Dining Hall and Meals

The school uses email to alert parents to weather cancellations and to other emergencies. Delays/cancellations are also posted to the school website, bement. org, and announced on local television and radio stations, (see Weather-Related Cancellations/Delays). A weekly newsletter, the Look Ahead, is emailed to your preferred address and standalone emails from administrators or teachers will be sent from time to time.

School news will be posted on our website, and in an attempt to conserve resources, most school communications will happen through email and the parent portal of our website. Updates to directory information may be made in the Parent Portal, under Profile.

There are many times when students may be photographed and/or recorded. These photos and videos may be used in Bement’s magazine, website, advertising, press releases, social media, or other school publications. If you wish your child not to be photographed, please contact the communications office. There may be instances where the school is not able to eliminate use of a video when an individual student is within a group performance or event, whether in the background or foreground, such as a play performance, athletic game, graduation celebration, etc. When there are times when we identify students, we use first name and first letter of last name only with the exception of honoring our ninth grade students in The Bement Bulletin. Be advised that your child’s name or image may still appear in print, radio, television, social media, or web coverage, as we are not always able to control external media sources.

Dining Hall and Meals

Courtesy and proper table manners are expected during all meals. • Each student is assigned to a dining room table with students from mixed grades, and dining room seating changes periodically. • Students are expected to attend all meals on time. • Lower school students should line up quietly in the hallway until they are told to enter the dining rooms by a teacher. • Upper school students should enter the dining hall quietly and stand at their assigned table. • Students must sit at their assigned table unless it is closed. They must then ask other table heads if they may join their table.