Monday: BE ACTIVE IN YOUR EDUCATION!
Wear your favorite active wear!
Getting ready to welcome our Veterans...
Today's Veteran's Day Program will be streamed on Face Book Live at 230pm. Thank you Veteran's for your service from RCPS.
Parents please pick up all BGS students at the high school following today's Veteran's Day Program.
American Education Week
November 15th - 19th
Congratulations to the following athletes for receiving Football All-District Honors:
1st Team
Ryan Painter-Senior
Dolan Pospichal-Senior
Wyatt Prewitt-Senior
Troy Reynolds-Senior
Honorable Mention
Stetson Kaufman-Senior
Gavin Prewitt-Sophomore
Eddie Reynolds-Senior
Josh Wyrick-Senior
Rock County School Board approves COVID Protocol Amendments
By: Superintendent Mark Otten
Rock County School Board of Education met Monday night and discussed possible changes to the COVID protocols based on the rise in cases in the community. With input from local providers, the school board, and administration, the school board decided one change was needed in order to support our local clinics and the hospital.
Students who have household members test positive for COVID will now have two options. The first option is to continue to come to school in-person and wear a mask for ten days. This would allow them to fully participate in class while providing protections for the other students and the staff who are working with those students. Option two is to quarantine at home for ten days. These students would have the option of remote learning while quarantining at home. If they choose to participate in the remote learning option, they would not be counted absent from school during this time.
Whenever COVID protocols start being discussed, there are two sides to the discussion. Typically, there is one side that thinks the school district is not doing enough to keep our students and staff safe and the other side believes we are doing too much and it is useless. As a school district, we have to consider both sides of the argument and try to find the right balance of what is reasonable and what would be considered over the top. In this case, we feel it is reasonable to expect students who are known close contacts to either mask or stay home for ten days. Thank you for your understanding during these unprecedented times.
JH Girls Basketball Game Today at Keya Paha starting at 5PM.
They will play 4 quarters of A-Team and then 2 quarters of B-Team. I would suggest all parents being there by 5PM.
Mrs. Fischer
Congrats to the following ladies for receiving NVC All-Conference Volleyball Honors:
2nd Team - Brielle Bussinger and Jenna Hallock
Honorable Mention - Adisyn Anderson and Allie Cosgrove
The Nebraska Coaches Association’s announced their 2021 Girls and Boys Cross Country Super-State & All-State Teams.
Congrats to Daisy Frick and Raden Orton for making the NCA Cross Country All-State Teams for Class D.
Mrs. Fischer is looking for someone that would be interested in doing the clock for Varsity basketball games. If this might be you, give her a call at the high school.
TEAM ABIGAIL, high school style!
TEAM ABIGAIL!
Tomorrow, Wednesday 11/3, has been proclaimed "TEAM ABIGAIL DAY" at RCPS! Wear your #teamabigail t-shirts in support of this special little girl.
ASK at the Methodist Church has been cancelled this Wednesday, November 3rd.
COVID cases are on the rise in Rock County. We are not seeing the spread in the school buildings at this time but we are monitoring the situation in case we need to adjust what we are doing as a district. Reminder: masks are not required but you may certainly require them for your child(ren). If you would like your child(ren) to wear a mask and you would like the staff to assist you in making sure this is happening, please let the office know and we will make sure the staff are aware of students who should be wearing masks.
BGS will have a short assembly program tomorrow, Friday, October 299th at 8:30 to hand out 1st Quarter Awards. We will be doing a FacebookLive stream for parents.
Tonight's High School Fall Concert will be live streamed on the Rock County Public Schools Facebook page beginning at 7:00PM.
The days of October 11th-13th RCPS we did a fundraiser for the Rowan Family. At BGS we had a coin war and the winning class got to have an extra recess. The kids could also pay any amount, no matter how small, to wear a hat in school. The winning class was 3rd Grade $247.53, Second Place 5th Grade $180.41 and Third Place $157.14. Grand total for BGS was $1, 105.32.
Attention Dual Credit Students:
All students currently taking a Dual Credit class through Northeast Community College need to report to Mrs. Fischer's room at the beginning of third period on Thursday morning for Spring registration purposes