Part of the ongoing curriculum at BES is to help children to understand what is expected behavior. Generally this translates into only doing what is healthy for yourself and others. Classroom discussion recently has explored how to keep friends, stay out of trouble, and have fun.
On a mission to share the tradition of baking bread, The King Arthur Flour Company of Norwich, Vt., visited the Bradford Elementary School in Bradford, Vt., on Friday, November 20, 2009, to teach over 100 fourth- through sixth-grade students to bake fresh, nutritious bread from scratch through its Life Skills Bread Baking Program. Since that time, students from the 4th-6th grade classes have been baking bread in small groups with Food manager Corinna Magalhaes, Kids Connect Coordinator Jim McCracken and parent volunteers. Each student makes two loaves. One loaf is donated either to the food shelf or the Thursday community dinner at the Methodist Church. The other loaf is brought home for the student and their family to enjoy. Thanks to the generosity of King Arthur, interested students are given the opportunity to bake at home with their family with flour and yeast supplied by the company. As of this week, the students have donated over 50 loaves of bread.
Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection that initially can cause fatigue, chills and fever, muscle and joint pain, headache, swollen lymph nodes and a skin rash. You can get the disease from the bite of an infected tick. However not all types of ticks carry Lyme Disease! The following information from the Vermont Department of Health is intended to help you take appropriate action to keep your kids healthy.
SWINE FLU AND SCHOOL SAFETY The School Health Office is currently working within the guidelines set forth by the Vermont Department of Health concerning the current swine flu outbreak. The health department issues Advisories to school nurses that include up-to-date information, recommendations, and specific instructions regarding the assessment of respiratory illness at school to ensure the safety of all students.
The 504 Team is a group of BES staff assembled to address a particular child's needs as directed by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This is a nondiscrimination law that protects students who have a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities by ensuring a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as adequately as that of students without impairments.
This year BES will begin to implement the research-based Know Your Body (KYB) curriculum in grades kindergarten through six. The KYB curriculum addresses the health education content areas recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. KYB is aligned with, and its lessons cross-matrixed to, the Vermont Department of Education and the 2006 National Health Education Standards.
