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Performance by Santa Cruz Symphony’s Aiden Cohen

Baymonte 4th & 5th grade students enjoyed a performance by Aiden Cohen, a bass player with the Santa Cruz Symphony and a substitute with the San Francisco Symphony, at a special assembly today. Cohen shared with our students about classical music, covering 21st century music dating all the way back to Mozart. He played favorites [...]

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Spring Photos By Pascale Wowak Photography

It’s almost that time of year for Spring Photos! I’ll be using a set of real shutters that I painted in a lovely teal color for the K-2 classes and then will be using the staircase backdrop that I used last year for the older grades for all the rest of the grades. With regard [...]

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Christian Youth Theater Musical “Snoopy” Features Baymonte Students

Come enjoy the excitement! Christian Youth Theater (CYT) Santa Cruz is presenting the musical, Snoopy. Mrs. Olson, Baymonte fourth grader teacher, is directing the show. Forty students will be bringing the Peanuts gang to life. Spend time with your favorite characters: Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Woodstock and Snoopy. Performances will be February [...]

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Hope of the Nations Missionaries Visit from Tanzania

If you were walking down the middle school hallway last Friday and thought you heard African music emanating from one of the classrooms, you were not imagining it! My 7th grade bible class was hosting a team of missionaries with an amazing organization called Hope of the Nations from Tanzania Africa. The class kicked off [...]

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Kindergarten unsing iPads

Tech Trek Proceeds at Work in the Classroom

As we enter our second semester of school I’d like to provide an update on how we are using the funds generated by your support of Baymonte’s Tech Trek. Our first priority was to replace the elementary classroom teachers’ aging Dell laptops with twelve new MacBooks.  We also purchased six iPads for group instruction in [...]

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Anthony Youssef with Tae Kwon Do instructors

Fourth Grader Earns Black Belt from Elite Martial Arts

Fourth grader Anthony Youssef earned his black belt in December at Elite Martial Arts Academy in Scotts Valley. Anthony has been studying Tae Kwon Do since the age of 6. Elite owner and Baymonte alumnus, Elliot Stone, teaches the art to many in the Scotts Valley community. We would like to celebrate your student’s achievements. [...]

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2012 Girls Basketball Champions

Baymonte Girls Win Bay Area Basketball Title

Coach Serena Whiting with her undefeated championship team. The Baymonte girls’ basketball team posted a 9-0 regular season. This was the schools first undefeated season in the recent history of girls’ basketball. The team, coached by Serena Whiting and Courtney Pulley, advanced to post season play where they won the Bay Area Christian Schools’ League [...]

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Baymonte Students’ Give Surprise Blessing to Local Family

On December 5th Baymonte’s Individualized Program of Instruction (IPI) class held a bake sale to raise money for a local family in need. This family has a child with a severe brain injury and recently lost their home and belongings to a fire. The students were very excited to help any way they could. With [...]

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We Have Seen the Enemy: Self-Control in the Age of Excess

“For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” Romans 7:15b.  Obviously, the Apostle Paul had a self-control problem.  And don’t we all? Studies have shown that self-control is the single most important to determinant in academic success, more important than gender, economic class, race or even (believe [...]

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Fair Trade Boutique

Baymonte hosted a fair trade boutique last Friday. Trade As One is transforming the lives of the poor in different parts of the world by enabling them to use their skills and resources to work their way out of poverty . The 98 purchases by Baymonte families at the event totaled $1,893, which represent 379 [...]

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