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SUBJECT: RH Pony Posts: Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022

Sunday, December 4, 2022
A Note from Principal Cotton

We will be celebrating All Inclusive week with our students!  There will be activities all week for students to participate in at our school to support our learning community and to celebrate our students! 


12/5- Students will draw a on mural about what inclusion means to them. They can write or draw a picture.

12/6- Hats off to Inclusive schools week.  Students can wear a crazy or favorite hat today.

12/7-Teachers and Staff will share books or poems about inclusion.

12/8-Students will draw a picture about “unity in the community.”

12/9-Students develop a class motto or mission on inclusiveness.


A few more activities this week are listed below: 

12/6- Spelling Bee for participating students.

12/7- We will have our Battle of The Books for participating teams.

12/9- House Meeting for all staff and students!


Love,

Mrs. Cotton

Coming Up at RHE

Wednesday, Dec. 7th: 

  • Battle of the Books

  • Angel Tree items due


Thursday, Dec. 8: 

  • Reading is Fundamental (RIF) Book Distribution

  • Angel Tree items due

Friday, Dec. 9: 

  • Reading is Fundamental (RIF) Book Distribution

  • Popcorn Friday


Tuesday, Dec. 13:

  • 5th Grade Program (6:30 p.m.)


Thursday, Dec. 15:

  • Pajama Reading Day & Holiday Parties; End of the Semester; PTA End of Semester Get-Together (Time TBD; Location TBD)


Friday, Dec. 16:

  • Staff Day – NO SCHOOL


Monday, Dec. 19:

  • Winter Break Begins (No School until January 4th) 


MUSTANG MALL UPDATE!

Thank you everyone for your patience with our Mustang Mall items! We have nearly everything in-hand and will deliver to classrooms this week!

Battle of the Books is Wednesday, 12/7!

Battle of the Books is this Wednesday, 12/7. We will hold the following schedule and we will be using the gym and inviting parents and students to watch the competition. 

  • 8:30-9:15 - 3rd grade

  • 9:30-10:15 - 4th grade

  • 10:30-11:15 - 5th grade

Please let me know if you have any questions! Thank you all!

-jennifer.nevitt@fwisd.org

Angel Tree Update

Y'all are amazing! All of our Mustang Angels have been adopted! 

If you still want to help spread some joy, we are collecting $25 Walmart gift cards. We will give these to our Mustang Angel families with their gifts to help purchase food, wrapping paper, etc. for the holidays. 

You can purchase the gift card, then send it to school with your child in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Harris (School Counselor). These are also due December 7-8. 

Questions? Contact Amy Wood: amywood81@gmail.com

or Mrs. Tracie Harris: tracie.harris@fwisd.org 

Ridglea Hills Choir is Spreading Holiday Cheer this Week

Please join us as the Ridglea Hills Choir spreads a little holiday cheer around the city. Catch us at one of our upcoming performances. 


The Shops at Clearfork - plaza 

Friday, December 9 @ 11:30 am


Sundance Square Plaza (by the Fort Worth Christmas Tree)

Saturday, December 10 @ 6:00 pm


See you there!  -Mrs. Holmes

Order Run Club Shirts by Midnight on 12/4

The deadline to order a Run Club shirt is tonight, Dec. 4th, at midnight. Click the link below to get your order in!

https://rherunclub22-23.itemorder.com/shop/sale/

CONGRATULATIONS Ridglea Hills PTA!

We have earned the prestigious Golden Apple award from Texas PTA for having 100% staff participation in our PTA membership! We love our amazing staff and teachers and are so proud of their support and participation in PTA!!!

A Message from FWISD

Season’s Greetings!

Earlier this fall, stakeholder groups met to provide feedback on the new parental survey consent process. In FWISD, a survey is a formal method for collecting information on opinions, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas reported by an individual student. The District does surveys to help district leaders, school administrators, teachers, and support staff to:

· Improve the student’s overall school experience.

· Better understand students’ needs for additional support for them to be successful.

· In some instances, capturing students’ voices is a requirement to obtain specialized funding and to comply with state/federal law.

The District is defining opt-in and opt-out as the following:

· Opt-in: Students will not be included in the survey unless the box is checked to participate.

· Opt-out: Students will automatically participate unless the box is checked not to participate.

This process will allow parents to choose either to opt-in or opt-out of surveys identified for the 2022 - 2023 school year. The process will be managed through PowerSchool and is scheduled to begin Monday, December 5, 2022, and through January 6, 2023.

For the 2023-2024 school year, the District plans to include survey parental consent forms in the registration process.

Stay tuned! Soon, you will receive an email from Power School with helpful steps on how to complete the process.

Thank you for your continued partnership with Fort Worth ISD!

¡Saludos navideños!

A principios de este otoño, los grupos de partes interesadas se reunieron para proporcionar comentarios sobre el nuevo proceso de consentimiento de la encuesta parental. En FWISD, una encuesta es un método formal para recopilar información sobre opiniones, percepciones, sentimientos, pensamientos e ideas reportadas por un estudiante individual. El Distrito realiza encuestas para ayudar a los líderes del distrito, administradores escolares, maestros y personal de apoyo a:

· Mejorar la experiencia escolar general del estudiante.

· Comprender mejor las necesidades de los estudiantes de apoyo adicional para que tengan éxito.

· En algunos casos, capturar las voces de los estudiantes es un requisito para obtener fondos especializados y cumplir con la ley estatal/federal.

El Distrito define opt-in (participar) y opt-out (no participar) de la siguiente manera:

· Opt-in: Los estudiantes no serán incluidos en la encuesta a menos que la opción esté marcada para participar.

· Opt-out: Los estudiantes participarán automáticamente a menos que la opción esté marcada para no participar.

Este proceso permitirá a los padres elegir entre participar o no en las encuestas identificadas para el año escolar 2022-2023. El proceso se administrará a través de Power School y está programado para comenzar el lunes 5 de diciembre de 2022 y hasta el 6 de enero de 2023.

Para el año escolar 2023-2024, el Distrito planea incluir formularios de consentimiento de los padres en el proceso de inscripción.

¡Estén atentos! Pronto, recibirán un correo electrónico de Power School con pasos útiles sobre cómo completar el proceso.

¡Gracias por su continua colaboración con Fort Worth ISD!


Additional Resources
  • General information regarding Ridglea Hills Elementary School is available online at our PTA-sponsored website – www.rhpta.com. Please get familiar with this website and bookmark it on your browser.

  • For specific questions regarding school-administered matters not addressed on www.rhpta.com, including but not limited to academic affairs, school registration, testing, campus security, school programs, Fort Worth ISD policies and procedures, etc., please contact the school office at 817-815-1700.

  • For non-PTA-related posts (i.e., selling uniforms, looking for a carpool group to join, etc.), please head over to the Ridglea Hills Elementary Parents Facebook group.

  • Other helpful Ridglea Hills Elementary School-related Facebook pages include the following:

    • Ridglea Hills Elementary

    • Ridglea Hills Elementary School’s Counselor

    • Ridglea Hills Mustang Muscle (for those RHE dads interested in getting involved with school service projects)

    • RHE Run Club

 

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