2018 - Week of February 5

Post date: Feb 5, 2018 2:46:52 AM

This week is National School Counselor Week! School counselors are the unsung heroes of education. Martha Turner, Carolyn Mallory, Melanie Smith, Elizabeth Farner, and Brooke Olson deserve more than a week of recognition. I honestly don't know how they manage everything that they do for every stakeholder at RMS. They log an incredible number of hours and much of what they do is behind the scenes. They are always ready to drop everything to help anyone with anything. The RMS community is extremely fortunate to have such dedicated and positive individuals as our school counselors. Be sure to thank them...often

February is Black History Month and it is a time when we remember and recognize the important contributions and achievements of African Americans throughout our nation's history. We are recognizing this important month in a variety of ways. On Friday, February 2nd-Storyteller Charmaine Crowell White presented a re-enactment of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad for 6th grade from 8:45-9:45. Some of our 6th-grade students will be performing on stage with her. 7th and 8th grade English classes will be sharing excerpts of books from Black authors and sharing video clips from some of the authors. 6th grade English classes will be doing mini research projects on famous Black Americans highlighting their major contributions and creating a Google slide presentation. Certain classes are studying and going to see the famous play, A Raisin in the Sun. They are also studying excerpts from Lorraine Hansberry's To Be Young, Gifted, and Black as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes. We will also be reading several Black History facts on the morning announcements each day.

Charlotte Bray designed and created our PBIS logo! See a photo of the logo below. She did a great job!

Congratulations to the following students who auditioned and were selected to represent Robious this past weekend at the 2018 All District Band:

Aedan Bryant - 3rd chair bassoon

Michael Cummins - 6th chair horn

Elizabeth MacPhail - 18th chair clarinet

Benjamin Roberts - 3rd chair oboe

Sadie Turner - 8th chair horn

They worked very hard over two days to put on an outstanding concert Saturday at Monacan High School. Great job District Band Students!

Congratulations to Matthew Klausner, cello, Nathan Lee, violin 1, Ashton Foldenauer, bass, and Molly Nelson, violin 2 for their fabulous performance in the A orchestra at Manchester HS on Saturday. They represented Robious at Central Regional Orchestra.They made us proud. Great sounding group!

If you know of youth, ages 13-21, who would benefit from a fun-filled, youth-led summer summit focusing on self-determination skills, please share this announcement with them.

8th grade students interested in applying to Code RVA - the applications are due February 23. Click here for more information.

All 8th graders and their parents are invited to an information night at James River High School on Tuesday, February 6 at 6:30pm.

You put the US in Robious,

Derek Wasnock, Ed.D.

Principal