English Part 2 and 3 this week.
English Part 2 is Tuesday morning - 7:35 to 9:00am.
English Part 3 is Wednesday morning - 7:35 to 9:45am.
Math, parts 1-3 are next week - Wednesday through Friday.

Students should get a good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast before testing. They will need a fully charged laptop for each test.

Dear Parents & Guardians,

Course verification forms will go home with all freshmen today. Please review with your student and sign it before returning to English teachers by next Tuesday, April 23rd. Students must take at least 6 credits and up to 7 credits. If students have 6 credits listed, they have signed up for a year-long study hall. If students have 6.5 credits listed, they have signed up for a semester study hall. To change a course request, please cross through the course you would like to drop and write in a new course beside it. If you would like to change a course to Honors, Pre-AP, or AP, you must turn in an Honors contract or parent override form to change it. As a reminder, course requests are not guaranteed since they are based upon availability at BHS. Lastly, we were informed today that the Culinary Arts course will be full with upperclassmen. If your student chose Culinary Arts 1 as a course for next year, it is advised that they choose a different elective course. Please let me know if you have any questions.

The 10th grade course options and course catalog links are below:

https://4.files.edl.io/54e5/02/25/19/170959-a5161e4a-7a76-45e3-90ed-3a2cb28fa85b.pdf

https://4.files.edl.io/7e50/02/25/19/171027-7c562b31-943c-4495-a65a-9bcce2548d0f.pdf

At the Academy, the Family Life window will be designated from April 15– May 15, 2019.

Parents, please remember to check your child’s attendance on PowerSchool weekly, or after you have sent in a note. We have a very small window of time for making corrections, and we want your child’s attendance record to be 100% accurate. Sometimes notes don’t make it to the Attendance Office for one reason or another.
Emails (to vmoser@bartlettschools.org, jtaylor2@bartlettschools.org, or jmcdonald@bartlettschools.org) are always a good way to send a note or follow-up on a written note. Weekly checks will hopefully prevent situations at the end of the grading period, the semester, or the year, where we have inaccurate information and lack the ability to make changes.
Students, you can also monitor your attendance on PowerSchool and let us know about errors. This is good practice for second semester when you want to remain eligible for exam exemptions at the end of the year.

Parents,

There have been a number of concerns lately about the length of the Car Rider line. While I can’t tell people when to drop off students in the morning, I can tell you that students can get into the building at 6:05am. The Car Rider line tends to get backed up between 6:30am and 7am. If you want to drop off between 6:05am and 6:30am, you may find that the line is either non-existent or moves more quickly. Students should come directly to the cafeteria where they can work on homework or talk to friends. The breakfast line usually opens about 6:40am. Students are tardy if they arrive to 1st Period after 7am.

Congratulations to Amanda Tutor. She is the Teacher of the Year for Bartlett Academy, the High School Teacher of the Year for Bartlett City Schools, and the High School Teacher of the Year for the Southwest Region of Tennessee.

Freshman foreign language students had a great day at the World Language Fair.  Most of all, our students enjoyed the experience and grew because of it.  We had sixteen students from Bartlett 9th Grade Academy participate this year. We received 1st place in the Poster contest (Anastasia Karasev and Dawn Jardinico), 2nd place in the Level 2 Spanish Poetry Division for native speakers (Mariana Balderrama), 3rd place in Level 2 Spanish Poetry (Anastasia Karasev), and 2nd place in the Level 2 Vocabulary Quiz (Allie Knolton).

Freshman Kyla Christopher has been selected to be a part of the Tennessee Summer Music Festival from June 8th through the 15th, at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. This is a prestigious one-week conservatory that accepts 100 musicians across the state for a week of intense music study & performance under the direction of world class musicians & educators who join us from around the country.

Members of the Academy Choir competed at Solo and Ensemble this week and received wonderful scores!
Please congratulate the following students on their Excellent ratings: Troy Halbrooks, Leah Donelson, Naobi Kennedy, Audrey Downing, Cara Owens, Emma Hollis, Majesti Dunlap, Michelle Wilson, and Meredith Patterson. Please congratulate the following students on their Superior ratings: Icen Bouler, Brookelyn Higginson, Zoe Wade, Kylee Kee, Ethan Bogard, Riya Golden, Naobi Kennedy, Leah Donelson, Macey Garey, and Miranda Miskel.

Congratulations to the following freshmen for being selected to the BHS Softball Team for 2019: Finley Curtis, Kaitlyn Davis, Grace Dickinson, Abby Edwards, Marley Gaia, Meredith Patterson, Savannah Price, and Caitlyn Summers.