This week’s newsletter includes essential campus policy updates from Principal Brad Lancaster regarding student ID display, tardy tracking, attendance incentives, and FIT. Highlights cover dismissal traffic safety reminders for Slaughter Lane, expectations for our upcoming August 26 routine lockdown drill, the newly introduced Academic Integrity Policy, and Gifted & Talented referral window info. Additionally, families will find CADY Picture Day details and senior portrait scheduling deadlines, along with spotlights on newspaper adviser Michael Reeves and senior Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Isadora Parra.

The Bowie Star Newsletter - August 21, 2026