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Early Dismissal Schedule for Last Day of School
Givhans Alternative- 9:30am
Elementary Schools- 10:30am
High Schools- 11:30am
Rollings Middle School of the Arts- 12:00pm
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At Gregg Middle School, Success is the ONLY Option!
Welcome to Gregg Middle School!
GMS Student-created Magazine!
Click here to read Gregg Middle School's first online magazine, Wide-Open Spaces, written by our students and compiled by 7th grade reading and writing teacher, Miss Jacquelyn Valencia.
Online Summer Exploration is Back!
Dorchester School District Two is proud to announce the return of the Online Summer Exploration (OSE)! These offerings provide the opportunity for students to further explore topics in Math and English Language Arts. An added benefit is the prevention of “summer learning loss,” all from the convenience of your home via any Internet-accessible computer.
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CompassLearning Odyssey
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To receive maximum benefits from the program, the students should average two hours a week over the 8 week program. Middle school students that complete 16 hours of Compass during the program dates will be entered to win one of the following prizes: A Samsung Chromebook or one of five iPod Touches!
Certified Teachers will electronically monitor student progress and communicate progress with parents by email.
Participation in the Online Summer Exploration (OSE) is voluntary. Participation has no impact upon promotion, retention, or placement.
Contact Steven Infinger with questions.
Participation in the Online Summer Exploration (OSE) is voluntary. Participation has no impact upon promotion, retention, or placement.
Contact Steven Infinger with questions.
Please sign up at
Sign-up begins April 24th and ends May 31st
Dorchester Two’s GATE Summer Reading List Summer 2013
Reading is an essential skill for all academic work, and the more students read, the better readers they become! Wide recreational reading can extend vocabulary, increase comprehension, and stimulate higher order thinking. We want the best learning experiences for our children in Dorchester Two!
Every student participating in Dorchester Two’s Gifted & Talented Education (GATE) program has been asked to read the following novels this summer:
- Rising 4th grade GATE students – Choice of one of the following:
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Rising 5th grade GATE students – Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
- Rising 6th grade GATE students – Savvy by Ingrid Law
- Rising 7th grade GATE students – The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Rising 8th grade Honors/CP English I students – Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Rising 8th grade Advanced/GATE Literature – Nothing by the Truth by Avi
These novels are aligned with the concepts and themes addressed throughout the year in the GATE ELA classes; therefore students will have multiple opportunities to showcase and connect their new learning with their already present knowledge.
Thank you for your assistance in providing books for our students and assisting us in encouraging a life-long love of reading! Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Anita Ruff at 843-821-3960. Have a great summer!
Blended Learning Courses available this summer!
Summer Opportunity
Monthly GMS Newsletter and Calendar
Each month GMS provides a school newsletter and calendar that you can print out and take with you on the go. You can always access it using the Newsletters tab up above.
The May newsletter and calendar are now available.
SchoolFusion vs. Parent Portal
Dorchester School District Two strives to provide a variety of options for school to home communication. Two resources we offer for families of middle and high school students are SchoolFusion and Parent Portal. These are two seperate resources that are not related.
| SchoolFusion | Parent Portal |
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| The official website for each school | The official website of grades and attendance for your child(ren) |
| Requires its own login that can be obtained by clicking on Website Access near the top of this page. You'll need your child's Student ID number and date of birth | Requires its own Parent Portal login that can be obtained using information received from the guidance or front office |
| After obtaining an login you can access your account by logging in on the left of the school website under the calendar | After obtaining your login creditionals and creating your account, you can access Parent Portal by going to https://ps.ddtwo.org/public/ |
| Can connect all of your children to your account | Can connect all of your children to your account |
| My Family allows you to see all teacher sites that are connected to your child(ren) | Parent Portal allows you to see the grades and attendance for all of your child's classes |
| Main source of school and district information (events, accouncements, etc.) | Main source for your child's grades and attendance |
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Summer Reading List
One key to students’ reading success is making their reading experiences entertaining, relaxing, and enjoyable. Allowing children to choose their own reading materials based on their reading interests is one way to ensure academic success.
Dorchester School District Two feels it is imperative that we provide our students with as many opportunities as possible to grow academically. Reading for understanding and appreciation is a skill that translates effectively into every academic area. The purpose of the summer reading program is to provide students with the opportunity to select works which are of literary merit from lists developed by their language arts teachers at the middle school level. The middle school ELA teachers and media specialists have made every effort to choose titles that are both enjoyable and worthwhile. We hope to encourage reading for pleasure as well as reading for enlightenment, and we want to emphasize that the following summer reading list should be thought of as a starting point for conscientious students as they prepare to enter school in the fall.
Lexile ranges (www.lexile.com) have recently been realigned to match the Common Core State Standards' text complexity grade bands. The new Lexile band for grades 6-8 is 955L-1155L. Lexiles are provided below to assist in book selection, and each grade level offers titles with a variety of Lexile levels to match varying student needs.
Although participation is not required, it is strongly recommended that rising sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students take part in the Summer Reading Program for Dorchester School District Two. Please check with your child's middle school for any summer reading that may be required.
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