February 25, 2022 EDition
Day Without Hate
A Day Without Hate is a student-led, grassroots organization that promotes nonviolence, respect, and unity within our schools. Help your child join their fellow students district wide to help end school violence and promote peace. By encouraging students to be tolerant, friendly, and kind, while teaching them that there are non-violent solutions to problems, hopefully as a community we can create a better world. Scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors for their efforts in promoting peace in their high schools and communities. The scholarship is funded by the traditional Day Without Hate T-shirt sales. The price of the T-shirt is $6 for both youth and adult sizes. Please send cash only and return your order form (linked below) by Monday, March 7, 2022 to the Main Office. Your child will receive his/her shirt by April 22nd and can be worn on April 29th.
Senior Signs
Attention Parents and Families of Seniors Class of 2022!!! It Is time to order a Senior Yard Sign to demonstrate your pride in your Graduating Senior to your friends, family, and neighbors! We are so proud of the Class of 2022 for all of their accomplishments!!! Let’s give them a big shout-out!!!!
This is also a fundraiser to help support Ralston Valley PTSA After-Prom, so be sure to get several so that extended family such as grandparents can join in the fun!
Please visit this link to make your purchase https://rvsenioryardsign.itemorder.com/
Signs will be available for pickup the week of April 11, 2022. We will send out an email regarding the times and location to pick up your order. Please note we will not have any extra signs on hand to purchase, all sign sales will need to be preordered using the online store, so don’t wait!!!!
Congratulations Students and Families of our Graduating Seniors CLASS OF 2022!
athletics
With a great 5-4 win over Lewis-Palmer on Thursday, the Mustang Hockey team will move on to the 2nd round of the state playoffs against Monarch on Monday, February 28th @ DU Magness Arena. Game time will be 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the quarterfinals are sold through GoFan. There will be no cash sales for any 5A postseason games at DU or Ball Arena. Your ticket is good for all-day admission on the date of the ticket. Purchase Your 5A Quarterfinal Tickets here.
The RV ski season wrapped up with the state race this past week. We are so proud of Anna Blum, Cheyanne Kerns, Sofie Maher, Austin Owens, Jay Valiquette, and Jade Woycheese. A special shout out to Jay and Sofie as state qualifiers. They competed in the slalom finishing 37th and 47th respectively.
The wrestling team finished 19th at the state tournament with Senior Josh Horsley finishing 6th at 160 pounds and sophomore Lincoln Gregersen runner-up at 113 pounds. Senior Mateo Rivera also represented the Mustangs well going 1-2 at the tournament to finish off a great career.
Both our girls and boys basketball teams will square off against Fountain-Fort Carson in the 2nd round of the state playoffs this weekend in the Mustang Range. The girls play tonight at 6:00 p.m. and the boys Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students as no passes are accepted for CHSAA post-season events.
State Skiing
A great season for sophomore Sofie Maher who wrapped up her season at the state championships in the slalom last week.
Adaptive Hockey Day
Students in our SSN program and from 25 other schools participating in adaptive hockey day at Alameda H.S.
Skiing
Jay Valiquette competing for RV on Evergreen HS's ski team.
Advisement Corner
Due to the President’s Day holiday, there was no Advisement class on Monday.
On Monday, February 28, students will be looking at positive character traits such as integrity, honesty, and friendliness. Students will identify 3 positive character traits and share them with the class as a part of a “character collage.” As students look ahead to March, they will be diving into a deeper understanding of personal character development.
Counseling Department
Course Selection for 2022-2023
Counselors have been visiting middle schools to help current 8th graders with their course selections for next year. Counselors have now been to Three Creeks K-8, Coal Creek Canyon K-8, Wayne Carle, Oberon, and Drake. If you have a current 8th grader who has questions about their course selection, please have them email their counselor-to-be at RV!
Also, counselors met with10th graders in their English classes this week and will meet with 11th graders next week.
Upcoming College Visits
Monday, February 28
9:30 a.m. Savannah College of Art & Design
Wednesday, March 2
1:00 p.m. Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Friday, March 4
11:30 a.m. Metropolitan State University of Denver
RVHS College Information Night
RV will be hosting a College Information Night on Tuesday, March 1st from 6:30-8 p.m. There will be multiple breakout sessions for students and families to choose from and the information is geared towards sophomores and juniors. Please see this flyer for more information. To help us with space planning purposes, if you are interested in attending, please fill out this form. RSVPs are not required to attend. We will hopefully be able to record these sessions and post them to the Counseling website so those who are unable to attend may view them later.
Columbine Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship is open to Jeffco seniors who have made a positive impact in their school and/or larger community. Candidates must have at least a 2.5 cumulative unweighted GPA and will be evaluated on their essays, leadership, involvement in extracurricular activities as well as academic achievement, references, financial need, and any outstanding circumstances. Click here for a listing of all Denver Foundation Scholarships and scroll down to the Columbine Memorial Scholarship.
Spring Youth Job Fair at Arvada High School
This is a great opportunity for students looking for part-time or seasonal employment!
Date: Wednesday, March 16
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Arvada High School, Upper Gym (Park in the South Lot)
"I Matter" Free Counseling Sessions
The Colorado Department of Human Services has established a temporary behavioral health services program to provide access to mental health services. I Matter can provide at least three free therapy sessions to youth 18 years of age and younger. The program expires 6-30-22. For more information and to schedule a session, click here.
"Parenting is Hard" Webinar
Popular speaker Nick Thompson is offering a webinar to help parents build a more positive and connected relationship with their child, tween, or teen. For more information and to register, click here.
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Times: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. & 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
health
RVHS COVID Testing Center - New Hours
With changes to local health guidelines the testing center located at Ralston Valley High School will be changing our Testing Room hours. The testing center is open to any current Jeffco student or employee. Starting on Monday, February 14th, the testing center which is housed at Ralston Valley will have the following hours:
M, W, F: 10:00 a.m. -1:30 p.m. located in the Mezzanine*
T, Th: 3:00 p.m.. - 5:30 p.m.. located in room R2204*
*For anyone that is not a student at RVHS entrances to both locations are open and marked on the north end of the building.
Medication and Self Screening
A few reminders, please screen or have your students self-screen for any COVID symptoms before sending students to school. Please contact me (Kristie.Charron@jeffco.k12.co.us) for any student with a positive COVID test. If your student will be taking any medication at school, please complete the medication agreement form, have your doctor sign, and return to the nurse (this is also for any over-the-counter medications).
Please also continue to send state allergy, asthma, and seizure plans to myself or our health aide (michelle.hanson@jeffco.k12.co.us) in the main office. If your student has any new or existing health concerns that require a health plan, please contact the nurse so that we can get a health plan in place for your student at school.
I have included the link for the Jeffco Health Services Website which has the necessary forms to complete for medications at school.
https://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/services/health_services/medications
RVHS Happenings
Algebra 2 students in Mrs. Cerrone's class are currently working on solving log equations, but they needed to take a quick break to celebrate it being 2:22 on 2/22/22!!
In honor of CTE month, this week's CTE spotlight is going to our Interior Design Program. RV's Interior Design Industry Partner, Sue Runge (Interior Designer and owner of Icon Designs) invited both of our Interior Design classes to one of her current house remodel projects to give them an inside look of the design process from the very beginning. We will go back in March when her project is close to be finished to see her progress!
Students in Mr. Pennell's AP Physics 1 class designed their own experiments to determine the moment of inertia of different objects.
Chemistry students in Mrs. Martin's class performed an experiment by reacting magnesium with hydrochloric acid and measuring the amount of hydrogen gas produced.
Friday's National Honor Society trivia night was full of high energy, laughs, and some brain scratchers. The spirit award went to team "Example: Cowboys", who brought the humor and matching pink outfits! Our overall winner was team, "We are definitely all seniors". Congrats to all participating teams - thanks for coming out!
Quick Reference
Administration
Principal - Ms. Buenning, (303) 982-5600
12th Asst Principal - Mr. Litzau, (303) 982-5611
9th Asst Principal - Mr. Ackerman, (303) 982-5595
11th Asst Principal - Mr. Pergola, (303) 982-5604
10th Asst Principal - Ms. Kline, (303) 982-9378
Athletics Director - Mr. Stadler, (303) 982-3563
Dean - Mrs. Nigut, (303) 982-5101
