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Happy Friday Ridgeview families! Here are your weekly updates.

On Sat May 3rd, Central will be hosting a One World Day. This event will showcase the many talents of Central's high school students and staff, as they celebrate the many cultures represented at Central High School. A flyer can be found further down in the newsletter. We hope you’re able to join them in the fun!

State Testing has begun and we’re off to a great start! We are so very excited for our kiddos to show their talents and skills in reading, math, and science. This is a tough time of the year for our kiddos due to all the testing so it’s important for all of us, staff and families, that we set them up for the most success possible. Below are the remaining testing dates, as well as some testing tips for home. If you have any questions about testing, please feel free to reach out to an administrator.

• OST Math Make-Ups: April 28-May 2

• OST 8th Grade Science: April 29 & 30

• Info for Parents at Home:

• Please make sure students charge their chromebooks overnight, as the building does not have loaners and/or chargers for students to borrow to use.

• Students should eat breakfast, whether at home or at school to have fuel for testing. Food cannot be in the testing room.

• Though we will be on an adjusted bell schedule during these days, school will still begin at 7:15 am. Please be sure students arrive to school on time! It’s that Important!!

• Please be advised that we will be following our building testing protocols. Student devices will be collected and other personal belongings (ex: backpacks) will be placed in one area of the classroom until the testing window is closed for each testing day. There is no exception to this rule! Students who violate these protocols could receive disciplinary action.

• Encourage your student(s) to do their best, take their time, and use the skills they’ve been learning all year. They’ve got this! We know this! We need the students to know this, receive it, and get ‘er done!

Please click here to sign up to donate to our annual 8th grade/Staff Cookout. We need food and drink items, but will take monetary donations as well. This is during Staff Appreciation Week and our PTO is the sponsor. Thanks in advance for considering to be a part of the fun! If you have questions, please contact our PTO president, Kelly Martin. Her info, as well as this link, is below in the newsletter.

We now have a total of 4 weeks of school left in the year. We have a great deal of work left to do. That work includes OST and iReady testing, 7th and 8th grade Award Celebrations, National Junior Honor Society induction for rising 8th graders, and our annual 8th grade cookout just to name a few. I mention this because attendance is still as important the last several weeks of school as it is all year. It is imperative we finish the year strong and students arrive on time daily. Let’s all make a concerted effort to end on a great note going into the summer!

Take care everyone and we’ll see you again next week! GO TIGERS!

Important Dates:

April 29 & 30: Ohio State Test for 8th Grade Science

May 3: One World Day at Central HS

May 6: ELA iReady Diagnostic

May 5-9: Staff Appreciation Week!

May 13: Math iReady Diagnostic

Sheila A. Evans, Principal

Ridgeview Junior High School

District Policy states that only guardians listed on Infinite Campus are permitted to pick up their student. If your student needs to be picked up early by someone who is NOT their guardian, a guardian must call the office to let us know who will be picking up their child. The other adult must present a valid ID to office staff for the student to be released to them.

Personal Communication Devices:

• Pick-up times for Personal Communication Devices will be Mon - Fri in the main office from 8:00 am - 1:45 pm and again from 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm as long as school is in session. The main office closes at 3:00 pm daily.

• We’re collecting more devices daily. If your student has a device confiscated and it doesn’t belong to them, the person that it belongs to AS WELL AS the student who had it taken from will be added to our spreadsheet for a confiscated device. Please make a note of this.

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Click the pic for the link to order!

**If you're paying with Venmo, there will be a fee - $1 for $20 and $1.75 for $40 or more. Please add the extra in your payment.**

Payments of cash and/or check will be accepted in the office with Ms Tiffany.

Email: tiffany_dalton@plsd.us with any questions!

IMMUNIZATION REMINDER: In order to start school, all immunizations must be up to date.

Click HERE for complete guidelines.

School-Based Health Clinic

Pediatric Associates has an office located at Tussing Elementary that is available to all PLSD students and the community of Pickerington. The clinic offers the following services: helping with sore throat, headaches, earache, bad cough, strep test, immunizations, blood work, physicals, well check-ups, sports physicals, medication, asthma, etc.

The clinic is open on Monday and Wednesday from 9:00 - 3:00 and closed from 1:00 - 2:00 for lunch. Walk-ins are welcome or to schedule an appointment call 614-864-3222.

Emergency Resources

Crisis Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741

Nationwide Children's Youth Hotline: 1-614-722-1800

Teen Hotline: 1-614-294-3300

Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673

Safe Schools Tip Line: Call or text 1-844-723-3764

Suicide Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 or 1-614-221-5445

Sheriff Department: 1-740-652-7900

Spring testing - the Ohio Assessment Testing

Please take a look at the testing dates below to avoid scheduling appointments if at all possible. If a student starts a test, they will need to finish the test that same day.

Reminder to all parents - be sure students come to school with their Chromebooks fully charged and earbuds. Students will be testing from 7:15am to about 10:00am.

Per testing policy, students can not have their cell phones, watches with internet access, air-pods or beats out during the test, if at all possible leave these at home. If not, teachers will be collecting devices during testing and returning them after.

If a student misses a test, they will have to make it up during class time and will be missing instruction.

Thank you for supporting us.

April 29 and 30 - Science (8th grade only)

Tiger Athletics Website

Athletic Handbook

Spring Sports are in session!

Please be sure that your student is registered on Final Forms.

YOUR STUDENT MUST HAVE AN UPDATED PHYSICAL ON FILE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE OR TRY OUT IN ANY SPORT

Students: $5 Adults: $7

Cash/Card is accepted at the gate. If you pay online, there will be additional fees.

Click here to purchase tickets: https://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/Page/126

You may purchase a Tiger Club Pass ($50/student) or a Central Club Pass ($100/adult) that is good for all regular home games for every sport.

To purchase Club Passes, use the same link as above and select Central. Once there, you will select Purchase Yearly Passes.

**Students are now required to show their student ID card to attend athletic events. If your student does not have an ID card yet, you can show the attendant your Infinite Campus information from your phone until your ID arrives**

Happy Friday!

We hope you all had a safe and wonderful Spring Break!

Countdown to the last day of school is ON! With that said we are getting ready for our 8th Grade Graduation & Teacher Appreciation Cookout (Hooray!). We need your help; any donation is appreciated but we also need volunteers and cooks. Please check out the sign-up genius and sign up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4CA5A62EA2FA7-56257093-8thgrade

PTO is also looking to have a "End of the School Year Dance"... dates are being determined more to come (cost will be $10).

We will also have a few more candy sales be sure to check your Talking Points, the Newsletter and our Facebook page.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Kelly Martin: kelly.martin_rvjhpto@hotmail.com

Qiana Ellis - qsmith6@hotmail.com

Kelly & Qiana

• PLSD 2024-2025 District Calendar - click here

• Districtwide Activities Calendar

  Upcoming events and important dates are listed in the Districtwide Google Events Calendar, which is synced with individual building, program and athletic team calendars. Once inside the district wide calendar, to display the events of a particular building, team, program or activity, you will need to check the specific corresponding color-coded box(es) from the list on the left-hand side.

  Pickerington Schools partners with the City of Pickerington and Yodel to bring you the Pickerington Community Calendar!
  

  Visit this link to view all Pickerington Schools activities included on the calendar and don’t forget to “favorite” our Pickerington Schools schedule! Once favorited, Pickerington Schools' events will be front and center on your calendar, enabling you to see what’s coming up.

All Programs meet once each week. Tuition varies by grade level. Please ask about our family discount.

Programs meet in Columbus (east) (C) at Ohio Dominican University and in Westerville (W) on campus at Otterbein University

Entering 6th, 7th, & 8th Graders:

Sun June 1 - June 29, 10:30 am - 11:45 am (C)

Sun July 13 - August 10, 10:30 am - 11:45 am (W)

Entering 9th, 10th, & 11th Graders:

Sun June 1 - June 29, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm (C)

Sun July 13 - August 10, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm (W)

Dates: June 3rd & 4th

Times: 9-11:30am (morning session); 12:30-3:00pm (afternoon session)

Lunch: If they choose both sessions, students will need to bring a sack lunch.

Location: Eastland Career Center, 4465 S. Hamilton Rd., Groveport OH 43125

Price: FREE!!

Transportation: On their own, unless a district decides to offer busing

Registration: Eastland-Fairfield website

Attached is a flyer for this year's camp that lists what sessions will be available to choose from. Students can choose to stay with us all day, or just one session (they can pick a morning or afternoon). Each camper will receive a T-Shirt! Once a student is registered, more detailed information will be sent to the parent/guardian that has registered.

PLEASE CLICK THE FLYER IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER FOR SPECIFIC CLASS DETAILS - THIS IS SUCH A COOL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR KIDDOS!

The Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Department of Public Safety have launched the SaferOH tip line that will accept both calls and texts 24 hours a day.

This tip line allows students and adults to anonymously share information with school officials and law enforcement about threats to student safety—whether that involves a threatened mass incident or harm to a single student.

Every tip can remain anonymous. School safety analysts may ask for additional information, but the caller can remain secret or leave his or her contact information for later follow-up.

Calls or texts to 844-SaferOH (844-723-3764) are answered by analysts in the Ohio Homeland Security’s Threat Assessment and Prevention (TAP) Unit. When action is needed, the TAP Unit immediately forwards information to Pickerington Schools, local law enforcement agencies, and others, if necessary.

Here at Ridgeview Junior High we value being Timely, Innovative, showing GRIT, being Engaged in our learning, and Respect! Notice the letters spell out TIGER! Click on our behavior expectations, and please take a moment to look over and review with your student(s).

Principal: Sheila Evans

Assistant Principal 7th Grade: Henry Lee

Assistant Principal 8th Grade: Kevin Smith

Dean of Students: Sydney Dillard

Building Secretary/Athletics: Tiffany Dalton

Building Secretary/Registrar: Lisa Holley

Attendance: Pat Petrini

Office Assistant: Madelyn Gomez

Counselors: Kris Owen: A-Ga, Erica Reynolds: Ge-N, Meghan Wade: O-Z

Nurse: Rachel Ross/Mindy Stillwell

Safety/Security: Jon (JT) Haynes

School Resource Officer (SRO): Mathew Swaney, Jeremy Collier

Email: Sheila_Evans@plsd.us
Website: pickerington.k12.oh.us
Location: 130 Hill Road South, Pickerington, OH, USA
Phone: 614-548-1700
Twitter: @RidgeviewPLSD