Bradford Central School District

Dear BCS Parents/Guardians and Students, Today marks the start of Teacher Appreciation Week. Please help me in showing our gratitude and support for all of our wonderful teachers and staff members, not only today, but throughout the year. It is an honor to work alongside so many caring individuals. BCS is an amazing school district because of our faculty, staff, students, parents and community. Go Braves!

Board of Education Meeting recordings can be found on the district website under Menu > Our School > Board of Education > Minutes & Meeting Recordings.

Dear Parents/Guardians, If you have a child in the District age (16) or over, you will be receiving a letter containing information about vaccinating your child. If you are interested in taking advantage of his opportunity, please complete and return the enclosed form to our school nurse by Friday, May 7th. Once interest level has been determined, a time for the Schuyler County Department of Public Heath to come to the school and administer the COVID-19 vaccine to your child will be established. You are welcome to come to the school and be with your child while this vaccination takes place. Please note there is no requirement that a child gets vaccinated in order to attend school, but rather, this is just an opportunity to do so if you if you deem it appropriate. Sincerely, John Marshall Superintendent

Dear BCS Parents/Athletes, Due to a late notification of a positive COVID-19 case in the Dundee Central School District, and out of an abundance of caution, all practices between combined Bradford/Dundee athletic teams had to be cancelled this afternoon on very short notice. In order to allow time for proper contact tracing to occur, practices involving combined teams will be cancelled tomorrow, Friday, April 30th. The coaches for each combined team will let their athletes know if they plan to run a separate BCS practice. We do apologize for any inconvenience experienced by our athletes, families and coaching staff. Please stay safe and vigilant in your efforts to combat COVID-19. Sincerely, John Marshall Superintendent

The deadline to purchase a yearbook is almost here! All orders for yearbooks must be submitted by this Friday, April 30. Additionally, if you would like to customize your 2 free pages included with your yearbook, your customizations must be completed by Friday, April 30 also. Any changes submitted after this date will not be printed in the yearbook. Please visit: https://www.treering.com/validate?PassCode=101590513361943 and sign up for a TreeRing account. For detailed instructions on creating an account, you can follow this help center article: https://help.treering.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012544132-Setting-Up-a-TreeRing-Account After you have created your account, follow the steps in this help center article to purchase a yearbook: https://help.treering.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005857886-Buying-a-Yearbook-for-the-Current-School-Year Lastly, if you would like to customize 2 free pages in the yearbook for your student, please follow the instructions in this help center article: https://help.treering.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037440071-Creating-Custom-Pages-Step-by-Step-Screenshots-and-Video-Tutorial

Dear BCS Families, Please be advised that we had a confirmed positive COVID-19 case yesterday at the middle/high school level. All impacted families have been contacted and students who had to quarantine as a result of being deemed a close contact, have shifted to remote learning. As a District we have had an excellent run in terms of limited numbers of positive cases, as well as the number of students/staff having to quarantine, however, this should serve as a reminder that the threat of COVID-19 still exists. It is critical that we continue to take precautionary procedures, such as masking, distancing and sanitization, seriously. Please note that the student who tested positive did not contract the virus here at school. To the very best of our knowledge, there have been no cases of COVID spread linked directly to the school. Stay safe everyone and please help us finish the year of well by continuing to exercise caution as it relates to COVID-19. Thank you, John Marshall Superintendent

Congratulations to Cambri on her accomplishment of National Technical Honor Society with her New Visions Health program at BOCES.

Please be advised that this Saturday, April 24th, fertilizer and pesticide will be applied to the field inside of our track. As a result of this we are asking the public to please stay off the track and field until Monday, April 26th. Thank you.

Pre K and K Screenings If you have a child eligible for * Pre Kindergarten (4 years old before December 1) * Kindergarten (5 years old before December 1) Please call Mrs. Hough in the main office at 583-4616 to sign up by May 14. Screenings will take place in June. Information and registration materials will be mailed home.

Buy your yearbook at Treering.com before the deadline of Friday, April 30th. Make sure you customize your two page spread, free of charge, with your order before this date or miss out entirely! Contact your Yearbook Advisors at yearbook@bradfordcsd.org with any questions!

Join teachers live on Google Meet Mon 4:30-5:30 PM, Wed 6:30-7:30 PM, & Thu 7:00-8:00 PM. Join now: https://meet.google.com/lookup/ch4ajmn57c

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that qualified voters of the District may obtain applications for an absentee ballot from the office of the Clerk of the District. Completed applications must be received by the Clerk of the District no later than 3:30 p.m. on May 18, 2021.

Petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education must be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 9:00 am and 3:00 pm, but not later than 3:30 pm on April 19, 2021. The following vacancies are to be filled: 5-year term ending June 30, 2026 presently open Each petition must be addressed to the Clerk of the District, be signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District, shall state the residence of each signer, the name and address of the candidate.

I’m just the messenger. All complaints should be taken up with Mother Nature. Happy last day of school before break BCS!

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Congratulations to all of our students who were inducted into the National Honor Society today! We are proud of you.

We apologize for the confusion regarding pictures taken yesterday. In order to ensure that all students were featured in the Yearbook, we requested that our school photographer come back to take pictures of any student that was missed in the fall. The primary purpose for these pictures was the Yearbook, however, if your child had their picture taken yesterday and you would like to consider ordering a package, you can still do so by visiting inter-state.com/order and entering code: 58396XA. There will be a spring picture re-take day in the next few weeks where students can have their picture re-taken, if they wish, and parents can order at that time also. If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to our Yearbook advisors at yearbook@bradfordcsd.org.

Congratulations to our students who were recognized for their written work by the REV theater.

Spring picture re-takes are tomorrow! To order pictures of your child, please visit http://inter-state.com/order and enter code 58362V.

The March 16, 2021 Board of Education Virtual Meeting is now viewable at https://brdfrd.com/to0Ny2