Class of 2024
April 2024 - PLEASE READ ALL SECTIONS CAREFULLY!
All the Dates
Update your Senior Calendar for April and May!
April
17 - 5:30 pm - 3.75 Award Banquet (By Invitation)
25 - 7:30 pm - All school movie night. More information to come.
May
4 - 7:00 pm Prom
7 - 5:30 pm Senior Awards / Cap-Gown distribution /
- 7:15 pm Capping Ceremony / Senior Slide Show
13 - 6:30 pm Senior Sunset
15 - 16 - Senior Finals
17 - Senior Finals Make-up Day
17 - 7:15 am - Mandatory Graduation Rehearsal / 8:00 am Senior Breakfast (seniors only) / 9:15 am - Senior Send-off / Senior Walk
24 - Graduation - World Arena - 9:00 AM
Voting .... Voting ... Voting ...
Seniors - VOTE for your Graduation Heralds and Speaker.
Please take the opportunity to nominate Graduation Heralds (The people who say your names at graduation).
Please nominate four teachers and/or staff at Vista Ridge. The top four people from the votes will become the 2024 Graduation Heralds.
Time to also finalize the Graduation Speaker. The top choice will be the speaker at graduation.
If a speaker chosen decides not to speak, the second nomination with the most votes will then be asked and so on.
The voting will end at 11:59 pm Tuesday, April 9.
Deceased or Deployed Parent?
Senior Awards - FINAL order - due April 12, 2024
The Senior Awards Ceremony is meant to recognize you and your accomplishments. Having to "do" school and fulfill all of what the four years requires of you can be a daunting task and especially if you do it with a deployed parent or without a parent is unimaginable. We want to make sure you are honored but feel comfortable with the recognition of having lost a parent. Please answer the question below on your comfort with receiving this unique cord. ONE LAST OPPORTUNITY - FILL OUT THIS FORM if you haven't already - NEED by April 12, 2024 for one last order.
Senior Awards night is May 7 ceremony starting at 5:30 at VR.
Please read the cord descriptions here:
Deployed Parents - Students who have had a parent deployed during their high school career are honored with a red, white, and blue twist cord at the Senior Awards Night.
Deceased Parent - Students are honored with a black cord to show their perseverance of achieving success in high school with the loss of a parent.
Graduation Walk
Graduation Walk - form due May 10
Congratulations class of 2024!!! Graduation is quickly approaching and then the next chapter in your life begins! Over the next months many of you will reminisce over your entire school career. Not just high school but also your elementary and middle school years. So many memories! I would like to provide you an opportunity to walk down memory lane AND to continue our Senior Walk tradition!
Senior Walk is a celebration in which soon-to-be graduates walk the halls of our feeder schools (middle and elementary) as a way of demonstrating to younger students that hard work pays off. It is an opportunity for seniors to both celebrate their achievements with past teachers and inspire younger students to follow in their footsteps.
Please fill out the form to let us know if you plan on attending the walk as we need to know for busses. If you want to attend the walk, you must ride the bus and CANNOT drive.
Senior Awards - Capping Ceremony
May 7 - Senior Awards - Capping Ceremony
5:30 pm - Senior Awards - VR Gymnasium
Seniors will get an invitation to Senior Awards if they are being honored
for cords, stoles, scholarship awards, etc.
6:30 pm - Seniors pick up Caps and Gowns - VR foyer
Jostens will be here to handout cap/gown orders.
7:15 pm - Senior Capping Ceremony - VR Gymnasium
Seniors will attend with immediate family for a capping program (please read Capping Letter attachment) and Senior Slideshow.
**The VR backdrops will be available for pictures after the capping ceremony.
ππCap Decorations Guidelines ππ
Caps and Gowns coming May 7!
Caps and Gowns will be here May 7. Decorating your graduation cap is a tradition! Be sure to read the guidelines attached here. Decorated caps need to be approved between May 8 - May 23.
π€© May 17 - MANDATORY for Seniors - Graduation Rehearsal π€©
ππGraduation Rehearsalππ
Per Principal Payne - ALL Seniors walking at graduation
NEED to attend the
Mandatory Graduation Rehearsal
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 7:15 AM
If you cannot make rehearsal, you MUST email Mr Payne - thomas.payne@d49.org
Senior Breakfast and Senior Send-off
Senior Breakfast and Senior Send-off - May 17, 8:00 AM - Senior only event
Vista Ridge offers seniors a Senior Breakfast the day after finals as a gift on their last official day of school on May 17. This has been a tradition since VR had its first graduating class. The breakfast is only for the seniors as VR provides the whole class the opportunity to be with their classmates one final time before graduation. There is no fee for the seniors to pay.
After the breakfast, the parents are invited to form a Senior Send-off line as seniors leave the breakfast around 9:15 AM and head out to the busses to attend the Senior Walk at 9:30 (if they choose).
Fees and Graduation
Have you paid your VR fees?
Please check to see what fees you owe.
Any unpaid balance on your student fees account may result in not being able to walk in the graduation ceremony.
You can check with Mrs. Wheeler about your balance and pay fees.
Graduation
Graduation - May 24, 2024 - 9:00 AM
Broadmoor World Arena
3185 Venetucci Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Friday, May 24, 2024
6:45 am - Graduates need to be at World Arena - Please be on time for walk through.
8:00 am - Doors open for seating. NO tickets necessary. Wheelchair accessibility seating available. One seat available with Wheelchair patron.
9:00 am - Ceremony begins
** Please read the attached World Arena guidelines as there are NEW guidelines for what is permissible into the venue.
Senior Sponsor - Michelle Fenicle
If you have any questions or concerns or ideas, please feel free to reach out to me.