August 21, 2012

Staffing News:

Ms. Horgan, our music teacher, has taken a one-year leave of absence and is planning to start afresh for the 2013-14 school year.  We wish Ms. Horgan the best as she explores, takes time for professional growth and rests.  Our search for the Music teacher is not concluded.

Our Special Education Department has a new teacher and case manager, Jill Huntington.  Ms. Huntington comes to us from Beaverton School District.  I am thrilled to bring Ms. Huntington on board, she is highly skilled, an exceptional colleague, enthusiastic and creative.  Ms. Huntington is a joy to work with and is anxious to meet our students. 

Additionally, Ms. Cassell has resigned her post at Riverdale High School.  We support and celebrate her adventure.  Currently we are reviewing applications for our Humanities position opening.  Following is a heartfelt message for you from Ms. Cassell.

Dear Riverdale Families:

My five years at Riverdale have been the most fun and professionally satisfying of my life. The students, parents and colleagues at the high school have made it an absolute pleasure to go to work every day. Despite this, an opportunity has come my way that I feel I must accept. I will be working at Madison High School as Instructional Specialist. This change is important for my professional growth and development as an educator, but I have truly loved working with Riverdale students. I know that I am leaving a wonderful job with great students and families. I will miss the Riverdale community, probably painfully, and in fact, I already do. The timing of this change is awkward and I will do my best to help create a smooth transition, including handing over curriculum and working with my replacement. Thank you to students and parents for your support and the joy it has been to work with you.

Sincerely,

Santha

Site Council Recruitment

Site Council is a committee based on 21st Century Schools Councils (OAR 329.704) requirement.  The school council is responsible to assist in the development of professional growth of the schools staff; improvement of the school’s instructional program; and, coordination of plans to implement the programs. In more direct terms, the Site Council works to develop, monitor and revise our School Improvement Plan.  The Site Council is comprised of parents, students, classified staff, administration and teachers.

At Riverdale High School we meet once a month at 4:00 for 1.5 hours.  If you are interested in being considered for service on the Site Council please contact your principal, Paula Robinson.

Writing 121 Benefits

An important note about Writing 121, your student can acquire a PCC college credit after completing the class.  For a small fee college credit will be earned and applied to high school transcript.  This is important for first year of college scheduling because the more college credit a student has the higher they will be in the college registration process.  There is a trick, students must maintain a college transcript and remember to submit official transcripts upon registration to their college of choice.  This is true of AP test/credits as well.

Lunch Program Access

Students may submit money ahead of time or purchase lunch with cash.  If you desire to place money in a student account mail checks to: Express Catering PO Box 20954 Keizer, Oregon 97303 or turn checks in to the high school office.  For menu information go to: xpresscatering.com (lunch menu will be available the first of September)

If you have any questions you can email us at: xpresscatering@gmail.com or call us at

503 487 3510

From the Registrar:

STUDENT SCHEDULES

RHS Student Schedules are in the final stages of completion and evaluation.  Hopefully students will receive their schedules in the mail prior to the beginning of school.

We along with other schools in the state are transitioning from ESIS to a new student information system.  I have input schedules prior to this transition. However, we are experiencing glitches in the system during the rollover.  That said we are doing our best.  If you do not receive a schedule in the mail, your student will have one greeting them on the first day of school.  Our apologizes!

STUDENT REGISTRATION/PAPERWORK/FEES

All student registration forms, signature pages, general paperwork and school fees are to be submitted to the office by August 24th.  Every student in the school must have a new registration form on file in the office each year for parent contact and emergency purposes.

Thank you.

Mrs. Teeter

Registrar/Admin. Assist