The 4th grade teachers were tasked with the difficult decision to only nominate one boy and one girl from their classrooms to earn the Principal's Award for Outstanding Student and Student Citizen. We have much more than two students per class that could have been nominated. Mrs. Powell nominated Cooper Thorlton and Lettie Martin. Mrs. Miller nominated Quincey LeBeane and DJ Hayes. Mrs. Whitt nominated Keaton Sullivan and Keegan Hill. Mrs. Miethe nominated Reece Larsen and Drew Gernand. As the prinicpal I chose Reece and DJ to receive the award this year. I am very proud of all of these students as well as the others who were not nominated because of the limit. We have so many great people who come to school every day, it was truly difficult to narrow it down to so few of them.
BHCUSD is hiring for a District Secretary / Board Secretary / District Treasurer.
Resumes should be accompanied with the application at this link, https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1067990/Support_Staff_Employment_Application__10_.pdf.
All questions and resumes should be directed to Mr. Scott Watson at 217-759-7261 or swatson@bismarck.k12.il.us.
Attention BHES Families: Kindergarten Pre-registration will begin on Monday April 19th and last until Friday April 30th. To preregister an upcoming Kindergarten student who will be 5 years old by September 1st for the 2021-2022 school year, please come to the office of Bismarck-Henning Elementary school to complete the registration packet. When you are here we’ll also ask you to sign up for a Kindergarten screening appointment being held in May. If you have a student who will be a Kindergartner next year we hope to see you soon. If you know of any other families that will have an upcoming Kindergartner, please pass this information onto them.
Attention all parents:
We are SO close to hitting our minimum in order to hold Camp Invention this summer! Woohoo! The discount ends in about two weeks (3/31). We want you to get the best deal possible for a week full of fun and learning for your child(ren)! Check out the flyer (https://5il.co/plrm) and this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX4r8bQSsJA) for more information on what to expect.
**This camp is open to any student entering 1st-6th grade -- you do not need to be a BH student to attend.**
BHES is hiring for a 2-hour lunchroom monitor position.
Interested? Contact Mr. Click at 217-759-7251 (sclick@bismarck.k12.il.us) or Mr. Campbell at 217-759-7301 (rcampbell@bismarck.k12.il.us)
Applications: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1067990/Support_Staff_Employment_Application__10_.pdf
Now hiring!
2nd Shift Janitor
Please contact Jim Ribbe @ 217-759-7261 or jribbe@bismarck.k12.il.us with questions.
Application Link: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1067990/Support_Staff_Employment_Application__10_.pdf
First grade enjoyed a virtual visit from the traveling naturalist! We learned about migration, hibernation, and other ways animals here survive the winter. This was the perfect way to wrap up our reading lessons on how animals survive!
Camp Invention registration numbers are climbing and we want your child(ren) there, too! You’ll want to make sure to register before 3/31 in order to save $40 (promo code: RECHARGE40).
Camp Invention will take place July 5th-9th from 9:00-3:30 with the option of extended care, if needed. Extended Care is simply childcare and will run from 7:30-9:00 and 3:30-5:30 for an additional $80.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otqoU32MEK9xPGuf_t0ylVzzjfMzQ9o9/view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX4r8bQSsJA
Parent-Teacher Conference sign-ups are now open!
Please register for your time at this link: https://ptc1536850752.ptcwizard.com/parent/
You may also call your student's school office and register by phone.
Camp Invention is coming! Open to students entering grades 1st-6th, Camp Invention will be held at BHES the week of July 5th. See the flyer for more information: https://5il.co/plrm.
Not sure what Camp Invention is? Check out this video to learn more about it: https://youtu.be/aX4r8bQSsJA.
As a reminder, Mr. Watson sent this message out last week about a switch in our e-learning day for tomorrow.
A significant number of our staff are getting their 2nd COVID vaccine on Monday, February 15th. Because side effects are more likely after the 2nd dose, we're going to flop our Remote Learning Day currently scheduled for Friday, February 12th and make Tuesday, February 16th a Remote Learning Day instead. Friday, February 12th will now become a normal In-Person Learning Day. If a large number staff are absent due to side effects, we would not have the staff/subs to open the building on the 16th. We would rather be proactive than put everyone in scramble mode to find childcare, ect. the morning of the 16th.
Friday, Feb. 12th – In-Person Learning
Monday, Feb. 15th President’s Day (No School) - the day most staff get their 2nd vaccine
Tuesday, Feb. 16th – Remote Learning Day
Wednesday, Feb. 17th – resume In-Person Learning
Both young and old enjoyed our 100th day of school! 💙🤍
Due to icy road conditions on the rural routes, today will be an eLearning day.
Students should log in to Google Classroom this morning to see expectations for the day.
Bus Drivers Needed
Hiring 1 Full-time Driver and Part-Time Drivers
Contact Jim Ribbe at 217-759-7261 or jribbe@bismarck.k12.il.us
Application: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1067990/Support_Staff_Employment_Application__10_.pdf
Just a quick reminder. BHES is practicing the Character Counts pillar of Respect this month. To kick off our month of respect, we are asking everyone to wear yellow to school on Thursday the 7th. Let us all do our best to practice and give each other Respect.
Did you know that BHES now has access to myON, a Renaissance program that offers thousands of books for our students to read on their own? They can also be read to them! And once the student is done reading the book, they are able to take an AR test on the story (1st grade and up). Also available is the News portion of myON, which includes 5 new articles a day according to the students’ ability levels. Check out this short video to learn more: https://p.widencdn.net/5or7cb/Getting-Started-with-myON-News!
