Thundercat Weekly

Hello Thundercat Families,

In our efforts to celebrate a culture of kindness, we ask for the continued support of parents and students in reminding our substitute teachers how much we appreciate them. Please continue having conversations with your children about the importance of substitute teachers on campus.

Celebrate:

Counselor Week was this week!

7th Grade Social is Friday 2-10-23!

Super Bowl weekend!

Upcoming Events:

Half Day- FBISD Student half day on February 16th. Dismissal will be at 1:25 pm

Holiday- FBISD Student Holiday on February 17th

Safety-

Student ID badges with lanyards are worn daily around the neck. This is a campus-wide expectation.

There is an increase in insulting language that students like to call “roasting”. This behavior is cruel and inappropriate. Please help us communicate with your child that putting others down, in the guise of “roasting” is mean and unacceptable. In addition, this behavior leads to hurt feelings, confrontations, and altercations. Thank you for talking to your student about appropriate ways to communicate with friends and peers.

Whole Child Health Initiative

Fort Bend ISD is excited to present our February parent webinar: “Study Habits & Test Anxiety”. This webinar will equip parents and caregivers will with research-based strategies and tools to help students be better prepared for school, state, and national assessments. Information about test anxiety symptoms, current district and campus-based support systems to address it, and best practices regarding how to lower and/or minimize it will also be shared. The parent webinar will be held on Wednesday, February 15th at 6 p.m. Whole Child Health, focuses on Whole Child Health, is aligned with FBISD's Profile of a Graduate, and is committed to supporting and developing the mental, behavioral, social, emotional, and physical health of all students in FBISD.

Links: Study Habits & Test Anxiety Webinar Link; FBISD Whole Child Health Webpage

Next week, Mon. Feb 13- Feb 16, Student Council is sponsoring Kindness Week!

If students are caught being kind, they will be given a ticket. They will put their name on their ticket and bring it to the girls' gym to put in a drawing. The drawing will take place next Thursday after the morning announcements.

Two students per grade will receive a gift card to Chick Fil A. We will also have dress-up days all week long!! Let’s be caught being kind!!

Girl’s Soccer Tryouts will be held March 20- March 22 at 7:15am. Girls must attend all 3 days of tryouts. Practices will be held M, T, W from 7:15am- 8:20am and games will be played on Thursdays.
( except for Wednesday, April 5 and Monday, May 1 and District Finals on Saturday, May 6)

You MUST have physical uploaded to Rank One and all Electronic forms filled out by March 9 to try out.

The following are the FBISD guidelines on ID’s, which also included consequences pertaining to various ID infractions.

Wearing Student Badges

All students are required to visibly display their Student ID badge during normal school hours while on campus. The badge must be worn above the waist with the student’s picture clearly visible. Exceptions are afforded for students participating in vigorous activity related to recess or a PE credit class.

Student Badge Use

Student badges provide access to services within the building, including the following access/check-ins:

• Cafeteria meal payments
• Library services
• Entrance to campus events (dances, pep rallies, )
• Entrance to games

Student Badge Replacement

There are several reasons a student might need a replacement badge and no badge replacement fee will be required for the following circumstances:

• Student enrolls at a new campus

• Student appearance changes significantly
• Legal name change

Students are expected to turn in their old ID when a new one is provided.

Students who lose their badge will be offered temporary identification. If the old badge cannot be located replacement fees may be required.

Temporary Identification – Secondary Students Only

If a secondary student arrives at school without a badge, they will be given a temporary wristband to wear during the school day at the beginning of their first period on campus. The student must wear the wristband all day. The student’s name is recorded by the issuing staff member to assist with tracking.

MISPLACED/LOST BADGE

1st-3rd Offense

• Recorded in Skyward but not a referral
• Student given temporary wristband

4th Offense

• Recorded as discipline referral consequence assigned
• Parent contact
• Student pays $5 for new printed badge

5th Offense and Beyond

• Recorded as discipline referral and detention assigned
• Parent contact
• Student pays $5 for new printed badge

DESTRUCTION OF BADGE

1st-2nd Offense

• Recorded as discipline referral in Skyward and detention assigned
• Student pays $5 for new printed badge
• Parent Contact

3rd Offense- Beyond

• Recorded as discipline referral additional consequences assigned
• Parent Contact
• Student pays $5 for new badge
• Assigned ISS

All fees will be entered and collected through RevTrak.

https://fortbendisd.revtrak.net/FBISD-Schools-1082/ms/thornton-ms/rtms-fines-fees/#/v/rtms-student-id-replacement-fee

If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to any administrator.

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https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/cgi/sas/broker?_service=marykay&_program=perfrept.perfmast.sas&_debug=0&ccyy=2022&lev=C&id=079907055&prgopt=reports%2Fsrc%2Fsrc.sas

https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/cgi/sas/broker?_service=marykay&_program=perfrept.perfmast.sas&_debug=0&frc=yes&ccyy=2022&lev=C&id=079907055&prgopt=2019%2Ffrc%2Freport_card.sas

First and second offense, students will get their phones back at 7th period.

Third offense and beyond, parents will have to pay $10 via RevTrak and come to the campus to pick up their child’s phone.

https://fortbendisd.revtrak.net/FBISD-Schools-1082/ms/thornton-ms/rtms-fines-fees/#/list

Reminder all cell phones/earbuds/air pods must be put in student backpacks before they walk into RTMS.

We are a cell phone free zone school.

Good news:

All immunizations for children and adults are available at Texas Vaccine Institute, Monday through Friday from 9::00 Am to 5:00 Pm. NO APPOINTMENTS NECESSARY, WE ACCEPT WALK-INS !

Address:
21811 Katy Freeway
Suite: D - 102
Katy, Texas 77450
Tel: 281-828 1893

Supervision is available for students daily 8:20AM- 4:30PM.

Thank you for being timely in your drop off and pick up of our thundercat students.

A student is tardy when they arrive less than five (5) minutes after the bell without a pass. Arrival after twenty (20) minutes without a pass students are truant. Each teacher will record tardies in Skyward.

Consequences:

• Tardy: Student Conference

• 2-3 Tardies: Parent Contact

• 4-5 Tardies: Referral, After School Detention

• 6+Tardies: Referral; Saturday Detention and Parent Conference

The safety of our Thundercats is top priority and we appreciate everyone adhering to our dismissal process.

Parents please be kind to our RTMS neighbors and do not drop off or pick up students in those areas. Please use our car rider line. Thank you for your understanding in keeping our Thundercats safe and our neighbors safe too.

· If you plan to drop off/pick up your student by vehicle, please remain in the RTMS designated car rider line.

1. When dropping off students for tutorials or clubs 7:50 - 8:15 am, please use the second lane crosswalk area, in the front drive, to drop off in the morning.
2. Please have students exit and enter vehicles near the front curb of the campus.

Thank you in advance for following the car rider map.

Thank you for helping to keep our thundercats safe !

Thank you for reaching out to the Ronald Thornton Middle School Attendance Office! Here are some frequent Q’s & A’s and resource information that may help address your concerns even faster:

1. What should I do if my child is absent?

If your child is absent from instruction, please attach your documentation to an email within 5 days of the absence to attendancertms@fortbendisd.com

2. I believe my child was incorrectly marked absent.
Please contact the teacher who marked the absence. If it is incorrect, the teacher will either edit the attendance or contact the attendance office to make a correction.

3. What do I do if I need to pick my child up early for an appointment?
Sign in at the Front Office with your sate issued I.D., you will get a Visitor’s Badge to the Attendance Office. Sign your student out from the Attendance Office. Please remember to bring a doctor’s note back to school the next day to allow the absence to be excused. Please make sure if you (parent or guardian) are sending another person to pick-up your student/s, they are listed on the emergency contacts.Students will not be released if they are not on the emergency contact.

4. What if I need to add someone on my student/s emergency contact for early pick-up?

Email Christine.gruber@fortbendisd.com the name, number and relationship to student/s with a copy of your ID.

5. What is the latest I can pick-up my student?

Student pickup is suspended from 3:40 p.m-4:10 p.m.

6. Do I need to call when my student is absent?

No, calls are considered a courtesy but not an excuse please follow up with a written note or medical note in order for absence to be excused.

7. Why is the absence still showing unexcused?
Once documentation is submitted, it can take up to 48 hours to show in Skyward.

8. What information should be included in the absence note?

Please include first name and last name, grade level, reason for absence.

9. How many days can my student be absent before they need a Medical Note?

According to the FBISD Parent/ Student Handbook, a student can be absent 4 consecutive days with a parent written excuse after the 5th day a medical note will need to be provided.

10. My student is sick and leaving from the clinic, do I need to sign out from the Attendance Office?

You will sign your student out from the Clinic only if the nurse or nurse’s assistant has spoken with you. The nurse will let the Attendance Clerk know and your student will be excused for the missed classes.

If the Nurse or Nurse Assistant does not inform you to pick your student up from the clinic then you will need to sign your student out from the Attendance Office and the student will be called from class.

11. Can my student wait for me in the entrance, if they know I am coming to pick them up?

Due to safety reasons and constant flow of entering and exiting the building, please DO NOT have your student wait for you in the entrance of the school.

12. My child forgot an item (lunch, band instrument, technology, etc.) at home, how can I get it to them?

We do not deliver items to students. Student will not be called out of class to retrieve items. A table is set up in the vestibule, where you are able to drop the item off, text your student the item is at the front of the school on the table. If allowed by the teacher they may come or during passing period to pick item up.

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• Free and reduced lunch forms open on August 1. It can be completed at www.schoolcafe.com/fbisd. Families must complete an application for each school year.
• Meal prices for 2022-23 School Year:
• Student Breakfast: $2.00
• Secondary Lunch: $3.00
• Parents may put money in student’s accounts PRIOR to the 1st day of school to avoid longer lunch lines at the start of school.

Please refrain from parking in the neighborhood across from Ronald Thornton Middle School. Violators will be ticketed.

Please understand that we cannot honor requests for students to ride bus routes other than their own designated route. Students who do not have bus-riding privileges will not be able to ride the bus with their bus-riding friends. Therefore, please plan accordingly so that everyone experiences a smooth dismissal each school day.

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