Wildcat Weekly

Hello, Wildcat Families and Students!

The end of the quarter is this week! Please check in with your student about any missing work. As a reminder grades are updated every two weeks at the latest. Check Aeries for the most recent updated grades. Sullivan and BUSD have a few asks from our parents:

• End of the 3rd Quarter is Thursday, March 20 and Minimum Day. Students are out 12:45.
• LCAP PARENT ENGAGMENT SURVEY FOR BUSD.
• PTO Board is looking for new members.
• PLEAE SEE BELOW FOR UPDATED ATTENDENCE INFORMATION AND INDEPENDENT STUDY CONTRACTS.
• End of the quarter is March 20. Grades will be posted and no late work is accepted after this date for the 3rd quarter.

Bonsall Unified Learner Profile:

Our Wildcats have been learning about the character traits from the BUSD Learner Profile each month. The Learner Profile was created with input from students, staff, and our families to help define BUSD's mission, vision, and values. Every month, Sullivan has a focus character trait that supports our Learner Profile.

Focus Character Trait: Critical Thinker

Have a wonderful week!

Angie James,

Your Proud Principal!

Grades are updated every two weeks. Please check here for grade updates and information.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK ON YOUR COMPUTER:

https://bonsallusd.asp.aeries.net/student/LoginParent.aspx

We want to hear from you!

Thank you for your support of our district. BUSD continuously engages parents, students, employees, and the community to monitor the progress of our goals to improve student achievement and district services.

The BUSD Board of Education and District Leadership are committed to ensuring our resources are used to meet all students' needs. Our Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) addresses the district's vision for student learning, outlines actions and annual goals, and demonstrates how its budget supports those goals.

As an involved stakeholder, you are invited to share your input and suggestions to evaluate our offerings and inform decision-making for our 2024-2025 LCAP.

2025 LCAP Survey links:

English Survey Link

Spanish Survey Link

Bonsall Unified Learner Profile:

Our Wildcats have been learning about the character traits from the BUSD Learner Profile each month. The Learner Profile was created with input from students, staff, and our families to help define BUSD's mission, vision, and values. Every month, Sullivan has a focus character trait that supports our Learner Profile.

Focus Character Trait: Critical Thinker

MINIMUM DAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 20.

END OF THE 3RD QUARTER IS THURSDAY MARCH 20, 2025.

1. 3/19: Wednesday- BUSD Advisory Committee 5-6:30 pm at the Community Center.

2. End of 3rd Quarter- Grades will be finalized for progress reports.

3. 3/20: Thursday- Sullivan student, Emma Schaffer represents BUSD at the Salute to Purple Star Schools for San Diego at Sea World!

4. 3/24: Monday- Sullivan welcomes our new Wildcats! 5th and 6th grades come to visit!

1. 3/24: Monday- Sullivan welcomes our new Wildcats! 5th and 6th grades come to visit!

2. 3/25: Girls basketball and Boys soccer play at Woodland Park.

3. 3/26: Wednesday- Wildcat Luncheon

4. 3/27: Thursday- SMS Advanced Choir Sings for the Rotary Club.

5. 3/27: Girls Basketball @ SMS and Boys Soccer Play @ Ingold Park: Heritage Middle School.

6: Friday 3/28: Lunch on the Lawn

Sullivan celebrated Pi Day with activities and events happening on March 14 or 3/14= Pi Day.

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.

Pi has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize and to computationally calculate more and more digits.

Hello Amazing Sullivan Families,

We are excited to announce that Sullivan Middle School will be hosting a career day on Wednesday, April 9th, and we would love your help in making this event a success!
Every student gets to visit 4 college campuses throughout their middle school years and experience a college and career day. Before you know it, these kids will be nearing the end of their high school years and we want them to experience as much as possible. We are looking for parents and community members who are willing to share their professional experiences with our students. This is a wonderful opportunity to inspire and educate the next generation by introducing them to different career paths and industries. Whether you are a doctor, engineer, artist, entrepreneur, mechanic, or work in any other field, your insights and experiences can make a lasting impact.

As a Career Day volunteer, you will:
Give 4 short presentations about your career and daily responsibilities
Share advice on education and skills needed for success
Answer students’ questions about your profession.

The event will take place during the school day, and we will provide a schedule, presentation guidelines (interactive items, videos, power points or any creative ways to engage students), and lunch for our volunteers. Even if you’ve never spoken to a student group before, we will be here to support you!

The career day will start with lunch at 11:30 and end by 2:45 on Wednesday, April 9th. We know this is a huge sacrifice in taking a day off, but your knowledge and expertise is so valuable to our students.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email me at keri.gresbrink@bonsallusd.com by March 21st.

Thank you for considering this opportunity to inspire our students. We appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you at Career Day!

Kindly,
Keri Gresbrink
School Counselor

Student Services Update - Attendance & Short Term Independent Study

The Bonsall Unified School District prioritizes student attendance for good reason. When students are absent, they miss valuable learning experiences within the classroom, as well as opportunities to engage in programs and activities. We emphasize the importance of daily attendance because it not only contributes to student success but also helps establish a positive pattern that will benefit students throughout their lives.

However, we recognize that there are occasions when students may need to miss school due to illness or unexpected family circumstances. Additionally, we understand that there may be pre-planned family events, significant religious observances, or important cultural activities that may necessitate a student’s absence.

In such cases, if your schedule allows, and your student is well enough to complete assignments, we kindly ask that you contact the attendance line at your respective school to request a Short Term Independent Study (STIS) Master Agreement.

• This process involves completing a simple form, reviewing the terms, and signing the agreement. The agreement needs to be completed only once per year.

Once the agreement is finalized, and you state the dates of absence, your child will be provided with the necessary work to complete during their absence. This can be picked up at the school or made available electronically. Upon returning to school and submitting the completed assignments, the teacher will evaluate the work and confirm that the required tasks have been fulfilled. This process ensures that students can recover lost learning, allows the attendance clerk to re-code the absence from the student’s record, which helps maintain positive school attendance rates. Additionally, this process preserves financial resources that would otherwise be unrecoverable if there was no Short Term Independent Study Master Agreement in place.

Although our hope is that families would only need to use Short Term Independent Study on one or two occasions, there is an allowance for the schools to recover up to 15 days of absence for each student.

Thank you for your cooperation and for supporting your child's education.

BUSD Student Services

Congratulations to our Student Athletes! Come out to sport our teams!

**Attention parents**

There will be practices 4 to 5 days a week after school. The games will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with parents being responsible to pick up their child and take them to the game or arrangements with other parents can be made.

Any questions please email me: andrea.breuninger@bonsallusd.com

CLICK HERE TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR ALL INFORMATION REGARDS SPORTS.

CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS OF WHAT IS NEEDED AND HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR ATHLETES INFORMATION.

CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THE SPORTS PHYSICAL.

Thank you students for your amazing art work!

Calling all TK-12th grade artists!

3rd annual Bonsall Woman’s Club/BUSD Stages of Inspiration Art Contest & Show: “Belong, BELIEVE, Achieve”

Art Show date: April 30, 2025

Art submissions due: March 17, 2025, submit to teacher/front office

PRIZES Sponsored by Nessy Burgers will be awarded by age/category.

CATEGORIES:

• 2D (“fine arts”)

• Watercolor, acrylic, or oil painting; oil pastel, chalk pastel, pen and ink, or graphite drawings; mixed media work

• 3D (“crafts”)

• Sewing, crochet, knitting, cross stitch, needlepoint, embroidery, pottery, sculpture, woodwork, metalsmithing, jewelry, “trash-to-treasure” etc.

• Photography

• grades 6-12 only, 8x10 prints only

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Original art only; pre-packaged “kits” not allowed.

BUSD students will also be “taking the stage” for musical and dance performances during this celebration of THE ARTS!

After school tutoring can be for any subject. I just ask that the students please come prepared. It'll be every Thursday from 2:45-3:45 unless I have to cancel for whatever reason. Please let students know my expectations when arriving.

Thank you and have a great night,
Veronica Toscano
Norman L. Sullivan Middle Math teacher
veronica.toscano@bonsallusd.com

ZAP(Zeros Aren't Permitted) started last week with students being assigned to after school from 2:45 to 3:45; ZAP sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to give our Wildcats the opportunity to make up classwork and homework. If your student is assigned, they will bring home a ZAP reminder.

Parent Liaison: Leonor Rodriguez

Welcome to another school year 2024-2025/Bienvenidos a otro año escolar 2024-2025

Mensaje de la Cordinadora de Enlaces Comunitario

The Bonsall Unified School District and I welcome you back to school for the 2024-2025 school year.

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El distrito escolar unificado de Bonsall y yo les damos la bienvenida de regreso a la escuela para el año escolar 2024-2025.

• Workshops at the district office #4
• BUSD all school's schedule
• Next board meeting
• 3RD. Annual Car Show at BHS
• 3RD. Annual Multicultural Night at SMS
• Breakfast and lunch menu (all schools)
• Safe storage of firearms state memorandum (Spanish included)
• Local library resources
• Local health resources
• Local food pantry resources
• BUSD Hiring website and contact information
• Joining PTA Information
• BEF information
• Transportation information
• Public Health Updates from the County
• My contact information (all information is in both languages, English and Spanish)

Thank you all for your support. Please continue to send me referrals of parents and students who need support and assistance in any area. Our goal is to assist, support, and guide parents and students to a successful education.

Please access Leonore's newsletter at the following link:https://secure.smore.com/n/x28pc

Grief Support Group at School in Partnership with The Elizabeth Hospice

Creating a safe and meaningful space for students to share about their loved one who has died provides an opportunity to gain support from peers who have a shared experience. There are many benefits to facilitating a grief support group at school. These include students learning about grief and loss, developing coping skills and tools, honoring and memorializing loved ones, and sharing grief experiences with peers.

What to expect?

• Each group will have 8-15 students at your school site.
• Each person in the group has also experienced the death of a loved one.
• Group will run for 7-8 weeks, meeting weekly during school.
• Each group follows the same structure: an opening exercise, an activity to write and/or draw about loved ones and grief experiences, an opportunity to share, a closing.
• Group is meant to be a safe space where children can share their feelings, thoughts, memories, experiences about their loved one and grief as well as who and what supports them in coping with their grief.

To ensure the participation for your student, please sign the authorization link below. One form per student is required. Our team will confirm receipt of consent. For any other questions, please reach out to Kyliegh Fox, School Psychologist, at kyliegh.fox@bonsallusd.com.

o Student Authorization

o SPANISH - Student Authorization

About Love On Your Back

Love On Your Back was founded by Carol Wood, a teacher who taught in the Bonsall School District for 32 years. Upon retirement, Carol started the non-profit organization, along with the help of many others, to address the issue of Bonsall students who may have minimal access to food. The backpack program supplements food for low income families or children whose families are in crisis. These students rely on free or reduced breakfasts and lunches at their schools. Love On Your Back supplements these children by filling backpacks with nutritional food to last over the weekend when they are not in school. It is our belief that children need proper nutrition in order to learn. The goal of Love On Your Back is to fill that need for any student in the Bonsall Unified School District who is food compromised. No child should go hungry.

If you want to register for our program, please do so at your child's school in the front office. All children in the family can be registered on one application.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Hello AMAZING Wildcat Families!

Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year. As you know we are always needing Parent volunteers. The Volunteer Packet must be completed every school year. If you already have the Lifescan (fingerprints) with BUSD, you do not need to get new ones. If your TB test is over 3 years old, we will be asking you for an updated negative TB Test result. You will need both of these extra forms along with the volunteer form to volunteer on campus or on field trips where you will be or could be alone with students. If you would be open to being a driver for sports, we will need all of the above and the drivers form.

I've attached all the forms to this email. Please feel free to complete them and scan them back to me..

Please let us know if you have questions. You can reach our AMAZING OFFICE MANAGER, LINDA PIPE at linda.pipe@bonsallusd.com

Thanks for all you do,
Sullivan Middle School

• Download Bonsall Unified School District Transportation Private Driver Registration Form (field trips, sports, performances, etc.) (1).pdf

• Download SMS Volunteer Packet (4).pdf

Sullivan Middle School hosts a Lunch on the Lawn monthly for parents and families to eat lunch with their students on campus. Parents and families are welcome to bring lunch, chairs, or a blanket and eat lunch on the front lawn of Sullivan. Parents will be asked to check at the Welcome Booth before entering the campus.

As a reminder, Sullivan will not be accepting any third party delivery for any students. Lunch on the Lawn is for Parents and guardians to spend time with their Wildcat during the school day and enjoy lunch together. I have schedule this once a month so families could attend as many as they would like or could attend. Please refer to the student and parent handbook for more information or you may call the office. Thank you in advance.

Here are the dates for Lunch on the Lawn:

February 14 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

March 14 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

April 11 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

May 16 - Friday: LAST LUNCH ON THE LAWN

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

Exciting news!: Students will be able to eat for free during the 23-24 school year!

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM NUTRITION SERVICES and lunch menu.

School starts every day at 8:00 am and can be dropped off as early as 7:30 am. Please make sure to drop your student off in the lower parking lot because the upper parking lot will be closed to allow our students to walk across the walkway safely.

Your student will receive his/ her class schedule on the first day of school. All of the 6th grade and half of the 7th grade will have first lunch and follow Bell Schedule A.

All of 8th grade and half of 7th grade will have second lunch and follow Bell Schedule B.

ATTENTION PARENTS!

Only emergency vehicles, buses, those with handicap placards, and those with other special placards have access to the upper lot, emergency lane closest to the front of our schools. You will need to show your placard to Campus Security.

We ask that If you have a parking pass because your student received the ROAR Award for that month you may continue to have access to the upper lot at the end of the school day. Please do not park in the bus lanes or block the handicap spaces.

This decision to enforce our existing parking lot plan aligns with the recommendations of our community safety partners and will increase our ability to maintain a safe and secure site:

• When dropping students off, please use the lower levels of the parking lot.
• When visiting either the middle or the high school office, please park in the lower levels, bring your ID to the front, and check in with the appropriate staff.

Gates accessing the upper lane will continue to be closed to secure the campus. We appreciate your partnership and support in our efforts to provide the highest levels of safety for our students

Website: https://sm.bonsallusd.com
Location: 7350 West Lilac Road, Bonsall, CA 92003, USA
Phone: 760-631-5209