Term 3 grades are available on the PowerSchool portal . Families can access grades through the PowerSchool App (School Code MSBD) or the PowerSchool Portal. If you need a Parent PowerSchool Access letter, please call the RCMS main office.

Term 4 Progress Reports will be available to view on the PowerSchool portal on May 17th.

Thank you to Megan Seseske for creating this amazing virtual tour of RCMS. Thank you to Erika Manos for taking on the challenge of decorating our hallways. Thank you to all who were interviewed and participated in the video.

We hope you enjoy this glimpse into RCMS!

Thank you to the RCMS PTO for generously sponsoring Grandy's Ice Cream Truck for Teacher Appreciation week🍦

Micah Logan/PTO President will be hosting a PTO meeting on May 30 at 6PM in person at RCMS. Zoom will also be an option. We plan to have interpreters available. Food will be served!

We need your help!

Please come to the meeting and

please consider volunteering for a leadership position:

President: Chair PTO meetings, create meeting agendas

Vice President: Oversee sub-committees (fundraising, parent engagement, communication)

Treasurer: Manage PTO bank account and finances, prepare audit, forwarding finances to the RPS PTO president

Secretary: Meeting notes, PTO newsletter

Agenda:

Setting Goals for Next Year

Leadership Transition

Responsibilities of the PTO

Fundraising

Grade 8 Moving Up Ceremony:

• Friday June 7th
• 1:00
• Duration 60 - 90 minutes
• If the weather is nice:
• All families and guests are welcome. There are no tickets for this event. Each family and their guests should bring their own seating (beach chairs, blankets, etc.) for the event. We are unable to provide chairs on the field. Please, no coolers, no food, no drinks, no beach balls, and no pop-up tents.
• Parking is limited. We recommend carpooling or parking on High Street
• Post ceremony: Students depart with parents directly from the field or walk to the front of RCMS for the bus.
  
• Inclement weather: The event will be held in indoors at RCMS. Seating will be limited. Details will be communicated in the event of inclement weather.

Grade 8: June 3

Grade 7: June 4

Grade 6: June 5

Tuesday, May 28th is Step Up Day. All students in grades 5-8 will experience a transition experience. We look forward to welcoming the 5th graders to RCMS and the high school is looking forward to welcoming the 8th graders. We also have a fun experience planned for the current 6th and 7th graders. The event is scheduled for the morning. Permission slips for Grade 8 students to board the bus to RHS will be sent home this week. In order for students to attend, permission slips must be returned to Advisory teachers by Friday, May 17th.

We look forward to students experiencing a preview of next year!

Cut the Fire Foundation:

• What is the Cut the Fire Foundation Distribution?

• https://www.thecutfirefund.com

Gift Cards Distribution:

• Where can I donate for the Gift Cards Distribution?

• Donations will be collected at Town Hall, Library, and RICC for the next 2-3 weeks. Social Workers will manage the collections at Town Hall, Library, and RICC, respectively.

• How will the gift cards be distributed?

• They will be distributed equitably to all affected residents.

GoFundMe Donations and Distribution:

• Where can I find information about GoFundMe donations?

• Visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/RandolphFireRecovery for details.

• How will the funds be distributed?

• We are working with the Friendly Food Pantry to distribute funds via check once our goal is met.

Referrals:

• Where can I refer individuals for further assistance?

• Please refer them to the Fire Info Resource Sheet and our Town Social Workers at 781-961-0930 ext. 8.

👏Congratulations to our High Honors and Honor Roll Students👏

🙌Thank you families for your support and partnership around attendance🙌

6th grade - 23.1% of students had 100% attendance

7th grade - 21.3% of students had 100% attendance

8th grade - 20.9% of students had 100% attendance

When: Monday, May 20 from 3 - 4:30 pm

Where: RCMS Cafeteria

Who’s invited?: All RCMS Families, students, alumni, and community members!

Please join us on Monday, May 20 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm in the RCMS Cafeteria for our second annual RCMS Civics Project Showcase! Eighth grade students enrolled in Civics will present their Student-Led Civics Projects to the community through a “science-fair”-style presentation. The Student-Led Civics Project is the “capstone” experience to our 8th grade Civics curriculum, in which students apply the civics skills and knowledge they have gained during the year to identify an issue in their school, town, state, or national community which concerns them, and through research, propose solutions to solve the problem. You can expect to see some of the following topics represented at this year’s showcase:

Lack of youth sports in Randolph

Consumerism and overconsumption

The impact of borderline personality disorder on personal relationships

Improving RCMS fields

Immigration and Barriers

Education on child abductions

Autism awareness in the classroom

Teen depression and suicide

Bullying at RCMS

We look forward to seeing you there!

• RCMS End-of-Year Concert is May 22nd. This concert will take place at the Randolph High School Auditorium instead of the middle school as the High School's performance space has much better acoustics. Exact call times will be sent home closer to the event. Dress code for the concert will be white tops and black bottoms. No jeans and sneakers, please.
• All Band Concert is Tuesday, June 4th here at the RCMS Gymnasium. A rehearsal for all performers will be held at 4:00 prior to the concert's start at 6:30. Dress code for that performance will be black bottoms (pants, shorts, skirt) and RPS music t-shirt that will be provided to all students on June 4th.
• The RPS summer Music Program will be held here at RCMS from June 17th to June 27th. An information letter has been sent home with families but another is attached below. Please register by June 10th to reserve placement. There are scholarships available through our booster program - Applications are due in by May 10th.

Three 6th graders, Stanley Jacques, Cedric Anicet, and Daniel Fonseca, won the trio contest in band class and we thought you might enjoy hearing an excerpt.

Fridays in the 6th grade band class are known as Forte Fun Fridays. On these Friday rehearsals we often employ non-traditional rehearsal techniques to change how we listen or how we approach our concert program. In an effort to show students how much each musician really contributes to the performance, all student's names were put into a hat. If selected, the students would have to run the rehearsal for five minutes. They were responsible for warming up, tuning, and rehearsing their peers. Through this exercise, students displayed an understanding of the routines that maximize rehearsal time, as well as the techniques and principles of ensemble playing that make a great concert happen.

The RCMS track team finished in 4th place at the BAA Relay Challenge in Boston on April 14. Congrats to the runners and coaches!

During Spirit Week, Ms. Mroz-Gondre, Ms. Donaldson, Ms. Dallaire and Mr. Seibert hosted a breakfast for students. A fun and filling time was had by all 🥓🧇🥞

Congratulations to Cindy Huynh, a Second Place Winner in the MWRA Poster Contest. Cindy is invited to attend the Awards Ceremony at the Deer Island facility in Winthrop.

Industry professionals have selected Kayden Cabral, Evan Vu, and Riley Durham as OpenSciEd winners for the exceptional project they submitted to the One8 Applied Learning Hub’s Student Industry Connect program!

Here’s what one volunteer said: “All three of your design features are very clearly described, including the role each feature plays in maintaining the temperature of the drink inside. I also really like the way you balanced the performance of the material with the cost, as illustrated by your choice to use an air-insulated double walled construction instead of a higher cost vacuum insulation approach.”

In recognition of their achievement, they received a printed certificate, rocketbooks, and a banner to display their much deserved bragging rights in Ms. Odom's classroom.

One8 was thrilled to recognize these students for this achievement and RCMS is so proud of them!

Congratulations Kayden, Evan, Riley and Ms. Odom!

In Mrs. Cardillo's PLTW Medical Detectives Class, Activity 2.5 lesson introduces student to the human body as a collection of systems. Students perform a sheep brain dissection to use their knowledge to explore, analyze evidence, to identify the cause of Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) dysfunction. For example students identified tumors or other neurological disorders inside the brain by justification of evidence to correlate with a patient case for real world experience. Students created educational resources to assist their patient and the community for understanding of the medical condition caused by the dysfunction.

8th grade signing day is an annual tradition of offering the current 8th grade RCMS football players a spot on the RHS football team, akin to a college signing day. Much thanks to Coach Horst for his coordination and efforts in putting this together. RHS football is excited to welcome the next recruiting class:

Newton Le

Manuel Ramirez

Ethan Brown-Sandy

Jayden Vo

Mekhi Lanier

Charles Simms

Amadou Barry

RCMS is partnered with the One8 Foundation's Applied Learning Leadership Initiative. Applied Learning programs inspire students with innovative and engaging ways to approach academics. Recently One8 spent a day at RCMS filming teaching and learning in action.

We hope you enjoy these pictures and the video. To view the video, copy and paste the link:

https://app.frame.io/reviews/194e4f1b-ee16-4cf6-a227-da651c86482b/8e4b534a-20f8-4da2-b2b2-af72c9d48103

eCYBERMISSION is pleased to announce the winners for this year's competition! Over 1,700 teams submitted Mission Folders this year. The top 3 teams per state in each grade were selected as 1st place, 2nd place, and Honorable Mention.

Congratulations to Mrs. Cardillo and the 8th Grade State Winners:

• 1st Place: Cleanily Weenily -Dumplin Demons: Trish Nguyen and Cillian Bravo

• 2nd Place: HBLSE: Hayley Chen and Bethel Nazaire

• Honorable Mention: RICE-RCMS: Yassine Azoui, Randy Nguyen, Trinh Le, Jaiden Avila

On April 8th, students, families and staff viewed the solar eclipse.

RCMS supplied Solar Eclipse glasses to see this unique and rare event that took place during dismissal time.