ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE TOGETHER
August 18,  2015
In This Issue
Transportation Challenges
Elementary
Middle School
High School
Expanded Opportunities Fair
Quick Links
Boone County Schools
 
Free/Reduced Lunch Online Form
 
 
Board of Education Meetings
 
 
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Students in Boone County Schools are now into their first full week of school after starting back last Thursday.  
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Transportation Challenges
If your child rides the bus to school we want to alert of you a few challenges we typically see at the beginning of a school year. 

Boone County is a wonderful place to live and as a result there are many people moving into our school district.  Getting them all enrolled and assigned to the correct bus is one of those challenges.  This often results in established bus routes needing to be re-routed in order to avoid overcrowding.  Occasionally that re-routing needs to take place after school has started when actual student numbers are being seen.  We appreciate the patience that our parents extend to us as we work to re-create our routing in these areas.
Our transportation department is committed to the safety and success of all of our students and is working diligently to bring about excellence in our routing processes.
We thank all of our parents who help make the transportation department's jobs easier.
 
 ELEMENTARY First Day

Collins Elementary 

Channel 12 interviews Principal Loring about first day of school 







Principal Loring greets his students getting off of the buses














































Florence Elementary 




























































Erpenbeck Elementary 


































Yealey Elementary





















Stephens Elementary

New Principal Adele Gormley and Assistant Principal Angela Castleman welcoming new students
Teacher Chad Caddell welcoming students




















MIDDLE SCHOOL First Day




R.A. Jones Middle School--Students were introduced to a new look at their school when they arrived.  Jones Middle has a new Crest and Flags on the outside and on the inside flags representing each country students are from will soon hang in the entryway.  


















As students arrived to school they were treated to a line of enthusiastic greeters including school staff, teachers, administrators and Principal Tony Pastura. It's a new Jones Pride tradition to greet students with a huge line of staff and at the end of the school year to say goodbye.  







































HIGH SCHOOL First Day 




Conner High School

















Boone County High School


























Project Based Learning at ACE--Learning Geometry in Boat Building 










Project SEARCH at Cengage Learning


First Day of Design School at Gateway Community College

 
Expanded Learning Opportunities Fair
Tuesday August 25th 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. 
Ralph Rush PD Center, 99 Center St. Florence

Calling all SBDM  Council members, teachers and parents who might be interested in starting or expanding clubs/ after-school opportunities at your school.  We are having an Expanded Learning Opportunities Fair to describe the many possibilities available for students and the process for starting the clubs.
 
Representatives from the following will be at the Fair:
  • FIRST LEGO League Robotics/ Jr FIRST LEGO League (grants available)
  • Math Counts
  • Odyssey of the Mind
  • Colts Care Club
  • 4-H
  • BETA Club
  • 3-D printing club (grants available)
  • STEM Bike Club (grants available)
  • Science Olympiad
  • Model UN
  • NKY MakerSpace
  • Community Ed
  • Human Resources (to explain process for being a school club sponsor)