BCMS students shine
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December 18, 2013 |
By Principal David Miles II
Boundary County Middle School
Please congratulate Myla McKechnie for placing
first in our local region for the VFW “Patriot
Pen” essay contest! She also placed third
overall in the northern district VFW (Sandpoint,
Priest River, Clark Fork, and Bonners Ferry) and
second in the VFW Ladies Auxiliary version of
the essay contest.
Please thank our students for raising $1,085.33
for the Wounded Warrior Project. Students
voluntarily participated in a “Penny War” event,
which was quite the battle.
Congratulations to Ryne Rae for receiving
“Honorable Mention” recognition in the Idaho
Forest Products Commission Essay Contest. You
can find out more here:
http://www.idahoforests.org/essay_winners.htm.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
tutoring is available now.
Thanks to a grant for Gear-Up, we will offer
tutoring two nights a week on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The tutoring will primarily focus on
eighth grade STEM, but will also be available to
help others as practical.
Students in need? We have a collection of
hygiene items for those students who are in need
of them. The efforts of the Coalition for
Children and Families Phoenix Project will be
providing these items via our school. If you are
in need of such items, or know of others who are
in need, please contact a teacher, principal, or
counselor at BCMS to access these items.
To accompany the activity day planned on
December 19 (the last day before winter break),
Student Council has planned a dodgeball
tournament. Permission slips must be signed and
turned in to the office before anyone can play.
The Food Drive for Fill the Bus will be January
13 to 16. The themes are as follows ...
Monday-Cans, Tuesday-Boxes, Wednesday-Soups,
Thursday-Cereal & Pasta.
Competition will be based on points (+1 for
theme appropriate donations and -1 for not
following theme ... sabotaging). Winners will be
the Food Bank and also the grade who has the
most points by 1:10 p.m. January 16.
BCMS students will compete in a Spelling Bee on
January 14.
ACT testing for eighth graders will be January
15. This is part of the Gear Up Program.
In appreciation of Human Rights Day, the local
Human Rights Group in association with local
parent Kiondra Bullock will be presenting a
program on January 21. The student council will
also be conducting some follow up programs
during the week.
Ski dates are set. Please see schedule below.
Common Core testing coming this spring. All
Middle School students will be tested with the
new tests.
Upcoming dates:
1/14/14: Spelling Bee
1/15/14 ACT Testing
1/22/14 8th grade ski day
2/5/14 7th grade ski day
2/26/14 6th grade ski day |
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