Cannon News

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

1/4	NO SCHOOL!  Monday, 1/4 is a Teacher Work Day
1/5	Students return to school on Tuesday!
1/6	2nd 9 weeks report cards available for viewing - 3 pm
1/18	School Holiday - No school
1/22	Dinosaur Museum on exhibit @ Cannon

STUDENT REPORT CARDS FOR 2nd NINE WEEKS GRADING PERIOD ARE AVAILABLE THIS WEEK! As a reminder, the final day of the 2nd nine weeks period was December 18th, the last day before the holiday break.  All student report cards will be available for viewing online onWednesday, 1/6/16 at 3:00 pm.  All Kinder-2nd grade report cards are Standards-Based Report Cards and will be available through the Google folder shared with you by your classroom teacher.  All 3rd-5th grade student grades and report cards are available online and can be accessed through Skyward Family Access.  Click here to access Skyward Family Access. 

CANNON'S 2014-2015 TAPR REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE Each year, the Texas Education Agency releases a TAPR report (Texas Academic Performance Report).  This report is a culmination of our student and staff demographics, accountability and academic performance, as well as our state accountability rating for the 2014-2015 school year.  Click here to see Cannon's TAPR 2014-2015 report.  Paper copies will be available in the office in case you are unable to access it online.  Our school report card will be made available in January 2016.      

INCLEMENT WEATHER PROCEDURES  As the temperatures drop and the potential for inclement weather increases, GCISD is encouraging parents to receive important news and alerts via text message.  To sign up for text alerts, parents should text "Yes" to 68453 to subscribe to this service.  The cell phone number used must be listed in Skyward Family Access, in order for a parent to receive text messages from the district office or Cannon.  Parents may check or change the phone number listed by logging in to Family Access and clicking the button to update their phone numbers.  To review the district's inclement weather procedures, click here! 

NEWS ABOUT STEM IN GCISD! When Cannon Elementary became the district's first STEM program for the 2013-2014 school year, it served students in grades Kindergarten through 5th grade.  Seeing the need to continue this focused STEM instruction, the district expanded the program into Grapevine Middle School in the Fall of 2014.  The program at GMS now includes students in 6th & 7th grade, and in August 2016, it will extend to 8th grade.  Currently, the district's STEM program stops at the middle school level; however, campus and district leaders are looking ahead to the future and beginning in the Spring 2016, staff at Grapevine High School will begin professional development, with the aim of offering specialized STEM instruction for 9th grade students in the Fall of 2017.  The decision to locate the high school STEM program at GHS was made after considering the curricular resources already in place at the GCISD Technology Education & Career Center, which currently serves both Colleyville Heritage and GHS students.  As with the program at Grapevine Middle School, the STEM Academy will continue to progress each year with students, eventually becoming a Kindergarten through 12th grade initiative.  While the district and GHS leaders are very early in the planning stages, we wanted to let our STEM families know that the district is looking ahead and we are excited for the opportunity this will present for our students.  We will continue to update you throughout the next year as we continue to grow the STEM program in GCISD.