February 2026 Update from Mr. Crete
February 2026 Update from Mr. Crete
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Greetings, Baldwin Street Middle School Families and Community!
We have passed the mid-year point for the 2025-2026 school year! With that comes an opportunity to celebrate some of the amazing growth that our students have made academically. This school year our building staff have been focusing on students reading and comprehension of non-fiction text. The goal was for 75% of students to reach mastery by the end of the year. The graphic below shows our progress on this goal with two quarters remaining. I have also provided a bookmark that our teachers have been utilizing to teach and reinforce reading comprehension skills. I want to thank our teachers for providing research-based reading strategies across all content areas and for their collaboration on enhancing this skill for our students! We are grateful to our students for their hardwork and perserverance. Although there is still work to be done, we are on a great trajectory and our staff is committed to continuing to raise the bar in our classrooms. Our teachers will be further digging into this data to identify areas of focus for the remainder of the school year.
Final grades for Quarter 2 and Semester 1 have been finalized in PowerSchool. Please take some time with your student to review their academic progress. Please reach out to Mr. Crete, Mr. McDowell, or your child's counselor if you have any questions.
Please take a moment to check out our Q2 S.O.A.R Golden Ticket Winners and the teachers that nominated them! We are so proud of our students for how they care for one another and continue to make BMS a welcoming environment for all!
Thank you again for your continued support of your student and our school community. We are looking forward to continued growth for our students in semester 2! Please take time to review this newsletter for upcoming events and information.
Best regards,
Ryan Crete, Principal - Baldwin Street Middle School
**Highlighted percentage is tied directly to the building goal.
Scheduling Classes for 2026-2027
Scheduling Classes for 2026-2027
FUTURE 9TH GRADERS (Current 8th Graders): Registration for High School is open! Current 8th Graders can use the High School Course Guide to schedule for 9th grade. Registration is open starting February 5th and ends February 23rd. Students must register themselves by logging into Powerschool, and then clicking "Class Registration." *If a student wants to loop/accelerate, they can not register for an accelerated class, they must fill out an application in the Spring. More details on looping/accelerating to come in the Spring. Students should schedule as if they are not looping/accelerating.
FUTURE 8TH GRADERS (Current 7th Graders): Counselors will be coming into 7th Grade Science classrooms February 23rd & 24th to schedule classes with the students in powerschool. Prior to scheduling, students will be given their 8th Grade Course Request Worksheet (Science teachers will hand them out) to review with parents ahead of time. Students must submit the 8th Grade Course Request Worksheet their to their Science teacher by Thursday February 19th with a parent signature. Students may use the7/8 BMS Elective Course Description 2026-2027 to learn about elective classes available.
Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences
Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences
Hoops for Heart Fundraiser
Hoops for Heart Fundraiser
8th Grade - Celebr8! Event
8th Grade - Celebr8! Event
Please mark June 5, 2026 during the school day on your calendars to help us celebrate our 8th grade students!
We will be communicating out more details in future newsletters. If you have any questions about this event, please contact Ryan Crete at rcrete@hpseagles.net.
Tentative Schedule:
8:25 am- 10:00 am- Breakfast with parent volunteers (more information on this later) & students sign yearbooks
10:00am- 10:30am- Mock elections & Dave Powers Award in the gym (Parents are invited to attend)
10:30am- Walk out/Clap out - Parents are invited to wait outside to clap students out
Library Information
Library Information
Please take a few moments to review the information regarding the books in our library and the policies and procedures around restricting titles for your children.
Late / Lost Books
Late / Lost Books
Students won't be able to check out another book until they return or replace an overdue book.
BMS Renaissance and Business of the Month
BMS Renaissance and Business of the Month
BMS Renaissance is SOAR-ing again! All students are welcome to participate in Renaissance and help shape BMS for the better. So far, the team has hosted a lunchtime trivia game, helped Student Council with our December assembly, and created a bulletin board to brighten our hallways for the new year. Upcoming meetings are February 19 and March 5 from 7:15-7:45am in the BMS Media Center. Students are welcome to join at any point in the year and can walk into the meeting whenever they arrive at school.
We're excited to see the positive ways Renaissance will impact BMS student culture, events, assemblies, spaces, and more this year!
Student Council and Renaissance are excited to announce the BMS Spring Dance: Friday, March 13 from 3pm-4:30pm. More information will be available soon!
Athletics and Extracurriculars
Athletics and Extracurriculars
Come out and support our Eagle athletes! All Middle School Winter 2 Sports Schedules can be found at: https://hudsonvilleathletics.com/
Jon VanSlyke - BMS Athletic Director: jvansly@hpseagles.net
Juli Smies - Athletic Secretary: jsmies@hpseagles.net
Food Service Update
Food Service Update
Breakfasts and Lunches will be FREE to all students for the 2025-2026 school year. We encourage any family to apply for Free & Reduced Meals and other additional Child Nutrition and Educational Benefits. Click here to complete the application. There is important student support funding that HPS receives that is tied to approved applications. Approved applications also ensure that families receive any and all discounts related to Athletics, Technology, Testing, Summer School, Home Internet, etc.
To receive any potential discounts, you MUST return THIS FORM to Food Service. You can visit our website at www.jenhudfood.org to find links to menus and more information about School Meals.
Contact Food Service at foodservice@hpseagles.net or at (616) 457-2400 if you need assistance with anything related to meal service.
Additional Parent Volunteer Opportunities
Additional Parent Volunteer Opportunities
Parents of Baldwin Street Middle School students! We need your partnership in many different ways during the school year. Opportunities include regular Copy Parent, volunteer during school day as needed, Activities, Library, and Others.
***All parent volunteers are required to have a background check on file. This includes Parent Chaperones that attend field trips throughout the school year. Please fill out our online "Volunteer Background Check Form" on the BMS website.
Please contact Jayme Santana or call the office at (616) 669-7750 if you are interested in helping out.
Community Resources
Community Resources
Hudsonville Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX, including in admission and employment. https://www.hudsonvillepublicschools.org/about/civil-rights-compliance
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