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Congratulations to the following students! Their artwork was on display at the Lexington County Library in March for ArtFest. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

5th - Brianna Berrian, Blakley Carwell

4th - David Thang, Marianne Bass, Jemima Siuhi

3rd - Stella Capasso, Heath Baxley

2nd - Bret Reynolds, Britton Foust

1st - Anna Armstrong, Stella Sumner

5K - Garland Newell

Rocky Creek families raised $4148.52 for the American Heart Association's Kid Heart Challenge. A big thank you goes to each of you who donated!!

3 Hali Hendricks

4 Sarah Harmon

7 Cari Benton

9 Halsey French

11 Krysten Sidaway

29 Anne Lubitz-Carter

We invite you to follow RCES on social media.

Here is the link to our school website.

https://www.lexington1.net/RCES

Here is the link to our Facebook Page.

https://www.facebook.com/RCESLex1/

Here is the link to our Twitter Page.

https://twitter.com/rceslex1

Lexington County School District One has identified eight Power Skills through our strategic plan that are integral to the way we work and learn together at Rocky Creek Elementary. These skills enable our students to learn the characteristics that will support them now and throughout their lives. The Power Skills are: accountability, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, interpersonal skills, integrity, perseverance, and a willingness to take risks. These skills are taught as an integral part of daily instruction during our Morning Meeting and throughout the day.

During the month of April, we will focus on these skills:

Week of April 10 - Critical Thinking

Week of April 17 - Perseverance

Week of April 24 - Bravery

Congratulations to the following students for being named February's Leaders of the Month for exhibiting the power skill PERSEVERANCE. All Leaders of the Month were celebrated by our school counselors with a special Leaders of the Month lunch treat!

Grade 4k

Willow Dixon, Harley Roberson

Grade 5k

Teah Trinity Cammock, Tucker Canady, Violet Cosentino, Sara Fraser, Madison Harris, Noah Jeffcoat, Maddox Keisler, Nate Locke, Carter Lynch, Renata Martinez, Colton Price, Beckett Rikard

Grade 1

Elliot Allen, James Danca, Mia Free, Lilly Groves, Everett Hefner, Jacek Lapore, Easton Little,

Drew Murray, Charlie Nelson, Hadley Nelson, Ruby Olson, Asher Spell, Jax Staley, Ryleigh Youngblood

Grade 2

Grant Baxley, Britton Foust, Liam Keith, Loralei Keisler, McCoy Lanham, Jameison Mena, Zoey Polaszewski, Nealy Staples, Ximena Tapia, Olivia Tolli, Annalynn Trader, Yaretzi Yanes

Grade 3

Tanner Baughman, Britton Bass, Anslee Branham, Braxton Crossin, Michael Hackett, Juliet Neel,

Sophie Pena, Star Pitre, Nicholas Smith, Sarah Ellis Stafford, Harper Straub, Jack Swanner, Alana Tolli, Paige Vettorel

Grade 4

Shane Abercrombie, Xavi Barcelata, Breslyn Bedenbaugh, Emily Blankenship, Dylan Branham,

Taryn Cammock, Tucker Dooley, Penny Godfrey, Madilynn Johnson, Emily Valdes Marimon,

Kimberly Olsen, Zackary Sanders, Molly-Kate Scurry, Solomon Sumner, Ace Yongue

Grade 5

Braelynn Dutton, Max Halsall, Jackson Heydt, Phoebe Higgins, Jamie Hiott, Andre' Jackson,

Skyler Lewis, Amelia Nickel, Celsey Odom, Joanna Russell, Sofia Smock, Nolan Snider, Jack Stickney, Zoey Williams

April

3-7 Spring Break

11 PTO Chick-fil-A Biscuit Sale

17-21 Unified Spirit Week - see theme's below

18 Class Pictures

19 Collaborative Planning Dismiss @11:20

20 PTO Dine Out Night @ Menchie's

25 Spring Coding Showcase (see flier below)

26 Career Fair for Grades 3-5

27 Spring Coding Showcase (see flier below)

28 Vehicle Career Day for Grades 4k-2

May

1-5 Teacher Appreciation Week

4 PTO Chick-fil-A Biscuit Sale

9 SC Ready for 3rd Grade - ELA Day 1

10 SC Ready for 3rd Grade - ELA Day 2

Art and Music Show 5:00-7:00

11 SC Ready for 3rd Grade - Math

15 SC Ready for 4th and 5th Grade - ELA Day 1

16 SC Ready for 4th and 5th Grade - ELA Day 2

17 SC Ready for 4th and 5th Grade - Math

18 SC PASS Assessment for 4th and 5th Grade - Science

26 Field Day

29 Memorial Day - School Closed

31 5th Grade Promotion Ceremony @ 9:00 A.M.

June

1 Half Day for Students

2 Last Day and Half Day for Students

Report Cards Issued

Effective family-school communication and family involvement in education contributes to improved student achievement and better learning outcomes. RCES uses a variety of ways to

communicate with our families including emails. School Messenger, Facebook, school

website, Peach Jar, Twitter, Tuesday folders, and newsletters.

All emails and phone messages will receive a response from RCES staff within 24 hours of the initial contact.

If you have not been receiving emails from the school, please contact the front office to make sure we get that updated for you.

If you have suggestion about how we can improve communication, please reach out to one of the administrators.

Lexington One uses Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teaching Reading and Writing curriculum.

Lucy Calkins and her Teachers College Reading and Writing Project coauthors aim to prepare students for any reading and writing task they will face and to turn kids into life-long, confident readers and writers who display agency and independence. Lucy and her colleagues have drawn on their more than 30 years of research and work in thousands of schools across the country and around the world to develop powerful curriculum resources, instructional methods, and professional learning opportunities to support teachers as they work together and with their students toward these vitally important goals.

Lexington One uses Ready Classroom Mathematics Curriculum.

Ready Classroom Mathematics is a robust mathematics program that will help your student become a strong, independent mathematical thinker. The program uses a different approach to math instruction than many of us had as kids. It focuses on learning through problem solving

and student-to-student conversations about mathematical thinking (called discourse).

Your child's teacher uses a set of learning routines each day that help students engage in discourse as they develop a conceptual understanding of mathematics. The routines also ensure that your student develops the problem-solving skills needed to become an independent and confident mathematical thinker.

April 26th: Career Fair Day for 3rd through 5th grade students.

Students will get to hear from different Career Speakers about their job!

April 28th: Career Vehicle Day for 4K through 2nd grade students.

Students will get to see different Career Vehicles and hear about their job!

Grades: 5K and 4th

Jamie Dawkins………….……… (803) 821-4181

jdawkins@lexington1.net

Grades: 1st and 5th

Elizabeth Lilienthal………….….. (803) 821-4175

elilienthal@lexington1.net

Grades: 2nd and 3rd

Sara Parker Garrison………...… (803) 821-4233

sgarrison@lexington1.net

Please do not hesitate to reach out to our school counselors.

Please do not send any medications to school with your child. An adult must bring all medications and go through our school nurse.

If you have question about the procedures for administering medication at school, please contact Nurse Lindsey at (803)821-4198.

PTO is testing a new system to gauge its outreach to staff and families.

In addition to our Facebook and Instagram accounts, we are trying out PTBOARD which will allow us to update our calendar, volunteer opportunities, announcements, accept payments, and more all in real time.

We encourage parents to join the site and give us feedback on their experience so that we can better determine if this is a more helpful tool to utilize for the upcoming school year.

https://rces.ptboard.com

To create an account, please use school code:

6KEWQJ

For the safety of our students, the school will deviate from a student’s designated way home only with the following procedure: All dismissal changes must be requested by sending a note to their child’s teacher letting them know the change. Do not send transportation changes to email. If the teacher is absent, no one will receive notice to make this change. The teacher will send the note to the front office and a transportation change will be made for the child. Our office staff notifies teachers of daily dismissal changes beginning at 1:45 P.M. each day. If an emergency occurs and you need to make a transportation change in the middle of the day, please contact our front desk before 1:45 P.M. They will ask you to send an email requesting the change.

Front Office (803)821-4200

School Nurse (803) 821-4198

Library (803)821-4227

Lexington Transportation (803)821-1340

School Cafeteria (803)821-4225

Attendance and Records (803)821-4204

Fees (803)821-4202

If you would like to send in birthday treats or a special snack for your child's class, you may do so. The only stipulations is treats and snacks must be store bought. For convenience, teachers prefer individually packaged items so that they can be passed out quickly. Please do not send in a cake that the teachers has to serve. They only have 20 minutes to eat their lunch.

We do not allow deliveries of flowers, balloons, edible arrangements, etc... to our students. If something is delivered to school, we will contact parents to pick up the items from the office.

Volunteers are welcome to volunteer at RCES. In order to volunteer in any of the schools in Lexington County School District One, you must:

1. Undergo a criminal history screening prior to approval.

2. Be 21 years of age or older.

Simply complete and submit a volunteer application and upon approval you will receive instructions on the next steps.

Please note that the approval process could take anywhere from two to four weeks. If you have any questions about the application, please contact your school's volunteer coordinator, Kathy Young.

If needing to dismiss a student, a driver's license or photo ID is required for identification purposes.

To dismiss a student, that individual will need to be on the child's approved contact list provided by the parent/guardian. We will not release a student to someone who is not on their approved list unless we have written permission from the parent/guardian.

Our front office becomes very busy after 1:45 with dismissal of students. If you need to dismiss early, it helps our ladies out front if you sign out your child before 1:45. If you wait until after 1:45, approval from an administrator is required.

In response to some concerns about lunch choices not matching the menu, Mrs. Robbins has worked with our cafeteria to provide a weekly calendar on our school website. Go to Rocky Creek Elementary School Website, the Families Tab, and RCES Weekly Cafeteria Menu. Our cafeteria manager will update this with any changes by 4:00 PM the day before the change takes place.

I hope this helps communicate any supply or delivery issues that cause changes to our menu.

Families may eat lunch with their child/children. Please make sure you have your ID. We have designated tables in the cafeteria for families to sit with their child. Other children are not allowed to sit at those tables.

You may bring food from outside for your child to eat if you are staying for lunch. We do not accept drop off food deliveries if you are not stying for lunch. We are not able to make those deliveries and keep the front desk covered.

If your child forgets their lunch box, you can drop it off in the office, and we will have the child stop by the office on the way to lunch.

IMPORTANT: While parents/visitors are invited to lunch, we do not allow parents/visitors to go to recess.

Rocky Creek Elementary School Improvement Council is scheduled to meet once every month except for the month of December.

Our next meeting will be on April 24 from 11:30-12:30.

Below are the links to our SIC Meeting Agendas.

September SIC Agenda

October SIC Agenda

November SIC Agenda

January SIC Agenda

February SIC Agenda

March Agenda

The purpose of the Rocky Creek Elementary School Improvement Council is to:

(1) assist in the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the five year School Improvement Plan (also known as the “School Renewal Plan” or “Strategic Plan”).

(2) assist in the preparation of yearly plan updates;

(3) assist the school in the development and implementation of the School Reading Plan as required by the Read to Succeed Act;

(4) write the annual SIC Report to the Parents, which is to be distributed no later than April 30 of each year;

(5) prepare, together with the Principal, the annual narrative for the SC School Report Card;

(6) provide advice on the use of school incentive award expenditures (if allocated by the legislature and awarded to the school);

(7) provide other assistance as requested by the Principal or local school board.

The use of cell phones and watches have become a concern in some grade levels. Please review the district's policy on communication devices for elementary students. Thank you for your assistance with this.

Elementary school students may possess a personal communication device as long as the device remains off and is not visible during the school day. They are not permitted to use personal communication devices during the school day.

September 2022

October 2022

November 2022

December 2022

January 2023

February 2023

March 2023

April 2023

May 2023

Lexington County School District One does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, genetic information or age in admission to, access to, treatment in or employment in its programs and activities. The following people have been designated to handle inquiries or complaints. The Chief Human Resources Officer handles inquiries/complaints regarding Title IX, inquiries/complaints regarding Title II with respect to employees and/or public access to buildings and grounds, and inquiries/complaints involving the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Inquiries/complaints regarding Section 504 for students K–12 go to Director of School Counseling and Advisement. The mathematics coordinator handles inquiries/complaints regarding Title II. Contact these people if you have questions regarding these issues at 100 Tarrar Springs Road, Lexington, SC 29072 and telephone number 803-821-1000.