American Village Field Trip

The Voyagers will be going to American Village on Tuesday, April 17th.  Form and money due Tuesday, April 10th!!  Click HERE if you need to print another copy of the form.

COST: $14.50 per student payable on myschoolfees.com from April 2nd until April 13th, 2018, $14.50 per chaperone

DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL TIME:  Our team will leave the school at 8:00 a.m. and return at approximately 1:00 p.m.

CLOTHING:  Please have your child dress for the weather.  At the American Village, many of the activities are outdoors on grass and dirt paths.  Ponchos are preferred to umbrellas to make movement easier, should it rain. Students should not bring book bags or any other large items, which may get in the way during some of the activities.

FOOD:  Your child will need a clearly labeled sack lunch and disposable drink.

MEDICAL INFORMATION:  If your child has a special need or medication to take, please notify the school as soon as possible so appropriate arrangements can be made.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES:  Electronic devices and cell phones are NOT ALLOWED.

Yogurt Mountain Fundraising

Hoover Yogurt Mountain 

will be hosting a fundraising event for former 

Hoover student Ben Abercrombie.  Ben suffered a severe spinal cord injury 

last fall. 

This event is scheduled for March 22 from 5-9 pm.

During the event 

Yogurt Mountain will donate 100% of the sales to help the Abercrombie family pay for 

therapy costs.

Transition Meeting Nights

Transition Nights

All elementary, intermediate, middle and high schools will host transition night events this year in May. This will be for students and parents to attend. You will get zoning and event information from the district soon, so be on the lookout and mark your calendars appropriately.

Tuesday, May 1st- Elementary and Intermediate

South Shades Crest- 5:25pm-6:30pm

Bluff Park- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Deer Valley- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Green Valley- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Greystone- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Riverchase- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Rocky Ridge- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Shades Mountain- 5:30pm-6:30pm

Gwin- 6:00pm-7:00pm

Trace Crossings- 6:00pm-7:00pm

Brock's Gap- 6:30pm-7:30pm

                            

Monday, May 7th- Middle Schools 
Bumpus, Berry, Simmons- 6:00pm-8:00pm

Tuesday, May 8th- High School
Hoover, Spain Park- 6:00pm-8:00pm

Maturation

Friday, April 6, 2018, we will be viewing the physical maturation videos in fifth grade. The permission form has been sent home, but I have added the link in case you need another copy. The permission form is due April 3.

Click HERE if you need an extra copy of the permission form to sign and send to your child's homeroom teacher.

5K for a Cause

Our Annual 5k for a Cause

Activities: 45 minute 5k (walk or jog with your team for the first part of the day) and 4 Stations: carnival games, Tailgating games, YMCA-led games, and a Yogurt parfait bar

Causes: American Heart Association, YMCA, and BGIS PE.

Date: March 23-IN-SCHOOL ALL DAY!!

Cost: $20-includes a Tshirt, pedometer, a running packet, and an entry in the raffle for the dunking booth. 

Sign up: on my school fees  secure4.myschoolfees.com 

DEADLINE: March 14th at 11 PM!!!!

There is only 1 week for sign up, but the stakes are extremely high this year!! There will be a dunking booth at the end of the day and the homerooms that have 100% Participation by the deadline-March 14th (only the students that will be in attendance that day) will get a chance to dunk someone. 

Brock's Gap Spring Clean

Brock's Gap Spring Clean

DUE TO WEATHER-THE CLEAN UP DAY WILL BE RESCHEDULED

Help us spruce up our outdoor learning spaces!  Wear work clothes and bring gloves if you have them.

Saturday, April 7

8-11AM

Earn community service hours

Sign up to join us at tinyurl.com/BGCLEAN18

Spirit Days at the Car Wash

Spirit Days at the Car Wash 

Get ready for Spring Break with a sparkling clean car!

Thursday, March 15-Saturday, March 17

Riverchase Car Wash

3641 Lorna Road

Hoover, AL 35216

Brock's Gap receives 20% of ALL car washes-no need to mention Brock's Gap 

Reading Madness Dress Up Days

SCA wants to end Reading Madness Month with a decade inspired dress up week!  Please join us!

Monday, March 12th- 50’s  

Tuesday, March 13th- 60’s-70’s

Wednesday, March 14th- 80’s  

Thursday, March 15th-90’s  

Friday, March 16th- Reading Rally Shirts  

Spirit Night at Sky Zone

We will be doing a "Brock's Gap Night" at Sky Zone on Friday, February 23rd from 4-10pm.  Anyone that is supporting Brock's Gap must tell them when they check in that they are with Brock's Gap so that we will get credit.  It should  be a fun night!!  Their GLOW Jump is 7-10pm which is so fun for this age group.  We also added in a few hours earlier to help in case families with smaller children wanted to come before it gets too crowded.

Valentine Grams

SCA will be selling Valentinegrams at 7:30 am in the cafeteria February 6th through February 9th.  Send a Valentinegram to all of your friends and teachers.  Valentinegrams will be given out on Valentine’s Day!  They are $1 each.  We are asking that you only pay with bills; no coins will be accepted for payment.

Thank you!

-SCA

Middle School Transition Night

All of our 5th and 6th graders will be able to visit and tour their newly rezoned middle school on March 19.  You should attend the school you will be zoned for during the 2018-19 school year on this transition night.  More information will come as the date approaches.

Erin's Law

Attention Parents:

To comply with Alabama’s new Erin’s Law, HCS school counselors and administrators have created a plan to provide basic child sexual abuse prevention lessons for students. We have prepared a brief video that outlines plans for elementary, middle and high school levels. Please click here for more detailed information on HCS’s plan to implement Erin’s Law, including the option for your child to opt out of these lessons if you so choose.  Click here for this information in Spanish.

Make Up Snow Day

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FEBRUARY 19!!!

This was a Professional Development Day for teachers, but is now a regular school day to make up for our Dec. 8 snow day.

Pink Shirt Day-Feb. 28

On Feb. 28th Brock's Gap Intermediate School will join EVERY school in Hoover for a Pink Shirt Day. You can help bring awareness to bully prevention by ordering a CHOOSE KIND t-shirt for $5.00 through myschoolfees. This will cover the cost of your shirt and raise money to go towards a non-profit organization called myFace. This organization is dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with facial disfigurement. Every year, myFace helps hundreds of children born with craniofacial disorders and Treachers Collins syndrome.  Based off the theme of the book Wonder, myFace has created the Wonder Project by providing curriculums for schools to help adolescents explore the masks they wear, friendships/relationships, bullying, empathy, acceptance and choosing kindness through educational activities and exercises.

T-shirts for PINK OUT DAY may be purchased starting January 10-February 7th. If paying by cash or check, please send money to the counseling department. #bekind #choosekind #pinkout #pinkshirtday

We want everyone in PINK to show their support against bullying while thinking beyond themselves to help others!

Planet Fundraiser

If you haven't downloaded the  Planet Fundraiser app, please do so TODAY!! This is a great way to help generate money for our classroom! You can either download the app and scan your own receipts in OR you can just send in your receipts to me and I will scan them in for you! Thank you SO much for doing this! Here are some of the businesses that support our school:

Chick-fil-a

Milo's 

Shipt

Marc 1 car wash

Anthony's car wash

Piggly Wiggly 

Jimmy John's

Jet's pizza

PoppySeedPaper.com

Johnny Brusco's New York style pizza

SlapHappy BBQ

Front Porch

Pet Vet Animal services

Taco Mama

The Whole Dog Market

Soho Social

Jackson's Bistro

Mudtown

The Ridge

Standard Heating and Air

The Yoga Circle

Norton's Florist

Babalu

Slice Pizza

Jack Brown's

Tacky Sweater Day

SCA will be sponsoring a Tacky Holiday Sweater Day on Monday, December 18th. 

Holiday Party

On Tuesday, December 19, the Voyagers will enjoy a Holiday breakfast.  We are asking parents to volunteer to send in a breakfast item if possible.  Please send in your item PREPARED and enough to serve 24 students the morning of our party by 8:15 am.  If you would like to sign up, please click the link below.  Thank you in advance!!

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/70A0E44A5A62F4-holiday1

Spirit Night

The Whole Scoop 

will host our next 

BGIS Spirit Night!!  

It will be 

Tuesday, December 12th 

from 3-8 PM.

Career Spotlight

We need more career spotlight videos!!!

Please video yourself answering some or all of the following questions. Please limit your video to 2 minutes. Email your video back to Mrs. Bruno (cbruno@hoover.k12.al.us) as soon as possible and they will submit it to broadcast.

1. What is your name?
2. What is your job title?
3. What kinds of things do you do at your job?
4. What type of training/college experience/qualifications was required?
5. What do you enjoy most about your job?
6. What kinds of subjects were important for you to know in order to be able to do your job?
7. Who are you related to at Brock’s Gap? (Optional)

Scoliosis Screening

Parents Upcoming scoliosis screening for ALL students:

In accordance with Alabama law, Section 16-29-1, Code Alabama, 1975, our school will be conducting a free screening to detect adolescent scoliosis on November 29, 2017.

The school nurse will conduct the scoliosis screening along with a nurse from Children's Hospital from the scoliosis clinic..  The screening, which takes about one minute, is simple and not embarrassing.  It involves a visual examination of the back while standing straight and bending over.  Boys and girls will be screened separately.

Scoliosis is a twisting, or curve of the spine which occurs in about 10% of the adolescent population and about 2 ½% will require some type of medical attention.  The first sign of scoliosis is usually noticed between the ages of ten and fourteen.  If any symptoms are detected for your child, you will be notified by letter.

Please make sure your child wears a slip-on shirt or blouse on the screening day.  Girls may wear a bathing suit top or bra which will remain on during the screening.

If you do not want your child screened, please send a letter to the school nurse, Tyra Walker, RN.

Toy Drive

Santa’s Workshop Wish List

Supporting a child in need takes only a few minutes. Each year, YWCA Central Alabama hosts a magical holiday event for children who are homeless or otherwise in need.  With your help these families will experience the season free of sadness and worry –just as the holidays should be.

How can you help?

BGIS SCHOOLWIDE TOY DRIVE

Toys will be collected from November 27th – December 7th

Toys can be dropped off in the front lobby.

Gift Ideas:

Games

Clothes

Stuffed animals

Books

Dolls

   Jewelry

Once toys are collected the BUCS Club students will assist the YWCA as Santa’s Helpers in distributing the toys to the families.

Colonial Days

Colonial Days at Brock’s Gap

You are cordially invited to attend Colonial Days, a culmination of the fifth grade study of colonial history and culture.  Take a step back in time as we recreate the colonial village of Brocksburg!  Come learn with us!

When:  Friday, November 17th, 2017 from 12:45-2:00

Where:  Voyagers Hall

What to bring: a canned good to share with a local food pantry

**Your child will need a colonial costume for this special day!  Baseball pants or rolled up pants with a dress shirt or white tee are great for boys. A solid color dress or skirt/blouse with apron will work well for the girls.