Happy TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK to our AMAZING RJHS staff!
Students in Mrs. Mitchell’s Family & Consumer Sciences classes pose with their financial literacy certificates. Students completed seven financial literacy modules including banking basics, budgeting, and insurance with an average of 70% or higher to earn a certification.
L to R, Front: Sadie Culwell, Amanda Reyes, Riley Brenner, Janee Hernandez, Jimena Ceballos, Addison Crain, Madison Mills, Josie Traylor, Kaitlyn Alexander, Susanna Manns. L to R, Back: Tiana Taylor, Leilani Caballero, Jaida Jones, Mandy Rivera, Isaiah Anderson, Maleea Kamsourivong, Taylor Roach, Aaliyah Castro, Caden Keenan. Also certified, but not pictured: Paige Housenick, Gabriel Ruiz, Lucy Sweeney, Emma Taylor, Matt McClure, Genesis Mendoza, Jose Lara-Escobar, Taisean Donahue, Elaina Hall, and Mariaisobel Merino, Noah Elliot.
Way to go Whirlwinds!
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2023 RJHS ACT Aspire Daly Schedule for 8th and 9th
Visitors from John Hopkins University and the Arkansas Department of Education visited RJHS recently to visit with teachers and administrators who have been participating in a year-long educational program called Boundless Learning. They visited Coach Jordan Duvall and Melissa Jackson's 8th-grade history class and were excited to see the teachers working together and students learning.
REMINDER:
Tomorrow, April 18, 2023, @ 6pm in the RJHS Library
Parents of current RSD 7th and 8th-grade students who are interested in learning about our Summer 2024 trip to Washington DC and New York City need to check this out! Click the following link to RSVP for the meeting!
https://rsvp.efexploreamerica.com/5n2msxg
RJHS has some AMAZING 8th-grade art students who are participating in a NATIONAL Art Contest! The contest is the ESS Annual Art Contest and the prompt was "If I could take a field trip anywhere, it would be..."
Please follow the link below and vote for these students!
Voting begins today, April 10th, on the ESS Facebook and Instagram for public input. The winner receives $500 for themselves and $500 for their school.
https://www.facebook.com/ESSEducationStaffing/
Instagram handle: ess_education
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Just a reminder that our 3rd Quarter Whirlwind Awards will be tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The 8th-grade assembly will begin at 8:15 and the 9th-grade assembly will begin at 9:00. Parents and guardians are welcome to attend. Please check in to the front office and receive a visitor's badge.
Tonight our very own Whirlwind Theatre presents their Spring show, “A Lighter Shade of Noir”! The show will run tonight and tomorrow and starts at 7:00 pm at The Center for the Arts! Come out and support these awesome students!
Tomorrow, RJHS students will be attending a matinee performance at The Center for the Arts.
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It's that time again! It's March, and that means madness... BOOK EDITION! Our students and teachers have been voting all week on our Sweet 16 books and we want to give everyone the opportunity to cast a vote!
1.) Check out the link below and look at each book in each category.
2.) If you need to learn more about a book, click on it, and it will take you to a goodreads.com summary.
3.)
When you have looked at each category, there is a link on the last slide for a form to fill out and vote!
Voting ends for the Sweet 16 round tomorrow, March 15th, at 3:10 pm!
We will vote for the Elite 8 books later this week, and then the Final 4 books, the week after Spring Break!
Follow the link to cast your vote for this round: bit.ly/RJHSmm2023
RJHS EAST Lab is headed to EAST Conference 2023! These students have been working hard all year on service projects to help better their school community. One of the projects they have currently started is a small container garden on the RJHS Pad! Check out some of the other projects they have been working on here: https://youtu.be/A6o0U1aAxwA
Last night was our monthly RJHS Staff Night! Our teachers met yesterday evening to visit, snack, and make custom lanyards! We are FAMILY at RJHS and it was a great night!
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RJHS is so PROUD of our choir kiddos! EVERY group that performed at Choral Performance Assessment yesterday earned SUPERIOR ratings from EVERY judge!
They have worked so hard and it is so wonderful that the judges saw and appreciated their hard work too!
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These RJHS students passed their Microsoft Office Specialist Certification exam for Microsoft Word! This is a college-level exam that challenges the students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Word. You must score 700 or higher to pass and our highest score this year was 900!!
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RJHS Staff Spotlight: Coach Correia teaches PE and coaches football. He says the thing he enjoys the most about teaching is the interactions with his students/athletes. He loves learning from them and building relationships. He enjoys giving them tools and lessons that they can use for the rest of their lives.
We are proud to call Coach Correia a Whirlwind!
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RSD will host Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences on Thursday, February 23, 2023, from 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Schools will dismiss 1 hour early on this day @ 2:10 pm.
RJHS Staff Spotlight:
Ms. Hall is a 9th-grade English teacher. She says her favorite part of being a teacher is helping each of her students learn and grow as writers and readers! She loves seeing how much they learn and mature over the years, especially when they come back to see her after they've gotten older. It just makes her feel special and like she matters in their lives because they sure do matter to her!
We are proud to call Ms. Hall a Whirlwind!
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Happy National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day, Officer Lichty! RJHS is so grateful to have Officer Lichty helping to keep our building safe and secure!
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Don’t miss out! Ms. Giron’s tour to Japan in Summer 2024 is going to be an amazing adventure. Come to our informational meeting on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 5:30pm to learn more. Visit https://bit.ly/40kaXQa and make sure to RSVP to the meeting!
Thursday, February 23rd will be a 1 hour early dismissal day.
Parent teacher conferences will be from 3:00-9:00 p.m.
There will be no school on February 24th.
There's nothing else like your school yearbook! Get your hands on the limited edition collection of our stories from the year! Order your's today at this link: https://bit.ly/RJHSyearbookform
