September, 2009

• ProgressBook replaces interim reports

• Bay High makes fine showing in AP Scholars recognition

• Becoming a Loving and Logic Parent

• PTA hosts flu shot clinic

• Homecoming information

• Dolley Madison visits BMS

• BMS art students inspired by classic cars

• Honors Quintet members announced

• Dave Peters' win NEH grants for study

• BMS art mobile project presentation to Kiwanis

 BHS wins Harold A. Meyer Sportsmanship Award, 18th year

Bay High School has been selected as a 2008-2009 winner of the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Harold A. Meyer Award for Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity. Bay High is the only Ohio school to win the award for all 18 years since the award?s inception in 1992. [Read more ...]

ProgressBook replaces interim reports

Students in grades 5-12 will not receive mailed interims; parents encouraged to check ProgressBook frequently

Parents of students in grades 5-12 have received new ProgressBook log in usernames and passwords this year.

   Upon logging in for the first time, they will be required to change the log in information and put in an email address. If log in information is forgotten, users can ask the system to email the information.

   If parents or students have not logged in and cannot locate the original passwords, they should contact the school office. Additional information and help for technical log in problems can be found here.

Bay High makes fine showing in AP Scholars recognition

67 students win AP Scholars awards

The College Board has awarded sixty-seven Bay High School juniors and seniors (class of 2009) top recognition for their scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams taken during the 2008-2009 school year. Advanced Placement courses are college level studies, and students who pass the five-point scale standard exams at a 3, 4 or 5 level are often given college credit for the courses. [Read on ...]

Bay High seniors Grace Perkins (left) and Sarah Chen are National Merit Semifinalists

Seasonal flu shots - PTA hosts walk-in clinic

Wednesday, October 7 at Bay Middle School cafeteria, 4-8 p.m.

Cost is $27. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Bay Village PTAs.

Become a Loving and Logic Parent

Sponsored by the Bay Village Council of PTAs, Becoming a Love and Logic Parent is a practical and entertaining program for parents. This is a six-session course to be held on October 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2009.

The course is designed to give practical skills that can be used immediately with your preschool through teenage children. The cost is $70.00/person (on-site registration is $75.00). Checks should be made payable to: Bay Village Council of PTAs, ATTN: Love & Logic Program. Please call Cynthia White at 440-892-7975 for more information. Please note that if childcare is needed, Girl Scout Troup #1048 is available.

-Build Skills as a Confident Parent!
-Cultivate Reliable Children!
-Finally, a professional development program for Parents!

See this flyer for more information.

Register online at the following link, then forward the form on the flyer with your check to any Bay Village Schools office. [Register online ...]

Homecoming is Friday, October 2

Plan to attend and even participate!

Bay High School will hold its annual Homecoming Parade on Friday, October 2. The parade will begin at 5:55 p.m. at Cahoon Park and will proceed west along Wolf Road to Bay High School.

   The Bay High Marching Band, homecoming courts and creative floats designed by students and other groups are featured in the parade. Additionally, representatives from the city, schools and community organizations will be tossing candy to parade viewers lining Wolf Road.

    The Bay High School PTSA will hold a cookout near the Bay High School Memorial Stadium entrance beginning at 6 p.m. The value meal offered includes a hotdog, chips, drink and a cookie for five dollars. Homecoming pre-game activities begin inside the stadium at 7:05 p.m. The Bay High Rockets varsity football team will take on the North Ridgeville Rangers at 7:30 p.m.

Dolley Madison visits Bay Middle School

Bay Village League of Women Voters (BVLWV) sponsors local actress in first-person account from popular first lady

Actress Carol Starre-Kmiecik in character as Dolley Madison (left) and posing with Bay Middle School fifth-graders (above) from Bonnie Altieri's class.

Dolley Madison loved to host parties, but our fourth first lady, who reigned during James Madison's 1809-1817, two-term presidency, also met some frightening challenges. She left a legacy that remains a standard for first ladies to this day.

Bay Middle School fifth-graders heard about the life and times of Dolley Madison through the first-person interpretation of local actress Carol Starre-Kmiecik during a special presentation just for them, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Cuyahoga Area, on Friday, September 11.

The former first lady served beginning around the time that the Cahoon Family of Bay Village settled in our town (October 10, 1810). The presentation is one of the first events arranged by the BVLWV kicking off Bay's Bicentennial celebration, planned for October 10, 2010.

Student photographers capture classic cars at Bay Middle School

Cruisin' Times editor, Bay Village's John Shapiro, rounds up art subjects

Bay Middle School student photographers and artists in Ruth Purdy's art classes snapped with cameras the beautiful curves and angles of 15 classic cars, while other artists drew the classic lines. It was a gorgeous day for the September 15 project as students enjoyed both the beautiful cars and the perfect fall day.

BHS Honors Quintet Members announced

Ashley DeYong (violin), Jackson Brothers (violin), Audrey McDonald (viola), Jeremy Cottam (cello) and Freya Hughes (bass) will be studying and performing some of the greatest musical works in Western literature this fall. Second semester, the group will explore the burgeoning rock string quartet repertoire using the electric violin, viola and cello the Bay High music department  received through a Bay Village Education Foundation grant. Their first performance will be at the Fall Orchestra Concert on Monday, October 19th. Carrie Singler directs the quintet.

After completing a rigorous application process, Bay High social studies teacher Dave Peters was awarded three National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, two of which he accepted.  These grants would take Peters first to Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum for six days, and then to Illinois College for the next five weeks.  [Read more]

BMS art instructor and renowned mobile artist address Bay Village Kiwanians

Public art project is discussed

Middle School art teacher Ruth Leslie (above left)  and Peninsula artist Carol Adams told Bay Village Kiwanis Club members on Tuesday evening, September 8, how seven years of work ended in triumph with the siting of the kinetic Adams sculpture, Aerial Gardens XII, in the three-story foyer of the middle school.  Leslie told members that the public art project has galvanized interest in art in the school, which has been transformed by professional and student art.

   The sculpture is controlled by student-operated computers that can change lighting designs and timing as the mobile, representing four different middle school students, pirouettes above your head as you walk the main corridor of the school. Adams, an internationally known artist, told the group that the Bay students were the most enthusiastic she had encountered in her career. [Mobile video]

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