2024/2025 TRANSPORTATION NOTIFICATION: If your student utilized busing services during the 2023-24 school year and you do not need any changes, your student remains registered (no further action is needed). Parents of first-time riders MUST register by Friday, August 2, so their student can receive busing services on the first day of school (8/19). Click on the link for the Transporation Registration Form! Please contact the GPS Transportation Department at 616.754.3850 if you have any questions. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1Ok6bqtOly7zo2VPLpHyCoG_OVYBPIbnBI9MY1uJiPz74Eg/viewform
This coming fall we have a couple open paraprofessional positions at Baldwin Heights. We are looking for positive people to work with special education students. If you, or someone you know, is interested please have them apply here: https://bit.ly/bhparaprofessional2024. :)
Greenville Public Schools is asking voters to consider a 10-year, 1.5-mill sinking fund millage proposal on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
WHAT IS A SINKING FUND? A sinking fund is a voter-approved local millage that deposits revenue into a special account to fund projects or major repairs on a "pay as you go" basis rather than borrowing through short-term notes or long-term bonds.
If approved by voters, this proposal would enhance our schools' safety, comfort, and functionality for the benefit of the thousands of students, staff, and community members who use them daily by allowing GPS to address school security improvements, infrastructure replacement & updates, and technology & transportation replacements. For more proposal information, please visit https://www.gpsjackets.org/page/sinking-fund-august-2024
Baldwin Heights is looking for a new music teacher to join our amazing school family. If you know of anyone who would be interested, please have them go to https://bit.ly/bhmusicteacher2024.
All Kindergarten through 6th grade kids who are interested in participating in football or cheerleading should click on the QR code in the attached flyer for more information about how to join! LINK: https://bit.ly/footballcheer2024
This coming fall we have a couple open paraprofessional positions at Baldwin Heights. We are looking for positive people to work with special education students. If you, or someone you know, is interested please have them apply here: https://bit.ly/bhparaprofessional2024. :)
Introducing our 2024 Baldwin Heights Elementary Support Staff of the Year, Katie Clevenger!
Katie is the administrative assistant at Baldwin Heights. She has been married to her husband Steve for 19 years and has been blessed with two children, Christian (22) and Sophie (14). She has worked at GPS for 8 years and started at Baldwin Heights as a paraprofessional. She has a passion for connecting with students and making them feel like they are important, unique, and heard. In her spare time she loves watching sports, riding bikes, camping, playing pickleball, and hanging out with her friends and family.
The highlight of her time working with GPS is winning this award! Although it is an honor, the relationships she has made with coworkers and students is really the true blessing. Some of her favorite people work for PGS and that says a lot about our amazing school!
We asked Katie how long she would survive in a zombie apocalypse. She said: "I am not sure I would survive a zombie apocalypse. I think they would eat my brains first! Mainly because they would get a good laugh at what is in there. The zombies would be so confused. Everyone else may survive because of it. See, just taking one for the team!"
Greenville Public Schools is asking voters to consider a 10-year, 1.5-mill sinking fund millage proposal on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. If approved by voters, this proposal would enhance our schools' safety, comfort, and functionality for the benefit of the thousands of students, staff, and community members who use them daily by allowing GPS to address school security improvements, infrastructure replacement & updates, and technology & transportation replacements. This proposal will NOT increase your millage rate but rather hold it steady at 4.7 mills. For more information, please visit https://www.gpsjackets.org/page/sinking-fund-august-2024
Introducing our 2024 Baldwin Heights Elementary Teacher of the Year, Kelsey DeDonado!
Kelsey has been teaching at Baldwin Heights for 12 years in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade! She and her husband Andy have two children that also attend Baldwin Heights: Harper is in 4th grade and Henry who will be in kindergarten. As a family, they love to camp and spend their summers at the lake. She also loves to play pickleball!
The highlight of her career so far has been the relationships she has made at GPS. The staff has become like family, and having her own children also be a part of the school could not be any better!
We asked Kelsey five drinks she would choose if her fingers were a drinking fountain. She chose: "iced coffee, Coke, Dr. Pepper, lemonade, and anything with caffeine!"
GHS Yellow Jacket Theatre & GARCC Present...SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK 2024 - Twelfth Night! This event is FREE to the public on July 12 & 13 at 7:00pm at Tower Riverside Park. Bring your own blanket & chair.
GPS wishes everyone a safe & enjoyable 4th of July!
Have a safe and happy Independence Day from your Baldwin Heights school family! 🙂
Greenville Public Schools is asking voters to consider a 10-year, 1.5-mill sinking fund millage proposal on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. If approved by voters, this proposal would enhance our schools' safety, comfort, and functionality for the benefit of the thousands of students, staff, and community members who use them daily by allowing GPS to address school security improvements, infrastructure replacement & updates, and technology & transportation replacements. This proposal will NOT increase your millage rate but rather hold it steady at 4.7 mills. For more information, please visit https://www.gpsjackets.org/page/sinking-fund-august-2024
If you forgot to pick up your student's medications before the last day of school, they are available for pick up today (Thursday, June 6) from 11:00am-2:00pm & 3:00-5:00pm at the GHS Auditorium/Gym Lobby (regardless of what school your student attends). Any prescription or nonprescription medications not picked up will be discarded/destroyed; medications cannot be stored at the schools for the following year.
BH Family...are you looking for a great summer club for your K-5 student? Lainey VanHoose (GHS junior and Baldwin Heights alum) is facilitating a service opportunity twice a month for a couple of hours (with GPS/BH staff support of course) to "change the community in positive ways." The orientation meeting is on June 9 at Baldwin Heights. Here is a link to a PDF that has more information about this club: https://bit.ly/littlepeoplebigdifference24. I encourage everyone to read it if you or you child is interested. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to contact Lainey through email: laineyv3@gmail.com.
If you forgot to pick up your student's medications, they will be available for pick up on Thursday, June 6, from 11:00am-2:00pm & 3:00-5:00pm at the GHS Auditorium/Gym Lobby (regardless of what school your student attends). Any prescription or nonprescription medications not picked up will be discarded/destroyed; medications cannot be stored at the schools for the following year.
From all of us at Baldwin Heights, we wish you all the best this summer with family and friends. See you in the fall!
Greetings Baldwin Heights Family! It has been an amazing year and as we head into summer, here is the link to the End of the Year video that Mr. Hoenshell spends hours preparing for our students and parents: https://bit.ly/bheoyvideo2024.
Enjoy your time with family!
Today (Friday, May 31) is a HALF DAY & the LAST DAY for ALL GPS students! GMS releases at 10:30am, GHS releases at 10:35am & Elementary releases at 11:50am.
