Biggersville Elementary

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Hello BES family! We’re off to a great start to our 2nd semester! Progress reports will come home on Wednesday this week. Literacy for Lions books will also come home on Feb 3. In honor of Black History Month all our books will feature true stories of black Americans who have impacted our world in amazing ways! I hope you will read through these wonderful books with your kiddos! On Feb 12, we will celebrate showing love for others through spreading kindness! You do NOT need to send anything for our ‘kindness day’ celebrations! (Please do NOT plan to send any valentine cards or gifts to school this year either.) We will provide everything needed for all our kiddos to have a great day! No school on Feb 15 in honor of President’s Day On Feb 22, all BES students in grades 3-6 will be able to try out for this year’s ASD Honor Choir! Watch for info coming home soon. February is looking like it will be a FABULOUS month! See your kiddos in our classrooms tomorrow! ~Mrs. White

Hello Biggersville Family! We are so proud of all our BES Lions in the news this week! #BiggThingsHappening @BiggersvilleE https://www.alcornschools.org/article/386534?org=alcorn-school-district https://www.alcornschools.org/article/384623?org=alcorn-school-district

Congratulations to our 2021 BES Teacher of the Year- Mrs. Andrea Coleman! Thank you to Lee Highway Floral for donating flowers and balloons to all of this year’s Alcorn County school level recipients!

Happy New Year Biggersville family! Classes will resume at Biggersville on Monday, Jan 4! Our schedule will be the same as first semester with students arriving by 7:30am, classes beginning at 7:45am & school dismissal at 2pm. Afterschool tutoring (for those currently enrolled) will resume on Monday, Jan 11. Masks will still be required for everyone on campus every day. Please be certain your child wears a clean mask to school each day! If your child is experiencing any Covid symptoms or if anyone in your household has tested positive for Covid-19 over the Christmas break, please keep your child home on Monday morning AND call the BES office to let us know. Working together to stay safe, we are looking forward to a fantastic Spring semester! I can hardly wait to see your kiddos on Monday! ~Mrs. White

Christmas vacation has officially begun, Biggersville family! THANK YOU for trusting us with your amazing little lions this school year! We are already excited about having them back in our classrooms on January 4, 2021! Until then...Be Kind, Do Your Best, & Make Good Choices! That’s how we make EVERY day a GREAT day both at Biggersville Elementary & everywhere we go! Merry Christmas Lions! 🎄♥️🦁- Mrs. White

Hello BES Family! Tomorrow is Christmas party day at BES! Your child does NOT need to bring anything! Christmas parties will be done differently this year, but your teachers are working hard to make this a special day for all our kiddos! Remember- Thursday & Friday are specifically for 5th & 6th grade exams and/or students owing makeup work. If you need to know whether or not your child has to take exams or finish work, message their teacher directly. Christmas break is almost here!!! It’s a wonderful thing to be part of this Biggersville family... especially during this most wonderful time of the year! ~Mrs. White

Hello Biggersville family! I am SO EXCITED to have ALL our BES kiddos back in our classrooms tomorrow! Please remind your child to turn in all their assignments from our distance learning weeks tomorrow. Remember- all these assignments will count as grades for your students! BIGG congratulations to our BHS football team who will be playing in Jackson, MS for the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP on Friday! Based on this WONDERFUL opportunity, there will be NO SCHOOL AT BIGGERSVILLE THIS FRIDAY. We hope to see our whole community in Jackson supporting our football Lions as they work to bring home a state championship! $15 North Half Football Championship t-shirts can be ordered tomorrow! If you want to order a shirt, you MUST call our office BEFORE NOON to place your order. Money must be turned in before shirts are delivered on Thursday. The next 2 mornings are supposed to be SUPER COLD! Be sure your lions are bundled up to wait for their buses! So proud to be a Lion! ~ Mrs. White

SO THANKFUL to be part of our Biggersville family! I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with family and love! 🦁🖤 ~ Mrs. White

BES Parents- Due to the rise of COVID-19 positive cases on the Biggersville campus, it has become necessary to move ALL BES students into a Distance Learning format for the remainder of this week. Students will NOT ATTEND CLASSES AT Biggersville Elementary School Tuesday, Nov 10- Friday, Nov 13. All students grades K-4 have been sent home with paper/pencil packets today. Students in grades 5 & 6 have been sent home with their iPads AND some paper work. These 5/6 grade students know how to access their Google Classroom and should check daily for assignments. I do apologize for the inconvenience I know this causes many of our families, however, I firmly feel that this is the best call to make for our students and staff at this time. Should your student test positive or be exposed to COVID-19 during this week of distance learning, PLEASE CALL the BES office and let us know. Thank you. -Mrs. White

Hello BES Family! I can hardly believe it’s already NOVEMBER! I am sincerely SO PROUD of the work ALL our school family is putting in to make 2020-2021 a WONDERFUL school year! Make up PICTURES FOR STUDENTS ARE WEDNESDAY! We will take elementary pictures first thing in the morning. If your child is quarantined, please watch future text messages for another opportunity for make up pictures. REMEMBER- our very useful garbage bag fundraiser is happening NOW! All orders & money are due in the BES office on Friday! We are asking each student to sell 5 rolls of bags. Garbage bags should arrive BEFORE Thanksgiving break. We hope to have our Biggersville sweatshirts in soon, & will send them home as soon as they arrive! We have 14 more school days before Thanksgiving break arrives. Please continue to have your kiddos at school by 7:30 each morning & encourage them every day to BE KIND, DO THEIR BEST, & MAKE GOOD CHOICES! So thankful to be a Biggersville Lion! ~Mrs. White

Happy Thursday evening Biggersville family! This has been SUCH a WONDERFUL week! You should really brag on your kiddos because they have definitely followed rule #2! (They have DONE THEIR BEST!) Remember- tomorrow (Friday) & Monday are FALL BREAK days! We will have NO SCHOOL tomorrow or Monday! We will still be taking sweatshirt & baseball tee orders through next Wednesday, Oct 14. Baseball tees are $18 & sweatshirts are only $20! Be sure to get your order forms and money turned in to the office! Also ALL GRADES PreK-6 will get to participate in our first ever Biggersville Pumpkin Patch on Friday, Oct 30! Please send $4 to cover the cost of your child’s pumpkin, pumpkin decorations, & Halloween snack. All kiddos are also invited to dress as their favorite book character that day (nothing gory or scary please!) It’s a wonderful thing to be part of this BIGGERSVILLE community. Enjoy your fall break! I can’t wait to see your kiddos back at BES on Tuesday! ~ Mrs. White

Happy Sunday Biggersville Family! I’ve got a few reminders for you; PICTURE DAY IS TUESDAY! All BES students will be taking pictures on Tuesday morning. These are the pictures that will go in our yearbook, so please be certain your kiddos arrive ready to give us their BEST smiles! Grades 2-6 will be taking computerized nine weeks test this week. Our schedule will be as follows; Monday- 5th grade SCIENCE test Tuesday- Grades 2-6 MATH test (part 1) Wednesday- Grades 2-6 MATH test (part 2) Thursday- Grades 2-6 READING test Classes BEGIN at 7:45 each morning! Be be sure your kiddos are in school EVERY DAY! MASKS are still required for every student and all staff! Please be sure your kiddos bring their mask every day! We are still taking BIGGERSVILLE LIONS baseball tee & sweatshirt orders! Call the BES office for more info! Fall break will begin this Friday! It’s going to be another FABULOUS week at BES! ~Mrs. White

Happy Saturday everyone! I’m loving all the familiar faces in this BIGG video featuring our incredible school! So proud to be a Biggersville Lion! #BiggThingsHappening https://youtu.be/K5e9dbxBuwU

Hello Biggersville family! Thank you for your help in the afternoon Carline. The past two days have been much better! Our number one goal is to keep all our people safe… Thank you for helping do that!! Most of our younger students were sent home with progress reports today! Our older students will bring home progress reports tomorrow. Distance learning students can pick up progress reports the next time they are on campus this week. Our school district is getting an Internet upgrade! This should help with many technological problems we have had this year. Tomorrow, however, we expect our phones, which are Internet-based, to be unavailable for most of the morning. Please be certain to send your child’s teacher a note if you need to make afternoon travel adjustments tomorrow as you may NOT be able to reach us during the morning hours via telephone. It’s a wonderful thing to be part of this Biggersville family! Have a great night! ~Mrs. White

Hello BES family! I hope you have all had a wonderful 3 day weekend! -Progress reports should come home on Thursday this week. -Distance learner work packets can be picked up from the BES office tomorrow. -AFTERNOON CAR LINE ANNOUNCEMENT- So many families have been arriving early to our afternoon carline that it is becoming a safety hazard on Highway 45. PLEASE arrive at Biggersville NO EARLIER than 1:45 each afternoon. We have both elementary & high school students moving across campus from 1:30-2pm daily & we keep our carline gate closed for their safety. Students will load carline from 2:00- 2:20pm daily. We are going to keep your kiddos safe until you arrive to pick them up, but we need your help in keeping all our BES families out of the highway and safe until it is time to load!! DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE 1:45! It’s a wonderful thing to be part of this BIGGERSVILLE family! If I can be of any help to you this week, please give me a call! 🦁~Mrs. White

BES Distance Learning Family- THANK YOU for working so hard to get distance learning figured out over these past 2 weeks! Hopefully you have been able to establish some daily routines & are ready to rock-n-roll in the upcoming week! Please know, we, too, are working diligently to make sure we are getting your children everything they need. Many of you have called with iPad issues in the past 2 weeks. We have been working to get the needed answers, but our district has come up with a better way to handle these questions. ANYTIME YOU HAVE A TECHNOLOGY ISSUE, please use this link to contact our tech department. They should respond to your question promptly. Distance Learning Technology Help Ticket https://forms.gle/aULapfMEXCyLihCX9 Taking on the responsibility of being a full-time teacher is NO small task! We appreciate all your efforts & thank you for partnering with us to help meet your students academic needs! 🦁 ~ Mrs. White

We’re ready for a GREAT 2nd full week at BES! 🦁🖤🦁 https://youtu.be/YJ5_MVn_KzI

BES Family- I want you to know...your kiddos are AMAZING!!! This is the last day of our first full week of school, & we are starting to settle into our school routines. I have the BEST JOB in the world because I get to watch your kiddos grow every single day! & THEY ARE GROWING ALREADY! I also want you to know what an INCREDIBLE job your kiddos are doing handling the one thing many parents were most worried about- face masks... Masks are on 100% of the time in our hallways, & easily 90%+ of the time in our classrooms! I have TRULY been amazed at how well everyone is doing! These kiddos have done everything we have asked of them this week. Academic work, papers returned, face masks being worn, being kind, doing their best, & making good choices! It REALLY IS an amazing thing to be part of this Biggersville family! Thank you for trusting us with your kiddos! We are doing everything in our power to keep them safe and help them grow! Happy Friday everyone! 🦁~Mrs. White