BVHS Announcements
Summer 2025
If you would like to add an announcement, please email any of the secretaries:
Jeanie.Bruggeman@k12.sd.us or Jessica.Henson@k12.sd.us or Cherie.Mailander@k12.sd.us

- 2024-2025 Yearbooks will be delivered in the fall. Further communication to come.
- Register NOW for 2025-2026 sports (and/or high school marching band). BOUND registration is required prior to practice and must include the upload of the new 2025-2026 BV physical form dated on or after April 1, 2025 (both pages). See the following page for instructions and the 2025-2026 physical form: https://brandonvalley.k12.sd.us/bvhs/physicalinfo.html
- Important Upcoming Dates:
- July 7, 17, and 25: Transportation Open Houses, 4:00-8:00 p.m.
- Friday, July 25: Bus Pass Registration Deadline
- Monday, July 28: Sports Meeting for Cheer, Dance, Soccer, Girls Tennis, 6:30 p.m., BVHS Activities Center
- Monday, August 4: Senior Retreat @ BVHS, 2:00-6:00 p.m.
- Monday, August 4: Sports Meeting for Cross Country (HS & MS), Football (HS only), Volleyball (HS only) and Boys Golf (HS & MS), 6:30 p.m., BVHS Activities Center
- Wednesday, August 6: Freshmen Unity Day, BVHS, 2:00-7:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, August 13: Lynx Power Day (BVHS Open House) - details below (updated 6/24/25)
- High School Picture Days - including Lynx Power Day
- Wednesday, August 20: First Day of School
- Searching for other dates (like Winter Formal and Prom or a specific sport)? Go to the Activities Calendar (in the “Activities” section); select View Schedules (eye symbol) on the right; scroll to pick the event/s you want; and then click “View”.
- Important Dates for the Year
- Family Access Updates (required each year) will be available beginning July 14. Completion of Family Access Updates/Verification is required for off-site high school activities, so parents should complete this process as soon as it becomes available. Just follow the steps below:
1) From a Web browser (not the Skyward App), log into Family Access using your parent username and password.
2) Select “Family Access Updates” from the left-hand navigation.
3) Click on the student name from the list that appears and then click the “Next” button on the right.
4) Review the information on the page and then select the “Complete Step…and Continue to step…” button
at the bottom.
5) Repeat until you come to the page with the “Submit…” button.
- Lynx Power Day - Wednesday, Aug 13: This is the day when high school students pick up schedules, parking passes, Student IDs, and laptops; get school pictures taken; purchase spirit wear; and more. Complete the HS Tech Forms in Skyward (available mid-July) – and COME AT YOUR DESIGNATED TIMES - schedule updated 6/24/25:
- 12:00 - 1:00 - All Seniors
- 1:00 - 1:40 - Juniors A-K
- 1:40 - 2:20 - Juniors L-Z
- 2:20 - 3:00 - Sophomores A-K
- 3:00 - 3:40 - Sophomores L-Z
- 3:40 - 4:20 - Freshmen A-K
- 4:20 - 5:00 - Freshmen L-Z
Note for those purchasing laptop insurance (as most families do): student laptop insurance must be paid for prior to laptop pick-up, so parents should prepay online (through https://bv.revtrak.net/ ) or send a check on Lynx Power Day. (Card-card payments for insurance can only be made in advance through Revtrak and cannot be processed on Lynx Power Day.)
- BVHS does not offer the June or July ACT, but there are other Sioux Falls area locations that do. Just login to www.act.org to register.
- Summer 2025 Youth Athletics Opportunities and Camps: click here.
- Summer 2025 Youth Athletics Opportunities and Camps - UPDATED: click here.
- Summer 2025 Soccer Camp Opportunities:
- K-5th grade Little Lynx Soccer Camp (Boys and Girls) - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfurZ3B1GytHjp05TN_X2gTPFDQMxZBBsSQ-1NRCVxUL1NLfg/viewform?usp=dialog
- 6th-8th Little Lynx Soccer Camp (Girls only) - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf919RFP3SEr0UeolSPwjnR8V-5aDfm9ihIA9wuQAq2dbIjWA/viewform?usp=dialog
- High School Camp - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdqiOwPYE3jdQgV7K3MDr1G_aHsZ9ZAkaGD9rHS1Ij-kQbxA/viewform?usp=dialog