12/01/2025 Courier

 

General News

 

Christmas Break

School out at noon – Friday, December 19 (Latchkey will not be available)

No School – December 22, 2025 – January 2, 2026

School Resumes – January 5, 2026

 

Lunch Accounts

Please check your Family Portal Finance tab to make sure that your child’s lunch account has a positive balance. Lunch accounts are prepaid. All students ordering school lunch should have a positive balance of at least $5.00 in their lunch account before ordering. 

‘Tis the Season-for Sickness and Flu
With flu season in full-swing please be diligent in monitoring your child’s health.  School policy is that children must be fever-free (without medication) with no vomiting or diarrhea for 24 hours before returning to school.  

 

Raise Right (SCRIP) Gift Card Program

Buying gift cards this year for the holidays?  Buy them from GCS and earn money for tuition!  Learn more at: https://geneseechristianschool.com/resources/  Click on the RaiseRight tab. 

During November and December, you can earn 75% of the rebates that are earned through the program. If you are not taking advantage of these great savings and would like to join the program, email gcs@geneseechristianschool.com 

 

Raise Right offers a wide variety of bonuses including $5 and $10 gift cards during the holiday season. 

 

TWO order dates are left for physical gift cards before Christmas break:

– Tomorrow, 12/2 at 9am

– 12/9 at 9am

Combined Elementary & HS Christmas Concert 

Make your plans to join us for an enjoyable evening of Christmas music at the all-school Christmas Concert on Friday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. at Mayfair Bible Church.  The concert will include musical numbers from all of the elementary students and several high school groups.  All students involved in the concert will be expected to arrive at the church at 6:30 p.m.   Doors will open to guests at 6:15 p.m.  Teachers will not be in the assigned classrooms until 6:45, so students must stay with parents until 6:45.

  

**Please see concert dress information under each building section below**

 

Little Leaders Preschool/Daycare and Latchkey

 

Snow Gear

Winter is here in full force. Please be sure to send snow gear every day! 

 

Latchkey Statements

All latchkey statements are paperless and can be viewed either through the Procare app or are sent to your email address.  If you are not receiving statements and would prefer a paper copy, please contact Mrs. Britton at cbritton@geneseechristianschool.com.  

 

Elementary

 

Kids of Integrity

 

This week’s character trait is Compassion. Click below to see the full lesson online.

https://kidsofintegrity.com/lesson/compassion/

Winter Outerwear

The weather outside is cold.  Please send your child to school every day with boots, snow pants, coats, hats and gloves.  Please label all outerwear. The school does not provide “in case you forgot” extras. Students need the fresh air and movement breaks. Unless the wind chill or temperature is too low we WILL be going outside!

Christmas Concert

The GCS Christmas Concert is quickly approaching!  The concert will be on Friday evening, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. at Mayfair Bible Church.  Doors will open at 6:15; teachers will not be in the assigned classrooms until 6:45, so students must stay with parents until 6:45.

Elementary girls concert attire: Girls should wear a dressy Christmas outfit; please be sure that it meets the GCS dress standards (knee-length, no sleeveless).

Elementary boys concert attire: Boys should wear nice pants (no jeans, please) and a red or green collared shirt or sweater (no t-shirts, please).

Christmas Store 

We are looking for parent volunteers to help with the Elementary Christmas Store, December 2-4, helping students shop and wrapping gifts, among other things.  Please reach out to Mrs. Forsyth at sforsyth@geneseechristianschool.com if you are interested.

Boys Jet League Basketball

Watch your email for more information.

 

Favorite Things Lists 

Check out your child’s teachers “Favorite Things” list under resource documents on FACTS. 

 

4th and 5th Grade MACS (Michigan Association of Christian Schools) Competition

Every year, GCS 4th and 5th grade students compete in the MACS Fine Arts Competitions. The interest forms are now overdue. NO money is due now; this is just for grouping purposes. 

Please see links below for additional information. 

Yearbook Photos 

We are always looking for photos to put in the yearbook.  If you have any pictures from field trips, Jet League games or class parties, please forward them to vtebeest@geneseechristianschool.com.  

 

Middle/High School

 

Little Caesars Fundraiser Delivery

Mark your calendar and plan to pick up your pizza kits on Tuesday, December 9 at 3:05 in the high school cafeteria.  We do not have freezer space to store them for you –  they must be picked up that day.  

Contact Mrs. Heath with questions kheath@geneseechristianschool.com 

Christmas Concert

The GCS Christmas Concert is quickly approaching!  The concert will be on Friday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. at Mayfair Bible Church.  Students should arrive at 6:30 p.m. (doors will open at 6:15 p.m.).  Please make sure that you have purchased the required concert attire if you are a part of the concert (6th graders, 7th graders, MS orchestra, and HS Choir).  See links here:

For the HS young ladies:  Black dress purchased from Amazon: Concert dress: HS girls

For the MS  young ladies:  Black dress purchased from Amazon: for children’s sizes, use this link: Concert dress: MS

For women’s sizes, use this link:Concert dress: Women’s size

MACS (Michigan Association of Christian Schools) Fine Arts Competitions:

Registration sheets have already been passed out to the students for these events. 

  • 6th grade registration forms are overdue.
  • High school registration forms are due this Friday, December 5th.
  • 7th-9th grade forms are due by December 12th.

NO money is due now; this is just for registration purposes. 

If you need to access the forms, you can visit the website under Resources: Frequently Used Forms. 

 

Yearbook Photos 

We are always looking for photos to put in the yearbook.  If you have any pictures from field trips, class events or sporting events, please forward them to jboike@geneseechristianschool.com.  

 

Athletics

 

use this link to access GCS Winter Sports schedule GCSWinterSportsSchedule     

 

Join Athletic Text Alerts: Be alerted of schedule changes – join the text alert group today!

  • 4th/5th/6th Jet League text @jetleagu to the number 81010
  • MS Basketball text @gcsjhbball to the number 81010
  • HS Basketball text @gcswsp25 to the number 81010

Athletic Physicals🩺

For the 2025-26 school year, an MHSAA sports physical is required for all students who participate in sports. A physical examination must be completed on or after April 15, 2025 to be considered a valid physical for 2025-26. – This applies to any students participating in high school and middle school sports. 

The MHSAA two-page physical form can be found using this link MHSAA25-26SportsPhysicalForm or  it is also available in the school offices.

 

Students planning to participate in athletics MUST have this physical form on file by the first day of practice. Forms must be on file at the school athletic office before try-outs, practices, or games.

      

Sports Fee

Each student athlete must pay the following sports fee per sport/per season. These fees should be turned in by cash or check made payable to GCS to the Athletic Office before the first game.

 ➽➽Varsity – $150.00   ➽➽JV – $125.00  ➽➽  Junior High – $100.00   ➽➽  Jet League – $50.00

 

🏀HS Boys Basketball: 9th-12th Boys

    • The first games are scheduled for Tuesday, December 2nd @ Lake Fenton 
  • (JV 5:30 & Varsity Boys at 7:00pm) 
  • Sports Fee of $125 / $150 is due on Tuesday, 12/2.   Cash or check (made payable to GCS) accepted.

🏀HS Girls Basketball: 

    • The first game is scheduled for Monday, December 15th @ Linden
  • (Varsity Girls at 7:00pm) 
  • Sports Fee of $150 is due on Monday, 12/15. Cash or check (made payable to GCS) accepted.

🏀Middle School Girls Basketball: 

The first home game is scheduled for this Tuesday, November 18th. 

The Athletic department appreciates your help in making our home games a success.

Our Soldiers need volunteers for the admissions table and game clock.  

Please check your schedule and use the link to sign up: MSGirlsBasketballGameHelpSignUpLink     

Bonus: your immediate family gets into the games for free that night!             

It’s Time to Return Uniforms:

🏀4th/5th/6th Grade Girls Basketball Program: 

  • Please note that washed / clean uniforms are due back to the office TodaY- Monday, Dec. 1st.  We use these same uniforms for our boys league.  Receiving them back in a timely manner is important.  We appreciate your promptness.  

🏀4th/5th/6th Grade Boys Jet League Basketball Program: General Information

GCS participation in this league depends on if we have enough players to fill a team and coaching availability.   

All games are played on Saturdays during the time frame of 8 am to 3 pm, with each game taking an hour to play. Games run January 10th through March 7th (no games February 14th).   

Teams typically practice twice a week @ the elementary gym (times/days TBD).

$50 sports fee for all participants due by the first game.

Admission will be charged for all spectators ($4 for individual ticket, $10 for family ticket, $2 for Senior ticket 60 and over).

  • Be watching your email for more information coming soon