Good Afternoon, this is Steve Mares, principal of Broughton High School with some important announcements for the upcoming week. A
copy of these announcements will be posted on our school website and e-mailed to the Broughton email group.
Our First Day of School is on Monday, August 24th! Students, please know that we will start the first day of school in our CAPS Class
beginning at 7:25 a.m. I know that I had shared different information with our Freshmen parents, but we will begin our first and second day
of school in CAPS Class.
We will have the same Bell Schedule again for the 2015 – 2016 school year. School will start at 7:25 a.m. every morning and end at 2:18
p.m. Please know that First Period begins promptly at 7:25 a.m. and students are expected to be in class, ready to learn at 7:25 a.m. For the
first 11 days of school, students will have a CAPS Class so that we can share important information and begin the year on a positive note.
After those first 11 days, students will only attend CAPS Class on Tuesdays and for approximately a week when Report Cards come out.
Please visit our website to see the daily schedule for the school year.
We have a new website! Please be sure to check out our site at http://www.wcpss.net/broughtonhs. We are continuing to upload information
and move links from our old site to our new site. Thank you for your support during our transition.
If your student will be riding the bus to school, students and parents can go to www.wcpss.net/transportation. Please click on the bus routes
link and that will take you to all of the schools for Wake County Public School System. Look for Broughton High School on this page and
click the link to find our bus routes. Please find the intersection nearest your residence and that will be your bus stop. Please be familiar with
your bus route and plan to get to your bus stop at least 10 minutes early. With regards to carpool, please be sure that if you are dropping a
student off in the morning you enter Broughton High School’s front parking lot off of St. Mary’s Street and continue to follow the parking lot
around until you get to the front of the school. Please drop your student off and then proceed to leave campus out the exit onto Peace Street.
Peace Street is Exit Only and you can take either a left or a right turn out of our parking lot. I ask that you please do not drop students off in
the back parking lot or along the Strip in the morning, as that is reserved for our bus transportation. I also ask that you not let your student out
on Saint Mary’s Street. Thanks for your help in ensuring the safety of all of our students and staff.
Students will be able to fill out a drop/add form in Student Services if they wish to change a class from August 24 th through Friday,
September 4th. Due to class sizes, the only change that can be guaranteed during the drop/add period is an appropriate class level change.
I would like to remind all of our students and families to be respectful of our Broughton neighbors. Please remind your students to park
legally, drive in a safe manner, throw trash away properly in trash cans, and use appropriate language as they walk, drive, and move around
our school campus. We want to be responsible and respectful neighbors, and I ask that we all represent Broughton in only the highest manner.
Thanks for helping to carry on our tradition of excellence both inside and outside of the classroom!
Juniors and Seniors who are in good standing may come and get their temporary Off Campus Lunch Pass in Student Services again starting
August 31st before and after school as well as during lunches. Off Campus Lunch Passes will not be distributed during CAPS Class or regular
Class time. Please print the form from the Broughton website and follow the directions on the form.
Parents, I urge you to please be sure to read the DAB (Daily Announcements Bulletin) that is posted on-line each day of school on our
website. This informative Bulletin gives updated information on club activities and meetings, play and choral tryouts, athletic information,
Community Service opportunities, scholarship information, and an abundance of other information to keep students and families’ up-to-speed
with what is happening at Broughton. This is an invaluable resource that is posted to our website and highlighted with our students each day.
Parents I would like to enlist your support in helping us maintain appropriate dress at school. Please be sure that students do not wear
strapless shirts and dresses, thin-strapped shirts, tank-tops, short-shorts, and other clothing that violates the dress code. I would ask that we
work together in order to be sure our students dress appropriately and focus on learning. We will be focusing on our dress code for the first
few weeks of school and I thank you for your support!
Broughton High School is very thankful for all of our community volunteers! I would like to remind everybody that all continuing volunteers
approved for the 2014 – 2015 school year MUST reactivate as a volunteer for the 2015 – 2016 school year no later than October 31,
2015. Any new volunteer applicants for the 2015 – 2016 school year must register and have an approved criminal record check prior to
engaging in volunteer work. Applicants may register at any Wake County Public School System site. Please remember that only approved
volunteers may participate in school/classroom activities. Volunteers and volunteer applicants should direct their questions to Ms. Diane
Lockwood (dglockwood@wcpss.net and/or 664-5733), an Assistant Principal and our Volunteer Coordinator.
The PTSA Summer newsletter that is loaded with great information should have reached your home this week. Please take time to read and
follow-up on this important information about so many aspects of our school community.
We want to thank our PTSA, landscaping partner Lawnmaster, Inc., and the many parents and students that showed up for the campus
cleanup day this morning! I appreciate all of the extra efforts our students and families put into making Broughton a wonderful place for
teaching and learning!
Please remember that we have begun our Fall Athletic Season already. Tonight our Football team has a 7:00 p.m. game at Apex High School.
Our boys Soccer, Cross Country, Volleyball, Girls Tennis, Girls Golf, and Cheerleading squads have all had great starts to their season!
Please check our Athletic Team schedules on our Broughton Athletics website and I hope all of our students and our entire school family
come out to support our student athletes and build school spirit! Go CAPS!
Those are all of the announcements for this week. As always, I thank you for your incredible support of our school and I look forward to a
fantastic school year. I hope each of you has a wonderful weekend and enjoy the last remaining days of summer. Go CAPS and please take
care.