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BAY AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

4800 West Main League City, Texas 77573

Mrs. Hunt has been a presence at BACS for the past 35 years. She has taught second grade for 18 years and has been the elementary vice-principal for the past 17 years. She has been investing in lives of students through education for the past 52 years. Mrs. Hunt has seen many changes on this campus during that time. She has seen the construction of the current gym, jr. high, high school and student center along with several renovations of the auditorium. She also witnessed the demolition of the Ellington Building. Her most memorable year was when Roger Cullins was in second grade. Freddie Cullins convinced her to teach 28 second graders. Wow! Enough said. Mrs. Hunt has cared for and nurtured hundreds and hundreds of students as they have passed through our school. We are so blessed to have her here working with our kiddos!

Celebrating...

1985 2015

FACULTY/STAFF APPRECIATION

LUNCHEON

Friday, May 8

We will need MANY volunteers to provide food, items for goodie bags, and parents to sit with classes during all lunches including jr. high and high school. Please call Deena at 281-332-4814 or email deena.heidemann@bascshool.org for a full list of needs.

Dear BACS Family, I hope that all of you had a chance to rest and reflect on the goodness of God and the obedience of Christ as the solemness of Good Friday and the triumph of the resurrection was emphasized on Easter weekend. What a special time to meditate on Isaiah 53:5, “But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed.” Certainly this truth is highlighted during our time of remembrance each Easter. However, I am reminded that following Christ is cause for joy - unrivaled joy - each day. May you all find joy in Christ today and every day!

Astonishingly, there are only seven weeks of school left in the 2014-15 school year! God has been so good to BACS and our families have shown tremendous support of our school and our most impressive students - thank you! I am elated to report that 95% of our students have enrolled for the 2015-16 school year. Remember that all families need to enroll in FACTS Tuition Management by May 1 in order to effectively satisfy activity fees, which solidify the re-enrollment spot reserved for your child(ren). We have waiting lists in Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th grade, so please ensure you enroll in FACTS in time to satisfy activity fees so as to keep your spot secure. If you’ve not enrolled in FACTS, you may do so by following the link here https://online.factsmgt.com/signin/4599P. As an incentive, all families enrolled in FACTS by April 25 will be eligible for a draw-ing for free activity fees and tuition discounts! BACS is giving away five free activity vouchers and two 50% single student tuition vouchers to those families randomly selected (only one pr ize per family).

As a reminder, our Terra Nova 3 achievement testing begins April 14. Please ensure that your child gets plenty of sleep, eats a nutritious breakfast, and arrives at school on time. Also, it’s a good idea to not overemphasize the test with your child. We encourage our faculty and staff to teach our curriculum, not a test. We want our students to perform well; however, this is an achievement test used to help us assess how our school is doing on several scales, not a promotional test. We are excited about the diagnostics of the TN3 which are available for our educational staff and for parents. Our divisional offices will communicate with you on how to most conveniently access your child’s scores when we receive the results near the end of the school year.

As you frequent campus, keep your eyes open for construction during the month of April! Things are starting to heat up in our Forward Initiative as roadwork is scheduled for the first dry spell we receive. With the achievement testing this week and subsequent scheduled updates in our Worship Center for painting, chair replacement, and lighting work, we won’t be in chapel again until May 6 for our Fine Arts Chapel. While we will miss our chapel services during these few weeks, we are very excited about the improvements being made in the Worship Center through our church’s own Forward Initia-tive projects. We humbly ask that you give us gracious flexibility and patience as we undertake major renovations and construction projects on campus. Thank you for your understanding and support of our Forward Initiative and all that is going on in our school community!

It’s a great day to be a Bronco, Jason Nave

Issue No. 225 April 13, 2015

“Impacting lives for now

and eternity.”

Focus

BAY AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Upcoming

Events:

April 14-17

Terra Nova Testing

April 20-24 Variety Dress Week

April 25

Junior/Senior Prom

April 25-28

Eighth Grade Trip

Washington D.C.

April 27

Fine Arts Banquet

6:30

May 6

Fine Arts Chapel

May 7

Red Star

Fine Arts Concert

7:00 pm

from the Head of School...

for hosting a wonderful evening for BACS! Thank you families who joined us for dinner on March 31. We had

a line out the door and onto the sidewalk for over two solid hours! What a fun evening! Spring Creek will

present the results during chapel on Wednesday, May 6 just before the fine arts chapel begins. They will also

reveal the elementary classroom winners at that time.

Jr. High School News

Elementary School News

Congratulations to our BACS Jr. High Living Literature group that scored 98 out of 100 at the Texas Jr. Beta Convention. With that win, the group is travelling to Nashville in late June, 2015 to represent the state of Texas and BACS for the National Living Literature title. The group reenacted a scene from the book “When the Game Stands Tall – The Story of De La Salle Spartans and Football’s Longest Winning Streak” by Neil Hayes. The book later became a movie about Coach Bob Ladouceur, fellow coaches, and teammates and the 151-0 winning streak.

The BACS Living Literature group was honored to wear the actual and authentic De La Salle Spartans football uniforms used in the movie. Following their win at State, the De La Salle Spartans, along with Coach Lad, and movie star, Michael Chiklis tweeted about Bay Area Christian’s Jr. High Living Literature team. After hearing about the win, and seeing the tweet, the movie’s producer, David Zelon, from Mandalay Pictures and TriStar Pictures contacted Reene Bradshaw, and asked how they could step in and help with the National Jr. Beta competition in Nashville. David Zelon sent varsity letterman jackets to the group, along with Coach Lad’s real life glasses to lend more authenticity to the scene. The entire production crew from Mandalay Pictures and De La Salle Spartans are watching and waiting, and wishing the team the best at the National competition and cannot wait to hear the outcome.

Interestingly enough, Zelon said “the intrigue of this film was that Ladouceur placed little value on winning, instead focusing his players on giving a 'perfect effort' in life". SPWA president Steve Bersch noted that the themes in the film transcended sports and cinema: "At its core, this is a timeless and universal story about character, hard work and love". So…no matter win or lose at Nationals, this Living Literature group knows the value of just those core values.”

Counselor’s Corner

Upcoming SAT Dates: May 2 (late registration deadline is 4/21) June 6 (registration deadline is 5/8).

Upcoming ACT Dates: June 13 (registration deadline is 5/8).

Juniors: sign up to take an upcoming SAT (collegeboard.org) and/or ACT (actstudent.org). Be sure to include BACS' High School code on the application: 444088.

Upperclassmen: before you can register for college classes at any public college in Texas, you must take a placement test or be exempt based on your SAT/ACT scores. Contact the college’s testing office, or see Mrs. Gadd for information. Nancy Gadd Secondary Counselor

Terra Nova Achievement Testing for secondary will be on the mornings of April 15th, 16th and 17th. Please help your teen understand the importance of these tests, and encourage them to take them seriously. We send scores to colleges when they request all standardized tests, and we use them to determine if a student is a good fit for honors course work. As always, students should be well rested, have a good breakfast, and be on time to school. Seniors will have Senior Skip Day on Friday the 17th. Senior chapel is Wednesday, May 13th for any senior parents who want to make plans to attend. Chapel starts at 10:10 a.m. Student Council has planned Variety Dress Week for the week of April 20th – details will be passed out to students at school. The junior/senior prom is April 25th and the honor roll field trip is set for the 28th. Educating is serious business, but we hope our students like learning, enjoy school, and show school spirit by taking part in activities specially designed for them! We love what we do and appreciate you!

Melissa Fuqua, HS Principal

High School News

April Greetings, There is a positive relationship between happiness and student success. This happiness is not the short-term-based-on-circumstances-type of happiness, but the happiness which conveys a deep sense of purpose and an overall sense of well-being and belonging. One of the ways suggested to obtain this sense of happiness is to practice random acts of kindness. Our sixth grade has been working on this, and we have an opportunity as an elementary to practice this as well by blessing the refugees in Africa. We are partnering with Madison Dixon, one of our high school students, by collecting backpacks, closed-toed shoes, and water bottles. Many items have been donated already, and we will be collecting items until Friday, April 17. If you need more information, please contact our Elementary Office.

Important Dates: April 14 to April 17 - TerraNova 3 Achievement Testing April 17 - 6th Grade Legacy Ceremony @ 2:15 April 20 - April 24 - Variety Dress Week (more information later) April 21 - 6th Grade Field Trip to the Holocaust Museum April 21- Progress Reports April 22 - JH Cheer Applications Due April 24 - 3

rd Grade Field Trip to Oil Ranch

Please have a blessed April,

Linda Mudgett, Elementary Principal & Lu Hunt, Elementary Vice-Principal

April 27 - Fine Arts Banquet May 1 - Kindergarten Field Day May 6 - Fine Arts Chapel May 7 - Fine Arts Concert @ 7:00 May 7 - Red Star Due May 8 - 1st & 2nd Grade Field Day May 8 - 5

th & 6

th Grade Band/Orchestra to Galveston

Jr. Beta Living Literature heading

to nationals this summer!

Fine Arts News Thank You Volunteers

Volunteer Appreciation

Breakfast

Friday, April 24

8:15 - 9:15 a.m.

Student Center Café

Let us honor and appreciate you even if you volunteered for the smallest task! We could not function without all of our fabulous parents and grandparents that bless us every day! We are cooking for YOU!

BACS Fine Arts has had an amazing year, and we are looking forward to finishing strong! Mark your calendars for the upcoming Fine Arts Concert on May 7th at 7:00 pm. Band, Choir , Orchestra, Art, and Theater will be featured on this special night…you won’t want to miss all that our Fine Arts Depart-ment has to offer! Congrats to all the theater arts participants in the state TAPPS competition: Jordan Greer and Dante Rivera competed in Duet Acting. They advanced from the preliminary rounds to the semi-finals, and then placed 8th in the finals round. Also, Kyra Vanderharst competed in Prose and Megan Barineau in Poetry. They each placed 5th in their preliminary round. Congrats to all of the BACS Choir students who participated in the TPSMEA Solo and Ensemble Competition. Nineteen students in Freedom Sound and Resound participated in the solo competition. Every student who competed received a Division 1, Superior rat-ing. Students who competed in solo category were Elizabeth Allcorn, Meagan Bland, Colby Fuller, Hailey Haynes, Skylar Hickman, Lanie Holloman,

Erin Rogers, Valerie Russell, Mary Grace Ryan, Shiphrah Sampay, Olivia Simmons, Allyson Thompson, Josh Wilkinson, and Jacob Wood-son. Additionally BACS took four ensembles to compete. Every ensemble also received a Divi-sion 1 Superior rating. Additionally, five stu-dents qualified to compete in the State Solo and Ensemble competition. BACS is proud of the success of these students!

BACS High School Art recently competed in the state TAPPS competition. BACS students received awards in the following categories: Kim Berlin - 4th place in Fashion Design Charlotte Bell - 3rd place in Fashion and Textile and 6th place in Painting Elizabeth Allcorn - 7th place in Sculpture Gracen Phillips - 8th place in Applied Design Elizabeth Allcorn - Honorable Mention for Seek and Sketch B/W Hannah Wooley - Honorable Mention in Sculpture. Ashley Brown - Honorable Mention in Mixed Media

Greetings Bronco Nation,

The springtime is a busy time for the Broncos and Lady Broncos athletes who are competing in both team and individual sports. As April closes, out the Broncos will have their eye on more CHAMPIONSHIP banners.

Softball: The Lady Broncos are matur ing into shape as the fir st half of the distr ict comes to a close. The Lady Broncos have run ruled all but one of their district opponents and find themselves in a tie for first place with Galveston O’Connell. The Lady Broncos will travel to the island on the 11th for the first of two head to head match-ups with the Lady Bucs. Let’s get out and support the Lady Bron-cos as they seek a third consecutive State Tournament appearance.

Baseball: The Baseball Bunch has caught fire after a rugged up and down start to the season. The Bunch have won 6 straight and stand tied for the district lead. The Bunch will have a big showdown with defending district champion Logos Prep on 4/17 at home with a 4:30 first pitch. Logos edged the Broncos 2-1 in their first meeting.

Track and Field: It has been a difficult season to say the least. three of the meets have been cancelled due to rain. The tracksters were in action on 4/11 at the Logos Prep Relays as they seek to get ready for the District Championships that will be held at Tomball Rose-hill. Highlights this far have been stellar performances from the boys 4x100 and Lady Bronco jumpers Alex Lord and Randi Blackmon.

Tennis: The Bronco Tennis team continues to get stronger each season. The girls doubles team of Carli Capps and Erica May were within a point of securing a State berth. Keith Grumbles and Thomas Eckenrode are also alternates for State. Let’s get our youngsters on the court and continue to grow as a program.

Golf: Christina Erickson placed third at the Baytown Christian Invitational and should be on the short list to qualify for Regionals and State. The District Tournament will be at Quail Valley CC next week.

Lastly, we are proud to announce that after an intensive search, Donald Jones will serve as the next Head Football Coach at Bay Area Christian School effective immediately. Coach Jones br ings a wealth of exper ience and leadership ability that will enable the Broncos to remain among the elite programs in TAPPS Div-III. He came to BACS with a laudable resume with over 30 years of foot-ball coaching experience. Benchmarks along his career include a 27 year stint at Friendswood High School where he served as the De-fensive Coordinator under local legend, Coach Steve VanMeter. Coach Jones has also had tremendous influence as a track coach in the past, and he has continued that trend as he is helping coach track at BACS. We are excited about the next level of growth in the Bronco Football Program. Currently, Coach Jones is teaching History and Weightlifting. He is scheduled to continue this appointment as our junior high and high school strength and conditioning pro-gram is experiencing continuity and significant momentum. Please join us in welcoming Coach Jones as he brings a high level of commitment, expertise, and passion to our program. In His Service,

Coach Pennye

Coach Ron Gills is hanging up his whistle

after 27 years of selfless service to our BACS

Athletic Program in general and our Volleyball

Program in particular. Coach Gills has been a

tremendous encouragement to so many in our

BACS Community. Many were here to cele-

brate his years of service on Saturday.

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