There will be a school/community pep rally and send off for the girls basketball team on Thursday at 2:00. The pep rally will begin at 2:00 in the high school gym and then the team will depart for Hershey at 2:30. Community members that wish to attend the pep rally should sign in at the high school office between 1:40 - 1:50.
Any member of the community or K-6 student (accompanied by an adult) are more than welcome to take a school bus to Hershey. Any student who attends the game will count as an excused absence from school.
** Sign up/money in the elementary office by 10 A.M. Thursday
Destination: Giant Center, Hershey, PA
Transportation: McIlwain School Bus
Cost: $10 students/ $15 adults – This includes bus trip and cost of Championship ticket
Itinerary for Friday March 22, 2019
8:30- Bus departure from Berlin
11:30- Approximate time of arrival to Hershey Giant Center
12:00- Game time.
2:00- Approximate time of departure from Giant Center… possible stop for food after game.
6:00 - Approximate arrival time- Berlin Brothersvalley School District… student pickup
For the first time in school history the Berlin Mountaineer Girls Basketball Team have advanced to the Pennsylvania State Championship and you have the opportunity to support the team by taking a field trip to Hershey on Friday!!! Click here to download the Basketball Field Trip Letter.
* PERMISSION SLIPS/ $10 DUE THURSDAY by 10:00 A.M to the HS or MS offices.*
Destination: Giant Center, Hershey, PA
Transportation: McIlwain School Bus
Cost: $10 – This includes bus trip and cost of Championship ticket
Food: The bus will be stopping after the game at a fast food restaurant. Students are to bring money for the restaurant.
Scholarship OpportunitiesSeniors & Juniors - Be sure to check out available scholarship opportunities.
The National Honor Society is hosting a Blood Drive on April 11th in the High School Gymnasium from 9 - 2:30. If you would like to schedule an appointment to donate, contact Dana Kissel at dkissel@bbsd.com or Bethany Ritenour at britenour@bbsd.com.
April 18, April 23, June 3 and June 4 will be snow make-up days.
If more snow days are needed, days will be added to the calendar beginning with June 5.
The Somerset County Technology Center is hosting an EMT course with HACC and Somerset Area Ambulance. Click here to read the EMT Class Flyer.
Click here to view the special education plan.
National Breakfast week (March 4 - 8) kicks off National Nutrition month so, we will be celebrating with Egg-Tastic Fridays every Friday with scrambles eggs, toast or english muffins, juice, bananas and milk on the menus!
National Nutrition Month Contest:
The contest will operate as follows, students will come to the cafeteria to eat breakfast and the cashiers will give them a slip to put their name on it each day until Friday. The more times you eat breakfast the more times your name will be entered into the contest box to win. Each school will have their own contest start and finish date. Every Friday we will draw two Winners from that school. Wal-mart and The Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank have donated the prizes for each school, the winners will receive a $20.00 Gift Card for Wal-mart. Good Luck!!!!
Elementary Schools contest will start March 4 – March 8
PreK will have their own separate contest and prize March 4 - March 8
Middle School contest will start March 11 - March 15
High School contest will start March 18 - March 22
We will have a contest box in the cafeteria for the HS contest and one small contest box upstairs for the Kiosk/Second Chance Breakfast area. You must eat breakfast each day to enter your name!
The County uses CodeRED to send EMERGENCY notifications by phone, email, text and social media to keep citizens informed of emergencies such as an evacuation notices, utility outages, water main breaks, fire or floods, chemical spills, or other emergency situations.
Click here to learn more.
Recycling ProgramWe will no longer be accepting plastic bottles, plastic bottle caps, and lids for our recycling program. However, we will still be collecting (in school only) newspapers. We will also be accepting aluminum pop tabs this year for our recycling program (from the community) to help support the Ronald McDonald House charity.
To Watch Our Video, Click Here
This is a simple but powerful question as we prepare our students for life after graduation from the Berlin Brothersvalley School District. This question involves having a clear vision of what learning is required for students and an understanding of what will prepare them for an ever changing world of work and life in the future.
In addition, we need to think about how we judge the success of the school district through the successes of our students (now adults) who have used the learning tools provided in the Berlin Brothersvalley School District to live a productive and fulfilling life.
We selected a variety of people from the community to reflect on these questions and provide their perspective. Our interviewees include: Mrs. Margie Zorn, Mr. Larry Philip, Mr. Justin VanGilder, Mr. Brian Slope, Mrs. Cathy Webreck, Senator Pat Stefano and Mr. Scott Etris.
Thanks to our outstanding student videographers for their time and expertise in producing a quality work for our community.
