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Coronavirus Update
I understand that many of you may have questions and concerns with the announcement last night from Superintendent Winston that all local and out-of-state field trips are canceled. I want to begin by thanking our families for all for your patience and support as decisions are ever-changing due to the impact of the Coronavirus. Please know that the safety of our students, staff, and families is our top priority. In addition, we must also consider the financial implications for our families and act responsibly to ensure that at least a good portion of the funds paid for field trips can be refunded. Therefore, all of our upcoming field trips in March and April are being canceled at Bailey, which includes the 8th Grade trip to Williamsburg, 7th Grade to Carowinds, 6th Grade to Camp Thunderbird, and Performing Band to Nashville, TN. The Orchestra trip to Universal Studios in May is still to be determined since we have time before funds paid become non-refundable. Lastly, CMS is allowing Orchestras to attend their MPA in Winston Salem on Thursday.
We understand that this decision creates a lot of questions regarding refunds for all of these canceled trips. Please know that we have already begun working with our field trip vendors to get answers to you as quickly as possible. This includes any monies paid this week that were already deposited. Also remember this will not be a quick process as we have already sent out security deposits and will have to work with the vendors' policies regarding reimbursements. The process of retrieving some or all of these funds could take several weeks and there is a good possibility we will not get the full amount returned. Finally, there are CMS guidelines and logistics to follow when reimbursing over 1000 parents for a field trip so this will take some time.
As the situation with the Coronavirus changes, we will continue to update families with the latest information from CMS, Mecklenburg County Health Department, and the CDC. The Coronavirus crisis continues to evolve rapidly so please pay attention to all forms of communication. At the school level, we have enhanced cleaning throughout the building including classrooms, the lunch room, and restrooms. Additionally, the Flu and stomach bugs are running rampant as well so please keep your student home if they are sick, especially if they are running a fever. We encourage you to follow the recommended preventative steps and latest updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Stay home if you are sick, except to get medical care.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow.
- Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.
Stay Healthy!
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BMS PTSA SPRING FUNDRAISER
The BMS Spring Fundraiser is underway! Students received an order form for a variety of yummy treats that they can offer for sale to family and friends. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Bailey Middle School PTSA. Students can win prizes and unique experiences by participating in this fundraising effort. For more information, please refer to the handout. This is an optional activity, but we hope that you will participate to help us reach our goals!
As a reminder, our ONLY money collection date is THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH. Please send the money or checks for items sold with your student in an envelope labeled with their name and homeroom/red block teacher. Distribution of purchased items will be after Spring Break.
Thank you for your support of Bailey Middle School PTSA!
For more information, please refer to the handout that your student will be bringing home this week. This is an optional activity, but we hope that you will participate to help us reach our goals!
Our money collection date is THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH. Please send the money or checks for items sold with your student in an envelope labeled with their name and homeroom/red block teacher. Distribution of purchased items will be after Spring Break.
Thank you for your support of Bailey Middle School PTSA!
Nicole Monacell, PTSA VP of Fundraising
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Bronco Fund Update!
Bailey families are the best! In just over a month, the PTSA has raised more than 25% of our $17,000 goal. Thanks so much to those of you who have already donated.
If you have not and would like to, please visit
this site or complete the $20 in 2020 donation form
(click here for form) to contribute. Thank you!
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Beautification Day Volunteers Needed
Please join us on Saturday, March 21st from 9 am - 12 pm for a morning of campus beautification. Students and parents welcome. Please bring gloves, rakes, shovels and any other gardening tools you may have to help us get Bailey ready for spring!
Thank you!
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8th Grade Parents
Special Message from Hough High School...
Attention Parents!
Hough Student Services will be having Parent Registration Sessions again this year for rising 9th grade families. However, we are looking for your feedback to make some changes from our previous sessions to make sure we are covering topics you would like with regards to course registration. Please take a moment to complete the below form:
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Character Ed - February Empathy
Each month we celebrate a different character trait, that ties with Bailey's Leader in Me habits! This month we celebrated the students below for demonstrating Empathy. These students were selected by their core teachers for showing such high levels of character. We are so proud of each of them and thank all of the families and friends that joined us in the celebration.
Next month's celebration will be held on Thursday, April 2nd and we will celebrate Respect.
| Abigial Baker |
| AJ Luciano |
| Alex Ridgway |
| Bennett Hayes |
| Bo Schiano |
| Colby Marr |
| Colin Dickey |
| David Lyons |
| Decarri Hallman |
| Elexa Foster |
| Emily Tinder |
| Giancarlos Zaatini |
| Grace Bellofatto |
| Haylie Klusty |
| Henry Storey |
| Jack Dutton |
| Jadon Thompson |
| John Harris |
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| Lily Erwin |
| Kate Breault |
| Maggie Stamm |
| Markus Bester |
| Moldiyar Daniyarov |
| Olivia Bechtel |
| Olsa Grajcevci |
| Omar Mercado |
| Riley Spencer |
| Sebastian Glennon |
| Sebastian Sanchez |
| Shaelyn Wilkie |
| Sydney Yates |
| Tristan Croteau |
| Valerie Baldwin |
| Vanessa Aguilera |
| Whittier Henry |
| Zoie Davis |
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2020-2021 Honors Drama Auditions
For 7th Graders (Rising 8th Grade):
If you have not had Drama Class at Bailey, then:
1. Join the Honors 8th Grade Drama Google Classroom
(axmpdfb)
2. Pick a Scene or Monologue
3. Memorize it
4. Perform it (record it and upload it into the Audition Google Classroom)
5. Turn in the 8th Grade Honors Drama Audition Form to Ms. Klingman
If you have had Drama Class at Bailey, then:
1. Turn in the 8th Grade Honors Drama Audition Form to Ms. Klingman
For 6th Grade (Rising 7th Grade):
1. Join the Honors 7th Grade Drama Google Classroom (mq524bd)
2. Pick a Scene or Monologue
3. Memorize it
4. Perform it (record it or schedule an audition time with Ms. Klingman)
5. Turn in the Audition Form to Ms. Klingman
Due by the end of the day March 21st
Honors Drama does conflict with Honors Chorus, Art, and Dance.
The List will be posted on Ms. Klingman's Website by the end of the day March 22nd
See Ms. Klingman's Weebly Page (
https://www.klingmantheatre.weebly.com)
or the Drama Bulletin Board for Audition forms and Monologue and Scene Suggestions
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Bailey Band Notes
Congratulations to Gustavo Cruz!!
He was able to audition for the All-State Concert Band AND All-State Jazz Band yesterday! To say the audition process is competitive is an understatement. Over 1,000 players in concert band and jazz band got to audition after scoring at the top of their district auditions for a little over 300 spots in 5 ensembles.
Gustavo is not the first Bailey Band student audition but he is the first to make either band.
He has earned first chair on tenor sax in the 2020 All-State Middle School Concert Band AND second chair on tenor sax in the 2020 All-State Middle School Jazz Band!!!
The Bailey Performing Band attended the 2020 South Central District Music Performance Adjudication at Wingate University on March 6th. There are approximately 50-55 middle school bands in a 10-county area that attend this district event. Some bands perform for comments only and many perform for ratings. Adjudicators provide written and recorded feedback for the bands to note what has been done well and where improvements need to be made.
The band prepared three pieces for their stage performance and received a rating of "Superior" from each of the three judges. Band music is graded from level one to six. The Bailey Performing Band took music in a Grade II/III split. This is the first time the band has taken a piece in Grade III. The band also sight-read a piece which they had never seen before after five minutes of preparation time. For sight-reading, the band received a rating of "Superior" from the sight-reading judge.
Congratulations to the following Bailey Performing Band members:
| Agostinelli, Zoe |
trombone |
| Cameron, Keller |
percussion |
| Childers, Sierra |
clarinet |
| Cruz, Gustavo |
tenor sax |
| Curley, Devin |
F horn |
| Davis, Addison |
flute |
| Eakins, Anna |
flute |
| Eddie, Kaeden |
trumpet |
| Gardner, Riley |
euphonium |
| Haney, Zane |
euphonium |
| Jansen, Adam |
alto sax |
| Jones, Cassie |
trombone |
| Kuyvenhoven, Haley |
trombone |
| Lackey, Makenna |
clarinet |
| Lockcuff, Donaven |
trombone |
| Lorenz, Rachael |
flute |
| Magana, Jonathan |
percussion |
| Malayan, Alexis |
flute |
| McDonald, TyJon |
percussion |
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| Mell, Samantha |
flute |
| Middelthon, Johan |
percussion |
| Palpanoori, Shiva |
flute |
| Parks, Miley |
flute |
| Plaisance, Zachary |
alto sax |
| Quinones, Julissa |
alto sax |
| Sawyer, Tierra |
percussion |
| Scavo, Mason |
trombone |
| Schible, Gavin |
percussion |
| Shelkey, Anderson |
tuba |
| Sheppard, Ben (Shep) |
trumpet |
| Taylor, Sam |
F horn |
| Thompson, Jonathan |
F horn |
| Trainum, Leo |
trumpet |
| Turney, Kaitlin |
trombone |
| Tyrell, Ethan |
flute |
| Williamson, Griffin |
trumpet |
| Wunder, Mary |
alto sax |
| Ziegler, Michele |
trombone |
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2020-21 School Year 7
th & 8
th Grade
Performance Dance Elective Auditions
Attention current 6
th & 7
th Grade Students:
Auditions for the 7
th Grade Performance Dance Elective will be held next week on BOTH Tuesday, March 17
th from 8:30am-9:35am and Wednesday, March 18
th from 8:30am-9:35am. STUDENTS MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS. Students MUST complete the Audition form online at the home page of
www.broncosdance.weebly.com, no later than MONDAY 3/16.
Additionally, any current 7
th Grader not enrolled in the 7
th Grade Performance Dance class that wishes to audition for the 8
th Grade Performance Dance class, please plan to audition on BOTH Tuesday, March 17
th from 8:30am-9:35am and Wednesday, March 18
th from 8:30am-9:35am. STUDENTS MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS. Students MUST complete the Audition form online at the home page of
www.broncosdance.weebly.com, no later than MONDAY 3/16.
NOTE
: 7th Grade PD is second semester on "B Days", and 8th Grade PD is first semester on "B Days". Students are only permitted to take one Honors Level Arts Elective (this includes: Drama, Dance, Art, & Chorus)
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Bailey Theatre presents ..... Two Amazing Plays, One Great Night!!
Push and Pull by Terry Gabbard, the story about a dog and his affect on the people whose lives he touches.
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, set in an elementary school play ground. You won't want to miss this tragically comical romance.
Come support Theatre in Our Schools Month AND these amazing actors as they perform two great pieces of theatre!
Performances are March 19th and 20th at 7PM in the Bailey Cafetorium. Tickets are $5 for Students and Children and $8 for Adults.
Tickets will go on sale in the mornings in front of the media center starting March 16th. They can, also, be purchased at
www.bmspabc.weebly.com
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8th Grade Parents
HOUGH PTSA Welcomes You!
As you plan for your 8
th graders transition to Hough High School, I would like to invite you to become an active part of the Hough PTSA. There will be several open PTSA Board positions that are in need of your involvement. If you are interested and would like to find out more, please email or contact either
Debbie Wood or
Denise Cusick. We look forward to you being part of the Husky family! Thank you!
Open Positions: President, Treasurer, .......
Debbie Wood- Hough PTSA President, 704-562-2673
Denise Cusick, Hough VP Fundraising, 704-995-9167
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We are excited to invite you and your family to participate in a 5K fundraiser designed to support all
54,000+ students, teachers, staff and families of the Northwest and Northeast Learning Communities. Funds raised will (1) allow teachers/schools to apply for a mini grants and (2) create a critical needs fund for students/families experiencing a crisis.
The event will take place on
Saturday, April 4th at JM Alexander Middle (at
12201 Hambright Rd., Huntersville, NC 28078). Festivities begin at 8:30am. Students are encouraged to promote their spirit by wearing their school's t-shirt, and adults will receive a race t-shirt with their registration received by March 14
th. The school with the highest number of registrations wins a FREE breakfast for their teachers and staff during Teacher Appreciation week.
For questions or anyone interested in potential sponsorship, please contact Reneisha Black at
[email protected] or 704-620-7001.
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BRONCO CALENDAR
Click
HERE to see the BMS Master Calendar for 2019-20
Please note some dates are subject to change
| March 19th |
Cookie Dough Fundraiser - Turn In Date |
| April 4th |
R.A.C.E. - see article above |
Bronco athletes and fans unite!
Please click
HERE for Bailey sports news, schedules and permission slips.
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