Braden River High School

Pirates-of-the Day

(Photo by Marina Edwards)

The Raider Teams qualify for State!

The teams participated in the
Area 5 Raider Meet November 5th
and earned the following trophies:

1st Place Overall - Mixed Team
2nd Place Overall - Male Team
2nd Place Overall - Female Team
1st Place PT - Male, Female & Mixed Teams
1st Place Rope Bridge - Male, Female & Mixed Teams
1st Place Cross Country/First Aid - Mixed Team
2nd Place Team Run - Mixed Team
2nd Place Academic - Male, Female & Mixed Teams
2nd Place Cross County/First Aid - Male Team
3rd Place Cross County/First Aid - Female Team
Female PT Overall High Scorer - Cadet Morgan Riggs
Male PT Overall High Scorer - Cadet Sam Valley

SCF will have representatives on
our campus on December 1st.
If you are a Junior or a Senior, please
click on the link below to register.

http://www.planetReg.com/E111793624100

November 28 through December 9 – an online Holiday Book Fair is coming to the Pirate Media Center at booksrockcafe.com!
Students will go to the media center with their English class for about 30 minutes to find out about it and to begin shopping.
They will create an account and put things in their cart, just like at Amazon, paying with a check, cash, or credit card.
Anyone, including family and friends, can go on the website to shop from any computer, 24 / 7. There will be a charge of
$1.00 to ship student orders to the school and a minimum of $3.95 to ship anywhere else. Student purchases will arrive
at the school 2 -3 days after the fair. All outside purchases will be shipped to the home address. We’ll have book
selections for all ages so please consider shopping for the holidays and our media center will receive a percentage of the profits.

Click here to open the flyer on how to create an account and make your purchase.

Here is the link to the book fair site to get started:

https://www.booksrockcafe.com/pick_vbf.php?vbfid=30494

Town Hall at Manatee High School on
Thursday December 1, 2011 at 7:00 pm.

This "Town Hall" will be a panel discussion on parent options for educating their children.
Titled "Working Together in 2012 To Inspire Our Future Generations" we will be discussing
Traditional / Charter and Virtual models of education." below are the particulars to date
on the event itself.

Title:          "Working Together in 2012 To Inspire Our Future Generations"
Date:         Dec. 1, 2011
Location:       Manatee High Davis Theater
Time:           7:00 pm -8:30 pm

Confirmed panelists:

1.) Superintendent McGonegal

2.) Jim Hamilton from Mixon & Assoc., our lobbying group in Tallahassee

3.) State Representative Jim Boyd

4.) Veryda Bradley (School District's resident expert in Charter and Virtual education)

5.) Pat Barber MEA

6.) Christine Sket (Fund Education Now) Parent voice on panel


BRHS FFA Alumni is organizing its first annual 
Patrick Lay Memorial Car Show 
for Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Click here for the flyer

FOCUS is now available for Parents

The FOCUS portal for parents to access the grades
and other information of their children is now open.

Please click here for the letter from Mr. Pauley on the details of
what you will need to do for access to this important resource.

Updated - Click here for the Focus parent portal signup form.
Please note that this is the new form that has to be returned
to the school to officially activate your new FOCUS account.

Updated - FOCUS Parent portal sign up link:
http://focus.manateeschools.net/auth/

Click here for detailed instructions on using the Parent Portal.

We thank you for turning in hundreds of parent authorization
forms and hope that you will soon be able to use FOCUS.

Senior sweatshirts and sweatpants are available.

Click below for an image of the designs:

Front, Sleeve, Back

Sweatshirts - $27.00

Sweatpants - $20.00

Cash only.