Dear Parents/Guardians,
Attached is a sheet with some reopening information for you to review: https://brdfrd.com/2P38G8L. Please know this is an evolving process and information is subject to change. We will be submitting our final reopening plan to the New York State Education Department on Friday, July 31st. There will be a link to this plan posted on school's website. Thank you for your ongoing support and patience.
Please help ensure our community and school district is properly represented in the 2020 United States Census. Thank you.
Wishing all of our parents a happy day. Thank you for all of your support this past school year. There will be an informational video shared soon to discuss our reopening plan for the 2020-21 school year.
Dear BCS Parents/Guardians,
Below is a brief survey pertaining to the reopening of school in September. If you could take a few moments of your time to answer these questions it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
https://brdfrd.com/3j1t7Rn
The district is currently accepting applications for bus drivers and substitutes. Please contact Deb Stephens, District Clerk, with interest regarding these positions.
The district currently has coaching vacancies for the following sports in the upcoming school year:
> Girls Modified Soccer
> Boys Varsity Basketball
> Girls JV Basketball
> Girls Mod Basketball
> Modified Baseball
> Modified Track
Candidates interested in applying for these positions can contact the district's Athletic Director, Jeff Rutledge via email at ad@bradfordcsd.org
Dear BCS Families,
I hope this communication finds you all doing well and enjoying the summer season. Yesterday the NYS Department of Health (NYSDOH) released a document pertaining to the reopening of schools. We are expected to receive additional guidance from the NYS Department of Education (NYSED) on Wednesday. Planning for school reopening has already begun, however there are still many details that need to be coordinated and aligned to this recently released guidance.
As a District we will be required to submit a reopening plan to NYSED by July 31st. We have been told plans will be reviewed and approved/denied during the first week of August. As it currently stands, our region will reopen schools in September, provide we are experiencing less than a 5% positive COVID testing/infection rate. Today our region was at approximately a 1% infection rate.
Assuming schools do reopen, we will remain so, as long as the infection rate does not surpass 9%.
Please know when we talk about reopening it may be in the form of all students reporting each day, some students reporting on some days, or all students participating in their schooling remotely. The final reopening model will be determined based on our ability to adhere to guidelines and ultimately with the approval from NYS.
We will be sharing a survey very soon soliciting your input. Thank you for your patience, feedback and support of our District and children. Go Braves!
Yours in education,
John R. Marshall
Superintendent
The 2020 Lamoka Log has arrived! If you have already purchased a yearbook, you can pick yours up in the front office starting tomorrow, July 14. The office is open Mon-Thu, 7:30AM-3:30PM. You can pick up your yearbook anytime within these hours.
If you did not get a chance to purchase a yearbook, there are a limited number of yearbooks still available for sale. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please complete this form to be contacted about purchasing one: https://brdfrd.com/3eqgE6j
The recording of last night's Board of Education is now available. It can be accessed at: https://brdfrd.com/38ECZf0. It will also be added to the district website.
Tonight’s Board of Education meeting is going to be recorded and available for viewing tomorrow morning. We believe this method will help to improve the audio for our audience. Thank you.
Wishing all of our students, families, staff and community as a whole a safe and happy 4th of July. Go Braves! Go USA!
Steuben Council on Addictions - What are marijuana concentrates?
The Pro Action Resilient Children and Families Community Program is excited to offer two ZOOM events for families in July!
Flip It: for families who would like new tools for their toolbox to support children’s behavior with 4 easy steps!
Community Cafe Parent Café Series: Building Resilience Through Connection for families to connect and have a conversation about experiences during this time and thoughts on what lies ahead.
Thank you to everyone in the community who came out to support the graduating class of 2020. Your show of support was very touching and greatly appreciated.
Today is graduation day! We're so excited to celebrate the achievements of all of our seniors tonight. Join us live at 6PM on the school Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bradfordcsd
We would like to thank the following sponsors for making the senior chicken BBQ dinner a success. Our sincere appreciation to Champs Catering for donating the BBQ chicken halves. Thank you to Kozy Korner for providing a convenient location for our seniors to pick-up their dinners. Also thank you to the Bradford Scouts Troop 45 for donating the takeout containers and to any teachers and staff that made donations and/or helped serve the dinner. This was a wonderful event that brought our community and school together to celebrate the BCS Class of 2020.
All end-of-year ceremony videos will be posted to the district Facebook page that can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/bradfordcsd. You do not have to have a Facebook account in order to view the videos.
Our senior banners are now hanging in the bus loop area. Congratulations class of 2020!
Please join in congratulating the BCS class of 2020 with a parade on Friday, June 26 at 7:00 pm. The parade will go from the Kozy Korner, through town, turn left at the four corners towards the cemetery and down Rabbit Road.
Bradford CSD Voting Results:
Budget passed 221-137
Bus purchase passed 247-109
Alex Waters was elected to serve a 5-year Board of Education term
Thank you for your continued support of our students and District.