BCD Middle School Soccer Teams “Revolution” and “Fire” faced off Thursday afternoon in an exciting game that ended in a tie and a really good time for the players and spectators!

You’ve been waiting for it and now they are ready! The Directory of parent names and contact information is ready for distribution. They will be coming home today in your youngest student’s backpack. Please make sure to check your child’s backpack for your copy. If your copy did not make it home or you need another one, please stop by the Main Office in Albright and see Coree Reid. For privacy reasons, this information WILL NOT be posted on MyBCD.

Please Note: Friday, October 9 is not only Grandparents’/Grandfriends’ Day but a half day of school. Buses will depart at 1:00 p.m. – 1: 05 will be parent pick up time. If you plan for your child to leave with their Grandparent/Grandfriend, please make sure to send in a note to your child’s homeroom teacher. There will be NO Extended Day Program offered this Friday.

Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day is this Friday. Please remember to send lunch for your kids and their guests. See the MyBCD posting ”What you need to know about Grandparents’/Grandfriends’ Day” (October 2nd) for the full day’s schedule. We look forward to welcoming your family to campus!

Mark Your Calendar: Saturday, October 24 is the Second Annual Community Campus Day

All families are invited to give a day of service to our school by participating in one of the many projects we have planned around campus. This is a great way to spend a Saturday with other BCD families and make a difference at our school. In the next few days you will be receiving an email link to sign up for the project you would like to work on and when you will be available to work. Thanks to the Parents’ Association, a community lunch will be provided to all workers and childcare will be available for families that preregister. Hope you will be able to join us!

Dear BCD Parents,

Grandparents’ & Grandfriends’ Day is Friday October 9th.  We are excited to meet your parents and family friends.  As we prepare for the big day, here is what you will need to know.  Please be sure to discuss the schedule with both your children and their guests before they arrive.  If your guests have any special needs please inform us ASAP so that we can try to accommodate them.

Parking:  Parent volunteers are asked to park on Cole Field with the faculty.  For guest parking we will fill the lot in front of the Main Building, the faculty parking lot, and then the rest of Cole Field.  The wall will be coned off for bus parking.

Schedule:

8 a.m.                    Regular drop-off.  Parent volunteers to Fitzpatrick Hall for set-up.

10 a.m.                  Guests arrive and are escorted to Fitzpatrick Hall, where they will pick up their name tags.  Refreshments will be served.  Mr. Lindenmaier will welcome them to BCD.

10:30 a.m.            Preschool and Lower School guests will be escorted to homerooms by volunteers.  Middle and Upper School students will arrive in Fitzpatrick and escort their guests to 4^th period.

11:25-12                Lunch.  Pre-K – Grade 6 students and guests eat lunch in homeroom classrooms.  Grades 7-9 students and guests return to Fitzpatrick Hall.  

Special instructions for Siblings:  Families with siblings in different grades should plan to eat lunch together with the oldest sibling’s class.  Therefore, if the oldest sibling is in Pre-K – 6, guests will go to the oldest child’s homeroom for lunch, where they will be joined by the younger siblings.  If the oldest sibling is in Grade 7-9, guests and younger siblings will go to Fitzpatrick Hall for lunch.

12:15 p.m.            Everyone reconvenes in Fitzpatrick Hall for Chorus and BCD song.

12:30 p.m.            Guests depart; students with written permission may leave with their guests – Homeroom teachers need to be informed of this in advance.

1:00 p.m.               Buses depart.

1:05 p.m.               Parent Pick-up – Please do not arrive until 1:05 so that all guests will have time to safely depart from campus.  If you arrive earlier, you will be directed to the Stockbridge Bowl area until the traffic clears from the driveway.

Please remember that students are to provide lunch for their guest(s). 

Parent volunteers are needed at drop off to set up Fitzpatrick Hall, at 10 a.m. to help serve guests coffee and muffins, clean up, and re-set the hall for lunch, and at 12:30 to clean up.  Please email Stephanie Iverson steph.is.iversonic@gmail.com or Courtney McDonnell courtney@birdhousestudio.net if you would like to volunteer.  Parent volunteers are asked to park on Cole Field with the faculty. 

Thanks in advance for helping to make Grandparents’ & Grandfriends’ Day such a wonderful event for our whole community!

BCD’s organic vegetable garden is ripe with all the great ingredients for this year’s Thanksgiving Soup. Preschool and Lower School students got to see the fruits of last year’s labor and help with the harvesting of our carrots, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, and herbs, among other earthly delights.  Mmmmm – can’t wait for soup!