Earth Day this year brought community members together to clean up Little Squalicum Beach, including Bellingham Public Schools’ very own first graders from Birchwood Elementary. Together RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Kiwanis Club and Congressman Rick Larsen dedicated efforts to pick up litter spread across Little Squalicum Beach. The first grade students from Anne Franzmann…
In April 2016, eight Kulshan Middle School students went to Eisenhower Middle School in Everett, Wash. to participate in the Washington State Rubik’s Cube Competition. The Kulshan team came in second place in a competition where the team solved 25 Rubik’s cubes in 3 minutes and 28 seconds flat. Eighth grader and team member Wyatt Loree won the Solo…
At Alderwood Elementary School a team of volunteers are filling the classrooms and providing support to teachers and students. Bellingham resident, Ray Dellecker, was looking for opportunities to help in the classroom. Though Ray lives on the other side of town, he chose to volunteer at Alderwood Elementary after the suggestion from Assistant Superintendent Steve Clarke.…
Thanks to a grant from the United Way both Cordata and Alderwood elementary schools have expanded their after-school enrichment programs this school year. The goal was to create opportunities for all of the children and families of the Cordata and Alderwood communities to expand their learning, become more connected to school, and to explore their interests…
Sehome High School’s Robotics program and the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department provided Roosevelt Elementary School with a 3D printer earlier this school year. After its arrival, Roosevelt library media specialist Denisa Anderson invited Sehome High robotics students to give an introduction to the printer and provide initial tech support and training with her fifth grade students.…
Arbor Day 2016 in Washington state was celebrated with a special project connecting high schools and middle schools in Bellingham Public Schools. Squalicum High School AVID students, led by Efrain Padilla and Treston Nguyen, coordinated ‘Replanting the Environment,’ a project selected as one of this year’s winners for the “Dream, Design, Create Project” for youth sponsored by the Whatcom Volunteer…
The Bellingham community came together in a big way, raising $15,000 in donations to the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation‘s (BPSF) Emergency Student Support fund to help provide families with much needed beds. The Emergency Student Support Fund helps remove learning roadblocks students might face. From test fees to new gym shoes, the fund helps to…
Students at Options High School can now take an alternative physical education class thanks to a partnership with the local CrossFit X Gym on Grant Street. Physical Education teacher, Doriane Gunnels, encouraged students to step out of their comfort zones and into the gym to try CrossFit. CrossFit is a workout that involves a variety…
Squalicum High School senior Moriah Nixon-Stewart was recently named Youth of the Year by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Whatcom County. A recent article in Whatcom Talk highlights Nixon-Stewart’s accomplishments. A passage from the article follows: In her speech [Nixon] described the many opportunities that the Club had given her from volleyball to a quiet space…
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