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Welcome to BMS!
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| It is a pleasure to welcome you to Broussard Middle School. We look forward to meeting you and getting to know your student. Broussard Middle encourages and supports parental involvement, so please stop by and introduce yourself. |
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Read more from Principal Hawkins... |
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Our mission is to enable students to become lifelong readers through effective library usage in areas of recreational reading and research techniques. The library media center is the hub of the school, and the library media specialist is the ultimate search engine!
We would like to unveil a program called the Library Legacy project. Families are encouraged to purchase library books for BMS as living memorials to honor relatives and friends. We will place a bookplate in the book as a reminder of the donor and the honoree, along with the date of the donation. We hope everyone will want to participate in the improvement of our book collection in this way!
BMS utilizes the STAR and AR programs to improve reading comprehension. At the beginning of the year, students take the STAR (Standardized Test for the Assessment of Reading) test to determine their reading level. Each nine week period the library awards readers who excel in the AR (Accelerated Reader) program; outstanding readers are recognized at the Awards Day program at the end of the year as well. This recognition is based on both points and percentage scores on tests. (The library media center has many other books that are not AR. They have much merit, and their reading is encouraged as well.) The STAR test administered at the end of the year measures reading growth.
Our fifth-eighth graders are encouraged to take part in the Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award contest whereby they can vote for their favorite book from a list of 15 nominees. Students should have read a minimum of three of these titles to be eligible to vote; the voting ends February 1. See the library media specialist for a list of nominated titles.
Our library fundraisers include collection of Campbell’s and
Community Coffee labels and used computer cartridges (any kind), and pen and pencils sales.
We are proud of our library media center and strive to continually add media that will encourage our students in the learning process.
We invite parents and community members to come by and visit our attractive facility soon.
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