Coming at BCHMCPS

What a wonderful All School Community meeting this morning. During the meeting we spoke about "filling a bucket". After hearing a story about filling buckets the students understand that this bucket

we want to fill refers to all the kind and helpful things that we can do for each other every day.  If you are interested in reading this book again to your child it is "Have You Filled a Bucket Today" by Carol McCloud. Students are so excited about showcasing the kind acts they perform all the time.










During the meeting, The Kindness Challenge Week was also introduced for this year. This year the Kindness Challenge will take place during the week of January 23-27. Watch in the next two weeks for more information about the fun events during this week.





Coming up next week:

Monday, January 16- No School in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Thursday, January 19- SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) meeting being held here at BCHMCPS.  The meeting will start at 5:45, followed by a 6:30 "Meet the Advocate" presentation.

Friday, January 20- School Store

Welcome back to school and to 2017!

As we look at the upcoming winter months, there is always the possibility of snow and, with snow, may come school delays or cancellations due to the winter weather. With the forecast of some snow accumulation tomorrow, it is a good time to review communication when schools are delayed or cancelled.
When or a delay or cancellation occurs, the Barnstable Superintendent Meg Mayo-Brown will send out one district all call to all families and staff.  The BPS website will also have information regarding cancellation.  Information on the website will most likely be posted prior to the all call.  Families who may want to know earlier than  the all school call  are encouraged to check the BPS website. A decision will be posted there as soon as the superintendent makes the decision.


This Monday, January 9th the January Principal Coffee will be held. This month the coffee will be dedicated to helping families complete their “Back to School” student information on-line registration.The on-line student registration is in place of the former hard copy "emergency cards" and includes all student information and information that the school needs to contact you and keep your child safe. This system was rolled out earlier this year and there are still families that have not completed this critical information.
The Principal Coffee will take place in the computer lab from 8:40-9:30. Staff will be on hand to help families who have not completed the form.
A reminder that the nurse needs this form to be completed to dispense medication to your child. This includes over the counter medications such as Tylenol. Also, because this registration form includes vital contact and health information, your child cannot participate in any field trips without a completed registration.
Monday morning will be a time devoted to supporting families to complete this important information.




If you are a morning walker drop off please remember to :

• make sure that you park your car in the parking lot
• walk your child to the door and

• For safety's sake, do NOT drop your child without a staff member present!                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                 If you prefer to drop your child off while you stay in the car- please drop off your child/ren at the car drop off door at the side door of the school. This drop off is accessed by entering the back parking lot by the driveway to the right of the front entrance.
We have received complaints of cars leaving the HYCC parking lot safely. Please remember to always exit safely from HYCC parking lot drop off area. Safety first; saving 5 seconds pales in comparison to saving a life!

Healthy eating during the day helps your child to pay attention and feel good all day. Please remember to pack a healthy snack each day for your child. Our school nurse has snacks in the rare case of a forgotten snack or a family challenge on a particular day. Unfortunately, the nurse does not have the snacks to be able to provide snacks every day.

Happy Holidays

As we start our winter break I would like to thank each and every one of our families for a wonderful 2016 and extend my warmest wishes for the happiest of holidays and a wonderful start to 2017. I look forward to spending 2017 with you and your children.

 

 

BCHMCPS staff showing their best looks today at "Ugly Sweater" Day

A note from Mr. Norton:

Dear Families,

I am in the process of revising my website link and would welcome feedback from you, on articles that may be of interest to you.Below is a link to a questionnaire. Please check any topics that may be of interest to you or add a topic under other. Thank you. I look forward to your responses.

Peter Norton  MEd., C.A.G.S.
School Psychologist
https://goo.gl/forms/T2Fo8bYnl3jsCZyW2
 

 

Our  neighbors across the street at Faith Assemblies Church would like to inform and invite families to their family kitchen meals for free dinners. See below for more information.

Faith Family Kitchen

is serving free meals for families with children

Mon/Wed/Fri 5:00 - 5:45 p.m. 154 Bearses Way, Hyannis

Dine-in only 

This has been an early season for student sicknesses. Nurse Melley would like to remind families about the Medication Administration Protocol which can be found under "health services" on the school's home page of the website. 

 http://www.barnstable.k12.ma.us/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=61&ModuleInstanceID=558&ViewID=047E6BE3-6D87-4130-8424-D8E4E9ED6C2A&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=439&PageID=482 

Medications MUST be hand delivered by a parent/guardian and cannot be sent in with a child. 

Please see below for important information regarding when to keep your child/ren home from school when he/she is sick.

Please keep your child home from school if he or she has:

• Temperature 100 degrees or higher in the past 24 hours
• Vomiting or diarrhea in the past 24 hours
• Fever of unknown origin that causes chills, sweating, or muscle aches
• Strep infections of any kind, ringworm, conjunctivitis, or impetigo. These are all contagious infections and must be treated with medication for at least 24 hours before returning to school.
• Rash of unknown origin- this may indicate many different things and should be checked out by your primary care physician
• Pain such as earaches, toothaches and headaches should be taken seriously and need evaluation.

Reminder: There is NO SCHOOL Friday December 23. School will resume after winter break on January 3 2017.

BRRRR... it's cold outside! With the colder weather, students need to be dressed appropriately for this weather. When the temperature goes low, students need to have winter coats, hats and mittens for outside recess. Please make sure that your child/ren wear clothes to keep them warm. It can be a challenge to keep up with growing children and new winter coats to keep them warm. If your family needs help with this, we are here to help. Please contact me  (Dr. Kukstis) if we can help.

This Friday is predicted to be extremely cold. We make decisions about outside recess using the Child Care Weather Watch chart. This chart uses outside temperatures and wind chill. When the temperature and wind chill combination is in the red zone we will have an indoor recess. If it is in the yellow zone, we consider very carefully whether it is outside or indoor recess. I have pasted this chart below for your information.

Speaking of winter clothes, our lost and found still contains a number of winter coats, along with many hats and mittens.  If your child is missing any of these items please feel free to check our lost and found located at the base of the stairs by the cafeteria and gym.


During this time of cold weather and holidays, BCHMCPS takes the opportunity to reach out and help those in the community who are challenged with homelessness in a small but very important
way through the school-wide Sock Drive. Please consider helping those who struggle with homelessness by donating new white socks. There are collection boxes located in the front hall for this collection. Thank you!



Two reminders for Friday:

• This Friday is the December All School Community Meeting. All families are invited and encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing you there.

• This Friday is also the December School Store. Thank you to the PTO for running the school store each month.

Tradition Quilt pictures

This week at BCHMCPS

 

Thank you to all the families who have shared their winter traditions to help make our "Winter Traditions" quilt. The quilts are hanging in the front hall for all to see. I will post a picture on the blog tomorrow in case you do not have the opportunity to stop by and see the quilts. If you haven't sent your square in yet, there is still time. We want to have as many families as we can represented on the quilts.

Another way to help celebrate this season is to help those who may be in need. One way to do this is through the sock collection going on right now at school.
We are collecting new white socks for the Homeless Family Shelters on Cape. We will take all sizes kids-adult. We will be collecting the socks until December 16th and there are drop box locations in the front lobby, near the book fair.



It was great to see so many families today at Parent/Teacher Conferences. I look forward to seeing more of you on Thursday. Look for the Lost and Found clothes collection to be located in the front hall during conferences. We are trying to find the way home for as many of these items as we can. The collection has grown quite large!


The Book Fair is all this week with a great selection of books for all ages. During Parent/Teacher Conferences is a great time to browse and make the perfect selection. Make sure you get your favorites!
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered at the Book fair and to those who have supported it through their purchases.



On this Saturday December 10th the Hyannis Fire Department will be hosting a holiday event open to all.

Welcome December!

As we welcome December, we recognize that there are many traditions and ways that our families celebrate at this time of year. In an effort to celebrate all of these traditions, we have sent home with each student a square piece of tagboard and a letter explaining how this piece of tagboard can help become part of our Winter Traditions Quilt. Each decorated piece will be attached with the others sent in by other families to form a "quilt". The completed quilts will be hung in the school for all to see. Please work as a family to decorate the tagboard to illustrate how your family may celebrate this time of year and help us build our quilt.

The school bookfair is next week (December 5-9) and the  PTO needs your help! Volunteers are needed especially on Tuesday and Thursday from 12-3:30 to help out at the bookfair. Please contact the PTO  at PTO.bchmcps@gmail.com if you can help out.





Thank you to all of you who work so hard to keep afternoon car pick up running smoothly. As we enter the colder weather with more inclement weather on the horizon it is a good time to remind everyone that the smooth pick up depends on all of you.
Please remember to:

• Stay in your car and do not get out. If your child needs assistance to get in the car a teacher will be there to assist.
• Pull all the way forward to keep the line rolling. If you need to stop after picking up your child, please pull over to the parking area.
• If you wish to park your car and pick up your child, this is not the correct pick up space. Please park on the other side of the building in the parking spots in the lot near the Hyannis Youth Community Center and pick up your child at the walkers' door near the small playground.

Thank you for your support to keep afternoon pick up smooth.