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- Jan 17 - No School, MLK Jr Day
- Jan 24 - Spelling Bee
- Feb 4 - Report Cards available in IC Parent Portal
- Feb 7 - No School, District Professional Development
- Feb 21 - No School, President's Day Observed
- Mar 21-25 No School, Spring Break
- Apr 22 & 25 - No School, Conference Exchange Days
- May 26 - Last Day of School
Direct Ask Campaign
The Direct Ask Campaign is our largest fundraiser of the year. The LES PTO supports about 70% of the LES operating budget and funds essential functions for all of our students. Please consider contributing to this fundraiser.
Please take a moment to thoughtfully read the letter from our PTO which explains our Direct Ask Campaign.
You can support the Direct Ask Campaign by check or by clicking the PayPal link below.
District and School News
It only takes a tiny amount of fentanyl to be fatal and one of the most troublesome aspects of this situation is that it is believed that fentanyl is now being mixed into every type of drug being sold illicitly and you cannot see it, smell it or taste it – so many of those who overdose, have no idea that they are taking fentanyl.
The health precautions we have in place in BVSD are the same recommendations that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and our local public health agencies continue to stress: stay home when sick, test for COVID if symptomatic, vaccinate and isolate if you’ve tested positive.
Most people do not know about the unique partnership that happens on every bus route that serves our special education and preschool students. Bus drivers are partnered with transportation aides that ensure that our most precious cargo is safely buckled up and cared for throughout the ride.
BVSD’s Facilities staff are organized into teams by area of expertise/responsibility: Buildings (managing building maintenance), HVAC (responsible for clean air and comfortable temperatures), Trades (plumbing, electrical, and life safety systems), Grounds (everything outside - landscaping, playgrounds, snow and ice removal, tracks, fields, irrigation, etc.), environmental (maintaining indoor environmental quality), and custodial (keeping it all clean and sanitized).
The BVSD School Age Care (SAC) staff has always provided a safe gathering place before and after school where children can learn, grow and laugh before and after the school bell. Over the last two years, the Coal Creek Elementary SAC site has become a haven of relative normalcy amidst the pandemic and the Marshall wildfire for students and parents alike.
A trip to Thailand after college changed Dixie Hoffman’s life forever. She thought that traveling there to teach English at a small elementary school was just a way for her to see the world. Little did she know, she would fall in love with teaching.