Wildcat Weekly

Thank you to Mr. Donnellon and our ASB students for organizing our Kindness Week this year! The California Department of Education, in partnership with The Great Kindness Challenge®

(GKC), encouraged all California’s school communities to participate in the GKC, January 22–26,

2024 and apply to be a Kindness Certified School. Sullivan Middle School accepted this challenge and "As a result of your school's active participation in The Great Kindness Challenge, we are delighted to recognize you as a Kindness Certified School."

"Kindness really does matter!" Thank you Wildcats for your dedication to kindness everyday!

Hello Wildcat Students, Staff, and Families!

• Bundt Cakes are here! Thank you families for helping to make our Bundt Cake PTO Fundraiser a success! We will distribute them to your student on Monday at the end of the day!

• BONSALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: SOS (Support Our Students) Fundraiser. Our amazing Bonsall Education Foundation is raising money to help our teachers and students. We are asking all parents to donate $25 per student for teacher grants to help buy supplies and project materials for our teachers to use with our amazing students! Please consider donating to Sullivan's SOS fund!

• PARENTS: There are many ways to be involved at Sullivan and I understand that your time is valuable, especially raising our Amazing Wildcats! One way to give input and have a voice in decisions made to help our students be more successful, is to participate in our:
• Winter Climate Survey
• Community Schools Survey

I use these surveys to measure our growth throughout the school year and get input from our community to help make our school and community communication better.

Gratefully,

Angie James, Principal ~ Click to email.

Sullivan Middle School

Please contact the office with any questions you may have!

Important Links:

DISTRICT CALENDAR.

Your Super Excited Principal

Angie James, Principal ~ Click to email.

Sullivan Middle School

Sullivan Middle School is applying for Community Schools Grant and we need your input. This process involves additional funding from the state, but we need input from families, students, and staff to inform what we should focus on through this amazing opportunity.

Thank you in advance for your input and participation!

Here are the links:

English Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfL8N6D-yrlX1NOm17gHUXyjr90dDevmNQmCMfrUzhwSQcR6Q/viewform

Spanish Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScecso12MPlQVB4uo6aFCmQaU3ZgXmJftNzid9RZSjfItj1gA/viewform

Dear Parent(s) or Guardian(s):

We are asking that our parents/guardians respond to questions about their experiences and perceptions of their child’s school. Your participation is completely confidential and anonymous, which means that no one at your school will ever see your individual responses. Please take your time to give honest and thoughtful answers.

You may use a computer, tablet, or smartphone to access the questions.

Please click the following link and enter the access code for your child's school: The questionnaire will be open from 1/30-2/13.

• Link to Questions: https://surveys.panoramaed.com/bonsallusd/login

• Sullivan Middle School Family Survey Access Code: 5114751436

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your participation and for being a valued member of your school community.

Sincerely,

Angela James, Principal

Sullivan Middle School

The Bonsall Education Foundation is beginning its Support Our Students (SOS) campaign today through February 26th. 100% of your tax-deductible donation goes to the school site of your choice.

1. Go to www.bonsallschools.org or to the QR code on our flyer.

2. Select your school site.

3. Choose the amount to donate and receive your tax donation letter.

4. Each school is notified of the amount raised.

5. Teachers make requests for needed items in their classrooms and principal approves.

If every family contributes to this campaign, our classrooms have the needed enrichment materials that our students need.

Thank you!

BEF Board Members

TUTORING:

ALL SUBJECTS: MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY

MATH ONLY: TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

This Week:

Celebrating our School Psychologists and School Counselor!

• MONDAY: PTO Nothing Bundt Cakes are passed out for students to take home
• MONDAY: Sullivan presents to Bonsall West 6th graders @ Bonsall West.
• MONDAY: School Site Council Meeting in the library from 3:00 to 4:00
• MONDAY: Last day to buy a Friendship Duck from ASB!
• TUESDAY: 6TH GRADAE TRIP: California State University- San Marcos.
• TUESDAY: Parent Technology Night @ Pala starting at 5:00pm
• WEDNESDAY: 6th Grade China Banquet.
• WEDNESDAY: ROAR Awards in the library from 8:00 to 8:45 am.
• WEDNESDAY: Sullivan presents to Vivian Banks 5th graders @ Vivian Banks.
• THURSDAY: Board Meeting @ Bonsall Community Center at 6:00 pm.
• FRIDAY: Lunch on the Lawn!

UPCOMING DATES:

NO SCHOOL 2/19 TO 2/23. We will return Monday February 26.

• 6th grade Camp Presentation, Tuesday February 27.
• 8th grade- UCSD, Wednesday, February 7.
  
• 8th grade- Panorama Picture, Friday March 1.
• Career Day March 6.
• Art Show Submissions due March 15,2024
• 7th grade- SDSU, Monday, March 18.

This week we are celebrating our School Counselor, Mrs. Gresbrink and our School Psychologist, Ms. Fox and Ms. Greensky.

School counselors are professionally trained and California certified. Their role is to identify and address student needs that will ultimately formulate into academic and personal success. Our main goal is to advocate for our students to ensure they have a positive and successful middle school experience. Counselors work with students individually, in small groups, and within the classroom setting to support and assist them in their academic, social, emotional, and personal development. Counselors also are the liaison between students, parents, and administrators. Often times, the counselor will facilitate the needs of the student to identify and minimize barriers that stand in the way of student success. Our counselors are important sources of information for referrals and outside resources.

The counselors offer support in areas including:

• Peer relationships
• Decision making skills
• Communication and conflict resolution
• Fostering self-awareness, acceptance, and diversity
• Teaching time management and organizational skills
• Crisis intervention for students and parents
• Academic Planning
• Individual and Group Counseling

We will start our Boy's soccer and Girls Basketball tryouts when we return from the February break. Please make sure your student has his or her physical completed and uploaded.

Here is the link to the physical form and how to upload the information:

https://sm.bonsallusd.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=373781&type=d&pREC_ID=841238

I have attached our completed Parent and Family Engagement Policy and Title 1 School Compact. These documents are commitments from the school and parents in how we support our students at Sullivan Middle School. These documents also outline parent and school engagement in support of student achievement and how the school is providing parent support and opportunities to be involved. As we know the more support a student receives the higher success our students will achieve.

Thank you Wildcat Families for your help in creating our school Parent and Family Engagement Policy and Title 1 School Compact. We were able to meet with our School Site Council, English Learners Advisory Committee, PTO, and other parents who were interested during Coffee with the Principal to gather input and create these documents with guidance from our school community. We will review these documents at the beginning of each school year and gather input to ensure we are working together to continue to support our Wildcats.

Thank you again for your continued support and feedback! I appreciate YOU!

Districts receiving Title I, Part A funds are required to jointly develop with, agree upon with, and distribute to parents and family members of children participating in Title I, Part A funded programs, a written parent and family engagement policy.

Bonsall Unified School District has jointly developed with, agreed on with, and distributed to, parents and family members of children participating in Title I, Part A funded programs, a written parent and family engagement policy. The policy describes the district’s plan, how families are involved in the joint development of district and school plans, how parents are involved in the annual evaluation of the policy, strategies for supporting effective family engagement, and how families at school not receiving Title I funds are also engaged.

BUSD LEA Level Parent and Family Engagement Policy 2023-2024 (English)

BUSD LEA Level Parent and Family Engagement Policy 2023-2024 (Spanish)

• Bonsall Education Foundation: an amazing organization that has been helping our students and teachers buy supplies needed by offering grants to our teachers for supplies needed in the classrooms.

Click HERE to donate or to get more information about BEF

• PTO: Sullivan's Awesome PTO is a parent-teacher organization (PTO) that gives parents and teachers the opportunity to work together to supplement and enrich the educational experience. "We want to make our school a great place for our kids to thrive!"

Your $10.00 Membership goes toward fun events, such as the color run, for our students!

You may click on the QR code below or bring a check into the office.

We discussed fundraising opportunities and fun events to start planning for our Wildcats and discussed classroom/ teacher needs for this school year.

Please check out our membership information. You can help by donating or signing up for any of our events.

Thank you for your support!

Click here to sign up!

Bonsall Education Foundation

The Bonsall Education Foundation (BEF) is a 501c3 non-profit organization to help fund schools in the Bonsall Unified School District. Our mission includes the following:

Support Our Students Program (SOS)

After-School Enrichment Opportunities

Bonsall Sprouts Garden Program

Giving Tree

Dale Costa Memorial Scholarship and Thomas Flanagan Memorial Scholarship

BEF’s primary focus is fundraising for district educational programs that would otherwise be unavailable to students. We produce several large fundraising campaigns/events throughout the year, however patron donations can be made at any time.

​BEF accepts donations for any of our programs , at any time throughout the year!

Click HERE to donate or to get more information about BEF

Parent Liaison: Leonor Rodriguez

Welcome to another school year 2023-2024/Bienvenidos a otro año escolar 2023-2024

Mensaje de la Cordinadora de Enlaces Comunitario

The Bonsall Unified School District and I welcome you back to school for the 2023-2024 school year.

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El distrito escolar unificado de Bonsall y yo les damos la bienvenida de regreso a la escuela para el año escolar 2023-2024.

• Workshops at the district office #4
• BUSD all school's schedule
• Next board meeting
• 2nd. Annual Car Show at BHS
• 2nd. Annual Multicultural Night at SMS
• Breakfast and lunch menu (all schools)
• Safe storage of firearms state memorandum (Spanish included)
• Local library resources
• Local health resources
• Local food pantry resources
• BUSD Hiring website and contact information
• Joining PTA Information
• BEF information
• Transportation information
• Public Health Updates from the County (COVID updates)
• Pictures from our 1st. Bike Parade
• My contact information (all information is in both languages, English and Spanish)

Thank you all for your support. Please continue to send me referrals of parents and students who need support and assistance in any area. Our goal is to assist, support, and guide parents and students to a successful education.

Please access Leonore's newsletter at the following link: https://www.smore.com/fpjb2

Thank you parents for making our Lunch on the Lawn a huge success! It was great to see all the smiling faces and parents being able to spend some downtime with their students!

Here are the other dates for Lunch on the Lawn:

February 16 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

March 15 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

April 19 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

LAST LUNCH ON THE LAWN

May 17 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

Exciting news!: Students attending school on campus can eat for free during the 23-24 school year!

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM NUTRITION SERVICES.

BUSD Families,

The California Department of Education passed legislation this past July that all school districts must remind parents and legal guardians of all students in the Bonsall Unified School District of their responsibilities for keeping firearms out of the hands of children as required by California law. Please take a moment to review the memo below.

California Law Regarding Safe Storage of Firearms Memorandum 2023-2024

Ley de California Sobre el Almacenamiento Seguro de Armas de Fuego 2023-2024

ATTENTION PARENTS!

We are excited to announce that we extended our safety and security for all staff and students by installing a fence around the front of our school! Visitors will be required to bring ID and check in at the Welcome Booth before anyone is permitted on campus.

Only emergency vehicles, buses, those with handicap placards, and those with other special placards have access to the upper lot, emergency lane closest to the front of our schools. You will need to show your placard to Campus Security.

This decision to enforce our existing parking lot plan aligns with the recommendations of our community safety partners and will increase our ability to maintain a safe and secure site:

• When dropping students off, please use the lower levels of the parking lot.
• When visiting either the middle or the high school office, please park in the lower levels, bring your ID to the Welcome booth, and check in with the appropriate staff.

We appreciate your partnership and support in our efforts to provide the highest levels of safety for our students

Contact Ms. James here.

Website: https://sm.bonsallusd.com
Location: 7350 West Lilac Road, Bonsall, CA 92003, USA
Phone: 760-631-5209