National Board Certification is a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize and reward great teachers—and make them better. Certification is achieved through a performance-based assessment that typically takes one to three years to complete.
Congratulations, Ms. Brown, NBCT!
Excellence Is Worth The Effort
Congratulations to Mr. Lucas Allen and the BGJHS Percussion Ensemble for a wonderful performance at the 2026 KMEA Conference last week!
KMEA Performance Highlights
For the past few weeks, students and families have been reading Patrick Skene Catling’s book, “The Chocolate Touch,” where everything John Midas touches turns into CHOCOLATE.
Celebrating the theme, the library has transformed into a candy chop, students are competing with daily trivia questions, and today, students were challenged to find 1,000 gold coins hidden throughout the building. The primary and intermediate classes that collect the most coins will see their collection transformed into chocolate!
Thanks to Ms. Hannah Ogden, Library Media Specialist for leading this project, and to the McNeill PTO and Stuff the Bus Foundation of SOKY for their generous support to make this fun project possible.
Boys to Men Alum and BGHS Student Government President Cayden Dunn was the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
Thanks to all who made this event special: teachers, mentors, families, and community supporters.
Cow eye dissection at McNeill Elementary!
Students built custom heat shields with available materials to protect "egg-stronauts" from intense heat. Then they put their knowledge to the test, tracking temperature changes for their unit final. Mastering heat transfer!
Thanks to BGISD’s Digital Learning Coach Megan Marcum and Director of Technology Will King for their help with this activity.
The BGHS Band, Choir, and Orchestra performed for their largest audiences of the year with students in grades 4-8 attending concerts today.
BGISD students may begin playing instruments and singing in choir as 4th graders. Attending the annual school-day concert gives the younger Purples a chance to see and hear opportunities in their near future!
More than 250 BGHS students participate in the Performing Arts.
Thanks to teachers and staff in all schools, and a special thanks to the Transportation Department for making this day possible!
Thanks to Dr. Nancy Hulan and the WKU Literacy Ambassadors!
Tonight’s performance is open to the public with $5 tickets sold at the door.
Friday, December 5, 2025, at 7 p.m.
BGHS Performing Arts Center
3,403 cereal boxes domino through the halls at T. C. Cherry Elementary!
T. C. Cherry partnered with Guaranteed Pest Control to collect cereal to donate to BGISD Family Resource and Youth Services Centers and local food pantries. Jaedyn Strickland started the domino after collecting 385 boxes, the most for an individual student at the school.
Thanks to everyone who contributed and helped make a difference in our community!
Balloons Over Parker-Bennett Curry!
Based on the book “Balloons over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet, which tells the story of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, PBC kindergarten students had their own version of a balloon parade through the school halls.
Itty Bitty Purples had very special visitors this week! 💜
Today at Parker-Bennett-Curry, BGHS student-athletes stopped by preschool classrooms to play, learn, and to model kindness and teamwork.
Go Purples!
🥬 “Farm”-to-Table lunch at BGHS! 🥗
The BGHS Environmental Club is harvesting lettuce they’ve grown to be used in the school cafeteria.
The Environmental Club purchased a hydroponics chamber with grant money received from the TVA School Uplift Program. Students are growing lettuce and basil and today, learned about food safety from Director of Food Services Operations Dalla Emerson before harvesting the first plants to be used on the school’s salad bar.
Congratulations to four Lady Purples who signed Letters of Intent on November 12, 2025!
🏐 Morgan Rockrohr: Austin Peay State University (Women’s Beach Volleyball)
🏐 Amirra Bailey: University of Louisville (Women's Volleyball)
⚽ Liv Arauz: Bellarmine University (Women's Soccer)
⛳ Caroline Childers: Winthrop University (Women's Golf)
🇺🇸 Happy Veterans Day!
Photos from Annual Veterans Day Programs at W. R. McNeill Elementary, T. C. Cherry Elementary, and Bowling Green Junior High.
The project is expected to begin in late spring 2026 and includes adding spaces for band, orchestra, choir, drama, science classrooms and labs, as well as a multipurpose room for technology and media. The additions are planned for construction from the existing school toward the bus loop, creating an additional hallway inside the building. These additions also allow classrooms to be repurposed in the current hallways.
The school’s front office, cafeteria, kitchen and food storage areas will be renovated and expanded. And finally, the media center and main hallways of the school will be renovated, with improvements to acoustics and the removal of lockers in the halls.
The goal is for the BGJHS project to be completed by the start of school in August 2028.
