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A Note from Bill and Mike | |
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Dear Bishop Kelly Community,
Catholic Schools Week 2023 provided many opportunities for our students, faculty, and staff to live our BK Way attributes of Faith, Safe and Caring Place, Community, and Partnership. Big thank you’s go out to the students and adults who make up our Campus Ministry team for all their work making our Catholic Schools Week celebration at BK come to life. This crew, along with BK’s Pastoral Arts students, also served as Extraordinary Ministers, Cantors, and Music Ministers for the All Schools Mass at St. Marks. Anna McCarthy, and Lisa Cooper did a lot to prepare these students for their leadership roles, and Cheryl Hutchinson pulled the week’s activities together. THANK YOU.
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A new tradition was born this week when our Catholic partner schools welcomed their alumni back to their respective campuses for breakfast on Tuesday morning. These events were a huge success with almost 300 BK students getting up early on a late start day to go back to their Catholic school roots. We look forward to continuing this event for years to come.
It was a treat to have Fr. Roger LaChance (Retired), Father Dat Vu (Our Lady of the Rosary), Father Greg Vance (Bishop Kelly Chaplain), and Brother Joseph Smith (Verbum Spei) join us for lunch and conversation with our students on Thursday. And we were blessed to have Deacon Rick Bonney back on campus this week! Deacon Rick helped with our weekday class masses* and blessed throats today for the Feast Day of St. Blaise. It is always great to have our diocesan priests and deacons be Knights for a day.
*Congratulations to our Freshmen who earned a free jeans/sweats day with their outstanding participation in the Class Mass Attendance Challenge!
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If you are on campus in the next few weeks make sure to stop and read the signs on the walls in the 200 hallway where students and staff called out who they see Jesus in at BK. Teenagers giving shoutouts to their friends, teachers, and coaches who demonstrate the love of Christ is heartwarming and affirming of the work we do here.
Thank you to all of our students for your participation and faith sharing for Catholic Schools Week, and to our families for your prayers and support. It’s been a wonderful, prayerful, week celebrating BK and Catholic education.
New Student Information Knight
On Monday Bishop Kelly hosted more than 260 prospective new students and their families for New Student Information Knight. Angela Calovich, our Director of Admissions, is new in her role this year, and she put on an incredible and record setting New Student Information Knight! We want to thank Angela and the cast of thousands that make this important event a success, including our entire faculty and staff, our facilities and grounds team, dozens of parent volunteers, junior and senior tour guides, and all of the students who manned the tables at the Activities Fair. You did an amazing job inviting and welcoming our prospective students and their families, and showing them what it means to be part of this special school community.
Thank you to our entire community for Doing Good this week.
Peace,
Bill and Mike
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Reflection from Father Vance | |
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When I think of and imagine what a “retreat” is supposed to look and feel like, I can’t help but rely on my experience as a Jesuit. For us, we make a 30-day silent retreat at least twice in our lives, and we are supposed to make an 8-day retreat each year as well. In the longer retreat, we speak to a Spiritual Director once per day, and that person guides the way we choose to spend our time the rest of the day. For me, my annual retreat has been, whenever possible, to gather with my dearest Jesuit friends and enjoy conversation, prayer and fellowship, since for the rest of the year we are scattered far apart in our ministries.
This weekend, BK is completing the second Junior Retreat at Trinity Pines camp in Long Valley. I have been both amazed and heartened by both the similarities as well as the differences that this experience holds for me when compared to my traditional images of “retreat.” Our Juniors participate in sledding, a dance party, and wild games that have them running to and fro like wild beasts. But they also participate in quiet prayer, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and small-group sharing. I love witnessing the contrast, as well as the complementarity of these experiences, as they are all designed to give our Juniors a visceral and life-changing knowledge of God’s “Reckless Love” for each of them.
It also strengthens my own faith so much to watch the Senior Campus Ministers and the adults minister to the Juniors while they are having this powerful experience of retreat. At the first Junior Retreat a couple weeks ago, I joked with our Campus Minister Anna McCarthy that the Seniors were so eager to serve the retreat experience that they would have done, or attempted to do, anything that Anna asked them to do. I had a funny image in my head that if she had asked one of them to run to the North Pole and bring her back a coffee-cup full of ice, they would have started running the instant her request was heard! But what a beautiful testament to the absolutely central element of our faith – being of humble, committed and joyful service to others in the name of Jesus Christ!
Finally, the participation in two Junior Retreats in rapid succession leads me to a reflection and a challenge to our entire BK community. The reason the second one came so hard and fast upon the first was that we had to reschedule the first one because of inclement travel conditions when it was originally scheduled before Christmas. But, the reason we added a second Junior Retreat is because one per year is no longer enough to accommodate the number of kids who desire to have this experience! What a great “problem” to have, that more and more young people long to have this powerful retreat experience of God’s “Reckless Love!” Can you say the same thing? Do you desire to dance your faith, to pray your faith and to serve in the name of your faith? Can you find a way to make a “retreat,” even in the midst of your busy life? The retreats I make as a Jesuit are certainly different from the Junior Retreats we offer here at BK, and yet the goal is the same – to know at the deepest part of our souls that God loves us with reckless love, and that sending his Son Jesus Christ is the definitive and everlasting proof of that love. Find a way, find any way, to root that truth as deeply as possible into your life, and share your faith in it with the people and the world around you, who need it so desperately. May God bless and confirm all of the ways we make “retreats,” and may they all bear the fruit of deepening closeness and trust in Him!
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Each week Bishop Kelly faculty and staff nominate students, and students nominate faculty and staff, who have demonstrated the BK Way attributes of Faith, Safe and Caring Place, Academic Excellence, Activities, Honor, Generosity, Community, and Partnership.
Congratulations to this week's Knights of the Week!
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Grace Rhodes
Activities
The National Athletic Advisory Council (NAAC) announced newly elected 2023 Council Members from a pool of thousands of candidates spanning the country, with Bishop Kelly Student-Athlete, Grace Rhodes representing Idaho. Grace has competed in practically every sport available to her: basketball, hockey, track, softball, gymnastics, dance and has been on the varsity soccer team since freshman year. As a junior, midfielder Rhodes was named co-captain, selected to Idaho All Conference 1st Team, and scored two goals leading her team to a 4A
state championship. She is also a member of the 2006 ECNL Boise Thorns club team and dances for the competitive team at Bishop Kelly and Kennedy School of Dance. This unstoppable athlete ran the Race to Robie Creek, the hardest half-marathon in the northwest and when she’s not working on maintaining a 4.0 with multiple AP classes, or serving as head yearbook editor, enjoys skiing and hot yoga.
“I knew as soon as we interviewed Grace, I wanted her on the council,” said Catch23 Performance owner, Kaci Allen. “Though we have a review process and team who ultimately votes on every potential member, her energy was so contagious I had high hopes for her joining and am excited to see her contributions this year!”
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Ultimate and Super Fans
Activities, Community
These awesome students attended at least 5 events of the Ultimate Fan Challenge. Our Super Fans attended all 6 events! These students went to great lengths to support their fellow classmates! Your enthusiasm was appreciated by all.
- Hailey Baughman (5)
- Nate Brown (5)
- Hailey Chapman (5)
- Lauren Fettic (6)
- Addie Hiler (6)
- Jane Teuber (6)
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Mrs. Angela Calovich
Community, Partnership
Mrs. Calovich just completed a very successful Information Knight held on January 30th. There were many moving parts in order for this to be a successful night and Mrs. Calovich did this seamlessly. Mrs. Calovich also helped organize part of Catholic Schools Week! She is a woman of many talents and always offers a helping hand. She does all of this hard work with a smile on her face and a joyful attitude. The students and staff appreciate and love Mrs. Calovich!
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Save the Date for Irish Fest! | |
Saturday evening, March 11 in the REG. Enjoy Irish dancers, bagpipes, a delicious meal, dancing and FRIENDSHIP with our BK community, Parents and Alumknights! There will be amazing raffle prizes, a dessert dash, silent auction and MORE! Ticket Sales begin SOON... | |
2023 School Year Calendar | |
The calendar for the 2023 - 2024 School year has been approved. Please click the button for important dates including the first day of school, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Break, Final Exam dates, and Graduation for the Class of 2024! |
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Returning Student Registration for 2023 - 2024 | |
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9th - 11th grade families should have received an email last Friday with a link to enroll into the TADS Tuition Management system for the 2023 -2024 School Year. This is the first step toward registering for next school year and must be completed before students can register for classes.
Next week Counselors will be presenting and distributing course registration materials to Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors. Course request forms are due on March 3rd. This form should be turned in to the Counseling Center once completed. Counselors are available to answer any questions that students or parents may have about course selection for next year.
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Graduating from Bishop Kelly means having mastered a rigorous high school curriculum. The Senior Thesis showcases the culminating skills our students have acquired and remains a time-honored tradition at BK. All seniors are beginning this process in about a week in English classes of all levels. This requirement for graduation simply asks students to answer “What have you learned?” Although seemingly simple, being required to focus on one thesis across several academic disciplines proves quite difficult, especially given the component to discover the transcending nature of spirituality as well within their thesis. Teachers may have slightly different due dates, but seniors can expect to turn in these papers before Spring Break and defend them to a panel between April 13-18.
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Idaho Catholic Youth Conference | |
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BK Students are encouraged to attend ICYC! Students should register to attend with their Parish youth program. Students who are not members of a parish can still register! Several local parishes are offering the opportunity for any teen to register with them. See Ms. McCarthy for more info!
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February is American Heart Month!
Take this month as an opportunity to talk with your healthcare provider about heart health and your risk factors for heart disease. Don’t wait until it is too late, make an appointment today!
In honor of Heart Month, BK is hosting several challenges to promote Heart Health awareness. Prizes offered for the first 5 students who can name the location of the AEDs on the Bishop Kelly campus. See Mrs. Klaas in the nurse’s office for more information!
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Volunteer Opportunities for BK Students | |
Educational Travel Opportunities for BK Students | |
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Principal
Head Football Coach
Library Assistant
Boys Head Golf Coach
Full Time Daytime Custodian
$15-$17/hour
Full Time Groundskeeper
$15-$18/hour
Part TIme Activities Bus Driver
WE NEED SUBS!
Bishop Kelly is now accepting applications for Substitute Teachers for the 2022-23 school year. This is on an as needed basis. Some experience preferred but not required. To apply, complete this General Employment Application and send to Amy Eisele at aeisele@bk.org.
Visit our Employment Page for More Information, and please helps us spread the word that BK is a great place to work!
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Attendance Office Procedures | |
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Parents are asked to email the school’s Attendance Office before 9:30am on the day a student will be absent from class for all or part of the school day due to an illness or an appointment. That email is attendance@bk.org
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Bishop Kelly is a closed campus. If students need to leave school for any reason, parents must notify the Attendance Office by emailing attendance@bk.org before school.
- Students must sign-out when they leave campus during the school day, and sign back in when they return. They will be asked for verification of any professional appointments upon returning to school. (i.e. a doctor’s note)
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