Rich Hill Elementary

Rich Hill will once again be making our own Sports Calendar for 2024-25. The company who has done this in the past has not contacted us and I informed them last year we would be doing it ourselves from now on. We have typically gotten one $300 check from them for all the ads sold to the community. I believe we can do better with all of the money going directly to our athletic program. We will begin working on an order form with prices and post it here and to Facebook shortly. Our goal would be to have calendars printed and ready to go by the beginning of August. Thank you!

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Last day for the Spring Book Fair 2024! And two new items just dropped!

Pre-order the newest DogMan book at your Book Fair! We will deliver it to your favorite student on March 19 when they arrive!

Your Book Fair opens today, Monday, February 26!! Join in the fun!

First District Newsletter. Sign up if you haven't already. Here's a link to the first edition: https://sh1.sendinblue.com/vla74idtxpfe.html?t=1708717893

Get ready!! Begins Monday, Feb. 26!

Kindergarten and Early Childhood Screenings for the 2024-2025 school year will be March 25th & 26th. Students must turn 5 years old by August 1, 2024, to be eligible for kindergarten. Early childhood screenings are for students aged 3 to 5 years old. An appointment can be made by calling Carla in the elementary office at (417)395-2227. We look forward to meeting you and your child.

Junior High Cheerleader Tryouts (Current 5th-7th Grade): *Interest Meeting 2.28.2024 (2:50pm-for students) *Cheer Camp-March 6th & 7th (3:15-4:15) *Teacher Evaluations Due: 3.8.2024 *Tryouts 3.19.2024 (4:15 - 5)

Head’s up, Tigers fan! Shop our latest drop and score all your favorite Carhartt hoodies, hats, outerwear, and more at Sideline Store. https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/missouri/richhill/rich-hill-r-4-high-school

FREE MSHSAA 2-year Pre-Participation Physicals will be given on Wednesday, March 6th starting at 8:30 am. If your child will participate in any of the following activities in the years 2024-2026, please consider having your student receive a physical. football/cheer/volleyball/cross country/basketball/track & field/softball/baseball/HS band/HS color guard. There are physical forms available in the high school office or online line at: https://www.mshsaa.org/resources/SportsMedicine/MSHSAA-PPE-MH-SSMB.pdf If the forms are not completed, signed, and with the child on the date above, your student will not receive the exam. Please contact the high school office if you have any questions. 417-395-4191 tjblack@richhill.k12.mo.us

If your child has an IEP, receives Special Education Services, and you have not filled out this parent survey yet, please click the link and enter the district code to complete this survey required by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: http://spec.education/ Access Code: UBXGNV

The Rich Hill R-IV School District is now accepting separate bids for haying and bids for contracted summer lawn care, mowing, and weed suppression on the school’s property. Full details will be posted to NEWS on the district website or a copy may be picked up in the superintendent's office. Bidders will supply all equipment, labor, fuel and other necessary items to complete the work. Bidders will also carry liability insurance and provide proof of that in the bidding process. The Rich Hill R-IV School District retains the right to reject any or all bids submitted. Sealed bids are due to the Rich Hill R-IV Central Office, 703 N. 3rd St., Rich Hill, MO 64779, by noon, April 8, 2024.

It has taken a bit to figure out a format that works, but I've posted two yearbooks on the alumni page that are on Google Slides so they can be viewed easily and without software. I'll post a news story as well so I can give links and details. Court Warming is tonight starting at 5:30pm in the dome. As part of our Continuous Improvement Plan, the committee wanted the district to begin a newsletter. Sign up here: https://d1fd8f10.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAEYVwXgu0UWCK4kKVaBOQK588II_v75zh7gTxe8MMii55iaZrpxnpt6kkbn66yeNkwGOJi1qAyeB33JrBdui1xmmJcV-A2ZUVVNvG3oUbxP_zlChNfCsWhzF0kQ-U9616q7GZcUUJy8CVp4R2EdLSnTeyKWsC8PmD6VS73zbacp1moXQV8aEXifHgz0311Kfei6vzJ1hSh9h

We need some assistance from the Rich Hill community. The school is working on several records projects and we need information we don’t have. If you have any Rich Hill High School sports scorebooks from the past because you or a relative coached, we need those to create an accurate official school record book. Also, the library is missing many years of yearbooks since these used to be part of general circulation and they would not get returned. Now we store the yearbooks as a historical record and they are not checked out to students. I am working on a senior composite project and I will not be able to make all past senior composites available without a copy of each year’s Yearbook. If you have one you would like to donate to the school’s historical collection, please drop it by Central Office. If you have a yearbook and don’t want to part with it, if you could come by central office and let us scan in the senior portraits, that would also be very helpful. Here are the yearbooks we need: 1881-1910; 1912-1945; 1947, 1948; 1952-1954; 1956-1962; 1964, 1966, 1967; 1969-1971; 1973, 1974, 1976; 1978-1987; 2000. Thank you Rich Hill!

Little cheer practice for today (1.22.2024) has been canceled.

Dear Parents, DESE has released our Annual Performance Report (APR). We received this report in December from last April's MAP results and have 3 months to show improvement before our students are assessed again. Overall, after the rules for calculating points were changed, schools in the state declined an average of 5%. We declined 11%. While our students show acceptable performance and we received most of those points, the state measures each individual student's growth from their last assessment and gives points based on what the state considers adequate growth for every student. We did not receive many of those points. This week, we began a "soft" implementation of a growth assessment called NWEA. Each student will take a Growth benchmark quiz 3 times a year so we can track their individual progress over their academic career. This will allow teachers to modify instruction, address skill deficits, and provide advanced work to students who are above grade level. In a separate "News" story, I will post my thoughts on the way school's are "held accountable" by legislators and the true purpose of that design. These short assessments are about 43 questions each in reading, language usage, math, and science. The students begin at the last level they assessed at and get questions that are "too hard" and questions that are "too easy" until, by the end of the test, we know exactly what that "sweet spot" for instruction is. On top of this tool, the elementary teachers have been working all year on a reading system called LETRS that has significantly changed the way they are teaching reading and they are excited about the results they are getting from students. While we may not have much time for improvement this year, we hope that the few months we've been given will be enough to boost our growth so that we can have the entire year next year to get each student on track to grow from where they are. I am attaching two links for you: 1. Annual Performance Report (select Rich Hill in the drop down menu); 2. NWEA Family Toolkit. I hope these two resources help you understand our improvement efforts to represent Rich Hill and your children well. 1. https://apps.dese.mo.gov/MCDS/Visualizations.aspx?id=36 2. https://www.nwea.org/family-toolkit/ Thank you and look for my News story to post soon, Dr. Goddard

The Rich Hill District has completed the drinking water sampling required by Missouri's "Get the Lead Out" legislation. Out of 119 sources, only the 8 high school science lab table faucets were above 5 parts per billion in lead. According to the EPA: "Lead is known to cause a range of health effects, from behavioral problems and learning disabilities, to seizures and death. Children six years old and under are most at risk from exposure lead-based paint because they crawl on the floor and they put their hands and other items which can have lead-based paint dust on them into their mouths. Because their bodies are still growing, children tend to absorb more lead than adults." The sampling plan, final report, educational information, and remediation plan are at the bottom of the district page: https://www.richhill.k12.mo.us/page/district

Little Cheer Practice Announcement: Tuesday, Jan. 16th. We will be having Little Cheer practice from 3:15 - 4:30 pm for those who can make it into the school.

This is an important announcement from the Rich Hill R-IV School District. Due to the weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service extended through noon tomorrow, there will be no school on Tuesday; however, because temperatures will begin to warm through the afternoon, the basketball teams will still travel to Osceola. The bus will leave the school at 3:50 and the games will begin at 5:30pm. Thank you and stay warm and safe.