BCMS notes |
January 11, 2014 |
By Principal David Miles II Boundary County Middle School STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) tutoring is available now at the Boundary County Middle School. 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 eightth 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. The Food Drive for Fill the Bus will be January 13 to the 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 on 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. 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. Basketball season is upon us. Tryouts are occurring now. First games slated to begin Thursday, January 16. End of the quarter! January 24th is considered the end of the quarter and also the semester. Conferences to discuss First Semester will be 1/28 and 1/30 from 4-7:30pm. Upcoming dates: 1/14/14: Spelling Bee 1/15/14 ACT Testing 1/16/14 First basketball game at home 1/22/14 8th grade ski day 1/24/14 End of quarter 2/semester 1 1/28/14 Conferences 1/30/14 Conferences 2/5/14 7th grade ski day 2/26/14 6th grade ski day |