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Posted Date: 01/19/26 (12:00 PM)
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Steers Family Newsletter

January 18, 2026
Adam Anderson, Principal of Graham High School

Principal's Corner

Hello Parents and Community,

I hope that you have been able to stay warm with the colder weather and colder nights we have been experiencing the past few days. I also hope that you have been able to relax and enjoy this long MLK weekend.

As a follow-up, I worked with our district testing coordinator to finalize dates and will be releasing the testing schedule very soon. In addition, I am sitting down with counselors this week to finalize Senior dates so that I can send that out to you for scheduling purposes.

I hope that you had an opportunity to watch our students compete this weekend in basketball, soccer, or at the Young County Junior Livestock Show (YCJLS). I was at soccer on Friday and it was great to see our students compete, play hard, and have great games. I also had the opportunity to go to the YCJLS and see some of the great things our Ag Mech students created and also got to see students show their livestock. Our students did a great job and I am proud of them. Our Ag teachers also deserve a shoutout for all the hard work they put into helping our students prepare. Several of our FFA students will be competing over the next 2 months at San Angelo, San Antonio, and Houston livestock shows. Please wish them and our awesome Ag teachers good luck as they go and compete.

Thank you for all you do for our school. I look forward to welcoming students back tomorrow!

Respectfully,

Adam Anderson
Principal

Graham Safe

Graham Safe Important Message

Upcoming Drills

Last week's fire drill was moved to this week due to the Blood Drive. 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 19th: Martin Luther King Jr. Day-No School
  • January 20th: AHU in GHS Cafeteria 4-7pm
  • January 20th: LB Basketball vs Brownwood (Junior High Night) @4:30pm and 6pm
  • January 20th: Steers Basketball vs Brownwood (Junior High Night) @4:30pm, 5:45pm, and 7:30pm
  • January 21st: ASVAB Test in GHS Cafeteria @8am
  • January 23rd: TSIA Test in GHS Cafeteria @8am
  • January 24th: LB Softball vs Abilene Cooper @10am and 11:30am

  • January 26th: Fall Sports Banquet in GHS Gym @6pm
  • January 30th: No School
  • January 30th: LB Basketball vs Stephenville (Little Dribbler Night) @4:30pm and 6pm
  • January 20th: Steers Basketball vs Stephenville (Little Dribbler Night) @4:30pm, 5:45pm, and 7:30pm
  • January 31st: AHU in GHS Cafeteria @9am-1pm
  • January 31st: LB JV Softball vs Legacy @10am
  • January 31st: LB Softball vs Springtown @12pm
  • 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
  • February 6th: No School (Professional Learning Day)

  • February 13th: No School
  • February 14th: Bella Blues Dance Competition
  • February 14th: Valentines Day
 

What's Happening at GHS...

Students Compete at DECA Competition

Congratulations to our students that competed in the DECA competition this last week. We have 10 students moving on to state in February!

Business Administration
Porter Caddell-Earned the rating of Top Tester

Principles of Marketing 
Aaron Minyard- 3rd Place 

Hotel Lodging 
Mallori Buschmann- 3rd Place
Paisley Bailey- 4th Place 

Principles of Finance 
Porter Caddell- 1st Place
Hannah Parker- 3rd Place 

Principles of Hospitality and Tourism 
Kelstin Dalton- 1st Place 
Teren Yowell- 2nd Place

Principles of Business Management 
Mike Garcia- 4th Place

Financial Services Team Decision Making 
Preslee Carr and Haley Escalante- 1st Place  
DECA Students
 

Prom Info

Save the date for Prom on April 18th. See the attached image for more information.
 

Facilities Planning Committee

Here is the link to GISD website where all information and presentations from each month's meetings are posted. Feel free to look over this to see what is being discussed and share with friends and neighbors. This month, we heard from the architect firm Corgan, who inspected every district building and provided their assessment.
 

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 GHS 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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