January: New Year New Opportunity Membership Month. Support your child and have your child be a part of Gavit PTSA. Remember that $1 of your dues goes to the Gavit PTSA Scholarship Program. Membership is $6.00 per person/student.
PROM DRESS RESALE EVENT
The Hammond Chapter of Tri Kappa is sponsoring the Seventh Annual High School Prom Dress Resale Event.
Chick here for a flyer will all information.
Computer Lab
Computer Lab Room 133 will be opening to all Gavit Students after Labor Day. Lab hours are from 2:50 to 4:00 p.m. daily. You may use Plato Systems: jump start for ISTEP+/GQE; Internet: research; and Microsoft Office: document processing.
Remember that all Gavit students are required to carry a student Agenda. Agendas are available at the bookstore for $5.00, and the bookstore is only open in the morning.
Visit the Together We Can web page to learn more about today's PTA.
Would you like to know when the web page is updated? Email the Webmaster, put "update me" in the subject line, and we will notify you each time it is updated!
Welcome to the Gavit PTSA homepage!
The Gavit PTSA meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the student cafeteria. We'd like to see you at the meeting, so mark your calendar and plan on attending.
Gavit PTSA welcomes everyone to the 2007-2008 school year. See the important announcements for parents and students regarding this coming fall. Please check the links below for information from Mr. White, principal:
Congratulations to Gavit's Academic Decathlon Team on becoming State Finalists. See details here
WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!
New Information: Please check here to read an important announcement regarding CA-MRSA Information
For your information you can access the following information
by clicking on the name below:
Principal's
letter to Parents
Dress
code information
Silent
Sustained Reading Expectations
Attendance Policy for High School
High School Teachers schedules, Middle S chool Communities List,
(These files are in PDF form. If you don't have Adobe Reader click on the link at the bottom of the page to get the free download)
Our students in the news: We are always proud of our Gavit students but check here to see a few special instances of some exceptional activities.
Important Dates, Deadlines & Tidbits
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Attention High School Students! FAFSA Workshop for Parents will be held on TUESDAY JANUARY 8 at 6PM- In the Cafeteria. The Financial Office of Purdue will be presenting the program. This is good for all Parents. See letter from Mrs Bolger here....
Special Infromation for Hammond
Robotics Team Members: Check it out here. The deadlines are
during January so check
here NOW!
Applications for the IU Bloomington Wells Scholarship are available in the Counseling Office. See Mr. Culp
Parents, Gavit School is looking for tutoring help! If you have an hour or two that you can spare to listen to students read, please contact Principal James White. Thank you!
Hammomd Health Dept
will be Closed as of
December 31, 2007
Mr. White wants every parent to know that after December 31, 2007,
parents need to contact the Lake County Health Dept. in Crown Point.
They can be reached at (219) 755-3655
Contact Your Child's Teachers?
You can contact your child’s teachers by email using Gavit’s web page. Simply, go online to School City of Hammond at http://www.hammond.k12.in.us. Click on ‘School Web Sites’ which is located on the left side of the blue horizontal bar. Hold the cursor down on “Middle, High Schools” and slide it to “Gavit MS/HS and our web page will appear, or click here
Be sure to check out the new STI HomePlus system that permist users to view grades and attendance for middle and high school students. Parents will be offered several training sessions. Watch for dates and times as you must attend this to receive a user ID and password. You can see demo here
Volunteers are needed to assist with many activities. Show your children that you care - Call the school and volunteer today!
We all have important values and ideas — things we care about and want to share. This website is dedicated to the Teachers, Students and Parents of Donald E. Gavit Middle/High School. Please, share your ideas, values, and comments with the PTSA by either sending us an email or coming to our meetings.
Did you know that you can receive daily announcements by email?
Visit the Daily Announcements
web page for more information.
The objectives of the Donald E. Gavit PTSA, in common with those of the National PTA and the Indiana PTA, are:
- To promote the
welfare of
children and
youth in home,
school, community and place of worship.
- To raise the
standards of
home life.
- To secure adequate
laws for
the care
and protection of
children and youth.
- To bring into
closer relation
the home
and the school, that
parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of
children and youth.
- To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social and spiritual education.
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 Gavit MS/HS Page |
 Hammond PTA |
 Indiana PTA |
National PTA |
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