Admin Corner- Aug 23

Posted Date: 8/23/25 (11:00 AM)

Bi-Weekly Newsletter

August 23, 2025

A huge shoutout to our BVA community! Your contributions and support made our annual Back-to-School Bonfire a big success. Thank you for bringing your energy, enthusiasm, and school spirit—it wouldn’t have been possible without you!

Reminders & Important Information:

Food delivery services such as DoorDash, UberEats, and similar providers are not permitted on campus. Thank you for your understanding.

BVA Short Term Independent Study Request, Independent Study Policy, en español.

School pictures are complete! 🎉 Keep an eye out for an email from robert@shutterbugmonterey.com within the next 10 days. The message will include your unique access code to view and order photos. Picture retake dates will be announced at a later time.

Start logging any volunteer hours in ParentSquare.

Please take some time to review the 2025-26 BVA Family Handbook, Spanish 2025-26 BVA Family Handbook

Do you or someone you know have a moving company you’d recommend? We sometimes need help moving items and would love your suggestions. Drop them below—thanks! 🙏

📚 Bookmobile is Back at BVA

The Monterey Public Library’s Bookmobile will continue its visits to our campuses!

The upcoming visit schedule is as follows:

Lower Campus (2:15–3:30 PM): Aug. 29, Sept. 19, Oct. 17
These visits will take place into the after-school hours, so families are welcome to stop by with their children!
Upper Campus (9:50–10:55 AM): Sept. 5, Sept. 26, Oct. 31

If you don’t yet have a library card, here is the application form in English & Spanish.

📅 Important Dates Coming Up!

TONIGHT, 8.23.25 MBUFC Soccer Game at Cardinale Stadium For $25 tickets, enter code BAYVIEWACADEMY
8.25.25 CVO Community Meeting from 10-11 am
8.29.25 Bookmobile visits Lower School from 2-30-3-30 pm. Library card application in English/Spanish
9.1.25 Labor Day Holiday, No School
9.3.25 CVO Ice Cream social from 1-3 pm at Lower School (FREE Community event)
Finance Meeting
9.5.25 Bookmobile visits Upper School from 9:50-10:55 am. Library card application in English/Spanish
9.8.25 CVO Meeting
9.10.25 Board of Directors meeting in art room at Lower at 6:15 pm
9.14.25 BVA Family Picnic at Mount Madonna
Fall Break dates are Oct 6-10th. YMCA camp registration for this week will be sent out at a later date.

Meeting agendas will be posted 72 hrs prior to meeting on our website's Home page, the Agendas and Minutes page and posted on both campuses.

BVA Events!

Community Events

DISCLAIMER: The activities, products, or services advertised in this section are not sponsored or endorsed by BVA.

Free Aquarium Admission for Monterey County Residents

Locals visit for free September 2-14, 2025

This September, in appreciation of our local community, we’re offering a limited number of free tickets to Monterey County residents. Thanks for your support throughout the years!

Ticket inventory is limited and subject to availability. Reserve your tickets now.

Monterey County is officially a certified Blue Zones Community®!

Join us for a Blue Zones Celebration Week across Monterey County to celebrate our community certification from September 8-16!

Enjoy FREE community events (listed below) throughout Monterey County. Everyone is welcome! All events are full of family-friendly fun, activities, giveaways & more!

June 5-June 7, 2026 Camp Erin Santa Cruz Where Children Learn to Grieve and Heal

Camp Erin® Santa Cruz is a free bereavement camp for youth grieving the death of a significant person in their lives.

Children and teens ages 7 to 17 attend a weekend camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, traditional camp activities. Led by bereavement professionals and caring volunteers, campers are provided a safe environment to explore their grief, learn essential coping skills, and make friends with peers who are also grieving.

Camp Erin was created and is supported in part by Eluna. For more information, please visit elunanetwork.org.

Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health

Ohana offers a variety classes & groups with topics including Raising Resilient Children & Teens, Preventing Youth Substance Abuse, Habits That Build Mental Health and other groups providing parenting support.

Monterey County Office of Education Parent Resources

The Monterey County Office of Education is committed to creating opportunities to support students in their educational journey. Parents are our most important partners, and MCOE looks for ways to connect with them and the community. This page is a resource to provide parents with information and support the success of our students.

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