3/7 BHRA Daily Announcements

Bismarck-Henning Rossville-Alvin Cooperative High School Daily Announcements Monday, March 7th, 2022

Announcements

Congratulations to the Scholastic Bowl team for a hard fought 4th place at the county tournament this weekend! Extra congratulations goes out to Josh Gernand for winning tournament MVP! Good luck to the team tonight as they head to regionals at PBL.
Today is the LAST DAY to support your softball team by purchasing apparel. Click here to place your order TODAY!
Winter Athletic Banquet (Girls Basketball, Boys Basketball, Wrestling, Devilettes & Cheerleaders) - March 10th @ 6:30pm in the MPR.
Senior pictures due to Mrs. Stephens FRIDAY – Email them to mstephens@bismarck.k12.il.us or drop them by her office.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are March 16th & 17th from 4pm-8pm. Schedule yours today by clicking HERE. ?Questions or problems? Call the office or email Jenny at jhuffman@bismarck.k12.il.us.
DACC Foundation Scholarship application has been EXTENDED to March 21, 2022.

Last year DACC gave away $740K in scholarships and every student that applied received a scholarship!
Please go to DACC Foundation Web Page and click on DACC Scholarships, then click on apply log in and enter your username and password.
If you do not have a DACC username (have never taken a dual enrollment course) please complete the application for admission at https://dacc.edu/ar/application.
If you need your DACC user ID you can ask your dual enrollment teacher for it, or contact the Foundation office at 217-443-8893 or Foundation@dacc.edu.

All juniors will be taking the SAT test on Wednesday April 13th. To help prepare for the SAT, we are offering a SAT Test Prep course. This course will consist of 4 sessions offered on the following dates.

Students will be able to take a practice test, go over sample questions and get helpful hints on test taking.
Payment of $35.00 is due Monday March 7th. Make checks out to BHRA. If you would like to sign up to attend, please complete this google form - SAT Test Prep Sign Up

Yearbooks are on sale now! You can send cash/check to Mrs. Stephens for $60 or order online HERE.
Don’t forget to turn in your senior pictures! Those are due to Mrs. Stephens March 11th. You can bring one in to her or email it to her at mstephens@bismarck.k12.il.us.

Advisory Period Meetings (Check in with your Advisory Period teacher first!)

Notes from Nurse Kelly

When testing to return to school, only PCR tests are accepted. Rapid (antigen tests) are not valid.
List of Covid Testing sites in Vermilion County listed at vchd.org.
**Updated Quarantine Guidelines as of 1/7/22** - The Illinois State Board of Education has adopted the new CDC guideline for positive COVID-19 cases. The number of days a positive case must remain in isolation has been reduced from 10 days to 5 days.
For free home COVID tests go to www.covidtests.gov The tests are expected to ship at the end of January. 1 set of 4-tests per address.

Community Service Opportunities

Additional Information:

Reminder! If your student will not be attending school for the day, please make sure you call the office and let us know. Please call us by 9am each day your student is absent. (Students may not call themselves in, it must be a parent/guardian). You need to call us each day they are out.
Students may not attend school if they are experiencing any of the potential COVID-19 symptoms: Fever of 100.4 or higher, NEW ONSET of a moderate or severe headache, shortness of breath, NEW cough, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, NEW loss of taste or smell, fatigue from unknown cause, and muscle or body aches from unknown cause. If the student or someone in their household is waiting on COVID-19 test results, please do NOT send them to school until results come back negative.
Chromebook cases, styluses, and chargers for sale in the office. Styluses are $30 and chargers are $25. Cases are $20 new and $10 used.
Athletic Passes on sale now. Individual $60 and Family $124 (includes all members of 1 household). Send cash or check to Jenny with a list of all members in the household if purchasing a family pass.
BHRA/BHCUSD Alert Phone Numbers

Happening this Week:

Announcements from Mrs. Stephens - Website

Weekly Updates for Juniors & Seniors
The DACC Foundation Scholarship application is now open and will close March 7th. Seniors will be meeting with Mrs. Tonya Hill from the foundation next Thursday the 13th to receive instructions for completing the application. Juniors who plan to take dual enrollment courses AT DACC next year (not at BHRA - Rhet, Calc, Western Civ where tuition is waived) or plan to graduate early and attend DACC in the spring of 2023 should also complete the application.

A link to the application and all other scholarships can be found in the List of Scholarships Google Doc – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N0cjwPtcBrMv3XfZZcM9IJGjTR8VILuzcQjIJ3bE-b8/edit?usp=sharing

Menu - March Menu

Here’s What’s Coming:

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Contact Us:

Office Staff - You can also call us at 217-759-7291. If we don’t answer, leave a message and someone will get back to you as soon as we can.

Athletic Director - Tony Foster - tfoster@bismarck.k12.il.us

School Counselor - Mendy Stephens - mstephens@bismarck.k12.il.us

School Nurse - Nurse Kelly - kstrader@bismarck.k12.il.us
Social Worker - Traci Wilt - wiltt@vase.k12.il.us

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