5-5-2023

Dear Rippowam families,

This was an eventful first week of May!  We had our first Spring Concert and Arts show in 4 years on Wednesday.  A HUGE thank you to Band teachers Ms. Gibson and Mr. Rizzi for their incredible dedication to make this show happen.  All student musicians were amazing and we had the entire school community cheering on their peers performers.  Also a huge thank you to Ms. Arendt and Ms. Frangione for putting together stellar examples of student artwork to celebrate the artistic talents of our young people.   Check out the Rippowam PTO Instagram page for pictures and videos of the evening @RippowamPTO

Teacher Appreciation Week is next week!
The PTO has been sending communications with ways to celebrate our amazing teaching staff.  We would also like to invite parents and students to write a personalized note on a digital wall for our school based staff.   Please take some time to appreciate the RIPP teachers, counselors or school-based support staff that have supported you this year or at any time during your child’s journey. We will also ask your children to do this at school, but they are welcome to log on at home and do this as well.   Thank you in advance for doing this!

Directions:

1. Click on the THIS LINK to open a Padlet to write notes of appreciation to your teachers

2. Teachers/School Based support Staff are listed alphabetically left to right, so keep scrolling right to find more teachers (except office staff and school safety are listed first)

3. Click the + icon to add a comment under the name of the staff member.  Add your name in the body of the comment if you want.  Otherwise the post will be anonymous

4. You can also like other posts.

5. All posts will be filtered through a moderator, so be positive, kind and professional.
    

Stamford High School Incoming 9th grade night on May 16th from 6-8pm
Stamford High welcomes the class of 2027.  Please see attached flyer:  SHS Incoming 9th grade Night 

Upcoming Assessment Information
Students will be engaged in a variety of assessments in the coming month:

Assessment Date(s) Notes

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English SBA May 8th-11th For all grades and will be administered in core classrooms.

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MI/RI May 15th-23rd MI (Math Inventory) and RI (Reading Inventory) are screening assessments 

       administered to all students in ELA and Math classes 3x/year

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Best,

Kristina Colmenares

If you didn’t see the Superintendent’s weekly message, please click HERE.