BHMS Principal's Update 11/15/21
HVAC, Basketball, Teacher of the Year, Powerschool
Keeping Up with What is Going on at the Hill!!!
Thank you for your patience on Friday with the temperature concern. As you know, we had to go mask optional due to the temperature rise in the classrooms (see letter below). Our technicians diagnosed the faulty chiller and called our contracted HVAC company to assist. On Monday, we should expect a new part. In the meantime, we have shut down the heating elements so no hot air blows in the classroom. We will continue to have outdoor air circulating into the room through the system. However, if we are finding the temperature to be like Friday, we will enact the same procedure.
Sincerely,
Mike D'Ostilio
In this Newsletter:
- New and Important Information
- Letter to Families about HVAC
- PE Information
- Basketball, Wrestling, and Middle School Sports
- Scheduling for 8th Graders going into 9th Grade at WTHS
- Thanksgiving/Winter Holiday Drive Information
- COVID 19 Updates and Vaccination Updates
- Picture Infor and Yearbook Update
- ID Cards
- Bulldog Bash
- PTO Information
- Signing Up for Remind Text Notifications, Facebook, and Twitter
- Building Better Bulldogs Mission and Vision
New and Important Information
Some Important Dates:
November 15, 2021...Dressing for PE begins. Check with PE Teacher and See COVID-19 Update Below
November 16 and 18, 2021...Basketball Tryouts After School
November 17-20...7pm...Fall Play (4 performances)
November 24...Early Dismissal for Students
November 25 and 26...Schools Closed Thanksgiving Weekend.
November 29...Wrestling Tryouts/Practice
Middle School Sports
Middle School Sports Expectations/Code of Conduct
Physical Paperwork (Includes "Family ID")
Dear Grade 8 Students & Parents,
This is the time of year to consider your options for high school placement. Please take the time to see the value of WTHS and what we have to offer. For more information, view the Scheduling Advisement Webpage with our Scheduling Advisement Video and Program of Studies.
Warmest Regards,
WTHS Counseling Office
New Powerschool...Support Needed?
Washington Township Family Assistance for the Holidays
Reminders about Protocols Updated 10/30/21
Lastly, vetted at the district Health and Safety Subcommittee of the district's Coronavirus Task Force was a change, especially at the middle level. As long as we remain in the Green or Yellow Status Levels for COVID-19 in our region, we will begin having students use the locker rooms to change for PE. This will allow for students to be able to fully particate in PE under the following provisions:
- Regular PE can only resume when we are in the green or yellow phase. If the CALI scores take us back to orange or above, we will suspend changing until it returns to yellow.
- Locker assignments will attempt to spread children out as much as possible while in the locker room. We should not be assigning a bank of lockers in numerical order so we can avoid having kids on top of one another while changing. We must attempt, as best as possible to try to keep them 3 feet apart. This will help reduce close contacts.
- Mask must be worn at all times in the locker rooms while changing.
- Students will be able to use the restrooms in the locker rooms instead of having to leave the gym to use the restroom in the hall.
What Does Instruction Look Like if Your Child Has to Qurantine?
New in 2021-22. Students will Carry and Display IDs
Shoot For the Bulldog Bash
Building Better Bulldogs (3Bs) Mission and Vision
This pandemic has created so many questions and concerns for students that are well beyond academics. We are committed to providing a safe environment where students can express themselves as they question the ebb and flow of their world around them. Please see below our affirmations about Buidling Better Bulldogs and the people we as Bulldogs aim to be.
Bunker Hill Middle School: Home of the Bulldogs
Email: ddijohn@wtps.org
Website: https://www.wtps.org/bunkerhill
Location: 372 Pitman Downer Road, Sewell, NJ, USA
Phone: 856 881 7007
Facebook: facebook.com/OfficialBHMS
Twitter: @Official_BHMS
New and Important Information
November 1...Chipotle Dine and Donate
November 3...Sports Physicals Due
November 4...Pat's Select Dine and Donate
November 4 and 5...Schools Closed...NJEA Convention
November 11...Schools Closed...Veterans Day
November 13, 2021...Information Meeting for Gloucester County Mountain Bike Club
November 17-20 (7pm BHMS Fall Play...2 casts/4 nights)
November 24...Early Dismissal
November 29...Wrestling Practice Starts