Buddy Benches honor legacy of fallen soldier, former BC student
A new Buddy Bench was formally unveiled at Elsmere Elementary School. It is one of five in the district honoring the legacy of fallen U.S. Marine Shawn P. Martin.
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Photos: Eagle Challenge 2024
Bethlehem Runs! Saturday’s Eagle Challenge brought the fun! View the photo album on the district’s Facebook page. Special thanks to BC’s Wellness Committee, Student Senate, staff, student-athletes, board members, boosters, community organizations and this amazing community for making it such a fantastic day!
May 18: Eagle Challenge part of fun community weekend
On Saturday, May 18, the BC Wellness Committee invites families to the high school for a morning of fun activities for students and community members. The activities are part of the spring Eagle Challenge. Activities at the high school on May 18 will include: 9a-11a: Kids’ Obstacle Course on Turf Field (ages K-5) 9a-1p: “Choose …
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Use LINQ Connect to pay for school meals
Bethlehem Central School District is set to replace MySchoolBucks with a new payment system, LINQ Connect, on May 28, 2024.
Farm to School initiative highlights New York dairy
Throughout April, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the dairy production process. CCE educators taught students that New York is home to more than 3,600 dairy farms and over 600,000 dairy cows. Each cow yields around 7 gallons of milk daily, producing 15 billion pounds of milk …
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Recycle eclipse glasses at BCSD schools
Looking for somewhere to recycle your eclipse glasses? Send them to school! Starting tomorrow, each school throughout the district will collect used glasses that do not have any scratches, punctures, tears or other damage. The glasses will be sent to Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC by a BCHS student organizing the initiative as part of the …
Farm to School initiative highlights maple syrup production
Throughout March, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the process of maple syrup production. Students learned that March is known as “sugaring season” in the Northeast. In late winter, when the weather transitions and daytime temperatures warm to above freezing and nights dip below freezing, sap begins …
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Award winning author-illustrator Laura Vaccaro Seeger visits elementary schools
Author Laura Vaccaro Seeger visited Hamagrael, Elsmere, Eagle and Slingerlands elementary schools this month. Laura is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, a two-time winner of both the Caldecott Honor Award and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award, and winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, to name just a …
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Melanie Painter to be honored as regional “Art Educator of the Year”
Congratulations to Melanie Painter on a much-deserved award from the NYS Art Teachers Association.
No school K-12 on Friday, Oct. 6; schools and offices closed Monday, Oct. 9
There will be no school for students on Friday, Oct. 6 (Superintendent’s Conference Day). Offices will be open. On Monday, Oct. 9, both schools and offices will be closed (Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day). Classes for students K-12 will resume on Tuesday, Oct. 10.