Graham Middle School

Back-to-School Season is HERE, Falcons!

The Summer 2025 TeleGraham should be in mailboxes today—your one-stop guide for everything you need to kick off the school year right!

Inside you’ll find:
✅ First day info for each building
✅ Supply lists by grade
✅ Open House and orientation dates (note edit to GES Open House, it is Tuesday, not Wednesday)
✅ Final Forms reminders
✅ Transportation and schedule pick-up details
…and more back-to-school updates to help your family get ready!

💻 Prefer to read it online? Catch up on all current and past issues here 👉
https://www.grahamlocalschools.org/documents/district/telegraham-newsletter/398522

✨ Stay in the know, Falcon families!
We’ve got all the key dates for the 25/26 school year in one place—from breaks and no-school days to special events like Homecoming and Graduation.

🦅 Make sure you’re ready for everything the year has in store!

Mrs. Wilson had the opportunity to showcase and celebrate Katherine McAlexander, Hannah Smith, and Juliette Warden today at the K12 Gallery in Dayton during the OAEA West Region Summer Art Show. Great job students, and thank you Mrs. Wilson for providing these opportunities!

📚✨ Mark Your Calendars: School Start Dates! ✨📚

We hope you are enjoying your summer! Here are the start dates for the 2025–2026 school year. See you soon, Falcon Fam! 🦅

2026 Graham Middle School tryouts and 12U Softball/Baseball Select tryouts: GYAA will be holding tryouts for the 2026 Graham Middle School & 12U select Baseball/ Softball Teams starting July 24th from 6:30-8pm, August 10th 6:30-8pm and August 17th 6:30-8pm. We will have a secondary set of tryouts in November for kids who can not make these dates, we would like to get an on the field tryout to better evaluate the players. Dates in November are yet to be determined. Players must attend 2 tryout dates to be considered for any of the teams. Softball will take place at GYAA field #2 Baseball will be at GYAA field #3 Players will need: Cleats, Pants, Bat, Helmet, and Glove. Parent information will be collected at the beginning of each tryout. 12U Select Baseball is can not be 13 before May 1st, 2026 12U Select Softball can not be 13 before September 1st, 2025 Please Park in one of the two designated GYAA parking lots, either off of Dump Road or at the old Jr. High Parking lot. For More details, please contact Erin Davis 937-210-8481 or Josh Barger 937-605-4958

🚨 Attention Falcon Families! 🚨

We’re moving ALL school communication to Rooms via the GLS Falcons app 📱—and will no longer use Class Dojo, Remind, Telegram, etc. beginning the 2025-2026 school year.

✅ Stay up to date on district news, events, and classroom messages in ONE place!
✅ Download the GLS Falcons app from your App Store or Google Play today.
✅ Enable notifications to never miss an update!

Before the start of school, you will receive a text or email notification with instructions to activate your parent account in Rooms. This will ensure you have access to classroom-specific announcements and messaging with your child’s teachers.

With Rooms fully integrated into our GLS Falcons app, you will now have one central place for everything Graham Local Schools.

Thank you for your support as we make this transition to keep our Falcon Family connected!

Due to multiple factors, the recycling center at GMS will cease operations immediately. Over the last six years, we have been able to operate this center thanks to volunteers, mainly from our GMS staff. The company asked that we keep it locked and monitor the use so correct items are entered into the bins. We have tried to leave it unlocked in the event of no volunteer availability, however inevitably someone chooses to put in restricted items which presents issues. We have also on several occasions had others volunteer, outside of our staff, that have been unreliable, leaving our patrons frustrated with the school when we are simply trying to provide a service to our community. We appreciate those that choose to recycle and hope you can bring your items to surrounding communities that have these opportunities. Some we are aware of are located in West Liberty, Quincy, Urbana, Springfield, and the truck that visits St. Paris. 

Graham Middle School will have a co-ed soccer team in the fall of 2025. If you have an incoming 7th or 8th grader interested in playing soccer, there will be an open field on Saturday, July 12th at the middle school football/soccer field from 9:00-10:30 AM. Middle School soccer practices will officially start Monday, July 14th. Practices will be every Monday & Wednesday from 5:00-6:30 at the Graham middle school field. Games will start at the end of August and will continue through early October. GMS will travel to West Liberty, Bellefontaine, Calgary Christian, Ben Logan & Fairlawn in addition to hosting some home games at Graham. Additional information will be shared including ordering of jerseys and game schedules soon. If your child is interested in playing, please have them attend the open field this Saturday or contact Brevin Harlow at (937) 417-1815 or Josh Johnston at (937) 216-0430. Middle School soccer is sponsored by the Graham Youth Soccer Association.

*please share* The recycling center at GMS will be CLOSED on Saturday, 7/5. The company was unable to dump the bin and for those here two weeks ago, you will remember it is packed full. Also, the yellow/green paper bin has been full since April and the company (separate from large bin) cant keep a driver consistently. Unknown when it will be dumped again.

Congratulations to our Quarter 4 Honor Roll Students!

Ever thought of becoming an OHSAA Certified Official? More officials are always needed! Special discounted rates for current high school students. Learn more here: https://www.ohsaa.org/officiating/permits

Summer Workouts for Sports Teams!!! Girls Basketball: Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00pm-1:00pm at Graham High School. Boys Basketball: Mon/Tues/Thurs shooting and lifting 9am-11am at Graham High School. Summer League is Wednesdays from 5:00-8:00pm at Urbana. GMS Football: July: 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31. All workouts will be from 6:00-7:30 at Graham High School. Middle School Summer Golf Opportunity: Practices 5pm-7pm Sundays starting June 15th at the Lakeland driving range. Play 9 holes Tuesdays at 5:30pm each Tuesday starting June 17th. Contact Coach Rob Merritt 937-579-4961 if you plan to attend and have not already signed up. Cost is $100 for the summer program.

Final Grade Cards and Summer Office Availability Graham Middle School will be open for final grade card pickup the following days: Tuesday, June 3rd from 9am-11am Wednesday, June 4th from 9am-2pm Thursday, June 6th from 9am-2pm After those dates, we will process a mailing of any remaining grade cards, Ohio State Test Scores, or IEP progress reports. After Thursday, the GMS office will be "closed" for the summer. Principals can still be available via appointment as we work through June. If you need to meet with a Principal, please contact them directly. Assistant Principal - Vicki Packard-Cooper PackardCooperV@grahamlocalschools.org 937-663-5339 x3334 Principal - Nick Guidera GuideraN@grahamlocalschools.org 937-663-5339 x3333

The Recycling Center at Graham Middle School will be CLOSED on Saturday, June 7th due to an outside event utilizing the parking lots. We will be open again on June 21st from 10am-Noon. **please share**

GMS end of year report cards and Ohio State Test scores will be available for pickup next week the following dates/times: Tuesday (6/3) 9am-11am (We are headed to cheer on the baseball team in the regional game, thus closing early) Wednesday (6/4) 9am-2pm Thursday (6/5) 9am-2pm. After the above dates, we will process a mailing of those remaining.

That's the final bell! Have an amazing summer everyone!

GMS grade 8 students participated in the Real Money, Real World simulations recently in partnership with @grownextgen . Students not only went through financial literacy programming, but also had stations with Soy Ambassadors, @BecksHybrids , and fun cost analysis activities with staff.

What an amazing morning at the Graham Color Blast. Thank you so much to our sponsors, amazing volunteers, and participants! Many more photos to share later. Congrats to our 5k champs, Graham staff, Callison and Boggess!!!

This email was sent today to all Color Blast registrations received to date. Sharing here as well since we had quite a few emails kicked back due to registration errors when entered. Tomorrow is the GMS Color Blast! Thank you for pre-registering for the event. Currently we have over 165 participants pre-registered. This is going to be a great event and we are so excited you are willing to show up for our kiddos, raising funds for student organizations here at GMS.  Please do not arrive prior to 9am, as it will allow our vendors and registration table to get all settled for the event. Please refer to the map for parking options. The Start/Finish line and vendors will all be in the main GMS parking lot.  Please come to the Registration table when you arrive, sometime before 10am. Here you will line up based on if you purchased a shirt or not and we will check you in and give out your race goodies. We will have extra shirts and color packs for sale after we have accounted for everyone. We can take cash or check for those.  Unfortunately, due to the expected cooler weather, we will likely not hold the pre-race water balloon fight.  Pre-race and post race, enjoy the outdoor games and vendors who have come to share their products with you. There are not a lot this first year, but they will be here to sell.  The tye dye station will be set up at 9:30am and will be available post race as well for those who want to wear their shirt while they run.  Both the 1 mile fun run and 5k will begin at 10am this year.  We look forward to hosting an amazing event tomorrow and are so happy you will be there to join us! 

Only 3 days left of the 2024-2025 school year! Please remember there is a 2-hour early release for all students on the last day!