Career & Technical
Education
Check it out here

Tigerland preschools
At Capt. Strong and Yacolt
Plus, other child-care resources
click here

Bands prep for parades in Hazel Dell, Portland

   

Sixth graders in the Tukes Valley Middle School marching band and director
Alison Pierce
rehearse for the Saturday,  May 19, Hazel Dell parade of Bands.
With 75 members overall,
they will play “Rockin’ Robin” and “Crazy Train.”
The six other BGSD middle school bands
in the Hazel Dell parade will be

Repairs needed; public hearings scheduled

   
Left: Laurin Middle School teacher Luke LeCount at rain-collector in library. Center: Laurin custodian Geraldine Schut at new supports for water-logged walkway soffits. Right: Hose-and-bucket arrangement at one of many Yacolt Primary School leaks.

The school district wants to use money left over from the 2005 voter-approved bond measure to fix things, including leaking roofs, rotting walkway overhangs, crumbling parking lots, aging boilers and septic systems and failing HVAC units (heating, ventilation and air conditioning). Public input is welcome at hearings. Click "read more" for more photos and details.

Appreciating Battle Ground's teachers . . .

From kindergartens to Career and Technical Education shops to classrooms
in all 20 schools, Battle Ground district teachers strive to engage our 12,700
students in preparing to succeed in the next step of their lives. May 7-11 is
National Teacher Appreciation Week. For more about that, click here.

Honoring our school nurses . . .

  “Is that a carrot I see in here?” That’s one question School Nurse Jan Paullin asks Maple Grove youngsters to put them at ease when she checks their ears, as she did with this boy on National School Nurses Day, May 9. For pictures and professional biographies of the BG district’s school nurses, click here. For the  proclamation, click here.