It is hard to believe, but we are already past the halfway mark of the first marking period. Progress Reports will be sent home in the coming days and now is a great time to evaluate how our students are doing academically to begin the new school year!

The link below will bring you to the Faculty and Staff Office Hour Times. This document is a good resource to use to schedule extra support in any classes that may be needed. It is best to either email or talk to the teacher prior to going to their scheduled office hour times so that they may gather any materials needed.

Use this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1JDFhHeTQaLHq4b9mIuFmmKuX-CYSPQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106398107817364067865&rtpof=true&sd=true

Have a great Monday!

10/20 - Pink Friday (See Below)

10/20 - 8th Grade Washington DC + 7th Grade Boston Trip Early Enrollment Rate Deadline

10/25 - RMS Picture Re-takes

10/27 - Pink Friday (See Below)

10/27 - Last Day for Spirit Wear Orders

10/30 - 11/3 - RMS Spirit Week (more info to be sent soon)

11/3 - Gertrude Hawk Order Forms Due

11/3 - RMS Fall Dance @ RMS Gymnasium Time TBA

11/7 - Professional Community Learning Day - No School for Students

11/7 - PTO Meeting 7pm @ RMS Library

11/9 - RMS Flag Football "Turkey Bowl" (more info to be sent soon)

11/10 - Veterans Day Observed - District Closed

11/20 & 11/21 - Conference Days - Half Days for Students

11/22-11/24 - Thanksgiving Recess - No School for Students

12/8 & 12/9 - RMS Drama Club Production 7pm @ RMS Gymnasium

12/25-1/2 - Winter Recess - No School for Students

RMS plans to begin a new initiative to honor Veterans each year on Veterans Day! See the info below on how, as a community, we can come together and honor our veterans while also raising money for a local veteran organization. This is open and available to anyone within the BCSD at our six schools! Thank you for your support!

RMS has partnered with the Beacon Elks Lodge to recognize students in 6th, 7th and 8th grade each month. Teachers and staff nominate students based on these tenets:

• Overcoming obstacles
• Demonstrates respect to the student body and faculty and/or honors and respects others' property.
• Exhibits behaviors of an upstander.
• Student is working to his or her potential and/or shows improvement in areas that are challenging.
• Shows a strong commitment to continuing their education.
• Demonstrates acceptance and tolerance of the differences in others.
• Goes above and beyond to show support of others.Demonstrating the ability to work independently.
• Exhibits good time management/organizational skills.

A committee then reads through the nominations and chooses one student for each grade.

Congratulations to the students below!

At the end of each month, RMS students are able to vote for their favorite lesson of the month. They are able to explain what the lesson was about, why they liked it, and how it made them feel special. Congratulations to Ms. Winkelmann!

Below are the modified sports home contests for the next two weeks. Game schedules are always subject to change due to various reasons. Download the rSchool App to view the most up to date schedules for Beacon Athletics! Come out and support your Bulldogs!

10/16: Modified Boys Soccer vs. Warwick 4:30pm @ RMS Soccer Field

10/17: Modified Cross Country vs. Port Jervis 4:30pm @ BHS

10/19: Modified Volleyball vs. Middletown 4:30pm @ RMS Gymnasium

10/23: Modified Girls Soccer vs. Warwick 4:15pm @ RMS Soccer Field

10/24: Modified Football vs. Minisink 4:30pm @ BHS Turf

10/26: Modified Boys Soccer vs. Port Jervis 4:15pm @ RMS Soccer Field

10/27: Modified Girls Soccer vs. Port Jervis 4:15pm @ RMS Soccer Field

This past week, students in each grade had the opportunity to either hike Mount Beacon or go swimming at the BHS Pool! Thank you to the PE Department for planning and organizing the trip, the chaperones who either hiked or went to the pool for supervision, our Secretarial Staff for their flexibility and assistance, the Food Services Department for preparing lunches for our students, and all other staff for their support when called upon!

See the cool drone video below taken by Mr. Kowalski from the Casino Lookout on top of the Mountain!

Please join all six of our schools as our student councils collaborate to collect coats for Dutchess Outreach’s annual coat drive. Coats should be clean and gently used. We are also collecting sneakers to be recycled or repurposed by gotsneakers.com. There will be drop boxes in all six buildings. At RMS, the Drop boxes will be located at the Kiosk!

An awesome opportunity from Cablevision/Univision!

This Hispanic Heritage month, we are asking students to think about how they stay connected with their communities. Opportunities to connect culturally with others occur each day, whether through media and entertainment, experiences, or relationships with people in your community.

In a 500 word or less essay, choose a person, group of people, or cultural experience (TV show, movie, music, app, event) that has helped you to connect to Hispanic culture and what that means to you.

*Grand Prize: $3,000 scholarship
*Prize for 3 Finalists: iPad
*Separate prizes for middle and high school categories in East and West Regions.

Listen to the announcements for an informational meeting if interested in writing an essay or see one of the World Language teachers.

*Children and household members of Altice USA employees are not eligible to apply

Picture retakes will be October 25th. Students will be called down by their grade to the library. If they would like their pictures to be retaken, they need to bring the original pictures back and hand it to the photographer. If they were absent on picture day, they should come down when their grade is called and have their picture taken.

1. GSA/Kaleidoscope Club will meet Wednesday, October 25th for their next club meeting.

2. See the RMS Clubs, their advisors, and meeting dates below. Get involved!

3. See the graphic below for our NJHS Pink Fridays!

It's that time of year for Fall Cleaning. If you find yourself wanting to donate clothes, shoes and other items, please consider using our USAgain donation bins. The RMS bins are located in the bus loop parking lot. The positives to using these bins are two-fold: for every bin that is full, USAgain plants 1 tree and two, some money gets raised for our RMS Environmental Club! See the picture below from the USAgain website for some ideas that you may consider donating!

The PTO is in full swing fundraising for so many great things!

Our spirit wear store is open now through 10/27. Spirit wear makes great holiday presents. Orders will be delivered to your student or you can notify us if it is a gift and we will make other delivery arrangements. Follow this link to place your orders today!

The Gertrude Hawk Chocolate fundraiser order forms should be returned by 11/3. You can also place orders online using the following link. Begin by adding a seller and use the organization code 718629. All students can participate in the fundraiser. Those students going on the DC or Boston trip can have the profit earned applied to their trip cost. The profit earned from 6th graders and those students not going on the DC or Boston will be donated to the district to be applied to the end of year trips for each grade.

There is still time to make a donation to the PTO to be entered into a raffle for a gift basket. The raffle basket drawing will be held at our meeting on 11/7/23. Make your donation online here or by venmo @DotDiNobile and add PTO donation in the memo.

Our Ride to School with the Bravest Raffle has begun which will benefit our DC and Boston Scholarship Fund. Raffle tickets are on sale for elementary school students to win a ride to school on a fire truck. Tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10 and can be downloaded from Romboutpto.org. Please help us spread the word. There will be one winner from each elementary school.

We are looking for food donations and volunteers for the Fall Ball on 11/3 and the Turkey Bowl football tounrament later in November. If you are interested in donating or volunteering for the Fall Ball sign up here. If you are interested in donating to or volunteering for the Turkey Bowl sign up here.

Mark your calendars...the Harlem Wizards are returning to Beacon on 2/16/24. If you would like to be on the planning committee for the fun event please contact us at romboutpto@gmail.com.

We would like to thank Mr. Carofano and Ms Pucino for volunteering their time to help us raise money at the concession stand of a West Point football game. We raised over $600 that rainy day and we are so grateful for their help, support, and dedication.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 11/7 at 7pm in the RMS Library. We will be attempting to do a hybrid meeting by zoom. Be on the lookout for the link in the near future. We would love to see you there! We are still looking for board members for this year and next year. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us at romboutpto@gmail.com.

Questions or Concerns? Contact the Main Office at 845-838-6900 ext. 4131.

Follow us on Instagram and X (Twitter) - @RomboutMS

School Address: 84 Mattaewan Rd, Beacon, NY 12508

Principal: Mr. Brian Soltish - soltish.b@beaconk12.org - ext. 4131

Assistant Principal (Last Names A-L): Mr. Michael Carofano - carofano.m@beaconk12.org - ext. 4105

Assistant Principal (Last Names M-Z): Ms. Amanda Pucino - pucino.a@beaconk12.org - ext. 4144