Principal's Message
Dear Students and Families,
Welcome to the start of the 2024-2025 school year! I hope your summer was filled with time spent with family and friends, as well as many enjoyable activities. I am honored, humbled, and grateful to remain at BCIS after three years as assistant principal to now be selected as the new lead principal at Center Intermediate. I am excited to continue to work with our Spartan families, students, and staff to keep moving our school in a positive direction!
Over the summer months, BCIS remained a busy place. I want to first thank our custodial staff for all of their hard work cleaning our building. Each summer they work tirelessly to ensure that BCIS is ready for the start of the school year. In addition, there have been numerous staffing changes due to retirements and resignations. Please welcome the following new staff to BCIS:
| Patrick Birch | Assistant Principal |
| Lauren Pastella | 4th Grade Intervention Specialist |
| Mikel Flatley | 5th Grade ELA |
| Debbie Huck | 6th Grade Math |
| Jenna Menough | 6th Grade ELA |
| Mike Kenneally | In School Reassignment |
| Stephanie Penwell | Instructional Aide |
| Chloe Ryhal | Title 1 Math Tutor |
Important Dates
The following table outlines the dates for open houses and our staggered start plan:
| Friday, August 16 |
4th Grade Orientation and Open House Students @ 8:30 AM Parents @ 11:30 AM |
| Monday, August 19 |
5th Grade Open House Students & Parents: 5:30-6:30 PM |
| Monday, August 19 |
6th Grade Open House Students & Parents: 7:00-8:00 PM |
| Wed., August 21 | 4th Grade Phase In Day |
| Thurs., August 22 | 5th Grade Phase In Day |
| Friday, August 23 | 6th Grade Phase In Day |
| Monday, August 26 | All Students |
BCIS’s PTA
BCIS’s devoted Parent Teacher Association (PTA) will continue to play a vital role in the overall success of our building. Mrs. Diane Bugno will continue to serve as President. I am looking forward to working with her, our Officers, and members. The PTA will provide students and staff with a wide spectrum of events and opportunities throughout the year. Consider joining and contributing any time you may have to make our building an even better place. Membership forms will be available at all of our upcoming orientations and open houses. Monthly meetings will be held in our Social and Emotional Learning Center. To join our PTA’s remind, please text @bcispta20 to 81010
pta meeting dates:
| September 17, 2024 | 6:30 PM | February 18, 2025 | 6:30 PM |
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| October 15, 2024 | 9:30 AM | March 18, 2025 | 9:30 AM |
| November 19, 2024 | 6:30 PM | April 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM |
| January 21, 2025 | 9:30 AM | May 20, 2025 | 9:30 AM |
Core Essentials Program
For the past several years, BCIS has used the Core Essentials Program to work hand in hand with our Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) initiative. The Core Essentials curriculum reinforces the “Big 3”. These powerful statements will be shared with students and serve as the foundation of this program. The Big 3 are:
Treat others right. Make smart decisions. Maximize your potential.
We will continue to utilize this wonderful program. Students who are a part of our BCIS TV Crew will be speaking on these core values:
August / Wisdom: Finding out what you should do and doing it
September / Compassion: Caring enough to do something about someone else’s needs
October / Self-Control: Choosing to do what’s best even when you don’t want to
November / Generosity: Making someone’s day by giving something away
December / Service: Lending a hand to help someone else
January / Resilience: Getting back up when something gets you down
February / Uniqueness: Learning more about others so you can know more about yourself
March / Cooperation: Working together to do more than you can do alone
April / Hope: Believing that something good can come out of something bad
May / Initiative: Seeing what needs to be done and doing it
Communication
Please be sure to check out our BCIS TV Google Classroom to ensure you are watching all of our Core Essentials messages as well as other BCIS information:
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https://classroom.google.com/c/MTY0MzM0NTM3ODRa
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The class code is: 6wzxjtu
I will also send home biweekly family updates this year. These will come out on Remind and contain pertinent information regarding our school.
Let’s continue to cooperate and communicate with one another over the next school year! I truly believe that with a team effort and strong communication between parents and the school, we can make the 2024-2025 school year a successful one. I am looking forward to working with all of you, and I can’t wait to see your children walking the hallways of BCIS.
Sincerely,
Mr. DeAngelo, Principal