Bellflower Unified School District is interested in your feedback regarding the District’s Local Control Accountability Plan or LCAP. The LCAP includes the District’s vision for students, its goals for student success, and specific actions and resources the district will use to achieve these goals. The plan is reviewed and updated annually. Your opinion is important to us and will help us revise our plan to support the achievement and well-being of all students. Please click the appropriate link below to complete the survey:

• Parent LCAP Survey- English
• Parent LCAP Survey- Spanish
• Community LCAP Survey-English
• Community LCAP Survey-Spanish
• Secondary Student Survey

CAASPP TESTING SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED

(PLEASE SEE INFORGRAPHICS BELOW)

Please look for much more information and an FAQ on CAASPP Testing next week!

As we prepare for state testing, it is important to recognize that this can indeed be a source of added stress for students. Tests can naturally be stressful, but the added focus and attention that comes with state testing can create an even greater sense of pressure. As a school, we want to do our best to help support our students who might be experiencing some test anxiety by giving some suggestions to our families on things they can do at home that can help. Here are a few helpful tips for supporting your student:

1. In any stressful situation, whether it be in competition, at work, or with tests, deep breathing is a great way to help calm one’s nerves. Remind your student to visualize something that is calming to them, and then practice taking slow deep breaths. A great strategy to help with this is called 5 Finger Breathing. Students start at the base of their thumb and trace a finger up while inhaling, then slowly trace down their thumb while exhaling. Then move on to your fingers, repeating the breathing pattern. See the images below to help!
2. Another strategy you could talk about at home is what educational psychologist Dr. Michele Borba calls the 1+3+10 Strategy. Dr. Borba teaches students that when they feel like they are getting tense, they should 1 stop and tell themselves: “Be calm,” then take 3 deep slow breaths, then count slowly to 10.
3. Don’t underestimate a good night's rest. The simple reminder to get to bed a little earlier the night before can do a lot of good to help reduce one’s stress level.
4. Remind your student that feeling anxious is normal! Anytime in life when we have something important on the horizon it is normal for us to feel nervous about it. Sometimes students can compound their anxiety if they think that feeling nervous is abnormal.

Perhaps the most important thing to remind your student is that once that test starts, just “try their best and forget the rest!” It can be helpful to remind them that the primary function of state tests is to give feedback to their teachers and school. State tests help us determine what areas we can continue to improve in our instruction, as well as help us identify the learning needs of individual students.

MINGA

Please see the great article written by Windjammer and Student Cabinet Member Daisy Ruiz. It is a great overview of our new tool on campus.

BELL SCHEDULE

Please be on the lookout very soon with information about our planned adjustments to the bell schedule for next year. I will be hosting a parent information forum in the next two weeks (prior to spring break)

Sean. R. Diaz

Proud Principal - Mayfair Middle and High School

#bewater

To view the upcoming calendar for the Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) Classes Informational Meetings, please click on the following link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EQM54_G2MHpojYXn5WUYpV1Y00SZCZaWy1WDqimjQEw/edit?usp=sharing

Mayfair High School Summer school is available to students in grades 9 - 12 to recover credits required for Graduation. Students must sign up with their Academic Counselor.

There are few opportunities for enrichment for high school students which include the following

Original Credit Courses:

• Spanish 2 (6 hour block)
• Spanish 3 (6 hour block)
• Draw/Paint (6 hour block)
• Health (4 hour block)
• Economics (4 hour block)
• History of Rock (Cerritos College) *Asynchronous
• Culinary (Cerritos College) *Different Dates

Congratulations to Mariners, Showtime, and Combo for sweeping their divisions at the Los Alamitos Show Choir competition on Saturday.

Both groups won Top Music, (that's all that really matters), Top Showmanship, and First place in their divisions. These students worked hard to improve daily, they reached for excellence, and then reached for more.This is teamwork at the highest level and success is sweet!

Our show was choreographed by former Showtime student, and now professional dancer and choreographer, Elijah Figueroa.

Next stop- Honolulu, Hawaii.

Aloha!

CIF 5v5 Crew Championship Game. Scanning the QR code will send them to the Event LInk

The Event link will have all the details for attending and viewing the event on Twitch.

Thank you for your support in Mayfair’s Team World Vision team.

WE MET OUR GOAL of raising $20,000 for clean water. “WE” is all of us.

Our team (staff and students) ran the LA Marathon Charity Challenge (Half Marathon, 13.1 miles—actually 13.6 on the course).

Top fundraiser: Johnny Boulanger (Johnny also spoke at the LA Team Lunch and really got the crowd going!)

Lamech Samuel: 1st place in his age division (19th overall)

Ivan Tadeo: 1st place in his age division (17th overall)

Stella Lynch: 1st place in her age division

Jose Ramirez: 2nd place in his age division (18th overall)

Carlos Moreira: 5th place in his age division

Congratulations to all our runners! What a great day for clean water!

Congratulations to our Middle School students:

Aaron Bucio (8th); Daisy Teniente (8th); and Josh Nathaniel Tirona (7th) for winning 2nd place in the MESA Think Tank contest Prelims at CSULB.

• Next School Site Council Meeting Next Week - Date: To Be Announced

• HS ASB Applications due
• Future Monsoons (6th graders) visit to Mayfair

• Prom tickets on Sale & Senior Packets go out

• Vocal in Hawaii

• MS Renaissance: 10:30-2:30 @ John’s Incredible Pizza 3.5 GPA $40

• Hiram "Chick" Peterson Faculty vs Students Basketball Game; 7pm $10 at the door; proceeds go to Senior Scholarships

• 150th day of school activity

• Future Monsoons (6th grade parent night); 7pm in the Gym

• HS Blood Drive

April 7th - April 14th

• Spring Break - School is Closed

April 9th - 14th

• YBS HBCU Tour

April 17th

• School Resumes

April 18th - Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day One

April 19th - Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day Two

April 20th - Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day Three

April 25th- Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day Four

April 26th- Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day Five

April 27th- Special Schedule

• CAASPP Testing Day Five

AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION (Tuesdays and Thursdays)