🎭 September 27-30 - Fall Play - Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (Female Version) - 7:00pm

🎉 September 29 - Homecoming Parade - Coyote Creek Elementary - 3:45pm

🧮 October 2 - Official Student Count Day for the State of Colorado

🎉 October 2 - Powder Puff Game - Halftime Help - Fresh/Soph - 6:00-7:00pm, Jr/Sr- 7:00-8:00pm

🎉 October 3 - Ruff 'n' Tuff - Grizzly Den - Fresh/Soph - 6:00-6:45pm, Jr/Sr - 7:00-7:45pm

🎉 October 4 - Grizzly Unified Homecoming Wiffle Ball Game - TRHS Baseball Field - 3:15pm

🎉 October 4 - Bonfire - C Lot - 7:30pm

🎉 October 5 - Homecoming Football Game - Halftime Help - 7:00pm

🎉 October 6 - Field Day - NO PLC

🎉 October 7 - Homecoming Dance - ThunderRidge Commons - 8:30pm

🎵 October 9 - Orchestra Concert -Auditorium - 7:00pm

🎵 October 10 - Choir Concert - Auditorium - 7:00pm

🎵 October 11 - Band Concert - Auditorium - 7:00pm

🎓 October 12 - Herff Jones Cap & Gown Ordering - Main Lobby - 11:00am-6:00pm

🍎 October 12 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - 4:00 - 6:30pm

📷 October 13 - Senior Photos Due

✏️ October 13 - End of First Quarter

⛔ October 16-20 - FALL BREAK/NO SCHOOL

👻 October 24 - Trick or Treat Street - Details to follow

🍎 October 26 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:00-6:00pm

Monday - Blue Day

Tuesday - Green Day

Wednesday - Blue Day

Thursday - Green Day

Friday - Modified ALL Day - NO PLC

Due to Field Day activities, there will be no Advisement or Access this week.

There will also be NO PLC on Friday, October 6.

Students should report to their 1st period class at 7:40am.

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Attendance data will be collected and submitted to the Colorado Department of Education to determine funding eligibility for our school. State funding is based on the number of students enrolled and in attendance on Monday, October 2nd, so it is essential for students to be in class. We kindly ask parents to reschedule any existing appointments. If you cannot reschedule an appointment, or if your child is sick, call the attendance line at 303-387-2002 to report the absence. Be sure to leave an expected return date. We appreciate your support and attention regarding this important matter.

Attendance Matters - Classroom attendance is imperative to student success and achievement. There are federal laws about attending school as well as district policy. Here is a link to the District website with important information regarding attendance policies.

2861 Baneberry Ct.

September 29, 2023

3:45pm

Wristbands are no longer available for purchase on MySchoolBucks, however, students can still buy them before school and during lunches all next week.

Restaurant Promo Codes for fundraisers: Chick-fil-A - say you are from ThunderRidge or use the promo code: THUNDER / Smoothie King - say you are from ThunderRidge / Freddy’s - GIVEBACK / Chipotle - say you are from ThunderRidge OR use the promo code WB6H2BN to order online / Raising Cane's - say you are from ThunderRidge / Twisted Sugar - say you are from ThunderRidge

Senior Parents,

There is still time to get your courtside seat to Field Day!

If you're interested in purchasing a seat, please email Sean Patterson (mspatterson@dcsdk12.org) with your bid by 3:00 pm on Monday, October 2nd. We will notify those with the highest bids on Tuesday, October 3rd!

Don't miss your chance to be a part of this legendary ThunderRidge event!

Field Day is Friday, October 6th in the main gym from 11:30am - 2:50pm. Hope to see you there!

ThunderRidge High School Theatre

proudly presents

Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (Female Version)

September 27--30

Tickets are on sale at SeatYourself

Students: $10.00 / Adults: $12.00 / Military or Senior: $11.00

Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and her group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. However, Olive and Florence have VERY different personalities. Where Olive is messy, untidy, and unconcerned about the state of her apartment, Florence is obsessively clean, tidy, and obsessed with hygiene. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s highly-strung neurotic tendencies, testing their friendship to the limit. When Olive organizes a double date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head and sparks fly.

Click below for a preview of The Odd Couple.

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be open house style in the main hallway of ThunderRidge.

This is a wonderful opportunity for you to meet with your child's teachers. Please limit each conference to 5 minutes, so you can see as many teachers as possible.

Last week, TRHS Counselors saw 233 students for academic, social emotional, and post secondary support. Counselors have hosted senior meetings, helping students finalize their college and career plans for after high school. TRHS Counseling is continuing with their Career Exploration Series, bringing experts from different careers in to speak to students in small groups about their career paths. If your student would like to make an apoointment with their counselor, please visit the couseling website or stop by the Counseling Office.

DCSD is excited to bring you the College Fairs of Greater Denver on Saturday, October 7th from

10am - 12pm. Over 150 colleges will be in attendance (expect more to sign up last minute). There will also be some virtual breakout sessions and we are working on a few in-person breakouts, as well. Stay tuned for that! Students can register for this event here.

TRHS has won the Douglas County Libraries Summer Reading Program contest, receiving a $500 prize for the second year in a row! Huge shoutout to all the students who participated, and thank you to the teachers and staff who promoted it!

Caps & gowns and graduation memorabilia can now be ordered from Herff Jones!

Please stop by the main office to pick up an information packet if you did not receive one at the Senior Assembly on September 26th. Herff Jones will be at TRHS during both lunches and at parent/teacher conferences on Thursday, Oct 12th, from 11:00am to 6:00pm for in-person ordering. Order your cap and gown by December 17th to receive early bird pricing.

The senior class panoramic photo was taken on September 26th. If you'd like to order a photo, please visit www.mylifetouch.com and enter Picture Day ID CG873002T0. Pictures are $16 each.

Senior Photos are due October 13th / Senior Ads are due December 15th

Senior photo upload is now available - school code 7751. Click here for more information.

Click here for information on the Senior Project.

Click here to sign-up to be a Senior Project Mentor. Please email Denise Orsini (deniseorsini@csdk12.org) or Nichole VandeVusse (nmvandevusse@dcsdk12.org) with any questions.

The IB CAS (Creativity, Activity, and Service) Trip is official and we are going to Denmark. After some complications with other locations, the group has settled on traveling to Copenhagen for Spring Break 2024. This trip is going to be focused on the ideas of sustainability, a topic that Copenhagen and Denmark are uniquely suited to show off. Students will learn about sustainable farming techniques, renewable energy, sustainable fashion practices, local food sourcing/cooking, and a lot more. We are very excited to offer this opportunity for the IB students and hope to see a lot of the kids sign up.

For those who are not familiar with the CAS Trips model, these trips are for our IB students in their junior and senior years. Every year we look to offer a trip somewhere in the world to help them engage in the Creative, Active, and Service learning emphasized in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. If you ever want to learn more about the CAS Trip opportunities please feel free to look at their website HERE or reach out to Mr. Risner at kwrisner@dcsdk12.org. If your student is an IB student in their junior or senior year you can also sign up for the trip using this QR code.

Students went over our school’s handbook and district expectations. Also, computers were provided to students who could not reset their passwords last week.

Sophomores continued to conference with their Advisement teachers. Students and parents should see a first grade in Infinite Campus by the end of next week. Students also completed a Career Cluster survey in Naviance. Finally, students should have continued their research on their project goal.

What’s more interesting than students learning about their interests? Seeing how those interesting interests connect to an interesting career. How interesting! Interests connect interesting careers to interesting interests!!!

Seniors attended the Herff Jones graduation assembly this week in Advisement. They were given information on how to order their cap and gowns, as well as determined their class song, flower, color, and quote.

The DCSD Board of Education voted unanimously to place a $66M Mill Levy Override and $484M Bond on the November 2023 ballot. All seven Board directors expressed their strong support and personal dedication to our students and our staff.

The Board also unanimously adopted a compensation resolution that will automatically trigger if the MLO passes. For school district staff, this means pay increases would happen automatically should the MLO pass (with increases being paid retroactively back to July 1).

To learn more about how additional funding would benefit our schools and our staff, visit www.dcsdk12.org/funding. We also encourage you to read through the MLO/Bond plan.

Board & Brush - October 25th - 6:00pm-9:00pm

Rocky Mountain CPR & First Aid

October 18, 19, 21

9:00am - 3:00pm

Rock Movers Needed

Roxborough Primary is in need of high school students to help move some rocks around the school garden and replace them with pebbles.

Contact: Sarah Falk, Counselor at Roxborough Primary

sfalk@dcsdk12.org or 303/387-6014 (Direct line and Voicemail)

Grizzly Football Varsity Home Game Volunteers

Please click this Sign Up Genius Link to volunteer to help with concessions, spirit wear sales, and senior banners for our Varsity Home games.

Contact Information is on the Sign Up Genius Link and you can reach out to Tiffany Fisher.

23-24 PTO/SAC Meeting Childcare for Coyote Creek Elementary

Sign up to help with childcare to school-age children during Coyote Creek's PTO and SAC meetings.

The PTO meetings are monthly from 6-7pm, so on those days the volunteer time slot is 5:45-7:15. During some months the SAC meeting will follow the PTO meeting from 7-8pm. On those days the volunteer time slot is 5:45-8:15.

23-24 PTO/SAC Meeting Childcare for Eldorado Elementary

Sign-up here to help with childcare for school-age children during Eldorado Elementary's PTO and SAC meetings for the 2023-2024 school year. Meetings will be held 8/21/2023, 10/2/2023, 11/13/2023, 2/12/2024, 3/25/2024 and 5/13/2024. Volunteer time slot is from 5:45pm - 8:30pm. Bring volunteer forms to be signed at the end of the meeting.

23-24 PTO Meeting Childcare for Trailblazer Elementary

Sign-up here to volunteer to help with childcare at Trailblazer Elementary while PTO members conduct their monthly meeting.

ThunderRidge is proud to offer a wide variety of clubs and activities!

Click the bar above for a full list including times, days and locations.

Shop for your customizeable TR gear anytime at the TRHS Online Apparel Store.

Principal Sean Patterson

Mission Statement:

Empowering Grizzlies through curiousity, compassion, courage, community and service.

#AlwaysAGrizzly

Website: trhs.dcsdk12.org
Location: 1991 West Wildcat Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
Phone: 303.387.2000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRHSGrizzlies?mibextid+LQQJ4d
Twitter: @TRidgeGrizzlies

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Mention ThunderRidge at check-out and a percentage of your purchase will be donated back to the school!

Purchases count any time of the year.