Recycling efforts of students and staff have earned our school the “Recycle Cup” award from the City of San Jose and the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. During the three-week contest, we recycled more than all other schools participating in the challenge.
Blackford Elementary collected 76 bags of recycling!
As part of the award, we will receive a visit by Mayor Sam Liccardo and an Earthquakes player or mascot.
Go BOBCATS!!!
Thank you to all of those that came out to support our first ever Blackford Community Build Day with RAFT and Project Ember. It was a huge success with over 100 students, parents, teachers, and staff members participating in the build. Students of all ages along with their families participated in building tables, shelves, and supply walls with whiteboards. It was an incredible event and we are so thankful to all who came out to help and support. Here is a link to an article where we were featured in the Mercury news as well! Great Job Blackford Bobcats. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/27/campbel...
Please help us in reminding your students that children are not permitted to play on the playground or playstructure after school unless they are accompanied by a parent. In addition parents that are staying with your students after school please make sure to be sitting/standing near them on the playground or playstructure. We have noticed several students playing on one playground while their parents are on another. As safety is a top priority for us, we wanted to take a moment to remind you to please help us by following the above policy.
During pick up time, after school in the parking lot, you may have noticed new signs that designate pick up times along the yellow curb. If you have a student that gets picked up at 3:00 dismissal, please do not park along the curb during the 2:50 dismissal. We have found that cars parked on the curb early for the 3:00 dismissal are making it diffucult for the traffic to continously flow for the 2:50 pick up. We sincerely appreciate your support in helping with the flow of traffic and most importantly the safety of our students and families in the parking lot of Blackford.
We value your input! At the next PTA/Community meeting, we will be reviewing our LCAP (Local Control Accountability Plan) school goals and seeking parent input. The next PTA meeting is this Thursday, March 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the community room (Room 13). Please join us if you would like to give feedback.
Calling all engineers! It’s not not too late to register for our Engineering classes. Taking it to the Skies (for grades k- 2): The Junior Aerospace Engineering classes introduce our youngest engineers to fundamental concepts of aircraft and spaceship design. Through open and focused exploration, students explore and construct airplanes, rockets, hot air balloons, and more.
Up, Up & Away (for grades 3-5): During the Aerospace Engineering classes, students use the Engineering Design Process to design, create, test, and refine a variety of flying machines. They construct a shock absorbing system designed to protect two marshmallow astronauts in a lunar vehicle, create their own air-powered rockets, and assemble a hot air balloon model that actually takes flight!
Come and join the creativity by registering with the following link. https://cusdextensions.asapconnected.com/cour...
Hope to see you there!
This year Blackford has partnered with RAFT (Resource Area For Teaching) to create "Makerspaces" at our school. Makerspaces allow students to gather with one another to explore ideas, create inventions, explore design thinking, to discover and create using a variety of tools and materials. We are going to be building these Makerspaces as a community alongside our partners from RAFT on Saturday March 25th from 10:00 - 4:00 at Blackford. This is a great chance for us to come together as a communty and help create opportunites for our students here at Blackford. Please come join us and stay for as long as your schedule allows. Lunch will be provided. Please register by using the following link https://tinyurl.com/jnp75p7 We hope to see you there!
Starting March 1st, CUSD families can begin signing their children up for summer camps! Campbell Union School District offers a variety of fun and enriching summer camp options for your student. Visit campbellusd.org/summer to see the variety of options available. Space is limited and camps fill up fast. Register now online, or in the CUSD Extensions office.
We are having our first bbq lunch of the year. Families of Blackford students, please join us during your child's regulary scheduled lunch time for a bbq lunch. Cost is $3.75 per person visiting for lunch. Cost for students is the same as if they were ordering hot lunch that day, $3.25. (Free/reduced prices still apply) We hope to see you here.
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