Principal's Corner

@CorbySwan

Principal's Corner@CorbySwan
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Student Council Officers

There were signs placed all over school, connections made to various students, and some awesome speeches presented at lunch time. Through it all, the student body has spoken and they have elected four awesome students to lead them as this year's Student Council Officers. The officers are eager to lead and bring fresh ideas to the school. As Principal, I meet with these young men monthly and we discuss these ideas. My plan is for them to be the "voices" of the student body. My first task for them was to introduce themselves to our Board of Education and briefly speak about Student Council, so I am very proud of them for accomplishing that task. They are now busy with their advisors, Mr. White and Mr. McNamara preparing for a Middle School Halloween Dance.
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5th Graders win Penny Wars!

Students in Grades 4-7 participated in Penny Wars! WE RAISED OVER $900.00 for the Student Activity Fund. The winning team was Grade 5 who was then treated to a KONA ice truck this week. Students in Grades K-3 have started their Penny Wars this week. It will run until November 14th! The students LOVE it! Congratulations to 5th Grade and special thanks to Mrs. Bartlett, our Director of Instruction for organizing such a wonderful thing for our students. When you enter our Cafetorium, you can see the excitement from students wanting to participate in Penny Wars. We are looking forward to continuing this at Bedminster School in the future.

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Halloween Events

Bedminster School will host several Halloween Events beginning with the Halloween Spooktacular and Trunk or Treat on Friday, October 28th for our PreK - 4th grade students. This will be held from 5 - 6:30pm. Following that we will have a Halloween Dance for our middle school students in grades 5 - 8. This will be held from 7 - 8:30pm. Finally on Monday, October 31st from 2:45 - 3:15pm we will have our Annual Halloween Parade for our PreK - 4th grade students. For those of you attending, you will receive very specific instructions for that afternoon in an email next week. We look forward to seeing you there and i am sure the students will be so excited if you join us.

October 2016

We have many awesome things going on here at Bedminster School. Students are learning, creating, challenging themselves, maturing, laughing, and smiling. This is only one month into the school year. Think of how much better and brighter things will be as the months continue.

I wanted to share with you something that many of you may have seen. Mr. Schantz, who is one of our PE/Health teachers shared this with me because he thought that I would enjoy it. Well, he was right. Jamie McSparin,a teacher from Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri saw a project in a Professional Development Workshop and tweaked it to make it her own. I was able to contact Jamie who has been flooded with media and other educators ever since trying to talk to her about it. Luckily I got to her right after the video went viral. I have seen first hand how much all of our teachers care about our students so this video struck a chord with me. Please take the time to view it as it is well worth it. I have attached it below for your viewing pleasure.


Reminders

Picture Make up Day

Picture Make up Day will be on Tuesday, November 1st, so please remind your child(ren).

Activity Participation Fees

At the September 15, 2016 Board of Education Meeting, the Bedminster Board of Education acted on a budget proposal to require Activity Fees from the parents of students participating in extra-curricular activities. The Board approved the following guidelines:

Grades K - 2 ($50 per student participant)

Grades 3 - 5 ($75 per student participant)

Grades 6 - 8 ($100 per student participant)


The fee is considered a "one-time annual fee" regardless of the number of activities in which the student participates. 100% of costs, including chaperone stipends for the Ski Club and 8th grade Washington, D.C. Trip will be borne by the participants;these are in addition to the participation fees stipulated. Certain selected activities that extend the curriculum or service to the community will be at no cost. Activities and clubs will not run if they are not subscribed by at least ten (10) students.


Everyone have an awesome weekend and thank you for all that you do to support our school.

Oak Park Positivity Project