RRHS Update - Week of 8/26/2024

What a great start to the 2024-2025 school year! On Friday, school leaders met with classes to review policies and expectations as well as opportunities for leadership. We ask that you speak with your student about our class meetings and ask that you forward nay questions to our school counseling department or administrative team.

First Spirit Week Next Week!

Monday- Adam Sandler Day

Tuesday- Twin Day

Wednesday- Inside Out Day- Dress in the color of an emotion, like the movie

Thursday- Tropical Out & our fall pep rally!

We will also have a tailgate outside the football stadium on Thursday from 5:45-6:45. There will be face painting, sign making, tailgate games, spirit giveaways and music.

Monday 8/26/24

Field Hockey vs. Stone Bridge, 5:30 p.m.

Field Hockey Tuscarora vs. Fauquier, 6:45 p.m.

Tuesday 8/27/24

Field Hockey vs. Woodgrove, 5:30 p.m.

Field Hockey Lightridge vs. John Champe, 6:45 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Osbourn, 5:45/5:45/7 p.m.

Golf @ Raspberry Falls, 4 p.m. vs. Loudoun County. Early Release at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday 8/28/24

JV Football @ Clarke County, 6:30 p.m. Early Release at 3:30 p.m. Depart at 4 p.m.

Golf @ 1757 vs. Broad Run, 3:30 p.m. Early Release at 2 p.m.

Thursday 8/29/24

Varsity Football vs. Clarke County, 7 p.m.

Exciting News! Rock Ridge High School has been selected as the first high school in the country to produce the pilot of The Prince of Egypt this fall!

The Prince of Egypt is open to all Rock Ridge High School students—you don’t need to be enrolled in a theatre or choir class to participate. If you're interested in joining this incredible production, please visit our website at www.rockridgeperformingarts.org.

Important Dates:

Monday, August 26th: Interest Meeting

• Technical Theatre: 4:30 - 5:15 PM in the Auditorium
• Acting: 4:30 - 5:15 PM in the Choir Room

We look forward to seeing you there!

Rock Ridge Athletic Boosters Club is working hard to support all RR Athletic Teams. We need the support from our Phoenix families. This fall, spirit stores were set up for our families to purchase the fun swag to show their Phoenix spirit. We will be doing the same for winter and spring sports, so be on the look-out. Car stickers will be available for purchase at Back to School Night and at the concession stand.

Our Booster Membership is another way you can support the athletes at Rock Ridge. Family membership is $25. Rock Ridge Staff and Coaches is $10.

RRABC is also looking for business sponsors. If your business or know of a business that would like to have advertisement around athletic events please use the form linked to get more information.

The funds raised by the RRABC support the items that fall outside the athletic departments budget. This year we hope to purchase senior banners for all senior athletes for sport and bring back athletic scholarships to our graduating seniors.

Our RRABC board members are:

RR Athletic Department: Pat McNanley and Jenny Virbickis

President: Megan Matson

Vice President: Susan Serna

Treasurer: David Bultema

Secretary/Fundraising: Tricia Furtek

Team Parent Liaison: Adela Argon

Underclassmen Pictures- Sept. 4 & 5

Underclassmen will get their pictures taken on Sept. 4 and 5. Freshmen and sophomores will go with their PE classes, and juniors will go with their English classes. If you do not have a PE or English class, you will be able to go during your study hall, advisory, lunch, or before school. You can go here to preorder your pictures. Images will available about 2-3 weeks after picture day. If you have questions you can email underclass@vosphoto.com

Buy Your Yearbook!

Yearbooks are on sale for the LOWEST price of the year. You can go to www.yearbookforever.com to buy yours now. Prices will continue to go up throughout the year, so buy yours at the lowest price now while you still can.

Each year, Rock Ridge Unified Mental Health Team members give mental health presentations to all students. This year, 9th grade Signs of Suicide presentations are occurring during your student’s Health/P.E. class. These 9th grade presentations are occurring on September 9th and 10th.

If you do not want your student attending this presentation, please complete the following permission click link to opt your student out of the presentation. Students who opt out will be able to go an alternate location during the short presentation.

9th grade opt-out: https://permission.click/702DJ/int

We are proud to have a new addition to our school counseling department! Ms. Emily Gardner will be joining our team this year. The increased enrollment has changed some of the counselors and their assigned students. Please know we all work to ensure student success.

Counselor Assignments

Gardner

Erestain

Leach

Wallen

Bryan

Schedules

Schedules are live through Parent/StudentVue. Make sure you have completed all of the first day paperwork so you have full access to Parentvue, https://www.lcps.org/firstday

Please remember that the deadline to change courses was last Spring. We have built the school schedule based on student requests. At this time there are not options for changes as classes and staffing were based on requests. So please understand, when we are not able to honor a late request for a course change.

Schoolinks

In each of the class meeting students were reminded to go in and make sure you have set up your Schoolinks for this year. Make sure you have done everything for onboarding. Seniors were asked to make sure they have linked their Schoolinks with Common App(see below). Parents you to should make certain your Schoolinks account is ready to go for this year.

Onboarding for Schoolinks- Students and parents this is your homework to complete ASAP. Schoolinks is accessed through LCPS Go. Please have your student complete the following. Doing this will jumpstart your students’ progress!!!

• Student Logins
• Guardian Logins
• Have at Least One Guardian Join
• Complete the “Find the Path” Assessment
• Complete the “Learning Style” Assessment

Loudoun County Public Schools allows students with the ability to comprehend and communicate in languages other than English, to earn high school credits through State-approved world language assessments. The Credit Through Testing (CTT) exam measures students’ language proficiency in order to award one, two, or three high school world language credits. Students may take the exam two times per language while in high school, free of charge. Students can get language credits in the following languages: American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese/Mandarin, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Pashto, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. All the information is here https://www.lcps.org/o/dtl/page/world-languages-and-cultures.