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The Mission of Belton-Honea Path High School is to develop competent lifelong learners by providing a quality education involving home, school and community.

Last day for Senior E-Learning - May 12th

Last day for Undergrad E-Learning - May 22nd

Senior Grades Due - May 15th

Undergrad Grades Due - May 29th

ALL STAFF TO RETURN TO BHP MAY 26TH 8:00-3:00

May 15th - Senior Collection Day for Materials 8-12

May 27th - Underclass Collection Day for Materials 9:00-12:00 and 5:00-6:00

Add names to Fee list as quickly as possible!

If you have any student needing a refund for cancelled events, please email a list of the students to Rhetta with the amount of the refund. She will need a parent name and home address. She can only make checks out to the parents and will be mailing the refunds home.

- Keep a separate gradebook for Q4 Grades - I will give you more info on how to override the Semester 2 average when we get closer to grades.

- E-Learning Assignments can only help grades. They cannot bring a grade down!

- Senior grades are due May 15th - Continue to remind your students!

- Enter assignments into Powerschool and click on missing or collected (This will help parents)

- Encourage students to makeup and redo as much as possible from before we were out!

- Any grade changes from Quarter 1 or 2 are allowed, but you must complete a grade change form

- Non-Instructional Staff - Please remember to keep logging your 3.5 hours each day.

All materials requests are due to your department heads by May 8th. Department heads need to submit to me by May 15th.

The SCDE has released additional guidance to schools and districts that provides recommendations on the amount of daily instructional time students should receive by grade level. It is important we take into account differences in how our students are able to receive remote instruction and the need for parents to focus on the social, emotional, and physical well-being of children during school closures.

*If you are hosting Meet, Zoom, or Skype sessions on top of requiring work you are probably going over the 45 minute limit. Please keep this in mind as you move forward.

I appreciate all that each of you are doing to keep in contact with your students. Especially those of you that have struggled with reaching many of those hard to contact parents. I have counselors, admin, and other staff also working to reach our most at-risk students.

Please continue to reach out on a weekly basis to those parents and students that you are not receiving work from. We need to urge our students to continue to complete their work so that they can get as many points added to their grade as possible!

We have less than 10 seniors that we are pushing hard to get all e-learning work completed so that they can graduate. Senior grades are due May 15th. If you teach a Senior that needs your class to graduate, please keep communicating with them as much as possible!

We have been having discussions regarding graduation on a daily basis. Every decision is dependent on when social distancing restrictions will be lifted. We will make graduation updates public information when we know more.

Due to the extended school closure, we will be skipping SLOs for this school year. Your department administrator will be reaching out to you to get things finalized and signed in SCLead for the year.

Those set to re-certify this year have been given a one year extension if they choose to use it. Teachers set to re-certify by June 30th, 2020 will not have until June 30th, 2021. However, you may still submit paperwork to re-certify this summer if you would like to do so. Mrs. Boarts will reach out to each of these teachers regarding plans for moving forward.

The State Health Plan will cover testing to diagnose COVID-19 at no member cost when prescribed according to the guidelines set by public health authorities. Any services associated with treatment will be covered following normal Plan provisions.

The district has opened up a number of wonderful virtual Professional Development opportunities for ALL staff members. Please view the calendar and sign up below.

Calendar

Registration Form

April 17th - Quarter 3 Grades Due

May 8th - Contracts Due

May 15th - Senior Grades Due

Happy Birthday to the following BHP folks:

April 2nd - Cristie Guest

April 3rd - Mary Boarts

April 9th - Danielle Bowker

April 13th - Ashley Hanks

April 22nd - Michelle Barker

Congratulations to Senior, Emma Gambrell, on receiving a music scholarship at Anderson University. Emma has been teaching private lessons of piano and guitar since the summer preceding her 8th grade year with an average of 10 students or more. She loves sharing her passion of music with her students! Even with the recent events she, too, is teaching through video chat methods. She has been actively involved in music worship at church for years, played piano for weddings, and has written and composed several original songs. She will begin in the fall in Music Education at Anderson University.