
📣 KSA Testing Reminder – GMS Cougars!
Families, KSA testing is here! Please help your student shine by making sure they:
✅ Get a good night's sleep
✅ Eat a healthy breakfast
✅ Arrive on time, ready to do their best
✅ Bring their Chromebook fully charged each day 💻🔋
We’re proud of our Cougars and all their hard work! Let’s finish strong! #GMSPride


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Student of the Week Spotlight! 👏 Congratulations to this week’s outstanding GMS students: Grace Bicknell and Jack Gallegos, Elana Clarkson, Aubrey Wagner, Luke Eldridge, and Connor Rijal!


Join us for Spring Workshops and Tea at the GEC on Saturday, May 3rd!
Create unique art, enjoy spring snacks and tea, and support our Odyssey of the Mind teams heading to World Finals. Choose one workshop or attend them all — moss art, painting, and fairy house building.
GEC – 324 West Maple Avenue, Lancaster
First workshop: $35 | Each additional: $15
All supplies included!
Click the link below or email tisha.weaver@garrard.kyschools.us to register. Walk-ins welcome if space allows!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8MVMMVivoHf8wxZF_57qqikj9jCYvcRmGgUiepw10IOXZjA/viewform?pli=1


GMS Girls Basketball Open Gym and Tryouts!


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Student of the Week Spotlight! 👏 Congratulations to this week’s outstanding GMS students: Makenzie Valentour, Saraeleigh Moore, Jayden Abney, Brady Hunt, Bentley Edwards and Keizah McWhorter.


Best of luck to the GMS JAG Business Plan team as they take on Nationals today! 👏

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Good Afternoon!
Reminder that Parent SBDM Voting will occur next week!
Elections will take place on Monday(April 21st) and Tuesday(April 22nd), from 8:00-4:00 at GMS. You can vote by stopping by the GMS Main Office and requesting a ballot. You will be required to show your ID and complete your vote on site.
Please use the image to review the parent qualifications. In addition to meeting the qualifications, those that are elected must complete the legally required background check, SBDM Training, and attend scheduled SBDM monthly meetings.

Congratulations to our Students of the Month for the month of April! 👏 This month, we recognize, Blayklei White and Sophia Purcell, Stella Bolton, Will Hopkins, Iliya Martynyuk, and Mark Holleran. Way to go!


Student of the Week Spotlight! 👏 Congratulations to this week’s outstanding GMS students: Ben Say and Adelyn Richards, Rowan Hess, AnnaBelle McIntosh, Kyndall Clark and Emma Weaver!


Please mark your calendars with GMS Spring KSA Testing Dates! We ask you to please be mindful of these dates when making appointments and scheduling things out of town if possible. Thank you!


Cheer Tryouts for the 2025-2026 GCHS Squad! 📣
Cheer clinics will be held on April 21st, 22nd, and 23rd from 3:30 to 5:30PM at the Garrard County High School gym. Attendance at all three clinic days is required in order to be prepared for tryouts, which will take place on Thursday, April 24th from 3:30 to 6:30 PM, also at the GCHS gym. All participants must have a current sports physical on file to be eligible to participate. Check the flyer for more details!


GMS Yearbooks are on sale(online only)!
Online orders are due by April 21st and can be purchased through: ybpay.com
There will also be an opportunity to buy on a first come, first served basis when the yearbooks arrive (approximately May 15th) and will be $33 cash or check made to Garrard Middle School.

Welcome back students! This week at GMS!


Student of the Week Spotlight! 👏 Congratulations to this week’s outstanding GMS students: Elliot Walton, Kennedy Simpson, and Leslie Navarro (bottom row, left to right), along with Skylar Gamble, Garrett Vaughn, and Jacob Pendegrist (top row, left to right). Keep up the great work!


Reminder!


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Congratulations to our Students of the Week for last week!👏 Keep up the great work, Logan Davenport, Henley Bastin, Conner VanWinkle, Landon Houp, Mason Watts, and Aubrey Shepard!
