The Elk Call
2/24/19
Burleson High School
Website: bhs.burlesonisd.net
Location: 100 Elk Drive, Burleson, TX, United States
Phone: 817-245-0000
Facebook: facebook.com/Burleson-High-School-BHS-Elks
Twitter: @bhselks
Administration
Principal
Academic Associate Principal
Kappa House (serving students with last names beginning A - G)
Principal - Robert Whatley
Counselor - Debi Blevins
Sigma House (serving students with last names beginning H - O)
Principal - Angelia Sifford
Counselor - Jami Renner
Omega House (serving students with last names beginning P - Z)
Principal - Brad Schilder
Counselor - David Brown
From the Nurse
BHS Parents/Guardians:
Below is some information taken from our website regarding flu and when to stay home
due to illness. Attached is a sheet from the CDC on flu information and prevention.
Flu Information
You may be aware that the flu is spreading throughout our community and our schools are being impacted as well. The district has seen an increase in absences because of the flu.
Often, we get confused about the symptoms of the flu and how they are different from a common cold. Quick recognition of flu symptoms will help prevent the spread of illness. Please contact your physician if you or your child exhibits any of the following:
Common symptoms of the flu include:
- High fever
- Severe headache
- Muscle and body aches
- Exhaustion
- Dry cough
Common symptoms of a common cold include:
- Stuffy nose
- Sneezing
- Sore throat
- Hacking cough
Children often have additional flu symptoms that are rare in adults, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Should I keep my child home?
These helpful guidelines should be used to determine when your child should stay home from school due to illness:
- Fever of 100 degrees or higher in the past 24 hours- Your child needs to be free of fever for a full 24 hours without the help of fever reducing medications (such as Tylenol, Motrin or Fever-All) before sending them back to school.
- Vomiting and/or diarrhea in the past 24 hours
- - Itchy, red eyes with discharge
- Rash that has fluid or pus coming from it until treatment has been received, and a note from the doctor states that your child may return to school
- Ringworm of the scalp (until treatment has started)
- Head lice (may return after appropriate lice treatment) -Your school nurse will need to check your child’s head before he/she returns to class
- - We ask that you help us in encouraging your children to wash their hands often, use hand sanitizer, and cover their noses and mouths when they cough or sneeze. It is also helpful for your children to get plenty of sleep and to eat healthy foods-especially breakfast.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Nurse Brooke
Advanced Academics and College & Career Readiness
Need helping planning out your future?
Schedule an appointment with Ms. Knight here: https://jknightbhs.youcanbook.me/
Burleson Opportunity Fund Application is OPEN❗
The application is open until March 30th, more information about the application and process can be found at https://burlesonoppfund.com/
SENIOR Section ❗
Bring Ms. Knight your college acceptance letter and/or scholarship award letter when you receive it! Even if you don’t plan on attending that school, we still want to celebrate your acceptance or scholarship award.
Complete the 2019-2020 FAFSA Application
If you are a senior and need some help with finding a starting point, please meet with me! Schedule an appointment here: https://jknightbhs.youcanbook.me/
Burleson High School AVID
If you are interested in being a part of the BHS AVID family, complete this form and bring it to Ms. Knight! AVID Nomination Form
JUNIOR Section ❗
If you plan on attending a 4-year college/university go ahead and take your SAT and/or ACT NOW! Registration instructions can be found here. See Ms. Knight if you receive Free/Reduced Lunch and she can issue you a fee waiver.
Start to research colleges and careers that you would like… the more you know now, the more prepared you will be your senior year!
UTA Go Center is OPEN and FREE to YOU!
Our Go Center Mentors are available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
They are located outside the cafeteria by the vending machine
If there door is open, they are here to talk with YOU!
They can assist with college/career planning, military careers, college/scholarship application…. The list is endless!
If you stop by the Go Center on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday during 1st, 2nd, or 3rd period with proof that you have completed FASFA/TASFA, gotten accepted into a college, or enlisted in the military you can get a free goody!
College & Career Readiness Site can be found HERE.
You can view the complete C&CR Calendar here
Class of 2019
Class of 2019 Website, Facebook, and Twitter!
Great news! The Senior class has a website, Facebook page, and Twitter! Visit us at any of these places to see all things Senior class related!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BHS-Elk-Seniors-1970204959891020/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhsElkSeniors
Project Celebration
Upcoming events for Seniors
Self-defense class hosted by Texas Black Belt Academy instructors. Tentative date March 5 at BHS. Open to all students and parents. $20 per person
Senior Survival College Cooking Class hosted by Table 71 Foods. March 19. Limited to the first 20 seniors. Recipes, techniques, instructions, ingredients, and take-home manual included. $20 per student.
Senior Survival College Cooking Class Registrat...
Burleson High School Athletics
Lady Elk Softball
Elk Soccer
Great job fighting through adversity for a big 3-1 win Friday! Keep doing things the right way and it will keep on paying off! Congrats to the girls on their win as well! #TakeTheNextStep
Great win by the JV tonight 1-0!
Lady Elk Soccer
Elk and Lady Elk Tennis
Elk Baseball
Elk Varsity rally 10 hits for the 5-2 win vs Birdville behind the arm of Jacob Amador, multiple hits from Evan Jameson, Cody Greiver, and Isaiah Smith.
Elk Strutters
So proud of these sweet kids!!! They definitely ended contest season with a bang!
-High Kick Finalist Sierra, 3rd place
-Leap Finalist Hannah
-Turn Finalist Elsie
Platinum Sweepstakes Officers
Platinum Sweepstakes team
Anita Jefferson Conley Award of Excellence Elsie Saldana
Best in Class Officer Novelty
Best in Class Officer Modern (Highest scoring officer modern of the day)
Best in Class Officer Contemporary
Best in Class Team Pom
Best in Class Team Modern (Highest scoring team modern of the day)
Best in Class Team Kick (tie)
Precision Award for Pom
BHS Thespians Club
BHS Band
February 23, 2019
Burleson High School Band students earn top UIL solo and ensemble ratings
The following (8) Burleson High School Band Students earned superior 1st-division ratings for solo performances during the Region 30 South Zone UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest held on Saturday, February 23rd at Aledo High School.
Anna Carrizal – flute
Andrea Stokes – flute
*Andrew Bracken – alto saxophone (state certified)
*Tyler Brooks – trumpet (state certified)
*Sydney McCarty – trumpet (state certified)
*Noah Teer – trumpet (state certified)
Bryson Graves – euphonium
Ethan Matthews – tuba
*Brendan Spires – marimba (state certified) – performed at North Zone contest – Chisholm Trail HS on February 9th
*Those student soloists certified for state did so by either performing by memory, or by performing a selection from the no-memory-required Prescribed Music List.
Additionally, the following students earned superior 1st-division ratings for ensemble performances during the same contest.
**Trombone Quartet – Kevin Corpus, Sean Lasker, Gwen Mayo, and Sam Solomon (state certified)
**Tuba/Euphonium Quartet – Taylor Blankenship, Kevin Corpus, Bryson Graves, and Caden Morton (state certified)
**Five Brass – Robert Batterton, Tyler Brooks, Xavien Garcia, Matthew Moore, and Kenneth (Ashton) Smith (state certified)
**Ensemble members are certified for state by 1st-division ratings.
Students certified for state will perform at the State Solo & Ensemble Contest to be held at the University of Texas at Austin in early June.
BHS Choir
Nicholas Addyman, Hannah Arant, Jeremy Baugh, Madison Black, Emily Bobo,
Kyla Brock, Brianna Brock, Savannah Burnett, Gabriella Bustos, Grace Camp, Macenzie Crawford, Jessica DosSantos, Gage Fox, Madeline Harrison, Malarie Hogan, Jasmine Hyder, Vegas Jankowski, Hannah Joslyn, Marissa Lewis, Destiny Morris, Synnah Narvaez, Haley Nolley, Isys Pyles, Landrie Rangel, Addison Reyna, Kalyn Rothoff, Erin Schlotzhauer, Valerie Smith, Joshua Swaim, Lexsie Thomas, Hannah-Faith Whitehurst
The following students received an excellent rating (2) on their solo.
Amanda Henderson, Joseph Kamantauskas, Olivia Lloyd, Taylor Moore, Allyson Neubauer,
Syclalei Perales
The following students received an excellent rating on their ensemble.
Jaden Gonzales, Dominki Larente, Hannah Watson, Regan Winters
In addition, the following students qualified to participate in the 3rd annual BISD Honors Recital. Four students will be chosen at this recital from Burleson High School to receive a small scholarship.
Madison Black, Jeremy Baugh, Kyla Brock, Malarie Hogan, Jasmine Hyder, Hannah Joslyn,
Synnah Narvaez, Kalyn Rothoff,
Jeremy Baugh, Malarie Hogan, Hannah Joslyn, Synnah Narvaez
The photo below also includes the Centennial High Schoo scholarship recipeints.
Partners in Art
Art 2
National Honor Society
Mayor's Youth Council
Strive to Drive
Strive to Drive 2018-2019
Burleson ISD & Burleson Nissan/Honda are giving away another car this school year. Here's how you can win a Nissan Sentra:
*Students must be enrolled in the Burleson ISD for the entire 6-weeks grading period.
*Students may earn 1 ticket per six weeks for perfect attendance.
*Students may earn 4 BONUS tickets per semester for perfect attendance (Fall & Spring).
*Students may earn 10 BONUS tickets for the year for perfect attendance.
*Students may earn a maximum of 24 tickets per school year.
The Nissan Sentra will be given away during halftime of the annual BHS PowderPuff football game in May, 2019.
***The district will utilize state guidelines for reporting average daily attendance to determine perfect attendance contest eligibility.***
ElkTV
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 2/26:
- NHS mtg 8am -8:45 am
- Elk JV Red Baseball vs Haltom Buffaloes (Home) at 4:30 pm
- Elk Varsity Baseball vs Haltom Buffaloes (Home) at 7:00 pm
- Elk V Soccer vs Seguin (Home) HS at 6:00 pm
- Lady Elk V Soccer vs Seguin HS at 8:00 pm
- Lady Elk JV/V Softball vs Mansfield Legacy HS at 6:00 pm
Wednesday 2/27:
- SAT Prep @ BHS Library at 4:30 pm
Thursday 2/28:
- Elk Varsity Baseball Elk Classic @ BHS
- Elk JV Red Baseball Timberview Tournament @ Timberview HS
- Elk JV Black Baseball Arlington Lamar Tournment @ Arlington Lamar HS
- Lady Elk JV Softball Arlington Tournament @ Workman Complex
- Lady Elk V Softball Johnson County Clash @ Grandview/Alvarado/Cleburne
- Elk JV Soccer vs Crowley HS (Home) at 6:00 pm
- Lady Elk JV Soccer vs Crowley HS (Home) at 7:30 pm
Friday 3/1:
- Elk Varsity Baseball Elk Classic @ BHS
- Elk JV Red Baseball Timberview Tournament @ Timberview HS
- Elk JV Black Baseball Arlington Lamar Tournment @ Arlington Lamar HS
- Elk V Soccer @ Centennial HS at 6:00 pm
- Lady Elk V @ Centennial HS at 8:00 pm
Saturday 2/23:
- Elk Varsity Baseball Elk Classic @ BHS
- Elk JV Red Baseball Timberview Tournament @ Timberview HS
- Elk JV Black Baseball Arlington Lamar Tournment @ Arlington Lamar HS
Mark your calendars!
March 11 - 15: Spring Break
April 19: School Holiday (Good Friday)
May 18: Prom at River Ranch Stockyards
May 20: Senior Day
May 24: Last Day of School/Early Release
May 30: Graduation at TCU
For more information or to see future events, visit bhs.burlesonisd.net