Save the date for Eaglefest fall carnival at Bell's Crossing! We will celebrate big on Friday, November 6 from 4:30-8:30! Please visit our Amazon Eaglefest Wishlist if you'd like to make a donation to help us prepare for this event.

 

Eaglefest Flyer

In honor of America’s 250th Birthday, Greenville County Schools invites every student in grades Pre-K–12 to participate in Celebrating America. Students can express their ideas through essay, poetry, artwork, photography, speech, song, or dance. Entries will reflect their own thoughts, experiences, hopes, or appreciation for America. Think about the people, places, freedoms, opportunities, traditions, challenges, or dreams that make America meaningful.

Twenty-eight District Finalists will receive $50, and the four overall District Winners will receive $100. District winners and their work will be recognized as part of Greenville County Schools' America 250 Celebration on Wednesday, February 17. All work must be original and created by the student submitting the entry. Student directions and entry forms can be found online and the event flyer is attached below. Submission deadline is October 30, 2026.

America 250 Event Flyer

All second graders will participate in CogAT (aptitude testing) on October 6 and 7 and ITBS (achievement testing) on October 8 and 9. These statewide tests are used to identify students for the gifted and talented program that starts in third grade.

Testing will take place in the morning each day so please make sure students are at school on time. Students arriving late will not be able to enter classrooms once testing has started.

Getting a good night of rest and eating a healthy breakfast is always a good way to make sure students are ready to do their best. We know emergencies happen, but please try to schedule any appointments or absences around these testing dates and times.

  

We are so excited to be hosting a Scholastic book fair in the library.  Our fair will run from Monday, October 19th - Friday, October 30th. Each student must have a signed permission form to enter the book fair (this permission form does not mean you are required to purchase any items). View this Book Fair Schedule to see when your child will attend. If you are interested in helping at the bookfair, please sign up using this Book Fair Sign Up Genius.

See the book fair page below for a list of available books and permission form copies if needed. Remember to add 6% tax to the price of items when you are planning how much money to send to the fair for shopping.  We accept cash, checks (made out to BCES), credit or debit cards including apple pay, and eWallet. There will be more information to come on our book fair schedule and family nights. You may add money to your child's eWallet after September 25.

Book Fair Webpage

 

  

Calling all 5th grade artists! We are looking for an original student design to be featured on the cover of our 2026–2027 Bell’s Crossing Elementary Yearbook! See the Yearbook Cover Contest Flyer below for all the details.

Completed entries should be attached to the contest form and returned by Thursday, October 22. We can’t wait to see our Eagles’ creativity soar!

Yearbook Cover Contest Flyer

 

  

Help us capture the memories that make this school year special! If you’ve taken photos at school events, celebrations, field trips, spirit nights, or other special BCES activities, please upload them for possible inclusion in our school yearbook. We can’t wait to see the year through your eyes! 

Photo submissions will close on February 28, 2027.

Use this school code: bcesbook

Photo Submissions Center

 

  

2026-2027 yearbooks are now on sale! Yearbooks are $35 and will be in full color. Use the QR Code on the graphic or the Yearbook Order Center button below to order one for your child.

Kindergarten and 5th grade parents may also purchase and design ads for their students to mark these milestone years!

Yearbook Order Center

 

Do you or your child want to give someone a shout out? Maybe someone has been a good friend, achieved a special accomplishment, or is having a birthday this week? Purchase a Shout Out CAMEO! Your child can appear LIVE on our news show for their shoutout, or our anchors can shout them out without an appearance. Complete this Shout Out Form and send $3 to school in an envelope labeled ENN Shout Out to have your submission read on air during our morning news show, with your child in attendance.  (Appearances are optional.) We do our best to record all of our news episodes so that you can watch from home.

 

Eagle News Shout Out Form

Bell's Crossing is excited to continue our special relationship with the SmartARTS program for the 2026-27 school year. Students will work with an artist-in-residence to enjoy learning through arts integration in the challenge classroom. In the past, we have teamed with visual artists, theater artists, dance artists, a ceramics artist, and a landscape architect. It will be exciting to see where these lessons take us next year!