Each week, you will receive our newsletter containing important dates, events, and school news. Navigating the River is one of the best ways to stay up to date on what's happening at the River and ways to get involved to help make this school year the best yet! #RMSGoodAsGold

• September 22nd - Registration Deadline for the iChallenge
  
• September 25th - 29th - FCS Fall Break
• October 4th - School Picture Day
• October 10th - Vision Screening for 7th Grade students
• October 11th - Scoliosis Screening for 6th and 8th Grade students
• October 13th - Last Day of the 1st 9-Weeks
• October 19th - Progress Reports available on Parent Portal
• October 19th - Online Learning Day (Parent/Teacher Conferences)
• October 20th - Student Holiday

Thank you to all of our generous families that have already joined PTSO! If you would like to support the RMS PTSO in its mission to support teachers and students, we are still accepting donations. If you have not had a chance to join yet, we are still trying to reach our budget goal of $9,500 in membership funds.

Why join RMS PTSO? PTSO depends primarily on donations from our RMS families to finance initiatives to support teachers and students. All funds raised go directly back to RMS. Your membership fee is your donation to the PTSO, and because we are a 501c3, your donation is tax deductible and eligible for corporate matching if your employer offers that benefit.

What if I don't have time to volunteer? That's ok! We will happily accept financial donations without any obligation to volunteer.

How will you use my donations? PTSO funds a variety of initiatives to support teachers and students. Our three big commitments this year are:

1) 22 new Chromebooks and a cart for student usage;

2) Teacher grants for educational supplies, club support, and school improvements;

3) Funding to support the PBIS rewards program.

To see a more detailed breakdown of how PTSO spends funds, you can view the 23/24 budget HERE.

How can I join? If you would like to support RMS PTSO, please click HERE.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

PTSO is looking for parent volunteers to help out with the Bookfair, starting with set up on 10/26. For more details about dates and shifts, please click HERE.

The Lambert Connected community of schools is excited to plan another Parent University event to provide informational sessions for the families we serve. We held two of these events last year and received positive feedback from all who attended, including the request for more.

Please help us by...

1. Marking your calendars for November 28, 6:00 P.M. - when our first Parent U event of the 2023-24 school year will take place at Sharon Elementary.
2. Completing THIS SURVEY to provide feedback that will help us provide the most sought-after session topics.

If you have students at multiple schools in our community, you are likely to receive this message multiple times. Please only fill out the survey one time. We will be collecting survey responses through Friday, September 22.

Sincerely,

Lambert Connected Administrators

• School Picture Day will be held on October 4th! More information coming soon!

• 2023 Career Exploration & Pathway Discovery Fair will be open for middle school families to attend on October 10th from 4:30 - 6:00 PM at the Lanier Tech Forsyth Conference Center.

• No check outs will be processed after 3:30 PM.
• Students will only be released to a parent or adult listed in Infinite Campus. No student will be released to anyone under the age of 18.
• A government-issued identification is required to check out a student. We cannot accept a photograph of an identification in lieu of the identification itself. Parents/guardians will be asked to return with their official identification or make alternate arrangements for checking out the student.

Please use the link below to access the Peach Poster contest information.

Peach Poster Contest

Forsyth County Schools conducts scoliosis screenings for 6th and 8th graders per Georgia state requirement. Parents have the option to refuse screenings using this form.

The front office staff is not permitted to relay transportation messages to students. Transportation changes are not permitted during the school day.

Students are assigned one bus stop, morning and afternoon. FCS Transportation does not authorize bus stop changes where students can go home with friends or relatives or get off the bus at a bus stop other than their designated bus stop assigned to them and their home address. The only exception is in court-ordered joint custody scenarios where an additional address has been updated and verified in their IC profile.

We will have a Basketball Parent Informational Meeting in the gym on October 4, 2023 at 5:30 PM. If your child is planning to tryout for basketball, please plan on attending this meeting.

Basketball intramurals start the week of September 11th. Doors will open at 7:20 AM and close at 7:30 AM.

• 8th grade boys’ intramurals - every Monday.
• 6th and 7th grade boys’ intramurals - every Wednesday.
• 6th- 8th grade girls’ intramurals– every Tuesday and Thursday.

The last week of intramurals is October 2-6. Students SHOULD NOT leave their cars unless there is a coach present at the door. Doors will close at 7:30 AM, and students should NOT be dropped off for intramurals after doors are closed.

Basketball tryouts will take place in the middle of October. Any 7th or 8th grade student interested in trying out MUST upload a current physical form to Dragonfly by October 9th. If your 7th or 8th grade student is interested in trying out for basketball, please have them fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ELUpzFz4gk4CAB3o6

Please note: the basketball season runs from October to January. This is a long season, but keep in mind it is because of Thanksgiving and Winter break. Players MUST be able to commit to the entire season, which includes attending all practices and games.

Basketball intramurals start the week of September 11th. Doors will open at 7:20 AM and close at 7:30 AM.

Acknowledgments

If you attended our Curriculum Night presentations, you saw that teaching positive behavior was our first step. Now when we see it, our goal is to acknowledge it. Here are two ways that we acknowledge and reward our behavior expectations.

Each month, the top 5 students who have the most points for each PRIDE attribute – Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Empathy – will be recognized by teachers and the leadership team during student lunch time. Students will be able to pull an item from the PRIDE Prize cart as their reward for this acknowledgement. They will also be photographed for our social media post. Before Fall Break, we will announce our top PRIDE Winners for August and September.

Each quarter, students can use their earned PRIDE points to buy items in the PBIS Rewards app store – PRIDE Marketplace. Students are encouraged to earn their PRIDE points for our positive expectations taught at the beginning of the year and reinforced each day. The purchase window for Quarter 1 will open October 2 – October 6. This is the only time that students can use their points to purchase a drink, candy, or snacks. Students will shop through the app, and the items will be bagged and delivered to them. Once the window closes, students will keep earning points towards the next purchase window for Quarter 2.

Please remember to email Ms. Hayworth at f41677@forsyth.k12.ga.us if your student is absent for any reason! Absence letters/emails must be received within 5 days of your student's absence.