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BJSHS Announcements: November 11, 2024

SHOW OF RESPECT: Today's BES salute to our veterans was respectful, heartfelt and excellent. Here are a few photos from the event, but you can watch the whole assembly at https://t.ly/Sg5sM. #ThankYou #GoBeavers

BJSHS Announcements: November 8, 2024

A PROPER SALUTE: Don’t forget about the Beaverton Elementary celebration and recognition of our local veterans today starting at 1 p.m. in the gym. All our local heroes are invited to join us early for light refreshments beginning at noon. And for everybody else, make sure you join us via our livestream at the Beaverton Schools YouTube channel at http://bit.ly/3UJAFfZ. #Gratitude #BeavertonAlways

BJSHS Announcements: November 6, 2024

BJSHS Announcements: November 5, 2024

A LITTLE EXTRA HELP: Beaverton Schools is partnering with Varsity Tutors to offer FREE live online learning access to all sorts of new valuable resources to our students. Whether it’s checking into weekly live classes, chatting with a tutor about a tough assignment, on-demand essay reviews or self-study practices, there’s bound to be assistance you can use at no cost to the student. There are also supplemental private tutoring options for students at a discounted rate. As of right now, the program is available to students in grades 6 through 12, but we’ll also be offering it to elementary students in the near future. Learn all about it and get logged in with Varsity Tutors by visiting https://t.ly/gT5ni.

IT’S AN HONOR: Our students at Beaverton Elementary will once again pay tribute to all the veterans in our community with our annual Veterans Day Assembly this Friday, Nov. 8, at 1 p.m. at BES. Please help spread the word to let the veterans in your life know that we’d be honored if they would join us. Our students and teaching staff have been preparing for several weeks and if you’ve attended in the past, you know this event is something special. Additionally, a light reception will be provided for community military members starting at noon. (And if you’re unable to attend, you can catch the event streaming live on the Beaverton Schools YouTube channel at https://t.ly/HD0jN.) Thank you, veterans, and we’ll see you there. #Respect

Have you heard about the B-Positive club!? Each month we have a theme to reward different kinds of behaviors. So far, we have honored good attendance (September) and good behavior (October). This week kicks off "B-Kind" month and we are promoting acts of kindness both inside and outside of school. Students can report their act of kindness to their WIN teacher to be entered into this month's assembly prize! Be on the lookout for kindness at BJSHS and encourage your student to reflect on what it means to B-Kind! #gobeavers

BJSHS Announcements: October 31, 2024

SURVEY SAYS: We want to hear from you. If you didn't get the chance at last week's BJSHS parent/teacher conferences, please take a few minutes to complete our perception survey at https://t.ly/4Ncod. This survey is designed to gather your thoughts and opinions regarding our school and your relationship with it. And thank you - we appreciate your continued support of our students and staff at Beaverton Jr./Sr. High School. #GoBeavers

We are just a week into our 9-12 Grade Chocolate Bar fundraiser and almost half of our order is out the door! Please help us end strong! You can buy chocolate bars from any high schooler selling or buy the whole box! $60 cash/$61.75 on a card. Proceeds go to the Student Government to fund high school activities! Sales go through 11/18!

IS THAT REGULATION GEAR? Today's much-anticipated BJSHS Dodgeball Showdown between students and staff was much more than a tale of heroes vs. villains or of a freshman class fundraiser gone crazy. Indeed, it was a battle for the very soul of the school. And when the smoke cleared, the sophomore class had plowed past its peers and its teachers, leaving zero doubt about its dodgeball dominance in this town. #GoBeavers #DodgeDuckDipDiveDodge

DON'T FORGET: Parent/Teacher conferences are set for Thursday from 12:30 - 4 p.m. and 4:30 - 7 p.m. at both BES and BJSHS. (All visitors to BES should plan to arrive through the north entrance.) Please plan to attend; we're looking forward to seeing you there. #GoBeavers

GREAT EGGSPECTATIONS: Big day for knowledge on campus today. (But aren't they all?) At BJSHS, our friend and PlastiVan Educator Elizabeth Egan returned once again to amaze junior high students with lab experiments that always seem to carry just a touch of magic. Meanwhile at BES, the grand finale of the annual Egg Drop project spelled a day of reckoning for dozens. Fourth-graders pulled together weeks of research, bundled their eggs with as much safe packaging as their imaginations could muster, launched them from the top row of the bleachers and hoped for the best in their quest for a safe landing. Neither event ever fails to entertain and as always, science rules the day. #GoBeavers #Eggceptional

TIME TO MEET: Parents and guardians, don't forget that Parent/Teacher conferences are set for this Thursday from 12:30 - 4 p.m. and 4:30 - 7 p.m. at both BES and BJSHS. (All visitors to BES should plan to arrive through the north entrance.) Please plan to attend; we're looking forward to seeing you there. #GoBeavers

Our links mentoring students are having a blast during team building Thursdays! Each week we play a game to build communication skills. Last week we pulled out two classics: Taboo and Scattegories to "find the right words" and this week we played the family versions of "What Do You Meme" and "New Phone, Who Dis?" to gauge everyone's sense of humor. Their teacher beat the first group quite handily on the memes. Turns out the teacher does have a handle on student humor!

REVENGE OF THE PUMPKIN PAINTERS: As you're making your way around our fair town in the weeks to come and you see those brilliantly-decorated pumpkins lining the streets, be advised that BJSHS and BES students are the artists behind at least some of that inspired artwork. They spent the week with paintbrushes in hand, splashing on their best designs to help decorate the city for Halloween. #GhoulBeavers

BRIGHT, SHINY STARS: We held our first Students of the Month recognition this morning at BJSHS, paying tribute to these standouts for the month of September: Anthony "Ben" Griffin, Grant Willsie, Mackenzie Porter, Aliah Cook, Matt Wagner, Elizabeth Whitfield, Brooke Onweller, Izzy Dodman, Lilyahna Avila, EllieMay Palmer, Cheyenne Smith, Libby McKimmy, Cheyenne Coppes and Shawn Smith. #GoBeavers

"HOW MANY PEOPLE IN HERE HAVE A DREAM?" That was one of the easier questions put to BJSHS students today by Corey Warren, Jacque Liebner and their crew from STR8TALK, a powerful combination of tough personal testimony and music designed to open young peoples' eyes to the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always compelling, Warren shared his journey through heroin and alcohol addiction as a teenager who seemingly had a great life, warning observers that he once sat in a gym listening to a presentation just like this one - quite certain that it didn't apply to him. Eventually, he found himself near death, facing decades in prison for armed robbery, and alone. Today, at 35, he uses his recovery to help others facing those demons as well as showing young people how to avoid them. The STR8TALK crew shook the gym with its music with a message, making an important impression on our kids. #GoBeavers #STR8TALK