Bauxite Middle School

Be sure to sign your student up for our free, after school ACT Aspire tutoring sessions! Sessions will begin March 29 and meet every Monday and Wednesday afternoon until April 19.

Our ACT Aspire dates are April 25-27. Mark your calendar!

Bauxite Schools will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 20.

Congratulations to this year's Student Council members! We are proud of everyone who ran for office!

BMS Parents/Guardians~ Parent-Teacher Conferences are Thursday and students will be dismissed at 1:30 p.m. Conferences at BMS will be drop-in. Appointments are not necessary. Please stop by and pickup your child's report card and visit with the teacher(s) that you would like to see beginning at 2 p.m. Teachers will be leaving at 7 p.m. Also, we are having an issue with students not coming to school prepared with a charged chromebook. Please help remind your student to charge their chromebook each night in order to be prepared for class each day.

Congratulations to Bauxite Mid-Level FBLA for an outstanding job at today's competitions. They brought. home 25 awards and 4th place for Largest Chapter Membership.

BMS Parents- One of your child's teachers will be in contact with you by phone or email to schedule an in-person meeting for Thursday evening or a phone conference to review your child's report card. Report cards will be available for pick up in the BMS lobby Thursday from 2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Please call our office if you have any questions.

Hello Parents/Guardians, Today, your BMS student is bringing home a Parent Information Envelope letting you know about a safe and easy way for our school to raise funds for essential reading materials our students and teachers need to succeed. The Reading For Education fundraiser is 100% online so there is no face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products. Your participation will take less than 12 minutes, and there are exciting prizes to make it fun for the students. Here is all you need to do to participate: 1. Go to https://www.rfe.net/sid.t?0000363712 to sign up. 2. Send form emails inviting family, friends, and co-workers to support your child. 3. Return the Envelope with the Student Prize Code to school for your child to get their fun participation prize. Be sure to ask your child for the Parent Information Envelope tonight. Your participation will make a difference for our school and teachers! Thanks, Bauxite Middle School

Picture Day is Tuesday, October 12th! Order forms went home with students last week. Check those backpacks!

BMS Parents/Guardians, Our district's flu shot clinic will be October 6. Forms were sent home today with students. Additional forms will be available in the front office or on the Bauxite School District website (Menu/Documents/Flu Forms). If you have any questions please let us know. Forms are DUE OCTOBER 1st in our office.

Bauxite FBLA is sponsoring a Fat Head fundraiser!! The fat heads are double-sided and 16"-18" wide. This is a great way to show your support for Miner football, volleyball, basketball, baseball, band, etc.. They are $20 and payment needs to be taken before you order! To place an order, go to https://forms.gle/LKn9K9pfQZ2xMGYd8 or contact Mrs. Anderson -andersonc@bauxiteminers.org or Mrs. Newsom -newsomh@bauxitminers.org for more information.

Public Release - Meals at No Cost Extended 21-22 The Bauxite School District is pleased to announce that breakfasts and lunches will be served to all students at NO CHARGE during the 2021 - 2022 school year. It is not necessary to complete a meal application for free or reduced priced meals as The United States Department of Agriculture has extended meal benefits to all students at this time. For households who wish to complete a meal application, they are available at all School Campus Offices or you can contact Kristy Ammons @ 501-557-2238. These meal benefits do not include a la carte items sold in the cafeteria. If students wish to purchase items a la carte, they will need to have money for those purchases. All adults, e.g., visitors, teachers, support staff members, and administrators of the district must assume the full cost of the meal.

📢New Student Registration📢 Do you need to register for the 2021-2022 school year? Click on the link and fill out the enrollment information (Grades 6-8 are at BMS). You will still need to come see us to complete the registration process by bringing the items listed under #3. Office Hours: Monday- Thursday 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Feel free to call if you have questions 501-557-5491. https://sites.google.com/bauxiteminers.org/enrollment/bms

BMS 2021-2022 School Supply Lists are now available! Go to: https://www.bauxiteminers.org/o/middle-school/browse/147368

No School May 31 June 1-4 - Virtual Days for students. Faculty/Staff will be onsite. These days will be similar to our previous virtual Fridays. If students need to be here, they can be here, but buses will not run. Students may use the Google form or call our office to check in.

Spring pictures are Wednesday, March 10th at BMS! Order forms are going home today with students. All pictures will be pre-order only. Call our office if you have questions or need another order form.

BMS Parents/Students: Course selection sheets for the 2021-2022 school year are being sent home TODAY with 6th & 7th graders! Please ask your child for theirs before if ends up in the bottom of their backpack. They are DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 4 with a PARENT SIGNATURE to our office. Virtual students may pick up their sheet from our office. *8th graders will meet at a later date (TBA) to select their high school classes.

BMS Parents & Students, BMS students will take the ACT Aspire Interim test Wednesday 2/24 & Friday 2/26. All students are highly encouraged to be on-site for testing. Virtual students who choose not to test with their peers this week will be notified by Mrs. McGhee by email of their testing date. Students, please check your Advisory Google Classroom for more information from Mrs. McGhee.

NO students will be on-site at BMS Friday, February 12th. All learning will be virtual. Our office will be open from 10am-3:30pm. Please call if you have any questions.

BMS students will take the required ACT Aspire Interim 2 tests on Tuesday, 2/16 and Wednesday, 2/17. Please make sure that chromebooks are fully charged and that your student is at school both days. VIRTUAL STUDENTS are encouraged to come to school on Tuesday and Wednesday to test with their peers. Masks are required. If they attend Tuesday and Wednesday, they need to be at school no later than 8:30 a.m. and may be checked out at noon once testing is complete. A separate on-site testing session for VIRTUAL STUDENTS ONLY is scheduled for Friday, 2/19 from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. If you have questions, please call our office.