Blaine Middle School

Attention BMS Athletics: The 7th grade soccer game is cancelled today due to number of athletes. Boys 7th and 8th grade baseball game is canceled due to field conditions. Practice for baseball will be indoors until 5 pm.

Schedule Reminder: Late Start (10:20am) for all students on Monday, April 22

Awards assembly reminder 1pm today. BMS PAC

Attention BMS Parents: as a reminder our new lunch menu is posted on the BSD app. We hope to have your student try some new foods this month as well as some bigger breakfast meals that we hope can help them with their focus and stamina for their difficult day.

Have a great Spring Break! School resumes on April 8.

Just after 3pm a staff member inadvertently entered the campus lockdown code into an office desk phone which activated an announcement campuswide. Students and staff who were still within buildings were moved into a safe location, and those exiting campus continued their exit. It took approximately 5 minutes to clarify that it was a false alarm and the lockdown was lifted.

Attention BMS: Remind your student to wear black and orange today for our grades 3-12 spirit assembly.

Attention BMS Parents/Guardians: Our lunch menu for April is posted on the BSD App. Our goal is for all kids to eat well each day. Paid Breakfast is $1.50 and FREE for all those who take part in our Free and Reduced Programs. Paid Lunch is $3.00, Reduced price is $.40, and Free is FREE. We would love more participation from ALL.

Blaine Middle School: Today’s late start has a college emphasis!!!! Remind your child to wear their favorite college colors and gear. March Madness starts today.

Attention BMS Students: tomorrow is our March Madness Kickoff! Wear your favorite college gear or favorite college colors!! This is a great two weeks for basketball fans and a great venue to learn more about post high school.

Schedule Reminder: Late Start (10:20am) for all students on Monday, March 18

If your child is 14 or older, please register for the FREE TEEN HEART SCREENING on March 21st from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration packets can be turned into the office. For more info, go to: https://www.peacehealth.org/st-joseph/services/cardiovascular-center/Pages/Teen-Heart-Screen

With excitement we are publishing our April Breakfast and Lunch menu.If you notice, we are serving healthier options for breakfast with the hope to get more kids eating those healthier meals. Please encourage your child to participate and eat a healthy breafast each day.

With the significant increase in absences due to illness we want to remind everyone that we have an attendance hotline that can be called to excuse your child's absence.360-332-0475. Please leave a detailed message regarding symptoms so we can appropriately track illness trends

K-8 Conferences scheduled on March 7 will be postponed due to today's school schedule adjustment.

LATE START: Due to icy conditions, all classes will start 2 hours late (10:20am) on March 7 and there will be no morning preschool. There will be NO EARLY DISMISSAL FOR K-8 STUDENTS. All students will be dismissed on March 7 at 2:50pm.

Schedule Reminder: K-8 Early Release - Students in grades K-8 will be released at 12:50pm during Conference Week, March 4-8.

With the extended number of days lost to inclement weather during the month of February, five (5) to date in our case, Whatcom County districts are starting the process of projecting calendar implications. Our 2018-19 calendar calls for the first three days lost to be made up on June 14-17-18, and that is what we anticipate at this time. As the additional two days are eligible for waiver application to OSPI, we are in the process of considering recommendation of said application to the Board. Once approved by OSPI, and provided that there are no additional days lost, we can move forward with formal designation of June 18 as the final day of the current school year.

Schedule Reminder: Late Start (10:20am) on Monday, February 25

FYI If a student is part of our Free or Reduced program (about 1/2 of our students), they are able to eat breakfast for FREE. Lunches are either FREE or $.40 depending on F or R. Today's breakfast was eggs and hashbrowns. An entire month menu for March will be posted to our website soon. As of now, 100 of 517 kids eat breakfast at our school. We want to make sure that ALL kids are getting breakfast each morning. At BMS we value nutrition. We hope to impact our students by what they put into their bodies for fuel.