For the past three years, volunteer coordinator Jennifer Gaer has been growing the volunteer program in Bellingham Public Schools. She’s organized and streamlined the process for volunteers to register and find opportunities. She’s also built relationships and connections with many of the more than 5,000 volunteers. She noticed that many of her volunteers were retired…
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…
Thanks to the coordination of community partner Whatcom-Farm-to-School, local farmers have visited elementary schools this school year to share their experiences of growing food. This is part of a broader effort on food education in our schools and cafeterias, sharing where food comes from, how it is grown and how it is prepared to eat.…
The staff and students of Bellingham Public Schools are fortunate to have a foundation working alongside them to support need and fill gaps in funding. The following are just two of the ways the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation has impacted our classrooms and students in 2018. Thank you to the Foundation staff and board and…
At the end of November, the Central Kitchen construction in the Irongate area was officially completed and unveiled to the public. The Central Kitchen is a community-inspired project that has been many years in the making. With the support of Bellingham voters on the 2013 and 2018 bond, along with a supplemental grant of $1…
The First Responder Lunch Program invites police officers and firefighters to dine with students in our school lunchrooms. The program demonstrates our deep appreciation for our first responders and builds bridges to different corners of our community by fostering positive relationships between our students and public safety entities. The school visits also help responders be…
Bellingham Public Schools has four semifinalists and 11 commended students in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify for the competition, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during the 2017-18 school year. Bellingham High School student Benjamin Grabau and Sehome High students Lucas Cunningham, Ethan Flanagan and Jacob van’t Hoog are semifinalists in the National Merit…
This summer, eight high school students got their first taste of teaching in the district’s annual Promise Academy, a summer session for preschool to grade 5 students. Promise Academy supports students academically every summer with writing and reading activities. Bringing these high school students into the summer classrooms as support for the program was a…
Sehome High School graduate and Unified Soccer player Evan Kaptinski earned a spot on Team USA for the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi next March. Evan is one of 20 players on Team USA. He will train throughout the fall, traveling to Seattle for practices as well as to the Special Olympics…
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