The Paw Print

Welcome back to everyone's favorite newsletter, The Paw Print! As we're sure all of you know, Winter Break is only a day away and Valentine's Day is only 4 days away! So get all of your love notes written and your roses picked to be mailed to your crush's HOUSE (and not the school because we will NOT be accepting Valentine's Deliveries this year!)

Even though love is in the air, The Paw Print does not want any of its readers to breathe in TOO HARD because love can distract all of our amazing students from keeping those grades higher than the clouds!

As always, your friends at The Paw Print are proud of all the hard work we have seen and we want you all to Stay #BearBuilt!

The Paw Print can be viewed every 2nd and 4th Wednesday! It features district news, sports updates, and fun activities for the families. Stay in the know!

The Burke County Public School System is joining in a nationwide celebration this week (February 7-11) to salute the efforts of school counselors. So if you see one of your trusty school counselors, stop and thank them for all that they do! Whether you know it or not, they are ALWAYS working behind the scenes to help you and your peers achieve success!

Our All-Star Team:

Front, l-r, Daisha Levy (BCHS), Mallory Doyle (BCHS), Tiffany Jackson (BCMS), Regenia Jordan (BCHS)

Back, Bobby Henley (BCLC), Sherry Mayes (BES), Rhonda Clark (BCHS), Amanda Kort (BCMS), Shironda Brown (BCMS), Lisa Daniels (SGA)

Not Pictured: Varnell Greenaway (WPS), Tammy Porter (WPS), Robert Floyd (BES)

Burke County Public Schools screams a BIG congratulations to Lillian Huddleston and Cahley Bozeman for competing and placing in the National Junior Beta State Convention. Lillian Huddleston won 5th place for Fifth Grade Language Arts and Cahley Bozeman won 3rd place for Fourth grade Language Arts!

Burke County High School Beta Club also brought home some wins at the National Beta Club State Convention. Now, the winners will be competing at the Beta Club National Convention in Tennessee this summer! They were all announced as winners of the following competitions:

Drawing Division I (Sam Gilpin): 2nd Place

Mixed Media Art Division II (Lucy Zhang): 1st Place

Drawing Division II (Nancy Daniel): 4th Place

Photography Division II (Cassidy Morris): 5th Place

Onsite Art Drawing Division II (Nancy Daniel): 5th Place

Technology (Keegan McDonald): 3rd Place

Apparel Design (Liannis Perez, Mallorie Mcafferty, Alli Osborne, Karsyn Posey and Savannah Salemi): 1st Place

Fiber Arts Division II (Kayla Wilder): 2nd Place

Speech Division II (Jada Curd): 1st Place

Click on the BCHS PROM image above for Important Prom & Ticket Information

United Way of the CSRA's 2-1-1 helpline is a FREE information and referral service.

If you need help finding assistance or available resources in the CSRA, or want to give help, dial 2-1-1 from any phone or you may dial 706-826-1495, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Your call is completely confidential and free. Visit www.211csra.org to use the online database, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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NEW! Text your 5-digit zip code to 898211 to text directly with a referral specialist (available Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.), or for automatic referrals, text OD10 to 898211 to find resources available to you in your zip code.

Each Monday, we provide a report disclosing the number of positive COVID-19 cases within our school system. This report can be easily located on the homepage of our district website, www.burkeschools.org, or by clicking on the covid report image.

The BC Family YMCA is offering discounted memberships for families in the area as well as activity days when students are out of school!

The next YMCA 'Schools Day Out' will be held on February 11th and February 14th.

Rates are $20/members and $35/non-members.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Kenteira Jones, Burke Co. Family YMCA Program Director

(office) 706.426.0122

kjones@thefamilyy.org

Congratulations to BCHS Senior, Ivan Arroyo, for being named to the All CSRA Team during the All CSRA High School Football Awards Show. Ivan was also named Scholar Defensive Player of the Year and received a $1,000 scholarship!

If you want to check out Ivan's one-on-one interview with John Hart, the link is attached to Ivan's picture above!

The Word of the Day is Disheveled! Disheveled is an adjective that means untidy or disordered. The Paw Print hopes that our readers do not come back to school disheveled after the long Winter Break, so make sure you all get some rest!

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!

February 9 commemorates EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE HOLIDAY, National Pizza Day!! Burke County Families can celebrate this tasty holiday by visiting any of our local pizzerias! Stop by Papa's Pizza, Pizza Hut, or Papa John's Pizza and grab yourself a slice or a box for the whole family or neighborhood for that matter!! Dinner on you, am I right?!

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! Need a printable version? Just click on the calendar!

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.

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!