Our Bayside Admirals are at it again! Sports, academics, and the like have been booming in the past week.

The Girls Varsity Soccer team is kicking off the next season by playing the Admiral Alumni on Saturday, Feb. 2. Currently the alumni have been undefeated and hope to keep their record through this February.

On Friday, Jan. 11, the Bayside Varsity Basketball team voyaged up to Excel for a hopeful win. The boys on the team and the cheerleaders loaded the buses after school on Friday with their peers waving them off.

GO ADMIRALS!

Fourth-graders at Bayside are starting their year off with an exciting new book called “The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson,” by Bette Bao Lord. “The fourth-graders are excited about their new read-aloud book … and are discussing the Chinese New Year,” said fourth-grade teacher Sally Kalaris. The fourth-graders also recently started Character Education class with the school counselor, Mrs. Hughes, and the Peer Counselor staff.

The Spelling Bee was held on Jan. 9 in the school’s gym.

This annual contest has been described as an especially intellectual battle for select students in the fourth through eighth grades.

Eighth-grader Nikki Moorer was the champion; she will go the regional competition, Jan. 29.