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BCS News & Notes
A newsletter for parents, students, staff and community
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P.O. Box 10007
Birmingham, Alabama 35202
(205) 231-4610
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Career academies to have meetings
Parents have been hearing for more than a year about career academies that are being developed in six high schools in the Birmingham City Schools.
Career academies are a new academic approach for the system because they combine our strong career-technical programs with rigorous academic coursework so that students can be both career and college ready when they graduate.
Those high schools -- Carver, Huffman, Jackson-Olin, Parker, Wenonah and Woodlawn -- will have informational meetings March 6-8 to explain the programs and give parents an opportunity to enroll their students for the 2012-2013 school year.
This is an exciting time in the Birmingham City Schools, as the academies gear up to begin offering students additional options. I encourage parents to attend and learn more.
Click here to read more about the academies and the meeting schedule. Sincerely,
Craig Witherspoon Superintendent
Birmingham City Schools |
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Parents asked to take survey
Versión en español de la encuesta está disponible
All parents of children enrolled in the Birmingham City Schools are being asked to take a survey this month.
The survey is designed to get parents' feedback on parent engagement at the school and district level. The information from the survey will be used to improve services offered in the school and district. The survey can be completed in about 10 minutes. Click here to take the survey in English. Para participar en la encuesta en español, haga clic aqui. The survey will be available through March 31. |
Parent Camp set for March 8
Parents can have fun while learning
The Family Involvement Program's annual Parent Camp is set for Thursday, March 8, at the Lincoln Professional Development Center. Click here to read more. |
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Students have "Wicked" good time
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Forty students from the Gifted and Talented Enrichment Program at Daniel Payne Middle School and other schools got to attend a production of "Wicked" last month after winning a contest. They met at Daniel Payne, boarded to bus to downtown and had an experience they will not soon forget. |
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Board approves items on Feb. 28 agenda
Items include summer school sites
The Birmingham Board of Education approved items on the agenda for its Feb. 28 meeting. The items included naming sites for summer school.
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Students to perform "Little Shop of Horrors"
All-city production features students from several schools
Most student productions are performed by students from one school, but not the upcoming staging of "Little Shop of Horrors." Instead, it is an all-city theatrical performance put on the the Birmingham City Schools Arts Education Department. That means students from Carver, Jackson-Olin, Ramsay, Parker and Wenonah high schools and Green Acres and Wilkerson middle schools are preparing for the April performances. Performances for students are set for 10 a.m. April 3, 4 and 5 at Carver High School. Tickets are $3 each for students and free for chaperones and accompanying teachers. Click here for an order form. Two additional performances are planned for the public at 7 p.m. April 6 and 2 p.m. April 7. Tickets for those performances will be $3 for students and $5 for adults. They will be available at the door.
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Glen Iris students perform "Hall of Fame"
Assistant principal writes musical for school
Students at Glen Iris Elementary School presented a Black History Month program Feb. 24 entitled
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Glen Iris students dance during Black History performance |
"The Black Hall of Fame." The play was a musical drama written and directed by Assistant Principal Wayne Dansby.
The program took the audience on a journey of notable individuals who have made important and life changing contributions in black history. The program concluded by inducting Police Chief A.C. Roper, Mayor William Bell, Superintendent Craig Witherspoon, Principal Michael Wilson and Dr. Beth Howard, a kindergarten teacher at Glen Iris, into the Glen Iris Black Hall of Fame.
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Coming events
Students at all high schools will take the Alabama High School Graduation Exam the week of March 12. The schedule is language, March 12; social studies, March 13; biology/science, March 14; mathematics, March 15, and reading, March 16. |
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