Rich Hill Elementary

If your business would like to purchase a spot on the 2024-25 Rich Hill Athletic Calendar for $50, please download the form at https://5il.co/2hb13 and return it to Central Office with payment. Please make sure your business information is accurate and that you have provided the correct logo using the method selected on the form. All proceeds minus actual printing cost will go directly to student athletics.

JH Cheer Tryouts tonight from 4:15 to 5:00 in the dome for girls that have signed up and returned all paperwork to Mrs. Schenker.

Proposition KIDS Town Hall and Information Here's a sample of what just went out in the weekly District Newsletter. The link to sign up is at the end: The weather wasn't very cooperative last night, but we had a couple of community members who up to learn about Prop KIDS and then take a tour of the greenhouse which was paid for by a large grant and then district funds. A couple of years ago, the board refinanced our debt at a lower interest rate. This cut 3 years off of the life of the loan. Since then, both the assessment and amount of personal property in the district has increased bringing in more revenue than what our payments require. The board has two options: lower the tax rate or prepay the loans faster than scheduled. Proposition KIDS provides a 3rd alternative. If voters choose to approve Prop KIDS, the board can then flex the surplus revenue into operating funds to help with building and equipment repairs and maintenance before things reach a point where the board has to ask for more debt to be taken out. The money the board flexes into operating funds earns a much higher interest rate than what we are paying on our debt providing even more revenue for the district. If voters don't approve Prop KIDS, then the debt will be paid off around 2028 or so and then the $1.0086 levy will fall off. This will drop district revenues by about $460,000 per year...or about 10% of the district's annual budget. The district has leveraged millions of dollars in grant money and stretched our dollar as far as we can. Operating costs and minimum salaries continue to increase at a rapid rate while state funding has been flat for almost 10 years. From now until the election, I will continue to post more information about Prop KIDS so the public can make an informed decision before going to the polls on April 2. Sign up the newsletter here: https://d1fd8f10.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAEYVwXgu0UWCK4kKVaBOQK588II_v75zh7gTxe8MMii55iaZrpxnpt6kkbn66yeNkwGOJi1qAyeB33JrBdui1xmmJcV-A2ZUVVNvG3oUbxP_zlChNfCsWhzF0kQ-U9616q7GZcUUJy8CVp4R2EdLSnTeyKWsC8PmD6VS73zbacp1moXQV8aEXifHgz0311Kfei6vzJ1hSh9h

Reminder: Tomorrow morning, 3.6.2024, is the FREE physical day! Your student must have the completed and signed physical forms to be seen by the physician. The physicals are available for grades 5th-12th. If you are unsure if your student needs a physical, please call or email the HS office. 417-395-4191 tjblack@richhill.k12.mo.us

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!

Click the link to learn more about Prop KIDS in the district newsletter. https://sh1.sendinblue.com/vphwgidtxpfe.html?t=1709324161 Please subscribe to the district newsletter to make sure you never miss district news!

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.