BK Alive
Weekly News and Information for BK Families
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LOOK FOR THE BLUE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL THAT SAYS "VIEW ENTIRE MESSAGE" TO EXPAND THE EMAIL, OR CLICK HERE TO SEE ARCHIVED COMMUNICATIONS FROM BK.
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Monday, November 9th - A Day
8:15 AM start
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Tuesday, November 10th - B Day
9:15 AM start
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Wednesday, November 11th - A Day
8:15 AM start
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Thursday, November 12th - B Day
9:15 AM start,
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Friday, November 13th - A Day
8:15 AM start
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Upcoming:
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Saturday, November 7th - Winner's Choice Dinner and Auction VIrtual Gala
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Tuesday, November 17th - LAST CHANCE to get a School Photos taken by Parker Portraits
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Friday, November 20th - All School Mass on YouTube
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November 23rd - 27th - Thanksgiving Holiday, NO SCHOOL
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A Message from Rich and Mike |
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Dear BK Parents,
Fall has definitely arrived as we successfully complete our 12th week of the 2020-21 school year. Leaves are falling and we have a lot of raking to do this weekend. Temperatures will drop over 20 degrees tomorrow with snow in the forecast for next week. The BK football team is playing tonight in Pocatello against Century High School in the state quarterfinals (GO KNIGHTS!). And, the BK Foundation’s Winner’s Choice Online Auction and Virtual Event is tomorrow evening starting at 6:00 pm with the online auction closing at 10:00 pm!
Thank you to the 391 of you who completed the “First 11 Weeks Survey”. Your feedback is very important to us and will help us to continue to improve our instructional and operational plan. Here are the highlights of the survey results, with a more complete analysis coming next week:
- On a scale of 1(low) to 10 (high), you provided the following ratings:
- 8.4 - your child's overall educational experience thus far.
- 8.5 - your satisfaction with the decisions that the BK Administration have made thus far in the school year.
- 8.7 - how you feel BK has done in keeping our students, faculty/staff and community safe and healthy.
- 8.8 - how you rate your family's commitment in action to reducing the spread of COVID-19 at home and on weekends with 3 W’s and gatherings
- 9.1 - how you rate the quality and timeliness of communication from BK thus far
- In the two open ended questions of “what are your highest priority questions or concerns at this time?” and “what comments, ideas or suggestions do you have?”, you provided 440 written responses. We are in the process of analyzing and categorizing those responses so we can answer your questions, address your concerns, and consider your ideas and suggestions for improvements in our instructional and operational plan.
We are very pleased with the number of participants, the ratings you provided and the thoughtfulness and care you put into your written responses. While the ratings were an improvement from your Two Week Survey ratings,, we are by no means satisfied and, based on our first reading of the open responses, we have work to do to get better.
Finally, we always want to update you weekly in BK Alive on the COVID-19 numbers for Bishop Kelly. This week, we have had two students and one staff member test positive, all three from household members. We still have had no known transmission within our school in the 14 cumulative cases since the start of the school year. We currently have 41 students in quarantine due to close contact with an infected person.
While we are proud of these numbers, we stressed very strongly once again this week with our students that we must stay vigilant in our 3 W’s and avoid social gatherings. The average daily cases in Ada County over the past two weeks per 100,000 people have grown from 27.41 to 36.84 this week and positivity rates are high so we know the virus is very active in our state and valley.
Thank you once again for your feedback via the survey and for all you have done in partnership with us to make the first 12 weeks of school so successful in most every way.
God bless,
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Father Vance's Reflection |
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As this strange, utterly unprecedented year continues on, it seems that we are doing an awful lot of waiting. First and foremost, the whole world is waiting for an answer to the death, sickness and suffering of the ongoing pandemic. And, according to almost everyone, even when there is a viable vaccine, many of us will have to wait to receive it. More recently, we Americans are waiting to see who our next President will be, and there is a possibility that we will wait longer than any of us want to for that news. Students (and Faculty) are waiting for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. We are waiting for the next time we can gather safely with family and friends, we are waiting for an end to the first semester and, personally, I am waiting to get a new hip on November 17. We are all waiting for something, and perhaps we are waiting for a great many things. Waiting seems to define us these days.
I once had a very wise Jesuit Superior who said that “the Poor are those who have to wait.” The financially poor wait in food lines for the charity of others. The relationally poor wait for visitors and companionship. The medically poor wait for care and treatment. But we are all spiritually poor, in that we have to wait for God’s initiative and activity in our lives. THIS kind of waiting, however, has to be an active waiting and a holy waiting. What I mean by this is that we have to believe that God WILL act, and God WILL (and does) take initiative in the lives of His beloved creation. The trick, of course, is learning to look for HOW God is acting, knowing that it may not be in the way we are wanting or expecting.
When I served at Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, I was the Spiritual Director for a colleague who was pregnant. She had the experience of feeling her baby kicking in the womb, and then for some reason, the kicking stopped. She was terrified that the pregnancy was not going well, but her Doctor told her to sit in a comfortable chair and position, to eliminate all exterior and interior distractions, and attend to herself and her baby, for even the slightest indication of movement in her womb. Thankfully, she eventually felt it, and she delivered a healthy baby boy. But I will always remember that as one of the most wonderful expressions of the essence of what prayer is as well. To try and minimize external and internal distractions. To be quiet and attend to the deepest places within us. To wait for even the most subtle sign of life to stir. It will happen! Will we recognize it?
Let’s not just wait passively for God to give us what we believe we most need. Let’s try and see if we can identify how God is working, even if it is not how we might want, need or expect Him to work. Doing this will make the waiting we all have to do more active, more productive and more holy. May God bless our waiting world, and our community here at Bishop Kelly!
Father Vance
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Every Tuesday, throughout the school day (8am-3pm) we have Eucharistic Adoration taking place in our school's chapel. This makes it possible for Theology classes, faculty, staff and students to come and spend a few minutes with our Lord throughout the day. It's also a time when incredible grace is poured out upon our school community.
MORE ADORERS NEEDED
We currently have 21 adorers that come and pray for one hour during the day but we are still in need of 3-4 more to ensure that each, one-hour, slot has three adorers. If you would like to be a part of this powerful adoration ministry which commits to praying for our students and our Bishop Kelly community, please consider signing up for an hour of adoration. (This is a weekly commitment).
If you have any questions, please contact Lorissa Horn at LHORN@bk.org. |
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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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Kristin Gaskins
Academic Excellence
Not only does she get ahead on her work, but she also does an exceptional job completing her tasks/assignments, going above and beyond what I ask for!
Gabe Torkelson
Community
Gabe is my "sound check" guy and any sort of technology tester when we're online. I can always count on him to help me out so that class will go smoothly. He is not only helpful to me, but he is also helpful to his classmates and offers any kind of assistance to them, especially when we are online. He is a bright spot in the classroom and in our BK community.
Katie Barnhart
Community
Katie is incredibly intelligent as well as generous with her time. She shares her thoughts with teachers and fellow students in the interest of furthering her learning. She also has quite a wit and is eager to expand her friend group through games and conversation.
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BK Staff of the Week
Mrs. Hutchinson, Vice Principal
Mrs. Eisele, Director of Human Resources
Mrs. Cunningham, School Nurse
These three individuals are responsible for the continuous tracking and documenting all cases related to Covid. They work extremely hard doing a very challenging and time-consuming task, that takes much daily time and focus. Thanks to them, we are able to quickly identify close contacts related to Covid-19, identify who should be quarantined and then manage the communication for all involved. Their extraordinary efforts are key in keeping our faculty, staff and students safe during this pandemic
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2020 Winner's Choice Update |
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Item #20: NFL Game in San Francisco at Levi Stadium Private Suite for four. |
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Item #8: One Week at the Hemingways in Sun Valley |
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The Online Auction is LIVE NOW! |
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Couples Ticket Meal Pick Up Instructions:
Your meals, wine and virtual party box to enjoy during the event will be available for pick up at the BK cafeteria TODAY (Friday, November 6th) until 5 p.m.
Virtual Table and Knights Table Meal Delivery:
If you purchased a Table of 10 or Knight’s Table your dinner and wine will be delivered Saturday, November 7 between 3:45-5 p.m.
All are welcome to join in the fun tomorrow night on the BK YouTube Channel beginning at 6:00 PM.
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BK Festival of Trees Donations |
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The BK Foundation is doing a "Christmas Staycation" themed tree for the Saint Alphonsus Festival of Trees this year. Our parent volunteers, headed by Sarah Carey, are looking for new or used games that they can use to decorate the tree. You can drop off board games, card games, yard games, puzzles, etc. for this effort in the Front Office. (Please clearly label them BK Festival of Trees.) |
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Cold and flu season is upon us...If you have not already done so, please consider having your student receive a flu vaccine. I have plenty of vaccine, both nasal and injectable doses available for administration here at school. There is no cost, and the process is easy. Simply fill out THIS CONSENT FORM and send it back to school with your student (to be turned in to the front office), or via email to mcunningham@bk.org. I will call your student down to my office, administer the vaccine, and log the vaccine into the state system. If you have any questions please contact me here at BK.
Best Regards,
MaryLou Cunningham, RN, BSN, NBCSN, MHS
Coordinator, Saint Alphonsus School Health Program
(208) 375-6010
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- Congratulations to BOTH our Boys and Girls Varsity Swimmers for bringing home the State Championship!
Tonight:
- Quarterfinal varsity football Bishop Kelly vs. Century
- November 6th at 7:00 PM in Pocatello.
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Tonight's football game will be broadcast live on Salt and Light Catholic Radio, and streamed on IdahoSports.com
We will communicate with parents and fans about who can attend athletic events in person. This information is changing weekly.
For those who cannot attend in person, all of our Home competitions that take place in the Carley Athletic Center and on Nick Ysursa Field, can be viewed LIVE on the NFHS Network. The cost to subscribe is $10.99 per month, or $69.99 for the entire year.
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Yearbooks and Student Photos |
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Parker Portraits will be at BK ONE LAST TIME to catch any students who have not yet had their photo taken. Students can get their photo taken during Homeroom and Lunch here at BK.
Seniors - this photo is for your ID card only. This is NOT the tux/drape photo.
If you would like to order a photo package from Parker Portraits please follow these steps for online ordering:
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Go to www.parkerportraitsonline.com
- Leave STUDENT KEY blank
- Click on Job/Event for the drop down menu
- Select Bishop Kelly Fall 2020 & Click Open
- Enter Subject Details (Student)
- Enter Contact Details & Click Submit
- Choose your package
PICTURE RETAKES
If your student took pictures on Registration Day (freshmen and new students) and you would like a retake, please make sure to fill out THIS FORM and bring your previous picture packet in on that day. This form is only for retakes!
SENIOR TUX AND DRAPE PHOTOS FOR THE YEARBOOK
If your student has not taken his/her Tux or Drape photo, please take care of it as soon as possible. We need to start building these pages for the yearbook. If your student took one during the studio days, the photographer will send those to BK. Mrs. Bainbridge will certainly contact individuals if she doesn't have a picture, so no news is generally good news.
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College and Career Center |
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NCACA Virtual College Fair:
This fall you will have the opportunity to connect with more than 600 colleges and universities at the NACAC virtual college fair.
Sunday, Nov. 8 from 2 - 10 p.m. ET
Each virtual fair is a free, one-day event. Attend as often as you like. Parents invited, too. Sign up at virtualcollegefairs.org
Virtual College Visits at BK:
The College and Career center will be hosting virtual college visits during lunches on A and B days as well as during office hours on B days. Have your Junior or Senior log into SCOIR to RSVP and to see all upcoming events.
Mon Nov 9, 11:15AM - 11:50 University of California -Santa Barbra
Tue Nov 10, 12:15PM - 12:50PM Seton Hall University
Tue Nov 10, 2:30PM - 3:05PM Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Wed Nov 11, 11:15AM - 11:50AM University of Idaho
Fri Nov 13, 11:15AM - 11:50AM St. John's College (Santa Fe)
To attend a virtual college visit log into your SCOIR account or come to room 406.
Click here for a complete list of upcoming college visits
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Service Hours Opportunities |
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Saint Vincent de Paul Thanksgiving Food Box Distribution
St Vincent de Paul needs some help w distributing thanksgiving boxes in a couple weeks at Expo Idaho.
Saint Ignatius Rake Up Event
Volunteers are needed for the St. Ignatius Rake Up event on Saturday, November 14th from 9:30 until about noon.
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The yearbook staff is working on pages for the yearbook, and we need your photos!
Please send in any photos that you have of your student participating or completing his/her Senior Service Project, Senior Float, Quarantine Pets, Purchases and/or Activities, and any pictures from summer trips and/or activities. Be sure to label them or put in the email body some sort of explanation. Photos can be shared with us on our Instagram page at @bkyrbook or via email to knightpix@bk.org
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Online Ordering from the BK Spirit Store! |
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In order to maintain safe distancing AND be available for all your Spirit Wear needs, the Bishop Kelly Spirit Store will be offering online ordering for Fall Semester. A selection of items will be available each month, and you can order via email!
Please note, the actual BK Spirit Store will NOT be open during the lunch hour for additional items, and the Front Office staff will not have access to the store.
We're all getting really good at shopping online, right?
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#146
Ladies Short Sleeved BK Strong T-Shirt
$15.00
#147
Mens Short Sleeved BK Strong T-Shirt
$15.00
(Not pictured, Same Design)
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#256
BK Unisex Hooded Sweatshirt Drk. Gray
$36.00
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#255
BK Unisex Hooded Sweatshirt Lt. Gray
$45.00
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#141
Unisex Long Sleeved T-Shirt
$20
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#822
BK Cap, Velcro Back
One Size Fits All
$22.00
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How to Order
*Order deadline: EVERY MONDAY
*Order Pickup: EVERY FOLLOWING THURSDAY ONLY,
1/2 Hour Before School for PREPAID Orders only. You will be emailed a confirmation.
- Your Name
- Contact Phone Number
- Item # listed above
- Size of Item (S, M, L, XL, 2XL)
- Price
Method of Payment Before Pickup: Venmo @BK-ParentsAssociation, or Credit Card. These are the only payment options at this time.
NOTE: If you are paying by Credit Card, you will be contacted via the "Contact Phone Number" listed in your email at confirmation between 1:00 - 3:00 PM on Tuesday.
ONLY PREPAID ORDERS via the email process listed above will be accepted at this time. The Front Office Staff does NOT have order information.
THANK YOU for your cooperation as BK Spirit Store volunteers try to keep BK Spirit Store items available for our community.
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In order for us to gather accurate attendance, please make sure you are providing documentation if your student is out for a COVID-19 related reason.
COVID-19 Absences (marked CO) are for students who test positive, and/or are quarantined for COVID-19 as a close contact.
If your students has tested for COVID-19:
If the test is positive - please provide documentation so that we can mark the absences as a COVID-19 (CO) Absence/Exempt Absence.
If the test is negative - please provide documentation so that we can mark the absences as a Doctor DR) Excused/Exempt Absence.
If your student will be absent for any reason, please notify the Attendance office via email by 9:30 AM. attendance@bk.org
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Job Openings at Bishop Kelly |
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Bus Route Driver
Activities Bus Driver
Substitute Teachers
Substitute Kitchen Assistant
Full-time Janitorial/Maintenance Worker
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Our website at www.bk.org is a wealth of information for parents and students alike!
Check out some of the cool tools that are just a few clicks away:
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- 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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Bishop Kelly High School | (208) 375-6010 | www.bk.org |
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