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April

April 26, 2010

Advisory Board Members Present were:

Mr. Charles Burgess, Beaufort town manager, was present to speak to the Advisory Board about the Campen Road Highway 70 crossing. Thanks to Dail Bridges for arranging this meeting. In the last several weeks, the BMS Resource Officer has been at the Campen Road crossing after school. Not that many students cross there, but even if there is just one child crossing, we need to keep him/her safe. Officers are needed to keep students from crossing locations other than the light at Campen Road and Highway 70.  Mr. Burgess said that the Town has discussed moving the crossing equipment from the old Beaufort Elementary School to the Campen Road and Highway 70 intersection, and the equipment could be relocated. A sidewalk is needed on the east side of Highway 70 for the students to reach once they cross. In the next year the corner with the car lot and Dr. Short will be developed. That lot will have sidewalks.  The issue we have is that there is nothing on the southwest corner but a culvert, so students have to cross Campen and then cross Highway 70. Once the crossing equipment from the old Beaufort Elementary School crossing is installed and operating, there will be a crossing button for students to push.

More development is planned also. Professional Park drive will be connected to Campen, and residents may choose to exit via Campen Road, which will cause more traffic. We suggested that the developers could be asked to help with safe crossing sidewalks and equipment. Ms. Misner will meet soon with Charles Burgess and the developer to see what the situation will be.

The Grade 8^th celebration will be at Freedom Park at 11:30. Practice in the morning.

Teacher Appreciation is the week of May 3rd. There will be a science field trip this week for Ms. Davis’s classes.  Progress reports go home on May 5^th. 6^th grade field trip is May 7^th. $15 for kids $12 for parents. EOG Science 8^th grade May 11th.  EOG’s May 18-20^th.

Proctor help is needed and training is available. Please contact Ms. Debbie Butcher or Ms. Ashley Hardison if interested.

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March

Present were advisory board members:

And School Board Candidates:

This was our first meeting paperless. Board members will go over the minutes for the previous meeting on the school website prior to each meeting.

Minutes from February 22, 2010 meeting were approved.

Ms Misner advised the board that Officer LeMay has been moved to direct traffic at Carraway Dr and Hwy 101 both in the morning and afternoon. Mr. Carl is at the school in the morning and has been moved to the corner of Campen Road / Highway 70 in the afternoon to assist the children walking/biking that way and that she has addressed safety with the children who use that route.

Both school board candidates are running in District #1. Both gave the advisory board a short introduction to themselves and what they see as the most important issues.

There was no Chorus Concert in March. It is now scheduled for April 1^st at 7PM.

There will be some changes to next years scheduling, the changes include Envirothon will be going to a club instead of a class and Battle of the Books will only be in the 2^nd and 3^rd 9 weeks.

Envirothan is going to the State Competition.

The eight period day was explained to the school board candidates.

Ms Misner went over the calendar of upcoming events, all of which can be found on the BMS website, which is updated regularly with any changes.

The next advisory board meeting is scheduled for Monday April 26.

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February 22, 2010

The Parent Advisory Board met on Monday, February 22, 2010. Members present included Ms. Misner, Melanie Duncan, Kyle Willis, JoAnn Maulshagen, Christina Golden, Dail Bridges , and Vicky Thayer.

Approved minutes from last meeting.

Decided that Ms. Misner will not print out individual copies of the previous meeting’s  minutes for each meeting, but Parent Advisory Council members should read them online prior to the meeting and come prepared with changes or discussion items. Ms. Misner will have one printed copy of previous meeting’s minutes at the next meeting.

Old business

What is happening at our school!

Upcoming Events!

Next Parent Advisory meeting will be March 29^th. 

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January 25, 2010

Members present

Reviewed Minutes-

We reviewed minutes from January 4^th meeting, and briefly discussed the Lifeguard program.  This year the 7^th and 8^th grade students will participate in the Lifeguard curriculum but starting during the 2010-2011 academic year, only 7^th grade students will take the course.  This course covers topics such as Domestic Violence, Safe Dates, and choices.  If parents wish to see the curriculum, they can contact Debbie Butcher, the school counselor.

Ms. Misner and others are mentoring students while our Safety Resource Officer, Maggie Lemay, supervises students in the cafeteria during lunch. 

We discussed the proposed crosswalk at the intersection of Campen Road and Highway 70, and learned that we are still waiting for state approval.

Reviewed Calendar-

Budget-

Last year, BMS received $6000 in textbook money. Most of this money was spent on workbooks (ex: math). This coming year, there will be no textbook money. There will be no staff development funds. There will be no remediation funds for students who do not pass. Students who pass the EOG’s on the first round will work, on team, to complete specific projects while remediation is taking place. Parents may be called on to volunteer in classrooms at this time.

BMS is requesting lighting for the western gymnasium door area. It was hoped that BMS would get a canopy in front so students would not have to get wet on rainy days while waiting to be picked up by parents, but it doesn’t appear likely that we will receive funds.

We are requesting fencing to fence in the back of the school between the 7^th and 8^th grade wings, and security cameras for some of the blind spots around the school.  Also, Ms. Misner has requested the intellekey lock system. This system would eliminate the need for school-wide replacement locks each time a school key is lost.

New outdoor bleachers for seating during athletic events have been requested, because the old wooden ones are creating splinters!

Please contact any parent advisory board member if you have questions or comments you would like us to answer or discuss. Thank you.
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January 4, 2009

Attendees:

Review Minutes-

We reviewed minutes from November meeting, and clarified two points.  The first point was that students from grades 6, 7 and 8 are allowed to participate in Quiz Bowl and Battle of the Books, and can participate in both activities.

The second clarification was about Facilities.  BMS administrators requested furniture for one classroom per grade level, as has been done in previous years. 

Old Business-

We discussed the status of the crosswalk at Highway 70 East and Campen Road.  Dorrie Nicholson will bring up the matter at the Board of Education meeting on January 5, 2010 and will report back to Ms. Misner and the members of the Parent Advisory group at the next meeting.

Parent Advisory Members raised $80 to give the brave, professional, freezing Officer Knox a Holiday bonus

Calendar-

Wrestling match on Wednesday, Jan 6^th at 4 pm.  The first nine weeks ends on January 15^th and there are two teacher workdays on 1/16 and 1/17 so the next nine week period begins on January 18^th.   Report cards go out on January 22^nd and the Awards Ceremony is tentatively scheduled for the same day.

The next Parent Advisory meeting will be February 1, 2010 at 5:30 pm. Mrs. Misner moved the advisory meeting to January 25th because of the BOE budget meeting. 

Seventh and eighth graders will participate in a Safe-Date- Lifeguard program.  Students will be separated by gender so students from each group will feel more comfortable asking questions.  Parents will receive information about this program before it begins- the information will come home with students.

There is a questionnaire on the website which all parents and guardians and significant others should complete. 

Students will be seeing a SAS-developed chart overlay that compares each student’s grades with other students across the county and state.  This is a visual so they can see these during focus groups; and students will be asked if they are happy with where they place compared to other students.  A parent asked if she could see this info and Ms. Misner said parents could follow- up with her to see this info if they wish.

Seventh graders have participated in an enrichment program that combined ELA and Science.  Chanty singers, storytellers, and menhaden boat workers gave a workshop.  There have been more scheduled activities that will take place later in the year with this.   

The National Park Service has teamed up with Web Keepers (Janet McLendon's) class at BMS and students are helping the NPS with their website, as the NPS helps with the science curriculum.  The NPS and BMS websites will link to each other.

The 8^th grade drama class will work with BES in the upcoming week.  The 7^th grade drama class will be perform for the student body on the 15^th should they be ready.

If parents have questions, concerns, or corrections for the BMS website, they should contact Janet McLendon at janet.mclendon@carteretk12.org

Teachers are still discussing the eighth grade awards ceremony.

BMS will have a new Resource Officer, Maggie LeMay, by the 10^th of January.  Resource officers serve as mentors, drug awareness educators, and support students in making good community choices. One of Ms. Misner’s priorities is to have the RO interact regularly and frequently with the students and have positive interactions with the students. BMS pays the RO’s salary.

The meeting ended with all advisory board members taking the online parent survey. Ms Misner welcomes emails or requests for information that she could bring to the meeting. If parents have questions or ideas that would be good for the parent advisory board to hear about, contact Ms. Misner. Parents can also contact any parent advisory board member if they have questions or concerns about the school.

Prepared by Vicky Thayer and Dail Bridges

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11/2/09

Old Business:

We discussed the crosswalk at Highway 70 East and Campen Road .  Two members of the Board of Education have written letters to the Dept of Transportation  requesting a pedestrian signaling device.  The Carteret County library is now on the east side of Highway 70 across from Campen Road , which increases the need for a signaling device.

Mr. Munden is organizing Quiz Bowl and will meet with interested students to begin practices. Students are allowed to Quiz Bowl and Battle of the Books.

Calendar

Curriculum

Facilities

Requesting more surveillance cameras.
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October

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September 15, 2009 

Members in Attendance:

Ms. Misner opened the meeting with introductions and welcomed all in attendance.  We reviewed upcoming events on the calendar.

The first football game played at BMS begins at 5 pm on Wednesday, September 16^th.  

On Monday, September 28^th is an Open House that begins at 6pm  Students will lead parents to all eight periods of their classes.  Parents and students will have five minutes in each class and three minutes between classes.

Wednesday, September 20^th will be an early release day.

Monday, October 5^th will be the next Parent Advisory Group meeting and meetings will be the first Monday of every month thereafter.

We discussed focus groups.  Ms. Misner explained that the groups meet at lunch time.  They sit at assigned seats and spend half (26 minutes) of their lunch period to eat lunch and the other half spent in focus groups.  Four teachers (Media, Guidance, Safety Resource Officer, and Core Teacher) each work with a group of ten students in a special activity. 

We nominated Dorrie Nicholson as the school board representative, Andrea Johnson (?) as President, and Vicky Thayer as Secretary. 

We discussed bullying and examination of current policies to determine if everything possible is being done to eliminate bullying.

We also discussed the End of Year Award Ceremony and making changes to the number of students winning awards.  A possibility would be instead of one or two students winning multiple academic awards from each grade level, distributing the awards among several students and recognizing students for accomplishments other than high grade averages.

Parents are welcome to contact any advisory board member about concerns.  Advisory board member names and contact information will be posted on the website.

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