BC Bear Facts
WELCOME BACK: 8-5-24
Principal's Message
Dear Boulder Creek Families,
Welcome to the 2024-2025 school year at Boulder Creek School! We hope your summer was filled with memorable moments with family and friends. It is both an honor and a privilege to return for my ninth year as your principal, serving this exceptional and student-centered community.
As we gear up for the new school year, I am excited to reconnect with familiar faces and meet all our new Boulder Creek families. If you see me around the school—before, during, or after school—please feel free to introduce yourself. Building strong relationships within our community is important, and I encourage you to connect with other families as well.
Join us for Back-to-School Night on Thursday, August 22nd (time to be announced), where you’ll have the opportunity to meet your child’s teacher and learn about the curriculum and expectations for the year. Additionally, we would love to see you at the first Boulder Creek Parent Club (Boosters) meeting, with the date and time to be announced soon. This is a wonderful chance to get involved, support our students, and contribute to our school community.
To help you prepare for the year ahead, please review the updated Enterprise Elementary School District and Boulder Creek Student/Parent Handbooks available on our website. These handbooks contain essential information about school procedures and policies that will be useful throughout the year.
Our staff has been working diligently over the summer to ensure we are ready for a fantastic year. The strength of Boulder Creek lies in the collaboration between teachers, students, and families. We appreciate your continued support as we work together to help your child succeed and grow. We are honored to be entrusted with your child’s education and look forward to a rewarding school year.
Here’s to a successful and inspiring year ahead!
Warm regards,
Tina Croes
PARENT PORTAL LOG-IN
All parents, including new parents, should have logged into the Parent Portal at some point already. Why do you need to create a parent account? This is a secure platform through which you will view your child's teacher/class, receive your child’s report card, complete enrollment, and complete the necessary beginning-of-the-year school forms like your child's emergency card. In the future, this is also how state testing results will be communicated.
Click HERE for the link to the parent portal. If you cannot log-in successfully, please call our school's office at 224-4140. Be sure to keep your log-in information in a safe but accessible place.
HAVE YOU COMPLETED YOUR BEGINNING OF YEAR REQUIRED FORMS? START NOW!
All parents will need to complete the yearly required school forms. Most importantly, an updated 2024-25 emergency card needs to be on file for every child.
Please begin completing ALL electronic forms as well as additional paper forms, if necessary, within the first week of school if not sooner. Click HERE for complete instructions about completing Beginning-of-Year Forms. *Sometimes using the Parent Portal App presents people with problems when trying to complete forms. You should have no problem if you sign onto the Parent Portal without using the app.
Boulder Creek is in competition with the rest of the EESD to be first to have all Beginning-of-the-Year Forms completed. Thank you in advance for helping us accomplish this goal!
REQUIRED SCHOOL VACCINATIONS
Incoming 7th graders, TK and Kindergartners, and other new students:
California school immunization requirements remain the same. Please take care of completing these as soon as possible. Students who are not current on vaccinations and who do not have a medical waiver will need to be excluded from school until requirements are met in accordance with state law.
If you missed our district's clinic, there are many convenient locations that provide vaccinations, including pharmacies at Rite Aid, Safeway, etc. Often, no appointment is necessary.
Please contact our health clerk, Andrea Wilson at awilson@eesd.net if you have any questions.
Thank you.
SCHOOL SHOPPING
Please see the dress code from our Parent/Student handbook when buying school clothes. These and other resources can be found on the Boulder Creek School's website.
JOIN THE BOULDER CREEK TEAM!
Are you, a family member, or a friend looking for an opportunity to be a part of an amazing team of people who fosters the academic, social, and emotional growth of Boulder Creek students every day? Do you plan on being on campus volunteering your time? Why not apply to work with children and get paid for it too? We have support staff (classified instructional and social emotional learning (behavior) aide openings for the coming 2024-2025 school year. In addition, we are always in the need of support staff and teacher substitutes all year. If you would like to apply for a position, click HERE. You can also contact our Deanna Barnes, School Secretary at dbarnes@eesd.net and she will share how to become a part of the team!
SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTS
Sales are on!
Click HERE and find Boulder Creek's Grade-Level School Supply Lists!
2024-25 STUDENT REGISTRATION
We still have openings in some grade levels! If you've begun the online registration process, be sure you have completed all forms and other requirements to secure your child's seat at Boulder Creek!
**REMEMBER** You do not have to re-register your child if he/she is already a Boulder Creek student.
We are currently in our open enrollment period. We are enrolling students both in the district and out of the district. You can begin the enrollment process by clicking HERE. Get started today, as seats fill up quickly.
If you have specific questions, you may contact our Student Services Clerk, Kensey Jones at kjones@eesd.net or 530-224-4140.
6TH GRADE PARENT ORIENTATION MEETING
If your child is going into middle school this year, you are invited to attend 6th-grade Parent Orientation on Friday, August 9th from 8:00 - 9:00. While your 6th grader is attending the student version of orientation, this is an opportunity for you to meet your administrators who will share valuable information about how to navigate the middle school years with your child. Topics will include the following: the developmental stage of adolescence at school and home, positive school climate, academics, attendance, parent involvement, school activities, and much more.
So, drop off your 6th grader and head up to room 39 for your own special orientation. Get ready for the middle school ride!
1st Grade Meet and Greet
First graders and their families are invited to a Meet and Greet on Tuesday, August 13th from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in students' classrooms.
2nd Grade Meet and Greet
Second graders and their families are invited to a Meet and Greet on Monday, August 12th from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the student's classroom.
Grade-Level Start and End Times
We are happy to welcome our students on campus for breakfast as well as on the playground before the start of the school day this year. The earliest drop-off time is 7:30 a.m.
Regular Day - School Start/End Times:
4-8 grades begin at 8:00 a.m. - 2:14 p.m.
K-3 grades begin at 8:15 a.m. - 2:03 p.m.
Minimum Day - School Start Times:
4-8 grades begin at 8:00 a.m. - 1:09 p.m.
K-3 grades begin at 8:10 a.m. - 1:09 p.m.
Students will be released from class based upon the dismissal time. Students will be walked to a designated pick-up area (see below) and remain with their teacher/classmates. If they have a younger sibling(s), they should report to the designated pick-up area of their youngest sibling so parents don't have to visit both pick-up loops. Please coordinate this with your children.
To ensure the safety of all children, students must be picked up at their dismissal times. The school does not provide supervision for students after 2:20 p.m. on regular days and 1:20 p.m. on minimum days. Every Monday is a minimum day. If students are not picked up by the aforementioned times, they will be escorted to the office. Parents will then be required to go to the office to check students out. Remember this is to ensure your child’s safety, so please be prompt when picking up your child.
Assigned Parking Lots for Drop-off and Pick-up
This year, you will be assigned to a specific parking lot for morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up. It is extremely important that you stick to this because your child/children will be taken to this area after school. If you have multiple BC children, we do not want you to have to go from parking lot to parking lot, so you will be picking all of your children up together in one location.
This location is decided by the youngest child in the family. Older children in the family will need to find their youngest sibling at the pick-up location that is assigned to that sibling's grade level. For example, Kindergarten will be picked up in the front parking lot, so all older siblings of Kindergartners will report to the dismissal location to find their Kindergarten sibling's class at the front of the school and wait for their parents there together. We will be out to help older siblings find their pick-up point. This should only take a day or two to get into the routine of where to go.
Parking Lot Assignments by Grade-Level:
- TK/K (and all older siblings) - Front Lot
1 and 2 (and all older siblings) - Back Lot
3 and 4 (and all older siblings) - Front Lot
5 (and all older siblings) - Back Lot
6-8 (and all older siblings) Front Lot
Please do not arrive earlier than your oldest child's release time (see above), as we want to be able to clear the parking lot quickly for each group. If you have multiple children who are released at both times, please find a parking space rather than waiting in the pick-up lane as this will block the lane from moving as you wait for your older child. Thank you for your cooperation.
The Parent Club helps with fundraising at Boulder Creek (BC) and also puts on fun events such as Boulder Bash, Holiday Boutique, and many dances. Their first meeting of the year will be announced soon. As a parent or guardian of a BC student, you are a member of the Parent Club! At the first meeting, parents will decide how to spend the money that was raised last year, and a budget will be approved. Upcoming events such as Boulder Bash which takes place in October will also be discussed! We hope you will join us to help make all these very important decisions at the first meeting!
If you would like to help with any of the Parent Club events this school year, please click this link and complete the volunteer form! There are volunteer opportunities for every BC parent!
Be sure to find the BC Parent Club on Facebook!
The Riffle Raffle Fundraiser will kick off right at the beginning of the school year! You can get tickets to sell to others in our community from your teacher! The prizes this year include:
1st: $5,000 cash
2nd: Houseboat Vacation from Holiday Harbor (16-sleeper houseboat on Shasta Lake)
3rd: 2 Courtside Warriors Tickets
4th: River Rafting Trip for 6 people
5th: Silver Blue Topaz Bracelet
All of the funds raised go back to BC and most of it goes directly to your child’s classroom! Let’s all do our part to make this a success!
2024 Boulder Creek Student Prizes for Riffle Raffle
Top-selling students can earn prizes sponsored by Parent Club.
1st $75 Gift Card to Oasis Fun Center and attendance at the Riffle Raffle Luncheon with the Principal to pick up the check for the school
2nd $50 Gift Card to Red Robin
3rd $25 Gift Card to Jamba Juice
2024 Classroom Popsicle Party for Riffle Raffle
The top 3 selling classrooms earn a Popsicle party for their class.
More Riffle Raffle information will go home with every student on the first day of school! Get an early jump on it. Our goal this year is for every student to sell at least five salmon!
We look forward to working with you to help keep Boulder Creek on top. We can't do it without the teamwork of our families.
Sincerely,
The BCPC Executive Board
Meet Your Parent Club Board:
Jessica Blanc (Treasurer), Kylee Carrell (Vice-President), Nickie McGarry (President), and Roni Kuehl (Secretary)
