Good afternoon,
For safety reasons, we are asking that candy NOT be thrown during the Homecoming Parade. If you would like to distribute candy during the parade, please hand this out to avoid people running out into the street. If you would like to donate candy to the elementary students, please bring it to the elementary office and we can get it to the elementary students.
If you would like to register to have a float in the Homecoming Parade, please click on the link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTXhBN8CAzTOleQQfcGXRI23Y5XzXAzOkubzrRgCPBh-JBew/viewform
Thank you and we hope to see everyone on Friday at the Homecoming Parade starting at 1:30. The community is invited to the pep rally starting at 2:40 at the football stadium.
Go Bulldogs!
Homecoming week is right around the corner and here are the dress up days for each part of the school.
High School:
Monday - Menards Dad and Mall Mom
Tuesday - Barbie and Ken
Wednesday - Rhyme without Reason
Thursday - Beach Day
Friday - Blue and Gold
Middle School:
Monday - Country/Red Neck
Tuesday - Ken and Barbie
Wednesday - Twin Day
Thursday - Beach Day
Friday - Blue and Gold
Elementary School:
Monday - Pajama Day
Tuesday - Jersey/Sport Day
Wednesday - Neon Day
Thursday - Beach Day
Friday - Blue and Gold / Classroom Float Theme
Have a great homecoming week! Go Bulldogs!
The Big East Conference Finals will be hosted in Baltic tomorrow on Saturday, September 9th with games starting at noon. Baltic will take on Chester starting around 4:30 pm. View the full bracket in the attached image. We hope to see you all there. Go Bulldogs!
Dear Parents and Staff,
The Baltic PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization) will be having our first meeting of the school year on Wednesday, August 30th, at 6:30pm in the school commons. All parents and staff are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Come to meet other members and see what we have planned for this year! You can decide your level of participation. PTO meetings will be held monthly, so if you are unable to attend this meeting, please consider attending future meetings or you can also volunteer in other ways to support PTO activities.
Follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep informed of meeting dates and event information as well as other opportunities to help. Any questions can be emailed to BalticPTO@gmail.com.
We look forward to another great year supporting our wonderful school and staff!
Baltic PTO
Congratulations to the Lady Bulldogs on their 1st place finish this weekend at the Canton Volleyball Tournament. Go Bulldogs!
Parking for activities can be found on the attached document. Please review this document before attending games so you are parking in the appropriate areas. Thank you and Go Bulldogs!
Please check out our ParentGuidance.org Back to School... Back to the Basics Flyer.
Good morning,
This summer we are doing something called "Skills Development". This is in replace of "open gym". Athletes are able to come into the gym and do various skills for their sports. The coaches came up with skills that they should do when they come into the gym. After they finish each skill, they will report that to the coach that is working on the skills development. If students earn the target amount of points earned at the end of the summer, they will earn a reward. The target amount and prize have not been selected yet. This will be determined soon.
Athletes will earn points for various things, such as:
Skills set by the head coaches that are done at the Skills Development time.
Organized Team Practices (Baltic, Pentagon, Sacred Hoops, Warwick, etc.)
Games (with refs)
Team Camps
Individual Camps
Perfect Weekly Attendance for Acceleration
Daily Attendance for Acceleration
Athletes NEED to communicate camps and skills to Coach Whipple (or the fill-in coach), daily.
We want to stress that this is skills development time and NOT an open gym time.
FCCLA is ready for State in Sioux Falls! Good luck!
Please take some time to view our ParentGuidance.org Flyer on How Digital Media is Changing Our Children's Mental Health
Human Development class learned about the benefits of play-doh in early childhood, made their own play-doh and got to experience play-doh with our JK class!
HS Cheerleading Tryouts April 17th and 18th.
2023 Prom King and Queen
Andrew Tommeraasen and Hope Bonrud
Sending Briley Kick off to the National Powerlifting competition in Myrtle Beach, SC! Good Luck Briley!
#BulldogGRIT
The MS Quiz Bowl came up a tad short today and got 2nd! The kids did awesome! So proud of them!! #BulldogGrit
Congrats to our High School Quiz Bowl team on winning conference! #BulldogGrit
Congratulations to all of the Baltic art students who had artwork at the State Visual Arts Contest in Rapid City this past weekend! Their artwork was on display at the Monument Civic Center. Baltic placed 5th out of 18 teams competing in class A. We had four students medal in their categories, Lydia Magnuson, Grace Wolff, Coryn Wolff, and Shelby Appel. Great Job!
Dear Parents,
For some unknown reason, the school phones are down, so we cannot accept incoming calls or make out-going calls. We have contacted Alliance Communications and hopefully it will be resolved soon, in which case I will send another email.
Supt. Bob Sittig
Estimados padres,
Por alguna razón desconocida, los teléfonos de la escuela están caídos, por lo que no podemos aceptar llamadas entrantes ni realizar llamadas salientes. Nos hemos puesto en contacto con Alliance Communications y esperamos que se resuelva pronto, en cuyo caso enviaré otro correo electrónico.
superintendente bob sittig
New School Construction Update
If you drove by the east side of the school yesterday, you saw construction equipment in operation, which is very exciting. Let me explain how we got to this point and what you can expect moving forward.
1. Our general contractor Hoogendoorn Construction has submitted an application to the City of Baltic for a building permit, which is required of all such projects. The City has granted an excavation permit that allows the dirt work to commence, which began yesterday.
2. As is the usual process, the City examined the construction plans, and they have identified a couple of issues where the plans do not comply with existing zoning regulations and/or City ordinances. City personnel has been working with school architects and engineers to develop options for addressing the deficiencies and it appears workable solutions have been agreed upon. Without going into great detail, the issues will be addressed at a City Planning and Zoning Commission meeting at 6:00 pm on March 22nd and at a special meeting of the City Council at 6:30 pm also on March 22nd. Discussions with City personnel make us optimistic that the zoning/ordinance issues will be resolved at those meetings, the building permit approved, and construction will commence on schedule. Ryan Fods, City Planning and Zoning Administrator, has been especially helpful in this process.
3. For those of you interested in construction details, the contractor plans to begin pouring footings by mid-April, and they hope to have the building enclosed by Christmas with final completion and occupancy by the start of the 2024-25 school year, assuming optimal construction conditions.
4. Our vocational classes will use drones to document construction progress, and pictures will be posted on the school website under the Building Project tab.
5. Keep in mind that this is a construction site involving heavy equipment. Please stay out of the construction site, and practice good safety protocols when driving in that area. Bulldog Avenue will remain open for the remainder of this school year, but shortly after the last day of school in May, it will be closed for the summer east of the high school gym all the way to 5th Street. How construction will affect parking and traffic on the east side of the school next school year will be decided at a later date.
6. We are very excited to see construction begin, but there will be a few disruptions to normal activity during the process. Thank you to the residents of the Baltic School District for approving this project, which will be a great addition to our community and serve our educational needs well into the future.
Supt. Bob Sittig
The Baltic Robotics students visited our Kindergarten classrooms the other day to teach them about robots and all of the interesting roles that they play in our every day lives.
