RHS Newsletter 10-24-21

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From the Principal

Dear Realms HS Families,

We are approaching the middle of the 1st trimester and we strongly encourage students and parents to keep a close eye on StudentVue/ParentVue. Once in StudentVue/ParentVue, click on the Gradebook to see overall letter grades for each class and GO DEEPER by clicking on the academic standards in each class to determine proficiency/mastery by standard!

Standards based grading provides great information about how students are doing in terms of mastering the academic content and skills of each course. Standards are scored using our 1-6 scale and letter grades are determined from an average of each of the standard scores.

Roger White, Principal.

Upcoming Dates

  • Wednesday October 27th – Fall Festival at RHS (detail below)
  • Thursday & Friday Oct 28th & 29th – No regular classes at RHS (and no school at all elem & middle schools in BLSD)
  • Thursday Oct 28th – Optional Proficiency Day at RHS (details below)
  • Friday Oct. 29 – Mon Mov. 1st – Midterm Progress Reports Emailed
  • Monday Nov 8th – Bend Pizza Kitchen Fundraiser for Realms (details below)
  • December 1st – 3rd – Student Led Conferences at RHS (details coming soon)
  • December 13th – 16th – 1st Trimester Intensives (details coming soon)
  • Friday December 17th – End of Trimester 1. No classes, grading day.

FALL FESTIVAL at RHS!

Wednesday October 27th, 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Our Leadership class (mostly Juniors and Seniors) is excited to host a Fall Festival this Wednesday at school! The goal is to provide a fun social mixing opportunity for Realms High students and to celebrate the season! Masks will be worn indoors. We will also have outdoor eating and fire pit areas.

  • DJ!
  • Costume Contest!
  • Games & Activities!
  • Outdoor Fire Pits!
  • Food and Drink!

$5 admission price OR bring two non-perishable food items for donation. All entrants will receive tickets for games. You must have your student card for entry and only Realms HS students will be admitted.

Proficiency Day – THIS Thursday (10-28)!

This Thursday and Friday, 10/28 and 10/29, are No School Days for Realms High School only. Our staff will be hard at work in both staff training with EL Education and in planning sessions both designed to better provide powerful, authentic learning opportunities for our students.

While classes won’t be running on those days, we will still be offering an opportunity to get some extra support. On Thursday, October 28th from 8:45-12:00, we will be offering our first “Proficiency Day” of the year. Teachers and EA’s from our Student Success Team will team up with a small group of volunteer Seniors from our Leadership class to offer extra support for any students looking to catch up on missing work, revise old assignments, and raise their grade before progress reports are sent out on over the weekend of Oct. 29th – Nov 1st.

Buses will be running in the morning, but students will need to determine their own ride home at noon.

PLEASE RSVP IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND PROFICIENCY DAY

PROFICIENCY DAY RSVP FORM

Food Drive (brought to you by Leadership!)

Parents and students! We are working with The Giving Plate to run a food drive and will accept donations from Monday, October 18th and ending Thursday,  November 18th. Students can bring their donations to their Crew class. The Crew class with the most donations will have a food party. Students can also bring food for the donation at the Fall Festival for booth activity tickets. We will be delivering goods to the Giving Plate on Thursday, November 18th from 1-4 PM if you are interested in helping deliver donations, please contact Jennifer Scalley.

Parents – we ALSO have a large tub outside our Attendance Office if you’d like to drop off donations as well! Here are the most common requests:

Clubs at RHS

We are excited to be starting up some clubs at RHS… with more to come!

Lunch Time Clubs include:

  • Art Club w/ Karen – Mondays
  • Garden Club with Mr. Kem – Tuesdays
  • Culinary Club with Mr. Kem – Thursdays
  • ACT Club with Allie – Thursdays
  • GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance) with Thompson & Running – Fridays

After School Clubs & Tutoring Sessions

  • Open Math Tutoring Sessions with Martha/Brittany – Mondays 3:15 – 4:15 (starting soon)
  • Games Club with Yen Ling – Tuesdays 3:15 – 5:00
  • Knitting Club with Anita & Mallory – Thursdays 3:15 – 4:15

Friends of Realms Opportunities!

The Friends of Realms Board would like to THANK YOU for all of the fieldwork contributions that have been coming in. What a difference this makes. Stay tuned for details, but in the meantime, THANK YOU!

ALSO – Friends of Realms is excited to host a series of “Nights Out”, and the 1st one is coming up soon! We are excited about kicking off a weeklong Book Fair at Roundabout Books with a special night out at Bend Pizza Kitchen – what a great combination!! (Get it?!)