Use LINQ Connect to pay for school meals
Bethlehem Central School District is set to replace MySchoolBucks with a new payment system, LINQ Connect, on May 28, 2024.
Category: Slingerlands
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Birthday Boxes Buddy Project at Slingerlands
It’s a ready-made birthday party with candles, balloons, cake mix, frosting, a whisk, sprinkles and everyone’s favorite, Funfetti. And it’s been packed with love. Recently at Slingerlands Elementary School, students, teachers, and families collaborated to assemble and deliver 40 of these Birthday Boxes to the Merrillac Family Shelter, Albany County’s only residential shelter designed specifically …
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Farm to School initiative highlights New York dairy
Throughout April, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the dairy production process. CCE educators taught students that New York is home to more than 3,600 dairy farms and over 600,000 dairy cows. Each cow yields around 7 gallons of milk daily, producing 15 billion pounds of milk …
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Recycle eclipse glasses at BCSD schools
Looking for somewhere to recycle your eclipse glasses? Send them to school! Starting tomorrow, each school throughout the district will collect used glasses that do not have any scratches, punctures, tears or other damage. The glasses will be sent to Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC by a BCHS student organizing the initiative as part of the …
Farm to School initiative highlights maple syrup production
Throughout March, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the process of maple syrup production. Students learned that March is known as “sugaring season” in the Northeast. In late winter, when the weather transitions and daytime temperatures warm to above freezing and nights dip below freezing, sap begins …
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Melanie Painter to be honored as regional “Art Educator of the Year”
Congratulations to Melanie Painter on a much-deserved award from the NYS Art Teachers Association.
No school K-12 on Friday, Oct. 6; schools and offices closed Monday, Oct. 9
There will be no school for students on Friday, Oct. 6 (Superintendent’s Conference Day). Offices will be open. On Monday, Oct. 9, both schools and offices will be closed (Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day). Classes for students K-12 will resume on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
BC welcomes new instructional staff
Members of our instructional staff who are new to BC for the 2023-24 school year spent three days this week getting to know the district and one another. We want to extend a warm welcome to these professionals who will be working with our students when school gets started on Thursday, Sept. 7! Lindsey Bradt, …
Districtwide network shutdown postponed
Due to an equipment issue, this afternoon’s network shutdown has been postponed. The upgrades will be rescheduled to a future date.
Slingerlands school supply lists for 2023-24
School supply lists for the 2023-24 school year can be found below. There is a printable PDF version for each grade. See you in September! Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Kindergarten View or download a print-friendly version of Kindergarten supply list. [PDF] Backpack—labeled with name (No wheels please! Large …
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