Santa came!
Belpre Elementary had a very special greeter today. Thank you, Santa, for stopping by!
As a reminder, students in grades 7-12 will be released at 1:20 on December 20. We hope everyone has a warm and wonderful holiday break!
Belpre City Schools will release early tomorrow, December 20th. School will resume for students on Monday, January 8th. We are wishing you a restful holiday season filled with joy and quality time with loved ones!
Two big wins for the Belpre girls over Morgan at Joe Garrett court last night! The JV girls started us off with an exciting 49-47 win on a last second shot by Ava Brookover! The Varsity girls then took the court and continued their winning ways with another convincing win by the score of 62-41. Led by Julia Way and Gracie Bills with 15 a piece followed by Haley Alloway with 9 and Shy Miller with 8 respectively. Awesome night all around for the girls and coaches! #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Girls Jr High Basketball at home vs Waterford will start at 5:30pm at Belpre Elementary! The boys JV will tip off at 6pm against Ft Frye with varsity to follow at Belpre High School! Hope to see everyone at a game tonight! #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Tonight's junior high boys basketball game at Belpre Elementary School vs Warren will start at 5:30pm. The high school girls will be at Joe Garrett court at the high school vs Morgan. JV starts at 6 with varsity to follow! Hope to see everyone at game tonight!! #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Your Golden Eagle boys come away with a huge conference win in a thriller over Federal Hocking, 60-57! Led by Junior Bass with 19 points, followed by Derek Liston with 17 and Nasaih Spencer with 10. A whole host of players came through with really clutch plays to help seal the victory! JV also posted a great win tonight 56-43! Chase Maze with a monster 28 points led the way followed by Malik Currie with 15! Really proud of all of our young men with a great bounce back win against a really tough foe tonight! Way to work through adversity fellas! Also want to give a shoutout to Fed Hock's Tariq Cottrill for scoring his 1000th point tonight. That's quite an accomplishment. Congratulations young man! #BELPREPRIDE #GOEAGLES
Recap of yesterday's huge evening for all 3 Belpre Lady Eagle teams! The Jr High girls got us started with a 34-26 home win over Frontier! The team was led by Addy Stewart with a huge 18 point night, followed by Kira Huffman with 9, Calli Meredith with 5, and Lexi Gruber with 2. The JV girls got the high school action started with a no doubt win, in an abbreviated 2 quarter game by the score of 33-4 at Eastern. We were led by Maddie Lauer with 9 and Ava Brookover with 6 followed by a host of other scorers. Our varsity girls then tipped off against Eastern's varsity and came away with a dominant 63-31 victory! Led by another huge Gracie Bills effort with 18 points and 14 boards, followed by Shy Miller with 15, and Haley Alloway with 12! Great effort and congratulations to all of the ladies and coaches! Let's keep it rolling! The boys return home tonight to play a TVC matchup against Federal Hocking. JV tips off at 6 with varsity to follow! Get out here and support these kids! They're all working really hard and need to be shown how much we appreciate them! #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Last night, BCS President Brenda Church was recognized for her seven years of service to the district, including two terms as President. Under her leadership, our district weathered COVID-19 and saw significant expansion in elective courses at the high school and excellence in academic programs. She has been an incredible advocate for our students and town. Please join us in thanking Brenda for her service and we wish her all the best as her term expires this year.
Congratulations to Fred Meredith, BCS Board Member, for being named one of 5 members of the year's All-Ohio School Board named bh
Just to clarify, tonight's Jr High girls basketball game tips off at 6pm at Belpre Elementary School. #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
The Pride of Belpre can't stop winning! Last week , Mr. VanPelt accepted a $20,000 grant from the PACF to purchase new musical equipment. On top of that, last night the performing arts boosters accepted a state level award from OMEA for support group of the year!
We couldn't be more proud of the entire performing arts program!
Weekend update from Belpre High School sports! Both the Jr High and Varsity wrestling teams competed at Waterford. On Saturday. Michael Bills picked up 3 wins on his way to a 7th place finish while Luke Davis also picked a victory by pin fall. Kayleigh Sheldon was unable to come away with a victory but showed a lot of grit and toughness and the wins are right around the corner. The Jr High featured 2 wins and a 4th place finish by Joey Lockhart and a win from Gavin Henthorne.
On Sunday the boys varsity team took to the floor at Shawnee State against South Webster at the Battle in the 740. The guys fell short to a really strong Jeeps team, 77-54. We were up at the half but couldn't overcome foul trouble and South Webster's hot shooting in the second half. Boys were led by Nasaih Spencer with 18, followed by Junior Bass with 12 and Blake Church with 11. #BELPREPRIDE #GOEAGLES
The live stream of the boys basketball game at Shawnee St is available on YouTube. Just type in Battle in the 740 Day 2. #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Doing one long post to recap the last 2 exciting nights of Belpre Basketball! Last night's triple header got us started with a tough 26-22 loss for our Jr High ladies to Southern. Girls played hard and fought to the end, led by Calli Meredith, with 12 big points. From there the JV girls used a balanced attack for an abbreviated 15-9, 2 quarter win over Trimble. Varsity girls then brought it home with a huge 62-35 win over previously unbeaten Trimble. The Lady Eagles were led by Julia Way with 22 and Gracie Bills with 13. Alivia Harrington and Haley Alloway both finished in double figures with 11 a piece. Tonight at Eastern the JV boys suffered a closer than the score loss, 45-37. We were led by Chase Maze with 13. Haiden Tabler and Malik Currie each threw in 9. The varsity boys then took the floor and won by a commanding score of 67-42. The boys were led by Derek Liston with 23, followed by Nasaih Spencer and Junior Bass, each finishing in double figure with 16 and 11 respectively. Overall it was a great two nights of basketball for all of our athletes. We're all really proud of each of you. Tomorrow let's hit the wrestling mats at Waterford at 10am! #GOEAGLES #BELPREPRIDE
Pizza Time!
The advanced cooking flex project finally busted out the pizza oven they put together themselves. Students were able to make and bake their own pizza, learning valuable cooking skills in the process!
Thank you to the Washington County Court of Common Pleas for allowing our Mock Trial team time and place to practice for its upcoming competition. This year's case involves the 8th amendment protection against unreasonable fines and penalties. The team will compete against teams from across the region in January!
More pictures from our Back to December celebration
Belpre Elementary students are in the holiday spirit. Pictures are from the first week of our Back to December celebration.