Students in Bellingham Public Schools are enriched by the community partnership with Sustainable Schools, a program of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities. The highlight of this work is the Green Classroom Certification Program in our elementary schools and similar programming in the middle and high schools. This free program helps teachers integrate conservation education into…
The transition from elementary to middle school can be challenging. Finding even one friend can make the transition easier. And being part of a network—or web—of support within the school can help even more. This philosophy drives the Where Everybody Belongs (WEB) mentorship program in our middle schools. A middle school version of the LINK mentorship program at our high schools, it is designed…
Whatcom Middle School seventh grade students Luka Sanders and Luke Schlegel attended the Technology Student Association (TSA) national conference in Atlanta, Georgia this summer. The conference included competitions in an array of events. In the Junior Solar Sprint (JSS), the Whatcom team finished in fourth place nationally from among seventy solar cars from across the country, and…
Five eighth grade girls from Bellingham Public Schools attended the American Association of University Women (AAUW) STEM Tech Trek Camps in July 2018. Emma Stewart and Grace Schamber from Kulshan Middle School, Cassie La from Shuksan Middle School, and Jaeli Tilley from Fairhaven Middle School attended Dunbar Camp on the Pacific Lutheran University campus. Gillian…
Last school year, Bellingham Public Schools was selected to participate in a garden-to-cafeteria pilot program through Slow Foods USA along with three other districts nationwide. Andrew Nowak, director of the National School Garden Program of Slow Food USA, visited Whatcom Middle School and their school garden in the spring to review a draft of the…
This month is Music in our Schools, and last week many middle and high school band classes were visited by a talented and charismatic percussion trio from Los Angeles. Colburn Beat! is from the Colburn Conservatory of Music and includes Jimmy Chan, Pat Chapman and Greg LaRosa. The trio came to Bellingham through the Play…
Several Whatcom Transit Authority (WTA) buses in our community are currently adorned with artwork by students at our middle and high schools. Gretchen Leggitt, art teacher at Kulshan Middle School, spearheaded the effort. “I reached out to the WTA to explore different opportunities to get our student artwork outside of the classroom walls,” Leggitt said. She…
Bellingham Public Schools sent 28 teams of students to the state competition for Future Problem Solvers in Stanwood, Wash in April 2017. Multiple teams placed in the top 12 for their division and two teams placed in the top 3 for presentations. Of the teams that placed at state, two teams advanced to the international competition…
How does your garden grow? In Bellingham schools, it grows and flourishes with the constant and passionate involvement of Common Threads Farm, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching kids where food comes from, how to grow it, and how to become a healthy eater. In Bellingham Public Schools, 13 of our 14 elementary schools and two of our middle…
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