Bacon Academy’s Open House was a tremendous success! Families, students, community partners, and local businesses came together to help showcase all the amazing things happening in our building. The event was well attended, drawing not only Colchester families but also families from Bozrah and Franklin.

To ensure a positive and memorable evening for all attendees, students and their guests are expected to demonstrate exemplary behavior. Failure to follow the rules may result in removal from the dance. Major discipline issues will be addressed through proper administrative channels. Please review the following guidelines carefully:

Ticket Sales

Guest Tickets

Arrival & Departure

Expectations & Safety

Bacon Academy is proud to highlight our own student author! Karah Pensa, who is currently in her junior year at Bacon, wrote a post-nuclear war dystopian novel. She wrote it over 5 months during her Freshman year, overwhelmed by the news of the war in Ukraine. She then went through, with the help of some friends, the arduous task of proofing and editing. She designed the cover and worked hard to get it properly formatted for Kindle Direct Publishing. This week, Karah’s book was officially released on Amazon. (https://a.co/d/2aB7vVg)

Families and students are reminded that all students should bring their school issued chromebook to school charged and ready to go each day. Students who forget their chromebook may sign out a loaner chromebook from the LMC for the day, which must be returned by 2:10 prior to dismissal. Families will be notified by phone when a second chromebook is signed out, to provide awareness for the responsibility of the additional device.

A Financial Literacy class for teens and young adults is being offered by ‘The American Place,’ on select Saturdays in September and October at the Park Street Library in Hartford. See this Flyer for more information. 

Dear Parents,

School pictures are ready! To order, log in to your account on mylifetouch.com or create an account using your student's student ID number.

All families can also log on and order a FREE Digital SmileSafe card. More about the Smilesafe program here.

Thank you!

The CHET Dream Big! Competition launched on August 18! K-12 students in Connecticut have the opportunity to enter the Competition and be awarded a scholarship of up to $20,000 to help pay for their future education! This competition is brought to you by the Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office as Trustee of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET).

The competition will award $350,000 in CHET 529 College Savings Plan – Direct Plan (“CHET 529 Direct Plan”) account contributions to students in grades K-12 and technology prizes to schools. For the winning students, there will be:

To enter, high school students are asked to answer a question by submitting a drawing or painting, essay, or video. High school students will be asked about an experience or person that has impacted them and how that will influence their future goals.

Submissions must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. on November 5. There is no cost to enter. For program details, rules and the entry process, visit:  www.chetdreambig.com

Students in our new Leadership course have taken the initiative to express positive messages across the building through our bulletin boards!  It is amazing how quickly they have transformed these spaces with their wonderful messages!

The Preschooler students participated in an official professional development called FLIP IT, which was hosted by Joy, a member of the c3 organization! Students use this training when the preschoolers arrive to help with behavior management.