Pep Squad Members must pick up their new practice and baketball schedules: 6th grade pick up from Mrs. Moody, 7th grade from Mrs. Dillingham, and 8th grade from Mrs. Noel.


Pep Squad - Tomorrow is Pep Rally. Bring uniforms, poms, and white tennis shoes to school.
DO NOT FORGET!!!!!!!!


Colonel Choir will be selling Giant Cookies this week at lunch. The cookies are $1.00, so bring your money and get ready for some huge chocolate chunks!

Basketball Tryouts - 8th grade boys basketball tryouts are Wed. Oct. 22 from 3 - 4:45. Have your ride here to pick up no later than 5:00p.m.

7th grade boys basketball tryouts will be next Monday and Tuesday, October 27 and 28 in the gym. You must have at least a 1.5 GPA and no more than 1 F on your report card to be eligible. Sign up in your P.E. class beginning today.


The following students have been recognized for demonstrating the Character Counts pillar of "Caring".

6th Grade - Sesley Alred for helping a student in class
7th Grade - Brandon Bowman volunteered to help a student catch up after a long absence.
8th Grade - Ben Bohannon for jumping to pick up a pile of papers Mrs. Eley dropped.
8th Grade - Logan Hale picked up all the dictionaries in class and put them on the shelves without being asked.
8th Grade - Dylan Schafer for staying behind to help clean up the room.

Picture retakes Will Not be done Monday due to the Central Office walkthrough. We apologize for any inconvience this may cause.

Teen Read Week begins Monday Oct. 20 in the library.
The theme this year is Peace Love and Books. Check in the library for a schedule of contests and events. Stay tuned for further information.

GO COLONELS!!!!! BEAT RICHWOOD!!!!!


CICI'S PIZZA AND GOOD HOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Tuesday, October 21st is Good Hope Night at CiCi's Pizza! Students, parents, faculty, staff and their families are invited to come to CiCi's Pizza to help earn 10% cash rebate on all Good Hope School receipts. (Don't forget to mention Good Hope at our register!)

Reminder - Pep Squad. You must be in the stands ready to cheer by 6p.m. tonight.

Picture retakes have been postponed until Monday Oct. 20.

If you are a 7th or 8th grader, you do not exit the building on the 6th grade hall.

Girls soccer practice today and Thursday until 4:30.
Bring shin guards and cleats.

Softball tryouts will be held Saturday, Oct. 25 at 9:00 a.m. You must sign up ahead of time in Ms. Dillingham's room. The deadline to sign up is Friday, Oct. 17.

Each six weeks we will be focusing on a different pillar of Character Counts. This six weeks our pillar is Caring. Each week staff members will be looking for children who demonstrate this trait. Our winners for last week are: Cody Knox for helping another student pick up her books and colored pencils that fell out of her locker. Amanda Newman for helping a special ed student with breakfast when they were short on teachers. She helped get food and helped get them back to class.
Rakieda Brothers for assisting the student next to her without being asked. Nathan Parr for being the quietest person on the bus.

8th grade boys basketball tryouts are October 22 from 3 - 5. Any 8th grade boy interested in trying out for basketball sign up during your P.E. hour and see Coach Brothers.

Pep squad does not have practice Wednesday - however you do have a game Thursday at Good Hope.

The Counseling Dept. is pleased to announce that our groups will start tomorrow. Teachers, each of you had a list of the groups in your box. Be sure to look over that list and highlight any students you teach and what period they will be attending group. Since the students do not know the name of their group, we are depending on you to help us get them to their first session. This year our group names are flavors of ice cream - so students you will find out tomorrow and Thursday when your group meets!!!

After school tutoring today. Meet in the cafeteria @ 3:00.

The new officers for the GHMS Jr. National Honor Society are as follows:

President - Elizabeth Ingram
Vice President - Emily Bethea
Secretary - Sadie Hillis
Treasurer - Morgan Bivens

Congratulations to these new officers for the 2003-2004 school year.

Boys and Girls Soccer Tryouts are Wednesday and Friday after school until 4:20.

Softball tryouts will be Saturday morning October 25th @ 9:00 a.m.

Change the Nov. 20 Riser basketball game to Away and the Jan. 26 Riser game to Home or see Coach Brothers for another schedule.

Reminder - Student Council homeroom representative elections will be held in each homeroom tomorrow.

Boys soccer tryouts will be held this Wednesday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 10 after school. Boys interested in trying out need to sign up with Coach Long during their P.E. class by lunch on Wednesday. All boys must have a 1.5 grade point average to be eligible. Tryouts should last until about 4:15 - 4:20 each day.
Have your ride here on time to pick you up.

Teachers - Please be sure you calculate the GPA's on your report cards and fill out the National Honor Society Sheets before report cards go home. Please return your GPA reports to Mrs. Bayles 8th grade and Mrs. Epps 7th grade as soon as possible.

OPEN HOUSE - REPORT CARD PICK UP WILL BE TOMORROW NIGHT @ 6:30p.m.

Congratulations to the following 6th grade Colonel Choir members on the selection to the ACDA All State Choir. They will perform in Baton Rouge with 150 other singers from across the state. Those chosen are: Ali McCandlish, Iris Tuttle, Eric Whitehead, Taylor Ainsworth, Hannah Blakeney, and Miranda Davis. Way to go, Colonels!

Reminder - All overdue books must be returned to the library and all fines must be paid by Tuedsay Oct. 7 in order to receive your report card. Please take care of this by in the morning.

Cross Country will meet at GHMS at 7:30 a.m. to go to the meet at Cedar Creek - Saturday morning.

Students - Remember Monday is the deadline for turning in GROUP PERMISSION FORMS.

There is still time to get your recipes to Mrs. Hogg. The deadline has been extended until October 17. Please bring as many recipes as you can for the Good Hope cookbook that will be on sale in the spring.

Any student wishing to run for student council homeroom representative needs to get a form from their homeroom teacher. Elections will be held Thursday, October 9th during homeroom. Teachers if you need extra forms see Mrs. Moody.

Remember - GO VOTE SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!