Author Archives: Valerie Higgins

2018-2019 school year enrollment will be going on throughout the month of February for current students. Perspective students can make an appointment now for enrollment interviews during the month of March. Call our main office at 205.428.6288 for more information.  

On Friday October 20th, it was Bessemer Academy’s homecoming football game. We welcomed back alumnus, Malori Hyde, when she came back to crown our newest homecoming court winners. Congratulations to our winners and everyone on the court. Congratulations to: Homecoming- Queen Sammie Criss Junior Princess- Maggie Bice Sophomore Princess- Mary Beth Bailey Freshman Princess- Averie Brook

Friday, September 29, the Bessemer Academy Beta Club inducted 24 new members. The Beta Club is a national honor and service society. Students must achieve and maintain a high GPA in order to be considered for membership. Bessemer Academy currently has 86 members from grades nine through twelve. The Junior Beta Club, for grades seven and eight, also inducted 13 new members. Pictures from the induction ceremony can be found here.

There is an app in the app store called Perfect 36. This app contains 20 lessons on each of the four subjects covered on the ACT, there are over 1000 practice problems, 200 of the most common vocabulary words, and high quality videos that teach the concepts covered on the math section of the test. This way, every student can have chance to prepare for the ACT. Our school out of a handful in the tri-state area was chosen to participate in a free month trial of the website. Upon entering the website, you will be asked to log in. Simply use the username and password provided. The free one-month trial will end on 10/22/17. After the trial is over, if you find the app useful you can download it in the app store for a fee of $4.99.   Credentials to the website: URL (Website Link): http://www.perfect36app.com/ Username: student…

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These are of 2017-2018 Senior and Junior Beta Club officers. This Friday, September 29th, we will be holding the Fall Beta Club induction at 9am.   Sr. Beta officers: President: Kiley Turk Vice-President: Baleigh Jones Secretary-Treasurer: Alexis Oliver Chaplain: Tavish King   Jr. Beta officers: President: Riley Mcardle Vice-President: Juliana Bloch Secretary: Zoe Cone Chaplain:Jonah Thompson

Jo Turner, grandmother of BA student, Julianna Bloch, won the 50/50 raffle at the first home football game. She has decided to donate the $500 back to our school to buy 5 microscopes for Mrs. Howard and the middle school science department. Mrs. Turner found out about the need, and she decided to donate – “from an old biology teacher and a grandmother of a middle school student who loves science.” Thank you! Our BA families are so wonderful!  

How has Bessemer Academy grown and changed from last school year to now? There are 150 new students since last year. Mrs. Morrow, our guidance counselor, said that they all fit in very well, like they have been here forever, and are all individually amazing students who have brought in many new ideas. We also asked Mrs. Kelly, our headmaster, her thoughts on all the new students. She said that she is very proud of how focused they are on academics. That their general behavior is really impressive and they are very appropriate as far as dress code and manners. We have had to divide the honors classes in high school. Now instead of two regular classes and one honors class for each grade, we have two honors and one regular class. She loves that our school is moving in a direction of high level academics. Our website and newspaper…

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