Braden River High School

Pirate-of-the Day

Mr. Gil Burlew

Congratulations to Mr. Burlew for being selected as our
BRHS representative to the Superintendent's committee.

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

Holiday Mail for Heroes

We are starting a wonderful program to send
Christmas mail to our soldiers overseas.

Click here for the details.


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

Click here for the flyer

Progress reports are scheduled to go home with students
Thursday, December 1st

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.

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.

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 Ads Close This Friday

Friday, December 2nd is the deadline to submit senior ads for the yearbook.  
Give the completed order form with your payment and pictures to any year
book staff member or bring it to Room 739.  Don't miss out on your chance 
to have a senior ad in the yearbook. Click here for the form you will need.

Campus Tours at the River

Mrs. Gionfriddo

Campus Tours will be given for prospective BRHS students
on Fridays during the months of December through March.
The dates are as follows:

Date	Time
December 02, 2011	1:00 pm
December 16, 2011	1:00 pm
January 06, 2012	1:00 pm
February 03, 2012	1:00 pm
February 17, 2012	1:00 pm
February 24, 2012	1:00 pm
March 09, 2012	1:00 pm
March 30, 2012	1:00 pm

If you are interested in attending one of these tours, please contact Christie Gionfriddo,
Academic & Career Advisor at (941) 751-8230 x. 2085 or gionfric@manateeschools.net.

Braden River High School Jr./Sr. Parent Night

Make College Planning part of your holiday gift list.

Join us on Monday, December 5th at 6:00 p.m. in the BRHS auditorium.

Click here for the meeting flyer.

Driver’s Education Class

If you are interested in signing up for the Drivers Education program. Click here for the class application, it needs to be turned
in to Mrs. Zeris in Student Services this Thursday 12/1/11. Applications will not be accepted before then. Please do not email
or fax the applications to me. This is a first come first serve basis and only 23 slots are available. You must already have your
learners permit to take the class. Classes are all on Saturday mornings.

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