Bristol County Agricultural High School: Aggie Weekly-September 1st

Good Afternoon Students, Parents, and Community Members:

Bristol Aggie Education Foundation: The event is back! The Bristol Aggie Education Foundation, Inc. is hosting their 4th Farm to Table Feast. This premier fundraising event has raised over $100,000 which has been used to support staff and student initiatives within the school and provide start-up grants for student driven agri-businesses. We look forward to this year’s event with even more enthusiasm as we aim to improve our fundraising efforts. Join us on Bristol Aggie's picturesque campus and enjoy a dinner prepared using locally sourced ingredients including some raised by Bristol Aggie students. The menu will feature delicious recipes from Janice Dey of The Westporter. Dance under the stars to live music. You do not want to miss the live auction and raffle! Click here for tickets.

Bristol Aggie Excellence: On Wednesday, Ms. Sharp recognized Alisson Wood with the Bristol Aggie Excellence Award for her dedication to excellence at Summer Academy.

Return to School Assembly: Each start of the school year we meet as a school community to discuss our expectations for the school year.

Cafe: Our students are enjoying their back to school lunch in Student Commons.

Senior Sunrise: Seniors came to school early on Wednesday to see the beautiful sunrise.

Welcome Back Staff: On Monday, we welcomed back our staff for professional development.

In the Classroom:

Mr. Hall: On Thursday, Mr. Hall’s students is already hard at work with our landscape seniors cleaning up the hoop houses

Student Services

ATTN: Sophomores and Juniors!

We will be looking to host the PSAT/NMSQT test on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. Testing will take place from approximately 8:10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Student Commons or another space on campus. This is an opportunity to prepare yourself for taking the SAT test. For those students who may have already taken it last year - you do not have to take it again but it is completely up to you.

If you are interested in taking the PSAT/NMSQT please fill out the Google form linked below. The PSAT/NMSQT is only open to sophomores and juniors and does cost $18 dollars. You are permitted to take it both your sophomore and junior year. You must be logged into your Aggie email in order to register through the link below:

PSAT/NMSQT SIGN UP HERE

Please only sign up if you will go ahead and take the test as we need an accurate count by Sept. 13. The deadline to pay and reserve your spot will be Sept. 13, 2022. Please bring the $18 in cash (preferably) to Mrs. Dias in the Student Services office before the end of the school day on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 to secure a spot. Only BA student emails will be accepted as we need to make sure to collect emails.

If you have any questions please see your counselor after summer break ends - Ms. Kochan or Ms. Costa!

BCAHS Equestrian Drill Team - Are you interested in learning more about the BA Drill Team? Are you interested in trying out? Send an email (from your Bristol Aggie email account) to Mrs. Bosworth at cbosworth@bcahs.com to get answers to any of your questions and/or get the paperwork necessary to try out. Tryouts are September 13th and 15th from 3-5pm. Paperwork is due by Friday September 9th.

FFA Dairy Judging & Dairy Showmanship - Are you interested in joining our dairy judging team? No experience necessary! All grades/majors are welcomed to join. We learn about what characteristics the ideal dairy cow should have and learn how to show them. Practices will be after school and starting soon. Email Mrs. Bosworth with any questions at cbosworth@bcahs.com

Co-Op- Interest? All Seniors for 1st -4th term and Juniors starting in 3rd term are eligible to explore Co-Op. Providing you are in good standing academically, attendance wise, and conduct wise. If you are interested in in exploring this please contact Mrs. Fullen afullen@bcahs.com

Community Events

Bristol Aggie will be at the Middleboro 4-H Fair on Saturday! Stop by our information table and say hello.

Saturday, September 3rd 8am-6:30pm

Sunday, September 4th 8am-5:30pm

East Middleboro 4-H

183 Thompson Street, (Route 105)

Middleboro MA

The Environmental Conservation Department wants to THANK the community, alumni, and parents/guardians for their generous contributions to our “Power” Wildlife Data Collection DonorChoose Project-(Ms. Bouley) which has NOW BEEN FULLY FUNDED!

Thank you all so much for supporting this project and donating to our classroom! Our students are beyond thrilled to be able to use our various wildlife technique equipment, such as trail cameras, acoustic recorders, and tracking devices, to collect data while conducting their various research projects.