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Board of Education Meeting Dates in this issue >>> Issue 7:00 p.m. in the BHCS Library Event Dates TWO Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Letters From Administration Monday, December 17, 2012 Guidance News Monday, January 14, 2013 (6:30 p.m.—BOCES Vote) School Closing Information Volume Monday, May 13, 2013 Elementary News SEVENTEEN Monday, January 28, 2013 And Much More... Monday, February 11, 2013 (Budget Hearing-BHCS Auditorium) Monday, February 25, 2013 Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Board of Education: David Bartlett, Edward Martelle- Monday, March 11, 2013 (Budget Vote/Board Member Election— President, Michael Contino-Vice President, Patrick Jareo, Belleville Henderson Central School “Where we grow great kids!” BHCS Foyer 2:00-8:00 p.m.) Marisa Riordan-District Clerk, Deborah Vink-Business Monday, March 25, 2013 Manager, John Allen, Ginger Cook, Daniel Maitland, Rick Monday, April 15, 2013 June 10, 2013 Moore-Superintendent, and Scott Storey-Principal June 25, 2013—Special Meeting of the Board of Education (Reserves) coming April 2013 >>> Panther Press Administration Message >>> Just a quick update on everything school related. In my many years in public education, this fall 20 In The Next Issue has been my most active. Due to the New York state and Federal regulations, we have been kept extremely busy. 13 2013-2014 Budget Proposal Superintendent Moore Y Revenue and Expenditure Statements Annual Professional Performance Review: As part of the “Race to the Top” legislation, we have spent hundreds ea Administration Messages of hours developing the required plan of how we will evaluate our faculty. You may have observed my car at school rb Music Department News oo every Saturday and Sunday through the months of September and October. This was a monster mandate. One on k BHTA Tidbits might ask, “Why do it?” The answer is simple, money. If we do not comply with all the mandates and regulations S s And Much More... ale No our state aid is cut. In the case of the APPR we would stand to lose approximately half a million dollars. By the ! w time you receive this newsletter, we will have submitted our APPR to the state of New York for it to be approved. I.R.S. Code This new form of evaluation places a heavy burden on the faculty to have all children score well on state tests. With this continual pressure put on our faculty by the state and federal government, you can expect your student to have Please go to http://www.jostens.com >Yearbooks> Buy Your Yearbook When completing your Income Tax Forms for the year of 2012, please remember to use “045” for the more homework, find teachers less enthusiastic about allowing students to attend field trips, and ever more testing. Understand, this is not our personal or professional intension, but now we are all being held Full-color, student-created yearbooks may be ordered online only through March 31, Belleville Henderson Central School District Code. professionally responsible for student growth on state exams. 2013. If you wish to have personalization on your cover, place your order by January 20, 2013. If ordering online is not a possibility, please get in contact with the main office for a order form. All forms PAWS (Panthers Attacking Writing Skills): Part of our APPR agreement is called the Locally Developed and money will be due by January 31st. Assessment. The faculty and the administration will target all our students’ writing skills. The goal will be for all Contact Miss Locy or Mrs. Fingar for further details. the teachers in all curriculum areas to take ownership in our students’ ability to write well across the curriculum. The PAWS method is the five paragraph method of writing. The PAWS method teaches all students how to gently call us home. Or, when gently call us home. organize and focus their thoughts then produce a well written essay. You will see more writing. PRST STD Common Core Curriculum: For better or worse, the nation is moving toward a national curriculum, which by U.S. POSTAGE design will be more demanding and raise the level of academic rigor on all grade levels and across curriculums. The Non-Profit Org. new educational catch phrases coming from Washington and Albany are: increased rigorous, more robust, drill Belleville, NY deeper, stress factual content. We have seen this before. For all citizens my age and older, recall the Soviet Union’s ds whisper to our own…” launching of Sputnik. The reason the Soviet’s beat us into space, not enough math and science in our schools. This 13611 time it is the economy. Our economy is bad because we have fallen behind in math and science. We are going to Belleville Henderson build a better union through increasing our knowledge in math and science. Once again, money talks, we must join Central School the rat race or lose our federal and state dollars. So our dedicated faculty and administration is busy implementing 8372 County Route 75 the new Core Curriculum. This will mean increasing the pace and depth of our educational program. Expect to see P.O. Box 158 teachers being more demanding of themselves and therefore their students. Belleville, NY 13611 STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math: In order to address the new emphasis on science and math Phone: (315) 846-5411 we are involved with Clarkson University and the state STEM initiative. We have targeted the middle school Fax; (315) 846-5617 grades: 7th and 8th first. The 7th and 8th grade teachers have accepted the challenge and have started to plan how best Website: to implement a STEM emphasis at Belleville Henderson Central School District. The kickoff event was to take the th our Fathers’ fertile fiel www.bhpanthers.org the waves of Lake Ontario “When entire 8 grade class to Clarkson University to participate in their annual science fair. Mrs. Barb Bibbins led the way. The kids had an awesome day and returned excited about math and science. Building Project: The building project was a tremendous success. We accomplished more than we ever thought possible and under budget. We now have a fully operable state of the art agricultural and technology wing which is without a doubt the best in the state of New York, if not the entire country. It is fitting that the best agriculture program in the state of New York has a facility to match. Just remember back a few years when we had 50 buckets of all sizes and shapes in the hallway catching rain water. We have come a long way. Under that new roof we doubled the insulation; replaced all the windows with energy saving triple pane glass. A totally new septic system, new boilers, all new energy efficient lighting, geothermal heating, and photovoltaic’s are a few of the major renovations for Belleville Henderson Central School District. With the money we saved during the project, we plan to build vestibules on all the doors to cut down on our heating bills. We also hope to use our capital reserve fund to repave all the school’s parking lots this summer. Following this work our school should be totally updated. Commitment to Belleville Henderson Central School District: Every time our students go out of our district for sports, music, field trips, etc., we always hear the same; you have great students at Belleville Henderson Central. Those students then become the great adults that make up our excellent district. Example, Mrs. David Cobb, last month came into my office after the passing of her husband. She said, “Mr. Moore I need to talk to you. Both my husband and I went to this school. My children all went here. Presently, my grandchildren are students at BHCSD. Mr. Moore we all received a fantastic education and we love all the faculty and staff. I heard you are trying to build some dugouts for our baseball team. My late husband would have wanted the students at Belleville Henderson Central School District to have dugouts. He was very fond of baseball and this school. In fact he umpired at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.” She then took out her checkbook and wrote a check for $10,000 to build the dugouts. Need I say more about commitment to Belleville Henderson Central School District? Thank you for all you do to ensure we grow great kids at Belleville Henderson Central School District. March 2 Relay for Life Volleyball Tournament Guidance News BHCS has lots of events >>> March 8 Deadline to Register for April 13 ACT March 8 25 Week Progress Reports Distributed with School Counselor, Mr. Gagan March 8 & 9 School Musical The Wizard of Oz at 7:00 p.m. Upcoming Dates and Events March 11 Board of Education Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Top 10 Admissions Tips —Library December 1 SAT March 15 Junior Dance 7:00-10:00 p.m. For Parents >>> December 3-6 Kris Kringle Corner for Students—Library March 25 Board of Education Meeting at 7:00 p.m. (Referenced from College Admissions, July 17, December 8 ACT —Library December 12 D.A.R.E. Graduation for 5th Grade at 9:30 a.m. March 29 Good Friday—SCHOOL CLOSED 2012 Article By: Lauren Starkey) December 12 Winter Concert at 7:00 p.m.—All Performance Groups Most parents easily remember the work and December 15 “Parent’s Day Off” at 10:00 a.m.3:00 p.m.—LEAP STUDENTS ONLY April 1-5 Spring Vacation—No School the stress of college admissions: visiting Class of 2012 >>> December 15 Christmas Ball—7:00-10:00 p.m.