School News

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Please join us for "Coffee with the Principals" this Friday, January 27th, 8:30-10:00 AM, in the Multi-Use Room. The Santa Clara County Public Health Dept. will be doing a parent workshop on “Shopping on a Budget” in which participants learn how to prepare a meal for 4 people with less than 10 dollars.  See flyer which also has information regarding additional workshops which will be presented for Blackford parents/guardians.

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please complete this Google Form so this way the presenters have an idea of how many parents/guardians may be attending.  (Please know you can still attend even without completing the Google Form.)

The workshop will be presented in both English and Spanish.  Mariza Ramans, our wonderful Community Liaison, will be supporting us with Spanish interpretation.

Next week, January 23-27, our students, staff and families are looking forward to promoting compassion and kindness here at school, at home and in our community!

Last year our students and staff participated in many different activities during our month long event promoting kindness.  Our students made cards and wrote notes/letters for people they love and care about; created posters and thank you notes we secretly delivered to our district superintendent in her office to surprise her; each class had a "secret buddy class" they did special things for during the week; staff members had "secret pals" they gave small gifts and treats to throughout the week; we wore t-shirts which promoted kindness in words and images; our 5th grade students helped facilitate  a card making station during morning recess; and our District Office staff came over to relieve teachers of yard duty for morning recess as a "random act of kindness."  There were so many ways our staff and students, families and District staff showed kindness to each other.  It was heartwarming to see our Blackford and CUSD community come together to promote and share compassion and kindness.

Each day we had a focus of showing compassion and kindness to oneself, our classroom community, our school community, our family and our greater community around Blackford and beyond.

This year we are looking forward to continuing our tradition of promoting "random acts of kindness" towards others and kindness towards ourselves.  We will continue with some of the same activities we did last year, as well as encourage new ways we can demonstrate kindness for ourselves, others and the community beyond Blackford.  We hope you will join us in celebrating the joy of spreading compassion and kindness.

Please see attached flyers and parent letters.  Here’s to encouraging each other to complete as many kind acts as we can next week and beyond!  At Blackford and in CUSD, Kindness Matters!

Parent Letter  English  Spanish

Family Edition GKC Checklist

GKC Kick Off Video

GKC Info Letter  English  Spanish

On behalf of the Blackford Staff,

we would like to wish all of you

a wonderful holiday and safe winter break. 

We hope you enjoy time with family and friends,

and get time to relax and do things you enjoy.  

We will look forward to all our students returning on Tuesday, January 3rd.

Happy New Year as well!