Bristol County Agricultural High School

Sneak Peek! Our Landscape and Design upperclassmen are beginning their Fall Show exhibits, which will incorporate all of the skills they have been learning and practicing. Check out the final displays at Fall Show in the Landscape/Arbor building!

We’re excited to host our 6th Annual Post-Secondary Fair this Friday! More than 53 representatives from colleges and universities, the military, unions, and public and private companies will be on campus to meet with our students and share information about the many opportunities available after high school. Throughout the school day, sophomores, juniors, and seniors will have the opportunity to visit the gymnasium, connect directly with representatives, ask questions, and explore pathways in college, careers, skilled trades, military service, and more! This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to explore what their future could look like, and we are so excited to welcome all of our participating representatives to Bristol Aggie later this week! We can’t wait for a great day of connections, conversations, and future planning! #BristolAggie #PostSecondaryFair #CollegeAndCareerReady #FutureReady #CareerExploration

Our Floriculture upperclassmen are setting up their centerpieces for the Foundation Dinner. Another year of great arrangements for this wonderful night! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

This week's High Five went to Kara Millar! Kara is a very involved senior in Arbor who started up our debate club! 🙌🌟#BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

Landscape Design and Contracting sophmores got to make videos from start to finish showcasing equipment operation and safety. These videos will be playing on display during Fall Show in the Landscape/Arbor Workshop! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

CALLING ALL PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS:

Interested in a campus tour? Fall Show tour dates are now available!

Register at https://bristolaggie.go2cte.org/

We cannot wait to see you!

A huge THANK YOU to our amazing Bristol Aggie PTO for treating our faculty to breakfast this morning! 🥯☕🍩 After a late night welcoming our families to Open House, the breakfast and goodies were the perfect way to start the day, especially the delicious treats from Colonial Donut! 🍩 We are incredibly grateful to our PTO for always finding ways to support and appreciate our staff. Thank you for taking care of our Bristol Aggie community! 💚💛 #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #StaffAppreciation #Community

Last week's high five was Aubrey Martin! She is an outstanding member of our community. Congratulations Aubrey!! 🙌 #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

Environmental Engineering sophomores are beginning their unit on stream flow and water quality, investigating the physical and chemical characteristics that help us evaluate aquatic systems. Students are collecting field data from multiple waterbodies across campus and measuring turbidity, or the amount of suspended particles present in the water, using turbidity tubes. 🌊 Through hands-on sampling and analysis, students are learning how water quality parameters can be used to assess aquatic ecosystem conditions. #EnviromentalEngineering #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

🌱 Bristol Aggie Receives $17,718 Food Security Infrastructure Grant Award! 🐔 We are excited to share that Bristol County Agricultural High School has been awarded $17,718 through the 2027 Food Security Infrastructure Grant (FSIG) Program from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR). The goal of the FSIG Program is to ensure that individuals and families throughout the Commonwealth have access to food, with a special focus on locally produced food and equitable access to food. This investment will help Bristol Aggie expand our poultry production system through a new broiler coop kit and heat plates/covers. For our students, this is more than an equipment purchase. It creates additional opportunities for hands-on agricultural education, strengthens our ability to produce locally raised poultry, and supports our mission of connecting students to the full cycle of agriculture—from production to processing to the food that reaches our campus and community. The project will also allow us to provide additional locally produced food to campus and community customers through our existing licensed processing channels. Livestock teacher, Mrs. da Silva explained, “The Food Security Infrastructure Grant is a fantastic opportunity for Bristol Aggie to expand upon their poultry program. This grant will allow us to purchase many of the items necessary to process our own meat birds as well as expand upon egg production and sales. In doing so, students will be able to learn about multiple pathways they could take in the poultry production field and how to safely and effectively raise their own birds.” We are grateful to MDAR for investing in agricultural education, local food production, and the infrastructure needed to strengthen food security across Massachusetts. It is an honor to be invested in agriculture, educate our students with technology, and strengthen our local food system.🌾 #BristolAggie #BristolAggieProud #FoodSecurity #LocalFood #AgriculturalEducation #MassachusettsAgriculture #Poultry #HandsOnLearning #FSIG

Upperclassmen in Agricultural Mechanics have been assisting Livestock with chopping corn! Students had the opportunity to ride in the tractor and learn from our foremen. This corn will be stored and fermented to be fed to our dairy herd.🌽🚜🐮 #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

🎟️ Support the Bristol Aggie Class of 2027! 🎓 The Bristol Aggie Board of Trustees is holding a Scholarship Fundraiser to help support scholarships for our Class of 2027 students! ✨ Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $20! Check out the flyer for all the details and your chance to win a great prize while supporting our students! ❤️🐾 Thank you for supporting Bristol Aggie! 🌱

Juniors in Agricultural Mechanics are working on their fire pit projects for the annual Fall Show raffle. Make sure to check them out on October 17th and 18th!🎟️🔥 #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence #FallShow

Arboriculture juniors are kicking off the school year with a hands-on tree planting unit. Students are maintaining semi-established campus trees by exposing their root flares and applying fresh mulch, while also training trees on the BA topiary project using strategic branch-tying techniques. #BAPride #CultuvatingExcellence

Large Animal Science students spent the afternoon outside working with the animals. Equine students rode the horses, obtained a resting TPR for an equine fitness project, and hosed them down to keep the horses cool! Livestock students began selecting their show animals for Fall Show and started working with them. Underclassemen learned how to catch and halter sheep and were introduced to our horses! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

This week the Livestock seniors had an agronomy lesson about our corn fields with our farm manager, Joey, and the Floriculture students. Joey showed them how to measure the moisture content of the corn and how those numbers translate into dry matter intake and why it is so important for our dairy herd. We then moved to the flori classroom to have a guided corn dissection learning about water absorption, pollination, and basic anatomical structures. This information is crucial to managing crops appropriately and sustainably.

Juniors in Landscape Design & Contracting are working on the final phase of the legacy brick project. They’re finishing up laying the bricks in front of the Vet Center and will be done before Fall Show! Visit the Bristol Aggie website if interested in purchasing a brick. #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence

🍧🎉 A Sweet Welcome Back Thanks to Our PTO! 🎉🍧 A huge THANK YOU to our amazing PTO for sponsoring our Welcome Back Treat and treating our student to a visit from Kona Ice! 🍧❤️ We are so grateful for the continued support our PTO provides to our students and school community. Your generosity and partnership help make Bristol Aggie a special place to work and learn! Thank you, PTO, for helping us start the year on such a sweet note! 🙌🍧💙 #BristolAggie #WelcomeBack #BAProud #ThankYouPTO #SchoolCommunity #KonaIce

🌱🧬🧪 Bristol Aggie Receives Toshiba America Foundation STEM Grant! We are excited to share that Bristol County Agricultural High School has been awarded $5,853 from the Toshiba America Foundation to support “From Genes to Gels: Empowering Student Scientists Through DNA Analysis,” led by Science and AP Biology teacher Mrs. Diana Hopkins. This grant will provide our students with the opportunity to move beyond simulations and gain hands-on experience with the same techniques used by scientists in real-world research and biotechnology settings. Through this project, our AP Biology students will explore modern molecular biology, analyze DNA, and make meaningful connections between the concepts they learn in the classroom and their applications in the scientific community. We were especially excited to welcome representatives from Toshiba America Foundation to campus on Tuesday to officially present Mrs. Hopkins with the $5,853 grant check! Since the equipment purchased through this grant will directly benefit our AP Biology students, several of our students had the opportunity to be part of the celebration and take a picture with Toshiba Account Manager Mr. Louro and Vice President Mr. Ellis. 📸🔬 We are incredibly grateful to the Toshiba America Foundation for investing in our students and supporting innovative, hands-on STEM education. Grants like this give our students the opportunity to ask questions, explore, experiment, and learn like real scientists. A special thank you to Mrs. Diana Hopkins for her leadership and commitment to creating authentic learning experiences for our students! We can't wait to see where our students' curiosity and learning take them and we look forward to sharing their progress along the way! 🌟🧬 #CultivatingExcellence #BAPride

Check out the new Vet Center newsletter, "Vet Science Rounds," containing important dates, exciting news, and informational memos! #BAPride #CultivatingExcellence