Riley’s Mission Statement: Riley is a partnership between school, home, and community, dedicated to learning and growing together.
September 2015 Riley Racer Report Welcome to Riley for the 2015-16 school year! We are off to a very smooth start. Thank you for understanding our safety procedures as they relate to your children and our staff. While we love welcoming parents and friends into our building, it is important that we err on the side of safety. I understand how difficult it can be to send your children off to school each day, and I promise we make responsibility for their safety our number one priority. Our School Resource Officer remains in charge and will check guests through the front doors as they arrive, are buzzed through, and sign in. Please have a picture ID available at sign-in and again, thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Now that we have all established our “back-toschool routines”, there are just a few reminders to help the traffic situation run smoothly before and after school. Please remember that parents are to park in the north or south lots when entering school for a visit. If you are walking your child to the doors before or picking up there after school, please park in the north lot as our bus fleet utilizes our south lot for drop off and pick up.
We ask parents to escort their children across streets and parking lots; please don’t call or send children across unattended. The drop-off zone in front of the building is off limits for parked cars during am drop-offs and pm pick-ups. Car drivers should pull all the way forward as directed before having your child disembark. This helps prevent a back-up onto Highway 46 and allows our buses to enter and exit the parking lot with their precious cargo. The curb areas in and out of the parking lots are also off limits for standing or parking. We have a number of students who walk back and forth to school, so please be on the lookout for these children as they cross the street in front of the building. While the rules may seem many, I assure you our VCSC Transportation Department, along with Student Services and the corporation Risk Manager have carefully studied the traffic pattern and have put in place what we believe is the best plan for our school. Thank you for understanding how seriously we take our safety commitment to all of our children. Please feel free to contact me at any time with concerns and/or comments. I look forward to working as a team to make this the best year yet for our Riley School Community.
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Staff Changes This year there have been a few changes in the Riley staff. In the classroom, Mrs. Butts was reaasigned to West Vigo Elementary, so Ms. Raley moved from third to fourth grade. We have a new PE teacher in Mr. Allen, who is at Riley on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and a new counselor, Mrs. Pesavento, who is here on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Miss Marina got married and is now Mrs. Wells. The new writing teacher who is here on Thursdays in second and fifth grades is Mrs. Hancewicz and the new Psychologist is Ms. Gross. Marcia Lough moved from the lunchroom aide to a full time teaching assistant position; Kristen Padgett will be the new lunchroom aide. We have 3 new teaching assistants, Marah Hay, Kara Kisner, and Shelly Poleski and 2 new custodian, Jim Gatrell and Ted Robinson. We welcome these newcomers to the Riley family.
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Hello from the Media Center! Welcome back to school! If you are
SECURITY MEASURES
If you need to enter the school interested in volunteering here at building at any time, please be sure Riley but aren’t sure where to start, to have your picture ID with you. I encourage you to consider the liThe School Protection Officer on brary! Please contact me to set up a time to stop in and see if it’s a fit for duty will most likely ask for it. you! Please refrain from picking up your Students have already started child before the end of the school checking out books, so please help reday if at all possible. If you pick up mind them to bring their books back to your child from school you are welschool every week on their scheduled come to wait outside on a bench if library day. If a book is lost/damaged, you are parked in one of the lots or please send in $5/paperback or $10/ hardback to help offset the cost of in your vehicle if parked in the pick replacing it. You may also choose to up zone until dismissal time (2:45). send in a replacement book that is Students are expected to do whatsimilar in manner and in decent condiever is normal at dismissal time tion. Contact me by calling the school or email me at
[email protected] if unless they have a note otherwise. Telling your child you will pick them you have any questions or concerns. Want to be an All Pro Dad? up without notifying the teacher is unacceptable. Beginning September 17 and con-
Textbook Fees Payment by check or money orders are payable to VCSC. Cash or check are payable in the school office. Visa or Master Card are payable in the administration building or by calling 462-4229. Receipts will be issued upon payment. Partial payments are also accepted. Kindergarten $107.00 Grades 1-5 $122.00
Cafeteria Info
Breakfast Served 7:55 to 8:15 $1.25 Full pay student .30 Reduced pay student $1.75 Adult .35 Extra Milk Lunch Served 11:20-12:55 $2.50 Full pay student .40 Reduced pay student Safety Drills $3.00 Adult tinuing every third Thursday of each State law mandates that public .35 Extra Milk month, “All Pro Dad” will be meeting .50 Juice in the cafe. This is open to all Riley schools hold monthly fire drills. In Please be sure your child has Elementary students and their dads! addition to those, we hold an earthBreakfast will be served at a cost of quake drill in the fall, a tornado drill enough money in their account to in the spring and two man-made cover meals. You can put any $1.75 per dad. More info will be drills, such as bomb threat, danger- amount in their account and it will sent prior to each event. This proous person nearby the school, or be taken out whenever they purgram was started by former Colts coach Tony Dungy. If you would like armed intruder. We practice these chase a meal. If there is money left, it will remain in their account drills so that every staff member more info, the website is and student knows what to do in case until they leave a Vigo County
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ite high school. •School Alerts - Get alerted when your child's school is delayed, closed, or there is a need to reach the parents of a specific school. ————————————————————————————————————————————RILEY SCHOOL BENCH PROJECT CONTINUES By collecting CAPS from household containers, benches can be made from something that would ordinarily be thrown away. Metal, pumps or fast food cup lids are NOT acceptable. Please save your lids and send them to school for our collection. After we have collected 400 pounds, we will be provided a purple bench from the VC Solid Waste Management District. The caps can be turned in at the office or cafeteria. •
Snap on cottage cheese, coffee can or yogurt lids
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Twist off drink bottles and milk jugs including the ring
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Spout tops such as squirt mustard
Riley has received 3 beautiful benches from the caps we have collected so far and donated enough for McLean to have a bench also. We have 2 benches at the main entrance and 1 on the playground area. _________________________________________________________________________________________ The PTO’s Membership Drive is underway and going great! Thank you for your support. We are still working towards 100% membership by September 25. Only $5.00 per family, this goes towards student programs, classroom needs, and teacher appreciation. You can contact [email protected], with any questions. FUNDRAISER ORDERS DUE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1!
Fall PTO Meeting,Thursday, September 10 at 3:00-4:00 PM
Fall Festival is October 23. Volunteers are needed to help plan and work the event. Please contact us at [email protected]
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