Academy Of Richmond County May 17

This is our last newsletter of the 2023-2024 school year. Thank you all for reading them carefully, coming to the athletic, academic, and extracurricular events listed, helping students stay on top of deadlines, and being an active member of our school community. Congratulations to our graduating seniors on finishing the year strong. We can't wait to see what is in store for you in the future.

We look forward to seeing the rest of you next fall!

Friday, May 17

STUDENT DEVICE COLLECTION AND INSPECTION 💻

8:00 AP Physics Exam 📝

8:20 3rd period exam 📝

11:25 4th period exam 📝

Saturday, May 18

5:30 ARC Chorus Spring Concert at Evans Towne Center Park 🎤

Monday, May 20

Golf 🏌🏻⛳🏌🏻 State Tournament @ Lafayette Golf Course

8:20 5th period exam 📝

11:25 6th period exam 📝

Tuesday, May 21

Golf 🏌🏻⛳🏌🏻 State Tournament @ Lafayette Golf Course

8:20 7th period exam 📝

11:25 Make up Exams 📝

Wednesday, May 22

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL 🎉🥳🎉

EARLY RELEASE⏰⏰⏰

8:00 Late AP Statistics Exam 📝

8:20 Make up Exams/Homeroom 📝

Thursday, May 23

8:30 MANDATORY Graduation Practice @ ARC Gym 👨🏻‍🎓🎓👩🏻‍🎓

12:00 Late AP Art History Exam 📝

Friday, May 24

8:00 Late AP Calculus Exam 📝

5:00 ARC Graduation @ James Brown Arena 👨🏻‍🎓🎓👩🏻‍🎓

Please help us congratulate Ms. Katie West, our biology, IB Biology, and journalism teacher, and this year's Teacher of the Year for ARC. She's been at Richmond for 17 years after transitioning from a Biomedical Research Graduate Program. She spends her days doing as much hands on science with her students as possible, to instill a love for all things science with her students. We are very proud for her to represent us as the 2024-2025 Teacher of the Year for ARC!

Every year we ask Seniors to complete this exit survey. Please help us get the word to your senior to complete this one!

One of the areas on this survey is asking your seniors to list all of the scholarships they've received...that comes in handy for when we read the scholarship list at graduation, so please take extra time to complete that piece!

2024 Senior Exit Survey

Click here to register for the SAT

• June 1, 2024 Registration Closed

1. Work questions out of order.

Spending too much time on the hardest problems means you may rush through the easiest. Instead of working questions in order, ask yourself whether a question is a Do Now, Later, or Never.

No need to agonize—this decision can be made very quickly:

• NOW: Does a question look okay? Do you know how to do it? Do it now.
• LATER: Will this question take a long time to work? Leave it and come back to it later. Circle the question number for easy reference.
• NEVER: Know the topics that are your worst, and learn the signs that flash danger. Don’t waste time on questions you should never do. Instead, use more time to answer the Now and Later questions accurately.

2. Choose a “Letter of the Day.”

Just because you don’t work a question doesn’t mean you don’t answer it. There is no penalty for wrong answers on the ACT, so you should never leave any blanks on your answer sheet. When you guess on Never questions, pick your favorite two-letter combo of answers and stick with it. For example, always choose A/F or C/H. If you’re consistent, you’re more likely to pick up points.

3. Forget the right answer—find the wrong ones.

Multiple-choice tests offer one great advantage: They provide the correct answer right there on the page. ACT hides the correct answer behind wrong ones, but when you cross off just one or two wrong answers, the correct answer can become more obvious.

4. Know the best way to bubble in.

If you’re worried about accidentally filling in the wrong bubble on your answer sheet, this tip will save your score.

Work a page at a time on English and Math and a passage at a time on Reading and Science. Circle your answers right on the booklet. Then, transfer a page’s worth of answers to the answer sheet at one time. It’s better to stay focused on working questions rather than disrupt your concentration to find where you left off on the scantron.

Please contact Ms. Weaver with any questions at WeaveSo@BOE.Richmond.k12.ga.us.

Ladies:

Black dress, white dress or skirt/shirt combination (Must NOT hang below the hem of the robe)

Black, 2in. or flat shoes (amount of walking distances with timing restraints)

Dark hosiery (optional)

Cap, gown, tassel, stole

Gentlemen:

White dress shirt

Dark tie/bowtie (black or conservative color)

Dark pants/slacks (navy blue or black)

Dark dress shoes (navy blue or black)

Cap, gown, tassel, stole

NO:

Dangle/Oversized earrings, bracelets, necklaces, watches, sandals, stiletto heels, tennis shoes, cell phones, sunglasses, gold or decorative teeth

Special Notes:

Graduation caps are worn level on the head. The point should be in the center of the forehead.

Decorations/embellishments on cap or with gowns are NOT allowed for graduation ceremony.

1. Please do not bring keys, wallet, pocketbooks, cell phones, etc. with you to Honors Day, Baccalaureate, or graduation. Leave those items with a friend or relative.
2. Gowns are to be neat and wrinkle-free. All gowns are ordered through Jostens. Be sure to try on the cap and gown as soon as possible to verify fit. If you have any problems with the cap and gown, contact Jostens at (706) 868-0515 to get those issues corrected. Josten's local office at 4800 Technology Drive, Martinez, GA will be OPEN ALL WEEK.
3. Graduates must be on their best behavior at all times. Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated.
4. NO GUM NO BULL HORNS NO BALLOONS NO CELL PHONES
5. Seniors do not need tickets for regular graduation this year. The ceremony will take place at James Brown Areana.
6. Each graduation will be live streamed thru the RCSS website. (Idea: If you have a technical savvy relative, they can create a zoom party and share the live stream OR create a Facebook Live watch party)
7. Students are not allowed to decorate their cap/gown.
8. Students are to only wear RCSS/ARC stoles and cords approved and distributed for the graduation ceremony. Students arriving in personalized or community stoles/cords will be collected before ceremony and returned the next day.

· Currently in year 17 of teaching ELA

· Born in Chattanooga, TN; moved to Augusta area at age 7

· Before teaching, worked in public relations and promotions for non-profit organizations, a minor league baseball team, and a minor league hockey team

· Seriously addicted to coffee and chocolate

· Best Aunt Ever (just ask)

· Cat-mom to Mac and Fi

· Coolest people I’ve ever met: Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds

· Favorite ELA course to teach: British Literature

· Fluent in Southern English, Shakespeare, and Sarcasm (hence Mr. Bartlett’s christening me “Lady Carr the Sarcastic”)

· Of the current faculty members, I’ve probably known Mrs. Lillard and Mrs. Hubbard the longest

· When I’m not teaching, I’m reading or chilling out with Mac and Fi.

· The beach is my happy place

· I have been invited to help present research findings on digital discourse at the 2024 National Council of Teachers of English conference in Boston this coming November

· In conjunction with the National Writing Project and the Philadelphia Writing Project, I participated in research on using digital discourse to improve literacy. It was announced Friday, April 19, that the Digital Discourse project has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Implementation of Literacy in a Digital Age, given by the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age Research.

Golf 🏌️⛳🏌️‍♀️

5/20/24-5/21/24 8:00 State Tournament @ Lafayette Golf Course in Lafayette, GA

Incoming freshman are welcome to visit during our spring evaluation period. (Scheduled dates are attached). They will not be able to fully participate until summer practice begins. June 6, will be our football freshman orientation (5:30 - 7pm).

Graduation Practice 🎓🎓🎓 8:30 am May 23, 2024

Graduation 🎓🎓🎓 5:00 pm May 24, 2024

Please join the ARC Parent Support Group (PSG). The PSG provides our school with many services for our students and teachers.

With your donation we are able to fund the following:

• Back to School Breakfast for Teachers & Staff
• Coffee Mornings for Teachers & Staff
• Thanksgiving Lunch for Teachers & Staff
• Valentine’s Lunch for Teachers & Staff
• Teacher Appreciation Week Festivities
• A/B Honor Roll Ice Cream
• IB/AP Exam Snacks and much more…

PSG is funded through generous contributions from our parents and we would welcome your $50 (suggested minimum) donation for the year.

Venmo - @ARCPSG2023-Parent Support Group of ARC - Note: it’s a Business Venmo

If you are interested in volunteering your time, please contact Cammie Jones, contact below.

We are looking forward to a great 2023-24 school year!

Sincerely,

Cammie Jones, Parent Liaison, 706-825-5867, camsjones@comcast.net

Tara Sanders, Treasurer, 706-589-3405, thsanders@comcast.net

Interested in joining the Booster Club? Click here to fill out the form. Questions? Contact Booster Club President David Rivers at david.rivers@thepalomargroup.com or Secretary Erica Perry at ericastewartperry@gmail.com.

Please check out our Title 1 Parents Right to Know Notification document.

Anyone wanting to volunteer must follow the volunteer policies for the Richmond County School System. They must also complete the Mandated Reporter Training.

There are 3 levels of volunteers and volunteers have been cleared at the appropriate levels before working with students.

Please check in with Ms. Hawkins, our school social worker, for more information. (hawkica@boe.richmond.k12.ga.us)

If your child needs to be absent for any reason this school year, please utilize the school attendance email address: musketeerattendance@gmail.com. We are encouraging parents to provide doctor/dentist excuses, as much as possible. The RCSS code of conduct permits 5 parent notes per school year.

For COVID-19 related absences, please contact Nurse Tiller at TilleCu@boe.richmond.k12.ga.us. When all information is received, the attendance will be updated and teachers will receive an email informing them of the student’s absence.

Yeah, I couldn't either. While I was logged in as a parent, I went to Account. Scrolled down to QR Code for Mobile Login and there it was! Very easy...once you know what you are looking for!

Switch browsers. For whatever reason, I kept clicking logout and it was keeping me logged in to my son's account. I had his account open in Chrome and had to create my account in Firefox.

Go to the parent site. Create an account. Enter one child's paring code--I suggest doing your favorite kid first....kidding! Once you are logged in, if you have multiple kids, go to Account, then down to Observing. In the box, add the pairing code from your other child and click "+Student." Voila!

Get the paring code from your child(ren). To do that, have them login. Go to Account. Then Settings. On the right side, there will be a button that says, "Pair with an Observer." Write this code down or take a quick pic for your child (or children if you have multiple in the school system. Do all of your children at once. It'll be easier. Also, if you are a teacher in RCSS, it was recommended to me to use a separate email account from my work email.)