Get your GLOW on! School Dance for 1st - 4th grade on October 21st, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.00, 2 glow sticks included with paid admission. Concession and pizza will be available for purchase. Come out and have some fun in the Briggs Cafeteria. Proceeds benefit Briggs 8th Grade!
2024 JOM INDIAN EDUCATION ELECTION
One of the most important components of the JOM program is parent involvement. This October, parents of JOM eligible children will have an opportunity to get involved in the development of the JOM program at their school.
Elections for JOM Indian Education Committee members will be held October 22, 2024, at Briggs School beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Administration Building.
To serve on the JOM IEC, a person must be the parent or guardian of a JOM verified child. School board members or spouses and school employees or spouses cannot serve on the committee.
For more information, contact Amanda Petree at 918-456-4221 ext. 103.
Parents,
Permission slips were previously sent home for your child to attend the Cherokee Nation Safety Fair on Friday, October 11th. If you have not signed and returned this form, your child will not be able to attend the field trip. Extra forms are available in the front office or you can print one from the link provided. We will leave school tomorrow at approximately 9:30 and return at 2:00. Use this link to access the permission slip https://5il.co/2ylpi
This year, our school has partnered with Amira Learning in support of our readers. Amira is a digital reading tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to assess students’ reading mastery and coach them through new reading skills.
Students can also use Amira’s “Practice” mode to strengthen their reading skills at home! On Amira, they will read out loud, receive interventions and support, and talk about the story they’ve read to build their comprehension skills. Amira can be accessed by clicking on the icon on the school website homepage. Students will need a login in order to begin using Amira at home, please contact your child's teacher if you have any questions.
The 3rd - 8th grade basketball schedule is now available on our website. Please visit https://www.briggs.k12.ok.us and select Activities - Athletics. The schedule will be available on our website throughout our basketball season.
5th/6th academic practice Wednesday, October 9th from 4:00-5:00.
Book Fair today through Wednesday.
4-H meeting Tuesday, October 8th at 3:30 in Mrs. Childs' room.
Every Friday in Oct. will be "pink out" day in honor of breast cancer awareness month.
Picture money is due by Thursday, Oct. 10th.
Congratulations to the kindergarten classes for winning the September attendance award with a 96.3% attendance rate!!! They will receive a 45 minute recess. Remember, every month the class with the highest percentage of attendance wins the recess award. Keep up the good work!! Way to go Kindergarten!!!
Parent/teacher conference Monday, Oct. 14th 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and Oct. 24th 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
No school Oct. 14th-18th due to fall break
The cooperative challenge for this week is: practice apologizing
5th/6th Academic Practice Wednesday, October 9 from 4:00-5:00.
4-H meeting Tuesday, October 8th at 3:30 in Mrs. Childs' room.
Football recap:
5th/6th
Alex Ryals scored the opening touchdown in a 40 to 14 loss to Woodall. Logan Ryals closed out the scoring with a 60 yard touchdown and added the two point conversion. Great effort by Layne Pence, Landon, Gruber, Jasper Birdtail, and Josh Meigs. The 5/6 grade ended the season 1-5-1.
7th/8th
Woodall Beat Briggs 46 to 20 Thursday night at Sequoyah High School.
Brenden Holden scored on a touchdown reception from Layne Morgan to close the gap at 14 to 8 after a disastrous start. After falling behind 22 to 8, Jevan Dick caught a big pass that took Briggs down to the 5 yard line where Brenden Holden scored his second touchdown on a run this time, Cutting the score to 22 to 14. Briggs recovered a fumble and had an apparent touchdown called back on a hard penalty of the receiver not asking the referee if he was on the line of scrimmage. Daylin Cross' 60 yards were wiped out by a penalty flag and Woodall would go on to take a 30 to 14 halftime lead. Jevan Dick scored another spectacular touchdown while getting interfered with and not getting any help from the referee. His touchdown made it 36-20. Woodall scored an insurance touchdown against the number two defense for Briggs for a final score of 46 to 20.
3rd - 8th Athletics Parents,
We just kicked off our 2024 Briggs Athletics fundraiser with TeamFunded and we need every parent to follow the instructions below and make sure your player has as many shares as possible by this evening. The more shares, the better! We need to be shooting for 50-60 shares per athlete. This will only take each parent a couple of minutes to complete on their device. Here are the easy steps to get this done!
1. Download the TeamFunded App https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teamfunded/id1439897444
2. Insert your player's phone number
3. Press the RED share button.
4. Press the GREEN bar that says click here to start sharing.
5. Click on as many contacts as possible, up to 100.
6. Share and Submit
7. If you have more than 100 shares, repeat above steps 3-6.
Thank you for participating! Go Briggs!
The Briggs School Johnson O’Malley Program (J.O.M.) will be giving J.O.M. Pre-K through 8th grade students a $5.00 credit to use for the purchase of a book at the Briggs School Book Fair. The Book Fair will be held October 7th– 9th in the library.
Reminder:
Parents, please do not send your child DoorDash during school hours. This creates a safety risk for our students. However, you are welcome to deliver items to Michelle for your child. Students may pick up the items between classes. Thank you for your cooperation and helping us keep our students safe!
Dear Briggs 3rd- 8th Grade Athletic families,
On Wednesday, Oct. 2nd beginning at 5:30 PM, there will be a parent meeting held in the upper gym. All 3rd- 8th grade families of students in PE and athletics are encouraged to attend. Many of you know that we will not be having the Briggs Basketball League this year. This was our biggest fundraiser for the PE/athletics program. This year we are going to try a different fundraiser that requires no selling on your part and is very easy to do. We will be receiving 80% of the profits from this program. The parent meeting on the 2nd will go over all the details of this new fundraising program.
Notes were previously sent home with our PE and Athletics students. If you didn’t receive the note or haven’t had a chance to fill out the information needed, do so at your quickest convenience before our meeting today. A link has been provided below. The monies raised will help purchase uniforms, pay entry fees, pay for meals when the team travels long distances, and for new PE/athletic equipment. We are also adding soccer as a sport at Briggs this year, so the money raised will also help purchase equipment and uniforms needed for this.
If you will, please fill out this Google form before our meeting today, we would greatly appreciate it! If you have a sibling in 3rd - 8th, please use the oldest athlete’s phone number as the number to use on the Google form but put both of your names on the “First Name” portion of the Google form (For example: First name: Seth & Jake, Last name: Burgess)
https://forms.gle/1Bc2YEFGQHzNRZPa7
Please come to the meeting on Oct. 2nd and learn how to help us make money to provide the students at Briggs School with the equipment they need for PE and athletics.
Thank you,
Briggs School Athletic Dept.
3rd-8th grade PE/athletics students and parents, this is a reminder about the fundraiser meeting tomorrow (10/2) at 5:30 in the upper gym. This is a very important meeting. PE/Athletics students were give notes.
5th-8th girls, if you are wanting to play in the powder puff football games, you will need to pick up a permission slip in the front office. All permission slips are due back by Friday (10/4).
In academic team action yesterday, the 5th grade team defeated Shady Grove 150-100, 6th grade lost by 3 questions 80-110, 7th grade won 120-60, and the 8th grade tied 120-120. Great job academic team!!! The next academic match will be Monday, Oct. 7th against Grand View beginning at 9:30 here at Briggs.
5th-8th football against Woodall Thursday, Oct. 3rd beginning at 5:00. The games will be held at Sequoyah High School. This is our pink out game and will be the last regular season game.
Today is Monday, Sept. 30, 2024
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for the Oklahoma flag salute. Attention, salute, pledge......
(Students not wishing to participate in the pledge shall not be required to do so; however, students are required to be respectful (still and quiet) while others participate.
Robotics team practice times: Mon. & Tues., Elementary Practice and Wed. & Thurs., Middle School Practice 4:00-5:00
All Robotics t-shirt money is due today! Please turn in any orders to Mrs. Davenport.
Academic meet against Shady Grove today beginning at 9:00. The match will be at Briggs. Members will be called out when it is their time to compete. We will be competing in the middle school breakfast room so please be quiet when in that hallway.
7th/8th academic team practice today 4:00-5:00. 5th/6th practice will be Wednesday 4:00-5:00.
5th-8th Cross Country Tuesday, October 1st at Stilwell (Carson Park). Bus will leave school at approximately 8:15 a.m. Events start at 9:30 a.m.
ORES State Cross Country competition, Friday, Oct. 4th at North Rock Creek in Shawnee.
5th-8th football against Woodall Thursday, Oct. 3rd beginning at 5:00. The games will be held at Sequoyah High School. This will be the last regular season game.
Lunch today: bacon ranch mac & cheese OR cheeseburger, green beans, side salad, fruit, and milk
Lunch tomorrow: chicken nuggets OR steak fingers, mashed potatoes & gravy, glazed baby carrot, dinner roll, fruit, and milk
The cooperative challenge for this week is to: use "I" messages
After announcements students will observe approximately one minute of silence. During this time they may reflect, meditate, pray, or engage in any other silent activity that does not interfere with, distract, or impede other students.
ORES State Softball Tournament Saturday, Sept. 28th at Fire Lake Softball Complex in Shawnee. Briggs will begin pool play at 10:00 against Grove and then at 11:00 against Brushy. Everyone please wear your school colors tomorrow as we send our softball team off to state!!
Robotics Team Practice Times
Elementary Practice: Mondays and Tuesdays from 4:00 - 5:00
Middle School Practice: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 - 5:00