June 25, 2020
BK Alive
Weekly News and Information from Bishop Kelly
BK Alive is emailed periodically on Fridays during the summer months with information for BK Parents. Please read this important information, as it is our primary method of communication with our families.

Welcome to all our new families who have students that will be joining BK next fall!

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BK Is the Idaho High Schools Activities Association School of Excellence for 2020!
Each year the Idaho High School Activities Association awards the top 3 schools in each classification with the “School of Excellence Award”. This program is the most prestigious award a school can receive as it combines all aspects of IHSAA core mission for education-based participation. It combines how each school scored in state athletics/activities, state academics and in the area of citizenship/sportsmanship, all weighted equally. I am pleased to announce that this year’s 4A winner is Bishop Kelly High School.

More now than ever, this is truly a team effort with every person in our building making valuable contributions. I want to recognize/congratulate each and every one of our amazing and gifted teachers, leadership team, coaches, parents and every department and thank you for all your great work in the time of great uncertainty. Even though we couldn't count athletic state championships totals this spring, your work with virtual learning helped us tremendously in the area of academic excellence totals.

What we are most proud of, in addition to the primary awards, schools that score 90% on the Citizenship Component and have no player/coach ejections throughout the year or incidents of unsportsmanlike school behavior at state tournaments will receive an "Award of Excellence" certificate.  We were one of those schools.

A special & sincere thanks go out to all our coaches for all your tremendous leadership, dedication and hard work you pour into our programs and the truly outstanding job you do in coaching and inspiring our youth. You are to be commended from the highest level, and should feel very proud of all the great work you have done.

Tom Shanahan
Director of Activities

Summer Conditioning Class for BK Athletes
2020 Summer Conditioning Class for BK Athletes will be the following days.

June 15th , 16th , 17th , 18th ,
June 22nd , 23rd , 24th , 25th ,
June 29th , 30th , No class the rest of the week
July 6th , 7th , 8th , 9th ,
July 13th , 14th , 15th , 16th ,
July 20th , 21st , 22nd , 23rd ,
July 27th , 28th , 29th 30th ,

Time schedule:

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. will be all non-football Athletes
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. will be all Freshmen and Sophomore Football Players
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. will be all Junior and Senior Football Players.

In July, we may have all the Football players coming in at 9:00 a.m.

The fee for this class is $100.

To sign your student up for Summer Conditioning, please print THIS FORM and return it to Coach Brennan at tbrennan@bk.org. (If you can't print the form out you can email coach Brennan to register.)

Summer Academic Workshops
We have had many requests from students and families for opportunities over the summer months for academic boot camps. This is especially important given the uneven educational experiences that our incoming students have had, along with many of our normal summer activities being cancelled or postponed.

To fill that need we are offering the following Academic Workshops for Bishop Kelly Students:

  • Academic Survival Skills
  • Artistic Creations Camp (Drawing & Ceramics)
  • Coding and Robotics Camp
  • College Application Accelerator
  • Math Foundations LaunchPad
  • Writing LaunchPad

These boot camps will be taught on the BK campus by BK faculty members during the weeks of June 15-18, June 22-25 and August 4-6. We will adhere to strict health and safety guidelines similar to what we have been doing with our partial school opening these past two weeks for students needing assistance.

Financial Aid is available for families who need assistance.


Senior Parents - Grad Party

2020 Bishop Kelly Graduating Senior Party on Tuesday, July 7 th.    The Wahooz Indoor Adventure Park and the Outside Attractions and Areas will be open for the students. Details below:

  • Where: Wahooz
  • When: Tuesday, July 7th 11pm-3am
  • Who: 2020 BK graduating seniors only (need 50 students)
 
Sign Up/Payment for students : The cost per student for the 4 hours will be $49.99. Please Venmo Judi Sullivan at @Jsull84, or send a check to:

Judi Sullivan
1502 North 24th Street
Boise, ID 83702

Please include the name of your student(s) so we can track RSVP's.  Please pay by  Saturday, June 27th , we will need to give a head count to Wahooz.  We are required to have 50 students participate, so please sign up right away so we can get a head count. 
 
Parents : We need volunteers to work 2-hour shifts during the night. We need to provide one parent chaperone per 10 students. There will be a sign up Genius sent on Monday for parents to volunteer. Please check out these Chaperone Instructions.
 
Prizes:  Kim Fidler has volunteered to organize prizes for the kids. We will give the students a raffle ticket when they arrive and raffle off prizes throughout the evening, depending on how many we get. Please contact Kim (text/call) at 208-284-2757. if you have items or $$ you would be willing to donate. 
 
Thank you! We are excited for our kids and want them to celebrate! Questions? Please let me know. Thanks!
 
Judi Sullivan 
Cell: 208-995-6264

Job Openings at Bishop Kelly
Substitute Kitchen Assistant
Activities Bus Driver

Important Links
Contact BK
  • Front Office: 375-6010
  • Fax: 375-3626
  • Business Office Manager: 947-1209
  • BK Development Office: 947-1325
  • BK Foundation Office: 323-4789

To add, remove, or change your email address, or to remove your name from our regular mailing lists, please contact Chrissy at  cbeckner@bk.org .
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