This year BHS will provide chromebooks to our students. Parents/ Students need to sign off on the Permission & Responsibility Use forms by the 1st day of school. This is an online agreement, please take a moment and review everything as soon as you can.

• 2018-19 BPS Responsible Use of Technology

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ZW3eBSjIy6SS1BcmxPRHB0akU/view

• 2018-19 Student Acceptable Use Policy

https://drive.google.com/a/bismarckschools.org/file/d/0B4ZW3eBSjIy6d1VRQjZOT0RGWFU/view

• 2018-19 Parent Permission & Responsible Use

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQlqzBBvl4sRb4Gm_NIibc9AlUr-0E5BKO7qU-ZazzXwC4NQ/viewform

Free or Reduced Meal Applications must be renewed each year.   

Free or Reduced meal benefits DO NOT rollover from year to year you must re-apply.   If no application is received your students will be charged for their lunches until the application is received, entered, and approved.  These charges will not be reversed, and will become the parents obligation to pay.

Applications can be submitted in one of the following ways:

1. Drop it off at BHS 
2. Drop it off at the Hughes Admistrations Building at 806 N Washington St. 
3. Mail to: BPS Child Nutrition Dept., 806 N. Washington Street, Bismarck, ND 58501.  

Click on this link to open the Free or Reduced Meal Application.

Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, the North Dakota Department of Health School Immunization Requirements have been updated to require a second dose of meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) for students entering eleventh or twelfth grade. This means your current tenth or eleventh grade student will need proof of two doses of MCV4 before returning to school in the fall.

Please schedule an appointment with your child’s health care provider or your local public health department today.

2018-19 School Immunization

You can either fax, email or drop it off at BHS. 

Fax: 701-323-4805 

Email: michelle_schmidt@bismarckschools.org

Freshman Orientation

Freshman Orientation will be held on Tuesday, August 14 for all incoming freshman and their parents. A brief orientation will be given in the Karlgaard Gymnasium at 5:30 p.m.  Following the presentation, students can pick up their 2018-2019 class schedules and they then will have an opportunity to look for their classrooms. This is the time when freshman will receive their schedule, they will not be mailed. If you miss this night, freshman can pick up their schedule any time after August 14th from the Attendance Office.

Parents may also purchase the following items:

• Student Planners $5.00
• Parking Permits $5.00
• Student Athletic Passes $30.00 (Adult pass $85)
• Activity Fee $50.00
• Deposits may be made for student’s lunch account.

Lines will be long this night so you may prefer to pay from home via www.MyPaymentsPlus.com or you can come into the office during business hours (Summer Hours: Mon-Thursday 7-3:30 and Friday from 7-12:30).

Payments can be cash, check or credit card through www.MyPaymentsPlus.com.

*Please note: If you pay by check, separate checks are required for each item purchased.

Hello Everyone:

The rschool registration site for the upcoming 2018-19 school year is activated.   You may start registering your athletes for their upcoming sport seasons.  Please review the information contained at the link below before proceeding with the registration process:  (remind parents and athletes to sign up for all the sports they will be participating in for the school year)

https://bismarck-ar.rschooltoday.com/

A few other reminders:

1. Please use the same account you have previously to register your athletes.  Hopefully everyone remembers their username and password.  I can help you with retrieving your username if needed, but do not have access to passwords.  Please contact rschool if you need a password reset at support@rschooltoday.com
2. After you have accessed your account, please click “Register” and you will see the names of your children that have been registered before.  Click their name to register them for the upcoming year and select “Bismarck High School Athletic Registration 2018-2019” when prompted.  For any of your children that are new, click “Register New Student”.
3. If you have a child at Wachter Middle School that will participate in a varsity sport at Bismarck HS, you must register them under Bismarck HS for that sport.
4. Save yourself some work and register your child for ALL sports they will participate in during the school year at the same time.  Example:  If you register your son for football this fall and he plans to play baseball as well, put both of them in at the same time.  If he decides later that he doesn’t want to play, we can just delete him from the roster on rschool.
5. When you register this year, some of the information you need to submit should pre-populate your registration form automatically.  Please check it before submitting to be sure it is accurate and make changes if necessary.
6. As was the case last year, you must have a completed athlete physical form to upload in order to complete the registration.  You will only be able to obtain the completed physical form from the doctor that performs the physical exam.  You are not able to start the registration and save progress on it---if you don’t submit the completed physical form with it, everything will be lost when you close out the website.  Information regarding physical exam locations/sites can be found at this link under the announcements on the right side of the page:  https://www.bismarckschools.org/Page/645
   
7. ALL ATHLETES MUST HAVE A PHYSICAL EXAM AND MUST BE REGISTERED BEFORE PARTICIPATING IN PRACTICES WHEN THE SEASON BEGINS.  PLEASE DO NOT DELAY IN COMPLETING THESE ITEMS.
8. MyPaymentsPlus may be used to pay for athletic fees again, or you may drop off cash or check with our secretaries at the BHS Office.  MyPaymentsPlus will not be active until August.  

Thank you for registering your athletes on the system and please let me know if you have any questions.

Scott Nustad
Building Athletic Director
Bismarck High School

Each year, Bismarck Public Schools and Y93 radio team up to fill 2 school buses with new supplies for children in need. This year the drive will be on Monday, Aug. 20, 6 am to 6 pm at both Red Car Wash locations in Bismarck. Cash donations for school supplies are also welcome!

If your child needs supplies, call school secretaries after Aug. 1 or school counselors closer to the first day of school, which is Thursday, Aug. 23. 

Elementary

Horizon Middle School

Simle Middle School

Wachter Middle School

Free lunches will be served this summer for ALL kids in Bismarck ages 18 and under at ten locations regardless of which school they attend. All adults with school and non-school age children are also welcome to eat lunch. A suggested donation of $4 is appreciated for adult meals but not necessary.  Adults are encouraged to participate at one of the park locations around Bismarck. A hot meal will be served Monday through Friday, June 4-July 27, excluding July 4, 5 and 6. Here are the times and locations of the BPS Summer Feeding Program:

Wachter Middle School, off 7th St. and Expressway Ave. at 1107 S. 7th St., 11-11:45 am.

Bismarck High School, 800 N. 8^th St., 11:45 am-12:30 pm. 

Century High School, 1000 E. Century Ave., 11:45 am-12:30 pm.

Grimsrud School Playground, 716 St. Benedict Dr., 12-1 pm. 

Will-Moore School Playground, off 4th St. and Ave. E, 12-1 pm.

Normandy Park, 3924 Normandy St. This park is in north Bismarck. Take N. Washington St., right on Calgary Ave. and left on Normandy St., 12-1pm.

Jaycee Park, 321 E. Century Ave., 1 block west of CHS, 12-1pm. 

Sons of Norway Park, east of Myhre School on Expressway Ave., 12-1 pm.

Wachter Park, 221 E. Reno Ave., across from Moses Elementary. Lunch served at shelter #2, 12-1 pm.

Lions Park, at Boulevard Ave. & 16th St. Lunch served at the shelter next to the playground SW of Hillside Pool, 12-1 pm.

View orientation & open house list.

The Bismarck School Board will meet at 5:15 pm at the City-County Building at 221 N. 5th Street. The public is invited to attend the meeting or watch it LIVE on cable channel 2.

Aug. 20-22 are Staff Development/Teacher Work Days. School starts Thursday, Aug. 23.

The first day of school is Thursday, Aug. 23.