Family & Student Weekly News
January 9, 2019 - Happy Ne!w Year
Dear Brooklyn Collaborative Families & Students,
We hope that you were able to spend quality time during the winter break with your loved ones, set aside reflective time for yourself, and are recharged for 2019!
As the new year ushers in renewed commitments and resolutions, we look forward to our continued partnership between school and home in supporting your child's success!
We look forward in 2019 your partnership in making sure that our children come to school daily and on time.
We look forward to our continued partnership in fostering habits of scholarship and character, and values that positively impact student achievement and are important for their life-long success as civically engaged individuals.
We look forward to your continued commitment to regularly setting aside time with your child to review their PupilPath academic performance and to discuss their areas of strength and their areas in need of continued growth to achieve mastery, that includes coming up with a specific plan for improvement.
We look forward to your continued commitment to be actively involved in school activities and events through our Pledge 4 Family Engagement. What 4 school events have you committed to your 2019 spring calendar? We look forward to you joining us for at least one, if not all, of the upcoming events this month: BCS New Year Potluck Community Feast: A Celebration of Hope (Friday, 1/11); Family Breakfast Series: Talking Math with your Child (Friday, 1/18); and Reading in the Round Parent Book Club (Tuesday, 1/29).
We look forward to your continued partnership in supporting our school's vision of developing students who are persistent, responsible, open-minded, courageous, collaborative, and kind and preparing them for full participation in civic life.
Let's be engaged in making a difference in 2019!
May 2019 be filled with joy, peace, and happiness!
With heartfelt and deepest gratitude,
Scill, Amanda, Imani (BCS School Leaders)
Tracey (BCS Parent Coordinator)
UPCOMING DATES
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
- EVERY TUESDAY: Mastery Support -3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
- 1/11: Model Job Fair
- 1/11/1https://www.bcs448.org/2019/01/06/1-2-4-highlights-of-the-week/9: BCS New Year's Potluck Community Feast: A Celebration of Hope (6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
- 1/18/19: Fall Semester Ends
- 1/21/19: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Day (No School)
- 1/22/19 - 1/25/19 - UG PBAT Week
- 1/30 Spring Semester Begins
- 2/5: Lunar New Year (No School)
- 2/9 - BCS Mid-winter Gala and Auction (7:00 - 10:00 p.m.)
- 2/12 - SLT meeting from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
- 2/12 - PTA meeting from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
- 2/18 - 2/22: Midwinter Recess
Check this link for weekly highlights: https://www.bcs448.org/2019/01/06/1-2-4-highlights-of-the-week/ of what's going at the school, in the classroom, in after school clubs, an at sports events.
Check this link for important dates: http://www.bcs448.org/monthly-calendar/
Contact Information: To sign up for our parent mailing list, please email scill@bcs448.org with your name, your child’s name and grade level. Note: if you are receiving this email, you are already on our parent mailing list.
If you have any additional questions, please email imani@bcs448.org and tracey@bcs448.org
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
BCS New Year's Potluck Community Feast: A Celebration of Hope - Friday, January 11th at 6:00 p.m.
- We warmly invite you to join us for our first ever New Beginnings Potluck Community Feast: A Celebration of Hope for the New Year on Friday, January 11, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the BCS Cafeteria.
- Bring your family, friends, and a favorite dish for an evening of celebration, performances, community building, and breaking bread with other families and staff.
- Let's kick off a Brooklyn Collaborative tradition and come together to bring in 2019 as a school community. What are we hopeful for as community? What individual and community commitments will me make to support the mission and vision of Brooklyn Collaborative?
- RSVP to Imani at imani@bcs448.org
Family Breakfast on Friday, January 18th: Talking Math with your Child at 8:15 a.m.
- Join school leaders Scill, Amanda, and Imani and math teacher/Instructional Guide (IG) Adam in a conversation about how to talk to your child about math.
- Adam will facilitate an interactive workshop with families about math and how to best support and encourage math learning at home and to make it accessible, including supporting your child with using IXL.
- RSVP to Imani at imani@bcs448.org
Reading in the Round BCS Parent Book Club - Tuesday, January 29th
- Calling all parents to kick off our Brooklyn Collaborative Parent Book Club on Tuesday, January 29th from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
- If you enjoy reading, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet other parents, read some of the ‘hottest’ Young Adult (YA) authors that our students are reading, use fiction to explore, address, and discuss issues our students may face around race, gender, class, sexuality, equality, immigration, etc.
- We will kick off this year's book club by reading Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. This compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
- Born a Crime is available at your local library and through Amazon. If you have any difficulty getting the book, please email Imani at imani@bcs448.org and school librarian Amanda Clarke at amandac@bcs448.org ASAP.
- Check out links to two interviews with Trevor Noah about his book Born a Crime.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hfMNTnBM4I
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEsWOZjjVt8
PTA CORNER
"Get your tickets for the BCS Mid-Winter Gala!
- It's time for BCS's annual gala and Silent Auction!
- Escape the mid-winter blues at one of Carroll Gardens last great social clubs; The Luso-American. Make new friends and dance the night away!
- At this year's gala, we'll be celebrating our very own Parent Coordinator Tracey Pinkard- an outstanding administrator, friend and community leader. She's touched so many of our lives and it's time to show how much we care about her.
Enjoy:
- Live Music from BCS Teacher John Schmit!
- DJ and Dancing!
- Open Bar, Appetizers from Sahadi’s, Empanadas from BCS parent Sylvia Vega and Dinner Buffet from Gina’s Cultural Catering All included!
- Bid on Summer programs, Tutoring, Fashion, Spa Treatments, Art, Home Services and more!
- Gala Tickets available here
- Can't attend the gala but want to contribute?
- You and your friends can still make a donation of goods and/or services to our silent auction. Fill out this form: https://www.bcspta.org/gala on the BCS PTA website.
STUDENT CLUBS
BCS Student Council Holds Its First Meeting
- On Friday, January 4th Student Council had its first meeting meeting (Grades 6-12) with students engaging in team building activities, sharing their hopes as student representatives, and reviewing, reflecting upon, and discussing the topics their peers expressed a desire to have them work on.
- We look forward to seeing how our student leaders will emerge as they seek to represent their peers.
- Student Council meets weekly periods 5 & 6.
6th Grader Ismail Starts Origami Club
- 6th grader Ismail started an Origami Club!
- The Club meets in the Library on Tuesday’s during lower grade lunch.
- Students may sign up with Ismail to join him in making some amazing creations.
- Ismail is an expert par excellent!!
Go BCS Robosharks!
- Excited for our Robotics Team, the BCS Robosharks, who got their kit of parts for this year's competition and are ready to go!
- Wishing the team another productive and successful year!
SPORTS CENTER
Come Out This Week: Support Girls & Boys Varsity Basketball Team!
- Come and show your support for our Varsity Girls and Boys Basketball Teams!
- Join us for home games today, Wednesday, 1/9, when our Girls Varsity Basketball Team take on the John Jay Campus Secondary School and Friday, 1/11, when our Boys Varsity Basketball Team meets BCAM H.S.
- Games kick off at 4:30 p.m
- Let's pack our bleachers, show your BCS school spirit, ad cheer our teams to victory!
- Cheer on our teams with the same passion and enthusiasm as ourBrooklyn Collaborative Cheerleading Team!
- If you have a BCS shirt, please wear it to the games and show your school pride!
- For home games at BCS, please know that all students need to show their school IDcard for entry into all basketball games.
- Please address any questions to our Athletic Director Brandi.
- If you need a replacement ID card, you can see Chloe during crew (Monday--Thursday only) in Rm 507.
- GO BCS WOLVES!!!!!!
SCHOOL MENU MONTHLY UPDATE
January's School Lunch Menu: Healthy, Tasty, and Free!
- Where can you have your child have lunch for free that includes a deliciously diverse menu such as teriyaki Chicken Sliders, garlic knots, spicy chicken sandwich, New York Hot pretzel, mozzarella sticks, turkey burgers, beef/cheese burger, tacos, vegetable egg roll and roasted zucchini, sweet potato flies, fresh green salad with chick peas, broccoli, cauliflower, and sooooo much more?
- Encourage your child to eat lunch daily in the cafeteria and enjoy our new lunch menu that provides meals that meet the needs of students who enjoy meat as well as those who identify as vegetarians, pescatarians, ovo-lacto vegetarian, and vegans!
- The salad bar will still be available to students as well as seasonal fresh fruit.
- If a student does not wish to eat a warm entree dish, the menu includes entree alternatives: peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, grab and go salads, humus gram & go, and assorted deli sandwiches.
- Please encourage your child to take advantage of the free lunches available to ALL CHILDREN. There is now something available to meet everyone's taste buds!!
- Check out the menu below.
- http://www.schoolfoodnyc.org/public/PDF_Handler.ashx?t=m&id=4772&name=High+School+Lunch+Menu
STUDENT CORNER: RESOURCES, EVENTS, & OPPORTUNITIES
Weekly Mastery Support: Every Tuesday, 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
- EVERY Tuesday after school is mastery support time from 3:15-4pm.
- This is a chance for you to get extra help from your teachers.You are encouraged to stay for this time if there are any assignments they would like to work on or extra help they would like from teachers. All teachers are available during this time.
- We look forward to you remaining after school for support on Tuesdays!
- You are the leader of your own learning. Seize the Master Support opportunities!
Segue Program: Make Art & Create Change in Your Community
- WHAT: Segue Program introduces students to Groundswell's mission to use art as a tool for social justice. Students will learn different skills and techniques to make art and connect with the Gowanus, Brooklyn community. Art making may include photography, drawings, painting, scupture, printmaking and more! Students receive all art materials, field trip opportunities and snacks!
- WHEN: Every Thursday beginning in January
- TIME: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
- WHERE: Groundsell, 540 President Street #1A, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Take the R train to Union Street
- APPLY ONLINE: Go to www.groundswell.nyc or email studioprograms@groundswell.nyc
FUNDRAISING CORNER
Brooklyn Collaborative Wish List
Box Tops for Education
- BCS participates in the Box Tops for Education program. This program provides schools with a way to raise funds by turning in cut-out box tops from specially marked General Mills products.
- Each collected box top can be redeemed for ten cents.
- Please collect your box tops and submit them to Tracey in Rm 410