The Paw Print

Welcome back to everyone's favorite newsletter, The Paw Print! We have officially survived 2021! Phew! It sure has been a tough one! As we welcome 2022, remember the New Year allows us all to spread our wings, try new things and... eat chicken wings? This year, the Paw Print's resolution is to be 10x better than last year to keep our readers on track and updated throughout the new year!

The Paw Print hopes that our students' resolutions are to work harder than ever and keep those grades zooming through the roof! As always, Stay #BearBuilt!

The Paw Print can be viewed every 2nd and 4th Wednesday. The newsletter features sports updates, events in the community, and fun activities for the family... so stay tuned!

The Georgia 4-H Peanut Recipe Contest judges students on their abilities in grades 4-6 to incorporate peanut products into home recipes. This year's category was the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The entries ranged anywhere from mustard garnishes to tortillas for bread!

Our winners won in four categories:

Best Overall- Brian Walker (5th gr.); Most Nutritious- Briggs Roberts (4th gr.); Most Unusual- Landon Sorrells (5th gr.); and Most Creative- Addy Fare (5th gr.).

Way to go to our Blakeney Bruins for demonstrating their elite recipe-making skills! Gordon Ramsey would be proud!

Congratulations to all of our brainy students that participated in the schools' spelling bees! We are so proud of all of you!

The first and second place winners participated in the district-wide spelling bee yesterday, January 11, 2022! Congratulations to Asa Murray and Dawson Mobley for taking home the first and second place wins of the District Spelling Bee!

Asa Murray, our first place winner, will represent Burke County in the region spelling bee February 26! Everybody wish him a big good luck!

Blakeney Elementary School was all smiles at the end of December! Before the students went home for Christmas Break, Dr. James Epps made sure that none of the 700 students walked out the building present-less. School leaders worked together to raise $10,000 to shop for and package all of the gifts. They all can agree that the smiles on the children's faces made it all worthwhile!

If you would like to watch WRDW News Channel 12's coverage of the event, the television feature can be accessed by clicking on the photo above!

The calendar below is the calendar that won the district-wide calendar vote! Here is the official academic calendar of the 2022-2023 school year!

If you would like to stay updated, the Bears Basketball & Wrestling schedules are posted below and their updated stats through Max Preps are linked in the photos.

Seniors Ivan Arroyo and Keith Moss represented Burke County Public Schools as they assisted in Georgia's victory over South Carolina in the annual Border Bowl this past Saturday, January 8. Burke County wishes a special congratulations to Ivan Arroyo for bringing home the Best Defensive Player of the game award! We are so excited to see what you both will accomplish in the future!

To better accommodate school district stakeholders, the Burke County Board of Education has set its 2022 regular monthly meetings for the third Tuesday of each month at 5:00 p.m., a week later than its previous meeting time of the second Tuesday in the month. The meetings will remain being held at the Burke County Board of Education Central Office, 789 Burke Veterans Parkway, Waynesboro, GA.

The Agenda is accessible through Simbli. To locate Simbli, go to any of our Burke County Public Schools websites and select Simbli/Meetings in the top left corner of the page. Then, select Meetings, where the agenda will be posted each month.

On the day of the Board meeting, which is the 3rd Tuesday of each month, a link to watch a live- stream of the meeting is posted on the homepage of our district website under "Recent News."

If you miss the meeting live stream, the recording is posted on our Burke County Public Schools, GA YouTube Channel the following day.

We are proud to unveil our newest endeavor to impact our community! Burke County Public Schools is Bringing Educators and Stakeholders Together by recognizing Burke’s B.E.S.T.!

Here at BCPS, our families, students, faculty and staff, and community partners are our richest resources, and we want them to be acknowledged as such! We want to increase the number of opportunities to recognize and celebrate all stakeholders. Explore our website to see what's new.

Be on the lookout for more information about Burke’s B.E.S.T!

January 12 commemorates National Curried Chicken Day, National Marzipan Day, National Pharmacist Day and National Kiss a Ginger Day. Burke County families can celebrate this holiday by cooking a curried chicken entree with a Marzipan figurine for dessert. To make this meal extra special, it may be enjoyed in a pharmacy with your special date of the evening, a pharmaceutical specialist who just so happens to be a red head. The Paw Print crosses its claws that you're not too shy to mention what the National Day is... if you know what we mean.

The Word of the Day is Zenith! Zenith is a noun that refers to the highest point of something. While it originally was used solely by astronomers to explain the actions of celestial bodies, it can be used in any context nowadays! The Paw Print hopes that January 1st was not the zenith of your 2022!

We challenge you all to use this word as many times as you can this week, extra points if you use it in the right context, EVEN MORE points if you have to explain to somebody what it means!

What's a better way to celebrate National Marzipan Day than making your very own Marzipan figures at home?! There is a super sweet Marzipan Recipe attached to the image on the right! Once you make the marzipan itself, it can be arranged into different figurines that can be painted AND EATEN! OM NOM NOM! We would love to see your little candy creations, so you all can post them to facebook and instagram with a chance to be featured on our social media pages!

Instagram: @burkecountyps

Facebook: Burke County Schools

Our district app is intended as an on-the-go information source for parents & families. With the BC App, all information is brought together and delivered to one platform.

One feature of the app is that those without social media can access the district’s social media posts via the News section of the app. Additional features include access to breakfast & lunch menus, individual school calendars, push notifications, sports scores, one-click email to staff via the Directory section, and much more!

Public Information Officer

Burke County Public Schools

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Jada Curd, BCHS Junior

Work-Based Learning

Email: ajnunnally@burke.k12.ga.us
Website: www.burkeschools.org
Location: 789 Burke Veterans Pkwy, Waynesboro, GA, United States
Phone: (706) 554-5101
Twitter: @BCPS_Bears