Please complete your students online enrollment as soon as possible. If your student has not received a Chromebook, papers will be going home with them on Monday. Please fill out the paper (and send insurance money if you choose) and send it with your student on Tuesday. We will be handing out Chromebooks again on Tuesday. Online enrollment must be completed before your student will recieve a Chromebook.
Picture Day is coming soon. To order, please copy and paste the link:
https://wagner.portraitpics.co/login and follow the instructions.
Online Pre-Order Password: 3B7S5U8Q
If you are having technical difficulties, please reach out to Wagner Portrait Group at 314-567-5900.
Season Passes are available to be picked up in the HS Office!!
Attention Parents: We will handout Chromebooks in the HS auditorium at the following times:
8th graders: 1-3pm Tues Aug 16
7th graders: 1-3pm Wed Aug 17
6th graders: 1-3pm Thurs Aug 18
Check out the fall sports schedules on the new athletic website.
Step 1: open the website https://bowlinggreenhigh.bigteams.com/
Step 2: At the top click on Fall
Step 3: Click on the sport you want to view
Step 4: Click on the level you want to view
Attention parents of incoming 6th grade Academic Stretch students - there will be a brief meeting in the lower cafeteria on Thursday Aug 18 at 7:00. The meeting will last approximately 30 minutes.
BGR-1 Family.
School starts two weeks from Monday, and we are busy getting ready to welcome our Bobcats back to another year of learning. Our summer school attendance hit record numbers this summer and we are excited to see so many students continuing their learning over the break. We are having great movement on all of our summer construction projects in our district, all while our custodians and facility staff are working very hard to prepare our buildings for students to arrive on August 22nd and teachers to return on the 15th.
Workers are finishing the floors in all of the HS and MS gym entrance bathrooms this week, and will set appliances and partitions next week. New BGHS bleachers were installed with improved safety and functionality and MS and HS gym floors have been sealed and ready to go for another year. BGE HVAC work is complete replacing 25 year old units, and new roofing at the elementary and middle school is finished. The BGHS auditorium and entry roofs are complete, and workers are continuing progress on the BGHS North and South wing roofing over the next few weeks. Staff are working on our alarm system and the installation of the new speakers to augment our coverage zones on the BG campus and the Frankford FEMA shelter is coming along with plumbing all roughed in and walls starting to be constructed. The additional road at Frankford is complete, and we plan to pave that road in the coming year. (As a reminder, we are shooting for a winter break completion timeline on this new facility and will house art and music classes and is large enough to hold the entire student body in case of emergency.) The BGHS road should be ready for paving next week and the area in front of the field house before our first football game. The field house roof and the staff daycare roof and fencing are complete and the drain/concrete repair in the BGHS courtyard done. The benefits for this road are that it improves traffic flow and improves safety by directing traffic away from where students are walking on the sidewalk as student drivers arrive and dismiss, fixing the erosion on the back on the baseball/softball stadiums and correcting storm drainage issues, all while responding to overwhelming feedback on our surveys and focus group meetings from 2017 asking us to create a better, more accessible entrance to the high school, and helps to facilitate a possible future phase of an early childhood center and storm shelter with road access to where it would be placed. This idea along with the creation of an expanded MS/HS library and storm shelter and finalizing our roof needs at Frankford and the BGHS gym and kitchen and playground upgrades at BGE and Frankford are all items our board is considering in coming phases and will be looking for more input related to these ideas.
Our board is working hard to continue to take care of our facilities and provide safe and secure learning environments all while creating opportunities for our students to meet their potential. They will continue this work at the August 9 work session planning for our future and additional stakeholder feedback opportunities. In the past four years, we have maintained a balanced budget each year, improved student performance, added additional programs for our students and lowered teacher attrition. In the last three years alone, teacher attrition has gone from 11% to 8% to 3.5% and is far below state and national averages of 8% and 11% all while maintaining five days a week and consistent learning environments for our students and families. Our state highway patrol bus inspections assessment rates have gone from 56.5% in 2016 to 65.2% in 2018 to 72% in 2020 to 84% in 2022 as we have been working to gradually modernize our fleet. (We have four more new buses that have been on order for half of a year and are due to arrive this Fall.) Our preschool and staff daycare have doubled in size in recent years, and 100% of our seniors that started last school year graduated on time last May as we have worked to increase our graduation rate over the past few years. We are very thankful to our Bowling Green family and all of those who work to support our students and look forward to input along the way to more continuous improvement from our community this school year. It is a GREAT day to be a Bobcat! We look forward to seeing our Bobcats on the 22nd!
See pictures of our construction projects progress here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ArcG...
Matthew L. Frederickson, PhD
Superintendent
Bowling Green R-1 School District
700 West Adams Street
Bowling Green, MO 63334
Phone: 573-324-5441
Fax: 573-324-2439
http://www.bgschools.k12.mo.us/
Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/BGSUPT or @BGSUPT
For our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bowlingreenbobcats/
Are you interested in working as an assistant librarian in the MS/HS library? If so, please contact me at dkoogler@bgschools.k12.mo.us
MS Meet the Teacher Night is Thursday Aug 18 from 5:30pm-7:00pm. There will be a brief 6th Grade Orientation in the MS Gym at 5:30 and it will last for approximately 15 minutes. We hope to see everyone!
MS Volleyball Schedule 22-23
MS Softball 22-23 Schedule
MS Football 22-23 Schedule
MS CC Schedule 22-23
Incoming 6th graders, there is still time to sign up for Bobcat Academy! If you filled out the google form or have already emailed me you should have received an email stating your date, time, and details about the day. If you did not receive an email and are interested in your child attending, please fill out the google form or email cbowman@bgschools.k12.mo.us. You may also call the MS office (573-324-2181) between 8am and 3pm Monday through Friday for more information. Hope to see you there!
BOWLING GREEN NIGHT AT THE CARDINALS!
The choir students from our Bowling Green R-1 District schools will be performing at the Cardinals game the evening of August 26th. Tickets are available for purchase to sit with the BG Family until August 11 for $20. Please make plans to get yours and support our Bobcat Singers! #BGBOBCATPRIDE
We will release at 12:50 on Friday, May 20th. All changes to pick up plans need to be made 12:00 pm.
The first of 3 free physicals will be tonight in the Middle School Gym from 3:30-6:00 pm. Parents must fill out the parent permission form if they are not bringing their child. Forms can be picked up in the HS office. The other free physical dates will be May 24th and May 26th.
8th grade parents - 8th grade Promotion is Thursday May 19 at 6:00pm in the HS Gym. All fines must be paid by noon on Tuesday the 17th. Students must pass their classes (Semester 1 and 2) to be eligible to attend.
****Free Sports Physicals****
Tuesday, May 24th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm in the Bowling Green High School Gym.
Parent consent is required. Forms are available in the High School Office. Please bring completed and signed forms with you. Physicals are sponsored by Hannibal Regional Medical Group.
**** FREE PHYSICALS****
There will be free sports physical for students on May 16th from 3:30 - 6:00 pm in the Middle School Gym. These are sponsored by Pike County Memorial Hospital.
MSHSAA and Parent permission forms can be picked up at BG High School Office. Bring both completed forms to the physicals.