January 10, 2021

• Happy New Year! 2021 is going to be a great! I can just feel it!

  • Please monitor Parentvue and assist your student in creating a plan of action regarding any deficits or missing work. Grades are updated by RMS teachers every week. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your student's teachers, counselor, or administrator for help. Remember, grades are for real and actually count this year.

• Scroll to the bottom of this page to see our latest Soar Award recipients! Congratulations to these young scholars!

• ESL Community Conversation- We would like to invite our ESL families to join us Wednesday, January 13 at 7:00pm for our first Community Conversation. We will be discussing the importance of attendance this year and the nuts and bolts of virtual learning. We will also have staff available to answer any questions and concerns you might have about virtual learning. Join the meeting using this link: meet.google.com/apy-ievn-vqg

• The RMS Mobile Study Hub will be visiting the Aston Ridge Apartments on Thursday, January 14 at 2:15pm. Our team will be set up near the basketball courts and will be providing assistance with school work. Be sure to bring your Chromebook!

• Our next virtual Drama Club meeting will be THIS WEEK on Wednesday, January 13th from 2:10 until 3:45. This is a CHANGE due to conflicts on the 20th. Students who haven’t come before and would like to join should use this link: http://bit.ly/RMSDrama Mrs. DiFazio will use the information added through the link to add new students to the Drama Club Canvas Course where they will find the meeting join code. Any NEW students should complete the link before 1:00 Wednesday so Mrs. DiFazio has time to add them. We’ll put together some theatre and make some friends. Come make a scene!

• Would you like to contribute to helping us commemorate this year? Here is your chance! We are looking for pictures of your student in his or her virtual learning environment in order to create a virtual record of the year. Click here for a flier outlining some of the types of photos we are looking for! You will also find a link here for a google folder in which you can share your photos. Thank you for all your help and support this year!

• MAP testing will be on the following dates:

Wednesday, January 13th - Reading

Wednesday, January 20th - Language (6th and 7th grade only)

• 8th graders: CodeRVA applications are now open and will close February 20th. CodeRVA is a regional high school that is rethinking the use of time, space, and technology to provide opportunities for acceleration and college and career readiness especially in the area of computer science. Please visit their website: https://coderva.org/ for more information! If you have any questions, please reach out to the 8th grade counselor, Mrs. Webster.

• Want to help spread some warmth in these cold months? NJHS will host a warm clothing drive from January 4th to January 15th during which you can donate warm clothing. Just stop by the school foyer, find the collection box labelled “Warm Clothes Drive,” and deposit any gently used or new blankets, scarves, masks, gloves, mittens, coats, hats, etc. you have! The supplies you donate will go to a local homeless shelter where it will hopefully help someone fend off the chill of these winter months. All donations have to be new or gently used, but masks must not have been worn. Masks will likely have a separate donation box. Thank you!

You put the US in RobioUS!

Derek Wasnock, Ed.D.

Principal

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