Friday, June 11, 2021

Aggie Weekly- June 11th (Final Newsletter of 2020-2021 School Year)

Good Afternoon Students, Parents, and Community Members:

This week is our last newsletter for the school year, unless there is important information to share with our community. Next week is finals week Please note that “All students in-person will be REQUIRED to be in-person for FINALS. Students will not be allowed to take the finals remotely if they are in-person Quarter 4. Any questions please contact your teacher. Have a wonderful summer break and we look forward to a normal school year in the fall.

Student IDs: We would like to remind students (and parents) that we will not be reissuing new IDs this fall to students. Students are expected to keep their IDs for their entire time at Bristol Aggie. Any lost ID will be charged $5.00. Any questions, please contact the main office.

bristol babble: Click here for this week’s edition of bristol babble. Watch it until the end for the outtakes. Have a great summer!

In the Classroom:

ELA: In Mrs. Coderres’ English class, students recently studied slave narratives. For her project, Senior Kiya Doberck wrote this Alphabet poem about Frederick Douglass and his experiences. It is a fitting tribute as our country prepares to celebrate Juneteenth.

Black slave

Captive to master,

Douglass is my name.

Everyday is never ending torture.

Freedom from this, I desire greatly.

Great pain I have suffered from master.

How would life be if I wasn’t one?

I always used to wonder that, but not anymore

Juggling with fate and beatings, everyday I displeased my master.

Killing me on the inside, I could do nothing about this.

Learned to read and write I did; it was taught to me.

My master’s wife educated me and oh, how grateful I was for that.

Nobody exists that I would ever wish this on; it is a living nightmare.

“Owned” should not be a term used when one is talking about a human being .

Please end this terrible thing called slavery. Poor, helpless people are used and overworked each day.

Quietly I stood, but not anymore. One day I gained the courage to fight back against him.

Revived from my helpless and weak state, I regained my manhood against master. From that day, things changed.

Slavery could not own me forever. I was not going to allow that. I knew what I could overcome.
Tough days would not soon be over yet, but I began to have hope for myself and my new life.

Useless I was told, but I am not. I am a man that deserves rights, too. I will fight for freedom.

Very excruciating to watch my friends be undermined and suffer. Everyday I pray that they survive the beatings of our horrible Master.

White people are allowed to own, whip, beat, kill, degrade, torture, and destroy us for their own needs. Nothing else felt so suffocating.

Xylography must’ve been master’s specialty, for he treated us like his pieces of wood, the way he used his whip against our beaten skin.

Young indeed, I was born into slavery. Lucky I am to have escaped it. I feel so very sorry for the poor folk who haven’t.

Zoetic was not able to be experienced at one time, but now things are different for me. I write about my past for others to learn.

ELA: After reading Elie Wiesel's Night, students in Mrs. Coderre's English class created Holocaust Memorial Projects to honor those who experienced the atrocities of that time.

Trista Staton made a babka bread to honor the Jewish culture. She sweetened it with honey and added some cinnamon. Her memorial statement asks her audience to remember the sacrifices of the Jews during the Holocaust.

Cryrus Gonsalves and Phoebe Wamboldt put their Arboriculture skills to work in creating their unique Star of David plaques.

FINALS: All students in-person will be REQUIRED to be in-person for FINALS. Students will not be allowed to take the finals remotely if they are in-person Quarter 4.

Attention Students- NEW Traffic Pattern: Starting Monday June 14th, students will need to use the lower driveway located behind Ag Mechanics to access that side of the campus. The walkway between Gilbert Hall and Ag Mechanics will be closed for the remainder of the school year. Please see the image below:

Next Year’s School Calendar: CHANGE TO FRESHMAN ACADEMY/ORIENTATION

The Week Ahead:

Monday, June 14

Softball vs Holbrook @ 3:30 (Away)

Tuesday, June 15

Period 6 exam (1:08-2:30)

Freshman and Sophomores ONLY

Baseball vs Bristol Plymouth @ 3:30 (Away)

Wednesday, June 16

Period 1 exam

Juniors ONLY

Period 3 exam

Juniors ONLY

Period 4 exam

Freshman and Sophomores ONLY

Period 5 exam

Freshman and Sophomores ONLY

Thursday, June 17

Period 2 exam

Juniors ONLY

Period 3 exam

Freshman ONLY

Period 7 exam

Freshman and Sophomores ONLY

Friday, June 18

Make up exams- follow normal schedule

Monday, June 21 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Make up exams
Period 1: 8:10-8:56 (same)
Period 2: 9:00-9:45 (same)
Period 3: 9:53-10:38 (same)
Period 4: 10:40-11:15 (Change- NO LUNCH)

(bagged lunch optional)

Friday, June 4, 2021

Aggie Weekly- June 4th

Good Afternoon Students, Parents, and Community Members:

We celebrated our seniors this week with graduation and we want to wish them the very best in their next chapter. With only 11 days left of this school year, we want to remind students to remain focused and continue to work hard for the remainder of the year. Please see the finals schedule below.

bristol babble: Click here for this week’s edition of bristol babble.

Updated COVID-19 and Graduation Guidance: On Thursday, May 27th, the Department of Education released updated COVID-19 guidance specifically discussing the fall. Please see the new guidance below.

For the remainder of the school year, the health and safety requirements for K-12 schools will remain in effect, with the exception of outdoor masking. Students and staff are no longer required to wear masks during outdoor activities, including recess.
Graduation guidance has been updated to reduce restrictions, in line with the Commonwealth’s updates.
The State of Emergency ends on June 15.
DESE will not issue separate guidance for summer school programs. For summer programs, districts are encouraged to follow the health and safety guidance from DESE currently in place for in-person learning this spring.
For the 2021-22 school year, all schools will be required to be in-person, full-time, five days a week, and DESE health and safety requirements will be lifted, including distancing requirements.
DESE will collaborate with the Department of Public Health (DPH) to issue any additional health and safety recommendations over the summer (e.g., masks for elementary school students). DESE will provide updates to districts and schools as it receives them.
Districts will no longer be able to offer remote learning as a standard learning model in the fall.

2021 Graduation Ceremony: On Thursday, we conducted our Class of 2021 Graduation ceremony. We were fortunate to have the weather cooperate. Congratulations to all the graduates and we wish them the best of luck!

North Attleboro resident leaving a library behind- Click here to see the article in The Sun Chronicle that features Class of 2021 graduate Kaylee Finch.

Kaylee Finch grew up loving to read, in a home with a lot of books.

Not everyone is as lucky, the Bristol County Agricultural High School senior realized.

So, for her National Honor Society project, she decided to build a library.

“Since I was young, I’ve enjoyed reading,” Finch, 18, says, “and I thought a little free library would be a great way to give back to the community.”

There are not many of the little libraries — free standing book exchanges that allow people to take a book or drop one off — in the area, she noticed, “so putting another up would be a good way for people who don’t have access to books.”

The daughter of Beth and Scott Finch, she’s been volunteering at the town’s World War I Memorial Park and Zoo since she was a freshman, and that’s where she planned to put the library.

“I’m not a professional craftsman,” admits Finch, who is in a natural resources management program at Bristol Aggie.

So she tapped her father’s carpentry skills to actually build the enclosure for the library and they worked on it together, starting on their porch, over the course of about two months.

With the help of some town workers, it was installed last week and is open for business. As for the stock of books, her mother mentioned the project on a Facebook post and someone “donated a whole tub of children’s books, at least 50,” Finch says.

She’s slowly gathering more, including some of her own.

Meanwhile, Finch has been busy getting ready for graduation this week while also holding down posts in student government and as captain of the winning Chieftains softball team.

In September, she’ll be heading to the University of New Hampshire to study wildlife and conservation biology. But she’ll be leaving something lasting in her hometown.

Mrs. Bosworth’s freshmen Large Animal students got to see their first cow give birth here at Bristol Aggie! Pumpkin had a lovely heifer calf Wednesday morning.

Later that afternoon, Mrs. Bosworth’s Juniors had a chance to collect her milk and test the quality of it. The milk a cow produces in the first 24 hours after she gives birth is called colostrum and is full of antibodies, fat and protein to help the calf get a strong start. Pumpkin’s milk was high quality!