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!

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

The Week Ahead:

Monday, June 7

EXTENDS 2:45-4:30

In-Person with Mr. McKeen and Ms. Szurley (RM 2303): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here
Virtual with Mrs. Kazijian (via Google meet): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here

Softball vs West Bridgewater @ 3:30 (Away)

Tuesday, June 8

EXTENDS 2:45-4:30

In-Person with Mr. McKeen and Ms. Szurley (RM 2303): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here
Virtual with Mrs. Kazijian (via Google meet): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here

Late Bus @ 5:00

Wednesday, June 9

Softball vs Tri-County @ 3:30 (Away)
Late Bus @ 5:00

Thursday, June 10

EXTENDS 2:45-4:30

In-Person with Mr. McKeen and Ms. Szurley (RM 2303): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here
Virtual with Mrs. Kazijian (via Google meet): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here

Baseball vs Bishop Connolly @ 3:30 (Home)
EXTENDS Late Bus @ 4:30