Buncombe County Early College

Teachers collaborated and planned last week to prepare for our first week back to school for BCEC/MC and BCCI students! WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!!

WELCOME new TEACHERS and STAFF to BCEC/ BCCI! Dr. Regina Lambert, Vern Lepa, Maddie Horton, Nicole Orengo, and Tammy Rigsby! bit.ly/newbcec23 #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #PublicSchoolProud

BCEC/MC and BCCI staff engaged in back to school activities to prepare for their first day! ⭐First day for students is AUGUST 21st!

The Buncombe County Schools Board of Education is committed to providing a safe, inviting, and civil educational environment for all students, employees, and other members of the school community. The Board expects all students, employees, volunteers, and visitors to behave in a manner consistent with that goal. The Board recognizes that bullying and harassing behavior creates an atmosphere of intimidation and fear, detracts from the safe environment necessary for student learning, and may lead to more serious misconduct or to violence. Accordingly, the Board prohibits all forms of bullying and harassing behavior, including encouragement of such behavior, by students, employees, volunteers, and visitors. Additional information on reporting and responding to bullying is available here>>> https://bit.ly/3YG6ib4

🎒🖍📓 This weekend, the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office School Resource Officers and BCS staff members will be collecting school supplies at the Walmart on Hendersonville Rd. (1636 Hendersonville Rd.). The hours are: Saturday, August 19- 10 am to 8 pm & Sunday, August 20- 10 am to 2:30 pm. Examples of school items are as follows but not limited to: -Book bags—lunchboxes—pencil boxes -Binders—papers—art supplies (crayons/colored pencils) - Pencils—pens—markers—highlighters - Tissues—hand sanitizer—cleaning wipes -Water bottles—dry erase markers—plug in ear- buds—other school related items -Printer paper We hope to see you there as we work together to help ALL students have a great start to the school year!

📚TEXTBOOK Distribution Schedule: -Tuesday, August 15th - 9 am till 10am -Friday, August 18th - 10 till 12pm -Monday, August 21st - 11 till 1pm Students check your BCS email for more details about textbook distribution and rental fee.

🚗Don't delay on obtaining your student parking pass for the 2023-2024 school year! Student drivers are responsible for applying for annual parking passes for designated spaces from AB Tech Police. Parking Decals at abtech.edu OR go to : bit.ly/parkingpass23

BC EC NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION ! 📆August 17th - 5 pm 🏛️Birch Building ABTech Campus

Buncombe County Schools is hosting a Support Staff Job Fair on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 from 2-4pm in the Nesbitt cafeteria at BCS Central Office (175 Bingham Road - Asheville, NC 28806). #bcs #wearebcs #bcsadvantage

Attention, BCS Staff: We hope you are having a wonderful summer. Don't forget to check our Employee Values page regularly for local special discounts just for educators. . . . https://www.buncombeschools.org/o/bcs/page/employee-values

🌞 Our Summer Meals Program is in full swing! All children in our community are welcome to stop by one of the sites pictured below for a healthy meal! . . . . #community #summermeals #summer #summer2023 #bcs

☑️Vote for the Buncombe County Schools Foundation to win one of 12 grants being awarded by The Community Betterment Foundation in honor of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce's 125th Anniversary! Through July 31, you can support Buncombe County Schools Foundation in its mission to build a strong and dynamic foundation for Buncombe County Schools students and educators. Please vote for the Foundation once a day to win one of twelve $10,000 grants in partnership with the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. There is strength in numbers; together, we are more through this powerful collaboration- “Building Community Through Business.” Vote once a day to support BCS students, educators, and faculty. Follow this link: https://woobox.com/hsn3i5 Learn more: https://www.ashevillechamber.org/.../celebrating-125-years/

🎓🙌🥳 CONGRATULATIONS to our BC Early College and Middle College graduates! https://bit.ly/3N8hCYh @Dr_Rob_Jackson@Dr_Rob_Jackson #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #PublicSchoolProud#classof2023 #bcsgrads@roblovesrene@JennReed23

Breakfast and lunch will be provided at no cost to all students next school year! We are pleased to inform you that Buncombe County Schools will be implementing a program available to schools participating in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Programs called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). We will also implement Universal Meals at Nesbitt Discovery Academy (NDA). What does this mean for you and your child(ren)? Great news! All enrolled students at Buncombe County Schools are eligible to receive a healthy breakfast and lunch at school at no cost to your household each day of the school year. Parents (except those with students at NDA), there are no action steps for you to take at this time to participate in this program. We look forward to serving your students beginning August 28, 2023. NDA parents will receive separate instructions regarding Universal Meals. If you have any questions about this letter, please contact us at Buncombe Schools Nutrition Office, 828 255-5932.

🎓We celebrate our Year 5s last week as they approach graduation June 9th! Thank you to Devon McCarthy-James for offering them some parting words of wisdom. #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #PublicSchoolProud

🌻 Amy Wiesner and the Gardening Interest Group took a field trip to tour a community garden and had a potluck picnic. It was a beautiful and inspiring way to end our semester together. #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #PublicSchoolProud

🌞 A beautiful day at BCEC/BCMC to wrap up our last interest group meeting for the year! #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #PublicSchoolProud

📢STUDENTS that are taking SUMMER CLASSES!! Please 👀see Ms. Patty with your 💻device BEFORE JUNE 2nd !!

DON'T FORGET ☝️ 📚the last day to pick up SUMMER TEXTBOOK materials is this Friday 05/26/23 by 2:30 and textbook fees by 6/2/2023.

📢STUDENTS that are taking SUMMER CLASSES!! Please 👀see Ms. Patty with your 💻device BEFORE JUNE 2nd !!