Each year, the BFA Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) asks BFA parents and staff to help select some of their new committee members. This is important because the PTO is an integral part of our BFA community, and we want you to have an opportunity to help select members of their team. The mission of the […]
Following is a message from Burgandy Hodge, director, BFA Board of Directors… Thank you to the approximately 160 families and/or staff members who voted and helped select our newest BFA Board members. Sarah Nisbet was selected by the Parent Voting Group to fill Seat 3, Class B. The BFA Board appointed Bryan Molen to fill Seat 4, Class B. […]
During the 2019-20 school year, BFA is proud to offer a middle school choir elective that culminates in a performance at Disneyland. These students will commit to a year-long elective to learn choral and sight-reading techniques. Next April, they will travel to Disneyland to perform and take a workshop with Disney performers. We plan to offer this […]
We were very proud to have three BFA Destination Imagination (DI) teams compete in the State DI competition! Each team spent hundreds of hours creating solutions to their challenges, and their Team Managers volunteered the same amount (or more!) hours facilitating and coaching their teams. And, we’re very happy to announce that for […]
All BFA boys and their special adult are invited to the Spring Social event (formerly Mother-Son event) that will take place from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at Bowlero in Lone Tree. This promises to be a fun afternoon of bowling, food and arcade games! Tickets are $30 for a paired ticket, $15 for a single ticket, and […]
This spring, the PTO is offering the BFA community an opportunity to participate in teacher and staff gifting with SCRIP. The program makes it easy for parents to choose which teachers and staff they’d like to gift, then make one payment for all of their gifts. After the PTO tallies the gifts, each teacher/staff member […]
Continental Math League (CML) is a national mathematics competition that tests students’ grade level comprehension. Kids in grades 3 – 8 participated for the third consecutive year. The test is structured such that students are asked to correctly solve six (6) problems for each of five (5) tests (third graders complete 3 tests). The highest six scores […]
Thanks to Mrs. Bauer and all our generous parents who made this year’s American Heart Association fundraiser successful! Below is the letter from the AHA to BFA: On behalf of the American Heart Association and the millions of Americans we serve, thank you very much for your school’s donation of $6,093.00. Families and schools are […]
If you need full-time day care for the summer, want to schedule your own summer break, or are looking for a safe, fun way for your student to connect with other Ben Franklin Academy kids, then please sign up for Summer Camp! Please make note of the change in the cost of summer camp this […]
BFA’s follow-up Math Olympiad competition at Platte River Academy (PRA) was last Thursday, March 28. Students in grades 5 – 8 participated; BFA was represented by 11 students, and 15 kids competed from PRA. Awards and certificates were given to the first and second highest scoring students in each grade. Congratulations to the following winners: […]
