Bear Bulletin

Hello Bear Branch Family,

We hope you all enjoy our upcoming Spring Break! This will be an incredible time for our students to rewind, reset, and prepare for the end of the semester.

Upon our return, students will begin preparing for our testing season in April. As many of you know, our campus has a built in advisory period called Bear Block where we can intervene and extend on learning- as well as just provide some extra time for students to practice and apply content. This nine weeks we will be utilizing this period much more for test preparation and content application. This is valuable time built into our schedule that we are committed to using more effectively now and in the coming years.

With that being said, there will be shifts in Bear Block schedules for some students whose teachers believe they will benefit from the extra practice with their daily content teachers, rather than just their normal Bear Block teachers.

Eighth grade students will begin working with these specific teachers when we return from break on March 17th - and 7th grade students will begin the same process March 21st.

-Mr. Jacobs

Monday, March 17

• Mandatory Cheer Try Out Parent Meeting

Tuesday, March 18

• Course Selection night

• Track Meet @ Oak Hills

• Course Selection Sheets Due
• Cheer Banquet

For all 7th graders interested in trying out for BBJH Cheer next year, tryout packets are now available in the front office. Mandatory Parent meeting is March 17th at 6pm in the cafeteria.

Sign-ups for Bear Branch Junior High's A+ Academics UIL team are now open! Have your student (using their school mymisd.org email) fill this form out for each event they are interested in! You must be signed in to your student email account to get the form.

UIL Academics Form Link

UIL Academics is a district wide competition where students get to pursue academic excellence through a variety of events. Students at Bear Branch Junior High compete in 16 different events including: Art; Impromptu Speaking; Prose; Poetry; Spelling; Calculator Apps; Editorial Writing; Ready Writing; Science; Maps, Graphs, and Charts; Chess; Mathematics; Dictionary Skills; Number Sense; Listening Skills; and Social Studies. Students place 1st through 6th and points are awarded to each school for every student that places in an event. These points are tallied up and one school walks away a champion!

Performance Course visited with athletics at Bear Branch Junior High today March 3rd about an upcoming opportunity for the Developmental Course that will be taking place at Magnolia High School this Summer! This program was developed by Performance Course to offer 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade athletes the opportunity to develop both physically and mentally.

PC takes a goal-oriented approach to develop speed, agility, mobility, functional strength, and power. Performance nutrition, character development, mental preparation, and goal-setting techniques are also included in the curriculum to develop the whole athlete!

The classes take place 4 days a week for 7 weeks, and will begin June 2nd.

We want to ensure all athletes have the opportunity to participate. To receive more information from Performance Course, please fill out this link: info.performancecourse.com

and select “Summer”. This will ensure you receive information about the summer courses!

Online registration is available at https://www.performancecourse.com/school-district/magnolia-isd

If you have any questions or need help with registration, please contact the Magnolia High School Performance Course Director, Dylan Stubbe at Dstubbe@performancecourse.com and he will be glad to assist you.

Thanks and we hope your child has the opportunity to participate!

The district will begin making automated phone calls for students who are marked absent. If you feel your child has been mistakenly counted absent, please email his/her teacher for that specific period.

Be sure to turn in absence notes when your child is out. Here's how:

• Students can bring parent/doctor note to the front office
• Parents can email notes to bbjhattendance@magnoliaisd.org

Email: jjacobs@magnoliaisd.org
Website: bbjh.magnoliaisd.org
Location: Bear Branch Junior High School, Farm to Market Road 2978, Magnolia, TX, USA
Phone: 281-356-6088