Second Varicella immunization now required

The State of Nebraska requires a second dose of Varicella (chicken pox) vaccine starting July 1, 2011 for ALL STUDENTS AGE 5 AND OLDER attending school who have not had the chicken pox illness.

One dose of Varicella vaccine or evidence of disease, has been required for school
entry and/or 7th grade since July of 2004. The Center for Disease Control reports that 15-20 children out of every 100 were not protected against the disease with just one dose. Vaccinated students may have had a “break through” case of chicken pox
which is usually a much milder form of the disease.

Parents have received notification if their child needs to document having had the chicken pox disease or a second Varicella vaccine. If the child has not had chicken pox or a second dose of Varicella vaccine the child must get the second dose of vaccine as soon as possible.

If a Bancroft-Rosalie student is documented with Chicken Pox,then by Law we must exclude every unvaccinated child for a period of two weeks.

Homecoming Pep Rally

Matthew Wegner was crowned Homecoming King and Paige Tietz Homecoming Queen at last nights Homecoming Pep Rally. Attendants are-
Freshmen- Dylan Slaughter and Brianna Wegner
Sophomores- Dre Stone and Erin Sorensen
Juniors- Brady Petersen and Kelsey Beaudette
Senior candidates- Anthony Bonneau, Eric Browning, Jessica Tietz and Kiarra Hilsinger.

Colleges working to graduate students in 4 years

Midland joins Doane on the list of colleges that guarantee students will graduate in four years for the fifth year is free. Students must select a major by the beginning of their sophomore year, maintain adequate grades and take a 15 credit course load each semester.

The University of Nebraska has also taken steps to graduate students in four years by capping the hour requirements for most majors at 120 hours. This can be met if students take a 15 hour course-load for 8 semesters.

Community Pep Rally Wednesday 7:00 pm

Homecoming week 2011 is now upon us. There will be a community pep rally Wednesday night at 7:00 pm at the football field. A community hamburger feed will be held during the Pep rally sponsored by First National Bank. Sodas are courtesy of the B-R student council.

The coronation of the King and Queen and the announcing of the attendants will take place at the pep rally. The cheerleaders have a plethora of activities planned for the night.

Basketball subdistricts released

The NSAA released basketball sub-district assignments for girls and boys basketball. The B-R girls are in D1-4 with Allen, Emerson-Hubbard, and Omaha Nation. The boys are also in D1-4 with Allen, Emerson-Hubbard, Omaha Nation and Pender. Pender is C-2 in girls basketball.

The winner of D1-4 plays the winner of D1-3 to go to state.


Girls Subdistrict D1-3:

Cedar Bluffs
East Butler
Guardian Angels Central Catholic
Lyons-Decatur Northeast

Girls Subdistrict D1-4:

Allen
Bancroft-Rosalie
Emerson-Hubbard
Omaha Nation

Wisner named community of the year at County Dinner

The Cuming County First annual Economic Development dinner was held Sunday night at the Nielsen Center in West Point. Wisner won the community of the year for their eonomic development efforts. Citizens State Bank of Wisner and West Point won county Business of the year.

Former husker football player Aaron Davis was the guest speaker. Davis manages his own consulting form and has authored several books.

Bancroft was represented by Jon and Ginger Bailey, Jon and Carol Cerny, and Roy and Jennifer Carlson.

Nebraska Vs. Wyoming on Great Plains cable channel 44

Great news. Bancroft residents with Great Plains cable will be able to watch the Nebraska-Wyoming game from their homes Saturday night. The game is on Versus, which is now channel 44 on Bancroft cable.

GO HUSKERS!!

MAP reading achievement testing results

Grades 3-11 will take the Fall MAP reading test this week and next. MAP reading is an on-line assessment that is given three times a year. Teachers, parents and students can look at the results to see a students growth during the year.

Grades 7-12 took the test last year. This year it is being given to grades 3-6 in place of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). The ITBS was given only once a year and the results were not available until the end of the school year. MAP results provide better information on reading and math achievement than ITBS.

The results are back for grades 3,4,9,10 and 11. Grade 3 results are impressive- 75% of the class scored above the state average. In grade 10- 7 of 18 students improved their score from last year. That means ice cream for those seven. In grade 11- 6 of 13 improved their score.

First Annual Cuming County Dinner this Sunday 5:00 pm

Over 100 have pre-registered for the First Annual Cuming County Economic Development Dinner this Sunday at 5:00 pm in the Nielsen Center.

Keynote speaker is Aaron Davis, former Nebraska football player, "It's Not Just Another Talk, it's an Experience."

There will be awards for Community of the year and Business of the year.

Rosalie Betterment Sunday Brunch this weekend

Harvestfest this weekend

Lots of good food and fun.

Panther Youth Football

The rosters and schedule for Bancroft-Rosalie Youth Football.

One Act Play Districts

District D1-2
Date: Nov 29, 2011
Site: Humphrey St. Francis

Schools Assigned:
Allen
Bancroft-Rosalie
Clarkson
Howells
Humphrey
Humphrey St. Francis
Newman Grove
Walthill

A tough district.

Basketball classifications for this winter

The NSAA released classifications for girls and boys basketball and play production. Bancroft-Rosalie will be D-1 in all three activities. Below are the D-1 schools in girls basketball. Boys basketball is the same except that Pender is the largest D-1 school.

World Book on-line is free

Educational Service Unit #2 has purchased access to World Book on-line for all schools in the area. The log in and password will be made available in the next school newsletter. Unfortunately, it cannot be published on-line but can be sent to parents in school publications. Look for it. It is a great resource to have for students (and adults) to look up reliable information (unlike Wikipedia).

New kindergarten entrance regulations

Kindergarten entrance rules will be changing next year. The date five year olds are ineligible for pre-school programs moves from October 15 back to August 1. Here is a form that describes the situation based on the date a child was born.

Note that exceptions to the preschool age are for students with IEP's.

Bancroft-Rosalie School Board news

The Bancroft-Rosalie Board of Education met Monday, September 12, 2011 at 7:30 pm in Bancroft. Two public hearings were held prior to the regular monthly meeting. The first hearing was the 2011-12 school budget hearing, followed by the Property Tax Request hearing.

During the regular board meeting, Superintendent Cerny presented the August transportation report, 2012 valuations, the Enrollment Option report, and NeSA test scores.

In new business the board approved the 2011-12 school budget as published; and set the General Fund tax rate was set at 1.0366 (Note correction from yesterday), the Bond Fund levy was set at 0.0400 for the 9-12 Bond levy and 0.0099 for the K-8 levy and the Qualified Purpose Fund levy was set at 0.0033. The board approved a cooperative agreement with the Village of Bancroft for care of the Village athletic complex.

2011 Laureate's Feast

The Laureate's Feast is a fund-raiser for the Neihardt Historical Site in Bancroft.

Cedar Bluffs Volleyball Tournament bracket

Here is the bracket for the Cedar Bluffs tournament.

Lisa Sandlin, Biographer, September 11, 2011 at Neihardt

In keeping with this year's theme of "Biography: Written Lives," on Sunday, September 11th at 2:00 PM, poet, author, and educator Lisa Sandlin will read excerpts from her newest work You Who Make the Sky Bend, a collaborative work on thirty-one Christian saints as archetypes of the human condition combined with original art by Catherine Ferguson of New Mexico. When asked about the work, Sandlin notes she utilized both ancient and contemporary sources about each subject and wove them into mini-narratives. She says, "The saints were born. They lived. They sinned. They were real people. Their human qualities and imperfections are what make their spirituality even more fascinating."

A native of Beaumont, Texas, Lisa is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She is also the author of The Famous Thing About Death (Cinco Puntos 1991) and Message to the Nurse of Dreams (Cinco Puntos 1997), which won the Violet Crown Award from the Austin Writers League and the Jesse H Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and a collection of short stories, In the River Province (Southern Methodist University Press 2004). Her writing has appeared in Shenandoah, The New York Times, Southwest Review, Crazy Horse, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere. The recipient of the NEA Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, she received her BA from Rice University and her MFA from Vermont College. She is also co-editor of Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press), which was named the Poetry Honor Book and won Best Cover Design/Illustration in the 2003 Nebraska Book Awards.

This event is free and open to the public.

Advanced Health Science Class (EMT-B)

Three students are taking Advanced Health Science as a dual credit class through Northeast Community College. This class is taught as Emergency Medical Technician- Basic and students can become a certified EMT-B upon completion of the class and passing the National Registry Test.

The course is taught by Larry Bockelman of the Elkhorn-Logan Valley Health department via distance learning from Wisner-Pilger High School. Linda Munderloh (B-R school nurse) is helping the students with their skills. Rob Smith and I will also assist the students with their skills.

The Bancroft ambulance will be at the school over lunch today so students can practice loading and unloading patients.

64 surveys still needed

Bancroft residents still need to return 64 more income surveys. The drawing for the three cash prizes has been postponed until a second mailing can be completed.

The second mailing will only go to household that have not returned a survey.

If you receive another survey in the mail, please complete and return it.

This survey will provide valuable information about the community that can help with decisions about what direction Bancroft needs to take. This community needs to continue to improve and grow or it may not survive as a viable community for the next generation.

STATE ED DEPARTMENT DEVELOPS NEW TOOLS TO HELP PARENTS, SCHOOLS IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING

Nebraska Department of Education unveils parent-friendly reading standards, new instructional tool for teachers, parents.

Nebraska parents and teachers now can find grade-by-grade resources for use in the home or classroom to help children in reading and mathematics.

Student-Friendly Standards
Student-Friendly Standards have been developed to help students better understand what their teachers expect and why they are expected to do certain activities, said Tricia Parker, state language arts consultant. In addition to students, parents also will find the grade-by-grade standards helpful, Parker said. The Student-Friendly Standards will help parents better understand the learning targets set for their children and find it easier to talk to teachers about their child’s progress.

Student-Friendly Standards are available in several formats as well as brochures that may be printed from the Nebraska Department of Education’s homepage at: http://www.education.ne.gov/read/StudentFriendlyStandards/StudentFriendlyStandardsMain.html

The standards are based on the work of national and state education researchers and were developed with the help of Nebraska language arts educators from different grade levels. Parker emphasized that the standards reflect end-of-year learning expectations at appropriate grade levels.

Standards Instructional Tool
Teachers and parents can search a new web tool by subject and grade to learn what schools expect students to know and be able to do and for activities and resources to help students meet reading and mathematics expectations. The interactive web site, known as the Standards Instructional Tool, is available at: http://www.education.ne.gov/AcademicStandards/SIT.
“We designed the Standards Instructional Tool with Nebraska classroom teachers in mind,” said Donlynn Rice, Nebraska Department of Education curriculum and instruction administrator. “Nebraska parents also will find the resources, activities and exercises helpful when they work at home with their children.”
Reading and mathematics exercises, activities, web links and videos on the site will help teachers and parents understand the state’s learning goals, Rice said. Over time, additional resources will be added. Reading activities focus on comprehension and vocabulary. The Standards Instructional Tool was developed by Nebraska Department of Education staff working with Nebraska teachers.

Betterment Meeting tomorrow at the Country Pub

Bancroft Betterment Monthly Meeting Agenda
September 7, 2011
10:00 am at the Bancroft-Rosalie School Library

Call to order.

Read and approve minutes of August, 2011 meeting

Guest Speaker- Drawing for cash awards

Reports
1. School
2. Village
3. Cuming County Economic Development
4. Neihardt Center
5. Housing
6. Recycling

New Business


Next meeting- October 3, 2011 ____________ at the Country Pub.

Meeting adjourned

Volleyball Tournament schedule Saturday

AT WISNER ON SATURDAY.
8:30 GOLD—W-P VS. LHNE (NEW)
8:30 GOLD—WPCC VS. WAYNE (OLD)
9:30 BRONZE—B-R VS. S-S (NEW)
9:30 BRONZE—O-C VS. ALLEN (OLD)
10:30 GOLD—W-P VS. WAYNE (NEW)
10:30 GOLD—LHNE VS. WPCC (OLD)
11:30 BRONZE—B-R VS. ALLEN (NEW)
11:30 BRONZE—S-S VS. O-C (OLD)
12:30 W-P VS. GACC (NEW)
12:30 GOLD--LHNE VS. WAYNE (OLD)
1:30 BRONZE—B-R VS. O-C(NEW)
1:30 BRONZE—S-S VS. ALLEN (OLD)

Elementary Parent-Teacher Learning Compact

The Bancroft-Rosalie Parent/Teacher Learning Compacts are being sent home today with elementary students. We need a signed copy for all students and parents in the elementary school in order to be in compliance with federal Title I regulations.

Students that return the compact tomorrow signed by the parent will receive a small treat. Students are not required to sign, but may do so if they can.