Bowling Green Middle School

Great news bobcat fans!!! The middle school volleyball, basketball, and football games will be streamed on the BGR1 Athletics Youtube Page this year. You can access the games at this site. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtKN52-GNqSOrK6E3sYWcPg

Els Softball Tourney Info 22-23

Wright City Tourney Info for Saturday Sep 10

Parents - our phones and internet were down yesterday and are down again today. Please be patient as our team works to restore connectivity.

Don't forget picture day is Wednesday, August 31st. All orders are online through Wagner. Use the following web address and pre-order password to order before picture day. Orders can be placed after picture day also. Link to Wagner is https://bit.ly/3bVeArz, Online Pre-Order Password: 3B7S5U8Q. You can also call Wagner at 314-567-5900 with and orders or questions.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” It’s a crazy 8 day!!! Schedule goes like this 1, 2, 6, 7, 4, 5, 9, 10 Homework advantage starts on tomorrow for 6th and 7th grade. 8th grade starts after Labor Day. If you stay for homework advantage it is from 3:15 – 4:15, you must make sure your parent knows you are staying and you must be picked up at 4:15. Homework advantage is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:15. If you are riding a different bus than normal you will need a note from your parent and a bus pass. You must get bus passes before the end of the day. August 29th – last day for schedule changes. August 31st is picture day. Pictures must be ordered online. September 5th - No school September 6th – Football at Montgomery @ 5:30, Volleyball @ home vs Montgomery @5:30, Softball @ home @ vs Montgomery @ 5:00, Cross Country @ Vanfar time to be announced September 8th – Volleyball @ Centralia @ 5:30, Softball @ North Callaway @ 5:00 September 10th – Volleyball Wright City Tourney at 9:00 am and Cross Country @ Palmyra September 12th – No school staff only September 13th – Football @ North Callaway @ 5:30, Softball @ home vs Centralia @ 5:00, Cross Country @ Quincy Notre Dame @ 3:30 September 14th – Softball at home vs Warren County @ 4:30 September 15th – Volleyball @ Hannibal Start time is 5:00 and Softball @ Elsberry @ 5:00 September 16th – Softball @ home vs Louisiana @ 5:00 Lunch: Mozzarella Dunkers or Spicy Chicken Sandwich, steamed broccoli or Crispy Wrap with Broccoli with ranch dressing or Big Mack Salad with corn bread, salad, fruit Birthdays: Brodee Burris Our Mission: Empowering Our Students for Life’s Endless Opportunities

MS Softball Troy South Tourney Inso

Reminder - Pictures are Wednesday, August 31st. All orders are online through Wagner Portrait Group. Pre Order password is 3B7S5U8Q. If you have questions or would like to place a order you can call Wagner at 314-567-5900.

Reminder - Pictures are on Wednesday, August 31st. All orders are online.

MS Cheer practices will begin on Friday; please make sure you have your physicals turned in. There will also be a parent meeting at 4:15 that night in the lower cafeteria.

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