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 Looking for some holiday cheer this season? All of the holiday concerts in the Blaine County School District are free and open to the public. Our talented and enthusiastic students would love to share their holiday spirit with you. Come see our award-winning, nationally recognized performing arts programs.
This week's concerts:
Monday, December 8, 7:00 p.m.
WRHS/WRMS Holiday Choir Concert
Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater
Tuesday, December 9, 10:05 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
AM Preschool Parent Sharing Day
Bellevue Elementary Music Room
Tuesday, December 9, 1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
PM Preschool Parent Sharing Day
Bellevue Elementary Music Room
Wednesday, December 10, 6:30 p.m.
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Winter Concert
Bellevue Elementary Gymnasium
Wednesday, December 10, 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Program 4th Grade
Hailey Elementary Gymnasium
Thursday, December 11, 6:30 p.m.
1st and 2nd Grade Winter Concert
Bellevue Elementary Gymnasium
Friday, December 12, 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Kindergarten Winter Concert
Bellevue Elementary Gymnasium
For more concert dates click here.
Find out why Blaine County received the Best Communities for Music Education two years in a row. Watch the video here.
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Parents: Make Your Voice Heard, Take the School Climate Survey
Join over 160 other parents who already took the survey. Parents are invited to give their school a letter grade and provide feedback on their school with the School Climate Survey. All parents with email addresses in Skyward received the School Climate Survey on Tuesday, December 2. Look for paper surveys at your school, or go here to take the survey. The survey closes Friday, December 19.
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Rob Clayton Appointed to the Board of Trustees
In an open, public meeting on Thursday, December 4, three candidates were interviewed by the Board of Trustees. After the interviews and consideration by the Board of Trustees, Rob Clayton was selected for the Zone 4 appointment. Each of the candidates were asked a series of questions. When asked about priorities for the Board, Clayton responded, "I don't come to this with any agenda. I look forward to working with a Board that is clearly committed and concerned and has the best interest of the school system in mind."
Board Chair Shawn Bennion said, "There were three viable and qualified candidates. I want to thank each of them for taking the time and expressing their interest in serving on the Board of Trustees." The two other candidates were John Galgano and Kirk Mason.
Clayton will be sworn in on Tuesday, December 9 at the regular Board of Trustees meeting. Clayton is the Executive Director of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. He and his wife have three children.
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Regular Board Meeting
Tuesday, December 9, 6:00 p.m.
District Office, 118 W. Bullion St., Hailey
All regular Board of Trustees meetings are open to the public. How can you be involved in Board of Trustees meetings if you can't make it in person?
- Board Accolades for Kiley Crill, Dave Guymon, Jared Ramsey, Tim Rocco and Paul Zimmerman
- Superintendent Report - Dr. GwenCarol Holmes
a. Strategic Planning Meetings Schedule
b. Homework Policy Review Plan - Extra-Curricular Programming at Wood River Middle School - Fritz Peters, Wood River Middle School Principal
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Public Invited to Senior Personal Project Exhibition
Wednesday, December 17, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Wood River High School
The public is invited to the Senior Personal Project Exhibition at Wood River High School on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 9:00 to 11:00 am. All seniors will be displaying the work they completed for their Personal Projects and answering questions.
WRHS teacher Julia Graft said, "Due to the transition to the International Baccalaureate - Middle Years Programme project model, we will no longer be needing community members to serve as panelists for the senior presentations. However, we have truly valued the community involvement in that process and are looking for other ways community members can directly participate."
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Students Learn about CHOICES from Hailey Rotary
Wood River Middle School 8th grade students learned about makng real-world CHOICES in an interactive workshop led by Hailey Rotary. The program is designed to empower teens to achieve academic success.
Hailey Rotarians took students through real-world exercises on academic self-discipline, goal-setting, time, and money management. WRMS couneslor Tod Gunter wrote, "The students and teachers really appreciate the efforts of the Rotarians and the message. The program reinforced key messages from a community and business perspective."
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Student Spotlight
Meet Timber Kelly in the Weekly Sun Student Spotlight. To read the article go here.
Each week, Jonathan Kane will be profiling a local high-school student. If you know someone you'd like to see featured, e-mail jennifer@theweeklysun.com.
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How do people adapt to change?
10th grade students at Wood River High School explored the driving question, "How Do People Adapt to Change?" through multidisciplinary projects at Wood River High School
Parents, students, and community members were invited to enjoy student creative pieces addressing change, how people adapt to it, and how it impacts our world.
WRHS English teacher Michel Sewell wrote, "This new International Baccalaureate unit experimented with how the stylistic elements of creative writing (theme, tone, mood, plot, conflict, character, purpose, audience, etc) can carry over into other disciplines. Students displayed a range of projects from video production, to dance, to photography, to music, to video game design, to science exploration, to traditional poetry and short stories. Students, staff and parents voted on their favorite projects. Top student projects won creativity baskets filled with all sorts of creative thinking prizes."
Watch a KMVT news story about the project here.
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Students Learn to Code During "Hour of Code"
Students across the district, from Kindergarten to 12th grade, will participate in the Hour of Code this week. Ask your student what they learned and find out more about Hour of Code here.
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Strategic Plan Kick-off with
Daniel Pink: Creating a Culture of Innovation
Thursday, January 15, 6:00 p.m.
at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater, Community Campus
Look in the next BCSD Weekly Update
for ticket information for the public.
Free tickets will be available and seating is limited.
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Deadline to Apply for Data and Communications Committee
Monday, December 8
Board of Trustees Regular Meeting
Tuesday, December 9, 6:00 p.m.
District Office,
118 West Bullion Street, Hailey
Deadline to Apply for Strategic Plan Steering Committee Tuesday, December 16, 5:00 p.m. Daniel Pink: Creating a Culture of Innovation Thursday, January 16, 6:00 p.m. Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater at the Community Campus
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BCSD Strategic Plan
Not familiar with the BCSD Strategic Plan or need an update? Click below.
BCSD Strategic Plan
School Board Members
Board Chair
Shawn Bennion
(Zone 1)
Board Vice-Chair
Kathyrn Graves
(Zone 3)
Trustee
Kathy Baker
(Zone 2)
Trustee
Liz Schwerdtle
(Zone 5)
on our website
Superintendent
Dr. GwenCarol Holmes
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