A CGB Booster Club Meeting will be held on April 23 (Wednesday) at Cerro Gordo High School starting at 6pm. They will be electing officers and discussing 2025-2026 events. Please come and join if you are interested in learning more about the CGB Booster Club. If you have questions please call Christy Sweet at 217-678-4200 x 2 or email at csweet@bement.k12.il.us.
Middle school track practice has been cancelled for Friday, April 4th.
Youth Art Month
Tyce Alumbaugh signed his Letter of Intent to continue his academic and athletic career at Monmouth College. Tyce will pursue a major in Music Education and participate in Track – pole vault. Tyce is the son of Michael and Jessica Alumbaugh of Bement.
Congratulations Tyce!
Bement Middle/High School Spring Play - March 14th and 15th.
Melanie Courchaine, 2nd Grade Teacher at Bement, was awarded the Empowering Education Grant by Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative. The $500 grant will support her "Butterfly Explorers" project.
The "Butterfly Explorers" project aims to engage second-grade student in hands-on, inquiry-based learning by raising butterflies in the classroom. Students will observe the life cycle of butterflies, fostering a deeper understanding of life sciences and environmental stewardship. It will integrate cross-curricular learning in the areas of writing, art, science, and math.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to our kitchen staff for receiving a perfect food safety assessment score. A perfect score is very difficult to achieve. Way to go Loretta and Jeanette! Not pictured – Judy and Sam.
4th Grade Art Class - Figure Drawing
The Bement 4th Grade has their Art on display at the Bement Public Library for the next 2 weeks.
Spring Pictures will be held on March 5 at Bement
Pre-K thru 8th will have their pictures taken.
Order Online before picture day to get free shipping.
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PK thru 5th Grade Students Order Code: 93547GB
Middle School Students Order Code: 93551BT
The Bement Breeze team (8th Grade STEM Class) won first place in the middle school division in the Illinois KidWind Project at Heartland Community College!
Message from KidWind Challenge:
A huge shout out to all the incredible teams participating in this year’s KidWind Challenge! Your creativity, problem-solving, and innovation in wind energy blew us away.
Check out the awards video to celebrate this year’s winners and their amazing work! https://bit.ly/4baHZZ2
Special congratulations to our five 1st and 2nd place overall winners, who are eligible to attend the World KidWind Challenge in Phoenix, Arizona.
Congratulations Hannah King, Emma Hostetler, Bella Custer, Sarah Hill, and Lauren Hill!
2 middle school students participated in the JHOC Spelling Bee in Arthur on Tuesday. Cecelia Cain placed 6th out of 24 and Laurel Conlin placed 10th out of 24. Olivia Dalton and Mackenzie Kendall attended as alternates. The students’ performed remarkably well and were exceptional representatives of Bement School District.
8th Grade STEM students participated in the KidWind Challenge this morning at Heartland Community College. Results of the competition will not be known until next week. The students did a great job this morning!
From Mrs. Corum - FCCLA Advisor
Reminder that there will be no school for Bement CUSD #5 on Friday, October 11th, or Monday, October 14th.
Reminder: Bement CUSD 5 students dismiss at 12:00 on Friday, August 30 and there is no school on Monday, September 2.
The CGB Baseball game for today at Fisher has been cancelled due to rain. There will be NO practice today, August 15, 2024.
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CGB Athletics Booster Club Meeting - Wednesday, June 5 at 5:30 in the Cerro Gordo Commons. We will elect officers and plan a few Booster Club Events to start the school year.
If you have children who attend Bement or Cerro Gordo and participate in JH or HS Athletics please come and participate in the Booster Club.
Your support and participation is important to the future of CGB Athletics.
Online registration will begin on Monday, July 15.
Miss Lennox Hayes was our Principal for the Day.
She was an Amazing Principal who supervised K-2 and MS /HS lunch, delivered packages, made copies, sorted mail, prepared the lunch party for Elementary students and sent emails.
Lennox has a real future as a Principal!!
