Biggersville Elementary

BES family reminders; - STATE TESTING DAYS for most students are TOMORROW & WEDNESDAY - Have your kiddos to school BY 7:30am!!!! Being late affects your child AND everyone else! - Registration for next year’s 7th grade is TOMORROW @ 5pm. All current 6th grade students & their parents need to attend. - This week is TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK! Send your child’s teachers a note or a happy to let them know how much you appreciate their hard work this year! It’s been a marvelous Monday at BES! We are looking forward to a tremendous Tuesday tomorrow! 🦁~Mrs. White

Physicals for 6th grade students planning to participate middle school athletics next year will be performed by MRHC for free TOMORROW with signed permission. All 6th graders should have brought home permission papers last week. If you need additional information, call the high school office in the morning. On Tuesday @5pm in the cafeteria, this years 6th grade students will have 7th grade registration for next year! All parents of 6th grade students should plan to attend with your child to get them signed up for school next year! Please remember- All PreK & Kindergarten students will participate in our year end program on Thursday, May 13 @6pm. Awards night for grades 1-6 & 6th grade promotion ceremony will be held on Monday, May 17 @6pm. Both events will be held in the gym with no attendance restrictions but masks will be required. Be certain you encourage your child to continue working hard in their classrooms for the next few weeks! We will all continue to be kind, do our best, & make good choices as we wrap up a fantastic year at BES! 🦁~ Mrs. White Message 2 of 2

Hello Biggersville fam! We are gearing up for a phenomenal first week of May @BES! State tests will be given in Reading & Writing this week for grades 3-6! Kindergarten students will also complete their state MKAS test to measure how much they’ve grown academically! Please be sure your child is at school BY 7:30 each morning to be certain they have time for a good breakfast before they give their best on these tests! Message 1 of 2

Hello Biggersville family! BES will host a summer learning program for students entering grades 1-6 in June! The program will run Mondays-Thursdays June 1-24 from 7:30-11:30am. Children will be served BOTH breakfast AND lunch on campus each day. BUS TRANSPORTATION to and from home WILL BE PROVIDED! Your child brought home summer registration papers today. SPACE IS LIMITED so send those papers back TOMORROW! State championship t-shirts were sent home yesterday! If you missed out on the first order, you still have 1 chance to get a shirt. Tshirt Orders & money will be taken in the office until Monday, May 3rd! BHS basketball fish fry is THIS SATURDAY from 3-6pm. Call the office to order plates for your family! $10 each! SAVE THESE DATES- Thursday, May 13- 6pm- PreK & Kindergarten end of the year program Monday, May 17- 6pm- BES Awards night Grades 1-6 Have a great evening! 🦁~Mrs. White

Hello Biggersville family! Because of an extreme threat of severe weather, we will have a day of virtual learning TOMORROW. ALL Biggersville students should have come home today with something paper/pencil based to work on tomorrow. School will resume on campus this Thursday. Boys Basketball State Championship tshirt order forms came home with every student today. These orders are due by next Monday, so be sure to get them turned in to order one of these AWESOME t-shirts! Our Coke fundraiser raised over $2000 for our school! Any of you who bought drinks can help us raise a little more by returning the black plastic drink cases. For every case returned our school will receive another $1! Please return those cases to the BES office! LAST CHANCE to order a 2020-2021 school annual is this week! All orders must be turned in by FRIDAY! We’re off to a great start of our 4th nine weeks! Stay safe tomorrow & we’ll see your young lions on Thursday! 🦁~Mrs. White

BIGG basketball celebration today at the gym at 3:00 to honor our Varsity Girls and Boys teams. Hope to see everyone there!

Hello BES family! All our Biggersville community is invited to join us at 3pm tomorrow as we celebrate the successes of this year’s BHS Basketball Teams. Monday is the first day of the last nine weeks of school this year! Our teachers, students, & families have worked so hard to make this very difficult year a success, & our kiddos are learning SO MUCH!!! I know our hard work will continue through the end of May! And I KNOW our hard work will continue to pay off for the good of our kids! After-school tutoring will begin again this week for all students enrolled. We hope to see everyone who can make it at our BIGG Basketball Celebration tomorrow afternoon, & I can’t wait to see your babies back in our classrooms on Monday! 🦁~ Mrs. White

BIGG Basketball Celebration Sunday, March 14 3pm Biggersville Gym Celebrating BOTH our Final Four Lady Lions & our State Championship Lions basketball programs! (Vouchers NOT required!)

LION BASKETBALL WINS THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! We are SO PROUD of our lions and our whole Biggersville family for our representation in Jackson today! We WILL be in school tomorrow! 5th graders will take their science benchmark in the morning. All Cokes-by-the-case from our fundraiser can be picked up tomorrow from 7:30am-4pm. ALL 5th & 6th grade iPads and chargers need to be returned to school tomorrow. Spring break will be next week. BIGG Basketball Celebration will be held on Sunday, March 14th at 3pm to celebrate both our girls final four and boys state championship basketball teams!!! Watch your text messages for more information! See your kiddos TOMORROW for our last day before Spring Break. 🦁~Mrs. White

Hello Biggersville family! We are SO PROUD of our Biggersville boys and girls basketball teams! Unfortunately, our girls came up a few points shy, but we have NO DOUBT they’ll be back in the Big House representing us very well again next season! Our boys basketball team will be playing in the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME on Thursday afternoon!!! As is usual for such a BIGG game, we will NOT have school on Thursday. (Makeup day will be April 5th.) The boy’s game will be held at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, MS. Admission will be $15. We hope to see everyone who can make the trip in Jackson on Thursday to cheer on our Lions! We WILL have school as regularly scheduled on Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday this week, but there will be NO AFTERSCHOOL tutoring this week. Have a great afternoon! See everyone back on campus tomorrow!

BES Coke fundraiser is going on NOW! Please turn all money and orders in by noon Tuesday for drink pickup before Spring Break!

Snow Day Tomorrow! Have fun & Be safe! We can’t wait to see your kiddos back in our classrooms next week! https://youtu.be/RX5-ouxjDwI

Happy Sunday Biggersville family! This Friday, we will celebrate showing love for others through spreading kindness! We will provide everything needed for all our kiddos to have a great day! You do NOT need to send anything for our ‘kindness day’ celebrations! (Due to Covid restrictions, please do NOT plan to send any valentine cards or gifts to school this year either.) No school on Monday, 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! Please sign and send back permission sheets this week! PreK registration will be held on Thursday & Friday, Feb 25 & 26! Also, Kindergarten registration is coming soon! Because we will be registering all incoming students through our online system, anyone planning to register for PreK or Kindergarten can contact our BES office this week to give us your child’s name & birthdate. Doing so will greatly speed up the registration process when you’re on campus! We’re looking forward to another wonderful week at BES! 🦁~ Mrs. White

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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