Now that BH-BL students are back to school full time, district leaders continue to fine tune practices and protocols related to helping reduce the spread of COVID among students and staff. Upon reviewing the patterns of the past few weeks of school, district officials have learned that when students need to be placed in quarantine …
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UPDATED 9-16-2021 A lot of thought has gone into how to handle large-scale outdoor events, like football games and homecoming. These are events that the entire community typically looks forward to every fall, and school leaders want to continue to hold them even during the pandemic. Therefore, as of now, attendance at large-scale outdoor events …
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In an effort to keep BH-BL parents and community in the know about COVID requirements and mandates, we are sharing the current requirements given to BH-BL by the NYS Department of Health for symptomatic students. Below is the protocol to be followed when a student has the following symptom(s) associated with COVID-19. This protocol will …
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After moving to executive session at the start of the Sept. 7, the BH-BL Board of Education reconvened and decided to adjourn the meeting and reschedule it as a Special Meeting of the Board on Thursday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. The meeting will be virtual and live streamed. [WATCH THE LIVE STREAM] Board President …
September 1, 2021 was opening day for BH-BL staff. The excitement to be back was palpable! Embedded YouTube Video about back to school
As school leaders and staff prepare for the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, and bring all students back to school full time, there are still some questions about how this school year will look in regards to the ongoing pandemic and health and safety measures that may need to be put in place at …
To help make the breakfast and lunch payment routine for your child just a little bit easier, BH-BL has implemented a new online school meal payment program–Titan School Solutions. This new program replaces MySchoolBucks. (Go ahead and delete that app off your cellular device. ) Also, any balances you have on MySchool Bucks will automatically …
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The previously postponed “Opening School Q&A Session” has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, at 6 pm prior to the Board of Education meeting. The meeting will be held in the O’Rourke Middle School cafeteria, 173 Lakehill Road. (Enter through the music door entrance.) The regularly scheduled Board meeting will immediately follow. In the …
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Hello Parents/Guardians- I have a few important updates I wanted to pass along. We made a minor adjustment to the formatting of our mitigation protocol plan to clear up some confusion expressed in emails I have been receiving. It seems that some people interpreted the plan as proposing that we move from level to level based simply …
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Hello Everyone- As promised, here is a link to the nearly final draft of our 2021-22 Opening Plan. It has been reviewed by our school physician and will be approved by the Board of Education next week. The basic idea of the plan is that we will have four different levels of mitigation protocol to …
