Community Service

At today's UPward Bound meeting for the 8th graders, Mike talked about the importance of doing community service. It's important if you are hoping to get accepted into college, if you are looking for scholarships, and for your all-around personal development.

It's time for BMS to plan and carry out another community service project. Do you have any ideas for a project? Please share any ideas you have here. If you don't know of any needs in our community, just ask around. I just found out yesterday that the food bank is always short of JELLY! That might be a good place for us to start!

Mrs. Ahnert

Career Day Feedback

Which Career Day sessions did you attend?
Rate each one from 1-5 stars and comment on them.
Were they interesting? inspiring?
Would you recommend them for next year?

Putting forth your best effort

What helps you put forth your best effort at school?
Do you think positive recognition and rewards by school staff are motivating?
What types of rewards or recognition would be motivating for you?

2012 Ideas for improving BMS

Here is your chance to voice your opinion. What might the students, teachers, staff, and/or parents do to improve Bigfork Middle School. You can comment below.


Rules for commenting: Be respectful. Be appropriate. Be realistic. Own your comment by not being anonymous.

Positive Note.

What can we do to end the year on a positive note?

Dealing with adults.

Do you presently have any frustrations in dealing with adults?  Describe one and how you might deal with the situation.

Offficers are now authors.

The 2010-11 Class officers are now authors on this blog. The will be able to post updates, polls, and details about student government meetings.

Freedom

Do you have time to do things you want to do or are you "overbooked"?

What would a "perfect day be like"?

Fun

What do you like to do for fun?

What are you going to do for fun today?

Respect

Who do enjoy spending time with?

Why do you like being with them?

Achievement

What are you good at?


What would you say your strengths are?

Late work

What should the middle school do about late work?

How can we make the school better?

You often gripe about the school. Try sharing an idea of how students and teachers can make the school better. Be serious.

What is the best part of school so far?

The year has just started and you have moved up stairs to the Junior High. What would say are the two best things about being a 7th or 8th grader in this school.

Dances

If we had another dance but chose to have it somewhere other than the school and played more of the music we actually listen to would you be more inclined to come? This is just an idea, it might not even be an option, but what do you think?

Music In the Halls

What kind of music or genre of music would you like to hear in the hallways between classes?

8th grade graduation party

We want to have a graduation party for the 8th graders the night before we leave for the 8th grade trip. What are some of your ideas for where the party should be and what we should do there?

Making School Fun

There were a bunch of ideas to make school better, but not all of them were so great. I agree that the cafeteria should have better food, but we can't really change that. We already have a no homework Wednesday, but that doesn't prevent the teachers from assigning things due Friday, or doing projects. A dance at the end of each month is a lot to ask because of the preparation needed for each one. You are allowed to listen to your ipod, just a teacher has to say it's okay. About the dance music, we can have more 'guy' songs, they just have to be appropriate and not suggestive. You can write down some ideas and give them to one of the student council members. Any thing else? Please keep it school-related and within our power.

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What are some ways that the school could save money?

Next year the school will have a difficult time operating because they will have less money. Can you think of some ways the school could save money without hurting the quality of education? One idea that some people have been discussing is a 4 day school week. In the right column of this blog is a poll. Go ahead and vote on the subject. Feel free to comment about whether you think it is a good idea or not under this post. Please keep your comments constructive, useful, thoughtful and respectful.