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Weekly Parent Newsletter

Posted Date: 01/11/26 (06:00 PM)


Steers Family Newsletter

January 11, 2026
Adam Anderson, Principal of Graham High School

Principal's Corner

Hello Parents and Community,

This week it was a pleasure to see students return to campus! Teachers happily welcomed students back and it was great to see the great lessons our teachers had prepared. I can honestly say we have amazing teachers that plan engaging lessons and will do anything to help our students learn.

On Friday of this past week, our Lady Blues Basketball Team opened district play against Glen Rose. This next week is very busy with athletic events and the Young County Junior Livestock Show. I am excited to attend this week and see the wonderful things our students are doing. I hope to see many of you at our events. Please feel free to come up and say hi if you see me at these events.

As hard as it is to believe, I am already planning graduation and all senior activities! I am working with counselors and staff on a list of all the different activities and deadlines and will get that shared out soon.

Last week I wrote about making goals and I hope that you and your family did and are still working on them. Remember, reaching goals is about the journey and how it makes you better more than the end result. If you've already forgotten or left your goals behind, I challenge you to pick them back up and keep moving forward. I look forward to another great week with our amazing students and teachers. Thank you for supporting our teachers!


Respectfully,

Adam Anderson
Principal

Graham Safe

Graham Safe Important Message

Upcoming Drills

This week we will have a fire drill. We have scheduled a lockdown drill in coordination with local law enforcement to be held the first week of February. As always, parents will be notified after we conduct any drill on campus.

Upcoming Events

Mark Your Calendars

Upcoming Events for GHS

  • January 12th: Steers Basketball vs Windthorst JV @5:30pm
  • January 12th: Steers Basketball vs Abilene Hawks @7:30pm
  • January 12th: LB Soccer vs Springtown @5pm
  • January 12th: Steers Soccer vs Springtown @3:30pm and 7pm
  • January 13th: GRIT Event @ GHS Library 6-7pm
  • January 14th: School Board Meeting
  • January 16th: No School
  • January 16th: LB JV Soccer vs Bowie @5:30 pm
  • January 16th: Steers JV Soccer vs Bowie @7pm
  • January 16th: Steers Varsity Soccer vs Abilene @4pm

  • January 19th: Martin Luther King Jr. Day-No School
  • January 20th: AHU in GHS Cafeteria 4-7pm
  • January 21st: ASVAB Test in GHS Cafeteria @8am
  • January 23rd: TSIA Test in GHS Cafeteria @8am

  • January 26th: Fall Sports Banquet in GHS Gym @6pm
  • January 30th: No School
  • January 31st: AHU in GHS Cafeteria @9am-1pm
  • January 31st: GISD Theater presents "Disneys High School Musical, Jr." @ GHS Auditorium 7-8pm
  • February 1st: GISD Theater presents "Disneys High School Musical, Jr." @ GHS Auditorium 2-3pm
  • February 2nd: GISD Theater presents "Disneys High School Musical, Jr." @ GHS Auditorium 7-8pm
  • February 3rd: STAAR English I Field Test
 

What's Happening at GHS...

Lions Club Competition

Mai Bara and Adelyn Fade presented their essays for the Lions Club Competition at Wednesday’s Lions Club meeting. Congratulations Mai and Adelyn. We wish you the best at the district competition!
Mai Bara
Adelyn Fade
 

Young County Junior Livestock Show

Please come out and support our local FFA and 4-H students at the YCJLS, January 15th-January 17th. We have several students participating this year!
 

Senior Info

Seniors and Senior Parents-

Here in the next few weeks we will be posting deadlines and dates for all things concerning seniors. Please make sure to save that when it gets sent out.
 

Testing Information

I am providing this information to help you plan appointments, trips, etc. This semester is full of testing. Here is some general testing information that will be finalized in the next week or two. We have been randomly selected by the State of Texas to give the STAAR English I Field Test as well as all of the other scheduled testing.

STAAR English I Field Test- February 3rd
9th PSAT-Week of March 16th-20th
SAT- All Juniors will take the SAT the week of March 23rd-27th
STAAR Testing: This will run from April 6th-May 1st
 

New Process to Sign Out Student Drivers

In an effort to make it easier on parents to sign out students, GHS is implementing the following process to sign out students that are 16 or older AND are drivers. This will make it easier for parents that are unable to come to the high school to sign out a student.

  • Parent/Guardian calls in and requests to sign their student out over the phone.
  • The front office staff will verify that the number being called from and the parent/guardian is in Skyward.
  • Once confirmed, the student will be notified to check out at the front office. The student MUST come check out.
  • The student driver will then leave campus.

A minimum of 30 minutes notice before the desired release time will help ensure that your child is released at the correct time. Please help us out by making sure all contact information in Skyward is correct and up-to-date. A student will not be signed out from a phone call if parent/guardian information can not be verified with Skyward.

Our current sign out process remains the same for all other students.
 

Makeup Hours

We are starting AHU early this semester to help students regain lost credits. We have two opportunities in January for students to make up any hours for classes that they lost credit for from first semester. Those dates are January 20th from 4-7pm and January 31st from 9am-1pm. Please encourage your student to attend to continue to make up hours and regain credit.
 

New Email for Attendance Notes

Because we have had several staff changes, we are trying to simplify the process for who to send notes to if you are choosing to email them.

Any note that you are submitting can be emailed to: ghsattendance@grahamisd.com. We will continue to accept Parentsquare messages as well.

Attendance Notes Reminder

As a reminder, parent notes are only accepted for 14 days after an absence has occurred. After that, they will not be accepted and the absence will stay unexcused. This only applies to parent notes, not notes from doctors. Doctors notes will be accepted at anytime during the year, but the sooner we get them the better.
 

Staff and Student Shoutouts

Have a Graham ISD student or staff member that deserves a shoutout in an upcoming GISD newsletter or social media post? Take a few moments to share information about the achievement or contribution the staff or student made and share photos if you have them using the form provided below.
Submit a Shoutout
 

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