Happy Friday Ridgeview families! Here are your weekly updates.

We had our first Club Friday today with our students during their Pawtime period. The purpose of the monthly clubs is to have a time in the day where they can not only possibly meet new students and/or staff they didn’t know before, but also continue to create a building culture where students and staff feel a sense of belonging while they’re here. The clubs are a fun way for everyone to express themselves and have some fun while they do it! Today was a great start and we’re looking forward to having it again next month.

The second grading period is off and running! We’ve implemented a new structure to our Pawtime/E&I period. Teachers have identified students, for both reading and math, that they will work with intentionality to help boost academic production and achievement overall. Every team has a plan implemented for their grade level students and teachers and administrators will monitor progress to ensure student outcomes are aligned to our goals as a building, individual student goals, as well as data points for the grade levels. As mentioned before, families can assist us in making sure students are completing iReady (reading and math), Aleks (gifted math), and/or Membene (gifted reading) assignments on time and with accuracy. You can also assist in making sure your student is on time to school daily, and actively communicating with teachers on a regular basis.

Spirit Week was fun had by all this week! Thank you to all our students and staff who participated, especially on our Halloween dress up day. The customs were great. We’ll have plenty of pics for the yearbook and building monitors. We’ll have another spirit week sometime soon. If your kiddo didn’t participate this week, we hope they do the next time.

On Thur Oct 24th, a new senate bill went into effect about how students use technology while at school. More information will be coming out by the district about this, as well as how families can also monitor what their student(s) are doing on district devices. We encourage parents to take time and read through the info, as it is very informative and important to the communication you may get from the school and/or district moving forward. If after receiving this you have additional questions, please reach out to a building administrator.

There has been an email going around to some families pretending to be me. This has now happened twice. The email can be found here. If you receive this or anything that does not have my district email address, please be assured it did not come from me. Feel free to report this to our technology department if something is received. Thank you in advance.

Lastly, our next day off from school is Election Day - Nov 5th. This is another staff professional development day. All schools will resume classes on Wed Nov 6th.

Take care and we’ll see everyone soon! GO TIGERS!

Important Dates:

Tue Nov 5: ELECTION DAY! No School - Staff PD Day

Week of Nov 18: Q2 Interims available to view in IC

Nov 27-29: Thanksgiving Break - No School

Sheila A. Evans, Principal

Ridgeview STEM Junior High School

Once again we will be helping families for the holidays. If you are able, please donate in one of the ways listed below for a donation to the district collection. Ridgeview also accepts gift card donations in the office. Many of the donations that are received by the district are toys for younger kids. At RJHS, we collect gift cards that are appropriate for Teens ages 12-18 so we can provide more of what they like. We use them for the families that we help and donate the rest to the other schools with older kiddos.

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.

Dress Code:

• All students should have shoes that cover their toes and that are appropriate for school (no slides, sandals, or slippers). Crocs are appropriate but must have the strap for the heel.

• Clothes should be appropriate length and cover all parts of the body (ex: no crop tops, spaghetti straps). If writing or pictures are on the clothing, it should be appropriate to wear at school. PJ’s are not appropriate clothing to wear to school.

• Students are permitted to wear hooded sweatshirts to school, but cannot have the hood (or any hat) on their head during the school day.

Personal Communication Devices:

• For this school year, when students enter the building, all devices (phones, wireless headphones or pods, iPads) are to be turned off and put out of sight for the entire school day. Smart watches may be used as a watch only. If it’s used for anything else, it will be confiscated.

• If a student is seen with a device OR uses their smart watch for anything other than a watch, the device will be confiscated and locked up in the main office. The first time it’s taken, the student may pick it up at the end of the school day. After the first time, a parent will have to pick up the device - it will not be returned to the student moving forward.

• 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.

• The purpose of this is to have our students more engaged in classes. Devices are becoming more of a distraction every single day. We want to set our Ridgeview students up for success in every class. We believe this will be a better start to doing just that!

• 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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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

Next week some of our former ROX girls will be selling Boos during Pawtime!

Parents can preorder "Boos" for your child with the QR code below or students can pay cash. They are $.50 each. Profits from the sale go toward funding a ROX group again this year.

To learn more about ROX you can click this link: ROX (Ruling Our Experiences.)

Please click the pic for the link!

Tiger Athletics Website

Athletic Handbook

Winter Sports Registration is now OPEN!

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

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

Be sure to register your student in Final Forms so that you get all of the up to date information regarding try-outs and practices.

https://pickerington-oh.finalforms.com/

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**

TGIF ~ Happy Friday Ridgeview Family & Friends!!

We had a fantastic turn out for Teen Night and the students and staff had a great time! Thank YOU for helping to make it all possible! We couldn't do these things for our kiddos without our family volunteers, so THANK YOU.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Kelly Martin & Qiana Ellis

kelly.martin_rvjhpto@hotmail.com

qsmith6@hotmail.com

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  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.

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 STEM 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