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Welcome

BDHS Tigers

Today is……

Thursday

February 23, 2012

Parent Portal Updates

Parent Portal has recently received some updates. Parents and

students can now see a “Grades” tab on the left-hand side, which

can be used to view report cards. Also, high school parents and

students can now view the numeric grade as well as the letter

grade for each class under “Assignments.” See the Parent Portal

User Guide

(http://brentsvillehs.schools.pwcs.edu/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/493839/File/Parentsand

Students/Using%20ParentCONNECTxp.pdf?&sessionid=eb2626a3c0834f4b15f7fdbe76289b12&se

ssionid=eb2626a3c0834f4b15f7fdbe76289b12 ) for more information.

AICE/AP course for 2012-2013

Students who are registering for an

AICE/AP course for 2012-2013

must pick up an enrollment form

and have it completed by the time

you meet with your counselor.

Forms may be picked up from

the guidance office

or in the main office.

Monday

BMS Math

Tuesday

Chess Club

Latin Club

Wednesday

Wake up Wed

BMS Club

Thursday

Edge Club

Friday

Feb 20

President’s

Holiday Day

No School

Feb 23 Feb 24

NOVA visit

9am sign up in

Library.

Coffee house 6pm

Spring Track 2pm

Interest meeting.

Feb 27

Winter Track

Banquet 7pm

In cafeteria

Feb 28 Feb 29 Mar 1 Mar 2

$$ and order forms

for SR shirts due.

Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 7

Book Club meet

in Library

Mar 8 Mar 9

* Practice a Random

act of kindness –

Return your

library books –

Now! Please!

Feedback wanted…..

We Need Your Feedback!

PWCS has been working on finding ways to

offer ePub documents to the community. The

first task is to determine the market share of

eReaders for parents and students. Please

take a few minutes to respond to the survey

question on the PWCS News Facebook

page:

http://www.facebook.com/PWCSNews.

Pennies for Patients There is only 1 week left in the Key Club

“Pennies for Patients” home room

competition.

Donate money in your homeroom to help

cancer patients and win a pizza party if

your class raises the most. Also, you can

help the cause by purchasing pizza

outside the main office on FRIDAY

Anyone who wishes to give money

can visit the website:

http://nca.sy.llsevent.org/BrentsvilleHighSchool

Presents for Paws

Are you a pet lover? Do you like to

Help animals? Well here is your chance!

FBLA is sponsoring Presents for Paws,

A service project to collect pet items for

Prince William Animal Shelter.

Donations can be placed in the bags in

Homerooms. FBLA is helping to save

animals one paw at a time! Items can

be dropped off during February.

Coffee House Friday Feb 24th

To all poets, writers, artists,

and musicians, we know

you’re out there.

To everyone else, we know

you enjoy their work.

Don’t miss coffeehouse,

Friday Feb 24th at 6pm

Admission is $5.

Brentsville Math Society will be

tutoring students. If you have

trouble in Math, come Tuesday

through Thursday to receive help.

Furthermore, the new math

question of the month will be

posted on the math bulletin board

on Monday! If you get the question

right, you will receive a homework

pass.

Literary Club meet

Join the Literary Club on

Wednesday, March 7th for a

discussion of Outliers: The Story of

Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers are the

best and the brightest, the most famous and

the most successful. Mr. Gladwell asks the

question: What makes high achievers different?

Read the book and join us in the Library on

March 7th from 2-3pm for a discussion on the

book.

SENIOR CLASS Shirt Order Form

The 2012 Senior Class shirt is available in short sleeve, long sleeve and hoodie design in a range of sizes. Your selection and money are due by

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, to ensure your choice at these prices.

Indicate the size and quantity desired

Short Sleeve T-Shirt $15.00 ($2.00 more for XXL or larger)

Adult SM _______MD __ ____LG _______XL _______

Adult XXL ________ XXXL _______ Youth XL _______

Long Sleeve T-Shirt $18.00 ($2.00 more for XXL or larger)

Adult SM _______MD __ ____LG _______XL _______

Adult XXL ________ XXXL _______ Youth XL _______

Hoodie $25.00 ($5.00 more for XXL or larger)

Adult SM _______MD __ ____LG _______XL _______

Adult XXL ________ XXXL _______ Youth XL _______

TOTAL ORDER: $____________________

Name: ____________________________________ Homeroom: ______________________ Phone #: _________________________

Make Checks payable to BDHS Senior Class. Turn in money and order form to Mrs. Massie in Room 2207 by March 2nd.

Support Prom

Support Prom! Buy a Junior

Class T-shirt

during all lunch blocks starting

this week.

T-shirts are $12 and you can

also buy one

from Mr. Hampson in room 1105. 2/16-2/25

Sophomores CLASS ROCK

It’s time to paint our rock.

Submit your design to Mrs.

Lowe or Mr. Stietzel

by Friday March 2nd.

The winner will begin painting

immediately.

Winter Track Awards Banquet

The winter track awards banquet will

be on Monday Feb 27th at 7pm in the

cafeteria. Bring a dessert to share.

Dr. Eugene Baltimore, captain of the

staff Donkey Basketball Team will be

The guest speaker.

Donkeyball

It is time to mark your calendars… DONKEYBALL

is coming! The staff of Brentsville and Nokesville

is challenging the Senior Class to a game of athletic

dominance. Yes..Donkeyball. What is a donkey ball you

ask…. well it is Basketball on real live Donkeys in our

Gym! On MARCH 17th the showdown will begin for

Official bragging rights of who is the BEST!

Tickets will be on sale soon! Seniors… if you want to be

part of the Donkeyball senior class team… please see

Mrs. Witt in room 1204 this week for more information!

The challenge is on!!!!

Governor’s School @Innovation Park

There will be a Tour of the Governor’s School

@ Innovation Park on March 1st.

All interested Freshman and Sophomores

should ask their math and science teachers

for more information by Feb 24th;

Transportation will be provided.

We have some

2010 Yearbooks

for sale

in the Library

for only $5.00

June Italy trip…..

Dreaming of Venice and its endless canals?

What about Rome – the coliseum, the forum,

The epic grandeur of it all? And while your

Thoughts are on the Italian Peninsula – don’t

forget Florence! Now – imagine going there!

Well you can! Thee are 2 spaces available on

Ms. Schaller’s June Tour of Italy. Come see

Ms. Schaller in room 1111 for details!

College Visit

Attention seniors, NOVA

representative date has changed

from Feb 17 to Feb 24th at 9a.m.

If you have already signed up

you do not need to sign up again.

If you are interested and have not

signed up the sign up sheet

is in the library.

Free Money is important to schools. Don’t forget to sign your

school(s) up for the grocery stores yearly or the stores don’t donate to schools.

When signing up if you have children in multiple schools you should list all of

the school(s) you want to support at the same time.

Out of 900 forms sent home we got about 55 forms back. So if you

think your student might have forgotten to turn in the form it never hurts

to send the info again. Just email the grocery card numbers to

Brentsvillehighschool@yahoo.com and they will go directly to the

coordinator for all the grocery stores.

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TARGET also participates if you use a Target Credit Card or Debit Card

You can call 1.800.316.6142 to select a school to support.

Congrats to BDHS Wrestlers

Congratulations to the following

wrestlers for placing at the

State Tournament this weekend:

Brenden Velez 5th

Tyler Fake 6th

Zach Roseberry 3rd

Brandon Thompson 6th Good job guys!

Congratulations to

Kristine Harner for

Winning 1st prize in the

Piedmont Symphony

Orchestra’s student

Solo competition

this weekend.

2/21

Congrats to BDHS Track Team Boys track team placed 5th at Regional.

Following athletes were all regional:

Mike Blair, Tom Blair, Mitch Catron,

Richard Knab, Cameron Calfee,

Devin Drake, Corey Tooke, Tyler

Connell and Khaleel Momen.

Girls that were all regional: Mystique

Ro, Rachel Reynolds and Lindsey

Bradshaw. Teams were

led by Dr. Baltimore

Way to go Tigers!!!!

Congrats BDHS Chess Team Congratulations to BDHS

Chess Team for placing

2nd in Prince William County

Chess competition.

Also congratulations to

Piash Debnath for

Winning the meet.

Today is Chess Club.

Congrats to Boys Tiger Swim Team

Boys swim team in a 7th Place finish at states this past weekend. With only 9

boys swimming we were able to still place within the top 10 high school swim

teams in the State! What an accomplishment!

State Champion 50 Freestyle & 3rd in 100 Freestyle - Justin Doyle

8th in 50 Freestyle - Ben Cumberland

5th in 200 Medley relay – Justin Doyle, Naoki Suguria, Sam Maranto & Ben

Cumberland.

4th in 200 Freestyle Relay – Justin Doyle, Naoki Suguria, Sam Maranto &

Ben Cumberland.

Coach Ashleigh and Coach Tanner wish to thank all our BDHS Swimmers for

A great 2011-2012 season! Way to go Swimmers!!

All Virginia Chorus for 2012

Congratulations to Megan Hendrix who

Has been selected to the All Virginia

Chorus for 2012. Megan ranked in the

top 4 Alto I’s at this past weekend’s All

District Chorus.

She will travel to Lynchburg in April to

sing in the Mixed Chorus.

Type in the below link to go directly to

School District page

http://www.evergreendistrictva.org

Spring Track & Field

There will be a meeting of all students

Interested in running track this spring

on Friday Feb 24th at 2pm in the

Health Room.

If you can not attend please see

Mr. Baltimore.

Take Care Of Our Troops Apparently it is cold in Afghanistan at

present … the troops have asked for hot

chocolate, hand warmers, wool socks

and solid color beanie caps (i.e., black,

brown, gray, tan etc) may be dropped off at

the security desk at Brentsville Dist HS.

Attention Students:

We are reminding you to

follow the appropriate

dress code.

Violators will be

addressed.

Have A Nice Day!!!!