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Bristol Borough — The 2020 Academic Oversight Committee’s No-Go Bristol Fall Classic Raffle turned out to be the Way to Go, Bristol Borough! 418 raffle tickets were sold, enabling the funding of academic enrichment programs for Bristol Borough public and parochial schools to continue this year.
Winning ticket holders drawn … Read more...
Bristol High School is beginning it’s second year of AVID implementation. What is “AVID”? AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and is a program for “middle to upper middle” academic students. These students have the potential for honors and AP® work in high school but can … Read more...
Implemented in BBSD’s Snyder-Girotti Elementary school in 2015, the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program continues to grow and meet with student and teacher success. PBIS is a proactive approach to establishing behavioral supports and the social culture necessary for students to rise to their highest … Read more...
In 2005, Bristol High School students began a series of investigations into the iron ion content of our local watershed; the Otter Creek. Approximately 1.9% of the Earth’s crust is iron. In nature, iron is found as two types of ions: Fe2+ and Fe3+. The students knew that the cycling … Read more...
Constitution Day, celebrated Sept 17th, commemorates the formation and the signing of the U.S. Constitution. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote “shall not … Read more...
Over 100 chemistry students from throughout the Delaware Valley gathered at Temple University to share the results of their research at a “poster session.” The researchers ranged from high school students through recent Ph.D. graduates. The Bristol High School AP class won the third-place prize in the high school level … Read more...
Choosing a college major and school is a daunting task for high school juniors and seniors. Determining how the average family will pay for college is also a complex system, but Bristol High School juniors and seniors have an opportunity that will give them a head start as they begin … Read more...
Bristol Middle-Senior High School is in its 5th year of gardening. Initially, the program began by re-purposing unused classrooms into greenhouses and building vertical hydroponic systems. The unused courtyard was converted into a fully functional school and community garden which includes raised beds, containers, green walls, vertical structures, and a … Read more...
For almost 30 years, Bristol High School has provided students with firsthand experience of the judicial system in the United States. This year, the team –comprised of mostly underclassmen– were ready as the The Young Lawyers Division of the Pennsylvania Bar Associations sponsored its 35th year of mock trial competition … Read more...
Students from Bristol High School had the opportunity to attend a one week “History and Culture Camp” sponsored by the 21st CCLC and the AOC (Academic Oversight Committee). The camp, held the second week of July, has a mission to expose students to various sights around Bucks County and Philadelphia … Read more...
Seventh graders at Bristol Middle School set sail aboard the A.J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s official “Tall Ship,” as part of their science curriculum. The program ties environmental lessons with the history of the Delaware River. Students climb aboard the 1928 oyster schooner and learn about the human impact on the … Read more...
On December 6th, Snyder-Girotti Elementary School was one of twenty schools selected from a nationwide pool of applicants to interact in a live
broadcast with NASA. Always excited to expose and teach young minds about space and space exploration, the NASA broadcasters wanted to explain a new type of space … Read more...
Physical health and mental wellness is one of the focus areas of Bristol Borough’s “All Our Children” program, a project of the Academic Oversight Committee (AOC) of Bristol Borough’s 21st Century Learning Center. As a kick off to this initiative, the AOC and Bristol Borough School District sponsored … Read more...
Not many teens have the chance to attend a lecture given by a Nobel prize winner, but Bristol High School AP chemistry students had the opportunity to do just that. Students attended the Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture “The Same and Not the Same: The Many Faces of Diversity in Science … Read more...
On Tuesday, November 20, sixth graders from Snyder-Girotti Elementary School participated on a walking tour of Bristol Borough using the “Tour Bristol” podcast, created by the Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation. The questions from the walking tour were developed by their Social Studies Teacher, Mr. James Esposito. Students were able … Read more...