input) - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StudentAthleteSpring23

Upcoming Board of Education (BOE) meetings include:

• BOE Regular Meeting and Budget Hearing, Monday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., Brownell MPR
  
• CANCELLED BOE Finance & Facilities, Tuesday, June 13
• BOE Policy & Contracts, Monday, June 19, 6 p.m., Barnes PLS
• BOE Regular Meeting, TUESDAY, June 20, 6:30 p.m., Brownell MPR
• BOE Finance & Facilities, Wednesday, June 21, 6 p.m., Barnes PLS
• BOE Community Engagement, Thursday, June 22, 6 p.m., Barnes PLS
• BOE Curriculum, Monday, June 26, 6 p.m., Barnes PLS

Dates for additional committee meetings are posted under the School Board dropdown; click BOE Committees. That section includes an updated description of membership for each committee as well as meeting dates, agendas and a link to the minutes. Agendas are also linked from the board calendar. Committee meetings are not filmed but all regular board meetings are and now have closed captioning.

Attention parents and students! Keep your child's reading skills sharp this summer with our menu of reading resources. Our program offers an extensive collection of reading materials for elementary, middle, and high school students. We encourage all students to participate and explore the wide range of resources we have to offer. For more information, please visit:

• Elementary Resources
• Middle School Resources
• High School Resources

This summer, the Grosse Pointe Public School System will be partnering with Michigan Virtual to offer credit recovery and grade replacement for students.

GPPSS continues to update our Summer Programs page of the website. Click to learn more. Below are some recent additions which are also shared on Peachjar, our ADA complaint flyer site. Did you know you can customize your Peachjar subscription by school?