Bourne High School

I am excited to share news about our 3rd Annual “Career and College Exploration Day.”

This event, taking place on Thursday, September 26, 2024, includes several Career & College exploration field trips for BHS students and promises to be an excellent learning and growth opportunity for students in grade-based experiences. Freshmen will join together at Camp Burgess for a day of Team Building and Leadership activities. Sophomores will embark on career-related exploratory trips to learn about different industry sectors. Juniors will delve deeper in next steps after high school, whether their path leads to the world of work, 2-year, or 4-year college. Seniors will implement their collaboration and problem-solving skills in a BHS Day of Service to give back to the community.

Our 3rd Annual “Career and College Exploration Day” aligns with our District Strategic Plan, our BHS School Improvement Plan, and our College and Career Readiness Programming, in that it affords every Canalmen a chance to strengthen their industry knowledge and skills and enhance their college and career readiness. Engagement in the day’s explorations will support our Canalmen to make purposeful and targeted academic, extra-curricular, and social decisions regarding the future.

Some students will serve as student leaders at the BHS Spotlight on The Bourne Advantage for our 7th and 8th grade guests who will step up to the high school for the day and engage in various academic and co-curricular activities. They will facilitate activities with educator partners in a variety of content areas on the 26th.

Please see the graphics below for more information!

Yours in education,

Dr. Maguire

Check out the full presentation of trips here!

A letter has been sent home to all caregivers for field trip permission.

Please sign the permission form by Monday!

• 24-25 District Calendar

• 9/24 NHS Induction 6:00-7:00 p.m. (by invitation)

• 9/25 BPS Parent Focus Group 6:30 BHS Media Center

• 9/30 and 10/1 Picture Days (Through ELA Class) MyLifetouch Picture Day ID: MRHBG2TVE

• 10/3 Pep Rally WIN and F Block

• 10/3 Parent-Teacher Conferences 4:00-7:00 p.m.

• 10/3 Homecoming Football Game starts at 7:00 p.m.

• 10/4 Homecoming Dance event runs 7:00-10:00 p.m.

• 10/9 Testing Day- PSAT and SAT

• 10/10 BHS Evening Showcase for Prospective & Future Canalmen, 5:30-7:00 pm

• 10/14 No School

• 11/5 Teacher In-Service Day, No School- Students

• 11/7 Bourne Celebrates Everyone/Community Resource Fair Event

• 11/8 Salute to Veterans- WIN and G Block

• 11/26 Chris Herren Assembly WIN and F Block (Students and Staff Only)

We are always looking to improve school safety. To that end, we are communicating a change to morning arrival starting on Monday. Students who drive will now enter the front door. The side/gym entrance will only be open from 7:30-7:40 with adult supervision. Outside of that time, students should enter the front entrance. All doors are locked and all visitors should only use the main entrance to sign in.

This change does not impact bus drop off or parent drop off at the main entrance. Thank you for your support.

Students in AP Environmental science are testing soils to determine the porosity, permeability, nutrient level, composition, and microorganism level of unknown samples to understand how soils affect the health of our environment.

(L-R) Students in Mr. Dow's AP Language class are scoring an essay based on the AP Writing Rubric. Students in Ms. Syliva's class are acting out various vocabulary words for the class to guess. Students in Ms. Donahue's Pre-AP English class are working together to find textual evidence to support the mood and tone of the short story "What Happened During the Ice Storm." (Not pictured, Students in Mr. Chapman's English IV are looking at descriptive elements of Sample College Essays).

Congratulations to Molly Lodge for qualifying for the All Eastern Music Festival, which encompasses all of New England, New York and New Jersey! She will learn if she is accepted in December- good luck!

The longtime tradition of float decorating has returned to BHS for Homecoming 2024!

Please see the guidelines below and check in with your class advisors, who are reaching out with dates, times, and need for materials.

Class Advisors:

● Class of 2025

• Amy Kelly amyipp@aol.com

● Class of 2026

• Donel Beals owemax31@comcast.net
• Tammy Kelley tkelley@bourneps.org

● Class of 2027

• Shannon Ethier
• Helena Fine Jones bournehigh2027@gmail.com

● Class of 2028

• Kerrie Scofield kerriemaria@hotmail.com
• KaraDodds karaculhane@hotmail.com
• Emily Berry emilyberry0118@gmail.com
• Kate Conlon kconlon@bourneps.org

Homecoming Football

Date: October 3, 2024

Time: 6:30 pm

Floats and Homecoming Court at Halftime

Please keep the following Float Decorating guidelines in mind:

• It’s expected that the decorations will be prepared and brought together to a central location (campus, community center) to be put together
• Multiple students, with support from adults, should assume roles for creating different parts of the float, such as construction, painting, assembly, etc.

• Make sure design is structurally sound and distribute the weight across the float to prevent tipping
• Adult (Class Advisor) supervision of all decorating is required. An adult must drive the floats at the homecoming game.
• Floats must be completed and ready to go Wednesday evening 10/3 – and staged at the back side of the field by the tennis courts in the BIS parking lot by Thursday afternoon (by 4 p.m.)
• There is no throwing of any items from the floats (like candy or streamers- nothing that needs to be cleaned up on the track).
• Students can walk with or be stationed on your float.
• Costumes are encouraged, as is music (live or streaming with speakers), lights, and props.
• Everything depicted should be school appropriate and adhere to handbook guidelines.
• Decorations should be secured so that they withstand driving and the elements Wednesday- Friday, and do not interfere with travel.
• Classes may use some class funds toward decorations, but most items should be gathered from preexisting options – seek out donations! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
• Have fun and get creative!
  

Each class selected a movie theme to build, which is as follows:

Class of 2028-Toy Story

Class of 2027-Alice in Wonderland

Class of 2026-Up

Class of 2025-Tangled

Can't wait to see these wonderful creations and have a fun night at Homecoming Football!!

NHS will be selling Homecoming Dance tickets next week!

Please check ArbiterLive.com for the most up-to-date information about our team schedules.