RMS Knightly News

Our Honor the Castle September's theme is "Teamwork". This week's quote states “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

This week's mindset monday message for the week of Sept. 9th Click HERE.

Stay up to date by checking our School Website regularly: Richards Middle School Website

Email: huston.julian@fraserk12.org
Website: https://www.fraser.k12.mi.us/RMSHome
Location: 33500 Garfield Road, Fraser, MI, USA

We are excited about the launch of our Second Castle Crew Color Run on Friday, September 13th. The Color Run is similar to the walk-a-thon format that many of our students participated in during elementary.

We are hoping this will be a successful fundraiser that will generate funds for our Positive Behavior Intervention Supports, general student recognition opportunities, and offsetting the costs to enrichment activities like field trips and event competition registrations. Our Color Run was a huge success last year and we were able to fund so many opportunities for our students and make updates around the building.

Your Knight learned about the Castle Crew Color Run during the first week of school. Attached you will find additional information on how you can support our Color Run efforts. Our Knights are working towards individual, classroom, house, and school wide incentives and rewards.

It is important that your Knight registers their account and selects their seminar teacher. From there, we ask families to share the link to other family and friends.

If you or somebody you know is interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, please reach out to Mrs. Skladanowski directly at Kristi.skladanowski@fraserk12.org.

Thank you for your support in starting our 24-25 school year successfully!

Monday, 9/9 * Book Fair in the Media Center for students from 8:00am-2:50pm

Tuesday, 9/10 * Book Fair in the Media Center for students from 8:00am-2:50pm

*Home FB games vs. Romeo Middle School *7th grade game starting at 3:30pm *8th grade game starts 20 minutes immediately after the end of the 7th grade game.

Wednesday, 9/11 *Early dismissal for students at 12:30pm

* Book Fair in the Media Center for students from 8:00am-12:30pm

Thursday, 9/12 * Book Fair in the Media Center for students from 8:00am-2:50pm

* Book Fair open for RMS families 5:30pm-6:30pm * Meet the teacher/Curriculum Night 6pm-7:15pm

Friday, 9/13 * Book Fair in the Media Center for students from 8:00am-2:50pm

Breakfast and Lunch are FREE for all students for the 2024-2025 school year.

We encourage everyone to participate. You are still welcome to send your child with a lunch from home if you would prefer.

Families are still asked to complete a Education Benefits Form, as this information is used for district funding.

The district does not allow the delivery of food and beverages from outside vendors or fast food establishments for a student’s breakfast or lunch meal. All meals are to be provided by either our Food Service program or prepared at home and sent with your student.

Outside food delivery is a safety concern. We do not want to have strangers and people that we do not know coming to our buildings with delivery bags. It also is a workload issue for office personnel. Managing multiple food deliveries during lunchtime becomes an additional responsibility for our office staff.

The District works hard to provide a variety of healthy, good-tasting food in its cafeterias, and students are always free to bring their own lunch to school. We will continue to follow our past practice of making sure students receive lunch if they forget to bring one from home.

REQUIRED PAPERWORK for all FPS sports

All students must hand in a completed MHSAA Physical dated after April 15, 2024.

https://www.fraser.k12.mi.us/cms/lib/MI02212020/Centricity/Domain/81/Sports%20Physical%20Form.pdf

All students must also go to arbiter sports and complete the on line student registration.

https://students.arbitersports.com/

If either of these forms are not completed, student will be withheld from participation until both forms have been submitted.

To provide the most effective process for entering and exiting Richards Middle School, we need our families consistent help in observing the below traffic expectations:

• Our RMS bus loop is only to be used by emergency vehicles and our district’s school buses between the hours of 7:15 am through 4:00 pm.
• To help with our daily traffic flow, please follow our painted traffic arrows in our parking lot.
• In supporting our traffic flow for entering and exiting for all vehicles, please observe no standing, parking, waiting and stopping in the parking lot aisle ways.
• When exiting Richards Middle School at dismissal time, please utilize either our RMS Garfield exit, FHS Garfield exit or FHS Klein exit.

Please be aware of students, families and guests who are walking in our parking lots by obeying traffic laws, regulating your speed, and following the traffic direction arrows. Images can be found below. Please no parking or standing where you see a red x.

Our district security personnel will communicate these expectations to our families when needed. Thank you for your support with keeping RMS a safe travel area for everyone on campus.

This is a reminder to our students to ensure that you are using the appropriate area to cross the street to get to the other side of Garfield. Please see pictures below for reference of our crosswalk signs and striped area by the Richards Middle School Electronic Board. We want our students to make sure they are looking both ways and being aware of vehicles traveling on Garfield. Always wait to cross this crosswalk when the road is clear to do so.

We thank you for always being aware of your safety and traveling vehicles as you arrive and leave RMS at this crosswalk area.

Your student's primary address should be up-to-date to receive report card mailings and other important building communications.

If you have recently moved, please complete the following form to update your address and upload the files needed for update: https://form.jotform.com/211594973642161