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School District of Black Hawk School District of Black Hawk August/September 2017 Message From The Principal Welcome parents and students to Black Hawk Schools, and the 2017-18 school year. I hope all of our families enjoyed their time this summer with their children, and have made many great memories. We look forward to working with you and doing our best to serve your student’s educational needs. We are very proud of our small school community, and believe that we can offer opportunities that will help make your children’s experience here a positive one. Please make sure to check out our school’s website and access the student handbooks that are posted online. These handbooks are linked under the parents/students tabs at the top of the page. The handbooks have information dealing with our schedules, grading policies, procedures, and behavioral expectations. If you a question on something in the handbook, please make sure you contact me at the school office. We have a new reading curriculum that we are introducing to 5K students to 2nd grade this year. It is called Superkids, and we are very excited at what the research has shown in regards to this reading curriculum. We hope that it pays dividends with your early readers. Academic success is based on students being able to read fluently in order to be able to comprehend, and process information as they get older. As with anything, the more practice a person gets at something, the better they will be. It is so important for parents to read with their children at home. Listening to them read, or having them listen to you read, is an im- portant activity. Ask your children questions about what they are reading in regards to setting, plot, characters, author’s intent, etc. This will be a fun and productive activity for you and your children. They grow up so fast, before you can blink your 6 year old will be 16 years old. The high school will have a change in their final exam practices for this school year. We have collected feedback from former students and parents over the past couple of years, and we have learned that many favor having all students take final examina- tions in their courses. Therefore, all students in high school will be taking final exams in their first semester courses. There will be no final exam attendance waiver for first semester. However, Black Hawk High School will have a final exam waiver policy for second semester. Please refer to the student handbook for details. We believe that teachers need time to discuss student progress and instructional methods with their peers. This year, the school board is allowing us to use the second Monday of each month, for late start collaboration time. The first late start will be on Monday, September 11. Starting times for classes will be pushed back two hours on these days, similar to a late start due to emergency weather. Doors for students will be open at 9:45 a.m. and classes will begin at 10:10 a.m. on these days. These have been added to the school calendar, which you can access on our school website. We look forward to another exciting school year. As always, the quality of your experience is equal to the quality of attitude and effort put into it. We have great students at Black Hawk, and our very proud of what they have and will accomplish in 2017-18. Go Warriors! 3rd Annual OPEN HOUSE August 30, 4 to 7 PM The Black Hawk School District is planning to have an open house for all Black Hawk residents. We invite and encourage all residents to attend. The Board and staff are hoping residents will attend, ask questions, and see the great things happening for students. A free meal will be offered and several other activities will occur. The meal will be served by the Board and Administration. Menu: Lasagna/Mac & Cheese/Pizza Salad Cake Garlic Bread Lemonade/Milk/Coffee Activities: Door Prizes Tours of Building Registration And Fees Elementary: Can demo. SMART Boards Discuss classroom processes with child and parent Discuss communication protocol Students bring materials into room Information Booths: District Goals/Question and Answer – available Board members Standards Based Grading Cory Milz Others include: Theatre Yearbook Forensics Music National Honor Society Fun Run Wellness Initiatives Running Club/Track Boys Basketball (including youth) Girls Basketball (including youth) Weight Room Alumni Questionnaire Book Fair (books will cost, but profit will be used to purchase additional books for children) Petting Zoo Wellness Initiatives Dental Program Other organizations will be invited to attend to promote activities for children and the community. Please contact us if you would like to present as a community organization. We hope the event will promote commu- nity involvement and interaction with the district. Thank you, Willy Chambers Teen of the Week Elizabeth Holland Age: 18 Parents’ Names: Steve & Lynda Holland Address: FOOD SERVICE INFORMATION 10740 State Road 11 Gratiot, WI 53541 Lunch prices have increased. Lunch will be $2.55 School Activities (clubs, organizations, groups): for ECH-6th grade, and $2.90 for 7th-12th grade. Volleyball, School Play, Forensics, Mathletes, Band, Payment Information is a follows: Choir, National Honor Society, Class Officer, & Singing Star Spangled Banner at games. Skyward is the computerized prepayment system for Honors You Have Received: school meals in our district. This is a debit balance Honorable Mention for the 2016 Volleyball Season, system where funds are placed in advance on the Student of the Month (2013 & 2017), and the Gratiot account and purchases are drawn against the balance. State Bank award at the Lafayette County Fair (2013) The program is not a credit system. Students are Activities Outside of School: issued a 4-digit pin number, which is assigned to them 4-H when they first enter the district. Our policy requires Hobbies or Special Interests: all family accounts have a positive balance in order to Running, cooking, photography, reading, music, piano, purchase meals, extra milk, or a la carte items. volleyball If a family account balance reaches a low balance, Future Plans: a weekly email/computerized phone call will be sent I plan to attend UW-Platteville with a major in Biology on a pre-med track. out to the parents. Please send a payment to school Volunteering: when you get this low balance or a negative account balance call. Laying wood chips at the park, working a 5k run, church dinners, helping with church potlucks, helping in mass, You can check family account balances through the parent-teacher conferences, tutoring, and laying sod at the South Wayne Park. Family Access portal on our website. If you have any questions on your family account balance, please call Audrey Wells at 439-5400, ext.110. Thank you to the class of 2017 for allowing me to speak at the graduation ceremony this past year and thank you to all of those who attended to show support for the graduates. I have been asked by many how I thought of the “Wear your Sunscreen” speech that I gave. To inform, it is actually based and derived from the lyrics of the song “Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen” by the artist Baz Luhrmann. Many of the thoughts and language I used were from this song, with my Black Hawk experiences and Class of 2017 memories of lyrics being added in. By no means do I want to take credit for or come off as plagiarizing this song. There is great life advice in the lyrics that I felt pertained very well to the Class of 2017. I highly recommend you take the time and listen to it, and remember...wear your sunscreen. Thank you, Andrew Beach Asbestos Management Plan Sub Bus Driver(s) Needed Under AHERA (Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response The Black Hawk School District is looking for Act), all primary and secondary schools are required to develop and implement a plan for managing all building qualified people to work as substitute bus drivers materials which contain asbestos. Included in the AHERA for the 2017-2018 school year. If you have interest Act is the requirement to annually notify all workers and or questions call Cory Milz, Transportation Direc- building occupants (or their guardians) of asbestos-related tor @ 608-439-5371 ext. 112 or Beth Zimmerman activities. @ 608-439-5371 ext. 100. Beginning in 1988, all buildings owned, lease, or “under the control of” the School District of Black Hawk were inspected by EPA accredited inspectors, with building material samples analyzed by an independent laboratory. Based on the inspection, the School District of Black Hawk prepared and the state approved a comprehensive management plan for managing the asbestos. Black Hawk Homecoming Environmental Management Consulting, Inc. (EMC) was contracted to be the school’s consultant for asbestos for the Saturday, October 7th school year. Where the asbestos-containing material are found, the Black Hawk District has in place an Operations 3rd Annual Fun Run/Walk - 7:00 a.m. and Maintenance program. The Black Hawk District has accomplished the following compliance mandates Homecoming Parade - 11:00 a.m. regarding the administration of asbestos in school buildings. The Black Hawk District is continuing with the BH Football vs Highland - 2:00 p.m. Operations and Maintenance Program as designed for the School District of Black Hawk. This ensures that all asbestos materials are kept in good condition. Periodic “surveillance” in each area containing asbestos has been completed every six months by our consultant. Also, Season Ticket Information the building is re-inspected by an accredited inspector Season tickets for Black Hawk High School athletic events are every three years.
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