Bellingham Public Schools has made some significant movement in the past year around sustainability. Progress (and kudos) came in the form of a national and state sustainability award, a local bond passage which included provisions for a 15th more fully sustainable elementary school, and the recent formation of a Sustainability Advisory Committee tasked with reviewing…
Every summer and throughout the school year, staff in Bellingham Public Schools take part in professional development that enhances their teaching and learning practices, deepens their knowledge in core subjects, and widens their perspectives on important topics such as inclusion and equity. Modeling the core belief in The Bellingham Promise that states “learning is lifelong…
Two new high school courses are being offered this school year in career and technical education (CTE): Construction Academy at Squalicum High School and Cosmetology offered onsite at the former Regis Salon in Bellis Fair Mall. Cosmetology students from Bellingham, Sehome and Squalicum high schools are bused to their afternoon class at Bellis Fair. Both…
It’s not every day you get to watch international track athletes compete on a world stage, let alone treat those athletes for heat stroke or a muscle strain. But that’s just what Katie Owen did this summer when she served as a member of the medical team at the World Athletics Championships (formerly IAAF) in…
Got game, anyone? We know a couple students who do! Bellingham High School students Porter Hildenbrand and Nathaniel Larmore won first place in the Spring 2022 STEM Fuse GOT Game Competition with their video game Pick Up and Fight. As first place winners in the competition, both Porter and Nathaniel won an Amazon gift card…
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) oversees athletics and fine arts for schools statewide and its most prestigious annual award is the Scholastic Cup in recognition of academic, athletic and sportsmanship excellence. Sehome High School (2nd), Bellingham High School (4th) and Squalicum High School (5th) placed in the top five of the statewide Scholastic Cup standings…
Running, jumping, throwing, cheers and laughter are frequent scenes at the Bellingham Public Schools’ All-City Fifth Grade Track & Field Meet as students from each elementary school, adorned in school-branded penny jerseys, convene together at Civic Stadium for a day of events and friendly competition. Unofficial results records for the meet date back to…
Former staff and alumni of Roosevelt Elementary School assembled with current staff and students to dig up and open a 50-year-old time capsule at the school. The time capsule was put in the ground nearly 50 years ago when the current school first opened its doors in the 1972-73 school year. An assembly on May…
Ask David Ramos-Trejo about Bellingham Public Schools’ AVID program and his gratitude pours out. A University of Washington graduate in marketing, Ramos-Trejo had no idea college could be an option for him until he enrolled in Shuksan Middle School’s AVID program his sixth-grade year. As a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, he didn’t…
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