Toys and Squishies: Please encourage your students to keep squishies, stuffed items, and toys at home. These items can become distractions in the classroom and interfere with learning. If an item becomes disruptive or a distraction, the teacher may take it up.

Taking Pride in Our Campus: Please remind your students to clean up after themselves and take pride in our school—Especially at our BMSS sorting events and during the school day in the cafeteria, classroom, locker room, or walking across campus. It takes all of us working together to care for our facilities and keep SOUTH looking its best!

Making Good Choices: We all have a responsibility to work toward being our best selves every day. Middle school is an important time for students to learn that their decisions have consequences. Please talk with your students about thinking before they act, especially when emotions are high. Getting into an altercation, making a threat, or engaging in inappropriate behavior can have serious and lasting consequences, including possible involvement with law enforcement. One poor decision can impact much more than a moment—it can affect opportunities, relationships, and their future. Please encourage your students to pause, think, walk away, and make choices they can be proud of.

Absences and Schoolwork: We have had several families reach out asking about virtual school options or schoolwork to complete while missing school for vacations or other trips. Please remember that BMSS is not a virtual school, and students need to be present in the classroom whenever possible. Students should check their Google Classrooms for assignments and updates. If they have questions or need additional support, they can connect with their teachers when they return.

Protecting Personal Information: Finally, please have conversations with your students about keeping their personal information—including district login information, lunch numbers, and account details—private and secure. Examples of sharing this information could look like the following: 

Sharing password information could put student accounts at risk of being compromised.  Students could potentially be impersonated or have someone access their accounts, which can lead to serious consequences. This has happened to students previously.  KEEP PERSONAL PASSWORDS AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION PRIVATE. This is not only a school expectation but an important life lesson about protecting personal information and digital security.

Student Pick-Up and Campus Safety: We are seeing an increase in students attempting to walk across campus to meet parents in other parking areas, as well as parents walking up toward the bus area. For the safety of all students, please pick up your children in the designated front pick-up area only. This is the only pick-up location that is monitored by staff and designed for parent pick-up. 

The other areas of campus are bus loops used by special education buses, general education buses, and Life Skills parent pick-up. The Kendall parking lots are not designated parent pick-up areas and have significant traffic, including vehicles that do not always stop appropriately at stop signs.

Please do not encourage students to walk around building corners or across campus to meet you in another location. If you would prefer to avoid the longer line, arrive at the front loop around 4:15–4:20 p.m., when traffic typically moves much more quickly. Our goal is simple: keep every student safe.

Parents, if your student has a parent who is currently serving or has previously served in the U.S. military, please take a moment to complete the Military-Connected Family Survey.

We are excited to share an upcoming change to the way you access our school menus online and through a mobile app.

SFE will be transitioning to LINQ Solutions for our online menu and mobile app services. This change will enable us to bring our menu services together with the technology we already use behind the scenes.

This change will take effect beginning with September menus. 

Here is the new menu link for your school. https://www.schoolnutritionandfitness.com/index.php?sid=1786474450273

We have amazing students here at BMSS, and we know that they are involved in many activities outside of the school walls. We want to be able to help celebrate those things. You can share using the link below!

Congrats to BMSS 6th grader Kasen Concannon for scoring goal #7 against Corpus Christi to contribute to a 8:1 win in last weekend's soccer match! Way to go Kasen- keep up the great work and contributing to your team success! 

Hello Wonderful Community!

Join us for National Night Out on Tuesday, October 6th, from 5:00 PM–8:00 PM!

This year, we’re excited to invite our neighborhoods to participate in our first-ever centralized National Night Out Block Party! The goal is to bring our community together for an evening of fun, fellowship, and building relationships with our neighbors and first responders.

🎉 What to Expect:

We look forward to bringing everyone together and celebrating the incredible community we call home!