Raney Intermediate School
Raney ROCKs Newsletter 1/10/25
Dear Raney Community,
As we welcome 2025, I want to wish each of you a joyous and prosperous New Year. We hope your family had a good Winter Break. We’re excited to see all of our students back at school on Monday, 1/13/2025 at 7:30 a.m., ready to learn.
As we enter this second half of our school year, we want to reinforce the importance of school attendance. We have made great improvements in our daily attendance and have had very few tardies and early pickups. We can only attribute that to our fantastic students and families. As the holiday season ends all the gifts have been opened, but the best gift you can give your child is a good education. We know that just a few missed days here and there, even if they’re excused absences, can add up to too much lost learning time. We also know that attendance and being on time are habits that all students should learn early on if they’re going to succeed in school and in all of their future endeavors. You can help us convey this important message. Give your child the gift of an education and the habit of excellent attendance.
Thank you for your continued support and dedication to a legendary experience for our students.
Warmly,
Principal Luna
Important Dates:
1/13 Welcome Back! Be on time at 7:30 a.m.
1/15 Wacky Wednesday/Crazy Hair ASB Spirit Day
1/20 NO SCHOOL-Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
1/31 Dance "Northern Nights Under the Northern Lights" / Hosted by Drama Club 6:30-8:00PM
Below are more important Raney announcements.
Raney ROCKs stands for Respect, Ownership, Commitment, and Kindness. These four principles guide our school wide expectations. School Dress code is under Ownership. Students, please remember to dress appropriately on our campus.
The following items are considered inappropriate/unacceptable for school attire:
Bare midriffs (no skin showing).
Oversized bottoms. Please adhere to bottoms must fit at the hip so they will stay on without a belt (correct waist and length size).
Clothing with words/images of alcohol, drugs (Cookies), gang affiliation, violence, and/or pornography.
No sports slides or slippers. If Crocs are worn the need to be in sport mode for safety (the strap over the back of the heel).
Get involved: After-school Raney Clubs
If your student is looking for ways to get more involved with school or fun things to do after school, check out the CLUB HUB in the library. We have almost 20 different clubs and activities going on after-school.
Library Open After School on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Need a quiet place to study, do community service, or your homework? Visit the Raney Library.
You will need to have a permission slip signed to stay after school in the library.
Get your permission slip in the Library and bring it filled out and signed.
You can also visit the link below to order your yearbook.
Birthday Shout out
Saludo de cumpleaños
Drop Off and Pick Up
Due to construction, our drop off and pick up will be different from last year. The gate by the Cafeteria Driveway will be closed to student access for the entire year.
All students can be dropped off and picked up next to the Solar-Panels Parking Lot. Please follow attached diagram. Enter through the driveway and loop around to the student Drop Off Area.
Bike Riders have a new gated area to lock their bicycles towards the back of the Solar-Panel Parking Lot. Students are to get off their bike and walk it in once they arrive onto school property.
The front parking lot is for busses and permitted cars only. Please do not drop students off in this parking lot.
For student safety and well being, we discourage students from being dropped off or picked up at Lincoln Park where there is no student supervision.
Morning Drop-off and Afternoon Pick-up
Have you noticed our new signs in the parking lot to help with the flow of traffic? Please pull forward to the orange cones and do not stop directly in front of the gate for students to exit or enter. This allows us to have more students exit or enter their cars at one time and keep the cars moving.
Daily Raney Schedule
Gates open at 7:30 a.m. Please arrive at school by 7:30 a.m. so that you will not be late to your first period class. Our EARLY OUT DAY is EVERY WEDNESDAY and begins on August 21.
PE Clothes
Build good habits-Take your PE clothes home on Fridays. After washing them, fold them and put them in nicely in your backpack for Monday.
District Devices
Raney ROCKs
Raney ROCKs stands for Respect, Ownership, Commitment, and Kindness. These four principles guide our school wide expectations.
Raney ROCKs Schoolwide Expectations - Dress Code
Raney ROCKs stands for Respect, Ownership, Commitment, and Kindness. These four principles guide our school wide expectations. School Dress code is under Ownership. Students, please remember to dress appropriately on our campus.
The following items are considered inappropriate/unacceptable for school attire:
Bare midriffs (no skin showing).
Oversized bottoms. Please adhere to bottoms must fit at the hip so they will stay on without a belt (correct waist and length size).
Clothing with words/images of alcohol, drugs (Cookies), gang affiliation, violence, and/or pornography.
No sports slides or slippers. If Crocs are worn the need to be in sport mode for safety (the strap over the back of the heel).
Electronic Devices Policy
We expect that phones and earbuds/Airpods are off in backpacks once students enter campus. Phones and earbuds/Airpods should remain off and in backpack until after they leave through the gate after dismissal.
Please keep personal items at home.
Keep your bike safe.
No sale of items between students.
Student IDs
Students must have their ID Badges available to display at all times. When entering campus when gates open at 7:30am, all students are required to show their ID as part of our keeping our campus secure.
2024-25 Picture ID badges will be handed out to all students once fall pictures are taken. Until then, students will be given a temporary ID at Orientation. These are the ones that must be displayed.
ID Badges are also used to reward students for their positive actions and showing Raney ROCKs expectations. These points can then be used at our Raney Student Store.
Raney SWAG Expectations
Our Raney school swag enhances school safety, pride, unity, and community spirit. Let’s show our Knight pride and let everyone know that Raney ROCKs!
We highly encourage our Raney swag and will be celebrating students who wear it with incentives. The more you wear it the more positivity at our school!
Visit the school office if you need to purchase your Raney Swag.
Show your School Spirit!
Wednesdays: AVID OR College/University Shirts
Fridays: Raney Swag or BLUE OUT Day! Available for purchase in the office after school.
No Drop Off
No Food Deliveries to the School
No Early Release
We will not process or call up students for early releases after 1:24pm or 12:34pm on Wednesdays. NO EXCEPTIONS! Please plan ahead for things like doctors and dentists appointments to ensure that you are able to pick them up before the cut-off time.