BMS Parent Newsletter

March 24, 2023

School Safety - StayALERT

School safety is always an important part of the BMS educational setting. Blanco MS and Blanco ISD have partnered with Stay Alert to provide an avenue for students, parents, teachers, and community members to report issues related to school safety. If you are aware of an incident, situation, activity, etc. that needs to be reported to school officials, please utilize one of the Stay Alert program avenues to report it. Those reporting can choose to remain anonymous.

You can report:

online at www.stayalert.info

by email to report@stayalert.info

by text to 206-406-6485

by phone to 206-406-6485

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African Safari

SIxth grade Social Studies students created African Tribal Masks as a project. Below are examples of the masks created and instructions for the project. As you can see, the students did a great job designing and creating their masks. There was a great deal of creativity and a variety of different ways that students chose to meet the requirements of the project and tie their creation to Africa. Jake Raley is the 6th Grade Social Studies teacher.

March Madness

Ms. Meier's 7th Grade Science Classes follow a March Madness bracket in conjunction with the NCAA March Madness Basketball Men's and Women's Tournaments. Different species of animals compete with each other in the bracket. Students research the animals and make predictions about the outcome of the match ups. Here is the update after round one. The Itty Bitty Comeback City bracket was not updated at press time.

Bluebonnets galore

Some 8th Grade Ecology students took a break from their gardening to take a photo in the bluebonnets. Ms. Meier is the Ecology teacher. I'm not sure how she convinced them to pose for this, but it is a great picture!

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Track News

BMS 7th & 8th grade students competed in a track meet in Johnson City this week. There were 6 teams in the meet. The 8th grade girls finished in 3rd place. The 8th grade boys were 5th. The 7th grade girls finished 4th. The 7th grade boys finished 2nd.

8th grade girls results

Emma Edmondson - 100m - 1st place, 200m - 2nd place, Shot Put - 5th place

Payton Craft - 400m - 1st place

Ashton Uballe - 400m - 4th place, 800m - 3rd place

Avery Flack - 100m hurdles - 4th place, 300m hurdles - 6th place, Pole Vault - 3rd place

Bailey Smith - 100m hurdles - 6th place, Pole Vault - 4th place

Autumn Seltzer - Shot Put - 3rd place

4x100m relay - 3rd place

4x200m relay - 4th place

4x400m relay - 3rd place

8th grade boys results

Hudson Monasmith - 100m - 3rd place

Cason Ricke - High Jump - 6th place

Gavin Luker - 400m - 4th place, 1600m - 3rd place

Rocky Barrera - 200m - 4th place

Herman Uballe - 110m Hurdles - 5th place, 300m Hurdles - 3rd place

Andrew Guajardo - Shot Put - 5th place

Rex Wisdom - Shot Put - 6th place

Staycer Broglie - Discus - 6th Place

Cambel Plahy - Pole Vault - 4th place

4x100m relay - 5th place

4x200m relay - 4th place

4x400m relay - 4th place

7th grade girls results

Brighton Atchley - 100m - 1st place, 400m - 1st place

Lily Zamora - 100m - 4th place, 400m - 3rd place

Gabby Gisch-Renteria - 1600m - 5th place, 800m - 5th place

Allison Dixon - 110m hurdles - 5th place, 300m hurdles - 2nd place

Alice Sorrell - 100m hurdles - 6th place, 300m hurdles - 3rd place

Chloe Green - Shot Put - 1st place,

4x100m relay - 4th place

4x200m relay - 5th place

4x400m relay - 4th place

7th grade boys results

Noah Hernandez - 200m - 5th place

Silus Goldsmith - 400m - 4th place

Wyatt Allison - 800m - 3rd place, Pole Vault - 1st place

Henry Pfluger - 1600m - 5th place, 2400m - 2nd place

Jeremy See - 1600m - 6th place, 2400m - 3rd place

Joe Hoff - 2400m - 4th place

Madden Huskerson - 110m hurdles - 1st place

Brycen Reedy - 110m hurdles - 3rd place, 300m hurdles - 6th place

Brett McMain - Shot Put - 3rd place

Jonah Forsburg - Shot Put - 6th place

Phoenix Arnold - Discus - 2nd place

Connor Koewers - Discus - 6th place

4x100m relay - 4th place

4x200m relay - 5th place

4x400m relay - 3rd place

The next meet is the District Meet in Comfort on April 5.

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Coming Up!!

BMS is in the planning phase for the 2023-24 school year. We will be distributing course choice sheets for current 6th and 7th grade students the last week of March. These choice sheets allow us to put together a master schedule for BMS that is accurate and to staff our campus accordingly. Please plan to select courses with your child to give us an accurate picture of our needs for the 2023-24 school year when these choice sheets are available.

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SHOUT OUTS!

BMS teachers, staff, and students provide shout outs to those who have gone above and beyond, provided help to another person, been a good citizen, accomplished a task/goal, won an athletic contest, participated in an activity or competition, or just need recognition for doing something nice, etc. These are our SHOUT OUTS for the week:

Track teams for their success at the track meet in Johnson City.

Students competing in the March Mammal contest.