The Bronco Beat

Welcome to the 2024-2025 school year at Blue Creek Elementary School! We are thrilled to have your family join us for another year of growth, learning, and discovery. This year, our theme is "Discover your POWER," where POWER stands for Purpose, Ownership, Wonder, Effort, and Reflection.

At Blue Creek, we believe that every student has the potential to be a powerful learner and leader. This year, we will focus on helping each student discover and harness their POWER in meaningful ways. To learn more about Bronco POWER and each House, please visit our school website: https://bces.onslow.k12.nc.us/our-school/principal-corner

The Sweetheart Dance will be this Thursday, this was rescheduled from last week due to inclement weather. The Dance will be from 6-8PM.

Interim Reports go home this Monday, February 24, 2025.

Join our PTO in the Media Center on March 11, 2025 in the Art Room.

Our PTO has done an amazing job in our Courtyard! There is much more to do and the Dreams are BIG. We are looking for additional donations to keep this project moving along. Use the link below to see how you can help and feel free to share the link with your local businesses and friends!

Letters have been sent home with report cards recommending tutoring for students who would benefit from additional academic support. This tutoring program is a standard, content-focused intervention designed to reinforce key skills. Participation requires a time commitment to ensure students receive the full benefit of instruction.

If your child received a tutoring recommendation, please review the letter, sign and return it as soon as possible. Once we receive signed letters, we will finalize our tutoring groups and notify families of session dates and times.

We appreciate your partnership in supporting student success. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher or the school office.

Retention notice letters have been sent home with report cards for students who may be at risk of retention based on current academic progress. Please know that this is not a final decision, but rather an opportunity to partner together in supporting your child’s success.

There is still time to make improvements, and we encourage you to take this opportunity to reinforce learning at home and work closely with your child’s teacher. Increased effort, attendance, and targeted support can make a significant difference.

If you received a retention notice, we strongly encourage you to schedule a conference to discuss your child’s progress and create a plan for moving forward. Your involvement and support are key in helping your child reach their full potential.

Thank you for your partnership in your child’s education. If you have any questions, please reach out to your child’s teacher or the school office.

We are gauging interest in a program where parents would bring their students to school one Saturday a month to focus on key concepts for their grade level in preparation for the EOGs. The initial focus will be on grade 5, but we may expand based on interest. This would be a commitment to attend all four sessions. Sessions would be 9AM-12PM.

Power Academy Dates:

• Feb. 22
• March 22
• April 26
• May 24

Please use the form linked below to express your interest in having your Bronco be part of this initiative. Once we have numbers we will be able to send invitations for our Broncos to join the Bronco POWER Academy during the second semester.

In order to stay up to date on the latest from the district, including crisis communications and notifications of changes to the school schedule, we encourage our families to ensure that their most recent contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, is on file at their schools. Having current and accurate information is essential in our effort to provide the OCS family with important notices and updates.

If you or someone you know has not been, or has stopped, receiving district notices, please contact your school’s data manager to confirm that your contact information is entered correctly.

The NC School Report Card can be accessed from the Blue Creek Elementary or Onslow County Schools website. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the NC School Report Cards link.

All students will be issued a number to be utilized in case they are a car rider at any point during the school year. Families will be provided two sets of student cards. These cards must be displayed either on the dash or sun visor for staff to see during afternoon pickup. Students will not be called to cars without number cards being displayed. Cars with no number cards will have to exit the staff parking lot and circle around (via HWY 53) to the office to present photo identification to get verified after the first week of school. There will be NO exceptions to this policy.

Car Arrival Procedures:

Cars will enter the parking lot through the center driveway. Once you enter the driveway, you will make an immediate right and follow the driveway behind the last row of parked cars along the fence (parallel to the road). At the end of the row, you will make a 180-degree left and follow the driveway between the rows of parked cars. At the end of the row, you will now make a 180-degree right turn and pull up the first available staff member. Once your child(ren) exit the vehicle, you will exit the parking lot through the driveway next to the tree line. Please make sure once you enter the driveway, you turn right. The area and driveway to the left is used for bus arrivals and dismissals.

Car Dismissal Procedures:

When picking your child(ren) up from school, the exact same traffic pattern will be used in the afternoons that is used in the morning. You will pull up to the next free cone that will have a staff member present. You will need to have the card(s) that have been provided to you visible in your car. (We suggest attaching it to the back side of your visor). Your child(ren) will have a card that matches the number(s) you have on the card in your car. Your child will be called to report to one of the 6 cones, and a staff member will assist your child(ren) to getting into the car. This will allow a quick and safe dismissal of children in the pickup line.

This year, the latest we will allow early check out will be 2:45PM. This will ensure our staff has the ability to get our students where they need to be for dismissal without the added confusion of students being called out during transitions.

The OCS School Nutrition office is accepting online and paper meal benefit applications for the 2023-2024 school year!

Apply online at www.lunchapplication.com or visit the School Nutrition site for more information and printable applications.